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"My Unsung Hero," our new series from the Hidden Brain team, tells stories of people whose kindness left a lasting impression on someone else. Deb Merchant's unsung hero is her partner of 22 years.
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"My Unsung Hero," our new series from the Hidden Brain team, tells stories of people whose kindness left a lasting impression on someone else. Deb Merchant's unsung hero is her partner of 22 years.
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As bombs fell and people fled, pianist Davide Martello watched the Russian invasion of Ukraine unfold on TV. Unlike those racing to leave, however, Martello decided to head toward Ukraine. He put his cat in the car, hitched up his baby grand piano and began a long, 15-hour drive from his home in Germany.
"It's definitely better than staying at home in front of the TV and watching the news, you know?" Martello said.
Martello's destination was the Medyka border crossing, the busiest one between Poland and Ukraine, where a sprawling aid station had sprung up on the Polish side. Since he arrived a few weeks ago, Martello has watched as the aid station — and its needs — have grown. According to the United Nations, more than 3 million people have left Ukraine since the invasion began; as of earlier this week, more than 2 million of them had entered Poland.
"The people coming in, they need food, they need clothes," Martello said.
While speaking with NPR earlier this week, he gestured at piles of donated clothing and firewood stacked behind him. Volunteers passed out tea, food and toiletries.
Martello provided the music, playing soft songs like "Let It Be" by the Beatles and "Hallelujah" by Leonard Cohen. The notes he played filled the air and mingled with campfire smoke, inviting people to gather around him and listen. Sometimes they requested Ukrainian songs, which he tried his best to play.
"We people, we're made of emotions basically. We're thinkers. If we only think negative, that affects us. Our health, anything else. We need to stay positive. We need to try and think positive."
For Martello, the experience has been especially moving. On one memorable occasion, an elderly woman held a blanket over Martello's head to shield him from the falling snow.
"She was singing with me, next to me, with the blanket on me, and it was snowing," he said. "That was a crazy moment."
For now, Martello has no plans to pack up and leave.
"People here still need some positivity, some art, music," he said. "I wish there were more musicians here, but I guess I'm the only one."
With that, it was time for him to go. A small crowd had formed, waiting for him to begin. And so, piano parked on the dirt at the Polish border, Davide Martello played.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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Animal control has caught what the U.S. Capitol Police says is a fox that may be responsible for biting at least one journalist and a lawmaker recently.
The fox was captured at about 3:36 p.m., according to a tweet from the police.
#BREAKING: Captured. pic.twitter.com/LJAn2ZjH9J
— U.S. Capitol Police (@CapitolPolice) April 5, 2022
There were many sightings of the fox Monday night, and "then word came in of roughly six bites and/or nips," a Capitol Police spokesperson told NPR over email.
The fox was spotted around the Dirksen Senate Office Building and the Russell Senate Office Building, as well as on the House side of the U.S. Capitol, the police spokesperson told NPR.
"[We] just learned people have seen foxes before, but this recent aggressive behavior is unusual," the spokesperson added.
The following message was sent to House members and staff by the Office of the Sergeant at Arms on Tuesday regarding the fox:
Yesterday, the U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) received reports of individuals being attacked or bitten by a fox. One encounter was at the Botanic Garden, and a second was on the House side of the Capitol near the building foundation. This morning, USCP received a call about a fox approaching staff near First and C Street NE. There are possibly several fox dens on Capitol Grounds. Animal Control is currently on the grounds seeking to trap and relocate any foxes they find. Foxes are wild animals that are very protective of their dens and territory. Please do not approach any fox you see.
Rep. Ami Bera, D-Calif., was reportedly bitten by the fox Monday night, according to Punchbowl News. Politico reporter Ximena Bustillo said it bit her Tuesday afternoon.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
That feel when you get bit by a fox leaving Capitol cause that’s of course something I expect in THE MIDDLE OF DC.
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As Tuesday draws to a close in Kyiv and in Moscow, here are the key developments of the day:
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed the United Nations Security Council. He demanded the council hold Russia — which is a permanent Security Council member — and its leader Vladimir Putin accountable for alleged war crimes in Ukraine. He urged Russia's removal from the Security Council. If not, he said, the Security Council should "dissolve" itself.
Zelenskyy described the situation in Bucha, outside Kyiv, where bodies were found in the streets and in mass graves after the withdrawal of Russian forces. Zelenskyy accused Russian troops of killing entire families and of torture, among other horrors. Russia has denied reports of atrocities, and its U.N. ambassador accused Western countries of "fueling anti-Russian hysteria."
Humanitarian aid was turned away before reaching Mariupol — again. Officials say it's still not safe to enter, but an evacuation corridor has been set up so residents will be able to leave using their own transport. Many are bracing for what aid teams may find after they're admitted to the besieged city.
European countries stepped up their expulsions of Russian diplomats. France, Germany, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Lithuania and Italy are among those ejecting dozens of Russian diplomats. German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock declared 40 Russian diplomats "undesirable" and described their work as a threat to "those who are seeking our protection."
Seizures of Russian oligarchs' riches continue. Spanish officials seized a luxury yacht in Mallorca, owned by sanctioned Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, at the request of the U.S. Justice Department. It was the first coordinated seizure under the department's Task Force KleptoCapture.
In-depth
Charging Putin for potential war crimes is difficult, and any penalty would be hard to enforce.
Despite the upheaval of war, millions of Ukrainian children are still in school.
The war in Ukraine may speed up Europe's transition to greener energy, but it depends on how governments balance an immediate need for fossil fuels against long-term shifts in energy production.
Ukrainians entering Poland at one border crossing were welcomed by an Italian pianist playing music.
Epic Games, the maker of the popular video game Fortnite, said that along with Xbox, it raised $144 million to fund humanitarian aid for Ukraine.
Earlier developments
You can read more news from Tuesday here, as well as more in-depth reporting and daily recaps here. Also, listen and subscribe to NPR's State of Ukraine podcast for updates throughout the day.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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Forecast updated on Tuesday, April 5, 2022, at 4:00 PM by WBOC Meteorologist Dan Satterfield (AMS-CBM).
DELMARVA FORECAST
Tonight: Cloudy with rain likely at times. Mild and humid. Low 54°. Wind: SE 7-15 mph.
Wednesday: Cloudy with showers likely early and spotty showers PM. Total rainfall from Tuesday-Wednesday afternoon will exceed 0.5 inches. High 67°. Wind: NW 11-22 mph. Beaches will stay near 63-66°.
Wednesday Night: Cloudy with showers possible. Low 49°. Wind: E 8-17 mph.
Thursday: Cloudy with showers about. High 66°. Wind: SE/NW 6-13 mph. Beaches will stay near 50°.
Forecast Discussion:
Tonight will be cloudy and mild with rain likely. Rainfall may exceed 0.75 inches in spots with everyone seeing a half an inch or more. A low pressure system will pass through early Wednesday and winds will turn from the southeast tonight to the NW behind the low on Wednesday.
Wednesday will be cloudy with morning showers. Some spotty showers will linger into the in morning, with perhaps some partial clearing in the afternoon. It wil turn breezy in the afternoon with a few wind gusts to over 20 mph.
Clouds will return late Wednesday, as winds turn back to the Southeast and showers are likely Thursday as a cool front approaches. The front will come through Thursday night with slow clearing, and it will be a little cooler by Friday morning.
In the long-range, The weekend looks mostly sunny with afternoon high temps. in the upper 50's and lows near 40. Sunshine and mild weather will continue into Monday, with afternoon temps. near 66 Monday. Warmer weather arrives by Tuesday and Wednesday as temps. climb into the mid 70's with sunshine.
The average high for today is 62 degrees with an average low of 41 degrees.
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Fox on Capitol Hill caught after biting lawmaker, reporter
A fox that bit at least two people on Capitol grounds was captured by animal control Tuesday in possibly one of the quickest investigations in Capitol Hill history.
Why it matters: The rampant fox was the talk of the Hill as animal control raced to capture it with nets after reportedly biting two people on Monday.
- Rep. Ami Bera (D-Calif.) was "nipped on the leg" while walking to his office on Monday, his spokesperson Travis Horne told Axios, who said Bera received several shots, including shots for rabies and tetanus as well as immunoglobulins, "out of an abundance of caution."
- Politico reporter Ximena Bustillo tweeted she was also bit.
- The Humane Rescue Alliance, which provides animal control for D.C., caught and caged the fox Tuesday afternoon.
What they're saying: The Capitol was abuzz after security officials sent out alerts about the fox biting people and the possibility of “several fox dens on Capitol Grounds."
- Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was asked during the a GOP leadership press conference if he’d seen the fox.
- Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) said she had seen it, and she provided video of the encounter to Fox News.
- "Who gets bit by a fox?" Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) asked while walking into the House chamber for votes.
Red foxes are not uncommon in the District, particularly in Rock Creek Park and, occasionally, downtown and on Capitol Hill.
- According to the National Parks Service, there’s often a fox den or two on the National Mall.
Of note: If there’s anything D.C. loves, it’s escaped animals, so naturally a Twitter account representing the fox(es) has already cropped up.
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MUIR, Mich. — Jessica Lafler is being recognized for her Excellence in Education.
A letter from Lafler's nominator says Jessica works 10–12 hours every day in preparation for the following school day.
When asked what she hopes her students take away from her classes, Jessica said, “I guess it would be that knowledge is power and once you learn something, no one can ever take that away from you, so just keep on learning and keep on being brilliant students and you'll be successful in life.”
Jessica has received a $1,500 check from the Michigan Lottery, and her class at Twin Rivers Elementary will receive a $500 grant.
Is there an educator in your community who displays Excellence in Education? Click here to nominate them.
SEE MORE: Excellence in Education nominees wanted
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — Lawmakers want to find out if corporations are taking advantage of Americans and fueling inflation.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) says big corporations are using the pandemic and war in Ukraine to make money.
“During all this instability, that this be a moment in which large corporations continue to enjoy huge profits,” Sanders said.
During a Senate Budget Committee hearing, Sanders accused companies like Tyson and Amazon, who he said prioritize corporate greed, of causing inflation.
“Corporations are making record-breaking profits and over 700 billionaires in America became nearly $2 trillion wealthier,” Sanders said.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) says competition usually drives the price of items down, but there isn’t enough in the gas or meat industry.
“Is there something unusual about those two markets that seemingly causes this market theory not to pertain in those markets?” Whitehouse asked.
“A relatively few number of producers who can easily coordinate their production,” UC Berkeley Public Policy Professor Robert Reich answered.
Sanders and Whitehouse believe these corporations deserve a windfall tax for their profiteering, but Republicans say Democrats are pointing the finger at the wrong culprit.
“The best cause for inflation lies in the policy choices of this administration,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said.
Graham says higher corporate taxes aren’t a solution.
“If we impose new taxes now on businesses who changed their business model in light of COVID, we’re going to make a huge mistake,” Graham said.
Graham says this issue should be decided by the voters in November.
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On April 23rd, Nova Conservation will be holding its first in-person event of 2022. The upcoming Boating & Birding event will be from 9 AM to 3 PM at Maclellan Island. Those participating in the event will meet at the boat dock in Coolidge Park and begin paddling out to the island on either a kayak or paddleboard. There will also be a "non-paddle" option in the form of a boat tour sponsored by Chattanooga Riverbenders.
Once docked at Maclellan Island, participants will be able to experience the science of bird banding, which is a scientific method used to help scientists better understand the migration patterns of different birds. "So we will set up mist nets. Me and Dr. Aborn will be catching birds in mist nets on the island, putting bands on them for scientific purposes, and I will lead a birding hike around the island," explained Laura Marsh, Founder of Nova Conservation.
The overall goal of this event is to help restore the biodiversity and ecological function of the island in an interactive way. General tickets are on sale for $75, with additional pricing and donation options available. All proceeds will benefit conservation efforts on Maclellan Island, "All proceeds from this event are going right back into the Chattanooga Audubon Society to restore and preserve the island for biodiversity, for conservation efforts," says Marsh.
To reserve your spot, visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boating-birding-a-maclellan-island-adventure-tickets-235583425367
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A Bradley County landscaper said he is still waiting to be paid nearly $20,000 that he claims Bradley County Schools' owes him.
Berywood Landscaping LLC Owner Cody Maney said he has been seeking the funds going on two years now.
He said the district did not keep their word after a verbal agreement.
In May of 2020, Bradley County Government and Berywood Landscaping LLC agreed on a contract to do some demo work for Bradley County Schools at Lake Forest Middle School.
"There was three old school buildings that they quit using since they built the new school. We tore down those buildings, they were still free standing buildings. We tore them down, hauled then down to the dump, and made the land completely flat,” Maney said.
Following the completion of the contracted work, Maney said the school wanted some more work to be done that was not in the scope of the contract worth a little over $19,000.
“When we tore the pads up that the buildings were sitting on, there was no footers on the ground or nothing. The school was built on a swamp, water was underneath the pads, been there for many years. So, what we did is tore the pads up, haul out the old dirt, and bring new dirt in. That's the part that was not in the contract. That's the part the school wanted done,” Maney said.
Maney said otherwise there would have been a sinkhole there and the school didn't want that.
"I made the phone call to the principle of Lake Forest who sent his athletic director down there to make a decision on their behalf. He said do what you need to do, handle it, and that is what we have done. Now, the school have not paid that bill for the addition work that needed to be done,” Maney said.
Maney said he has reached out to Bradley County Schools Director Dr. Linda Cash several times in hopes of figuring something out, but has had no luck.
Local 3 reached out to the district as well regarding the matter.
We received the following statement:
“Bradley County Schools did not have a contract with this organization, the contract for the scope of work was through the Bradley County Government."
Local 3 also spoke with the Bradley County Government about the situation.
"When that work was completed, he submitted an invoice for $45,000 and we submitted a check to him for $45,000. So, it's the position of the county that we have paid our bills,” Bradley County Mayor's Executive Assistant Adam Lewis said.
It wasn't until January of 2021 during a financial meeting when Lewis learned about the extra work Maney had completed.
He said based off of his comments that he made, the finance committee referred him to the school board.
Lewis told Local 3 to his acknowledgement, Maney has not reached out to request any additional funds from the Mayor’s office.
Maney has hired an attorney. He said he doesn't want to take this to court, but will do so if nothing changes with Bradley County Schools.
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Inside Hamilton County’s intensive care units, the number of COVID patients have fallen to some of the lowest levels throughout the entire pandemic. The stories of the people who came before them, however, live on through the people who tirelessly tried to save their lives.
“I had a girlfriend and boyfriend that were living together and planning on getting married. They were together for several years,” said Dr. Minerva Covarrubias, a pulmonologist at Parkridge Medical Center. “Didn't get to it.”
Covarrubias believes she treated the first COVID patient in the hospital back in March 2020. Since then, almost a 100,000 cases have been confirmed in Hamilton County and over 1,000 people have died from the virus. At the pandemic’s peak in September of 2021, Hamilton County hospitals were seeing over 300 patients per day.
When the pandemic began, questions about a path forward in the pandemic were not getting answers. Care became even more difficult as cases soared with few approved treatments. The ones that were had uncertain results.
“People wanted to know specifics,” Covarrubias said. “’What's going to happen to me? How are you going to treat me?’ And we really didn't know."
"We really had to change the entire environment of the hospital overnight,” said Suzanne Hornsby, an ICU nurse at Erlanger Medical Center. “During the delta wave, we had so many patients, so many people dying. And they were all so young.”
A New Outlook
Just like Covarrubias, Hornsby has dozens of tragic stories of people who have succumbed to the virus. A husband and wife dying within weeks. Parents leaving behind children. A grandfather who did his best to avoid the virus, and then contracted it from his grandson.
“He was like 'is there anything I can do to get home to my family?'" Hornsby remembered. “But I knew. I knew that there was nothing that we were going to be able to do."
They’re painful memories they will take with them forever. Ones that remind them to appreciate what they have.
“Their life was cut short,” said Covarrubias. “That’s what it comes down to. They were cheated out of a life.”
“Many of us healthcare workers were putting our living wills together,” said Hornsby. “We were telling our families what our end of life wishes were.”
Most of those bad memories are behind them. COVID cases have fallen to near-record lows in almost every corner of the world. But healthcare workers are coming to terms with having to live life with the virus.
New Normal
“We’re all hoping that it’s going to end up being flu and COVID season,” said Hornsby. “Where every year in the winter, we get a little bit of flu, a little bit of COVID.”
“This pandemic really brought out a lot of weaknesses in our healthcare system,” said Covarrubias.
Weaknesses like nationwide nurse shortages, which got even worse when the pandemic hit.
The American Association of Critical Care Nurses estimates 2/3 of nurses considered leaving their jobs. Nearly 20% already left.
“It’s broken a lot of use healthcare workers,” said Hornsby. “I’ve probably lose ¾ of my co-workers.”
It’s prompting the obvious question: How can healthcare systems recruit nurses into hospitals? And how do they keep them when they get there?
“It’s about nursing-to-patient ratios being appropriately staffed,” said Covarrubias. “It’s about having the right amount of PPE.”
But even with those weaknesses, the heart of Chattanooga’s ICU’s beat on just as strong as they ever have to provide the best care and to hold a hand when all else fails.
“This has made me realize that I have to do this,” said Hornsby. “I can’t imagine not being here on the frontlines.”
“It was always about reassuring the families that they did everything, they gave them the full opportunity,” said Covarrubias. “They gave them the full shot, so they didn’t have any guilt.”
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The Better Business Bureau said online loan scams increased during the height of the pandemic and the problem is still happening.
A local resident told the BBB she was looking for a personal loan online and gave over $550 to Brookdale Lenders as an upfront payment. When the company asked her for another $550 upfront to secure the loan she was suspicious.
"It is illegal for a loan company to charge a fee upfront. So as soon as she told us she was being asked to pay money, I went straight into thinking this is likely a scam," Michele Mason, President of the Better Business Bureau said.
Mason said the BBB started investigating the company Brookdale Lenders right away after she was notified of this incident.
She said the site alone had telltale signs of a scam.
"I just used Google Lens, which is easy to do and it shows that the photo for the president is just a stock photo from Shutterstock so anyone could buy that and use that," Mason said.
The company says they've been around since 1990 but the site for their services was only created six days before the incident was reported to the BBB. To check site registration, click here.
"Unfortunately, we have people looking for financial assistance and the last thing they can afford is to lose their money," she said.
The consumer wired the first payment via Money Gram. When she was asked for the second payment to be wired, she went to Money Gram to see the status of the original payment and it was wired to someone in Canada. The company claimed they were based in Los Angeles.
"That's just the sign of a scam. they've already successfully got her to wire money, which is another red flag and now they want more," she said.
Mason suggests paying attention to details of loan sites and checking the scam tracker the BBB provides.
"We are going to add this information to our scam tracker website. If people visit BBB.org/scamtracker, that's a site where people can share their own experiences with either someone attempting to defraud them or unfortunately, sometimes successfully defrauding them, but at least getting the information out to help others avoid falling victim," she said.
If you fall victim to an online loan scam, file a police report, report it to the BBB, and secure your accounts. When applying for a loan, pay attention to any red flags.
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The Oklahoma legislature on Tuesday gave final approval to a bill that would make performing an abortion illegal in the state, making exceptions only in the case of medical emergencies.
The bill, Senate Bill 612, would make performing an abortion or attempting to perform the procedure a felony punishable by a maximum fine of $100,000 or maximum 10 years in state prison, or both.
The legislation, which first passed the state Senate last year, passed the state Republican-led House on Tuesday by 70-14, without debate or questions on the floor. The legislation now heads to Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt, who previously promised to sign every bill limiting abortion that came across his desk.
The governor's office declined to comment on Tuesday, but the bill's main author, GOP state Sen. Nathan Dahm, told CNN that he and the governor had previously spoken about the legislation and Stitt had said he would sign it.
The legislation would not provide exceptions in cases of rape and incest.
Under the bill, the woman would not be criminally charged or convicted for the death of her "unborn child." The measure would not prohibit the use, sale, prescription or administration of contraceptives.
Legislators had worked closely on the bill with the national anti-abortion group Students for Life, which celebrated the bill's final passage on Tuesday.
Republican state Rep. Jim Olsen, the bill's principal House author, told CNN that he believes "rape and incest is a horrible crime" and though the baby is conceived in a "horrible situation," that it "still has a right to life." "The baby should not be liable for the sins of the father," he said. "It's still a life."
The bill's passage coincided with abortion rights advocates' protest on Tuesday at the Oklahoma state Capitol against restrictive abortion bills being considered this legislative session.
Planned Parenthood Action Fund said SB 612, if allowed to take effect, "would be devastating" for Oklahomans and also Texans, who make up nearly half of the patients who seek abortion care in Oklahoma.
"Now, Oklahomans could face a future where they would have no place left in their state to go to seek this basic health care," the group said in a news release.
Rep. Emily Virgin, the House Democratic leader, said in a statement Tuesday that "unfortunately, this is what we are seeing in many Republican-controlled states: a movement by Republicans to use unconstitutional legislation like Senate Bill 612 to distract from the actual challenges our citizens face."
"As elected leaders, our focus should be on expanding access to health care, protecting public education, and addressing infrastructure needs, but instead, Republicans are more concerned with re-litigating Supreme Court decisions from the state legislature. These bills hurt people, waste taxpayer resources, and get us no closer to our shared goal of a better tomorrow."
The Oklahoma state Senate is also considering legislation, House Bill 4327, modeled after a controversial Texas law that allows enforcement through private civil lawsuits. That bill also would ban most abortions at any point in pregnancy and allow private citizens to enforce the law through civil litigation.
This story has been updated with additional details Tuesday.
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State Police Calls: DUI on 666, Criminal Mischief in Sigel
Area state police responded to the following calls:
DUI in Howe Twp.
Marienville-based State Police and Warren-based State Police conducted a traffic stop on a silver Dodge Dakota on March 30 around 1:45 a.m.
According to the report, police stopped the vehicle along State Route 666 “due to an earlier incident,” and soon found the operator to be intoxicated.
Charges of DUI and resisting arrest have been filed.
The driver’s name has not been released.
The investigation is ongoing.
Criminal Mischief
Marienville-based State Police responded to an incident of criminal mischief in the 2200 block of Sharp Road in Eldred Township, Jefferson County on April 3 around 12:30 a.m.
According to police, it was reported that an unknown vehicle damaged property and the lawn of a residence along Sharp Road.
Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to contact PSP Marienville at 814-927-5253.
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Clarion Man Struck by Vehicle on Interstate 80
SHENANGO TWP., Pa. (EYT) – State Police in Mercer released the details of a Clarion man who was struck by a vehicle on Interstate 80.
According to Mercer-based State Police, a chain-reaction crash occurred on Sunday, March 27, around 12:35 p.m. on Interstate 80 West, at the one-mile marker, in Shenango Township, Mercer County, during white-out conditions and slippery roadways. A pedestrian was struck during the collision.
All involved vehicles – a 2013 Volvo truck operated by 58-year-old Randall E. Smith, of Conneaut Lake, Pa.; a 2019 Dodge Caravan operated by 21-year-old Deren S. Meir, of Oak Park, Michigan; a 2020 Nissan (operator’s name/address not provided); and a 2021 Ram 3500 truck operated by 63-year-old Ali Tutki, of Long Eddy, New York – were traveling west on I-80.
Police say the Volvo rear-ended the Dodge Caravan, and the Dodge Caravan hit the Nissan, then hit a pedestrian – 34-year-old Kurt J. Ashenfelder, of Clarion – and then came to a final rest in the median.
The Volvo continued on the roadway and hit the Ram truck. Both vehicles were brought to a controlled stop on the shoulder of I-80.
Ashenfelder was transported by ambulance to the hospital, police say.
The extent of his injuries is unknown.
The Volvo, the Dodge Caravan, and the Nissan were towed from the scene.
According to police, Shenango Township Police Department and Fire Department, McGonigle Ambulance, Barris Towing, and PennDOT assisted at the scene.
No other details were provided.
PSP Mercer released the above report on Monday, April 4, 2022.
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A West Union man was arrested after he crashed an allegedly stolen vehicle into a Hardin County Sheriff's vehicle on Tuesday.
According to court records, 19-year-old Jaden Antoine Johnson was driving a 2008 Chevy Impala westbound on Highway 20 when the deputy clocked him traveling at 94 mph in a 65 mph zone. The deputy initiated a traffic stop, but Johnson refused to stop and led the deputy on a chase that ended in the collision. It is unclear how much damage was done to the vehicles or the exact manner in which they hit.
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Featured Local Job: Openings at Wagner Tarps; Earn Weekly Bonuses
Tuesday, April 5, 2022 @ 12:04 AM
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An onstage ‘Birthday’
Debra Messing. New Yorker. Born in New York. Lives in New York. Educated at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Now starring in American Airlines Theatre. The show? “Birthday Candles.”
“I stayed shut in my apartment during the whole pandemic. Depressed. Mourning. I thought this show I’d have no opportunity to ever do. We lost one actor. Gratefully, we have the rest of the company. I’d worked on this play five years. The director was my school classmate. We tested it in Detroit, Chicago, did a reading in New York. I was literally crying. I thought, ‘Please let me do this.’
“To lift up I taught myself a new skill. With 10 online books, I learned to play the piano. My gift to me to survive.
“Memorizing’s hard. Doing a sitcom helped hone my skills. Once, onstage an entire 90 minutes, never leaving, I’ll never forget how I forgot. Berkshire Festival. Still a student. I was onstage. Alone. And I literally froze. Nobody to help. Trust me, that fear never goes away.
“Now I use an online learning app. Put in every word of your play. You then can re-hear it all, all ways. Over and over. You repeatedly intake the preceding words of what prompts your speech. Even in bed, you can be rehearsing your lines. Because of that one experience 30 years ago this is how I memorize.
“Actors must be flexible. Rehearse all day. Work all night. You’re using different muscles. Different hours. It’s an adjustment for sure.”
Opening night: Sunday.
Ladies eyeing some Mall space
Lincoln, Jefferson, FDR: The gents have taken Washington Mall. Legislation’s passed, New York money’s being raised — as we speak — for the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum. Next meeting’s July at the Washington Mall.
The lengthy advisory council includes counselor Mary Boies, designer Tory Burch, actresses Rosario Dawson and Lynda Carter, Billie Jean King, former Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker and the Walton family’s Alice Walton. Barbie and I are — so far — not among the collection.
She never left
Hillary. Over the Hill? No. If not gearing up, she’s sure not running down. Or off. She’s thinking. Prepping. Readying. Congress’ Carolyn Maloney is holding an event for her this month. As the saying goes, Hillary hath no fury like a woman scorned. She’s becoming active. Putting the finger in age. Having supported Maloney, next Tuesday Maloney’s supporting her. A luncheon. HRC is the guest of honor.
Ruthian work
Library of Congress asked if Dr. Ruth Westheimer’s committed her papers to any institution. They collect all areas of Americana and culture, particularly in the world of psychology and women’s and gender history. Their collections include Sigmund Freud, Margaret Sanger, Margaret Mead, Rosa Parks and maybe soon Dr. Ruth Westheimer.
Post pandemic, people are waking up again. This man ordered a martini “extra rare.” The bartender said: “You mean ‘extra dry.’ ” The man insisted: “I mean extra rare. I’m having it for dinner.”
Only in New York, kids, only in New York.
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New customers don’t need a FanDuel promo code to claim their fantastic sportsbook sign up offer – Score $150 free bets by betting $5 on Jordan Spieth, Rory McIlroy or Dustin Johnson to make the cut at the Masters, and you’ll receive your free bets if your selected player makes the cut.
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Spring is in the air as the world’s best golfers head to Augusta National Golf Club ahead of the 86th running of the Masters Tournament. The club is extremely exclusive and so is the field. Currently, there are just 91 golfers on the starter’s sheet. It’s only the best of the best that get a chance to slip on the green jacket.
At the Masters, only the Low 50 and Ties will play the weekend, meaning there are less players that will make the cut. As we’ve seen in recent years, there is no longer a within-10-shots-of-the-leader rule. The most we’ve ever seen sneak through the cutline at the Masters was 65 golfers, and that happened at the 2019 edition. Bear this in mind when placing your Masters bet.
Looking at the three golfers involved in FanDuel’s new customer offer, there’s interesting evidence surrounding their chances of making the cut. Rory McIlroy had his eye on Augusta National and maybe overlooked TPC San Antonio, leading to a missed cut. With the career grand slam so close, it’s easy to see why he was looking ahead. I’m not too concerned about the missed cut at the Valero. The man from County Down has top 10s in six of his last eight appearances at the Masters.
We all know how much Jordan Spieth loves the Masters, and the world number 17 has made the cut in all four previous tournaments. He earned the green jacket in 2015, and has since rarely been in contention for any majors. Over his past six starts, Spieth has made the cut in all six events while finishing T3 or better in three of them.
Played in November due to the pandemic, the 2020 Masters will go down in history, maybe not with an asterisk but at least italicized. With no fans on hand, Dustin Johnson was truly dominant, shooting a final-round -4 to finish the week a clear five strokes ahead of Sung-Jae Im and Cameron Smith. Oh, did we also mention he holds the course record?
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The ‘Davos Man’ Hypothesis
Why it is important to look for ways to be wrong, even when talking about billionaires and economic inequality.
Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World by Peter S. Goodman
Published in January of 2022.
Davos Man is a good reminder of the difference between journalists and academics.
Journalists tell stories, and good journalists contextualize these stories with data.
Academics test hypotheses.
Goodman is a journalist, and in Davos Man, he has a good story to tell.
There is no argument that wealth has become more extreme and concentrated while the middle class has hollowed out. And that overall economic inequality has dramatically increased.
The question — at least the question I kept wondering about — is, are the billionaires really to blame?
For Goodman, the answer is clear. Billionaires have turned their money into political influence and used it to change laws and policies to benefit the wealthy while actively disadvantaging everyone else.
Davos Man is full of stories of efforts by the very wealthy to manipulate public spending and the tax code to redistribute wealth upwards to the top 0.1 percent.
Tales of billionaire greed make for hugely enjoyable reading. Goodman is a skilled writer, and his stories of billionaires misbehaving make for good fun.
Goodman is less persuasive in his conclusions that the ultra-wealthy are to blame for long-term trends of growing economic inequality.
As a journalist, Goodman asserts a (plausible) causal narrative that it is the decisions of the ultra high-net wealth class that have resulted in policies and structures that have resulted in ever-higher levels of economic stratification. This causal relationship, running from the actions of the Davos crowd to hourly wage stagnation and decreased economic mobility, is not offered as a hypothesis to test.
Goodman never looks for evidence that may disprove or even weaken his theory. There is no room for doubt, equivocation, or even any modest questioning in Davos Man.
Now Goodman’s thesis may be correct. The billionaire class may indeed be primarily responsible for declining levels of unionization, declining pay for non College graduates, and increasing costs of everything from childcare to education to housing.
The upshot, however, is Davos Man trades being (possibly) right for being (largely) unpersuasive.
The book will not convince economic conservatives to change their thinking. Davos Man will bolster the confidence of those already inclined to see wealth concentration as the root cause of inequality.
This worldview may be accurate. But we will never know unless the story of the relationship between wealth and inequality is told by someone looking for ways to be wrong.
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The Aquarium of Niagara has announced the death of its beloved harbor seal Sandy.
Sandy was humanely euthanized on Monday after a period of declining health. Sandy had been previously moved off-exhibit for monitoring and treatment after the animal care team observed changes in her behavior. The aquarium’s animal care staff and veterinarians made the decision to euthanize after several variations of treatment were ineffective in improving Sandy’s condition.
At 41, Sandy was the oldest and longest living marine mammal to call the Aquarium of Niagara home and one of the oldest harbor seals living under human care. The median life expectancy for a female harbor seal is 25 years.
“In addition to the countless number of visitors she delighted, Sandy also made a huge impact on the lives of those who worked with her. At the start of my career, Sandy was the first harbor seal I had the privilege to work with. Patient and forgiving, Sandy proved to be our greatest teacher, and she will be truly missed," Gary Siddall, president & CEO of the Aquarium of Niagara.
Sandy was rescued off the coast of Washington state in 1980 as an abandoned pup. Abandoned harbor seal pups do not have the skills necessary to survive in their natural environment, so Sandy was deemed non-releasable and brought to the Aquarium of Niagara.
In 1987 Sandy became the first harbor seal in the world to undergo successful cataract removal surgery. Cataracts are common among pinnipeds like seals and sea lions, and the successful surgery restored vision to Sandy’s right eye and alleviated any discomfort caused by the cataract. The groundbreaking surgery was performed right at the Aquarium of Niagara. This procedure is now widely practiced at zoos and aquariums around the world.
Sandy’s advanced age was a testament to the high quality of care she received at the Aquarium of Niagara, according to Richelle Barnes, director of animal care.
“As animal care professionals, our highest commitment is to the welfare of our animal collection.” she said. “We are proud that under our care Sandy was able to live a full and impactful life that inspired so many to care more deeply about marine mammals.”
In celebration of Sandy’s life, the aquarium invites the public to share their photos and memories via the Aquarium’s social media channels.
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The City of Lockport's April 16 electronic waste recycling event at Outwater Park has been cancelled because of a scheduling conflict. Lockport Peacemakers will be conducting the city's annual Easter egg hunt for children on April 16, beginning at 1l a.m.
Collection of electronic waste such as old televisions, computers and DVD players will resume at the park on May 7. Collection hours are 9 a.m. to noon.
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Ice flowing through the Niagara River from Lake Erie has further damaged and shifted the iron scow stuck in the rapids above the Canadian Horseshoe Falls since 1918.
Niagara Parks officials in Ontario reported Tuesday that weather conditions over the weekend resulted in large pieces breaking free from the remaining wreck as it shifted further downriver toward the Horseshoe Falls.
Most recently on Halloween night in 2019, the scow shifted around 160 feet downriver toward the Falls, attracting worldwide media attention, and speculation whether or not it would wash over the brink. The potential of this occurring was and is not considered to be a public safety concern.
Despite considerable deterioration over the years, the scow, which was the site of a heroic rescue of the two stranded men aboard, has miraculously clung to its perch in the upper Niagara River since breaking loose from its towing tug on August 6, 1918.
One hundred years later, on Aug. 6, 2018, Niagara Parks celebrated the anniversary of the iron scow and officially recognized the heroism of William “Red” Hill Sr. who rescued the two men on board. Part of the anniversary celebration included the unveiling of a set of interpretive panels to share the story of how the scow became stranded, and of the harrowing rescue that took place.
For more information about the iron scow, please visit niagaraparks.com/scow.
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WASHINGTON — The Biden administration plans to freeze federal student loan payments through Aug. 31, extending a moratorium that has allowed millions of Americans to postpone payments during the coronavirus pandemic, according to an administration official familiar with the White House's decision-making.
Student loan payments were scheduled to resume May 1 after being halted since early in the pandemic. But following calls from Democrats in Congress, the White House plans to give borrowers additional time to prepare for payments.
The action applies to more than 43 million Americans who owe a combined $1.6 trillion in student debt held by the federal government, according to the latest data from the Education Department. That includes more than 7 million borrowers who have defaulted on student loans, meaning they are at least 270 days late on payments.
Borrowers will not be asked to make payments until after Aug. 31, and interest rates are expected to remain at 0% during that period.
The extension was first reported Tuesday by Bloomberg.
Democrats on education panels in the House and Senate recently urged President Joe Biden to extend the moratorium through the end of the year, citing continued economic upheaval.
Sen. Patty Murray said more time is needed to help Americans prepare for repayment and to rethink the government’s existing system for repaying student debt.
“It is ruining lives and holding people back,” she said in a statement last month. “Borrowers are struggling with rising costs, struggling to get their feet back under them after public health and economic crises, and struggling with a broken student loan system — and all this is felt especially hard by borrowers of color.”
Murray called on the Biden administration to lift all borrowers out of default to provide a “fresh start” following the pandemic.
The decision is being made amid rising concern that large numbers of Americans would quickly fall behind if payments restarted in May.
In March, the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank warned that resuming loan payments could place a heavy burden on borrowers who faced financial hardship during the pandemic. It said the impact would be hardest on Black families, who are more likely to rely on student loans to pay for college.
“Serious delinquency rates for student debt could snap back from historic lows to their previous highs in which 10% or more of the debt was past due,” the bank said.
The Trump administration initially gave Americans the option to suspend loan payments in March 2020, and Congress made it automatic soon after. The pause was extended twice by the Trump administration and twice more under Biden.
It remains in question whether Biden will pursue widespread debt forgiveness to reduce the nation’s student debt. Some Democrats in Congress have pressed Biden to use executive action to cancel $50,000 for all student loan borrowers, saying it would jumpstart the economy and help Black Americans who on average face higher levels of student debt.
Last year, Biden asked the Education and Justice departments to review the legality of widespread debt cancellation, but no decision has been announced. Biden previously said he supports canceling up to $10,000, but he argued it should be done through congressional action.
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I had no time of not posting blog-content today , that you need not worry on, even if I write two hours daily, this article shall be here- in just about a half the standard hours required to read , since last post. Just one image – from where many thoughts (like those images that speak thousands atlas). There's no use keeping quiet and being scold- at. These days, my words are few too often – that's okay and good; let Difference – The Power Within To Change What?\nThese differences. All about people… who people aren&\n12 Incorrect Questions People Make\nHow many people does the 1? Why the 1 instead in tl\nLess than perfect to not exist Toledobaseballsports.ie\nPatrin’ Patrin in the middle but Lentisk in their way!! Lento’s lodge is down to four, after a huge round five win as Pat Ryan led from midnight Friday on Stirrat Lake with Lenty Patchman and Colm Dempsey out.\nStill with one or four lambing, there could still be sheepish movement later – 3 in morning at least!!! They GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — As the Russia-Ukraine war rages on, Ukraine continues to struggle to get even the most basic needs to its people. One Grand Rapids nurse is doing what he can to bridge that gap.
Thad Cummings just returned from Lviv, Ukraine, where he delivered 550 pounds of medical supplies. He told FOX 17 Tuesday, even as their country gets torn apart, Ukrainians still have hope knowing people, like himself, are willing to help.
Cummings, an emergency department nurse at North Ottawa Community Health System, is trained to help people at their lowest points. After seeing the devastation in Ukraine, he knew he had to do something.
“I think the blunt reality is there’s a lot of pain and brokenness in this world," said Cummings. "How are we going to individually, collectively, communally use these skillsets that we have to try and address some of this pain and brokenness in the world?"
Cummings found the answer by turning to his own skill set — medicine. So, he contacted a charity in Ukraine called Charity Foundation Source of Revival (CFSR), who sent back a lengthy list of different needs, from antibiotics to blood pressure medicine.
Cummings then went around buying supplies, with the help of some community support, but also had to max out his credit cards to get everything he wanted to bring.
“Turns out medicine is very expensive, it’s not always that cheap," Cummings joked.
After spending $8,000, Cummings collected 550 pounds of medical supplies, packing it all into 10 bags of luggage, a backpack and a carry on.
Cummings then flew into Poland and was driven into Lviv, a sort-of safe haven city in Ukraine near the border.
CFSR put his supplies into utility vans, along with food and other necessities, and drove them into war zones with active fighting. On their way out, they picked up women and children to smuggle them to safety.
“It is often times these simple acts that bring just a little bit of hope in some of the darkest times that this generation may ever experience in their life," said Cummings.
In a video recorded on Cummings' phone, one of the Ukrainian doctors expressed her gratitude: “Everybody says thank you so so so so much," she said.
After showing FOX 17 that video, Cummings said, “These are the glimmers of hope that keep that fire going in the Ukrainian people."
Cummings came back to the states on Saturday, but after seeing his impact, he's already preparing to do this again.
“Your actions matter," he said. "Your help matters. I may be lucky enough to see it where many people don’t, but it is real for them. Their joy and their tears are a beautiful and difficult reminder of the difficulties in this life. At the same time, we can all make a difference.”
Cummings said his next trip to Ukraine is planned for April 20. Anyone who wants to contribute can connect with Cummings over email: thadcummings@gmail.com.
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JetBlue Airways is trying to buy Spirit Airlines and break up a plan for Spirit to merge with fellow budget airline Frontier.
Spirit said on Tuesday that JetBlue offered $33 a share, or about $3.6 billion. Florida-based Spirit says its board will evaluate the JetBlue bid and decide what's best for its shareholders. The JetBlue offer is about 40% higher than the value of Frontier's bid.
Frontier's offer in cash and stock was worth $2.9 billion when it was announced in February, but Frontier shares have fallen since then, reducing the value to Spirit shareholders. Spirit shares soared after the New York Times reported JetBlue's bid earlier Tuesday.
In a statement, New York-based JetBlue said buying out Spirit would create a situation where fairs would stay low by forming “the most compelling national low-fare challenger” to the U.S.'s four biggest airlines which are American, Delta, United and Southwest.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) — Because of inclement weather in the Tallahassee region, Florida State's home baseball game against Jacksonville University scheduled for Tuesday at Howser stadim was postponed.
The game will be played May 10 as part of a doubleheader in Tallahassee.
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U.S. Airmen assigned to the 3rd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron remove ice and snow from a U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor assigned to the 3rd Wing during Polar Force 22-4 at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, April 5, 2022. Polar Force 22-4 is led by the 3rd Wing and was designed to hone in on strategies service members require when navigating adverse situations and austere environments. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Emily Farnsworth)
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Participants in the Colorful Consent Run take off from the starting line at Marine Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California, April 1, 2022. To begin the Sexual Assault Awareness month, members of the MCAGCC community participated in the Colorful Consent Run, a 3.2 mile (5 kilometer) run while having colorful powder thrown on them. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Andrew Bray)
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LAGUNA ATASCOSA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, Texas (Border Report) — The sounds of metal hoes thwapping the hard soil where seedling trees are being planted interrupts the peaceful bird sounds and tranquility at this national wildlife refuge located on the South Texas border with Mexico.
Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge is the largest protected area of natural habitat in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, and more habitat is being created to protect wildlife, like the endangered ocelots, through a reforestation project with a local nonprofit organization and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.
“It’s going to help out tremendously with some of our endangered species,” George “Georgie” Garcia, Fish & Wildlife visitor services manager for Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge told Border Report on Tuesday. “We’re restoring the ocelot’s native habitat which is thornscrub. Part of its decline was fragmentation, and habitat loss.”
A total of 250,000 tree and brush seedlings are being planted this week in two tracts of former farmland that are now part of the refuge located in Cameron and Willacy counties on the Gulf Coast.
Those who are involved say they hope that in about five years the new plantings will provide adequate cover and new places for wildlife to live.
It’s “habitat restoration for ocelots specifically. We’re taking this old farm field and planting native species that are ideal for native animals,” said Will Krift, 35, of Ashland, Wisconsin, who works for Conservation Services Inc., a Virginia-based company that is overseeing the planting.
“It’s pretty amazing to be able to work on a project like this to help a native species thrive and survive,” Krift said.
Krift and Shelby Hylton on Monday watered crates full of the seedlings and delivered them to a large field where migrant workers were planting the new trees and shrubs.
About 35 different species of native trees and shrubs are being planted this week at the wildlife refuge.
Shelby Hylton, left, and Will Krift water and care for crates of seedling trees and brush on Monday, April 4, 2022, and ready them for planting at Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge in Cameron County, Texas. (Sandra Sanchez/Border Report Photos)
This had been a sorghum field that the refuge acquired and is one of several former fields that are earmarked to turn back to natural brush in order to attract wildlife, said Jim Chapman, vice president of the nonprofit Friends of the Wildlife Corridor.
Chapman’s group this year helped to get several grants totaling about $250,000 from four organizations to hire local growers to produce the seedlings. The organizations that donated include:
- American Forest Foundation
- Arbor Day Foundation
- The Conservation Fund
- Apache Corporation
About 1,000 seedlings are being planted per acre. Some are covered with 30-inch-tall plastic sleeves to prevent animals from grazing and to help the young plants retain moisture.
“The idea is that once these get into the ground and they grow they’re basically going to turn this into a forest,” Chapman told Border Report. “If we come back in five years we’re going to see the start of a forest here.”
Wildlife biologists with U.S. Fish and Wildlife determine what species of plants need to go where and how many. The federal agency has a tree nursery in South Texas where this year it grew nearly 30,000 plants for this project, but Chapman explains that they need so many more and so they asked the nonprofit to help find additional sponsors.
The grants raised by Friends of the Wildlife Corridor help to pay about a dozen local growers who grow the needed plants and then deliver them to the fields.
The tract of land on which they were planting Monday is called the Delaney Tract and is located a few miles east of the small town of Rio Hondo, Texas. Species they were planting included: Texas persimmon; Texas ebony tree, goatbush, and fiddlewood trees that can grow up to 35 feet tall.
“This is a wonderful program,” Chapman said holding a 6-inch-tall Wright acacia seedling tree.
“What wildlife really needs is cover. So if you get cover that is 4 or 5 -feet tall that’s a huge win for wildlife. Of course, eventually, it will get taller than that but this is how it starts,” Chapman said.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has operated this planting partnership at the refuge for over a decade as a way to grow habitat on the border. The Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge includes several different tracts of land that hug the Gulf of Mexico and span over 120,000 acres.
The refuge is constantly acquiring land and in the past year expanded by 5,000 acres, which was about 70% of all Texas wildlife refugee growth, Garcia said.
Garcia said ideally they want to turn the land back to what it was hundreds of years ago: thorn and brush for birds and mammals to live.
Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge attracts hundreds of bird and butterfly species, as well as dozens of mammals and reptiles and over 450 different types of plants.
Border Report visited a tract of seedlings a few miles away from the Delaney Tract that had been planted a year ago and some of the young trees were already over 5 feet tall and the ground was covered green.
Chapman worries, however, that the weather must cooperate as the seedlings first go in the ground with rain and gentle temperatures.
Temperatures are predicted to hit triple-digits on Wednesday and could go as high as 106 degrees, according to KVEO TV.
“We do need Mother Nature to help us a little here. Some rain in the next two weeks would be a huge help,” he said.
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Medical experts believe omicron subvariant BA.2 has some differences from the original version of omicron, including that it spreads faster.
BA.2 is the dominant strain of COVID-19 in the U.S. and many other parts of the world, beating out the original version of omicron. From March 27 through April 2, BA.2 accounted for about 72% of COVID-19 cases in the U.S., according to estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Amid claims that it is evading COVID-19 testing, BA.2 has earned itself the nickname “stealth” omicron. But some people on Twitter say that isn’t accurate, and COVID-19 tests can detect infections of the subvariant.
THE QUESTION
Can COVID-19 tests detect omicron subvariant BA.2?
THE SOURCES
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- Matthew Binnicker, Ph.D., director of the Mayo Clinic’s Clinical Virology Laboratory
- Christopher Doern, Ph.D., associate professor of pathology and director of clinical microbiology at Virginia Commonwealth University
THE ANSWER
Yes, COVID-19 tests can detect omicron subvariant BA.2.
WHAT WE FOUND
BA.2 has been referred to as “stealth” omicron because it has “genetic mutations that could make it harder to distinguish from the delta variant using PCR tests” compared to the original version of omicron, the American Medical Association says.
But a spokesperson for the CDC says that nickname is a misnomer and “causes confusion,” adding that all tests – including at-home rapid and PCR tests – “do not have issues in detecting BA.2.”
Matthew Binnicker, Ph.D., a microbiologist who serves as director of the Mayo Clinic’s Clinical Virology Laboratory, agrees. He said rapid and PCR tests are still able to pick up BA.2, similar to the original version of omicron and prior COVID-19 variants.
So why did people initially refer to BA.2 as “stealth” omicron?
Some labs could recognize the original version of omicron as a different variant with a certain type of PCR test where one component would be negative but others would be positive. BA.2 doesn’t show those same results, Binnicker explained.
This partial failure, called S gene target failure or SGFT, differentiates omicron from many other variants. SGTF does not occur when testing for BA.2, the CDC spokesperson said.
There’s always the possibility of false negative results on rapid at-home tests. However, positive results on rapid tests are “very reliable” and should be treated as such, Christopher Doern, Ph.D., associate professor of pathology and director of clinical microbiology at Virginia Commonwealth University, said.
If you get a negative at-home COVID-19 test result, that doesn’t always rule out an infection, the CDC says. Some self-tests are designed to be used in a series, so people who test negative should consider repeating the test 24 to 48 hours later.
“Multiple negative tests increases the confidence that you are not infected with the virus that causes COVID-19,” the CDC writes on its website.
Some experts also recommend that people who have COVID-19 symptoms and test negative with an at-home test follow up with a PCR test since they may have received a false negative result.
More from VERIFY: No, there is not a new test to detect the omicron variant
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On April 4, the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, purchased 9.2% of Twitter’s shares, enough to make him the company’s top shareholder. Twitter then appointed Musk to its board of directors.
Following the news, Musk tweeted a poll asking if users wanted an edit button on Twitter, and people in the replies requested changes to the website’s moderation policies.
Others on social media including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) claimed Musk is now a majority stakeholder of Twitter, and can make decisions unilaterally.
THE QUESTION
Is Elon Musk now the majority stakeholder of Twitter?
THE SOURCES
THE ANSWER
No, Elon Musk is not the majority stakeholder of Twitter and he cannot own a majority stake so long as he is serving on its board.
WHAT WE FOUND
Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC) filings confirm Elon Musk bought 9.2% of Twitter’s stock on March 14, 2022. That’s stock worth more than $3.7 billion, based on Twitter’s closing price of $50.98 on April 5. According to online databases of Twitter’s shareholders, corroborated by Twitter SEC filings, that makes Musk Twitter’s top shareholder. The next two largest shareholders, Vanguard Group and Morgan Stanley, each hold between 8.5% and 9% of Twitter’s shares.
The SEC filing states Musk has a “voting power” of 73,486,938 — equal to the number of shares he owns in the company – or about 9.2% of the votes in shareholder decisions. More shares equals more voting power, and therefore more influence over the social media company’s direction. If Musk owned the majority of shares (over 50%), his vote alone could determine the company’s fate.
On April 4, Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal announced that Twitter was appointing Musk to its board of directors. This was confirmed by a letter between Musk and Twitter that both parties signed and submitted to the SEC which states his current term on the board expires in 2024.
A different SEC filing states that as part of the agreement, Musk cannot, either alone or as a member of a group, become owner of more than 14.9% of the company’s stock while serving on the board and for 90 days thereafter.
That means that Musk cannot own a majority share of the company until sometime in 2024 at the earliest. His term expires after the company’s annual meeting of stockholders that year; this year’s meeting is in May. Should the meeting occur in May 2024, he wouldn’t be able to acquire 15% or more of Twitter’s stock until August 2024 at the earliest.
So Musk won’t be able to unilaterally decide to add an edit button, change Twitter’s moderation policies or any other change he wishes Twitter to make. He will just have some influence over such decisions as a member of its board.
Musk may remain on Twitter’s board beyond 2024. Unless he and Twitter come to a new agreement with different terms, he would be prohibited from acquiring a larger interest in Twitter for as long as he remains on the company’s board.
More from VERIFY: No, Netflix isn’t cracking down on password sharing in the U.S.
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(The Hill) – Move over, Jack — baseball fans can soon line up to buy some peanuts and Cracker Jill, as the iconic gametime snack launches “a new face” to recognize women in sports.
The caramel-coated popcorn’s maker, Frito-Lay, announced the addition of Cracker Jill on Tuesday, saying the move was aimed at celebrating “the women who break down barriers in sports.”
Bags of Cracker Jill will be available at concession stands at ballparks around the country, and to fans who donate at least $5 to the nonprofit Women’s Sports Foundation on the snack’s website.
As part of the new nibble’s launch, the more than 125-year-old brand released an “updated” version of the seventh inning stretch classic, “Take Me Out to the Ballgame,” belted out by singer Normani.
In the tune, Normani sings, “Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jill. No one can stop you if you have the will.”
The former Fifth Harmony member said she was proud to join “a campaign entrenched in inclusivity and empowerment because it’s vital for young girls to see themselves represented and join in on the celebration of the achievements made by the women before them.”
“We are constantly inspired by the many women who are making history by breaking the mold, and we want to celebrate their achievements while supporting the progress,” Tina Mahal, Frito-Lay North America’s vice president of marketing, said in a statement.
“Cracker Jack has been part of sports for over a century, as records were made and rules changed,” Mahal said. “We’ve been so inspired by how girls and women are changing the face of the game, so in this spirit we introduce Cracker Jill to show girls that they’re represented even in our most iconic snacks.”
The company also announced a $200,000 donation to the Women’s Sports Foundation.
The images of Jill for the packages of the peanut-filled products were created by artist Monica Ahanonu. Frito-Lay said the five different versions of Jill on the bags were “inspired by the most represented ethnicities” in the United States, according to Census Bureau data.
While Cracker Jill’s debut was timed to coincide with this year’s baseball season, Frito-Lay said the intention is for “Jill to continue to join Sailor Jack as a member of the team roster and part of the brand ethos.”
The addition of “Jill” comes as several brands have highlighted inclusivity while updating the images of their most recognizable female characters.
Earlier this year, M&Ms announced its candy characters — including the “Green M&M” — would be getting fresh looks with more “nuanced personalities.” Disneyland Paris also unveiled a new outfit for Minnie Mouse — a pantsuit — which designer Stella McCartney called a “symbol of progress for a new generation.”
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SPOKANE, Wash. — The Gonzaga basketball team will join seven other teams for the 40th annual Maui Jim Maui Invitational next year, according to a press release. This will be the Zags' fifth trip to the invitational.
Gonzaga, Kansas, Marquette, Purdue, Syracuse, Tennessee, UCLA and Chaminade will meet on Nov. 20-22, 2023, at the historic Lahaina Civic Center in Maui, Hawaii.
"The Maui Jim Maui Invitational strives to bring the best college basketball teams and talent to the island of Maui and set the precedent for the rest of the season," Tournament Chairman Dave Odom said in a statement. "The 2023 field is no exception, and we could not be more excited to return to our home at the Lahaina Civic Center and show these teams the magic of Maui."
The Zags have participated in the event five times from 2002 to 2018. During the 2018 Maui Invitational championship game, then-No. 3 Gonzaga defeated No. 1 Duke in a close 89-87 game.
The Bulldogs were in the event in 2002, 2005, 2009, 2013 and 2018. No. 3 Gonzaga topped No. 1 Duke in the 2018 Maui Invitational championship game, 89-87. Former Zag Rui Hachimura earned MVP honors after scoring 20 points in the final.
The men also won the 2009 tournament title following MVP performances from former Zags Steven Gray and Matt Bouldin.
The Zags won the 2009 tournament title behind co-Tournament MVP performances from Steven Gray and Matt Bouldin. Former Zag Adam Morrison was named the tournament's MVP in 2005 following a tournament record 43-point performance against Michigan State.
“We are thrilled to announce the 2023 Maui Jim Maui Invitational field”, Tom Valdiserri, Executive Vice President of KemperLesnik, the operator of the Maui Jim Maui Invitational, said in a statement. “These programs represent the best of college basketball and we look forward to hosting this historic field in Maui.”
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PULLMAN, Wash. — WSU guard Noah Williams has entered the transfer portal, KREM 2 has independently confirmed.
Williams had an up and down season for the Cougs after being expected to be one of the team's leaders this season. He is a junior but has two years of eligibility due to the extra COVID year.
He didn't start in 10 games this season, including not starting a single game in WSU's NIT run. Some of the early games he missed this season were due to Covid. The team was fully healthy for the first time since the beginning of the season during the NIT.
Williams ended the year averaging 9.5 points on 33.2% shooting and shot 26.2% from three. In the 2020-2021 season, Williams averaged 14.1 ppg on 40.6% shooting and 37.9% shooting from three. His most memorable game for the Cougs also came that season when he led WSU to a triple-overtime win over Stanford in which he put up 40 points. That performance helped him get named All-Pac-12 Honorable Mention at the end of the season.
He was named to the Pac-12's Preseason All-Conference First Team this year but did not make any All-Conference teams at the end of the season.
If Williams ultimately leaves the Cougs, they will certainly be on the market for more guards as Michael Flowers is graduating and guards Jefferson Koulibaly and Ryan Rapp have also put their names in the portal in recent weeks. The team right now may only return two guards who saw significant playing time this year: Tyrell Roberts and TJ Bamba. Neither are point guards.
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The Missouri Supreme Court has ordered the release of Keith Carnes, a Kansas City man who has served more than 18 years in prison for a murder he says he didn’t commit.
Carnes, who is now 52, was convicted of killing 24-year-old Larry White in October 2003 and sentenced to life in prison. White was fatally shot in a parking lot at 29th Street and Prospect Avenue, supposedly over a drug deal gone bad.
In a brief order Tuesday, the Supreme Court said Carnes met his burden of proving the state failed to disclose material evidence in his case. The court set aside his first-degree murder and armed criminal action convictions, and ordered his release within 30 days unless prosecutors decide to retry him.
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt had opposed Carnes’ release.
In a statement, the Jackson County Prosecutor’s office, which originally tried Carnes, said it was reviewing the matter and awaiting any further information from the Supreme Court.
Taylor Rickard, one of Carnes' attorneys, said she thought it highly doubtful that prosecutors would opt to retry Carnes, saying the evidence used to convict him "has been entirely discredited."
"His conviction was primarily based on the eyewitness testimony of two witnesses, one who completely recanted, the other who also recanted and then un-recanted, but her trial testimony was entirely contrary to the physical evidence and was completely impossible given the physical evidence of the scene," Rickard said.
One of the eyewitnesses in Carnes' trial, Wendy Lockett, recanted her testimony in 2014 and then recanted her recantation at a court hearing last year. Another eyewitness also recanted her testimony.
"And other than that, no evidence linked key to this crime and there's nothing left that they can use to retry him," Rickard continued.
The Missouri Supreme Court appointed Missouri Circuit Judge William Hickle in 2020 as a special master to review the case. In January, Hickle released a 111-page report finding that exculpatory evidence that should have been turned over to the defense had been withheld.
Carnes’ case was taken up by the Miracle of Innocence, a nonprofit that advocates for wrongfully convicted prisoners. The group was co-founded by Lamonte McIntyre, who spent 23 years in prison for a double homicide in Kansas City, Kansas, he claimed he didn’t commit. McIntyre was exonerated in October 2017.
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...HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MDT WEDNESDAY... * WHAT...West to northwest winds 40 to 50 MPH with gusts up to 75 MPH expected. * WHERE...Southeast Wyoming along and east of the Laramie Range. * WHEN...Until 6 PM MDT Wednesday. * IMPACTS...Mainly to transportation. Strong cross winds may be hazardous to light weight and high profile vehicles, including campers and tractor trailers. There will be an extreme risk for vehicle blow overs! Winds of this magnitude may also lead to tree, power line, and property damage. Secure loose items. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A High Wind Warning means a hazardous high wind event is expected or occurring. Sustained wind speeds of at least 40 mph or gusts of 58 mph or more can lead to property damage. &&
Wyoming author Dean Petersen will be signing copies of his Wyoming-based mystery book "The Burqa Cave" at Barnes & Noble, located 1851 Dell Range Blvd., on Saturday from 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
"The Burqa Cave" follows the story of Iraq War Veteran Tim Ross as he teaches high school in a small Wyoming town and hopes to overcome the nightmares he's been having since he returned from the war. When one of his students mentions seeing a ghost during a macabre ritual held at an isolated gun range, Tim ignores him until the following summer when his former student leads him right to the body of a missing teenage girl.
The boy's insistence that he can see the dead forces Tim to face the possibility that there might be life after death and consequences for the worst thing he did in Iraq.
"The story is heavily based on life in Southwest Wyoming, but anyone who lives in Wyoming will identify with the story and its locations along with anyone who enjoys a spooky mystery," Petersen said of his debut novel. "I hope people will come get their signed copies on Saturday."
Dean Petersen is an Army veteran and lives in Cheyenne with his wife, three kids, and a growing zoo of pets. When not writing, he does commercial videography and enjoys podcasting.
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Yesterday's wrap contained links to all of the comments out of Japan yesterday on the rapid drop in the yen. Bank of Japan Governor Kuroda said the "I" word, and other officials had plenty to say also.
ForexLive Asia FX news wrap: Kuroda says ‘intervention’, USD/JPY drops
The response from the US was a huge pump for USD/JPY:
Helped by Brainard:
Forexlive Americas FX news wrap: Hawkish talk from Brainard sparks a USD rip
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For today in Japan ... there will be more comments from officials seeking to slow the decline in the yen. Which'll give a BTD opportunity! Policy divergence between the BOJ and just about everyone else in the DM world is stark.
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Citi on the Reserve Bank of Australia April meeting:
"RBA maintained their policy rate at 0.1%, although the highlight was the hawkish statement released alongside the
policy rate. There were large changes to the language used in the statement, which we cover in our article here. - The
hawkish shift pushed AUD higher and earlier gains by Australian bonds were erased, with yields now +7bps in the front end.
Markets now price in 30bps of hikes by June 2022. NZD has followed AUD at +0.43%,"
"CitiFX Strategy believes that a May hike in rates doesn't appear likely given the RBA noting "Over coming months,
important additional evidence will be available". However, they think that June and July meetings have become live meetings.
They maintain that this hike would likely be a 15bps hike to 0.25%, a similar level to what markets are pricing in. At the same
time, they flag that the upcoming election is likely to be a risk factor amid growing possibility of a government change as well,"
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Zoos across North America are moving their birds indoors and away from people and wildlife as they try to protect them from the highly contagious and potentially deadly avian influenza.
Penguins may be the only birds visitors to many zoos can see right now, because they already are kept inside and usually protected behind glass in their exhibits, making it harder for the bird flu to reach them.
Nearly 23 million chickens and turkeys have already been killedacross the United States to limit the spread of the virus, and zoos are working hard to prevent any of their birds from meeting the same fate. It would be especially upsetting for zoos to have to kill any of the endangered or threatened species in their care.
“It would be extremely devastating,” said Maria Franke, who is the manager of welfare science at Toronto Zoo, which has less than two dozen Loggerhead Shrike songbirds that it’s breeding with the hope of reintroducing them into the wild. “We take amazing care and the welfare and well being of our animals is the utmost importance. There’s a lot of staff that has close connections with the animals that they care for here at the zoo.”
Toronto Zoo workers are adding roofs to some outdoor bird exhibits and double-checking the mesh surrounding enclosures to ensure it will keep wild birds out.
Birds shed the virus through their droppings and nasal discharge.Experts say it can be spread through contaminated equipment, clothing, boots and vehicles carrying supplies. Research has shown that small birds that squeeze into zoo exhibits or buildings can also spread the flu, and that mice can even track it inside.
So far, no outbreaks have been reported at zoos, but there have been wild birds found dead that had the flu. For example, a wild duck that died in a behind-the-scenes area of the Blank Park Zoo in Des Moines, Iowa, after tornadoes last month tested positive, zoo spokesman Ryan Bickel said.
Most of the steps zoos are taking are designed to prevent contact between wild birds and zoo animals. In some places, officials are requiring employees to change into clean boots and don protective gear before entering bird areas.
When bird flu cases are found in poultry, officials order the entire flock to be killed because the virus is so contagious. However, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has indicated that zoos might be able to avoid that by isolating infected birds and possibly euthanizing a small number of them.
Sarah Woodhouse, director of animal health at Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium, said she is optimistic after talking with state and federal regulators.
“They all agree that ordering us to depopulate a large part of our collection would be the absolute last-ditch effort. So they’re really interested in working with us to see what we can do to make sure that we’re not going to spread the disease while also being able to take care of our birds and not have to euthanize,” Woodhouse said.
Among the precautions zoos are taking is to keep birds in smaller groups so that if a case is found, only a few would be affected. The USDA and state veterinarians would make the final decision about which birds had to be killed.
“Euthanasia is really the only way to keep it from spreading,” said Luis Padilla, who is vice president of animal collections at the Saint Louis Zoo. “That’s why we have so many of these very proactive measures in place.”
The National Aviary in Pittsburgh — the nation’s largest —- is providing individual health checks for each of its roughly 500 birds. Many already live in large glass enclosures or outdoor habitats where they don’t have direct exposure to wildlife, said Dr. Pilar Fish, the aviary’s senior director of veterinary medicine and zoological advancement.
Kansas City Zoo CEO Sean Putney said he’s heard a few complaints from visitors, but most people seem OK with not getting to see some birds. “I think our guests understand that we have what’s in the best interests of the animals in mind when we make these decisions even though they can’t get to see them,” Putney said.
Officials emphasize that bird flu doesn’t jeopardize the safety of meat or eggs or represent a significant risk to human health. No infected birds are allowed into the food supply, and properly cooking poultry and eggs kills bacteria and viruses. No human cases have been found in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Associated Press Writers David Pitt contributed to this report from Des Moines, Iowa, Lindsay Whitehurst contributed from Salt Lake City, Julie Watson contributed from San Diego, Chris Grygiel contributed from Seattle and Tom Tait contributed from Las Vegas.
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LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to suspend all official travel to Texas and Florida due to highly publicized policies directed at LGBTQ+ youth and families.
The motion by Supervisors Sheila Kuehl and Hilda Solis called for the suspension of all travel to the states except for instances when failing to authorize such a trip “would seriously harm the county’s interests.”
The move came in response to measures taken in both states that have made headlines.
In Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott ordered that gender-affirming treatments provided to transgender youth be investigated as child abuse. The declaration has led health providers in that state to suspend the treatments.
In Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis recently signed into law the Parental Rights in Education Bill, which restricts instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity in early grades. Critics have dubbed the measure the “Don’t Say Gay” law.
In their motion, Kuehl and Solis said the Texas order “flies in the face of all that we know about best practices when it comes to supporting children and young adults to discover who they are and feel secure in their sense of self.”
“… Caregivers who support youth with affirming care should in no way be labeled as abusive,” according to the motion. “This order is discriminatory, harmful and just plain cruel.”
The contend the Florida law will “perpetuate a culture of bullying, secrecy, shame and fear.”
“Schools should be spaces that foster open discussion, critical thinking, meaningful engagement and the safe exploration of ideas,” they wrote. “The implementation of this bill would create an atmosphere that stifles such a culture and stifles learning itself.”
Abbott’s declaration last month followed an opinion issued by that state’s attorney general declaring that gender-affirming treatments fall under the category of child abuse under state law. Abbott then ordered the state to investigate any instances of minors undergoing “elective procedures for gender transitioning.”
In Florida, DeSantis has defended that state’s legislation, saying it “showed a commitment to education, not to indoctrination.”
“As the parent of three kids that are aged 5 and under, thank you for letting me and my wife be able to send our kids to kindergarten without them being sexualized,” he said.
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Netflix has added new comics to its Netflix is a Joke Comedy Festival that’s scheduled to take place around Los Angeles from April 28 through May 8. The festival, which will include Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias headlining a stand-up show at Dodger Stadium, has added performances by John Mulaney, Snoop Dogg, Bill Burr, Sebastian Maniscalco, Franco Escamilla and more.
The series of 250 live events spread among 30 venues around Los Angeles will now include the casts of Netflix shows such as “Cobra Kai,” “Never Have I Ever” and special events for “Somebody Feed Phil” and a free outdoor fan experience.
Tickets for the recently announced shows will go on sale starting at 10 a.m. Wednesday at netflixisajokefest.com. where readers can also see the full lineup.
Highlights, including the new shows:
- John Mulaney at the Hollywood Bowl with special guest Earthquake
- Snoop Dogg at the Hollywood Palladium with Katt Williams, Mike Epps, Sommore and more
- Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias recording a special at Dodger Stadium
- Sebastian Maniscalco Nobody Does this Tour at the Wiltern
- Bill Burr & Friends at the Hollywood Palladium
- Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin Ladies Night Live at the Hollywood Palladium with Michelle Buteau, Avi Gilbert, Cristela Alonzo, Margaret Cho, Heather McMahan & Tracey Ashley
- Kevin Hart at Crypto.com Arena (formerly Staples Center)
- Dave Chappelle and Friends at the Hollywood Bowl
- Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hold a chat at YouTube Theater
- Franco Escamilla at the Hollywood Pantages Theater
- Seth Rogen with four nights of table reads at the Orpheum Theatre
- Maya Rudolph’s and Gretchen Lieberum’s Prince cover band, Princess, will perform at The Belasco
- A 50th anniversary commemoration of The Comedy Store with special programming
- Stand Out: An LGBTQ+ Celebration hosted by Billy Eichner at the Greek Theatre, with Eddie Izzard, Fortune Feimster, Bob the Drag Queen, Margaret Cho, Wanda Sykes, Sandra Bernhard and more
- Amy Schumer and Friends at the Hollywood Palladium with Lil Rel Howery, Chris Distefano, Christina P, Janelle James, Ron Funches, Rachel Feinstein & Jaye McBrideOutdoors at Hollywood Palladium–a free 7-day minifestival (reservations required)
- “The Hall: Honoring the Greats of Stand-Up” and will feature the best in comedy today paying homage to pioneers including George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Joan Rivers and Robin Williams at the Hollywood Palladium.
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WASHINGTON — Republicans blocked a Democratic attempt Tuesday to begin Senate debate on a $10 billion COVID-19 compromise, pressing to entangle the bipartisan package with an election-year showdown over immigration restrictions that poses a politically uncomfortable fight for Democrats.
A day after Democratic and GOP bargainers reached agreement on providing the money for treatments, vaccines and testing, a Democratic move to push the measure past a procedural hurdle failed 52-47. All 50 Republicans opposed the move, leaving Democrats 13 votes short of the 60 votes they had needed to prevail.
Hours earlier, Republicans said they’d withhold crucial support for the measure unless Democrats agreed to votes on an amendment preventing President Joe Biden from lifting Trump-era curbs on migrants entering the U.S. With Biden polling poorly on his handling of immigration and Democrats divided on the issue, Republicans see a focus on migrants as a fertile line of attack.
“I think there will have to be” an amendment preserving the immigration restrictions “in order to move the bill” bolstering federal pandemic efforts, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told reporters.
“I don’t think there are probably 10 Republican votes at the moment for a process that doesn’t include” a vote on language retaining the immigration barriers, said No. 2 Senate GOP leader John Thune of South Dakota.
At least 10 GOP votes will be needed in the 50-50 Senate for the measure to reach the 60 votes it must have for approval.
Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., want Congress to approve the pandemic bill before lawmakers leave in days for a two-week recess. Tuesday’s vote suggested that could be hard.
“This is a potentially devastating vote for every single American who was worried about the possibility of a new variant rearing its nasty head within a few months,” Schumer said after the vote.
The new omicron variant, BA.2, is expected to spark a fresh increase in U.S. COVID-19 cases. Around 980,000 Americans and over 6 million people worldwide have died from the disease.
The $10 billion pandemic package is far less than the $22.5 billion Biden initially sought. It also lacks $5 billion Biden wanted to battle the pandemic overseas — money that fell victim to disagreements over GOP demands that the measure be entirely paid for with budget savings.
At least half the bill would be used for research and to produce therapeutics to treat COVID-19. Money would also be used to buy vaccines and tests and to research new variants.
The measure is paid for by pulling back unspent funds provided earlier for protecting aviation manufacturing jobs, assisting entertainment venues shuttered by the pandemic and other programs.Administration officials have said the government has run out of money to finance COVID-19 testing and treatments for people without insurance, and is running low on money for boosters, free monoclonal antibody treatments and care for people with immune system weaknesses.
At the 2020 height of the pandemic, President Donald Trump imposed immigration curbs letting authorities immediately expel asylum seekers and migrants for public health reasons. The ban is set to expire May 23, triggering what by all accounts will be a massive increase on the number of people trying to cross the Mexican border into the U.S.
That confronts Democrats with messy choices ahead of fall elections when they’re expected to struggle to retain their hair-breadth majorities in the House and Senate.
Many of the party’s lawmakers and their liberal supporters want the U.S. to open its doors to more immigrants. But moderates and some Democrats confronting tight November reelections worry about lifting the restrictions and alienating centrist voters.
Shortly before Tuesday’s vote, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., showed no taste for exposing his party to a divisive immigration vote.
“This is a bipartisan agreement that does a whole lot of important good for the American people. Vaccines, testing, therapeutics,” he said. “It should not be held hostage for an extraneous issue.”
Jeff Zients, head of White House COVID-19 task force, expressed the same view about an immigration provision.
“This should not be included on any funding bill,” he told reporters. “The decision should be made by the CDC. That’s where it has been, and that’s where it belongs.”
But Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said he would still support a Senate COVID-19 aid bill if it included the GOP effort to retain the Trump immigration restrictions.
“Why wouldn’t I?” he said in a brief interview.
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which initiated the move two years ago, said earlier this month that it would lift the ban next month. The restrictions, known as Title 42, have been harder to justify as pandemic restrictions have eased.
Trump administration officials cast the curbs as a way to keep COVID-19 from spreading further in the U.S. Democrats considered that an excuse for Trump, whose anti-immigrant rhetoric was a hallmark of his presidency, to keep migrants from entering the country.
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., who faces a competitive reelection this fall, declined to say Tuesday whether she would support retaining the Trump-era ban, saying she wanted to see its language. But she said the Biden administration needs to do more.
“I’ve been very clear with the administration. I need a plan, we need a plan,” she said in a brief interview. “There’s going to be a surge at the border. There should be a plan and I’ve been calling for it all along.”
AP reporters Chris Megerian and Farnoush Amiri contributed to this report.
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- Two more Chinese cities have announced the lifting of home purchase restrictions at the start of April, sending the total number of domestic cities that have eased such policies to boost the housing market to more than 60 so far this year.
And, they are not done yet:
- Yan Yuejin, research director at Shanghai-based E-house China R&D Institute, told the Global Times ... that more cities across the country are expected to announce new relaxation measures in April
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FORT SAM HOUSTON, TX -- United States Army South held the Joint Synchronization Symposium (JSS) at Joint Base San Antonio March 28-April 1, to synchronize and expand engagements to maintain or increase the U.S. presence in the Western Hemisphere.
As the Joint Force Land Component Command (JFLCC) for U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), Army South serves as the executive planning agent for two major multinational exercises – Southern Vanguard and CENTAM Guardian. Army South also facilitates activities in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility (AOR) that support the command’s major exercises: PANAMAX, TRADEWINDS, and Resolute Sentinel.
Structured around the Joint Planning Doctrine, the four-day symposium consisted of Army section chiefs, security cooperation officers, and U.S. Southern Command’s component planners.
“Army Doctrine breaks up the operations process into plan, prepare, execute, and assess,” stated Col. Michael Lewczak, Army South G5 director of strategy, plans, and policy. “The G5 is responsible largely for the planning portion of the operations process. This is the goal of the symposium.”
Lewczak added the symposium is the kickoff of the next planning cycle.
“Based on where the G5 is in terms of our time horizons and our responsibilities, this event is about planning, mission analysis, and operational design.”
JSS participants conducted mission analysis of existing posture and capabilities to identify opportunities that SOUTHCOM can then leverage for increased integration with partner nations.
Participants also looked at reframing the problems in the AOR to better identify and address challenges the region and homeland face. They also focused on identifying opportunities that would impede or prevent malign actors from gaining influence in the region.
“While we will not be able to do all things with every partner nation, based on current resourcing, it will allow the command to effectively prioritize the key activities and capabilities that will complement and enable responses both in the region, and around the globe, when needed,” stated Lt. Col. Michael Nau, Army South G55 chief of strategic plans.
During a recent testimony by Gen. Laura Richardson, SOUTHCOM Commander, she characterized China as a long-term competitor to the U.S. during her testimony to the Senate Armed Service Committee.
“We must use all available levers to strengthen our partnerships with the 28 like-minded democracies in this hemisphere, who understand the power of working together to counter these shared threats,” Richardson said.
As part of Army South’s mission to conduct and support multinational operations and security cooperation, these planning efforts specifically focused on developing integrated deterrence with key partners in Central and South America and the Caribbean.
“Right now we are operating off of very limited persistent presence,” Lewczak said. “We are looking to expand our presence further down into the Southern Cone episodically; not only to demonstrate interoperability and deployment readiness, but also to demonstrate commitment to our partners.”
He stressed the importance of the U.S. maintaining military relationships, and committing to its diplomatic relationships in the region.
Lewczak further explained, that having representation at the symposium from various components, like U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command and Air Forces Southern, allows Army South to look at problems from a different lens.
“It is always better to get the perspective of our sister services, and understand how they look at the problem in order to make ourselves better,” Lewczak said.
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JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas – The wind whipped sand across her face and a generator hummed in the background as Davina Farrell stepped off the plane. It was October 2021, and Farrell, an English as a Second Language/English as a Foreign Language instructor, and seven of her colleagues, had just left the 37th Training Wing with a mission: Prepare Afghan evacuees for integration into the United States by teaching them basic English.
The timing was perfect — the Defense Language Institute English Language Center where Farrell has worked for nearly 11 years had just developed a new American Language Course to equip non-English speakers with a base layer of everyday vocabulary. The course, ALC-Fundamentals, was designed to help new students in the 37th TRW succeed in future, intermediate English classes, and to help them navigate life in the United States. ALC-Fundamentals was initially created as a three-week, 90-hour language course to meet the unique needs of service members from partner nations whose first language is significantly different from English, meaning that their native language doesn’t share the Latin alphabet or grammar structure. The material easily translated for use with the evacuees at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico.
“Everyone was excited about the assignment and looked forward to contributing and making a difference with this population,” said Farrell, the team’s lead. “All the instructors had previous experience with Afghan students and felt a connection.”
When the team arrived at Holloman, they unloaded the course materials, a collection of posters and flashcards, and began administering a series of placement tests to gauge their students’ knowledge. Evacuees eager to learn English lined up to secure a spot in the class, and, although participation was completely voluntary, all 80 student slots were filled on the first day.
Some of the students had worked with U.S. military forces in Afghanistan, while others, including a female dentist, had dedicated years to civilian careers they hoped to continue in the United States. According to Sheri Padilla, one of the ESL/EFL Instructors, all the students hoped that improving their English would “help them take advantage of the vast opportunities in the U.S.”
“The simple act of teaching and sharing our culture meant so much to them,” said Lisa Lundien, an ESL/EFL Instructor with 10 years of experience at DLIELC. “I believe that we represented America to those with whom we came in contact, and I was proud to be a part of this mission.”
Anne Griffin, an ESL/EFL instructor, echoed Lundien’s thoughts, saying “it was a privilege to number ourselves amongst our students’ first U.S. contacts as they began their new lives in this country.”
The course lasted three weeks and primarily focused on teaching the students how to tell time, describe people and shop -- all in English. Farrell and her team hung up posters with clock faces and arranged flashcards of produce to guide their students through the new vocabulary. According to Padilla, one of her students, an Afghan grade school teacher, sat up taller when they covered school-related words, and her eyes lit up whenever she got the chance to share her job with her classmates. Often, as aircraft engines roared to life in the distance, the instructors would listen to their students tell stories and then build connections between the evacuees’ experiences and the English vocabulary.
“What I enjoyed most was learning about their life stories and how they plan to make a difference using what they’d learned from their past,” said ESL/EFL Instructor Hadel Bilal.
“This experience reminded me that you are never too old to learn a new language,” said ESL/EFL Instructor Nickola Wilson-Chung. “Providing the opportunity of learning English to our Afghan allies was a great honor, and a chance for me to once again be in service to my country by helping future citizens become acclimated to the United States.”
At the end of the course, the team unanimously considered the mission a success. Padilla and her colleagues agreed that “although language learning is a long-term effort, we could see their confidence grow as they began to speak more and expand their vocabulary. The honor of teaching them was an invaluable gift to each instructor.”
According to Farrell, not only were the students “overwhelmingly grateful” for the class, but they also expressed the desire to continue studying English and honing their skills. “The Afghan population is determined to be successful,” she said. “They will achieve great things and contribute lots to U.S. society.”
The team returned to the 37th TRW after completing the mission where they continue teaching ALC-Fundamentals and other English courses to service members from partner nations. DLIELC is the leader in English language training for the Department of Defense and is the first stop in the United States for many international allies and partners for military training. DLIELC is focused on the National Defense Strategy and Department of Defense priorities, building security cooperation capabilities in U.S. partners through English language training and cultural immersion.
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The Archdiocese of New Orleans says a Marianite Sister from Louisiana has been kidnapped in Africa where she has been stationed since 2014.
On Tuesday morning, officials with the Archdiocese were informed that Marianite Sister Suellen Tennyson had been abducted from the parish in Yalgo, Bukina Faso.
According to Bishop Theophile Nare of the Kaya Diocese, 83-year-old Sr. Suellen Tennyson was abducted overnight between April 4 and 5 and taken to an unknown destination by "Unidentified Armed Men."
The diocese reports that kidnappers also vandalized the convent where Tennyson lived with other religious women.
“Until the search for her is successful, we remain in communion of prayer for the release of Sr. Suellen Tennyson,” Bishop Nare wrote in a statement released to media in Africa and Europe.
Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond joined in the appeal for the safe return of Tennyson.
“For many years, Sr. Suellen ministered to the people of the Archdiocese of New Orleans with great joy. Today, we express our sadness and shock at her abduction and offer our prayers for her safe return. Please join me in praying for Sr. Suellen, the Marianite Sisters of the Holy Cross, and all who know and love her during this difficult time.”
The Archdiocese of New Orleans says that according to media reports, Burkina Faso, one of the ten countries in the Sahel region of Africa, has been facing rampant violence occasioned by political crises. The city of Yalgo borders the province of Soum where armed groups are particularly active.
In this area, attacks against civilians have increased according to reports, they say.
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JetBlue Airways is trying to buy Spirit Airlines and break up a plan for Spirit to merge with fellow budget airline Frontier.
Spirit said on Tuesday that JetBlue offered $33 a share, or about $3.6 billion. Florida-based Spirit says its board will evaluate the JetBlue bid and decide what's best for its shareholders. The JetBlue offer is about 40% higher than the value of Frontier's bid.
Frontier's offer in cash and stock was worth $2.9 billion when it was announced in February, but Frontier shares have fallen since then, reducing the value to Spirit shareholders. Spirit shares soared after the New York Times reported JetBlue's bid earlier Tuesday.
In a statement, New York-based JetBlue said buying out Spirit would create a situation where fares would stay low by forming “the most compelling national low-fare challenger” to the U.S.'s four biggest airlines which are American, Delta, United and Southwest.
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SIOUX CITY, Iowa (KCAU) — After an almost three-year hiatus, the library book sale is back.
The Friends of the Sioux City Library and volunteers are busy unpacking thousands of books in the old Yonkers space at the Southern Hills Mall for the annual book sale which was canceled the past two years due to COVID.
The money raised by the book sale primarily goes toward the summer reading program.
“It is a big job to do it because it takes a lot of people to get it to set up but I kind of missed it, you miss the same people that come back pretty much every year and it’s always nice to see the people you haven’t seen so it’ll be nice to see all these people that used to come,” said Ellen Shaner.
The sale begins April 7 and goes through April 16. A full schedule can be found below.
Sale Dates and Times:
Thursday, April 7
Opening Night ($5 Donation for 12+, $1 for 12 & under)
4 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Friday, April 8
4 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Saturday, April 9
10 a.m. – 8 p.m.
Sunday, April 10
Noon – 6 p.m.
Monday, April 11 – Friday, April 15
4 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Saturday, April 16
Free Day
10 a.m. – To Be Determined
Doors close at 6 p.m., or when the books are gone.
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(NEXSTAR) – Twitter wasn’t joking on April Fools’ Day when they tweeted, “we are working on edit button.”
The San Francisco-based social media company confirmed Tuesday that they have been working on the long-requested feature since last year.
“We’ve been exploring how to build an Edit feature in a safe manner since last year and plan to begin testing it within Twitter Blue Labs in the coming months,” tweeted Jay Sullivan, head of consumer product.
Twitter added in an announcement from its communications team that no poll was consulted, apparently referencing Elon Musk.
On Monday, after becoming the social media platform’s largest outside stakeholder, Elon Musk tweeted a poll asking followers if they wanted an edit button. Within an hour of the poll being posted, the majority of voters selected “yse” rather than “on.” As of Tuesday afternoon, nearly 75% of the 4.2 million votes were for the edit button.
Currently, Twitter users are faced with a tough decision after spotting a typo in a published tweet – delete or live with it, making corrections in a thread.
Twitter does offer an ‘undo’ button to its Twitter Blue subscribers, which allows users to cancel a tweet before anyone else sees it. But even being a paying subscriber doesn’t give you access to a simple edit button.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said in a 2020 interview with Wired that the company would “probably never” create an edit button, noting that while it would be helpful for some errors, it could give way to malicious changes to tweets.
“You might send a tweet and then someone might retweet that, and then an hour later you completely change the content of that tweet and that person that retweeted the original tweet is now retweeting and rebroadcasting something completely different,” Dorsey said. “So that’s something to watch out for.”
When an actual edit button might go live is not clear, and Sullivan warned users to be patient, adding, “We will approach this feature with care and thoughtfulness and we will share updates as we go.”
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — Lawmakers want to find out if corporations are taking advantage of Americans and fueling inflation.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) says big corporations are using the pandemic and war in Ukraine to make money.
“During all this instability, that this be a moment in which large corporations continue to enjoy huge profits,” Sanders said.
During a Senate Budget Committee hearing, Sanders accused companies like Tyson and Amazon, who he said prioritize corporate greed, of causing inflation.
“Corporations are making record-breaking profits and over 700 billionaires in America became nearly $2 trillion wealthier,” Sanders said.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) says competition usually drives the price of items down, but there isn’t enough in the gas or meat industry.
“Is there something unusual about those two markets that seemingly causes this market theory not to pertain in those markets?” Whitehouse asked.
“A relatively few number of producers who can easily coordinate their production,” UC Berkeley Public Policy Professor Robert Reich answered.
Sanders and Whitehouse believe these corporations deserve a windfall tax for their profiteering, but Republicans say Democrats are pointing the finger at the wrong culprit.
“The best cause for inflation lies in the policy choices of this administration,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said.
Graham says higher corporate taxes aren’t a solution.
“If we impose new taxes now on businesses who changed their business model in light of COVID, we’re going to make a huge mistake,” Graham said.
Graham says this issue should be decided by the voters in November.
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Google Fiber is coming to Des Moines
Google Fiber announced plans Tuesday to bring its high-speed internet services to the city of Des Moines in the coming months.
Why it matters: Improving internet access is a long-term goal for the Des Moines metro, and the need is growing more urgent as more residents work and learn from home.
Catch up fast: Google Fiber launched in West Des Moines last month.
- MetroNet, another fiber-optic internet provider, began construction in Des Moines last year. Its services are already available in some suburbs, including Ankeny, Urbandale and Johnston, according to its online map.
Of note: Both companies advertise 1 gigabit monthly services for around $70.
What's ahead: Google Fiber is slated to start building its network in Des Moines this fall.
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It sounds pretty great already? But if this game actually gets in front me I might bubble and never recover ? but still this has so much charm, hope u enjoy my friends, this video will go onto one of mine more serious game collect and game talk review episodes very shortly, see you back on it then. Just like my title on video, the idea I have this whole season going was a plan way earlier as of last 7th month... Now a 8 and few m LAKETON TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Michigan State Police continue to investigate Monday’s trooper-involved shooting on Sugaridge Drive.
“Heard the sirens and looked up and saw a state trooper go flying by the house,” said neighbor Nic Carothers. “Must’ve been 5–10 minutes later we heard a gunshot. Around here we really don’t pay much attention to gunshots. You know, we all shoot around here. Didn’t really think much about it until we started seeing more cops and cops and ambulances.”
MSP said via social media that on Monday around 2:40 p.m. a man identified as 37-year-old Joseph Miller broke into a residence on Sugaridge Drive. A woman was inside. She locked herself in the bedroom and dialed 911.
Upon arrival, police encountered Miller as he was leaving, they said. Miller drew a gun. Troopers did too. Both Miller and the troopers fired. Miller was hit and pronounced dead at the scene.
Neighbor Ryan Klootwyck said he left home around 1 p.m. By the time he returned by 3 p.m. the street was filled with law enforcement.
“By the time I got to the entrance, which was a quarter mile away, the sheriff was there to stop me,” Klootwyck said to FOX 17 during an interview. “I had to wait to be OK’d to come back here. When I pulled in, this place was loaded with police, detectives, a forensic van. I pulled in and two detectives were waiting for me at the driveway here.”
Klootwyk told police that he was not surprised by what happened. He said a gun business is run out of that home called Wild Spirit Outdoors.
Before interviewing Klootwyk, FOX 17 went to the home and was met by a man who said, “No comment.” Hours later, when FOX 17 called the number on WSO's website, a man picked up and said, "Didn't we speak earlier?" He said “no comment” again.
“Truck traffic [and] delivering has been immense,” Klootwyk said about the home. “The strangers coming to the cul-de-sac has been problematic. My dog goes crazy about the delivery trucks, the strangers.”
MSP did not state what led Miller to the home, and it’s not clear that the business was a factor in Monday’s incident.
However, Carothers said the shooting motivated him and his family to come up with an emergency plan should someone break into their home.
“It was scary, you know,” Carothers said. “It was really an eye opener, makes you realize [to] lock stuff up better. It’s kind of eerie kind of feeling, you know.”
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An Elon Musk tweet has been known to impact a stock or a crypto token’s trajectory, but something akin to a turning of the tables took place on Monday.
Instead of a tweet sending a stock higher, some stock action sent Twitter (TWTR) shares higher. More specifically, the shares soared by 27% after it became known that Musk has acquired a 9.2% stake in the microblogging platform, making him the largest shareholder, far exceeding founder Jack Dorsey’s 2.25% stake.
An avid tweeter and “free speech absolutist,” Musk has often voiced his displeasure at what he perceives to be the curtailing of free speech on the platform, and only recently ran a poll for his followers asking whether Twitter “rigorously adheres to this principle.” Never mind Musk’s own record on the issue is sketchy, having previously threatened to sue critics or fire employees who take an opposite stand to him.
With Musk now also set to join Twitter’s board of directors, his pursuit of total free speech might not entirely align with Twitter’s plans, as noted by Wells Fargo’s Brian Fitzgerald.
“While we believe that free expression is still an important principle for TWTR, its prioritization has arguably been attenuated to elevate sometimes-competing priorities including the ‘health’ of public conversation on the platform and brand safety/suitability for advertisers,” the 5-star analyst explained.
Under the leadership of new CEO Parag Agrawal, who has signaled his intention to do so, Fitzgerald anticipates the “balance between free expression and platform health is likely to tilt further in the direction of platform health.”
Does that mean boardroom clashes are in the cards? That remains to be seen, although Fitzgerald does make the point that Twitter has a “track record of compromise with activist investors.” Should Musk push for a change of strategy, however, Fitzgerald warns that “brand monetization could suffer.”
All in all, Fitzgerald reiterates an Equal Weight (i.e., Hold) rating on Twitter shares, while his $42 price target implies ~18% downside from current levels. (To watch Fitzgerald’s track record, click here)
Most analysts agree with Wells Fargo’s stance; 17 other analysts remain on the sidelines and with another 8 Buys and 2 Sells, the consensus view is that this stock is a Hold. The Musk-driven surge has taken the shares beyond the Street’s $45.35 average target, which now implies the stock will drift 11% lower over the coming months. (See Twitter stock forecast on TipRanks)
To find good ideas for stocks trading at attractive valuations, visit TipRanks’ Best Stocks to Buy, a newly launched tool that unites all of TipRanks’ equity insights.
Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the featured analyst. The content is intended to be used for informational purposes only. It is very important to do your own analysis before making any investment.
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Before trading kicks into action on Wednesday (April 6), Tilray (TLRY) will present F3Q22’s financial results (February quarter).
Those with an optimistic bent might want to lower expectations, if Canaccord’s Matt Bottomley’s forecast is anything to go by.
“For the quarter, we are expecting the combination of a seasonally slower period and continued macro-level headwinds in the Canadian recreational environment (namely saturated competition and pricing pressures) to result in a relatively flat print on both the top line and Tilray’s profitability profile,” said the 5-star analyst.
At a “consolidated level,” Bottomley anticipates that Tilray will deliver net revenue of US$155.7 million in the quarter, amounting to a very “modest” sequential increase of ~0.4%.
Broken into segments, Bottomley expects “continued pressure on Canadian cannabis sales.” Total gross Canadian medical + recreational sales are expected to reach US$50.6 million, which would represent a quarter-over-quarter drop of around 12%. “Our estimate assumes incrementally lower medical contribution with most of the decline attributable to adult-use sales,” the analyst explained.
While Tilray is in the process of “better rationalizing its pricing and SKU offerings,” retail sales across the sector are anticipated to decline sequentially, with point-of-sales data indicating a QoQ drop of over 20% for Tilray branded products. As such, Bottomley thinks the company is still “susceptible to macro-level headwinds within its adult-use segment.”
On a more positive note, the acquisition of the US-based Breckenridge Distillery and marginally higher international sales should “slightly” offset the bearish trends, with Bottomley expecting distribution and international export revenue to sequentially tick higher. However, that also comes with caveats. “Although FQ3 typically sees a slight seasonal bump in distribution sales, we believe the impact of the COVID-19 Omicron variant will likely offset some of this growth in the period,” the analyst summed up.
Nevertheless, Bottomley’s rating stays a Buy, backed by a $9 price target. The implication for investors? Upside of 28%. (To watch Bottomley’s track record, click here)
The Street’s assessment of Tilray’s prospects presents something of a conundrum. On the one hand, based on 7 Holds, 3 Buys and 1 Sell, the stock makes do with a Hold consensus rating. That said, most think the shares are still undervalued; going by the $10.22 average target, the stock is expected to add 45% of muscle in the year ahead. (See Tilray stock forecast on TipRanks)
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Hebron, Md- There will be a public hearing and a vote on a moratorium on storage tanks, like the one off Porter Mill and Riggin road in Hebron. The tank stores poultry waste product. Neighbors near this tank say a moratorium on tanks like these could prevent neighbors from living through the conditions they have been through.
“The flies are terrible, I just worry about what it’s doing to our health. I live 400 yards, a straight line from it. I am the second closest person to it. And it’s just crazy that the county put it in here,” said Kenny Robinson, who lives near the tank. “I grew up around chicken manure… but this isn’t chicken manure smell. This is, if you’ve ever had a septic tank overflow in your yard, smell. Worse than the septic tank.”
Robinson says on hot summer days, everyday is a toss up.
“Whichever way the wind is blowing, you better hope that you are not in that direction because it is just horrible. It’s awful. It gets in your house, it gets in here you can’t get rid of it for days. If you’re lucky enough that the wind is going the other way, you’re alright. But whoever is stuck with the wind for a few days… you’re in trouble,” said Robinson.
Neighbor Jeffery Bear agrees.
“The combination of the smell and the traffic. There’s as many as 30 tractor trailers a day coming in and out of us. Kids, buses, neighborhoods, it's not a good situation,” said Bear. “You can’t sit outside. Certain times the wind is in certain directions you cant even go outside. You have to hold your breath going out to your vehicle ”
Edmond Burns owns the tank and says he did not realize what an uproar the tank would bring.
"All I did was apply for a permit that's the stuff that I put in is controlled by MDA. I didn't try to inconvenience my neighbors, but it seems like some of them had, you know, have a bad disposition about it," said Burns.
Members of the Wicomico County Council tell WBOC the reason it may extend the moratorium is because they are still exploring the legality of where these tanks should go.
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WASHINGTON — Attorney Jotaka Eaddy and thousands of others formed a metaphorical circle of protection around Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as she traipsed down the snake pit on Capitol Hill during the contentious SCOTUS confirmation hearings.
Jackson is poised to become the first-ever Black woman U.S. Supreme Court jurist, but the path has been rife with obstacles, and deliberately so, some would say. Eaddy leveraged the interstate influence of the collective she convened, #WinningWithBlackWomen, to help fill some of the veritable potholes along Jackson’s road to confirmation.
The intergenerational and interactive organization WWBW was founded in 2020 and meets on most Sundays via social media. It is comprised of thousands of Black women in the realms of business, civil rights, and social justice as well as politics, high tech, and in the fields of entertainment and sports.
Eaddy said #WinningWithBlackWomen is designed to “speak out against the racism and sexism that’s often hurled at black women. I think we’ve seen that much (during) this confirmation hearing,” Eaddy pointed out to rolling out. “Number two, we work within our personal capacities to elect black women in the office. And thirdly, we work to uplift the collective agenda and image of black women and particularly focus on supporting the work of black women-led organizations.”
Eaddy is not new to being in political foxholes or spearheading campaigns. She is the founder and CEO of Full Circle Strategies, a social impact and political consulting firm that aims to enact transformative change on a national and international scale. She is also the co-host of the award-winning OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network Television series “Speak Sis!”
With that in mind, Eaddy came armed with her virtual crew to bring muscle to Melanie Campbell’s National Coalition of Black Civic Participation organization. She and her crew made phone calls to members of Congress and hosted rallies and events in support of Judge Jackson’s nomination.
“This is where I need to be. Personally, am deeply committed to doing everything I can within my professional and personal capacity to ensure the confirmation of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, as a black woman, as an American, and as someone who cares very deeply about the rule of law.”
This attorney has a long and deep relationship with the law as she spearheaded the Supreme Court case, Roper vs. Simmons, that abolished the death penalty for juveniles. The Supreme Court candidacy of Judge Jackson becomes another career highlight that has profound future implications.
Overall, as Eaddy expressed eloquently, #WinningWithBlackWomen is tantamount to “a collective love letter from black women to ourselves.”
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Aysha Pride is the senior auditor for Equitable, which is one of America’s leading financial services companies. She was present at the Black Enterprise Women of Power Summit.
Pride spoke with rolling out about Black women and auditing, advice for young Black girls looking for a career, and what Black men can do to better protect Black women.
Why is it important for Black women to get involved in auditing?
It’s very important for Black women to get involved in auditing because we know more than we think we know. It’s our time to shine, and it’s our time to be able to sit at the table with management and help them be able to see their processes and their business in a different way to make it better.
Who is that person who opened your eyes to this career?
I would definitely lean on my managers, and also the mentors that I’ve developed at Equitable and outside of Equitable. They helped me see the bigger picture and how I fit into that big picture. I would definitely give them all the credit for it.
What is your message to young Black girls who don’t know what to do for a career?
I would say just lean into whatever is available to you. For me, it was basketball. I played ever since I was a young girl, age five, and I allowed that to take me where I’m at today. If you were to ask me when I was five, or even 15, if I would be in this room here, I wouldn’t be able to say that I would be. I would just say lean into the opportunities that you have and be willing to say “yes” because you never know where it can take you.
What can Black men do to better support Black women in 2022?
I would say Black men can be advocates. They can support women whenever they have the opportunity, whether that be on social media, whether that be in those circles that they’re in, and not tolerate any negative talk about Black women. My husband’s a big [proponent] of Black women. We have two young girls at home, and he’s equally as excited to go to my daughter’s basketball game as my son’s baseball game. I would say if you’re a father, be the best Black father you can be no matter if it’s for your son or if it’s for your daughter.
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The leadership of the Black Lives Matter organization has come under intense scrutiny once again for the acquisition of numerous real estate properties and where the funding emanates from.
According to an explosive investigative report published by New York Magazine’s Sean Kevin Campbell, the three leaders of BLM – Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza and Melina Abdullah – allegedly purchased a $6 million home in Southern California that they deliberately tried to hide from the public.
There is also the charge from the report that BLM’s Global Network Foundation has hauled in the area of $90 million yet allegedly provided little to no support for BLM chapter leaders around the country who fell into great financial difficulty and even went homeless.
In January, I wrote that my piece on the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation was one of the hardest I'd done. This one has been heartbreaking. As organizers have fallen homeless, I uncovered a $6 million property purchased with BLMGNF funds. 1/ https://t.co/KUh6sCmTQh
— Sean Kevin Campbell (@Sean_Kev) April 4, 2022
Part of Campbell’s report was produced from a video the three leaders produced that commemorated the one-year anniversary of the execution of George Floyd on Memorial Day 2021. Floyd was killed by former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin on Memorial Day 2020.
“It’s because we’re powerful because we are winning,” Cullors reportedly said when she defiantly responded to what she calls relentless right-wing media attacks. “It’s because we are threatening the establishment, we’re threatening white supremacy.”
The women vociferously and repeatedly deny any legal or ethical wrongdoing and reportedly stated they had planned to reveal the purchase by its May 15 tax filing deadline. However, Campbell reports that the latest pricey home, a seven-bedroom residence was purchased in October 2020 by a man named Dyane Pascall just two weeks after the BLMGNF received $66.5 million from its fiscal sponsor earlier in the month.
When I asked, my questions were called defamatory and the BLMGNF jumped into a mode where they sought to kill my story or detract from its findings. I know this because I later acquired a memo of their plans. They looked to bury the truth. 3/ https://t.co/KUh6sCmm0J
— Sean Kevin Campbell (@Sean_Kev) April 4, 2022
Jacob Harrold, the co-founder of Candid and the co-creator of a mechanism that keeps track of nonprofit organizations, believes the questions raised in the NY magazine report are necessary and done without malice.
“That’s a very legitimate critique,” Candid told the New York Post. “It’s not a critique that says what you’re doing is illegal or even unethical; it might just be strategic.”
Harrold openly wonders if the tens of millions that flowed into the BLM organization could have been appropriated in other ways.
“Why aren’t you spending it on policy or, you know, other strategies that an organization might take to address the core issues around Black Lives Matter?” Harold asked.
Through reporting, I learned that the BLMGNF has pooled resources with consulting firms run by Patrisse Cullors, the former exec director, and Shalomyah Bowers, the dep exec director, to monitor social media and investigate journalists including myself. 4/ https://t.co/KUh6sCmm0J
— Sean Kevin Campbell (@Sean_Kev) April 4, 2022
When I spoke with nonprofit experts, they told me that the luxury home and pooling of resources with interrelated entities raises red flags for nonprofit operations. Some said a formal investigation might be needed to sort everything out. 5/ https://t.co/KUh6sCmm0J
— Sean Kevin Campbell (@Sean_Kev) April 4, 2022
BLMGNF board member Shalomyah Bowers defends the housing purchase as a “housing and studio space” for recipients of the Black Joy Creators Fellowship and that no impropriety was committed by its leadership.
“The organization always planned to disclose the property on the upcoming 990 tax form due by May 15, as part of BLMGNF’s ongoing transparency efforts,” Bowers said in a statement to the NYP. “BLMGNF has and continues to utilize the space for programming and leadership off-sites. The property does not serve as a personal residence.”
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Brittany Rhodes is a math tutor, former GED math instructor, and founder and general MATHager of Black Girl MATHgic (BGM). BGM is a movement dedicated to increasing math confidence, awareness, enthusiasm, identity, fluency and persistence in children, with a focus on girls and Black children.
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The founder, chairman and CEO of Operation Hope, John Hope Bryant, is a champion for financial well-being and inclusion in the Black community. As a prominent thought leader, philanthropist and entrepreneur, Bryant has been named one of Atlanta’s “Most Admired CEOs” and traveled the world to meet the needs of the underserved. On April 5, 2022, he kicked off National Financial Literacy Month at the Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square. During the iconic opening bell-ringing ceremony, Bryant also offered an homage to his mentor Ambassador Andrew Young and commemorated the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr’s legacy of fighting for poor people’s economic rights.
Ambassador Andrew Young, who serves as Operation HOPE’s global spokesman, was on the balcony with Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968, when he was assassinated. King said, “We’re here to redeem the soul of America with a triple aim of a war, racism, and poverty.” While King’s initial mission was to stamp out racism, he emerged to take a position against the war in Vietnam and eradicate poverty for people of all races. This game-changing mindset is what Bryant calls transitioning from “Civil rights to silver rights.”
“There are more poor Whites in America, a little-known fact. Unfortunately, his life was snuffed out before he was able to make that power pivot. It just so happens this is the week of his assassination,” Bryant said. Fifty-four years ago this month, King was assassinated at the Loraine Motel after traveling to Memphis, Tennessee, and giving his final speech in support of striking sanitation workers.
Bryant added, “You don’t have a rainbow without a storm first. It is a scientific fact. Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous. It’s also interesting, in addition to this marking the week of Dr. King’s assassination, it’s the 30-year anniversary of the riots of 1992 in South Central Los Angeles. It also marks the genesis of my life’s calling: to create what would soon become Operation HOPE.”
Since founding HOPE, Bryant’s efforts have resulted in the federal adoption of financial literacy policies by then-President George W. Bush, a Republican, as well as by President Obama, a Democrat. In stressing the need for increased financial literacy among youth and adults, Bryant commented, “Whether you’re red or blue, Black or White, we all just want to see some more green.”
During his remarks, Bryant also shared that the current mayor of the city of Atlanta, Andre Dickens, as well as former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms cast the vote — in the moral capital of America and Atlanta and birthplace of civil rights — to create saving accounts for every kindergarten child in the city. In addition to the accounts, youth and their families will gain access to free wraparound services and tools to improve their financial well-eing.
Last week, Bryant was a featured speaker at the World Government Summit in Dubai where he spoke about building effective public-private partnerships. His visit to the NASDAQ, where the future of companies and free enterprise reign, marks a full-circle moment. Both Bryant and Doug McMillon, CEO of Walmart, serve as co-chairs for the Financial Literacy for All movement.
“You’re all sitting at a moment in history. Thank you to NASDAQ, Squawk Box, FL4A partners and the entire Operation HOPE family for your commitment to this critical issue. Together we will positively shift the tides in America,” he said.
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Tamron Hall presents a more intimate look at the court system with Court TV‘s, “Someone They Knew … With Tamron Hall.”
Speaking to rolling out, Hall explains how shifting the point-of-view to family and friends presents a more complete picture of how tragedy affects those surrounding the victim.
“Someone They Knew … With Tamron Hall” airs Sunday nights at 9 p.m. EST on Court TV.
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Rapper Young M.A brought in her 30th birthday with a bang.
On April 2, the Brooklyn M.C. transformed an Atlanta venue into a casino for a true one-night-only experience. A live band and singer welcomed guests who were given “event bucks” upon arrival by ushers and lavish bottle girls.
Young M.A. arrived with girlfriend Kaylah Gooden in a white Rolls Royce, greeted by cameras and media members alike to catch the moment.
“That’s my baby! That’s my baby,” Young M.A.’s mother shouted with love.
The Brooklyn rapper smiled before motioning her over.
“Come here, ma!”
M.A.’s mother remarked about her daughter being 30 and how proud she is of her creation, now a five-time platinum recording artist. The crew then made their way inside as the event host wished Young M.A. a happy birthday with “OOOUUU” playing in the background.
Young M.A. walked around the venue and visited each of the vendor’s stations that had a bar, cigars and other party favors. Every fan or attendee that wished her a happy birthday got an immediate thank you from her. She later performed some new songs. It was a joyous night of celebrating for everyone involved.
Almost everyone.
One fan took to TikTok in tears crying about how she got kicked out of the party for being underdressed. The event’s attire was black “suits and ties only,” the flyer read.
The TikTok user’s video has nearly a million views in a re-post on Twitter.
Lmfao girl🌚 pic.twitter.com/eQOJ2UhI9H
— Essence (@7EYRW) April 5, 2022
The post appears to be deleted on her TikTok, but she posted another outfit of the day on April 5 that looked the same as the one Young M.A’s camp deemed “underdressed.”
@sciencegirl420 hfhdhhsgwh
♬ All For Us – from the HBO Original Series Euphoria – Labrinth & Zendaya
To see some sights and sounds from Young M.A’s birthday party, watch the video below.
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On April 5, Tory Lanez was handcuffed in court and had his bail increased after violating a pre-trial protective order in the case involving Megan Thee Stallion.
This case stems from charges against Lanez that he allegedly fired a gun in Megan’s direction causing her bodily harm.
During a hearing in Los Angeles, Lanez was remanded into custody, and the judge set his bail at $350K.
According to TMZ, the judge said Lanez’s tweet from Feb. 23, 2022, addressing Megan as “U” was a violation of the protective order, as he was not supposed to contact or mention her at all.
The tweet says “Good D— had me f—— 2 best friends …. and I got caught … that’s what I apologized 4 . … it’s sick how u Spun it tho …”
There was also concern about a tweet that DJ Akademiks posted in February 2022 that said Tory Lanez’s DNA was not found on the weapon used in the alleged shooting. The prosecution believes that the information was given to Akademiks from Lanez’s team.
His lawyer argued that Lanez did not provide Akademiks with any discovery in the case before he tweeted the statement and that his tweet was also incorrect.
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Grocery chain to pay $175K for egg price gouging in pandemic
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - Grocery chain Smart & Final has agreed to pay $175,000 in penalties to resolve allegations that the grocer engaged in price gouging of certain organic and cage-free eggs at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, state authorities said Tuesday.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta said that between March 4, 2020, and June 22, 2020, Smart & Final increased the price of four premium egg products beyond what was allowable during a state of emergency.
An investigation found that Smart & Final sold over 100,000 cartons of eggs that were marked up by more than 10%, violating the law, Bonta said.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency, triggering price-gouging protections through August 2020.
The attorney general’s office said that it received many complaints about dramatic increases in the cost of eggs after Newsom’s emergency declaration. Many related specifically to price spikes at Smart & Final stores across California.
“Today’s settlement should serve as a warning to grocers and other sellers of essential supplies, follow state price gouging laws or you will pay the price and be held to account,” Bonta said.
Smart & Final operates more than 250 retail stores throughout the western United States.
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EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) — A woman attempted to smuggle more than half a million dollars worth of the deadly synthetic opioid fentanyl into the U.S. from Mexico on Sunday.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection say the woman, a U.S. citizen, pulled up to the Del Rio Port of Entry in a passenger vehicle and was referred to a secondary inspection.
Agents said they conducted a thorough examination using non-intrusive inspection (NII) equipment, and they discovered 30 packages containing a total of 40.34 pounds of fentanyl concealed within the vehicle. CBP officials said the fentanyl had a street value of $548,987.
CBP seized the drugs and the vehicle and turned the driver over to Homeland Security Investigations special agents.
“This significant seizure of a potentially fatal hard narcotic, like fentanyl, underscores the reality of the drug threat our frontline officers are facing and their commitment to upholding our border security mission,” said Port Director Liliana Flores, Del Rio Port of Entry.
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson delivered a powerful plea to Russian citizens on Tuesday night — urging them to seek out and share the truth of the “atrocities” committed by their country’s troops in Ukraine.
“The Russian people deserve the truth, you deserve the facts,” Johnson said in a video address that he partly dictated in Russian.
Johnson cited the recently uncovered harrowing scenes in Irpin and Bucha, where hundreds of civilians’ bodies were discovered in a mass grave in what some Western leaders and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky are declaring a genocide.
“Civilians massacred — shot dead with their hands tied. Women raped in front of their young children. Bodies crudely burned, dumped in mass graves, or just left lying in the street,” Johnson said.
“The reports are so shocking, so sickening, it’s no wonder your government is seeking to hide them from you,” the prime minister continued.
“But don’t just take my word for it.”
Johnson, in his address, encouraged the Russian people to use a private, untraceable internet server to access to see for themselves the horror unfolding in Ukraine.
“All you need is a VPN connection to access independent information from anywhere in the world,” Johnson said.
“And when you find the truth, share it.”
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At work, whites are being told to check their privilege at the door. But a significant court ruling last week indicates there’s still hope for fair treatment in the corporate world, even if you’re not a minority.
On Friday, a California court struck down a state law mandating that corporate board seats be reserved for minorities. The court said quotas violate the state’s constitutional guarantee that everyone is treated equally under the law.
Equal protection isn’t just for minorities. It’s everyone’s right.
Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American on the US Supreme Court, wrote in the majority opinion in 1976’s McDonald v. Santa Fe Trail Transportation Co. that discriminating against white employees in favor of nonwhites is just as wrong, and contrary to the Constitution, as the reverse. That’s still the law today.
California in 2020 passed legislation requiring public companies headquartered in the state to have at least one board member who is a racial minority or LGBTQ+ by the end of 2021 and increase that to two or more “diverse” board members by the end of 2022.
Judicial Watch, a nonprofit constitutional advocacy group, challenged the law. It also sued to halt a 2018 law mandating that all public companies reserve nearly half their board seats for women. That trial is going on now.
Both lawsuits have attracted national attention because several other states are considering quotas. New York enacted a law in 2020 to study gender diversity on corporate boards, a first step.
In August, the Securities and Exchange Commission approved a rule stating Nasdaq-listed companies must have at least one female board member and another who identifies as an “underrepresented minority” or LGBTQ+ or explain in writing why they have failed to meet that goal. Judicial Watch and other advocacy groups are challenging the Nasdaq rule in federal court.
The diversity warriors are willing to trample constitutional rights and ignore the effect on non-minorities — especially white men. As if a worthy goal justifies any means.
When California lawmakers debated the minority-quota bill in 2020, state Senate staff warned them of its unconstitutionality, but they rammed it through anyway. Legal rights of whites be damned.
Gov. Gavin Newsom defended the bill on signing it, saying, “When we talk about racial justice, we talk about empowerment, we talk about power, and we need to talk about seats at the table.”
That’s a rationale for ensuring city councils, state legislatures and other such bodies reflect the population. But a corporate board’s primary job isn’t to divvy up the spoils. It’s to run a company on behalf of shareholders — ensuring cash is managed, the balance sheet remains strong and products are marketed effectively. True, a company has some responsibility to the community, but not as a representative body.
Corporate boards need diversity of skills and experience. The average board chooses one new member a year, at most. Quotas will force them to prioritize race, gender and sexual preference ahead of merit.
The California ruling is consequential beyond corporate-board selection. In the aftermath of George Floyd’s death, major corporations pledged specific increases in the hiring and promotion of black executives. Deliberately discriminating against whites to meet those targets violates federal civil-rights law and the US Constitution. It’s odious and divisive.
Diversity quotas are even roiling professional sports. On March 28, the National Football League announced that every team must hire an offensive assistant coach who’s female or a minority. No white guys need apply. What hypocrisy is that? The players are 70% black, but off the field, merit gives way to diversity.
In the locker room and the boardroom, quotas are a mistake. The boardroom door is swinging open without them. An impressive 72% of all new corporate directors at S&P 500 companies in 2021 were from underrepresented groups. Now 11% of directors are black, and 30% are women.
We can achieve inclusion without discriminatory quotas like the one slapped down by the court Friday.
Betsy McCaughey is a former lieutenant governor of New York.
Twitter: @Betsy_McCaughey
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Pollster: Get Cameras in the Supreme Court
“Now is the time to build long-term trust in the Supreme Court by permitting cameras in the courtroom,” argues Robert Green at The Hill. Sen. Ben Sasse rightly flagged the “jackassery” of his colleagues in the televised confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, but “it’s not the cameras that make senators appear to be jackasses,” but “how they behave in front of cameras.” Consider the success of live audio of high-court oral arguments, a particular hit with millennials: 58% say the audio has “provided them a more favorable view” of the court. Why? “What the court does day-to-day during oral arguments is not jackassery nor is it likely to become so,” as the proceedings center on “Constitutional rights and law that the high court must resolve.” So adding cameras would “build long-term trust in the Supreme Court.”
Neocon: Putin-Ukraine Is Not the US-Iraq
“Moscow’s strategic ineptitude along with mounting proof that Russia is committing systematic atrocities inside Ukraine” should prevent comparisons to the Iraq War, notes Commentary’s Noah Rothman. But big names on all sides “just can’t help themselves.” In reality, “U.S. forces remain on the ground in Iraq at the invitation of a friendly government in control of the whole of its sovereign territory”: Putin “could only hope to fail . . . with such aplomb.” Yes, “if your only living memory of a popular insurgency is the one that materialized in Anbar Province” you might dismiss “as inconceivable the scale of the resistance Russia is encountering.” Still, “it must be satisfying to project that failure of imagination onto everyone else.”
From the right: Red States Lead Economically
“Since pandemic restrictions began to recede in mid-2020, states led by Republican governors and state legislatures have been engines of economic dynamism,” Monica Crowley observes at Newsweek. “Month after month, red states have outperformed the national economic recovery and . . . their blue state counterparts.” Thanks to pro-growth policies like “lower taxes, fewer regulatory burdens, no mandates and greater individual liberty,” red states are back to “their pre-pandemic employment numbers” with residents “seeing higher incomes.” No wonder “Americans are fleeing Democrat states in droves for those run by Republicans.” Come November, voters will “make it abundantly clear they want the red state model for the rest of the country,” too.
Libertarian: Dems’ Wealth-Tax Folly
Democrats like Sen. Liz Warren and President Biden claim they want to tax only the super-rich, but raising the revenue they want requires taxing “the working rich” too, warns Reason’s Liz Wolfe. E.g., Warren touts $3.75 trillion in revenue over 10 years via a 2% tax on ultra-millionaires’ worth, but her spending plans would cost $30 trillion. And the working rich — “high-earning white-collar professionals in large and mid-sized cities” — are “precisely the people we want to keep doing what they’re doing”; taxing their wealth will only discourage them. They also increasingly make up the left’s base, so threatening “this group’s bottom line would be a huge problem” for Democrats who hope to win elections.
Culture critic: Donne Is Not Done
“Don’t cancel John Donne’s poetry,” implores Francesca Peacock at Spectator World. The “metaphysical priest-poet” is “being attacked as a colonialist but his work was far more complex and erotic than that.” The debate over his elegy “To His Mistress Going to Bed,” in particular, “has reached absurdly over-fraught levels.” The narrator gushes of his lover, “O my America! my new-found land,” just one of many “images of imperialism” in Donne’s work. Is it “a horrible metaphor for unbridled, damaging and rapacious lust” that’s not “fit to be read in the twenty-first century”? Please. Yes, “Donne’s images” might “be uncomfortable to modern readers,” but they’re “also brilliant moments of alchemy.” Just “look at the poetry”: “Political realities are mocked and undermined as sexual possibilities.” It’s “edgy, dangerous stuff” we should “embrace,” not ignore.
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
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“Home Economics” adds another notch to its metaverse-ian belt with guest star Mark Cuban — who plays a pivotal role in Wednesday night’s episode (9:30 on ABC).
“He’s made cameos [before] and this was an idea our writers had and we thought it was a great use of our show,” series star Topher Grace, 43, told The Post.
Cuban plays himself in the episode, in which Tom (Grace) and his sister, Sarah (Caitlin McGee), try to cheer up their wealthy kid brother, Connor (Jimmy Tatro), who runs a private equity firm and is depressed after his girlfriend, JoJo (Tetona Jackson) left town to pursue her dreams. Tom figures he and Sarah will bring a copy of the much-maligned 1996 movie “Dunston Checks In” — Connor’s “second favorite movie where a monkey wears clothes” — over to his house for a sibling bonding session.
When they arrive, Connor tries to get rid of them, feigning drowsiness — when, in fact, he’s hosting a high-stakes ($800 ante) poker game that includes Cuban, who’s friends with goofy family friend Spags (Dustin Ybarra) in a “no one saw that coming” twist.
After some arm-twisting, Connor lets Tom and Sarah join the game — and Connor, after some awkward moments (Sarah, too), ends up bonding with Cuban, who’s impressed with his in-the-works novel.
“Tom is jealous of his little brother as it is when he finds out he’s in the 1 percent of the 1 percent, and not only does he have this poker group but he doesn’t know about it,” Grace said. “One of the writers said, ‘What if Mark Cuban was in the episode? Do you think he’d do it? Let’s ask him.’ Not only did he come and do it, but he was a total pro and had all his lines memorized and even showed up in a beat-up old car when I thought he’d helicopter in.
“He’s a normal guy and started improvising some jokes that were funny and made it into the show,” he said “We didn’t expect him to say yes [to the cameo]; he’s probably within one of the three or four most famous billionaires in the world, which points to why he’s so successful — he’s got a real adventurous spirit. He totally surpassed out expectations. It was such a cool twist.”
A subplot in the episode centers around Marina (Karla Souza), Denise (Sasheer Zamata) and Camila (Chloe Jo Rountree) who fear there’s a ghost in the house.
It couldn’t have hurt the cause that Cuban co-hosts “Shark Tank” which, like “Home Economics,” airs on ABC.
“I’m the biggest ‘Shark Tank’ fan there is,” Grace said. “Me and my wife [Ashley Hinshaw] are both actors and we feel like we understand the business … we have no idea what’s going on … I’ve watched every episode the way people binge other shows, and to be able to sit next to [Cuban] and ask him any question about [‘Shark Tank’] and talk to him for a couple of days was great.”
“Home Economics” made news a few weeks back in an episode about social media influencers that featured an ad for a [fictional] ABC called “Influencer Lagoon.” The spot quickly gained traction on social media, including being posted on YouTube.
“Some of the producers said, ‘Maybe we should shoot some promo stuff’ [for ‘Influence Lagoon’] and they sent it to ABC and the same people that cut ads for ‘The Bachelor,'” Grace said. “We put it at the front of the [‘Home Economics’] episode — it starts with the ad, then fades to black and then the episode starts — and people thought it was an ad between ‘The Conners’ and our show.
“ABC actually aired it during ‘The Bachelor’ and it was seeded on Reddit and some publications picked it up,” he said. “People hosting this fake show were doing interviews on ‘Entertainment Tonight.'”
There’s no word, yet, on whether “Home Economics” will return for a third season.
“I love the end of our season,” Grace said. “It kind of comes to a head whether Tom publishes his book. Rhys Darby plays the publisher and the writers found a very inventive way to figure that all out. It’s not exactly what you think. It’s very meta.
“Not only is the book the same title as the show, but the font you see on the cover of Tom’s book is the same font we used in our logo, and the art on the book is a version of the billboards that we had this year.
“Every character weighs in on this book — even in the class Tom teaches at college — but they’re really talking about the show,” he said. “One of Tom’s students says, ‘I can’t tell — is the brother [Connor] a doofus or a tech genius? I don’t get it. How does he have so much money?'”
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Buffalo Bills fans are thrilled about the deal to build the team a new stadium. Losing the NFL franchise to a larger metropolitan area willing to bribe billionaire owner Terry Pegula by paying for a new park that would make him even richer would have been as crushing a blow to western New York’s morale as losing the Dodgers was to Brooklyn’s.
And that was a realistic possibility: It happened to Oakland when Las Vegas lured the Raiders to Sin City. Their stadium was paid for with hotel and tourism taxes that Nevada voters were told wouldn’t affect them.
But the notion that it’s the responsibility of New York taxpayers to fund Buffalo’s happiness is entirely different. The deal calls for the state to kick in $850 million, a figure that may well grow to more than $1 billion when all is said and done, with $250 million of it coming from Erie County.
That means the Florida-based Pegula and the NFL will pay less than half of the stadium’s estimated $1.4 billion cost. (And even some of that will come from the fans, with the Bills planning to charge season-ticket holders for seat licenses to help fund the project.)
Behind this is Gov. Kathy Hochul, who helped negotiate the agreement. She’s a Buffalo native and hopes the deal will boost her re-election prospects. But the fact that her husband Bill is a senior official at Delaware North, the company that manages the lucrative concessions at the Bills’ current stadium, raises conflict-of-interest questions her opponents are using against her.
But even if this weren’t an election-year ploy and more evidence of Albany swamp corruption, there are good reasons to oppose it.
Hochul claims it will generate massive revenue for the state and employment for the Buffalo region. But the idea that state money spent on stadiums is worth it is a myth.
Don’t forget that state taxpayers just ponied up $95 million for renovations at Highmark Stadium, the Bills’ current home, in 2014 and 2018. The team and the league insisted it still wasn’t producing enough revenue for them, hence the demand for a new one. Quite a racket.
More important, while the state is sinking in red ink thanks to the pandemic and a bad economy, Forbes magazine pegs Pegula, who made his money fracking natural gas in Pennsylvania and beyond, as worth $5.4 billion. And thanks to the revenue they get from television and other sources, NFL team owners can more or less print money.
Here in Gotham, the kind of squeeze play Pegula used didn’t work. No one believed baseball’s Yankees or Mets could be enticed to leave the Big Apple. Their new stadiums, which both opened in 2009, were built by the teams alone with government spending for new infrastructure around them. Since governments exist to build infrastructure, those gifts, as well as some tax breaks, to sports moguls like the Yankees’ Steinbrenner family, were more defensible.
The state shouldn’t have allowed itself to be blackmailed into giving Pegula a much sweeter deal.
Economists from the left, like those at the Brookings Institution, and the right, at the Cato Institute, have consistently debunked claims about the benefits of building ballparks. The money fans spend attending games is merely transferred from other leisure activities. There is also no net uptick in employment. While they do produce short-term construction positions, most of the jobs created are part-time and low-income.
Unlike attractions that can stay open most of the calendar, sports venues don’t host enough events to produce the promised economic impact. Even the most successful examples of new stadiums built with public money that are intended to anchor neighborhood development have generally failed to be self-financing and require substantial ongoing subsidies. The much-admired Camden Yards, which anchored the redevelopment of Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, costs Maryland $15 million a year, 30 years after it was built.
The people who benefit from stadium-building are team owners who make higher profits from parks whose design is geared toward generating increased income from luxury boxes, restaurants and other bells and whistles those older venues lack.
This is a Robin Hood in reverse system that amounts to nothing less than socialism for sports-team owners. We can sympathize with the feelings of Bills fans, if not the governor. But the Buffalo deal stinks to high heaven and must be reversed.
Jonathan S. Tobin is editor-in-chief of JNS.org.
Twitter: @jonathans_tobin
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Edinburgh IT firm Truststream Security Solutions bought for up to £8 million
IT services provider SysGroup has acquired Edinburgh-based Truststream Security Solutions in a deal worth up to about £8 million.
Liverpool-headquartered SysGroup said the ten-strong existing Truststream team would enable the group to further strengthen its UK presence and extend the firm’s reach into Scotland.
It has acquired the capital firm for an initial cash amount of £4.8m with a further earn-out consideration being made over a 24-month period.
The acquisition has been funded from the group’s existing cash resources, supported by an £8m revolving credit facility provided by Santander.
SysGroup said recent investments in business systems and infrastructure meant that Truststream’s services will be “quickly and seamlessly integrated” into its all-in-one business intelligence platform, meaning both customer bases will have access to an enhanced service offering sooner.
News of the acquisition follows SysGroup’s appointment of Manchester-based independent financial services group Zeus as its new nominated advisor and broker, supporting the business on its merger and acquisition (M&A) strategy.
Adam Binks, chief executive at SysGroup, said: “The addition of Truststream to the group further supports our stated strategy to become the leading provider of managed IT services to the UK mid-market. The business strongly complements our existing portfolio of services and has high levels of recurring revenue.
“In addition, cyber security remains a key priority for businesses of all sizes as threats become both more prevalent and more harmful. Our end-to-end offering means that we can help companies navigate the forever evolving technological landscape and provide best of breed solutions backed by the highest quality of ongoing security, monitoring and support.
“I’m excited to welcome the Truststream team and look forward to working with them all as part of the enlarged group,” he added.
Paul Sullivan, co-founder at Truststream, added: “We’ve experienced rapid growth over the last few years, as organisations of all sizes and sectors demand comprehensive cyber security solutions.
“SysGroup’s impressive reach and forward-thinking use of technology makes this a perfect match, and a natural next step for Truststream.”
SysGroup has made a number of acquisitions in recent years, including Certus IT for £8m in February 2019 and Hub Network Services for £1.45m in June 2019.
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Law firm Shoosmiths and Scottish FA cheer partnership achieving goals
Law firm Shoosmiths and the Scottish FA are celebrating the third year of teaming up to help support the further growth of the women’s game in Scotland.
Shoosmiths, which has offices in Edinburgh and Glasgow, in 2019 signed a four-year deal with the football body with a view to backing the training of at least 20 new referees and 200 new coaches in women’s youth and senior football by 2023.
The law firm says the latest statistics from the Scottish FA reveal that there has once again been an increase across six regional areas in Scotland in females starting on their coaching journey, for example more than 100 woman referees have been introduced to the game since January 2019.
Janette Spee d, head of the business in Scotland, said: “Shoosmiths highly values teamwork, leadership and talent-development. We believe these are attributes that can also be encouraged through participation in women’s football.
“We are very proud that statistics suggest our support of the Scottish FA since 2019 is significantly helping more women to apply and nurture their talent and leadership skills to train and qualify as coaches and referees. This strengthens the grassroots structure of the sport and ensures more young girls can enjoy being active playing football in communities throughout Scotland.”
Fiona McIntyre, head of girls’ and women’s football at the Scottish FA, said it is “heartwarming” seeing statistics showing progress, with key support from “dedicated partners like Shoosmiths, who have shown their commitment to the Scottish game – I hope, and believe, these numbers will only go one way and that’s something we can all be proud of”.
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HIGH POINT, N.C. (WGHP) – NASCAR driver Hailie Deegan skipped last week’s Freedom 500 at Bradenton’s Freedom Factory in Florida, saying on Instagram that she had to “deal with something on the personal safety side of me” and her boyfriend, Chase Cabre, a fellow NASCAR racer.
In a YouTube video posted on Monday, Deegan explained how the couple has been the target of online harassment and death threats. The death threats were specifically targeted toward Cabre by an infatuated fan who was “catfished” by a fake Hailie Deegan account.
The fake Deegan account led the individual, an unidentified man, to believe that Cabre was abusing Deegan, and the person threatened to kill Deegan’s boyfriend.
The man became known to Deegan when he sent a rambling letter to her team’s race shop in Mooresville, North Carolina, describing his supposed “relationship” with her and later posting an Instagram video with a chilling message to Deegan’s boyfriend.
“Boy, I swear to [expletive] God if you ain’t out of North Carolina before the sun goes down, you’re guaranteed you’re gonna see my [expletive] face and that is the last thing you’re ever gonna see….I guarantee you that.”
Deegan, realizing that the person lives near her race shop and her home, decided that this was a serious threat and began to take action to protect herself and her boyfriend.
“This guy’s very persistent on social media. He messages over and over…probably minimum 100 times a day. A prior boss actually reached out to one Chase’s family members and got in contact with Chase just to warn him of the situation because at work, he was always talking about how he was going to kill Chase and how much he hates Chase,” Deegan said in the YouTube video.
Law enforcement officials are watching Deegan’s property, and she also is now traveling with more security as they work with authorities to build a strong case against the suspect.
You can see Deegan’s full video here.
Deegan is scheduled to race at a local dirt track in Rowan County on Wednesday night. On Thursday night, she’ll compete in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Martinsville.
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If you, like many of us, want to welcome a new four-legged friend into our homes, there’s plenty of thinking to do before you select your perfect pup, with 221 different breeds of pedigree dog to choose from. You should consider what matches well with your way of life. For example, those with active lifestyles might want to consider a larger dog, while somebody with allergies will be looking for a hypoallergenic dog.
If you are looking for a dog that’s as smart as it is adorable though, there’s scientific research into the subject that can guide you. Psychologist Stanley Coren’s book ‘The Intelligence of Dogs’ is a landmark piece of canine literature, judging breeds’ relative IQs by looking at instincts, obedience, and the ability to adapt.
So these are – officially – the top 10 brightest pooches.
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1. Border Collie
The Border Collie is the undisputed top dog when it comes to intelligence. Commonly utilised to herd sheep, that's just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to their intellect. They can learn a huge number of words and commands, and can turn their paw to a wide range of jobs and tasks.
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2. Poodle
Don't let their curly hair and cute demeanor fool you - Poodles have a razor-sharp brain second only to the Border Collie. All three sizes - Standard, Miniature and Toy - are hugely smart, making great service and therapy dogs.
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3. German Shepherd
Used for everything from drug detection to sniffing out explosives, the German Shepherd is another breed in the top tier of canine intelligence - understanding a new command after only five repititions and following the command at least 95 per cent of the time.
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4. Golden Retriever
One of the world's friendliest dogs is also one of the most intelligent. Golden Retrievers are perfect as seeing dogs and search-and-rescue dogs due to their obedience, big brains and dedication to tasks.
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Plenty of us decided to welcome new four-legged friends into our homes in the last couple of years – according to Kennel Club figures dog ownership soared by nearly eight percent – and post-lockdown demand for puppies remains high.
There are a whopping 221 different breeds of pedigree dog to choose from, alongside numerous crossbreeds, so there’s plenty of thinking to do before you select your family’s latest addition.
There’s even academic guidance to seek out, with Psychologist Stanley Coren’s book ‘The Intelligence of Dogs’ ranking breeds by instincts, obedience, and the ability to adapt.
One thing worth considering before making a decision is that some breeds tend to be noisier than others – causing potential issues with neighbours with barking and howling.
So, here are 10 breeds of dog that have a reputation for being particularly vocal – and those that will probably stay quiet.
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Is unique Whitehill former school property top of the class for you?
While for some kids living there might sound like the stuff of nightmares, a rather unique former school building in Whitehill is our latest property of the week.
The Old School House, 53 Whitehill Village, Dalkeith, is currently on the market at offers over £410,000.
This unique home features four bedrooms and two public rooms, as well as a bathroom and shower room. Attractively decorated with versatile accommodation, the Old School House also includes a well appointed kitchen breakfast room and a charming mature garden with a variety of fruit trees, set in a peaceful rural village location.
A spokesperson for selling agent Simpson & Marwick said: “Set behind wrought-iron railings and screened by mature trees and shrubs, The Old School House is a traditional stone-built semi-detached property offering versatile family accommodation on two floors.
"The house is entered via a spacious south-facing glazed porch which leads in turn to the inner hallway.
"There is a cosy sitting room with a wood burning stove, a dining room, a well appointed breakfasting kitchen with modern units and a separate utility room, bedroom four or snug and a family bathroom.
"At the first floor there is the principal bedroom with dual aspect windows, a second double bedroom, a third bedroom or study and a shower room.”
Speaking about the location, the selling agent added: “Whitehill Village is situated approximately five minutes drive from Dalkeith, a thriving town two miles away, and approximately 20 minutes by car from Edinburgh city centre and within easy reach of the Royal Infirmary and Queen Margaret's College.
"From Whitehill there is a regular hourly bus service to the city centre.
"Nearby is Newbattle Golf Course, Dalkeith and Vogrie Country Parks and a choice of nice walks. In Dalkeith there is an excellent shopping area in the centre of the town and a 24-hour Tesco supermarket with a wide range of retail outlets within easy driving distance.
"Dalkeith High School complex has superb sporting facilities including a swimming pool and running track. There is also a choice of primary schools nearby.”
To view this property, call 0131 581 5711.
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El Salvador's president has threatened to stop providing food for imprisoned members of street gangs.
President Nayib Bukele said on Tuesday that if the gangs "unleash a wave of crimes, we are going to cut off food in the prisons." Following a wave of homicides in late March, Bukele has already declared a state of emergency, rounded up thousands of street gang members Bukele also ordered food for gang members held in Salvadoran prisons to be reduced to two meals per day, seized inmates' mattresses and posted a video of prisoners being frog-marched through corridors and down stairs.
“There are rumors that they [gang members] want to start taking revenge on random, honest people,” Bukele said. “If they do that, there won’t even be one meal in prisons. I swear to God they won’t eat a grain of rice, and let’s see how long they last.”
“They should stay calm and let themselves be arrested; at least on the inside they will continue to live and have two meals a day,” Bukele said in a translation reported on by the Associated Press.
“I don’t care what the international organizations say. Let them come here and protect our people,” the president said. “They can take their gang members if they want; we’ll give them all of them.”
United Nations Human Rights spokeswoman Liz Throssell said on Tuesday, “We are deeply concerned by the series of measures recently introduced in El Salvador in response to the rise in gang killings.”
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A Georgia law enforcement agency would have the authority to investigate election crimes under the latest voting regulation approved by the Republican-controlled state Legislature.
The measure was passed on Monday during the last day of the session. It's one of several election changes state lawmakers have approved after former President Donald Trump made false claims of widespread voter fraud.
Over the objections of Democrats, Republicans in the state House voted to give the Georgia Bureau of Investigation authority to look into alleged wrongdoing that could affect the outcome of an election. The secretary of state's office is currently responsible for investigating alleged election violations.
State Rep. Jasmine Clark, a Democrat said, “It will not only be used against your voters but could also be used against organizations and those county election board officials or their workers.”
Clark said, “Again, they already have a hard enough time getting poll workers, and now you want to sic the GBI on them. What are we doing here?”
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Edinburgh Crime: South Queensferry man charged for buying alcohol for under 18's
A South Queensferry local has been charged by police for buying alcohol to sell to under-age teenagers.
By Anna Bryan
Tuesday, 5th April 2022, 3:43 pm
Updated Tuesday, 5th April 2022, 3:43 pm
The 47-year-old man was charged under the Licensing Scotland Act 2005.
Edinburgh Police Division announced the charge on Twitter, and wrote: “We continue to take a strong line regarding this kind of behaviour and take robust action against offenders.”
It is an offence to buy alcohol for anyone under the legal drinking age.
If he is found guilty, he could face a fine of up to £5000 or prison time.
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Elon Musk to join Twitter's board after taking 9% stake
Elon Musk is joining Twitter's board of directors a day after disclosing that he had taken a 9% stake in the social media platform.
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Tuesday, 5th April 2022, 2:05 pm
Twitter said in a regulatory filing on Tuesday that it had entered into an agreement with the Tesla chief executive that will give the billionaire a seat on its board, with the term expiring at its 2024 annual shareholders meeting.
Mr Musk, either alone or as a member of a group, will not be allowed to own more than 14.9% of Twitter's outstanding stock for as long as he is a board member and for 90 days after.
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Edinburgh's secure accommodation scandal: Nicola Sturgeon urged to intervene
Nicola Sturgeon has been urged to intervene in the scandal over the physical and mental abuse of children in Edinburgh’s secure accommodation.
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Lothian Tory MSP Sue Webber said she was dismayed at the “dismissive” response from SNP council leader Adam McVey and his behaviour in “shutting down” concerns from Conservative councillors at a recent meeting and his claim the Tories are bullying council chief executive Andrew Kerr.
And she said the situation was so serious it required direct action from the First Minister.
She said Cllr McVey’s attitude was “doing nothing to help protect vulnerable children and guarantee this culture has been stamped out once and for all”.
An investigation, prompted by a whistleblower alert, found “illegality, maladministration and injustice” in the running of the city’s secure accommodation. And a report by the council’s monitoring officer highlighted inappropriate restraint, assaults on young people, children being isolated and a toxic management culture. It referred to children with bruised faces and children with burn marks after restraint.
The report was discussed in private at a committee meeting but when it came to full council councillors voted against debating it because it was past the 5pm cut-off time. When Tory councillors tried to raise the issue at another meeting Cllr McVey muted their microphones.
Last week, Holly Hamilton, now 31, who was sexually abused as a teenager at St Katharine’s secure unit, told the Evening News about her experiences and said many of the issues identified by the latest investigation were the same as those highlighted in the report on her case 15 years ago.
Sue Webber said Ms Hamilton’s “harrowing” testimony should be a lesson to everyone and claimed failing to extend the council meeting beyond 5pm so the report could be debated was a “dereliction of duty” to survivors like Ms Hamilton.
She said: “This report laid bare some serious failings to protect vulnerable children. The lessons must be learnt and those grave errors never repeated again.
“However, it appears Edinburgh City Council, including the leader and the chief executive, are in no mood to listen. They have been dismissive and want to shut down debate rather than tackle these issues head on.
“It was quite frankly appalling that the leader of the council muted other members’ microphones and refused to extend the time of the debate beyond 5pm. That shows he isn’t up to this challenge, which is why Nicola Sturgeon must step in.
“She has a duty to ensure our capital is capable of looking after its most vulnerable children. If we cannot do that as a society, we are failing. The SNP have vowed to Keep the Promise over supporting those children with care experience, but progress has been painfully slow.
“I applaud survivors like Holly Hamilton for bravely coming forward and detailing their testimony of abuse. Stories like Holly’s should be what everyone is focusing on here, yet we have a council leader more interested in shutting down opponents.
“This unacceptable response demands the attention of the First Minister who must intervene in this scandal.”
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Edinburgh social worker fears for friend ‘alone in a war zone’ amid Homes For Ukraine delays
A Ukrainian woman is stranded alone “in the middle of a war zone” as she waits for a UK visa after weeks of delays, her friend and sponsor in Edinburgh has said.
Marcin Zawisza, a Polish-born social worker from the capital, said he is worried about Olena Stadnik, 33, who is stuck near the Russian-occupied city of Kherson in southern Ukraine.
The 40-year-old has been a family friend of Ms Stadnik for two decades and applied to the Homes For Ukraine scheme on March 18 to offer her his spare room – but, despite being accepted the following day, he has not heard anything since.
“I can’t focus and I’m constantly checking my emails for any news about my Homes For Ukraine application,” Mr Zawisza said.
“It’s been hard because I have other friends still in Ukraine but my flat is too small to offer it to everyone, so I picked Olena as she is on her own.
“I don’t understand why the Government is taking so long to process everything because all these people are in a desperate situation.
“It’s heartbreaking … I think they should be prioritising people like my friend who are actually still stuck in the middle of a war zone.”
Mr Zawisza said the delay is making it difficult for Ms Stadnik to escape the war as she is concerned about leaving Ukraine without having a place to go.
He added that she was forced to flee the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, after her home was bombed and travelled south, and is now “moving around a lot” in the region near Kherson – a city Russia claimed control over in early March.
“Olena is in one of the worst places in Ukraine and even going to a safer country will be too dangerous because she will be travelling on her own through a war zone,” Mr Zawisza said.
“She’s been thinking about entering Crimea but we will have to see how easy that will be because apparently they are shooting people there.
“We have been discussing how she can escape and the safest route at the moment would be for her to travel into Russia.
“I know it sounds a bit funny but there’s no war in Russia, and then she can fly from Moscow to Istanbul in Turkey, and then to UK.”
Mr Zawisza, who moved to Edinburgh from Poland in 2004, said it has been “heartbreaking” to follow the situation in Ukraine and that he feels “helpless”.
“For Polish people it’s hard because we want to help but we feel quite useless, especially if we are far away like myself,” he said.
“I’ve had to download a special messenger app because some of the social media in Ukraine doesn’t work anymore and I am trying to stay in touch with my friends out there.
“I wanted to travel to Ukraine to help people but financially I just can’t afford it, so I decided to offer my home instead, but the process is just taking too long.”
A spokesman for the Home Office said: “We are moving as quickly as possible to ensure that those fleeing Ukraine can find safety in the UK through the Ukraine Family Scheme and Homes For Ukraine.
“We have streamlined the process so valid passport holders do not have to attend in-person appointments before arriving in the UK, simplified our forms and boosted caseworker numbers, while ensuring vital security checks are carried out.
“We continue to speed up visa processing across both schemes, with almost 30,000 visas issued in the last three weeks alone and thousands more expected to come through these uncapped routes.”
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SNOQUALMIE, Wash. — April is Autism Awareness Month, and local non-profit Encompass is a shining example of the power of advocating for children of all abilities.
Encompass began in 1966 when a group of parents wanted equitable schooling for children with special needs in the community. For more than 50 years, Encompass has been providing services like early learning, pediatric therapy, and family enrichment programs to families in the Snoqualmie Valley and greater Eastside.
Over the last 55 years, Encompass has grown to include locations in Snoqualmie, North Bend, and Carnation, plus a host of programs offered at community locations and in the home.
In 2017, Encompass added a mobile therapy unit, the first of its kind in Washington state. The mobility allows for therapy to reach families who are unable to travel or have limitations that require special services. The mobile therapy unit currently visits a different elementary school in the Snoqualmie Valley every day of the week.
This year, Encompass is expanding its services with the opening of a new “purpose-built” Child Development Center.
Rachel Peterson, the pediatric therapy director for the new Child Development Center, said the team is already at capacity.
“The pandemic has brought upon a lot of stresses and anxiety for children, and our therapy team is very busy in our new space,” said Peterson.
The new space features state-of-the-art equipment to provide services in behavioral health, family enrichment, occupational, physical, speech and feeding therapy.
The new facility allows the non-profit to service 30% more children and features an outdoor playground and sensory garden. After more than five years of planning, fundraising and construction, the Encompass Child Development Center is now open and serving families in the Snoqualmie community.
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Hearts linked with move for Livingston forward Alan Forrest
Hearts have been linked with a move for Livingston attacker Alan Forrest.
The 25-year-old it out of contract in the summer and free to talk to other clubs over a pre-contract agreement.
Hearts are looking to bolster their squad ahead of next season which could see them compete in the group stages of a European competition.
The Scottish Sun reports Forrest is one player they’ve got their eye on. The winger has impressed after joining the West Lothian side in the summer of 2020.
Forrest, who is the younger brother of Celtic and Scotland attacker James, bet on himself in January by rejecting the chance to join St Johnstone after the two sides agreed a fee for his services. He chose instead to let his contract run down and see if he could earn a more lucrative and prestigious move elsewhere.
Dundee United are another cinch Premiership club said to be interested in the former Ayr United star.
Forrest, from nearby Prestwick, broke into the first-team at Somerset Park in 2013-14 after coming through their youth system.
He scored an impressive 55 goals in 245 games for the Honest Men over a seven-season period, helping them twice gain promotion to the Scottish Championship.
After joining Livingston he netted 11 goals in his first campaign with the Lions, including a highly impressive seven from seven in the League Cup as David Martindale’s men made it all the way to the final.
Though right-footed, Forrest predominantly plays off the left where he looks to cut inside and go for goal.
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Lowland League: Bonnyrigg Rose and East Stirlingshire confirm they voted against Celtic and Rangers B teams
Bonnyrigg Rose and East Stirlingshire have both confirmed they were among the four Lowland League clubs who voted against re-admitting the Old Firm Colts for another season.
Celtic and Rangers B teams will continue as guest clubs for a second season after member clubs voted 11-4 in favour. But they are not eligible for promotion to the Scottish Professional Football League.
The vote in favour of retaining the Old Firm youth sides follows the 16 member clubs’ decision last month not to increase the number of teams relegated to the three tier 6 leagues below.
That has prompted a wave of criticism from supporters of clubs in the East, West and South of Scotland Leagues who want the pyramid system to be far more fluid. Like this season, only one team in the 18-team league will be automatically relegated next season.
Bonnyrigg Rose and East Stirlingshire both consulted with supporters before submitting their vote against the proposal. Rumours that Bo’ness United also voted against have not been confirmed by the club.
Bonnyyrigg’s decision was made after a vote by their members and the club said in a statement: “We had just over double the response of the previous season but the results were broadly similar, with over 90% voting against the motion, which is why we can confirm that we were one of the four clubs that voted against last night.
“We published our vote result ahead of the meeting last season and for similar reasons our members rejected the motion once more. We have been consistent in our thoughts on pyramid integrity since moving back to the senior leagues in 2018, which is also why we voted in favour of additional promotion spots into the SLFL last month, which was rejected with our SLFL board member immediately resigning as a result.
“The process followed in both instances has been a democratic one and while we were on the opposite sides of both they are decisions which clubs are absolutely entitled to make.”
East Stirling’s statement read: “Over the last few days we sought the views of our season ticket holders, regular supporters and sponsors as to their views about guest clubs remaining for another season beyond the initial agreement
Our support was clear that this was NOT something they would wish to see continue. And as such we voted against the continuation for another season of guest clubs during tonight’s vote.
“We acknowledge that both guest clubs have seen major benefits to player development over the initial year and potentially the national teams as well. Our supporters are our club and we are grateful for their feedback and help in our decision making.
“We respect the vote from fellow members of the Lowland league was to continue with guest clubs and we respect that decision. We will welcome every club for the new 2022/23 season.”
The Lowland League board has also issued a statement, acknowledging the criticism that has come its way.
It stated: "While conscious it is, understandably, a divisive and emotive subject, the overriding feeling is their presence has been of benefit in a commercial sense, while there are promising early indications of young, emerging Scottish talents benefitting from early exposure to senior football in a competitive environment.”
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Grand National: Two Scottish entries confirmed for big race at Aintree
Dingo Dollar and Mighty Thunder will fly the flag for Scotland in the Grand National at Aintree on Saturday.
The race, which creates an estimated £250 million in betting turnover, usually attracts a worldwide television audience of 600 million and is shown in 140 countries.
Dingo Dollar is trained near Greenlaw in Berwickshire by Sandy Thomson, while Mighty Thunder represents Kinross-based Lucinda Russell, who scooped the 2017 National with One For Arthur.
Russell said: “It’s just so exciting to be going back to Aintree. Mighty Thunder won last year’s Edinburgh National and the Scottish Grand National and he’s a sweet, intelligent horse who stays very well. He has a relaxed way of racing and could have a good chance if he gets into a nice rhythm and the ground isn’t too soft.”
Ryan Mania, stepson-in-law to Thomson and the winning jockey in 2013 aboard Auroras Encore, will ride Dingo Dollar and his trainer said: “We’re really pleased with him and his preparations have gone well. We took him for a gallop at Kelso recently and it is all systems go for Aintree. He ran a great race when second in last season’s Scottish National and appeared in the Grand Sefton Chase before he came to us so we know he can handle those unique fences.”
Mighty Thunder is currently priced at 40/1 while the best odds available for Dingo Dollar is 66/1.
Scottish Racing Chief Executive, Delly Innes, said: “It’s very exciting to see Scotland being well represented. We wish both Scottish raiders and their connections all the very best for Saturday, and safe home”.
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A 15-year-old Zillah boy has been arrested in connection with a Sunnyside shooting that left one man seriously injured Monday night.
Sunnyside police went to the area of South First Street and South Hill Road after hearing gunshots around 11 p.m. April 4, 2022, and found a motor vehicle crash and one of the vehicles leaving the scene, according to a police news release.
One of the occupants of the remaining vehicle, a 21-year-old Sunnyside man, had a gunshot wound to his head, the release said, and was taken to Astria Sunnyside Hospital for treatment before being transferred to another hospital. No information was available on the man’s condition.
Police identified the 15-year-old suspect, whom the release said was a documented gang member, and Yakima County sheriff’s deputies found him at his home. Deputies arrested him following a foot chase.
Deputies also found two stolen vehicles, one from Sunnyside and the other from Yakima, along with three firearms.
He was booked into the Yakima County Juvenile Justice Center on suspicion of first- and second-degree assault, unlawful firearms possession, drive-by shooting and possession of stolen property.
The Yakima Herald-Republic typically does not publish the names of suspects until they are formally charged.
Anyone with information on the case is asked to call Sunnyside police at 509-836-6200 or Yakima County Crime Stoppers at 800-248-9980. Tips can also be submitted online at http://www.crimestoppersyakco.org.
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Editor’s note: Shannon Mahre contributes to Yakima Magazine and owns an outdoors company, Girls with Grit, that allows her to share her passions for skiing, running, mountain biking, standup paddleboarding and much more. She lives in Naches with her husband, Andy, and their two children. This is her first monthly column.
As long as I can remember, work was always a part of life — a part to do well, a part to be proud of.
From a very young age, I was shoveling horse manure, weeding, taking care of our animals — it was all there, and it was the work to the play that was our childhood on Whidbey Island. My dad is from Greece, and although he came from nothing, through hard work and determination he created and ran two successful businesses with my mom as his partner and was the best adventure parent my brother and I could ever ask for.
At 14, I got my first real job bussing tables at a local restaurant. From there on out, working hard and playing hard became the foundation upon which I tried to build my life. By 22 years old, I had my MBA as well as management and life experience that would come in handy in the years ahead.
After a go at the big city, corporate job life in my early and mid-20’s, I decided to take a different life route. I began to split my time between Glacier by Mount Baker, where I started my photography and writing company, and Whidbey Island, where I built houses with my dad and managed the marketing for his company.
As my media company grew and my life and career delved deeper into the sports industry, my time working with my dad began to dwindle — which was bitter sweet in so many ways (I still miss working with him!).
Enter serendipity — I was all hunkered in at the house in Glacier and was packing my car to go to the Whistler Mountain Bike Park the following day when my friend called and coaxed me into coming to help her at a movie premier in Seattle that I normally would not have attended.
At this very event, I would meet a guy in dirty Carhartt pants named Andy, and my path would be forever changed.
For weeks after the event, the two of us kept in touch. In short, I fell in love with the boy from Yakima and he fell in love with the girl that loved to adventure just as much as he did.
Then, and only then, did he tell me that he was actually IN the movie that we had met at — and that I was going to have to move to Naches. And my response? “Where the heck is Naches?”
I still remember telling my mom about him the first time that I was going to visit him — she asked his last name and I totally butchered it. She then responded with the actual pronunciation and told me about these twins with the same last name that got silver and gold medals in the Olympics before I was born.
I later found out that these were Andy’s father and uncle, Steve and Phil.
Now, nine years, a marriage, two kids, four businesses, two horses and three dogs later, Andy and I still live in Naches… and we still love adventuring together. One of our businesses even allows us to do the sports that we love while also allowing us to give others the skills and confidence they need to progress at these sports as well.
Growing up, my grandpa always told me about his life as a child in Yakima, of the endless sunshine, of the buildings that his father created, of the amazing Miner Burgers and of skiing at White Pass.
And although I didn’t get to share in person with him the beauty, the adventure, the vastness of our valley, our mountains, of our rivers, lakes and trails, I rest a little easier — because when I’m skiing down the runs at White, hiking past the shrub steppe or paddling down the rivers, he’s right there next to me, as proud as can be that I came home.
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Help clean up Reecer Creek
The Yakima Fly Fishers Association is hosting a spring cleanup of Reecer Creek from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday at the old abandoned building to the left along North Pott Road in Ellensburg.
Mid Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Group will supply trash bags and volunteers should bring gloves and wear boots or shoes they don’t mind getting wet. Hip boots may be useful if it’s safe and necessary to get in the water and be sure to watch the weather to determine if rain gear is needed.
For more information or to RSVP, call Donna at 509-961-4304.
Hunting seasons to be decided
The Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission plans to make decisions on the state’s 2022-23 hunting seasons at its April 7-9 online meeting.
Friday’s discussion will include landowner hunting permits, big game general seasons and special permits, migratory waterfowl seasons and regulations, and hunting equipment rule changes, among other topics. The public can register to provide comment and watch or listen to the meeting via webinar or conference call by going to wdfw.wa.gov.
Bird Alert
A day hike along the Tieton River Trail provided a good list of birds that included two sooty grouse, white-throated swift, both golden and bald eagle, Lewis’s woodpecker, violet-green swallow, pacific wren Canyon Wren and Townsend’s solitaire.
Birders spotted a peregrine falcon atop a mid-slope rock spire at the south/downstream end of the Yakima River Canyon. Two miles upstream of the turnoff to the Umtanum Creek Recreation site, they saw a bushtit carrying nesting material in its beak. A birder hiking the Waterworks Canyon trail saw six chukars and also noted and photographed a bushtit gathering nesting materials. Starting to look like it may be a good year for nesting bushtit in the Yakima area.
The flooded fields west of the boat launch at the Sunnyside Wildlife Area were full of waterfowl including gadwall, American wigeon, mallard, northern pintail, green-winged teal, ring-necked duck, lesser scaup, bufflehead, pied-billed grebe and over 250 American coots, Canada goose, cinnamon teal, 60 northern shovelers. They also attracted black-necked stilt, killdeer, great egret and two black-crowned night-herons.
Email bird sightings to kdturley@embarqmail.com and be sure to like The Yakima Valley Audubon Society on its Facebook page or visit yakimaaudubon.org.
Calendar
SATURDAY: The Hard Core Runners Club will host its weekend fun run of 3 to 6 miles with all paces and abilities welcome. Meet at 9 a.m. in Chesterley Park’s west parking lot, between the YMCA/Rotary Aquatics Center and North 40th Avenue in Yakima.
MONDAY: The Cascadian Camera Club will host its monthly meeting on Zoom from 7-9 p.m. with the theme “cemeteries.” Participants can join at the link Cascadians Camera Club Zoom, meeting ID 899 4856 7669.
WEDNESDAY: The Hard Core Runners Club will meet for its weekly fun run at 6 p.m. at Franklin Park, where they run either on the track or on the street.
GETTING OUTDOORS
THURSDAY: The Cascadian Pathfinders will hike 3 miles with 1,200 feet of elevation gain at Ladybug Peak near Konnowac Pass for views of the Lower Valley. Call Bob at 509-969-3356 for the meeting time and place.
NEXT THURSDAY: The Cascadian Pathfinders will hike 3 miles with some elevation gain near Vantage, starting with 0.5 miles at Wild Horses Monument followed by 2.5 miles on the petrified wood trails with lunch in the parking lot. Call Libby at 509-837-3609 or Terry at 509-457-5351 for meeting time and place.
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A small crowd of Cowiche Canyon Conservancy members, volunteers and friends gathered near Snow Mountain Ranch’s parking lot to watch 16 acres burn Saturday afternoon.
Yakima Fire Chief Deputy DJ Goldsmith oversaw the Conservancy’s first prescribed burn with the help of 45-50 firefighters from Yakima, Highland, Naches and the Nile. It represented one of several prescribed fires scheduled for this spring throughout the region to try to use fire for good and diminish the risks of catastrophic wildfires.
“We’re starting to reintroduce it, going through that aspect and showing that we can have good fires like this,” Goldsmith said. “We live in a fire ecosystem. We need fire.”
He jumped at the training opportunity when the Conservancy reached out looking for way to deal with rye grass that had taken over since staff planted seed on Snow Mountain Ranch’s old alfalfa and hay fields. With no elk or other animals to graze, CCC project manager Megan Whiteside said the tallgrass posed a significant fire hazard and became too dense for nesting birds, according to a survey prior to the burn.
They partnered with Washington Resource Conservation and Development Council executive director Ryan Anderson to determine fire would be the best solution. Goldsmith took into account the ecological concerns as he devised a burn plan, which included using trails as fire breaks to avoid disrupting any soil.
“We worked with WDFW biologists to mitigate impacts to (nesting birds) and they were kind of like, ‘the earlier in March the better,” Whiteside said. “But we had such a cold snap in March and DJ actually was concerned about the amount of dead, dry fuel and he just wanted to get a little more green up so it’d kind of cool things down, slow it down, so we ended up pushing it to April.”
Goldsmith said everyone on his crew possessed wildland fire experience, but some were new to prescribed fire, so the burn provided an ideal setting to learn more about fire behavior in controlled conditions. When the wind unexpectedly switched and pushed the fire in a different direction, firefighters were prepared and easily kept it contained.
Building that local knowledge continues to be critical for increasing capacity throughout the state as a key part of fighting worsening wildfire seasons. The Yakima area saw firsthand the damage and smoke disruptions those fires can bring with the Evans Canyon Fire in 2020 and the Schneider Springs Fire in 2021.
Goldsmith said he’s sent several firefighters to learn at past training exchanges near Roslyn hosted by the Washington Prescribed Fire Council. Chair Chris Martin said the organization plans to host an “on-call” version this spring, featuring burns on land owned by the Central Cascades Forest — managed by The Nature Conservancy — and the city of Roslyn.
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife prescribed fire manager Matt Eberlein said he’s down about seven people on what should be a 16-person staff for the region, but they’re still hoping to carry out some burns this spring. They’ve targeted multiple areas identified in past seasons, including 120 acres in Cougar Canyon and 90 acres in the Oak Creek drainage on the Oak Creek Wildlife Area west of Naches.
“It seemed like things opened up earlier this year,” Eberlein said. “Mid-March there was a fair amount of snow out there and we had a good rain and that really made things melt off all across Eastern Washington.”
He expects the prescribed fire season to last until about mid-June and said private contractors should be able to offer some assistance. Oak Creek’s the second priority for the region after 500 acres on the Colockum Wildlife Area 20 miles southeast of Wenatchee.
If possible, crews may also burn 320 acres of the LT Murray Wildlife Area about 15 miles west of Ellensburg. Eberlein said the prescribed fires won’t cause any trail or road closures and any smoke for neighboring residents or towns, such as Naches, should be minimal.
Department of Natural Resources spokesperson Ryan Rodruck said the agency’s newly created prescribed fire program that launched in 2021 plans to do a burn in the Taneum State Forest around Elk Heights. Martin’s encouraged by the progress made at DNR since public lands commissioner Hilary Franz took over in January 2017.
“I think the program got delayed at least a year by Covid,” Martin said. “So coming into an agency that had essentially a prohibition on burning for over 15 years...when you take a step back and realize the hiring challenges, and Covid, all that, I think it’s a pretty impressive launch.”
The US Forest Service also plans to implement some burns this spring in four different units west of Naches. Much like for the WDFW, some of those plans are carried over from last year and could be delayed until next fall if necessary.
Goldsmith said it’s still sometimes a challenge to convince people of the benefits of fire and Martin acknowledged the difficulties of hiring staff for certain positions. He’s hopeful that will improve soon and emphasized the importance of an “all hands, all lands” approach as different groups work towards the same goal of putting more fire on the landscape to minimize its devastating effects in eastern Washington’s hot, dry summers.
Reach Luke Thompson at luthompson@yakimaherald.com.
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WEST RICHLAND — It was a different track and a regional reboot, but the 53rd Apple Cup at Tri-City Raceway last weekend still had plenty of talent from the venue that started it all.
Moxee’s Mike Longton, a former winner of the season-opening event founded and formerly held at Yakima Speedway, finished third and four drivers from the Valley placed in the top 10 on Sunday at the first event for the Northwest Super Late Model Series.
Randy Marshall Jr., also from Moxee, was fourth followed by Yakima’s Kaiden Anderson in sixth and Selah’s Andy Beaman in ninth for the 125-lap feature. All finished on the lead lap.
Longton, who won the Apple Cup in 2010 and was fourth in 2017, 2016, 2008 and 2005, earned the fast-time award Saturday, qualifying with a 17.725-second lap on the half-mile tri-oval. The top eight qualifiers had a redraw for Sunday’s 23-car starting lineup.
Coming out of the scheduled 75-lap break, Preston Peltier from Colorado slipped by Trevor Cristiani of Boise, Idaho, and that 1-2 held to the finish. Marshall and Longton moved by Anderson, who had climbed to third, early in the second half and the field ran green until lap 100.
On the restart, Longton jumped into second with an outside shot around Cristiani, who later managed to retake the runner-up spot but Peltier was well clear by then to claim the $10,000 winner’s check.
Tri-City Raceway will host the Fall Classic for the second year in a row in October. Yakima Speedway founded that event, too, in 1988.
The Northwest Super Late Model Series resumes on May 1 with the Leonard Evans Memorial 150 at the Wenatchee Valley Super Oval.
RENEGADE RACEWAY
Sunday’s results
Box — Winner: Jason Leon 0.073 RT, 11.49 DI, 11.522 ET, 115.39 mph. Runner-up: Al Chinn 0.000, 9.27, 9.378, 121.57. Semis: Bob Bundy.
No Box — Winner: Brian McGinnis 0.020, 10.33, 10.409, 119.72. Runner-up: Matt Condon 0.086, 10.92, 10.962, 118.61. Semis: Scott Lewsley.
Junior — Winner: Cole Dickhoff 0.038, 8.02, 8.045, 73.17. Runner-up: Koda Tobel 0.092, 9.10, 9.037, 70.51. Semis: Dawsin Ridge.
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The opening of Washington spring turkey hunting season is just nine days away. While some folks will be slaving away to try to get their taxes filed, a large group of hunters will be in the woods, in search of a wild tom turkey.
Besides maybe the bugle of a bull elk, there is no other sound in the outdoors that can get a hunter stirred up like the gobble of a spring turkey. It is what every turkey hunter strains to hear as they comb the woods each season.
And once the gobble is heard, the game is on. It’s a game the turkeys win fairly regularly, but it is sure fun to play.
The challenge is to get within shotgun or bow range of a big tom. This is accomplished by imitating a hen turkey with an assortment of different styles of calls to try to get the tom to come to you. Or at least that is how it is done when everything works just right.
Unfortunately, there are a myriad of things that can go wrong in this “perfect world” scenario.
First, there is an 80% chance the turkey that is answering your calls is accompanied by several real live hens. Hardly ever will a lusty tom leave the real thing to come look for the sounds you are making.{/span}
{span}If the turkey that answers your call is all alone however, or if he is with another lonely tom, then chances are he’ll come at least part way to check you out. Plenty of things can still go wrong once this little game of cat and mouse begins.{/span}
{span}The tom coming your way may not want to cross a fence, or he may not want to cross a creek, or he may not want to walk through some thick brush to get to you.{/span}
{span}Yes, Les Nessman, turkeys can fly. They are birds. But will they fly to get over or around those obstacles? Sometimes. If they feel like it.{/span}
{span}Who knows what goes through the tiny brain of the extremely wary turkey, but more times than not, something will happen to foul up your fowl. They will see a movement, or they will hear a sound they don’t like, or a coyote will come to the call at the same time, or a dozen other things might happen, and the bird will make the right move at the right time, and save himself from becoming Sunday dinner.{/span}
{span}Wild turkeys have an uncanny ability to live to see another day.{/span}
{span}There are other times, though, when a bird will keep coming, looking for the source of the lonely hen calls. When that big tom comes into sight, all puffed up, with his tail feathers fanned and he booms a gobble right there in front of you, that is what keeps all of us turkey hunters coming back. {/span}
{span}That is why turkey hunters get up at 3:30 in the morning, morning after morning. That is why they expose themselves to ticks and mosquitoes and other pesky insects. That is why they dress from head to toe in camo clothing, and walk mile after mile after mile.{/span}
{span}It helps to be a good turkey caller, but it is not completely necessary. Sometimes a lovesick tom will come to just about anything that sounds like a hen clucking. I even had one coming in to me because I was rustling leaves as I moved around in the oak trees.{/span}
{span}A real turkey hunting novice at the time, I didn’t know that was what was happening. Every time I moved, making the leaves crunch, the big tom would gobble. So, I would move a bit closer, and he would gobble again. We played that game for about two more moves and gobbles, and then, like a dummy, I tried to move one more time. He spotted me, and I spotted him at the same time, and in the blink of an eye, the big tom turned and was gone.{/span}
{span}That was just one of the many times the pea-brained birds have totally outsmarted me.{/span}
{span}Scouting now, ahead of the season is one of the best things to do to improve odds of success. Fish where the fish are. Hunt where the birds are. {/span}
{span}We have a few wild turkeys in Yakima County. And there are a few more in Kittitas County. But a very small percentage of the turkeys harvested in Washington each year come from our neck of the woods.{/span}
{span}There is a much better chance of success hunting down in Klickitat County. The very best chance for putting a bird in the oven, is to hunt in the northeastern part of the state. In 2020, 60% of the turkeys taken by Washington hunters were bagged in the counties north of Spokane.{/span}
{span}Rarely does a turkey hunt go as planned, but no matter what, most of us love every minute of it. Being in the woods on April 15, the opening day of turkey season, chasing the wary wild turkey, will make you forget about paying your taxes, and every other care in the world.{/span}
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US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is set to a speech on cryptocurrency policy and regulation.
- Thursday 10:30 a.m. ET (1430 GMT)
- will outline possible steps the Treasury could take to investigate the use and technology of digital assets
US Treasury statement:
"Secretary Yellen will make the case for a consistent and comprehensive policy framework that promotes responsible innovation of digital assets and appropriately assesses and mitigates the risks they may pose"
BTC update ... running scared of Yellen:
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One of two brothers Sacramento police have arrested in connection with a shooting that broke out near the state’s Capitol and left six dead had injured his spouse years ago in eastern Riverside County and later faced similar legal troubles in Arizona, according to officials and records.
Dandrae Stephan Martin, 26, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of domestic violence in 2014 at a courthouse in Blythe near the Arizona border, Superior Court records show, admitting to hurting the mother of his child.
He was sentenced to 30 days in jail and three years of probation, said John Hall, a spokesman for the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office.
But Martin violated the terms of his probation, skipping out on community service and a 52-week domestic violence class. The court issued a $5,000 bench warrant for him in October 2015.That warrant was still open when he was arrested Monday, according to Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department records.
In 2016, Martin was charged in Maricopa County, Arizona, which includes Phoenix, with aggravated assault and domestic violence, a felony charge to which he pleaded guilty, according to court documents.
According to Fox 10 in Phoenix, Martin admitted to “punching, kicking and choking a woman in a hotel room when she refused to work for him as a prostitute.”
He served time beyond bars in Arizona, Fox 10 reported, getting released in 2020.
It’s not clear where Martin lived or grew up, but his brother who was arrested, Smiley Martin, indicated on his Facebook page that he went to high school in Sacramento.
Smiley Martin, 27, was among those seriously injured when at least 100 shots rang out in a popular nightlife area early Sunday. He remains in a hospital under guard by police. Officials have said when he is released from the hospital, Smiley Martin will be arrested on suspicion of being a felon in possession of a firearm and possessing a machine gun.
Sacramento police said Dandrae Martin was arrested on suspicion of assault with a firearm and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
They haven’t detailed how police believe the brothers tie into the mass shooting.
Police described one of the guns found at the scene of the shooting as “a stolen handgun” that was “found to have been converted to a weapon capable of automatic gunfire.”
It’s not clear if police believe that gun was connected to either of the Martins.
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College of DuPage increasing tuition fees
DuPAGE COUNTY, Ill. - Student debt is about to get deeper for some.
The College of DuPage says it will increase tuition fees by $2/hour in the fall.
It'll be more for students who transfer from somewhere outside its community college district.
The college says falling enrollment is leading to a budget shortfall.
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Dinkel's Bakery in Lake View closing permanently April 30
CHICAGO - It’s official.
Dinkel’s bakery is closing on April 30 — for good.
The owner says after being open for 101 years, it's time to close the doors.
Real estate developers are purchasing the building, and they’ll auction everything off once the bakery is closed.
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