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The Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, which was unthinkable just a few years ago, sent shockwaves across the nation Friday morning -- a ruling that has ended the constitutional protections for abortions that have been in place for nearly half a century.
The decision, impulsed by a conservative majority, was the culmination of decades of efforts by abortion opponents, made possible by an emboldened right side of the court that was fortified by former President Donald Trump's three appointees.
The ruling came more than a month after the stunning leak of a draft opinion by Justice Samuel Alito indicating the court was prepared to take this momentous step.
Friday's outcome is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states.
It puts the court at odds with a majority of Americans who favored preserving Roe, according to opinion polls.
Here is what local, state and national leaders, as well as organizations said following the Court's ruling:
LEADERS, ORGANIZATIONS REACT
Earlier this month, Daily Update 2020 for people seeking and providing abortions in the state under legislation signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul.
Following the Court's ruling Friday, Hochul shared her immediate reaction in a tweet, saying access to abortion "is a fundamental human right."
In a subsequent statement, Hochul called the decision "a grave injustice" and stressed that abortion remains "safe, accessible, and legal" in the state.
In her statement, Hochul said:
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"Today, the Supreme Court took away the right of millions of Americans to make decisions about their own bodies. This decision is a grave injustice.
"I want everyone to know that abortion remains safe, accessible, and legal in New York. Just last month, in anticipation of this decision, I made an historic $35 million investment to support our state's network of abortion providers. Last week, thanks to the partnership of Majority Leader Stewart-Cousins and Speaker Heastie, I signed a landmark, nation-leading package of legislation that further protects the rights of patients and empowers reproductive healthcare providers.
"The right to reproductive healthcare is a fundamental human right. History shows us that when abortion is banned, abortion becomes unsafe for women. Low-income individuals and people of color will be harmed the most.
"New York has always been a beacon for those yearning to be free. Our state will always be a safe harbor for those seeking access to abortion care. To anyone who is working to deny abortion access, our message is clear: not here, not now, not ever."
Meanwhile, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy referenced the draft opinions leaked earlier last month on the topic, saying that Friday's ruling was "appalling"
“No number of leaked draft opinions nor any amount of speculation could have prepared American women for today’s backwards and appalling Supreme Court decision to strip away the Constitutional right to reproductive freedom," Murphy said. "While New Jersey planned for this eventuality by codifying a woman’s right to an abortion under state law, it is incumbent that we do more to fully secure reproductive rights and ensure access to reproductive health care without delay. Until we do, my Administration will take the necessary steps to fully protect both New Jersey’s women and those who come to our state to access the freedom which may no longer exist in their home state. In New Jersey, women will always have full autonomy over their own bodies and the right to make their own medical decisions."
Another tri-state leader, Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont said he was "grateful to live in Connecticut, where our laws make it clear that women have a right to choose."
“Today’s Supreme Court decision drastically oversteps the constitutional right for Americans to make their own reproductive healthcare decisions without government interference," Lamont's statement said. "Decisions on reproductive healthcare should only be made between a patient and their doctor without the interference of politicians. This ruling will not only result in a patchwork of unequal laws among the states, but more importantly it will result in dangerous and life-threatening situations similar to what this country witnessed countless times in the era prior to the landmark Roe case in which women died or were left severely injured because they could not access the medical care that they should have every right to access on their own."
He went on to say: "As long as I am governor, reproductive rights will be protected in Connecticut and I will do everything in my power to block laws from being passed that restrict those rights.”
"Make no mistake: this fight is far from over," Andrea Miller, President of the National Institute for Reproductive Health and NIRH Action Fund, an abortion rights advocacy group said in a statement following the SCOTUS' decision.
“The Supreme Court’s majority decision to overturn Roe v. Wade is a devastating and unprecedented assault on our most cherished freedoms, which puts our bodies, our families, and our futures on the line," Miller said in a statement. "The ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization will upend the lives and jeopardize the health and well-being of millions of people across this country – those seeking abortion care, those who will need abortion care in the future, and the families and loved ones of those who will be denied the abortion care they need. And while this burden will cross every race, class, and zip code, we know that it will fall the hardest on Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and other communities of color; those working to make ends meet; young people; and people living in rural communities.
Calling the day one that "will live infamy" as one when the justices "turned their backs on the people of this nation."
"Today’s pernicious decision was not unexpected, but that does not make it any less appalling," Miller said. "This date will live in infamy, as the day when an unaccountable cabal of extreme conservative Justices turned precedent on its head and turned their backs on the people of this nation. It will usher in an era where every pregnancy that ends – and every person involved – may be suspect. And it will give government officials in roughly half the states wide-ranging power to surveil, prosecute, and punish those who end their pregnancies and those who help them do so.
But make no mistake: this fight is far from over. The overwhelming majority of Americans believe that abortion should be legal, affordable, and available in all communities."
Joy D. Calloway, Interim President & CEO, Planned Parenthood of Greater New York Action Fund, said in a statement:
“This is personal. The U.S. Supreme Court has robbed millions of people of their right to control their bodies and personal health care decisions. This cruel decision provokes a dangerous health crisis. People will be forced to overcome unjust barriers to access abortion or carry pregnancies against their will — at the risk of their health and lives.
"This is a profoundly dismal day for our country, but the fight is far from over."
In a statement, NYC Health + Hospitals, the largest public health care system in the United States, said they "will continue to provide safe, legal, accessible abortion services to all who make this deeply personal choice" saying they will "welcome patients near and far."
President and CEO Dr. Mitchell Katz, said in a statement that the decision is a threat to public health.
“Today's U.S. Supreme Court ruling restricting the reproductive rights of millions of Americans is a step backwards and a threat to public health," Katz said, continuing:
"Soon we will bear witness to the enormous consequences of this ruling and we must brace ourselves for the disproportionate impact it will have on disadvantaged communities, people of color, and people already experiencing barriers to accessing health care.
"The potential for unsafe abortions, unwanted childbearing, and unmet health needs will also lead to lack of economic freedom and obstacles for young people trying to excel or pull themselves out of poverty.
"But here in New York, NYC Health + Hospitals will continue to provide safe, legal, accessible abortion services to all who make this deeply personal choice.
"We will do whatever it takes to accommodate patients from near and far. And we will take the necessary steps to protect the safety and security of our patients and the health care professionals who provide these services.
"We are fortunate to live in a city and state that are equally committed to abortion rights and are strengthening protections for abortion providers.
"As disappointed as I am in the Court's ruling today, I also feel more determined than ever to fulfill the mission of our great public health system to care for all, regardless of immigration status or ability to pay, and protect the fundamental rights and health of the people we serve.”
“Two days in a row, politics came before people at the highest court in the land, and, as a result, the health of our nation now hangs in jeopardy. What the court has done today ignores the opinions of the majority of Americans, as it helps states control women’s bodies, their choices, and their freedoms," New York City Mayor Eric Adams said in a statement.
“There is nothing to call this Supreme Court opinion but an affront to basic human rights and one that aims to shackle women and others in reproductive bondage.
“Reproductive care is health care, but, put simply, this decision puts lives at risk."
Meanwhile, New York Attorney General Letitia James called the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, "a vicious, dangerous, and deliberate attack on our most basic freedom as human beings."
James entire statement reads: “Today’s ruling is a vicious, dangerous, and deliberate attack on our most basic freedom as humans. Every single person in this country should have the right to make their own decisions about their own bodies. But make no mistake: We will not go back to the inhumane and restrictive pre-Roe era. Regardless of the situation at the national level, New York will always be a safe haven for anyone seeking an abortion. I will work tirelessly to ensure that low-income New Yorkers and people from hostile states have access to the care they need and deserve. I will always fight to protect our right to make decisions about our own bodies and expand access to this critical and lifesaving care.”
Former First Lady Michelle Obama said she was "heartbroken."
"Our hearts may be broken today, but tomorrow, we've got to get up and find the courage to keep working towards creating the more just America we all deserve," she said.
Meanwhile, in a Twitter thread, former Vice President Mike Pence, praised the decision saying, "Having been given this second chance for Life, we must not rest and must not relent until the sanctity of life is restored to the center of American law in every state in the land."
U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) described the decision as "not only is this ruling an insult to women everywhere, but it is an affront to the 6 in 10 Americans who support women’s reproductive freedom."
"This ruling proves that our judicial system no longer represents the will of the American people and no longer represents logic, science, or equal justice under the law," Gillibrand said in her statement. "But while today’s ruling is a terrible setback in the fight for women’s equality, it does not diminish our resolve. In fact, it is time to get to work and fight for our rights."
She concludes her statement by saying: "We cannot allow nearly 50 years of progress for women’s rights to be erased in one fell swoop. We have simply come too far to turn back now."
In a tweet, Gillibrand also said that "when you take away someone's ability to make their own decisions about their own body, they are no longer a citizen. They no longer have freedom, bodily autonomy, or basic civil rights."
New York State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, a democrat, said the decisions has resulted in "two Americas, where states must decide if they'll serve as bastians of freedoms, or not."
"Today’s abhorrent decision to overturn Roe v. Wade marks a stark new chapter in our American story," Stewart-Cousins said. "We cannot understate the life-altering effect this will have not only on millions of women today, but on the safety and freedom of those for generations to come. We are now living in two Americas, where states must decide if they’ll serve as bastions of freedom, or not. In anticipation of this ruling, we took action to further protect women’s rights to access reproductive healthcare and protect out of state visitors seeking abortion care. Abortion care is healthcare and it will remain accessible to all who need it in New York. Our safe harbor is ready to welcome those seeking refuge, with the promise that your choices will never be taken away in New York."
U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said in her tweet that overturning Roe v. Wade "will never make [abortions] go away," but rather, "only makes them more dangerous."
“This is a dark day for women, a dark day for freedom, and a dark day in the history of our country," Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ) said.
Coleman also referenced Thursday's ruling, in which the Court struck down New York State's concealed carry gun law saying in a tweet that "in less than 24-hours the Supreme Court has shown that it cares more about controlling women than guns."
Coleman also went on to address those who are concerned in New Jersey, reminding the public that New Jersey has abortion rights.
Congressman Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) also released the following statement in response to the Court overturning Roe v. Wade, which has been in place for decades, calling it a "dark day in American history." Adding, "We knew it was coming, but that doesn't make it any less devastating."
Bowman went on to say that New York welcomes anyone who lives in a state that lost the right to an abortion.
“Our country today failed the millions of Americans who will suffer from this inhumane, dangerous, and deadly ruling — especially the poor and people of color who will suffer and die the most," Bowman said.
“This was not merely a court ruling, this was an attack – one that was planned by far-right extremists and carried out by the United States Supreme Court. This ruling is about controlling women and robbing them of their right to make decisions about their own bodies and healthcare. This is an outright attack on the overall freedoms of women across this country," his statement went on to say.
Bowman then focused his attention on the Supreme Court, who he said "lost its legitimacy."
“Let’s be clear: between sham appointments, stolen seats, and extreme verdicts like this one today, the United States Supreme Court has lost its legitimacy. For our democracy and governance to work, we must restore the legitimacy of the Court. The best way to do that is to expand the Supreme Court and restore a level of balance that has eroded over the years," he said.
“This is a dark day, but today the fight begins – the fight to restore abortion and reproductive rights in every state in the country . We must prevail, and I believe we will.”
Meanwhile, U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) called the decision "a massive attack on reproductive rights and freedom."
U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) shared his frustration over the "devastating and disastrous" ruling, saying in a statement:
“After years of crusading, Republicans have succeeded in plunging our nation back to the dark days where women lived without bodily autonomy and access to safe reproductive care. The Supreme Court’s failure to uphold Roe v. Wade is a devastating and disastrous decision that will impact millions of American women and will forever remain a stain on our country’s history.
“With today’s decision, the conservative majority on the Court has thrown out nearly 50 years of precedent — jeopardizing long-established progress on civil rights, voting rights, and LGBTQ+ rights. Make no mistake, the justices who struck down Roe have callously turned their backs on women and families all across America. As a result, where a woman lives will now determine her ability to access a full range of reproductive health options. The wealthy, the powerful, and the well-connected will still have access to any and all care they choose. But lower-income women, especially of color, will not. This is more than just a health care issue, this is a human rights issue.
“Today, I share your anger and disappointment. I share your frustration and your outrage. Tomorrow, and every day after until full reproductive health care access is fully restored, I stand ready to fight with you.”
Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY), Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform said the decision "is about taking away our right to bodily autonomy" and was not about protecting public health or safety.
“This disgraceful decision will eliminate access to abortion care for millions of people in the United States and will disproportionately harm communities that are already marginalized and more likely to experience health disparities, including people of color and people with less income," Maloney's statement read in part.
“Today’s decision undermines decades of precedent protecting fundamental freedoms for all people living in the United States and is a direct threat to other essential rights based on a person’s right to privacy, including the right to contraception and the right to same sex marriage. It will be recorded as one of the most misguided, ideologically-driven, and deeply flawed decisions in our country’s history."
In a tweet, Maloney said she was "infuriated" by the decision and was going to join the crowd protesting in front of SCOTUS.
Citing a Marist Poll published last month, the New York Civil Liberties Union said the decision will trigger bans in half of U.S. states overnight, despite a vast majority of Americans believing that abortion is a fundamental right.
New York Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Donna Lieberman went on to issue a statement calling the decision " a full-scale assault."
“This is an attack on women and anyone in need of abortion care," Lieberman said. "This is a full-scale assault on pregnant people, their health care providers, and their support systems. This is a racial, gender and economic justice catastrophe. As half of the states in this country shamefully make forced pregnancy the law of their land, we will not stand for it in New York. We will affirm the right to abortion care and ensure access to it, no matter what."
Lieberman's statement goes on to say: “As federal reproductive rights vanish, New York will again be a beacon for people who need abortion care, including women, young people, transgender and gender non-conforming people. In New York today, the Reproductive Health Act protects access to abortion in our public health law. People from Mississippi to Texas are welcome here and have the right to get the vital care they need.
“Our state first opened its doors to abortion care five decades ago, and three years before the Court decided Roe. But there is more work to do to expand access for women, girls, people of color, and low-income people across the country. For New York to be a leader and an abortion access state, Albany leadership must convene a special session to pass constitutional protections through an Equality Amendment. Failing to pass these critical measures this summer is unconscionable – we must protect abortion care and ensure that anyone needing care can get it right here in New York.”
Catholic League president Bill Donohue said in a statement that the "ruling makes us proud to be Catholic."
"Honest abortion-rights legal scholars have long said that while abortion should be legal, it is not the business of the courts to settle such matters. [Justice Samuel] Alito picked up on this admission, saying, "The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision....
"Aside from the legal matters, abortion involves a host of biological and moral issues. The DNA that makes us all unique human beings is present at conception, and not a day later. It is a credit to the Catholic Church that it led the discussion on the morality of abortion for all these years," his statement read in part.
Meanwhile, the Legal Aid Society said in part that the decision was not not "pro-life" but "pro-oppression."
"Stripping people of their reproductive rights isn’t pro-life – it’s pro-oppression. This ruling will exacerbate racial inequities and disproportionately harm the most vulnerable and marginalized communities of color who already face obstacles to healthcare. Forcing people to carry unwanted pregnancies to term will push families deeper into poverty and put the lives of pregnant people, many of whom are BIPOC women, at risk," the Legal Aid Society's statement read in part, adding: "We know the devastating impact that a lack of access to reproductive healthcare and abortion has on our clients and their families."
Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY), who is also running for New York governor, issued a statement saying in part that "the Supreme Court has declared unconstitutional a woman’s right to make their own reproductive health decisions. American women today will have less freedom than their mothers."
U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell called the ruling "a historic victory" that was both "courageous" and "correct."
Andrew Giuliani, Republican candidate for New York governor and son of former New York City Rudy Giuliani, a Trump ally, said in a statement he celebrated the decision and "is the enduring legacy of President Donald J. Trump."
"As a pro-life New Yorker, I celebrate the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe vs Wade. It’s a victory for states’ rights but more importantly, the sanctity of life. This protection for our most vulnerable New Yorkers is the enduring legacy of President Donald J. Trump," he said.
Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-NY)said the decision of the "radical, far-right majority on the Supreme Court" will have "lethal consequences for people."
Jones statement reads in part: "Today, the radical, far-right majority on the Supreme Court imposed their unpopular, legally unsupported view on the American people – overturning Roe v. Wade and ending the right to an abortion for millions in this country. This is the culmination of a decades-long assault waged by the Republican Party against reproductive freedom, and our democracy. Make no mistake: the Supreme Court’s decision will have lethal consequences for people who need live-saving abortions and will compound cycles of poverty and marginalization for Black and brown people who’ve had their constitutional right to choose stripped away.
“While abortion will remain legal in New York State, state legislatures across this country have already passed laws to ban abortion and criminalize providers and people who are seeking the health care they need. No matter what state you live in, this assault on abortion rights is an assault on all Americans."
The Catholic Bishops of New York State called the day "historic," saying that the "just decision will save countless innocent children simply waiting to be born."
In a statement, the group said in part: "With the entire pro-life community, we are overjoyed with this outcome of the Court. However, we acknowledge the wide range of emotions associated with this decision...We must remember that this is a judicial victory, not a cultural one. The culture remains deeply divided on the issue, which will be evidenced by the patchwork of state statutes pertaining to abortion across the country."
In a tweet, New York Archbishop Cardinal Timothy Dolan said "we give thanks to God" in reference to the Court's decision.
Meanwhile, the Concerned Clergy for Choice and the Planned Parenthood Federation of America Clergy Advisory Board oppose the Court's decision, saying:
“As people of faith and deep moral conviction, we unequivocally oppose bans or medically unnecessary restrictions on abortion. These restrictions undermine individual moral agency and the ability to make personal health decisions according to one’s conscience, including whether and when to become parents. We affirm the moral agency of people seeking abortions, their bodily autonomy, and their moral authority to make reproductive decisions.”
National Council of Jewish Women CEO Sheila Katz called the decision "a moral failure" that "will put lives at risk."
“By overturning 50 years of precedent, safe and vital abortion care is now virtually inaccessible to millions of people who need it. In the weeks and months ahead, we will see the devastating impact this ruling will have on human lives," Katz said.
“This egregious decision is a direct violation of both our American values and our Jewish tradition. Reversing the protections of Roe defies logic, morality, compassion and the fundamental right of all Americans to practice their religious beliefs without interference from the government," Katz went on to say, adding that "this decision will forever alter the lives of those who will be forced to remain pregnant, increasing the chances that they will face life-threatening medical complications, poverty and unemployment."
"Today’s Supreme Court decision overturning nearly five decades of protections and reproductive freedom is devastating. This dangerous decision puts millions in harm’s way, gives government control over our individual freedom to choose, and sets a disturbing precedent that puts many other constitutional rights and freedoms in jeopardy," the LGBTQIA+ rights organization Heritage Pride, which oversees the roster of NYC Pride events, said following the Court's decision.
Rev. Al Sharpton, activist as well as founder and president of the National Action Network, said: "The Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade is a blatant attempt to bring us back to the dark ages. It will disproportionately impact Black women and poor women. This must be resisted aggressively. States must enact laws to protect women." | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/date-will-live-in-infamy-tri-state-leaders-orgs-react-to-scotus-roe-v-wade-ruling/3748176/ | 2022-06-24T17:35:43 | 1 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/date-will-live-in-infamy-tri-state-leaders-orgs-react-to-scotus-roe-v-wade-ruling/3748176/ |
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — The Fayetteville Police Department (FPD) is searching for a missing 17-year-old girl.
Veronica Soto-Gonzalez has been reported missing according to a Facebook post posted by FPD on June 24, 2022.
Veronica is 5'4", and weighs 125 pounds. She has brown hair and brown eyes but is known to wear blue contacts.
Police say she was last seen wearing a black hoodie, white jogger pants, and black and white vans.
Anyone with information on Veronica's whereabouts is asked to contact Detective Magaña at 479-587-3520 reference case #2022-36016.
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VAN BUREN, Ark. — Van Buren-based USA Truck is being bought by Germany-based DB Schenker in a $435 million deal expected to close by the end of the year. The deal is for $31.72 per share of USA Truck (NASDAQ: USAK) and was approved by the USA Truck board of directors.
Company shares closed Thursday at $14.58, meaning the acquisition price target represents a 117.5% premium. The share price jumped above $30 in early Friday trading.
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HOUSTON — ERCOT officials said demand on the state’s power grid hit a new record Thursday and it could happen again today. But they say the grid is up to the challenge.
“Today we’re hitting a peak that really we hadn’t expected to hit until August: 77,000 megawatts,” said KHOU 11 energy expert Ed Hirs.
Hirs says the contribution to the Texas grid from wind and solar is not as high as the previous week.
“That means that we need almost everybody else to be in the game,” he said.
Hirs told KHOU 11 if some units trip off, ERCOT may have to call for rolling blackouts.
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“If they do institute the rolling blackouts, it shouldn’t be more than the 30 to 45 minutes each, if you will, and across a very small percentage of the grid because it won’t take that much to get us back into good shape,” he said.
A spokesperson for the statewide grid operator told KHOU:
“ERCOT projects sufficient generation to meet possible record demand today. ERCOT is monitoring conditions closely and will deploy all available tools to manage the grid reliably. ERCOT continues to coordinate closely with the Public Utility Commission as well as generation resource owners and transmission utilities to ensure they are prepared.”
Peter Lake, Chairman of the Public Utility Commission, which oversees ERCOT, told state lawmakers on the House Committee for State Affairs on Thursday they’ve built in a bigger margin of safety since the previous summer.
“We’re buying more reserves and adjusting the amount of reserves we have at any given time to real-time conditions, which was never done before,” said Lake. “A hurricane, a drought, a heat wave, for example.”
Lake told lawmakers he’s already seen results from those changes.
“In the last 12 months, we’ve had at least six days where the grid reserves were so low that if he had not built in that margin of safety and those extra reserves, we would have been on the brink of rolling blackouts,” said Lake.
A spokesperson for CenterPoint Energy told KHOU 11 as of Thursday afternoon, ERCOT had not issued any calls for conservation, adding:
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TEXAS, USA — Texas politicians, including Gov. Greg Abbott and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O'Rourke, are reacting to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
The historic 6-3 decision puts an end to 50 years of the constitutional right to abortion.
In a statement, Abbott applauded the court's decision.
"The U.S. Supreme Court correctly overturned Roe v. Wade and reinstated the right of states to protect innocent, unborn children," Abbott said. "Texas is a pro-life state, and we have taken significant action to protect the sanctity of life. Texas has also prioritized supporting women's healthcare and expectant mothers in need to give them the necessary resources so that they can choose life for their child."
Abbott went on to describe women's health laws that he has signed, including ones "that extended Medicaid health care coverage to six months post-partum, appropriated $345 million for women's health programs, and invested more than $100 million toward our Alternatives to Abortion program."
"Texas will always fight for the innocent unborn, and I will continue working with the Texas legislature and all Texans to save every child from the ravages of abortion and help our expectant mothers in need," Abbott said.
O'Rourke said in a statement that winning the Texas governor race is "the only way to overcome today's decision."
“The Supreme Court has sent this back to the states, and our state’s current governor has outlawed abortion beginning at conception with no exception for rape or incest," O'Rourke said. “If you care about protecting a woman’s freedom to make her own decisions about her own body, health care, and future, join this campaign and help us win.”
On Twitter, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said he's closing his office and making June 24 an annual holiday.
"SCOTUS just overruled Roe & Casey, ending one of the most morally & legally corrupt eras in US history," Paxton's tweet reads. "Praise the Lord."
In an official statement, Paxton said both Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey have no constitutional basis.
"Today, the question of abortion returns to the states," Paxton said. "And in Texas, that question has already been answered: abortion is illegal here. I look forward to defending the pro-life laws of Texas and the lives of all unborn children moving forward.”
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) called the Supreme Court's decision "nothing short of a massive victory for life," saying "Roe was wrong the day it was decided, and it has been wrong every day since then."
"What this decision does is leave abortion policy up to the states and returns power to the American people—which is exactly how questions of abortion were handled before Roe," Cruz said in part. "This is a momentous day, and yet the fight for life doesn’t end with the Dobbs decision. It simply begins a new chapter. I’ve been proud to stand for life in the U.S. Senate, and I will continue to do so as we navigate the path ahead."
Republican Sen. John Cornyn said, "the court has restored one of the core principles of our Constitution with this landmark ruling."
"This decision correctly returns the authority of states to decide the limits on abortion and will save countless innocent lives," Cornyn said. "I commend the Justices for not bowing to the vicious intimidation campaign waged by the radical Left. I join Texans in celebrating this historic victory for life and the rule of law.”
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick tweeted that the decision marks, "A very historic day and a GIANT win for life!"
Hannah Roe Beck, co-executive director of the Texas Democratic Party, said in a statement that the party will continue to fight.
“Today’s decision is a blaring, five-alarm call to action," Beck said. "It is more important than ever that we send to Washington true, fearless leaders who are ready to fight to codify abortion at the federal level. It is more important than ever that we elect Beto O’Rourke as governor, flip the Texas Legislature, and elect Democrats up and down the ticket who will overturn Greg Abbott’s draconian and brutal laws imposing the will of a tiny minority on the entirety of our state."
From the other side of the aisle, Matt Rinaldi, chairman of the Republican Party of Texas, said in a statement that the Roe v. Wade decision marks "a historic day which Republicans and Pro-Life advocates have waited for a generation."
"It will be remembered in history as the day the United States of America reversed one of the most unjust, damaging and plainly incorrect judicial decisions in it's history," Rinaldi said. "Thankfully, the left's egregious attack on our government institutions failed, and justice was done."
Texas is one of at least 13 states with so-called "trigger laws" set to take effect following the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Learn more.
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IOWA, USA — With the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade on Friday, Iowans are wondering how this will affect abortion rights in the state.
Unlike fellow Midwestern states like Missouri, North Dakota and South Dakota, Iowa does not currently have a "trigger ban" on the books, which would allow an abortion ban to go into effect immediately.
However, as Republican leaders in Iowa have long called for additional abortion restrictions, there is potential for major changes in the legal landscape.
Let's take a look at what the potential next steps are.
What happened at the Supreme Court?
On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade case that declared abortion a constitutional right across the country in a 6-3 decision.
"The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion; Roe and Casey are overruled; and the authority to regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected representatives," the majority opinion stated.
The decision follows an initial draft of the decision being leaked and published by Politico in early May.
At the time, the high court confirmed the authenticity of the draft, but stated it was not a final decision.
“Although the document described in yesterday’s reports is authentic, it does not represent a decision by the Court or the final position of any member on the issues in the case," Chief Justice John Roberts said in a statement.
What about the Iowa Supreme Court?
Just last week, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled abortion is not a fundamental right in the state, clearing the way for lawmakers to further limit or ban abortion.
The ruling reversed a decision by the court made just four years ago that guaranteed the right to the procedure under the Iowa Constitution.
The Iowa decision stemmed from a lawsuit filed by abortion providers who challenged a 2020 law that required a 24-hour waiting period before a woman could get an abortion.
The state Supreme Court returned the waiting period case to district court. If abortion were banned to be banned in the state altogether, the waiting period will no longer be of relevance.
What's next?
Now that Roe v. Wade is no longer the law of the land, state legislators can soon mobilize to ban or limit abortion.
"Usually the court puts out what they call a precipice, a sort of final order that says this is the order to go ahead and do what you need to do about three weeks after an opinion comes out," Drake University Law Professor Sally Frank said in an interview on June 17.
While advocacy groups such as Planned Parenthood may file for reconsideration, Frank said their chances of success appear unlikely.
Following the precipice, legislators and officials in Iowa can move forward with banning abortion in the state.
"I expect the governor will call a special session and Iowa will become like Tennessee, Oklahoma, Texas with a total ban," Frank said.
Chief Justice Susan Christensen disagreed with the Iowa Supreme Court's overruling of the 2018 decision, saying little has changed since then and that the Iowa Legislature has begun the process of amending the Iowa Constitution to say abortion is not a fundamental right, the people should decide the issue.
“If the majority truly wants to leave this issue to the will of the people, it should let the people have their say through the ongoing constitutional amendment process,” she said.
If lawmakers approved an amendment next year, Iowans would have the chance to vote on it as early as 2024.
State lawmakers react
Iowa legislators took to social media following the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling, potentially indicating what's to come as far as abortion rights in Iowa.
"Today, the Supreme Court restored a fundamental truth Iowa Republicans have always known – life is precious. These past two weeks have brought significant victories for the pro-life movement both nationally and in Iowa. Iowa House Republicans will continue to protect the innocent lives of unborn children."
“Like millions of Americans, I’m angry and exhausted and fed up with politicians who think they know what’s best for me and my family. While today’s ruling is tough and it might feel hopeless, this fight is NOT over and here’s why: Right now, Iowa law still gives us the final say in making our own healthcare decisions, including abortion. Second, a large majority of Iowans still believe in reproductive freedom because they know everyone deserves the right to decide when to start a family. I am going to fight like hell every single day to make sure every family in Iowa keeps their right to access safe, legal abortions.”
Iowa Senate Majority Leader Jack Whitver
“After decades of prayer, volunteering, and voting, the cause of the unborn won a victory many thought they would never see. As a pro-life caucus, Senate Republicans have led on the protection of life and will continue to do so. We look forward to continuing to advance the cause of the unborn.”
“Today’s disastrous Supreme Court decision by six unelected Republican Justices is a direct assault on the freedom of Iowa women to make their own health care decisions and of all Iowans to exercise their rights to privacy and self-determination.
“Here in Iowa, the right to an abortion is grave danger. Iowa Republican politicians have made it clear they want to completely ban abortion without exceptions as quickly as possible. Governor Reynolds, Senate President Jake Chapman, and other Republicans want to completely ban abortion without exceptions.
“Today we must renew our commitment to liberty and justice for all. Iowans must use the ballot box to vote for pro-choice Democrats at every level of government and protect access to abortion, contraception, and other medical services.
“As long as I serve in public office, I will not rest until today’s decision is reversed and abortion rights are permanently protected in Iowa and the United States.” | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/local/local-politics/roe-v-wade-overturned-iowa-law-abortion/524-a0ed4d1e-52ea-4474-9492-c01d651eda8e | 2022-06-24T17:55:47 | 0 | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/local/local-politics/roe-v-wade-overturned-iowa-law-abortion/524-a0ed4d1e-52ea-4474-9492-c01d651eda8e |
An outgoing state senator is using the Supreme Court's rolling back of guaranteed abortion rights to advance a bill limiting New York's efforts to help out-of-state residents seeking abortions.
Republican state Sen. Phil Boyle has drafted legislation to ban the use of taxpayer dollars to fund abortions for non-residents of New York, a bill he says he's been working on since the draft opinion leaked earlier this year.
Boyle, who recently announced he would not seek reelection for his position representing Bay Shore, said the court's decision to overturn the nearly half-century ruling granting abortion rights could lead to more people traveling to New York from outside of the state to obtain abortions.
"Regardless of any Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, New York will remain a pro-choice state. Women will have the ability to travel from other states to New York to exercise their reproductive rights, but this does NOT mean that New York taxpayers should have to pay for these abortions," Boyle said Friday.
In his announcement, the senator made clear he did not want the state paying for expenses related to abortion procedures, travel or lodging for non-residents; "That is where New York taxpayers will draw the line!" he said.
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Many politicians in the state have vocalized dissenting opinions, and promised assistance to anyone in states where abortion rights are heavily restricted.
"To those seeking abortions around the country: you are welcome here," NYC Mayor Eric Adams tweeted Friday.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, who signed sweeping legislation protecting abortion rights earlier this month, plans to give abortion providers $35 million to expand services and boost security for abortion providers.
Out-of-state residents accounted for nearly 9% — or 7,000 out of roughly 79,000 abortions — performed in New York in 2019, according to the CDC. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/long-island-senator-wants-to-ban-ny-from-funding-non-residents-seeking-abortions/3748342/ | 2022-06-24T17:55:48 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/long-island-senator-wants-to-ban-ny-from-funding-non-residents-seeking-abortions/3748342/ |
CLEARWATER, Fla. — Anyone who likes a nice pint of beer can now support childhood cancer care while drinking a brew.
Big Storm Brewing Co., a local brewery in Clearwater, is teaming up with C&C Lemonade Factory to raise money by whipping up a special-edition beer.
There will be a pop-up lemonade stand fundraiser Saturday with 8-year-old Caroline Gallagher and her sister 6-year-old Charlotte of C&C Lemonade Factory, according to a news release. To fit the vibe of citrus, Big Storm has crafted a new lemon shandy, which is a wheat ale "with a touch of citrus and...soon-to-be-released lemonade."
Anyone wanting a cup of lemon shandy or a traditional glass of lemonade can find their way to Big Storm Brewing Co., located at 12707 49th St. N. The stand will be up from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m.
All money earned will be donated to John Hopkins All Children's Hospital and Alex's Lemonade Stand. Big Storm will also be collecting donations at the bar for charity.
Caroline from C&C Lemonade Factory was originally diagnosed with leukemia at 18 months old. Six months later and her two-year-old cousin, Julia, was also diagnosed with cancer. The two battled cancer for more than two years with Caroline eventually going into remission. Sadly, Julia lost the fight.
Years later, Caroline decided to have a lemonade stand to raise money to buy toys for her friends in the hospital. That year, she raised $54 — the next year she raised more than $800. Caroline's lemonade stand has since raised thousands every year.
"Caroline is committed to making a difference to honor Julia’s fight, and Big Storm Brewing Co. is proud to support her mission to help all childhood cancer warriors fighting this disease," event leaders said in a press release. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/pinellascounty/childhood-cancer-big-storm-brewing-co-lemonade/67-45f8eabe-92cf-41a1-b5e1-e1fba1bdd7b6 | 2022-06-24T17:56:51 | 0 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/pinellascounty/childhood-cancer-big-storm-brewing-co-lemonade/67-45f8eabe-92cf-41a1-b5e1-e1fba1bdd7b6 |
PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. — With the number of monkeypox cases rising to 22 in Florida, there has now been a confirmed case out of Pinellas County, health officials report.
During a media briefing Friday, Florida Department of Health Pinellas County Director Dr. Ulyee Choe spoke of a person infected with monkeypox that was reported Thursday.
Choe says the individual in Pinellas County is currently recovering at home.
Other than Pinellas, counties including Broward, Miami-Dade, Orange, Palm Beach and Seminole are seeing positive cases as well.
Nationally, there are 173 cases of the virus confirmed, Choe also explains.
Along with monkeypox, the director also said the number of Hepatitis A cases in the Sunshine State has reached 204 already in 2022. There were 205 cases total in 2021.
A map on Florida Health shows Pasco and Polk counties with a high average rate per 100,000 population for Hepatitis A between March and May of this year.
The World Health Organization is also considering declaring the spiraling outbreak of monkeypox a global emergency.
With all of this in mind, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says some symptoms of monkeypox to look out for include:
- Fever
- Headache
- Muscle aches and backache
- Swollen lymph nodes
- Chills
- Exhaustion
- A rash that can look like pimples or blisters that appear on the face, inside the mouth, and on other parts of the body, like the hands, feet, chest, genitals, or anus.
- The rash goes through different stages before healing completely. This process can take several weeks.
However, the CDC says the overall threat of monkeypox is low because it's a rare disease and doesn't spread easily without close contact.
For Hepatitis A, Florida saw a surge in the number of cases back in 2018-19 with more than 1,800 such cases reported in July of 2019 which surpassed the 548 cases confirmed the previous year.
According to the CDC, symptoms of the virus include yellow skin or eyes, upset stomach, throwing up, stomach pain, fever, dark urine or light-colored stools, diarrhea and not wanting to eat.
Along with the two ongoing viruses in the state, another disease is creating headlines as well — meningococcal disease.
So far, there have been 12 deaths in Florida this year from a total of 44 cases, Choe explains. The mortality rate is 10-15 percent and can even rise up to 40 percent.
Even with the disease affecting the LGBTQ community in the state of Florida, there's a way to prevent falling seriously ill or even dying.
It's getting vaccinated: That's the message from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in a statement Wednesday, urging gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men to get a meningococcal vaccine (MenACWY).
This applies to people who live in Florida or who may be traveling to Florida in the future, the agency said.
The most common symptoms of the disease to look out for include fever, headache and stiff neck. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/pinellascounty/monkeypox-pinellas-county-confirmed-case/67-1eb0e27d-66f5-40f2-9736-fe1761493451 | 2022-06-24T17:56:57 | 1 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/pinellascounty/monkeypox-pinellas-county-confirmed-case/67-1eb0e27d-66f5-40f2-9736-fe1761493451 |
ATLANTIC CITY — City Council on Wednesday passed an ordinance raising the cost of a jitney ride from $2.25 to $2.50, and two ordinances to double fines for littering and dumping debris on city streets and sidewalks.
Ordinance 27 amends existing city law to increase first littering offense fines from $500 to $1,000; and fines for second and subsequent offenses from $1,000 to $2,000, plus community service. After a third offense, punishment could include 90 days in jail for each additional offense.
Councilmen Muhammad Zia and MD Hossain Morshed, who represent the 4th and 5th wards, are sponsors of both anti-littering ordinances.
Both have repeatedly asked the administration to address quality-of-life problems in their wards, such as broken street lighting, poor upkeep of properties, lack of parking for residents, and trash on the streets.
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Current fines have not been a deterrent, according to the wording of the ordinance, but it does not say how often tickets have been issued for littering or how much enforcement of existing law has taken place.
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A request for information from a police spokesperson about how often littering tickets have been issued had not been answered as of Friday morning.
Ordinance 28 addresses fines for creating obstructions on city streets or sidewalks by dumping trash, building materials and other debris. Upon conviction, the fine would be any amount up to $2,000 for each offense and/or 90 days in jail.
There will be a special City Council meeting to discuss the city's $236 million 2022 budget ($219 million when pass-through grants are removed) at 5 p.m. Tuesday. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/atlantic-city-jitney-fares-littering-fines-both-going-up/article_d5fcfb3a-f315-11ec-9648-73306cc9309d.html | 2022-06-24T18:00:00 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/atlantic-city-jitney-fares-littering-fines-both-going-up/article_d5fcfb3a-f315-11ec-9648-73306cc9309d.html |
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – A $10,000 reward is being offered for information leading to an arrest nearly three years after a man was fatally shot in Pine Hills, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office said.
Deputies said they initially responded to a homicide on Aug. 23, 2019, at 3024 N Powers Drive. When they arrived, investigators said they found 29-year-old Kemoze Chambers shot in his apartment.
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Chambers later died at the hospital, according to deputies.
Anyone with information relating to this fatal shooting is urged to contact Crimeline to leave an anonymous tip by calling 800-429-TIPS (8477). Tipsters could be eligible for a reward of up to $10,000.
HELP SOLVE A MURDER: On August 23, 2019, 29-year-old Kezome Chambers was shot in the comfort of his home and later died at the hospital. Detectives are asking anyone with information to please call @CrimelineFL at 800-423-8477. pic.twitter.com/VOyy9nulYH
— Orange County Sheriff's Office (@OrangeCoSheriff) June 24, 2022 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/24/10k-reward-offered-for-information-nearly-3-years-after-man-shot-killed-in-pine-hills/ | 2022-06-24T18:00:04 | 0 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/24/10k-reward-offered-for-information-nearly-3-years-after-man-shot-killed-in-pine-hills/ |
ATLANTIC CITY — A three-alarm fire on the Atlantic City Boardwalk near New York Avenue appeared to be under control by about 11 a.m. Friday, according to Fire Chief Scott Evans.
Firefighters are now working to put out a few hotspots in the ceiling, Evans said.
Approximately 60 firefighters responded to the scene, Evans said.
The fire had engulfed a small shop near Ripley's Believe It or Not! on the Boardwalk. No injuries were reported.
It was unclear how the blaze started as of Friday morning.
Evans said the first call on the fire came in around 8:30 a.m. and the “well-advanced” fire quickly tore through the building. Five stores, including Devki Jewelers and H&A Fashion, were impacted by the blaze, Evans said.
Smoke could be seen coming from the front doors and windows, Evans said.
As of 9 a.m., a portion of the Boardwalk was closed to traffic as multiple crews were on scene.
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The city hopes to have the section of the Boardwalk around New York Avenue reopened by this afternoon, said Andrew Kramer, spokesman for the city.
Some of the buildings suffered heavy smoke and water damage. No damage to Ripley’s.
“This was a real serious fire because these are very old buildings," Evans said.
Colleen Pichirallo was going about her morning in her apartment less than a block away when she said the sounds of sirens filled the neighborhood. She then saw smoke cover her block.
“You couldn’t see half of the building,” Pichirallo said, watching firefighters as the worked to extinguish the blaze. “It was all engulfed.”
Police have moved their caution tape toward the damaged building to allow access to Schiff’s Central Pier. If you look closely, you can see the portion of the building damaged by the flames. @ThePressofAC @ACPressHuba pic.twitter.com/RPVuYzTe0Y
— Eric Conklin (@ACPressConklin) June 24, 2022
Crystal Temarantz could see the area fill with smoke from her hotel room on the eighth floor of Resorts. She was preparing to leave the city, but stopped for a peek at the scene.
“I wasn’t sure if it was a fire,” said Temarantz, of Kingston, Pennsylvania. “I thought maybe it was either a fire or they we’re cooking food. It looked pretty thick.”
Sargis Ghalechyan, a Brigantine resident and owner of Bill’s Gyros and My Friend’s Diner on the Boardwalk near where the fire broke out, said at around 8:30 a.m. he was at the diner heading to the gyro place when he saw the building burst into flames.
“I looked over and said ‘what is that?’” Ghalechyan said. “It started fast.”
Fire is near the Ripley’s Believe it Or Not Museum, a city police officer told me. @ACPressHuba @ThePressofAC
— Eric Conklin (@ACPressConklin) June 24, 2022
Various local fire departments have been called in to provide mutual aid.
Staff Writer Selena Vazquez contributed to this report.
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TITUSVILLE, Fla. – The American Space Museum & Walk of Fame in Titusville is auctioning off an array of “rare and historic” space items this weekend.
Among these items are a Mercury spacecraft launch escape rocket motor used for the Little Joe test flights.
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Little Joe was a solid-fueled booster rocket used by NASA for eight launches from 1959-1960 from Wallops Island, Virginia to test the launch escape system.
Museum spokesman Charles Jeffries told News 6 the Mercury spacecraft launch escape rocket motor was the first step in the evolution of sending American astronauts into space.
Jeffries said the tests were designed to ensure the safety of astronauts before any man was allowed to fly.
“The Juno rocket engine S-3 was used to send some of America’s first satellites and primates in space,” Jeffries said. ”The items offered in the American Space Museum auctions represent items found nowhere else.”
Photos of the items are impressive, ranging from a heat shield from the Gemini B spacecraft to a signed first-day cover by the crew of Apollo 11. Jeffries said it was signed before the crew left for the moon in 1969.
The auction will be held at the American Space Museum & Walk of Fame, located at 308 Pine St., as well as online at the following website.
The bidding starts Saturday at noon or you can call the museum at 321-264-0434. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/24/2022-space-auction-at-titusville-museum-features-400-rare-cosmic-collectables/ | 2022-06-24T18:00:10 | 0 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/24/2022-space-auction-at-titusville-museum-features-400-rare-cosmic-collectables/ |
DeLAND, Fla. – The DeLand Police Department on Friday shared images from surveillance video of a residential burglary in progress earlier this week, requesting help from the public to identify the suspect pictured.
The burglary occurred Monday in the early morning hours at a home on West Minnesota Avenue, police said.
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An indoor security camera alerted the homeowner that an unknown person had entered their residence while they were out of town, according to a news release. Police said the man stole several pieces of jewelry.
The man is believed to be light-skinned with short, shaved hair, wearing a white T-shirt and blue jeans during the burglary, police said.
Anyone with knowledge of who or where the man is was urged to contact Detective Miller at MillerJA@deland.org, or by calling 386-943-8276. One could alternatively submit an anonymous tip to the DeLand CrimeWatch portal by clicking here. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/24/deland-police-ask-public-for-tips-after-burglary-suspect-shows-face-on-surveillance-video/ | 2022-06-24T18:00:17 | 0 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/24/deland-police-ask-public-for-tips-after-burglary-suspect-shows-face-on-surveillance-video/ |
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – A disbarred Winter Park attorney received prison time after agreeing to a plea deal for stealing $3 million from an elderly client.
The Orange County Sheriff’s Office said Matthew Roby was arrested in 2021 and agreed to the plea deal Friday for exploitation of an elderly person and grand theft of more than $100,000.
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Deputies said Roby stole from Helen Kuhn, a client of his, by fraudulently getting a power of attorney and “draining her accounts.”
The sheriff’s office said more than $2.4 million of the stolen funds were able to be recovered.
Officials said there may be more victims. Anyone with information is asked to call 407-836-4357. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/24/disbarred-winter-park-attorney-gets-5-years-for-stealing-3m-from-elderly-client/ | 2022-06-24T18:00:23 | 0 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/24/disbarred-winter-park-attorney-gets-5-years-for-stealing-3m-from-elderly-client/ |
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis praised the Supreme Court’s ruling overturning Roe v. Wade Friday, promising he would now work to expand the state’s restrictions on abortion access.
“The prayers of millions have been answered,” DeSantis said in a statement. “For nearly fifty years, the U.S. Supreme Court has prohibited virtually any meaningful pro-life protection, but this was not grounded in the text, history or structure of the constitution.”
By properly interpreting the Constitution, the Supreme Court has answered the prayers of millions upon millions of Americans. pic.twitter.com/CsPFpNnUPk
— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) June 24, 2022
The Supreme Court’s decision comes as part of the case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which was a challenge to Mississippi’s law which banned abortions after 15 weeks.
The majority opinion was penned by Justice Samuel Alito, with Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett joining. Chief Justice Roberts concurs with the ruling, but also said he would have upheld the Mississippi law at the center of this case without necessarily overturning Roe.
Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sototmayor and Stephen Breyer are joined in the dissent.
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“By properly interpreting the Constitution, the Dobbs majority has restored the people’s role in our republic and a sense of hope that every life counts,” the governor’s statement reads.
Florida’s new law, which will ban abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, is set to take effect on July 1. However, that law faces two lawsuits challenging it.
“Florida will continue to defend its recently-enacted pro-life reforms against state court challenges, will work to expand pro-life protections, and will stand for life by promoting adoption, foster care and child welfare,” DeSantis’ statement reads.
The first lawsuit against the state’s new abortion law was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and Planned Parenthood. This suit challenges the law on the basis that it violates Florida’s state constitution, specifically the right to privacy ensconced therein.
The Florida Supreme Court first ruled on the issue in October 1989 in the case of a law requiring teenage girls to get a parent’s consent before having an abortion.
According to a Washington Post article at the time, the opinion handed down by the court, in a 6-to-1 decision, cited a 1980 amendment to the state constitution providing that “every natural person has the right to be let alone and free from governmental intrusion into (their) private life” in its ruling.
The second lawsuit comes from a synagogue, Congregation L’Dor Va-Dor of Boynton Beach.
This suit contends that Florida’s 15-week ban on abortions violates Jewish teachings, which state abortion “is required if necessary to protect the health, mental or physical well-being of the woman” and for other reasons.
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PORT CANAVERAL, Fla. – Disney Cruise Line announced Friday that all Make-A-Wish children, including past, present and future wish recipients, will be honored as godchildren of the Disney Wish.
The all-new ship is scheduled to have its christening ceremony on June 29, with its maiden voyage carrying passengers to take place July 14 from Port Canaveral.
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The Make-A-Wish Foundation helps fulfill life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses. Since the founding of the organization in 1980, Make-A-Wish has become the world’s leading children’s wish-granting organization, serving children in every community in the United States and in nearly 50 countries worldwide. Walt Disney World has a long-standing relationship with Make-a-Wish, partnering with them for more than four decades.
Through the partnership, the two organizations have helped grant more than 145,000 Disney-inspired wishes together.
Redefining the longstanding maritime tradition of appointing a ship “godmother,” this is the first time in Disney Cruise Line history that children are being recognized in this prestigious role, which symbolically bestows good fortune on the vessel and its travelers.
“Make-A-Wish children and their families are brave, determined, resilient, and some of the most inspirational people you could ever meet,” said Bob Chapek, CEO of the Walt Disney Company. “Wishing is a transformative experience that brings hope and joy, and it is our privilege to proudly recognize children who strive to overcome challenges as our Disney Wish godchildren. Working with Make-A-Wish to support children with critical illnesses and making magic when it is needed most will always be a priority for The Walt Disney Company.”
The godchildren of this ship will join the group of godmothers for the Disney Cruise Line fleet including Patty Disney, Tinkerbell, Jennifer Hudson and Mariah Carey.
“The selection of Make-A-Wish children as the godchildren of the Disney Wish is another example of how Disney and Make-A-Wish continue to find innovative ways to bring joy to the lives of wish kids and their families,” said Richard K. Davis, president and CEO of Make-A-Wish America. “We are honored to partner with The Walt Disney Company and we look forward to granting countless more wishes together.”
During the Disney Wish christening ceremony, Make-A-Wish children will recite the blessing for the newest ship, evoking the spirit of optimism The Walt Disney Company is known for, the company said in a news release.
In celebration of the Disney Wish and the incredible power of wishes, Disney Cruise Line has worked with Make-A-Wish to create an exclusive line of merchandise that includes a Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse plush, ear headband, trading pin, spirit jersey and tumbler.
Disney said it will donate 10% of the purchase price from the sale of every item in the Disney Wish Limited Edition Collection now through July 18, 2023, to Make-A-Wish. The full collection will be available on the Disney Wish with select items available online beginning July 18.
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Authorities on Friday arrested a 58-year-old Peru man accused of shooting his neighbor amid a dispute, according to the Nebraska State Patrol.
Guadalupe DeLaCruz turned himself into the Nemaha County Sheriff's Office early Friday morning, nearly a week after a shooting in the 1200 block of Sixth Street in Peru, the patrol said in a news release.
Last weekend, DeLaCruz entered 25-year-old Mark Dupre's house with a handgun amid a dispute between the neighbors, firing twice and striking Dupre once, according to the news release. The second shot missed an unidentified person in the home.
Dupre, who was taken to Bryan West Campus in Lincoln with non-life-threatening injuries, has since been released from the hospital.
DeLaCruz was charged in Nemaha County Court with first-degree assault, attempted first-degree assault, two counts of use of a weapon to commit a felony, child abuse and carrying a concealed weapon
There were several people on Dupre’s property, including children, at the time of the incident, the state patrol said.
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The nature of the dispute that preceded the shooting is unclear.
DeLaCruz is being held at the Nemaha County jail.
Tom Casady's list of the 10 most infamous crimes in Lincoln history
Crimes of the times
This is simply one man’s perspective from the early 21st century (first written in 2010). I had to make a decision about crimes that occurred at locations that are inside the city today, but were outside our corporate limits at the time they occurred. I chose the latter.
Before beginning, though, I have to deal with three crimes that stand apart: the murders of three police officers in Lincoln. I’m not quite sure how to place them in a list. They all had huge impacts on the community, and on the police department in particular. Because these are my colleagues, I deal with them separately and in chronological order.
Patrolman Marion Francis Marshall
Shot in the shadow of the new Nebraska State Capital, Gov. Charles Bryan came to his aid and summoned additional help.
Lt. Frank Soukup
Marion Marshall was technically not a Lincoln police officer, so Lt. Soukup was actually the first Lincoln police officer killed on duty. One of his colleagues who was present at the motel and involved in the gunbattle, Paul Jacobsen, went on to enjoy a long career and command rank at LPD, influencing many young charges (like me) and leaving his mark on the culture of the agency.
Lt. Paul Whitehead
In the space of a few months, three LPD officers died in the line of duty. Frank Soukup had been murdered, and George Welter had died in a motorcycle crash. Paul Whitehead's partner, Paul Merritt, went on to command rank, and like Paul Jacobsen left an indelible mark at LPD and the community.
No. 1: Starkweather
The subject of several thinly disguised movie plots and a Springsteen album, the Starkweather murders are clearly the most infamous crime in Lincoln’s history — so far. One of the first mass murderers of the mass media age, six of Charles Starkweather’s 11 victims were killed inside the city of Lincoln, and the first was just on the outskirts of town. I didn’t live in Lincoln at the time, but my wife was a first-grader at Riley Elementary School and has vivid memories of the city gripped by fear in the days between the discovery of the Bartlett murders and Starkweather’s capture in Wyoming.
The case caused quite an uproar. There was intense criticism of the police department and sheriff’s office for not capturing Starkweather earlier in the week after the discovery of the Bartletts' bodies. Ultimately, Mayor Bennett Martin and the Lancaster County Board of Commissioners retained a retired FBI agent, Harold G. Robinson, to investigate the performance of local law enforcement. His report essentially exonerated the local law officers and made a few vanilla recommendations for improving inter-agency communication and training.
Now I know that many readers are mumbling to themselves “how obvious.” Hold your horses, though. It’s not quite as obvious as you might think. I had two experiences that drove this fact home to me. The first was a visit by a small group of journalism students. Only one member of the class had any idea, and her idea was pretty vague. You need to remember that the Starkweather murders were in 1957 and 1958 — before the parents of many college students were even born.
The second experience was a visit by a Cub Scout den. I was giving the kids a tour of the police station one evening. We were in the front lobby waiting for everyone to arrive. As I entertained the boys, I told the moms and dads that they might enjoy looking in the corner of the Sheriff’s Office display case to see the contents of Starkweather’s wallet — discovered a couple of years ago locked up in the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office safe. After a few minutes, one of the confused fathers asked me who Starkweather was, and why it was significant.
No. 2: Lincoln National Bank
On the morning of Sept. 17, 1930, a dark blue Buick carrying six men pulled up in front of the Lincoln National Bank at the northwest corner of 12th and O streets. Five of the men entered the bank, while a sixth stood outside by the Buick, cradling a machine gun. Observing the unusual events, a passerby called the police. The officer who responded, Forrest Shappaugh, was casually instructed by the machine-gun-toting lookout to just keep going, which he wisely did. Returning with reinforcements, he found that the robbers had already made good on their getaway, netting $2.7 million in cash and negotiable securities.
Ultimately, three of the six suspects were arrested. Tommy O’Connor and Howard Lee were convicted and sentenced. Jack Britt was tried twice but not convicted by a hung jury. Gus Winkeler, a member of Al Capone’s gang, winged a deal with County Attorney Max Towle to avoid prosecution in exchange for orchestrating the recovery of $600,000 in bearer bonds. The following year, Winkeler was murdered in Chicago, the victim of a gangland slaying. The final two robbers were never identified.
The Lincoln National Bank robbery stood as the largest cash bank robbery in the United States for many decades. It precipitated major changes at the Lincoln Police Department. Chief Peter Johnstone was rapidly “retired” after the robbery, the department’s fleet was upgraded to add the first official patrol cars, the full force was armed and a shotgun squad was organized. Forty-four years later when I was hired at LPD, the echo of the Lincoln National Bank robbery was still evident in daily bank opening details, and in the Thomspon submachine guns and Reising rifles that detectives grabbed whenever the robbery alarm sounded at headquarters.
No. 3: The Last Posse
My first inkling about this crime came when I was the chief deputy sheriff. One of my interns, a young man named Ron Boden (who became a veteran deputy sheriff), had been doing some research on Lancaster County’s only known lynching, in 1884. I came across a reference in the biography of the sheriff at the time, Sam Melick, to the murder of the Nebraska Penitentiary warden and subsequent prison break. Melick had been appointed interim warden after the murder and instituted several reforms.
Several years later, a colleague, Sgt. Geoff Marti, loaned me a great book, Gale Christianson’s "Last Posse," that told the story of the 1912 prison break in gory, haunting and glorious detail.
To make a long story short, convict Shorty Gray and his co-conspirators shot and killed Warden James Delahunty, a deputy warden and a guard on Wednesday, March 13, 1912. They then made their break — right into the teeth of a brutal Nebraska spring blizzard. Over the course to the next few days, a posse pursued. During the pursuit, the escapees carjacked a young farmer with his team and wagon. As the posse closed in, a gunfight broke out and the hostage was shot and killed in the exchange, along with two of the three escapees.
There was plenty of anger among the locals in the Gretna-Springfield vicinity about the death of their native son, and a controversy raged over the law enforcement tactics that brought about his demise. Lancaster County Sheriff Gus Hyers was not unsullied by the inquiry, although it appears from my prospect a century later that the fog of war led to the tragedy.
Christianson, a professor of history at Indiana State University who died earlier this year, notes the following on the flyleaf:
“For anyone living west of the Mississippi in 1912, the biggest news that fateful year was a violent escape from the Nebraska state penitentiary planned and carried out by a trio of notorious robbers and safe blowers.”
Bigger news on half the continent than the sinking of the Titanic during the same year would certainly qualify this murder-escape as one of the most infamous Lincoln crimes in history.
No. 4: Rock Island wreck
The Aug. 10, 1894, wreck of a Rock Island train on the southwest outskirts of Lincoln was almost lost in the mist of time until it was resurrected in the public consciousness by author Joel Williams, who came across the story while conducting research for his historical novel, "Barrelhouse Boys."
The wreck was determined to be the result of sabotage to the tracks, perhaps an attempt to derail the train as a prelude to robbery. Eleven people died in the crash and ensuing fire, making this a mass murder, to be sure. G.W. Davis was arrested and convicted of the crime but later received a full pardon. The story was told in greater detail earlier this year by the Lincoln Journal Star.
A historical marker is along the Rock Island Trail in Wilderness Park, accessible only by foot or bike from the nearest trail access points about a half-mile away at Old Cheney Road on the north, or 14th Street on the south.
Here’s the big question that remains unanswered: Was there really significant evidence to prove that George Washington Davis committed the crime, or was he just a convenient scapegoat? The fact that he received a gubernatorial pardon 10 years later leads me to believe that the evidence must have been unusually weak. If he was railroaded, then my second question is this: who really pried loose the tracks with the 40-pound crowbar found at the scene?
No. 5: Commonwealth
On Nov. 1, 1983, the doors to Nebraska’s largest industrial savings and loan company were closed and Commonwealth was declared insolvent. The 6,700 depositors with $65 million at stake would never be fully compensated for their loss, ultimately receiving about 59 cents on the dollar for their deposits, which they all mistakenly believed were insured up to $30,000 through the Nebraska Depository Insurance Guaranty Corporation, which was essentially an insurance pool with assets of only $3 million.
The case dominated Nebraska news for months. The investigation ultimately led to the conviction of three members of the prominent Lincoln family that owned the institution, the resignation of the director of the State Department of Banking and the impeachment of the Nebraska attorney general and the suspension of his license to practice law. State and federal litigation arising from the failure of Commonwealth drug on for years.
At the Lincoln Police Department, the Commonwealth failure led to the formation of a specialized white-collar crime detail, now known as the Technical Investigations Unit. At the time, municipal police departments in the United States had virtually no capacity for investigating financial crime and fraud of this magnitude, and we quickly became well known for our expertise in this area. The early experience served LPD very well in the ensuring years.
No. 6: Candice Harms
Candi Harms never came home from visiting her boyfriend on Sept. 22, 1992. Her parents reported her as a missing person the following morning, and her car was found abandoned in a cornfield north of Lincoln later in the day. Weeks went by before her remains were found southeast of Lincoln.
Scott Barney and Roger Bjorklund were convicted in her abduction and murder. Barney is in prison serving a life term. Bjorklund died in prison in 2001. Intense media attention surrounded the lengthy trial of Roger Bjorklund, for which a jury was brought in from Cheyenne County as an alternative to a change of venue. I have no doubt that the trial was a life-changing event for a group of good citizens from Sidney, who did their civic duty.
I was the Lancaster County sheriff at the time, involved both in the investigation and in the trial security. It was at about this time that the cellular telephone was becoming a consumer product, and I have often thought that this brutal crime probably spurred a lot of purchases. During my career, this is probably the second-most-prominent Lincoln crime in terms of the sheer volume of media coverage.
No. 7: Jon Simpson and Jacob Surber
A parent’s worst nightmare unfolded in September 1975 when these two boys, ages 12 and 13, failed to return from the Nebraska State Fair. The boys were the victims of abduction and murder. The case was similar to a string of other murders of young boys in the Midwest, and many thought that these cases were related -- the work of a serial killer. Although an arrest was made in the case here in Lincoln, the charges were eventually dismissed. William Guatney was released and has since died.
No. 8: John Sheedy
Saloon and gambling house owner John Sheedy was gunned down outside his home at 1211 P St. in January 1891. The case of Sheedy, prominent in Lincoln’s demiworld, became the talk of the town when his wife, Mary, and her alleged lover and accomplice, Monday McFarland, were arrested. Both were acquitted at trial. The Sheedy murder is chronicled in a great interactive multimedia website, Gilded Age Plains City, an online version that builds upon an article published in 2001 by Timothy Mahoney of the University of Nebraska.
No. 9: Patricia McGarry and Catherine Brooks
The bodies of these two friends were found in a Northeast Lincoln duplex in August 1977. Their murderer, Robert E. Williams, was the subject of a massive Midwest manhunt during the following week. Before his capture, he committed a third murder in Sioux Rapids, Iowa, and raped, shot and left for dead a victim who survived in Minnesota. He is the last man to be executed in Nebraska, sent to the electric chair in 1997.
No. 10: Judge William M. Morning
District Court Judge William Morning was murdered in February 1924. He was shot on the bench by an unhappy litigant in a divorce case. His court reporter, Minor Bacon, was also shot, but a notebook in his breast pocket deflected the bullet and saved his life.
Many other crimes
Choosing Lincoln's 10 most infamous crimes was a challenge. Although the top two were easy, the picture quickly became clouded. We tend, of course, to forget our history rather quickly. Many of the crimes I felt were among the most significant are barely remembered today, if not completely forgotten.
Some readers will take issue with my list. In choosing 10, here are the others I considered, in no particular order. They are all murders:
-- Mary O'Shea
-- Nancy Parker
-- Charles Mulholland
-- Victoria Lamm and Janet Mesner
-- Martina McMenamin
-- Regina Bos (presumably murdered)
-- Patty Webb
-- Marianne Mitzner
I also thought about the five murder-suicides in which a mother or father killed multiple family members before taking their own life. Though tragic, these crimes did not command the same kind of attention as the others, perhaps because there was no lengthy investigation, no tantalizing whodunit, no stranger-killer, nor any of the details that come out in the coverage of a major trial.
Reach the writer at 402-473-7223 or awegley@journalstar.com.
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CLARKSBURG, W.Va. – West Virginia’s only Democratic national representative, Senator Joe Manchin, has released a statement on the Supreme Court of the United States’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
I am deeply disappointed that the Supreme Court has voted to overturn Roe v. Wade. It has been the law of the land for nearly 50 years and was understood to be settled precedent. I trusted Justice Gorsuch and Justice Kavanaugh when they testified under oath that they also believed Roe v. Wade was settled legal precedent and I am alarmed they chose to reject the stability the ruling has provided for two generations of Americans.
As a Catholic, I was raised pro-life and will always consider myself pro-life. But I have come to accept that my definition of pro-life may not be someone else’s definition of pro-life. I believe that exceptions should be made in instances of rape, incest and when the life of the mother is in jeopardy. But let me be clear, I support legislation that would codify the rights Roe v. Wade previously protected. I am hopeful Democrats and Republicans will come together to put forward a piece of legislation that would do just that.
Sen. Joe Manchin
Manchin’s fellow West Virginia senator, Shelley Moore Capito, has also released a statement, saying she supports bringing the decision back to each state.
By overturning Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the Supreme Court has returned this issue to the states to make their own determination. I support this decision, and I would expect West Virginia to support this decision as well. This ruling does not create a federal ban on abortion, as has been suggested by some of my colleagues. Many feel strongly on this issue, but I condemn violent rhetoric and threats towards the Supreme Court Justices. I will continue to oppose extreme legislation at the federal level, and will follow debates in state legislatures, including in West Virginia, on this issue.
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito
Other West Virginia officials, including Gov. Jim Justice, Attorney General Morrisey and Congresswoman Carol Miller have also released statements regarding the decision. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/joe-manchin-disappointed-by-roe-v-wade-being-overturned/ | 2022-06-24T18:10:01 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/joe-manchin-disappointed-by-roe-v-wade-being-overturned/ |
MARTIN, KY (WOWK) – Residents of Martin, Kentucky will have to head to the town of Allen to get their mail, according to the United States Postal Service.
The Martin Fire Department says operations at the Martin Post Office have been temporarily relocated to the Allen Post Office as a safety precaution. Fire department officials say the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers told the Postal Service on Wednesday, June 22, that the building beside the post office was “unstable and in danger of collapse.”
Workers were advised to immediately evacuate. The fire department says residents who use the Martin Post Office will be able to get their mail and other retail service at the Allen Post Office. This change will remain in effect until further notice. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/safety-concern-temporarily-closes-martin-post-office/ | 2022-06-24T18:10:07 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/safety-concern-temporarily-closes-martin-post-office/ |
There are still wisps of smoke rising from the steep, green aspen groves of the San Francisco Peaks’ Inner Basin. Remnants from the Pipeline Fire, which was 80% contained on Thursday, these little fires burning somewhere below the canopy are nothing to worry about, said fire safety officer Brent Van Gundy.
“We’re not concerned with those fires moving,” Van Gundy said, nodding to the smoke rising on the hillside. “They’re just log piles. We’ll keep an eye on them.”
It’s hard to share his confidence. You don’t even have to turn your head to see the where the green of the aspens is demarcated by a scorched brown line. Beyond that, the hillside goes black, complete destruction across acres of ridgeline leading up to Doyle Peak. The road we had just ascended to reach the Inner Basin wove around the south face of Sugarloaf Mountain, where the burn was so complete that even the black sticks of charred trees seemed rare — as if most had burned down to ash. With evidence of fire’s devastation all around, it’s difficult to believe that any puff of smoke could be innocuous.
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But Van Gundy knows what he’s talking about. Aspens are considered a “natural fire barrier” because they’re less flammable and have a higher moisture content than pine trees. And for Lockett Meadow, the popular Inner Basin campground, they may have been a saving grace.
Standing in the meadow, you can see where the Pipeline Fire halted its forward progress. There’s a thin band of aspen standing between the burn and the golden grasses. When asked how firefighters stopped the fire from going any further, fire management specialist Preston Mercer said, “We didn’t.”
“On any normal year, aspen won’t burn that well,” he said. “Unless there’s a ton of dead and down component in it.”
Aspen aren’t the only reason Lockett Meadow survived; topography played a part. The northeastern trajectory of the Pipeline Fire meant that it had to “back down” off the ridge, and as anyone who’s ever held a match knows, fire likes to burn up.
Time of day also played a part, said Forest Service public information officer Karen Malis-Clark. By sheer luck, the Pipeline Fire reached the ridge above Lockett Meadow overnight, when lower temperatures and greater relative humidity would have contributed to a less active fire.
There was also preventative management involved. “We've done a lot of fuel treatments around here,” Mercer said, looking over the meadow. “All there was left to burn was grass and live aspen. So [the fire] just kind of died down.”
These natural and preventative elements helped keep the Pipeline Fire out of the Inner Basin and Lockett Meadow, but that’s not to say there wasn’t a battle. Hotshot crews deployed to the area within the first few days of the Pipeline Fire. They hiked in over the saddles above the basin at elevations over 11,000 feet to get ahead of the blaze, and did significant work in minimizing the fire’s progress.
The San Francisco Peaks and the people of Flagstaff owe much to these efforts. If the Pipeline Fire had burned into the basin or significantly expanded over the peaks, it would have been “beyond catastrophic,” said Flagstaff District Ranger Matt McGrath.
“I didn’t sleep those first nights,” said McGrath, a self-described “eternal optimist.” The Pipeline Fire was bad enough — having forced thousands of evacuations, threatened homes and heightened flood risk in surrounding neighborhoods — but it could have been “much, much worse,” he said. In his opinion, if the firefighting crews and air support hadn’t been successful, if the fire and wind conditions never “gave us the opportunity” and the Pipeline Fire spread over the Peaks, then the city of Flagstaff below could be looking at a life-altering scenario.
“The entire town of Flagstaff would flood with a quarter-inch of rain,” he said.
That didn’t happen this time. But it was close.
Other popular areas did not fare so well. Weatherford Canyon, an area revered for its doghair thickets of aspen, “is completely different,” Mercer said.
“It took 30 minutes for the whole canyon to burn,” he said. “The winds were just howling through there. It’s just gone.”
Some of the things that saved Lockett Meadow worked against Weathford Canyon. Both have aspen groves, but in the topography of the canyon, the Pipeline Fire started near the bottom and “burned straight up,” driven by aggressive wind. Weatherford had also “never been treated” or thinned, Mercer said, due to its status as a wilderness area. The amount of combustible dead and downed wood in the canyon was “horrendous.”
“There was probably 50 or 60 tons [of fuel] per acre,” Mercer said.
The canyon also burned in the daytime, when temperatures were high and humidity low, completing what Malis-Clark calls the “fire behavior triangle.”
These elements of fuel load, topography and temperature combined in Weatherford Canyon made it so that even dense aspen stands could not stave off the encroaching flame. With both the canyon and the burned ridges of the Inner Basin, it’s unclear whether aspen will return.
Historically, aspen are the first thing to grow back after a fire. Entire groves are actually one massive organism that sends out horizontally-spreading roots (sometimes called “suckers”) that sprout and can rapidly colonize an area. The enormous aspen groves of Inner Basin were born when a fire spread through the area over 100 years ago, clearing the land for aspen to thrive.
But times have changed since the contiguous aspen groves that prevail across the San Francisco Peaks took hold. Average temperatures are warmer, and persistent drought shows little sign of loosening its grip. When it comes to whether aspen will grow in the scars left by the Pipeline Fire, “it will be moisture dependent,” said wildlife biologist Julia Camp. She hesitates to make a prediction.
“The reason I’m hanging up is because we've had such crazy winters. We're needing both the monsoon and that winter moisture, and we're just not getting a lot of the winter moisture,” she said. “Could we get them sprouting up in places? Yes. But are we going to get that contiguous aspen stand? Maybe. I don't know. We hope so.”
Uncertainty seems to be a prevailing theme when it comes to understanding how the landscape will recover in the era of climate change. Malis-Clark says it best: “We can’t use past experience to predict future responses."
The Inner Basin, Lockett Meadow and Weatherford Canyon remain closed to the public -- and probably will for some time. There are public safety hazards. While most of the Inner Basin survived the fire, the area right at the beginning of the popular Inner Basin trail has been burned thoroughly. Dead trees “will be falling in this area for a long time,” McGrath said.
There’s also the question of the narrow, winding forest road that leads up to the Inner Basin. It remains to be seen how monsoon season will impact erosion in the burn scar. It’s in “pretty good shape” now, but some areas of the road have been damaged, and it’s entirely possible that others will become washed out over the summer.
McGrath is hopeful that the Inner Basin will be open in time for fall, when the incredibly synchronized ripening of aspen leaves washes the basin in falling gold. But even he recognizes this may be overly optimistic.
“We're hopeful, but hope [is not] a plan,” he added. | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/how-inner-basin-survived-the-pipeline-fire-why-weatherford-canyon-did-not/article_8bd03596-f346-11ec-a238-031374073d82.html | 2022-06-24T18:10:17 | 1 | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/how-inner-basin-survived-the-pipeline-fire-why-weatherford-canyon-did-not/article_8bd03596-f346-11ec-a238-031374073d82.html |
PORTLAND, Ore. — Oregon lawmakers have issued statements in response to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on Friday to overturn Roe v. Wade, the court's landmark 1973 decision that established the constitutional right to abortion.
The decision is expected to lead to abortion bans in about half the states. It puts the court at odds with a majority of Americans who favored preserving Roe, according to opinion polls.
The governors of Oregon, Washington and California issued a statement on what they call a multi-state commitment to "defend access to reproductive health care, including abortion and contraceptives."
Oregon is one of 16 states and the District of Columbia that has laws that protect the right to abortion, according to the Oregon Health Authority. The Oregon Legislature recently approved $15 million to expand abortion care in Oregon. It is aimed at helping women who are low-income, or reside in rural areas far from clinics.
Here's how Oregon officials have reacted to the ruling.
Democratic Gov. Kate Brown
Gov. Brown released the following statement:
“Abortion is health care, and no matter who you are or where you come from, Oregon doesn’t turn away anyone seeking health care. Period. Let me be clear: You cannot ban abortion, you can only ban safe abortions — and this disgraceful Supreme Court decision will undoubtedly put many people’s lives at risk, in addition to stripping away a constitutional right that disproportionately affects women and has been settled law for most of our lifetimes. For all the Americans today feeling scared, angry, and disappointed — for everyone who needs an abortion and does not know where they can access safe reproductive health care –– please know you are not alone, and the fight is not over.”
Democratic Rep. Earl Blumenaur
Rep. Blumenauer released the following statement:
“Today I join millions of Americans feeling the shocking loss of reproductive freedom in our country. This is not merely a political or legal issue. This is profoundly personal, speaking to an individual’s right to control their body and rely on a half-century of legal, constitutional certainty.
The ability to decide when, how, and with whom to have a child is deeply important. That decision is a personal one, and one that should be decided by an individual in consultation with their doctor and family, not an ideological Supreme Court.
Oregon is the only place in the U.S. where abortion is fully protected. We can be grateful to Planned Parenthood Oregon which has been preparing to receive a crushing influx of women seeking abortion care in the weeks and months to come.
We must quickly pivot to protect what we have and continue our fight in every state and every community. Congress should pass the Women’s Health Protection Act which would codify a person’s right to the full spectrum of reproductive care. We must prepare to fight each new legal challenge to abortion and protect health care providers that are able to continue offering a complete range of reproductive services.
This is not the end of the fight. Rather this is the beginning of a new chapter in which we must stand strong and intensify our efforts to protect the majority of people living in the United States.”
Republican Rep. Cliff Bentz
Rep. Bentz wrote the following statement on Twitter:
"A momentous decision. Every human life is sacred."
Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley
Sen. Merkley released the following statement:
“When you have to make the most intimate, personal decisions that will impact your life and your health and body, I don’t know anyone who wants some politician in the room. Yet, that is exactly the impact of this Supreme Court opinion for millions and millions of Americans, who suddenly find an overbearing government dictating their path. This assault on Americans’ rights and freedom is shocking.
“After today, we will see the very real and dangerous consequences across the country of taking away the right to safe and legal abortions. It’s on all of us – Members of Congress, medical professionals, advocates, and voters – to stand up against this nightmare vision of people forced to carry pregnancies to term against their will. Each one of us should have the freedom to live our lives without politicians forcing their way into our bedrooms and exam rooms.
“Across the country, millions of Americans face abortion being criminalized – even in the case of rape or incest or when the patient’s life is in danger. I’m proud to be from a state like Oregon, where we have made it clear we will stand strong for the right to compassionate reproductive care. The decision to have an abortion is one that should be made by you and only you – not by judges, not by MAGA politicians, and not by your ability to pay or the zip code you live in. Today’s news is incredibly disturbing and a huge blow to freedom across America, but we will not give up the fight.”
Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden
Sen. Wyden released the following statement:
“Today’s radical decision to overturn Roe v. Wade tosses out a half century of legal precedent, curtails the fundamental rights of women, and jeopardizes the health and safety of millions of people across the country. These radical Justices have ensured American women today have fewer rights than their grandmothers had decades ago – rights that have proven essential to the health, economic participation and freedom of people to control their own bodies. To be clear, the anti-abortion movement won’t stop here. What’s next is the criminalization of abortion – women and doctors in jail, or worse.
We knew this decision was coming, but that doesn't make it any less horrifying. The Court has betrayed and defied the American people, who are rightfully terrified that the most powerful people in the country are clearly eager to violate their privacy and the basic human right to control their own bodies.
The ultimate recourse for the American people is to expand majorities in the House and Senate that will do whatever it takes to codify Roe into law and expand access to safe, legal abortion nationwide. In the meantime, beginning right now, state and local leaders who are committed to women’s rights must take steps to expand access to abortion and protect the people and health care providers they represent from the extremists who are criminalizing it. States that respect women’s rights have a duty to put in place insurmountable obstacles to the prosecution of women or doctors for decisions made within their borders. Furthermore, the Congress must pass legislation protecting people’s data so their web searches, text messages and location tracking aren’t weaponized against them. Technology companies must take immediate steps to limit the collection and retention of customer data so that they don’t become tools of persecution.
This is going to be the fight of our lifetime, and I am all in to do what it takes to protect the right to safe and legal abortion for generations to come.”
Democratic Rep. Kurt Schrader
Rep. Schrader released the following statement:
“I am saddened at today's abhorrent decision by the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade and take away a woman’s fundamental right to an abortion. While abortion will remain legal in the great state of Oregon, this decision will have unprecedented consequences for millions of women across the country. History has shown that restrictions lead to the proliferation of unsafe abortions, a tragic choice for every woman who is forced into making such a decision. I can't begin to imagine how women must feel today during these dark and turbulent times. I firmly believe that women should have the freedom to make their own health care decisions and will continue to fight to ensure that reproductive care, including abortion, remains accessible regardless of zip code.”
Democratic Rep. Suzanne Bonamici
Rep. Bonamici released the following statement:
“The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn abortion rights is infuriating, heartbreaking, and dangerous. Abortion is health care. Abortion care is essential for the health and wellbeing of families and communities. I remember the days before Roe v. Wade, when abortions done without medical care could have tragic outcomes – including death. The decision today undermines decades of hard-fought protections for reproductive health and the right to determine when and whether to have a child. Make no mistake, overturning Roe v. Wade will not end abortions; it will make them unsafe. This decision will disproportionately hurt families and individuals who are already struggling, and, unfortunately, it will embolden many states to restrict access to the care people need. Additionally, several justices who joined the majority opinion have made statements claiming that Roe v. Wade is settled law; their action today overruling precedent is a betrayal of the American people’s trust and erodes confidence in the Court.
“We will not let this decision stop our fight to make abortion care accessible and available to all. I have helped the House pass legislation to put Roe v. Wade into law, and I will continue doing all I can to get it over the finish line.”
Oregon House Majority Leader Julie Fahey
Democratic Rep. Fahey released the following statement on Twitter:
Oregon Republican Party
The Oregon Republican Party posted on Twitter:
This is a developing story and it will be updated. | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/oregon-lawmakers-reaction-scotus-ruling-roe-v-wade/283-643f7760-d256-4894-ae92-c9b68299888d | 2022-06-24T18:14:43 | 0 | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/oregon-lawmakers-reaction-scotus-ruling-roe-v-wade/283-643f7760-d256-4894-ae92-c9b68299888d |
Regular gas prices dipped below $5 per gallon nationally over the last week, hovering at $4.94 on June 23, according to AAA. The automotive group released their Fourth of July road trip predictions this week, which showed 42 million people plan to travel by car for the holiday weekend—a new record despite high gas prices.
President Biden also urged Congress this week to suspend the federal gas tax until the end of September, which would equate to a savings of 18 cents per gallon on gasoline and 24 cents per gallon on diesel. Biden also urged states to suspend their gas tax. Connecticut and New York have enacted suspensions, which are scheduled to end on June 30 and December 31, respectively.
Biden’s appeal is unlikely to transpire into action. Critics of the gas tax holiday have pointed out that the cost savings to consumers—around $2.75 at every fill—are not substantial enough to warrant the lost revenue. Throughout a three-month suspension, the average American driver would save approximately $30 to $40, while the Highway Trust Fund would lose $10 billion in revenue.
Stacker compiled statistics on gas prices in Dallas, TX metro area using data from AAA. Gas prices are current as of June 23. State gas tax data is from World Population Review.
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Dallas by the numbers
– Gas current price: $4.72
— Texas average: $4.61
— Texas gas tax: $0.20 per gallon (#42 highest among all states)
– Week change: -$0.12 (-2.5%)
– Year change: +$1.97 (+71.6%)
– Historical expensive gas price: $4.84 (6/16/22)
– Diesel current price: $5.42
– Week change: +$0.06 (+1.0%)
– Year change: +$2.50 (+85.9%)
– Historical expensive diesel price: $5.48 (6/20/22)
Metros with the most expensive gas
#1. Napa, CA: $6.58
#2. San Luis Obispo-Atascadero-Paso Robles, CA: $6.53
#3. Salinas, CA: $6.50
Metros with the least expensive gas
#1. Laredo, TX: $4.24
#2. Albany, GA: $4.26
#3. Warner Robins, GA: $4.26
States with the highest gas tax per gallon
#1. Pennsylvania: $0.59
#2. California: $0.53
#3. Washington: $0.52
States with the lowest gas tax per gallon
#1. Alaska: $0.0895
#2. Hawaii: $0.16
#3. Virginia: $0.162 | https://cw33.com/news/local/how-gas-prices-have-changed-in-dallas-in-the-last-week-7/ | 2022-06-24T18:21:48 | 0 | https://cw33.com/news/local/how-gas-prices-have-changed-in-dallas-in-the-last-week-7/ |
Regular gas prices dipped below $5 per gallon nationally over the last week, hovering at $4.94 on June 23, according to AAA. The automotive group released their Fourth of July road trip predictions this week, which showed 42 million people plan to travel by car for the holiday weekend—a new record despite high gas prices.
President Biden also urged Congress this week to suspend the federal gas tax until the end of September, which would equate to a savings of 18 cents per gallon on gasoline and 24 cents per gallon on diesel. Biden also urged states to suspend their gas tax. Connecticut and New York have enacted suspensions, which are scheduled to end on June 30 and December 31, respectively.
Biden’s appeal is unlikely to transpire into action. Critics of the gas tax holiday have pointed out that the cost savings to consumers—around $2.75 at every fill—are not substantial enough to warrant the lost revenue. Throughout a three-month suspension, the average American driver would save approximately $30 to $40, while the Highway Trust Fund would lose $10 billion in revenue.
Stacker compiled statistics on gas prices in Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro area using data from AAA. Gas prices are current as of June 23. State gas tax data is from World Population Review.
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Fort Worth by the numbers
– Gas current price: $4.72
— Texas average: $4.61
— Texas gas tax: $0.20 per gallon (#42 highest among all states)
– Week change: -$0.12 (-2.4%)
– Year change: +$1.98 (+72.1%)
– Historical expensive gas price: $4.84 (6/16/22)
– Diesel current price: $5.41
– Week change: +$0.05 (+1.0%)
– Year change: +$2.50 (+85.8%)
– Historical expensive diesel price: $5.45 (6/20/22)
Metros with the most expensive gas
#1. Napa, CA: $6.58
#2. San Luis Obispo-Atascadero-Paso Robles, CA: $6.53
#3. Salinas, CA: $6.50
Metros with the least expensive gas
#1. Laredo, TX: $4.24
#2. Albany, GA: $4.26
#3. Warner Robins, GA: $4.26
States with the highest gas tax per gallon
#1. Pennsylvania: $0.59
#2. California: $0.53
#3. Washington: $0.52
States with the lowest gas tax per gallon
#1. Alaska: $0.0895
#2. Hawaii: $0.16
#3. Virginia: $0.162 | https://cw33.com/news/local/how-gas-prices-have-changed-in-fort-worth-in-the-last-week-7/ | 2022-06-24T18:21:55 | 1 | https://cw33.com/news/local/how-gas-prices-have-changed-in-fort-worth-in-the-last-week-7/ |
GRAPEVINE, Texas (KDAF) — This interactive, self-discovery museum hidden in historic downtown Grapevine, is focused on all things you.
Managing Director, Chelsea Troxler, spoke to CW33 about how this message came to life.
“House of Shine came to be all because our fearless leader, Dr. Claudia Beeny. It’s her brainchild, and she had an irritant for apathy, don’t sit on the sidelines of your life”, said Troxler.
Through the interactive portions of the museum, visitors can cancel out the noise of the world and really focus on understanding who they are and the things that have shaped them. This is done through the “SHINE” framework, which stands for strengths, hobbies, interests, irritants, needs and experiences.
Some of these features include the “Hello Yellow” Wall, the “Shine Lab” and so much more.
Troxler explained that the House of Shine would be nothing without the help of its volunteers. They helped build the framework, messaging, programs and everything in between.
Visitors of all ages are encouraged to visit the House of Shine to learn how they can make their corner of the world shine brighter.
Ther are located at 334 S. Barton Street in Grapevine. For more information, visit houseofshine.com. | https://cw33.com/news/local/interactive-museum-focused-on-empowering-your-shine/ | 2022-06-24T18:22:01 | 1 | https://cw33.com/news/local/interactive-museum-focused-on-empowering-your-shine/ |
DALLAS (KDAF) — The U.S. Supreme Court overturned the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade case, ending constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place for nearly 50 years.
Now states can decide whether they want to ban abortion or not.
READ: Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, allowing states to decide on abortions
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has released an official statement in response to this decision saying, “Texas is a pro-life state.”
Read his full statement below:
“The U.S. Supreme Court correctly overturned Roe v. Wade and reinstated the right of states to protect innocent, unborn children. Texas is a pro-life state, and we have taken significant action to protect the sanctity of life. Texas has also prioritized supporting women’s healthcare and expectant mothers in need to give them the necessary resources so that they can choose life for their child. I signed laws that extended Medicaid health care coverage to six months post-partum, appropriated $345 million for women’s health programs, and invested more than $100 million toward our Alternative to Abortion program. This critical program provides counseling, mentoring, care coordination, and material assistance, such as car seats, diapers, and housing to mothers in need.
Texas will always fight for the innocent unborn, and I will continue working with the Texas legislature and all Texans to save every child from the ravages of abortion and help our expectant mothers in need.” | https://cw33.com/news/local/texas-gov-greg-abbott-responds-to-supreme-court-decision-to-overturn-roe-v-wade/ | 2022-06-24T18:22:07 | 1 | https://cw33.com/news/local/texas-gov-greg-abbott-responds-to-supreme-court-decision-to-overturn-roe-v-wade/ |
DALLAS (KDAF) — It’s the end of the work week and we are so proud of you for all your hard work. Why not celebrate with dinner at a nice restaurant?
Treat yourself!
If you’re in the mood for American cuisine, we got your back GAYOT has released a list of the best restaurants in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex serving American Cuisine. Here is their list:
- Bonnell’s Fine Texas Cuisine – 4259 Bryant Irvin Rd. Fort Worth, TX 76312
- Fearing’s – 2121 McKinney Ave. Dallas, TX 75201
- Grace – 777 Main St. Fort Worth, TX 76102
- Kenny’s Wood Fired Grill – 5000 Beltline Rd. Ste. 775 Dallas, TX 75254
- The Lonesome Dove Western Bistro – 2406 N. Main St. Fort Worth, TX 76164
- Rapscallion – 2023 Greenville Ave. #110 Dallas, TX 75206
- Rough Creek Lodge – US 67 & County Rd. 2013 Glen Rose, TX 76043
- Savor – 2000 Woodall Rogers Fwy. Dallas, TX 75201
For the full report, visit GAYOT. | https://cw33.com/news/local/the-best-restaurants-for-american-cuisine-in-north-texas-according-to-gayot/ | 2022-06-24T18:22:13 | 1 | https://cw33.com/news/local/the-best-restaurants-for-american-cuisine-in-north-texas-according-to-gayot/ |
DALLAS (KDAF) — Irish pubs are a great place to go for good beer, casual eating options and tons of fun.
Though we aren’t Boston, North Texas is still home to some great Irish pubs, perfect for a night out with friends and fun. If you’re new to North Texas and want some suggestions for good Irish pubs, welcome.
GAYOT has released a list of the best Irish pubs in the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex. Here are their suggestions:
- Blackfriar Pub – 2621 McKinney Ave. Dallas, TX 75204
- The Dubliner – 2818 Greenville Ave. Dallas, TX 75206
- Maguire’s – 17552 Dallas Pwky. Dallas, TX 75287
- The Old Monk – 2847 N. Henderson Ave. Dallas, TX 75206
- The Skellig – 2409 Henderson Ave. Dallas, TX 75206
For the full report, visit GAYOT. | https://cw33.com/news/local/these-are-the-best-irish-pubs-in-north-texas-according-to-gayot/ | 2022-06-24T18:22:19 | 0 | https://cw33.com/news/local/these-are-the-best-irish-pubs-in-north-texas-according-to-gayot/ |
DALLAS (KDAF) — This stylish Dallas speakeasy is unlike anything else you’ve seen before.
Decked out in all pink, XOXO Dining Room and Garden allows you to eat modern American cuisine inside one of the most unique and Instagrammable destinations in Dallas.
Inside DFW host Jenny Anchondo wanted to see what it was all about and visited XOXO Dining Room to chat with owner “Mr. X” Veeral Rathod. | https://cw33.com/news/local/xoxo-dining-room-this-pink-speakeasy-is-unlike-anything-else-in-dallas/ | 2022-06-24T18:22:25 | 1 | https://cw33.com/news/local/xoxo-dining-room-this-pink-speakeasy-is-unlike-anything-else-in-dallas/ |
(WJHL) — The Supreme Court on Friday overturned a 50-year-old landmark decision that protected women’s decision to have an abortion.
East Tennessee Republican lawmakers voiced overwhelming support for the overturn; however, a handful of Democratic leaders in the state challenged the highest court’s ruling — including one in East Tennessee who called Friday a “dark, dangerous day.”
“Roe was just overturned,” said Kate Craig, a Democratic candidate for Tennessee’s 3rd District Senate seat. “This is a dark, dangerous day for everyone who believes and needs medical decisions to stay private decisions between patients and medical providers without politicians or activist judges and their radical agendas interfering and costing lives.”
Lawmakers in Tennessee previously issued a trigger ban in 2019, which will allow state leaders to launch an almost-immediate abortion ban unless the fetus endangers the mother.
Tennessee, a right-leaning state, houses lawmakers who, as a whole, mostly agree with the ruling. Rep. Diana Harshbarger (R- Tenn.) stood before the U.S. Capitol Building Friday morning, saying that “prayers have been answered.”
“It’s a great day in Washington D.C. today,” said Harshbarger. “We just got the news that the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. After 50 years of praying and waiting, our prayers have been answered. Now, future generations of unborn babies will have a chance at life, and isn’t that what it’s about?”
Rep. Rebecca Alexander (R- Jonesborough) and Sen. Rusty Crow (R- Johnson City) back in February spearheaded an initiative to pull the reins further on Tennessee’s abortion laws. Alexander dubbed the bill “Human Life Protection Act,” which calls for banning abortion in nearly all cases, not listing any exceptions for rape or incest cases, as of the March draft.
On Friday, Alexander used a biblical verse from the book of Psalms to express her support for the highest court’s decision to give states full authority over abortion laws.
“I am very thankful for those who have gone ahead of us and fought this battle for over the last 50 years,” she said. “I am so proud to be from a state that believes in the sanctity of life. Praise be to God.”
Crowe described the health procedure as “the ending of human life” and stated the “issue…belongs closest to the people, and should be decided by the elected representatives of the people, and not to appointed, unelected judges.”
“This historic ruling returns this issue to the elected representatives of each state where it should have been for all these years,” Crowe continued.
Tennessee Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III will speak at 3 p.m. ET Friday on the Supreme Court’s decision. News Channel 11 will live stream the briefing on the WJHL Facebook page and on WJHL.com. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/east-tennessee-leaders-react-to-overturn-of-roe-v-wade/ | 2022-06-24T18:26:29 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/east-tennessee-leaders-react-to-overturn-of-roe-v-wade/ |
(WJHL) — June 25-26 marks another summertime weekend in the Tri-Cities, and Storm Team 11 predicts a sunny and hot start to both Saturday and Sunday with afternoon showers and storms possible.
Saturday, June 25
Carter Railroad Museum Heritage Day
Where: George L. Carter Railroad Museum on EastTennessee State University’s campus
Info: Open 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturdays, includes layouts of model railroads, child’s activity room and ongoing programs.
Touch a Truck by VDOT of Bristol
Where: Highlands Fellowship Church in Bristol ( 134 Commerce Court)
Info: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. emergency service organizations will talk to the public about safety and current state motor laws
Drum Circle Jam Session hosted by the Appalachian Highlands Celts
Where: Tipton-Haynes Historic Site in Johnson City
Info: Vendors, live Celt music, find out your own Celtic heritage starting at 11 a.m.
Tennesse Ridge Runner Motorcycle Rally
Where: Holiday Inn on West Springbrook Drive in Johnson City
Info: Guided benefit ride at 10 a.m.
Nolichucky Craft Festival
Where: Appalachian Fair at 100 Lakeview St. in Gray
Info: Vendors, boutiques, jewelry, leather work and more
Pride Rainbow Festival
Where: Pavilion at Founders Park in Johnson City
Info: 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. with a $1 entry fee
Nerf Wars by the City of Bristol TN
Where: Steele Creek Park
Info: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Free event for children and adults
Final Hard Rock Hiring Event
Where: Bristol Mall site of the casino at 500 Gate City Highway
Info: Final hiring event to join the Hard Rock Casino staff
9th Annual Tetrick Flag Retirement Ceremony
Where: Tetrick Funeral Services at 3001 Peoples St. in Johnson City
Info: Boy Scout Troop #240 will properly retire a flag according to the flag code
High on a Hillside
Where: TVA Credit Union Ballpark in Johnson City
Info: One-day music festival
Celebration of Life Cookout sponsored by the Celebrate Life YaUn’ Mission
Where: Carver Recreation Center in Johnson City
Info: A celebration for those less fortunate in the community at 5 p.m.
Rock the Rally
Where: Rivers Edge
Info: 5:30-9 p.m. music, food, worship and more
Sunday, June 26
Theatre Bristol’s “The Sound of Music”
Where: Paramount Center for the Arts
Info: 2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. — $12 to $16 theatrebristol.org
Kingsport Axmen vs. Bristol State Liners
Where: Hunter Wright Stadium in Kingsport
Info: 5 p.m. Tickets can be purchased here.
Brews & Tunes
Where: International Storytelling Center in Jonesborough
Info: 4-7 p.m. storytellingcenter.net | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/what-is-there-to-do-this-weekend-in-the-tri-cities-find-out-here/ | 2022-06-24T18:26:35 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/what-is-there-to-do-this-weekend-in-the-tri-cities-find-out-here/ |
Two Caldwell Police Department officers who shot and killed a 92-year-old man after they say he pointed a gun at them in November 2021 were cleared in the shooting, according to the city of Caldwell.
The incident happened on the 19000 block of Alleghenny Way in Caldwell before 1 a.m. on Nov. 16, 2021. The Critical Incident Task Force — led by Idaho State Police — recently wrapped up its investigation into the interaction between Caldwell police and Kernie Armstrong.
Police reports obtained by KTVB detail a neighbor calling 911 to report a suspicious person driving back and forth down their street. When officers arrived, they went to talk to the person in the driver's seat.
Armstrong was in the driver's seat, parked across the street from where he lived. The two responding officers said Armstrong immediately pointed his revolver at them.
They ran back and as Armstrong continued pointing his gun at them, the officers shot him multiple times in the head and chest, killing him.
Other officers who responded after the shooting say they found two guns in Armstrong's car.
After the incident, investigatory reports show neighbors told officers they helped take care of 92-year-old Armstrong for the past year because he suffered from dementia and paranoia. Armstrong's son also confirmed what the neighbors said to KTVB on Thursday.
Police reports note neighbors telling officers that Armstrong always carried guns and had a large firearms collection.
Another Caldwell officer wrote in his report after the incident that he came in contact with Armstrong hours earlier, on Nov. 15, outside a Jacksons Food Stores in Caldwell.
Armstrong expressed fear for his life but the officer didn't think he was a threat to himself or anyone else, according to his report. During the interaction, the officer said Armstrong also told him he was a gun collector.
Armstrong's son Glenn told KTVB he didn't know the Critical Incident Task Force investigation had wrapped up or that any reports had been filed. He feels he's been in the dark since the day his father died.
"It's a shock and surprise that the news knows more about Kernie's death than the family does," Glenn said.
Glenn said he doesn't know how the situation escalated to such a tragic ending.
KTVB also filed a public records request with the Canyon County Prosecutor's Office to obtain the Critical Incident Task Force letter and investigatory report regarding this incident. | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/caldwell-police-officers-cleared-in-shooting-death-of-92-year-old-man-in-november/article_450adcb5-2b67-58e7-9423-507e7624e17a.html | 2022-06-24T18:27:53 | 0 | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/caldwell-police-officers-cleared-in-shooting-death-of-92-year-old-man-in-november/article_450adcb5-2b67-58e7-9423-507e7624e17a.html |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years in a decision by its conservative majority to overturn Roe v. Wade. Friday's outcome is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states.
The decision, unthinkable just a few years ago, was the culmination of decades of efforts by abortion opponents, made possible by an emboldened right side of the court that has been fortified by three appointees of former President Donald Trump.
The ruling came more than a month after the stunning leak of a draft opinion by Justice Samuel Alito indicating the court was prepared to take this momentous step.
It puts the court at odds with a majority of Americans who favored preserving Roe, according to opinion polls.
Alito, in the final opinion issued Friday, wrote that Roe and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the 1992 decision that reaffirmed the right to abortion, were wrong the day they were decided and must be overturned.
“We therefore hold that the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion. Roe and Casey must be overruled, and the authority to regulate abortion must be returned to the people and their elected representatives,” Alito wrote.
Authority to regulate abortion rests with the political branches, not the courts, Alito wrote.
Joining Alito were Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett. The latter three justices are Trump appointees. Thomas first voted to overrule Roe 30 years ago.
Chief Justice John Roberts would have stopped short of ending the abortion right, noting that he would have upheld the Mississippi law at the heart of the case, a ban on abortion after 15 weeks, and said no more.
Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan — the diminished liberal wing of the court — were in dissent.
“With sorrow—for this Court, but more, for the many millions of American women who have today lost a fundamental constitutional protection—we dissent,” they wrote.
The ruling is expected to disproportionately affect minority women who already face limited access to health care, according to statistics analyzed by The Associated Press.
Mississippi’s only abortion clinic, which is at the center of the case, continued to see patients Friday. Outside, men used a bullhorn to tell people inside the clinic that they would burn in hell. Clinic escorts wearing colorful vests used large stereo speakers to blast Tom Petty’s “I Won’t Back Down” at the protesters.
Mississippi is one 13 states, mainly in the South and Midwest, that already have laws on the books that ban abortion in the event Roe is overturned. Another half-dozen states have near-total bans or prohibitions after 6 weeks of pregnancy, before many women know they are pregnant.
In roughly a half-dozen other states, the fight will be over dormant abortion bans that were enacted before Roe was decided in 1973 or new proposals to sharply limit when abortions can be performed, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights.
More than 90% of abortions take place in the first 13 weeks of pregnancy, and more than half are now done with pills, not surgery, according to data compiled by Guttmacher.
The decision came against a backdrop of public opinion surveys that find a majority of Americans oppose overturning Roe and handing the question of whether to permit abortion entirely to the states. Polls conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and others also have consistently shown about 1 in 10 Americans want abortion to be illegal in all cases. A majority are in favor of abortion being legal in all or most circumstances, but polls indicate many also support restrictions especially later in pregnancy.
The Biden administration and other defenders of abortion rights have warned that a decision overturning Roe also would threaten other high court decisions in favor of gay rights and even potentially, contraception.
The liberal justices made the same point in their joint dissent: The majority “eliminates a 50-year-old constitutional right that safeguards women’s freedom and equal station. It breaches a core rule-of-law principle, designed to promote constancy in the law. In doing all of that, it places in jeopardy other rights, from contraception to same-sex intimacy and marriage. And finally, it undermines the Court’s legitimacy.”
But Alito contended that his analysis addresses abortion only. “Nothing in this opinion should be understood to cast doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion,” he wrote.
Whatever the intentions of the person who leaked Alito’s draft opinion, the conservatives held firm in overturning Roe and Casey.
In his draft, Alito dismissed the arguments in favor of retaining the two decisions, including that multiple generations of American women have partly relied on the right to abortion to gain economic and political power.
Changing the composition of the court has been central to the anti-abortion side’s strategy. Mississippi and its allies made increasingly aggressive arguments as the case developed, and two high-court defenders of abortion rights retired or died. The state initially argued that its law could be upheld without overruling the court’s abortion precedents.
Then-Gov. Phil Bryant signed the 15-week measure into law in March 2018, when Justices Anthony Kennedy and Ruth Bader Ginsburg were still members of a five-justice majority that was mainly protective of abortion rights.
By early summer, Kennedy had retired and was replaced by Justice Brett Kavanaugh a few months later. The Mississippi law was blocked in lower federal courts.
But the state always was headed to the nation’s highest court. It did not even ask for a hearing before a three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which ultimately held the law invalid in December 2019.
By early September 2020, the Supreme Court was ready to consider the state’s appeal.
The court scheduled the case for consideration at the justices’ private conference on Sept. 29. But in the intervening weeks, Ginsburg died and Barrett was quickly nominated and confirmed without a single Democratic vote.
The stage now was set, although it took the court another half year to agree to hear the case.
By the time Mississippi filed its main written argument with the court in the summer, the thrust of its argument had changed and it was now calling for the wholesale overruling of Roe and Casey.
The first sign that the court might be receptive to wiping away the constitutional right to abortion came in late summer, when the justices divided 5-4 in allowing Texas to enforce a ban on the procedure at roughly six weeks, before some women even know they are pregnant. That dispute turned on the unique structure of the law, including its enforcement by private citizens rather than by state officials, and how it can be challenged in court.
But Justice Sonia Sotomayor noted in a searing dissent for the three liberal justices that their conservative colleagues refused to block “a flagrantly unconstitutional law” that “flouts nearly 50 years of federal precedents.” Roberts was also among the dissenters.
Then in December, after hearing additional arguments over whether to block the Texas law known as S.B. 8, the court again declined to do so, also by a 5-4 vote. “The clear purpose and actual effect of S. B. 8 has been to nullify this Court’s rulings,” Roberts wrote, in a partial dissent.
In their Senate hearings, Trump’s three high-court picks carefully skirted questions about how they would vote in any cases, including about abortion.
But even as Democrats and abortion rights supporters predicted Kavanaugh and Gorsuch would vote to upend abortion rights if confirmed, the two left at least one Republican senator with a different impression. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine predicted Gorsuch and Kavanaugh wouldn’t support overturning the abortion cases, based on private conversations she had with them when they were nominees to the Supreme Court.
Barrett was perhaps the most vocal opponent of abortion in her time as a law professor, before becoming a federal judge in 2017. She was a member of anti-abortion groups at Notre Dame University, where she taught law, and she signed a newspaper ad opposing “abortion on demand” and defending “the right to life from fertilization to natural death.” She promised to set aside her personal views when judging cases.
Trump, meanwhile, had predicted as a candidate that whoever he named to the court would “automatically” vote to overrule Roe. | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade/article_c52f2a3e-9cad-5775-9970-288fbb580864.html | 2022-06-24T18:27:59 | 1 | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade/article_c52f2a3e-9cad-5775-9970-288fbb580864.html |
‘Overjoyed’ to ‘shock’: Faith-based advocates on both sides of abortion issue react to Supreme Court decision, vow to continue work
In a landmark ruling Friday, the Supreme Court effectively overturned Roe v. Wade, which established the right to an abortion.
In Wisconsin, an 1849 law prohibiting abortion in the state except when necessary to save the life of the mother has taken effect.
The Journal Sentinel spoke to four faith-based advocates about their reaction to the decision, and how it will affect their work on abortion.
From a rabbi who has advocated for decades on abortion rights to a Lutheran pastor who oversees pregnancy resource centers, there's one common denominator: a commitment to continue their work undaunted.
More:Overwhelmed and uncertain, Milwaukee abortion clinic providers prepare for a post-Roe world
Rabbi Bonnie Margulis: 'We're back at square one'
Margulis is the chair of the Wisconsin Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice. For nearly three decades she has worked to organize faith leaders around abortion rights issues.
The coalition works to "counter the narrative that if you are a person of faith, you are by definition anti-choice," Margulis said. It also provides clergy with tools to advocate on the issue.
Margulis on Friday said she was horrified and shocked at the decision.
“People are going to die. It’s a dark, dark, dark day for our country,” she said. “It’s a travesty.”
Margulis and the others on the coalition have been discussing how to revive a version of the Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion, a 1960s-era underground network of clergy that referred women to abortion providers they considered safe.
With abortion set to be outlawed in Wisconsin under nearly all circumstances, the coalition is researching how they could help fund out-of-state travel costs for Wisconsinites seeking abortions.
Between the costs for transportation, a hotel, the abortion itself and even lost wages and child care, traveling out of state for an abortion is "a huge undertaking," Margulis said.
For Margulis, who has dedicated much of her career to abortion rights advocacy in religious circles, the Supreme Court's decision means her work will continue with a renewed urgency.
"We're back at square one," she said. "It's going to be an uphill battle. But we're ready for it. We're going to do it, because we don't have any choice."
The decision has implications for Margulis' Jewish faith too. Her faith teaches that life begins at birth, she said.
"It interferes with my religious freedom for the government to tell me that life begins at conception. That's not what my faith teaches. And that's not something that the government should be deciding or telling me," she said.
The Rev. Cindy Crane: Overwhelming, 'life-threatening' effects
Crane is the director of the Lutheran Office for Public Policy in Wisconsin. The office is the advocacy arm of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, or ELCA, in the state.
The church teaches that abortion and contraception must be legally accessible.
"We have a kind of paradoxical stance. On one hand, we support life at all stages. And we also support reproductive rights. And we live with that creative tension," Crane said.
On Friday, she said it was shocking “that they would upend a decision that benefited women's health and benefited our human rights for so many years.”
Crane also said the church would advocate for abortion rights on a state and federal level.
The Wisconsin policy office doesn't typically advocate on abortion, instead choosing a handful of other social issues to focus its efforts on. But Wisconsin's six ELCA bishops and Crane found it necessary to speak out after the draft Supreme Court decision was leaked in early May.
They said the decision would have "overwhelming" and "in some cases life-threatening" effects. And they denounced violence against both anti-abortion organizations and people seeking abortions.
The bishops and Crane said they "firmly rebuke" the arson and vandalism at the Madison offices of anti-abortion lobbying group Wisconsin Family Action last month.
"We have disagreements, but we cannot allow them to explode into acts of violence against one another," they said in a statement.
Crane is especially concerned about how outlawing abortion in Wisconsin will affect those in poverty and people of color.
"What it means is that those who are people of means can afford to travel, can afford to pay for an abortion elsewhere," Crane said. "And those who are probably in most need will fall through the cracks."
Crane believes there should be more financial support for people seeking abortions, and that the church should prepare its pastors to care for people suffering after the decision.
The Rev. Robert Fleischmann: Time to 'come up with ways to help single mothers'
Fleischmann is the national director of Christian Life Resources, an agency affiliated with the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, or WELS.
The church, which is headquartered in Waukesha, is opposed to abortion.
“We’re happy for the lives that would be saved, but I think it’s time for the Christian and the pro-life community to step to the plate now and demonstrate love and concern for both the mother and the child,” Fleischmann said Friday.
Christian Life Resources operates pregnancy resource centers around the country, including four in Wisconsin, as well as a home for single mothers and their children in Milwaukee.
"If you make a decision not to terminate a pregnancy, what can we do to help you live with that decision?" Fleischmann characterizes the agency's approach.
Fleischmann has been trying to prepare the staff at the pregnancy centers for potential violence after the Supreme Court ruling, telling them to install security systems and surveillance cameras. One of the agency's centers in Michigan was recently vandalized.
"There's going to be a negative fallout, and I think it's going to be serious," he said. "But that doesn't change our resolve."
Fleishmann sees himself as inhabiting a kind of realistic middle-ground that isn't represented by many of the most prominent advocates on abortion.
The change in law won't change the number of people who want an abortion, he said. It'll just change whether they can access one.
"There's going to be a lot of women who are going to want to have abortions, who can't find it, who are going to be frustrated, who will be angry. Many will be deeply saddened. Many will get desperate," he said.
He's concerned that women will pursue unsafe methods of abortion.
"If I don't want the unborn child to die, I don't want the mother to die either," he said.
In the wake of the decision, Fleischmann expects "extreme reactions" from those on both sides of the issue. He also knows that not everyone will agree with the WELS stance on abortion.
But he hopes that people do find common ground over the importance of helping women in places where abortion is restricted.
"We should be pulling together our resources, working across the aisle, to try to come up with ways to help single mothers," Fleischmann said.
Mary McClusky: 'Overjoyed,' but work continues
McClusky is the assistant director of Project Rachel ministry development for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Project Rachel, a Catholic ministry for people struggling after abortions, was started in Milwaukee in 1984. It now operates in dioceses across the country. The Catholic Church opposes abortion.
The ministry trains priests, mental health and medical professionals to work with those affected by abortions. It also provides services such as pastoral counseling, support groups, retreats and referrals to licensed mental health professionals.
Those working with Project Rachel strive to listen to people without judgment, McClusky said.
"Most of us do this work because we feel great compassion in our hearts for women and men who suffer in this way," she said.
Often, much of the loudest anti-abortion voices are focused on impersonal questions of policy and theory, McClusky said.
In helping people process their personal experiences of abortion, Project Rachel fills a gap in the movement, she said.
According to McClusky, staff often hear from older women who got abortions before it was legal and have kept silent for decades.
On both sides, "the harsh rhetoric often seems to be very much about, 'how can I convince others that I am right,'" McClusky said.
"But instead, I think we need more of — how can we recognize the mother and the loss of her child that she grieves, and to give her a place so that she can be listened to?"
McClusky is "overjoyed" that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, but she said Project Rachel's work will continue to be necessary.
"Now, those who are suffering from that grief and trauma about abortion, losing that child, now my hope is that they will see that the law of this country is recognizing the humanity of the child,” she said Friday.
She is concerned that with abortion in the news and the public spotlight, some could struggle with memories of their own abortions.
"But even sometimes the painful reminders can be sometimes the reason why somebody reaches out for help," McClusky said.
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The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place for nearly 50 years - a decision by its conservative majority to overturn the court's landmark abortion cases.
The reaction was swift, protesters on both sides of the issue gathered outside the Supreme Court within minutes of the ruling being announced.
Friday's outcome overturning Roe v. Wade means abortion will be banned in Texas, which is one of 13 states that has a so-called trigger law, which doesn't start right away, but typically within a month of the opinion.
Texas lawmakers reacted to the 5-4 ruling Friday, with Republican Gov. Greg Abbott releasing a statement touting the Supreme Court's ruling as returning power to states and promising funding for programs for expectant mothers and abortion alternatives.
Former congressman and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O'Rourke who is challenging Abbott in November’s elections, said "We will overcome this decision in Texas by winning political power" and posted a video on Twitter calling for voters to make their feelings known at the ballot box.
Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick also praised the court's decision.
Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton turned to Twitter to say he's closing his office and making it an annual holiday.
Rep. Marc Veasey (D-Texas) had choice words for Paxton's tweet. He also released a statement on his website, in part, calling the court's decision "absolutely dangerous and destructive to the right to essential health care, the right to privacy, and to our freedom to make our own decisions."
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) took to Twitter to call the court's reversal of Roe v. Wade "nothing short of a massive victory for life."
Congressman Joaquin Castro called for Cruz's resignation on Twitter and released a statement on his website that says, in part, the court's ruling is "wrong, and it will endanger the health and safety of people in Texas and across the country."
Rep. Colin Allred (D-Dallas) tweeted that he is "furious and heartbroken" about the court's decision.
Rep. Beth Van Duyne (R-Texas) called the decision "a momentous step for the rights of the unborn."
Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas) who did not seek reelection this year called it "a moment of reckoning for reproductive rights."
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Antisemitic flyers scattered in Sarasota neighborhood for the third time this year
Holly Bullard's bike ride Tuesday morning finished with a grim discovery: hateful propaganda at the foot of her driveway in Vamo.
A Ziplock bag weighed down by dry rice held a folded flyer targeting various public figures of Jewish descent — including billionaire philanthropist George Soros and Emanuel Celler, a former U.S. congressman who died in 1981 — and blaming current immigration trends on the Jewish community.
Bullard said she was angry upon finding the flyer, feeling violated at the idea of an ill-intentioned stranger getting so close to her front door.
"It's not social media. It's not a tweet. It's something tangible saying terrible things that you don't think represents your community," she said.
Previously:Sarasota Jewish leaders disturbed, frightened at distribution of anti-Semitic flyers
And:Vandal defaces two Sarasota Jewish temples
Bullard also said she checked her neighbors' driveways and found several plastic baggies with the same anti-Semitic rhetoric.
The Sarasota County Sheriff's Office confirmed the distribution around the Vamo area, adding that similar material was left in a neighborhood on Siesta Key from Monday night through Tuesday morning.
"We are investigating the incidents and trying to ascertain who might be behind these horrendous acts," Douglas Johnson, a spokesman for the Sheriff's Office, said in an email to the Herald-Tribune.
Genevieve Judge, a spokesperson for Sarasota Police, said the agency had not received any recent reports regarding the flyers within city limits.
Brian Lipton, the director of the American Jewish Committee's Florida west coast office, expressed his disappointment over the distribution of anti-Semitic material.
"Why, why, why is there so much hate?" Lipton said.
Disturbing trend
Bullard's discovery marks the third time this year anti-Semitic material has been found at Sarasota residences.
In February, flyers were found blaming the COVID-19 pandemic on the Jewish community.
The Herald-Tribune reported then that the Sheriff's Office and Sarasota Police said they were investigating the incident, with the Sheriff's Office coordinating efforts with the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Forces.
However, in March, residents in Arlington Park woke up to flyers detailing anti-Semitic conspiracies — also folded in Ziplock bags, with rice, dropped at the foot of each driveway. Some of those flyers were titled "Every single aspect of the Ukraine-Russia War is Jewish" while others repeated the previous month's COVID-19 propaganda.
Bullard expressed her concern over the hateful trend.
"Who's this person out there who spent all this time creating these things?"
Lipton cited a 2021 survey from the American Jewish Committee claiming that one in four American Jews have personally targeted by anti-Semitism in that year.
The same survey said that 82% of American Jews believe acts of anti-Semitism have increased in the U.S. over the past five years.
"We need to stand proud," Lipton said. "We won't be intimidated. We're doing nothing wrong. America is a land where people from all over the world have come together, and that diversity is what makes us strong."
"People need to realize that these acts are not just anti-Jewish. They're anti-American."
Stefania Lugli covers a little of everything for the Herald-Tribune while pursuing watchdog/investigative stories. You can contact her at slugli@heraldtribune.com or dm her on Twitter at @steflugli. | https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/local/2022/06/24/antisemitism-flyers-found-in-vamo/7690117001/ | 2022-06-24T18:30:36 | 1 | https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/local/2022/06/24/antisemitism-flyers-found-in-vamo/7690117001/ |
12-hour Roe v. Wade protest denouncing Supreme Court ruling slated for Sarasota tonight
Local pro-choice groups and reproductive freedom activists have organized a 12-hour-long protest in downtown Sarasota's Five Point Park beginning at 7 p.m. Friday in response to the Supreme Court's overturning of the historic abortion-rights case Roe v. Wade.
Organized by Women's Voices of Southwest Florida, the demonstration will denounce the court's ruling from 7 p.m. Friday until 7 am Saturday. In anticipation of the decision, the grassroots organization planned the protest prior to Friday's ruling with the hope of creating a group of vocal abortion rights and human rights advocates to express their frustrations immediately following the Supreme Court ruling.
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About 10 a.m. Friday, the United States Supreme Court ruled that Americans no longer have a constitutional right to abortion, reversing a 50-year ruling in the Roe v. Wade case and essentially erasing the precedent. Now, abortion regulations and issues will be left up to individual states and their elected officials. Under current laws in many states, that will mean a swift end to abortion access in large parts of the U.S.
Stephanie Fraim, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida said via press release that the overturning of Roe is a "dangerous and chilling decision" that will have devastating consequences in Florida and across the Southeast.
"This ruling eliminates the federal constitutional right to privacy around abortion, but the Florida state Constitution still protects that right. The Florida 15-week abortion ban, which will go into effect July 1, is clearly unconstitutional, which is why Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida and other plaintiffs are suing to stop it. We will not sit idly by while our freedoms are stripped away like this — we will not stop fighting for our rights.”
The protest will take place at 1 Central Ave. in downtown Sarasota adjacent to Selby Public Library. For full details visit the Women's Voices Facebook page.
Samantha Gholar covers social justice news for the Herald-Tribune and USA TODAY Network. Connect with her at sgholar@gannett.com or on Twitter: @samanthagholar | https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/local/2022/06/24/roe-v-wade-florida-protest-against-supreme-court-abortion-ruling-tonight-in-sarasota/7723136001/ | 2022-06-24T18:30:42 | 1 | https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/local/2022/06/24/roe-v-wade-florida-protest-against-supreme-court-abortion-ruling-tonight-in-sarasota/7723136001/ |
SunCoast Blood Centers faces shortage of O-Positive and O-Negative blood
SunCoast Blood Centers is in need of O-Positive and O-Negative blood, due in part to the summer slump, after snowbirds depart, students are out of school, and other residents start their vacation travel.
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The nonprofit, which is based in Lakewood Ranch and 14 southwest Florida area hospitals and medical centers, including those in DeSoto, Manatee and Sarasota counties, sent out an urgent appeal on social media Wednesday, accompanied by a photo of only a few pints in refrigerated storage.
Related: SunCoast Blood Centers grapples with post-Memorial Day donor decline
“This happens every year, but it's been especially difficult coming out of the whole COVID pandemic,” said Suncoast Blood Centers marketing director Scott Draper. “We've had trouble building our donor base.”
Typically, the blood bank needs to collect about 150 units a day to keep up with the demand from local hospitals, Draper said, “and that’s just been difficult.”
In addition to Lakewood Ranch, Suncoast Blood Centers has locations in Bradenton, Venice, and Sarasota. The Sarasota location, at 1760 Mound Street, is still open for donors while the building is being renovated.
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Delaware County redevelopment commission gets new Ford Explorers for sheriff's department
MUNCIE, Ind. — The Delaware County Redevelopment Commission has approved the acquisition of seven new Ford Explorer SUVs for use by the county sheriff's department. Total cost of the purchase, through a lease to own contract, was $378,550.
Commission member James King on Wednesday said the vehicles were purchased through Hubler Ford in Muncie. He was told the police SUVs were originally ordered on behalf of the Anderson Police Department, but he did not know why the sale to Anderson police did not go through.
Delaware County Sheriff Tony Skinner said he appreciated the commissioners' help in buying the vehicles. The department fleet was in need of an upgrade but its budget allows for the purchase of just three vehicles a year.
Skinner said his department still plans on buying the three vehicles budgeted for this year. The seven SUVs are already in the county's possession and will be outfitted with lights and decals for use in coming weeks. The seven Explorers will be added to the sheriff's fleet for use as patrol vehicles.
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Muncie Police also are interested in making a purchase of the available vehicles but no decision has yet been made, according to Deputy Police Chief Christopher Deegan.
He said the city police department did not want to miss a good opportunity to acquire needed vehicles, and local police have had a good working relationship with Hubler in the past.
King said the county was fortunate, given wider supply issues, to find the four-wheel-drive patrol vehicles with needed options, ready for use.
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Skinner said the SUVs already equipped with "police package" options were a real find. Police vehicles with the high-performance packages are normally on order six to eight months before they are delivered to the department.
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Hartford City woman fatally injured when train hits SUV in Madison County
HARTFORD CITY, Ind. — A Hartford City woman died this week after her SUV was struck by a train in northern Madison County.
According to the Madison County Sheriff's Department, Beverly N. Norwood, 81, stopped at a railroad crossing near Madison County roads 1800-N and 150-E about 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, and then pulled into the path of the southbound train.
Norwood was taken by ambulance to Community Hospital in Anderson, and was flown by medical helicopter to Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis, where she died.
The fatality is being investigated by the Madison County Sheriff's crash investigation team.
Summitville police and Van Buren Township firefighters also responded to the scene.
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PELHAM, Ala. (WIAT) – Surging fuel costs are impacting travel plans for many RV drivers who typically stop in Alabama on the way to vacation.
Many recreational vehicles and trucks used to pull them get poor gas mileage that can lead to more frequent and expensive pit stops.
“I think we are at about $700 in fuel costs and we are substantially less than that in campsite fees,” said Doug and Lonnie Randle, who are on their way back to Florida.
The Randles use a diesel truck to haul their camper. Doug Randle estimates he gets between nine and 11 miles per gallon depending on the conditions.
“We also carry some apps on our cell phones with us that give us the clue to the price of fuel at various stations,” said Randle.
The couple spends about two weeks on the road each month and the other time with family in Florida.
“The two of us have been doing it for two and a half years. We got back into it. Now partly to spend more time with one another,” said Randle.
The open road is getting more expensive for everyone.
The manager of Birmingham South RV Park in Pelham told CBS 42 that fuel prices have impacted the summer guests.
“We have always seen northerners coming down to the gulf and back,” said Tammy Johns, the manager.
Johns has been in Pelham for about 10 years and is used to seeing license plates from far away states during the hot months.
This year, many of those people are altering plans.
“A lot of them they booked both ways. They booked an overnight reservation going down to their destination and then to return but they’re canceling those and the number 1 reason for canceling is gas prices,” said Johns.
Despite the cancellations, the park remains very busy. Johns said she’s seen an influx in guests from Alabama and other neighboring states who are looking for more budget-friendly trips.
“Alabama’s got a lot to offer geographically so you are just having a lot of people camping like back in the old days where they went just 50 miles from home,” said Johns.
It remains to be seen how much fuel prices will affect tourism and travel plans through Alabama.
Families like the Randles say without any relief in sight, the challenges are likely to impact their destinations.
“At this time we are pretty much confining our travel to 8 southeastern states. North Carolina, Tennessee, Louisiana, inside that arc and assuming, hoping and planning on fuel prices becoming more sane somewhere in the near future then we will start working our way around the western part of the country,” said Randle.
Nationally, RV sales jumped during the pandemic. Johns said she still sees plenty of people making good use of their purchase but adds that travelers appear less likely to go as far away. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/high-fuel-costs-impacting-rv-drivers-and-parks-in-alabama/ | 2022-06-24T18:39:31 | 0 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/high-fuel-costs-impacting-rv-drivers-and-parks-in-alabama/ |
Walmart, Indiana's largest private-sector employer, is now offering a doula benefit to its employers and their pregnant spouses or partners.
The Arkansas-based retailer expanded the doula benefit to Indiana, Illinois, Louisiana and Georgia.
Any employees enrolled in a Walmart medical plan can get up to $1,000 for doula services for each pregnancy. They can access the program when they sign up for Walmart's Life with Baby program.
"Life with Baby provides access at no cost to resources like one-on-one coaching from a nurse, tools to track daily progress, helpful articles from leading experts, special baby gifts and more. The goal is to help make the process of welcoming a new child easier, safer and less stressful," a company spokesperson said. "In looking at survival rates of the expectant mother across the country, Walmart expanded to states that stood out as having unique areas of opportunity where a doula could support and help to improve birth outcomes. Indiana is ranked third on the list of states with the poorest birth outcomes, just shy of 47 deaths per 100,000 births."
Workers can avail themselves of the services of a doula, who provide physical, informational and emotional guidance to mothers during pregnancy and birth. They offer emotional support, guidance on what to expect during delivery and physical comfort during childbirth when they assist with breathing techniques and touch therapy.
They provide encouragement and teach the mom how to feed and care for the baby.
Doulas are not medical professionals but are credentialed and trained to support mothers through labor and delivery.
Employees can call the number providers to the back of their health care card to sign up.
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"It's gratifying to be able to help a military family, especially at a time when people in this country say 'thank you for your service' as lip service."
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Abortion still is legal in Indiana. But maybe not for much longer.
The Republican-controlled General Assembly is scheduled to convene in special session July 6, ostensibly to approve Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb’s plan to return a portion of the state’s bulging budget reserves to Hoosier taxpayers.
However, following Friday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling repealing the right to abortion established by its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, Indiana lawmakers are almost certain next month to enact severe restrictions on abortion access, or outright ban the procedure in the Hoosier State.
GOP legislative leaders were mum in the immediate aftermath of the high court ruling on exactly how far the House and Senate plan to go toward eliminating the approximately 7,000 abortions performed each year in Indiana, and whether any abortion ban will include exceptions for rape, incest, or the life or health of the mother.
It’s also not yet known if the Legislature will take action to criminalize women who obtain an illegal abortion, prohibit Hoosier women from seeking an abortion in another state, or punish individuals who aid women in finding the two-dose abortion pill or another abortion method.
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But Senate President Rod Bray, R-Martinsville, made clear in a statement the special session has become an abortion session.
"Indiana has a strong record as a pro-life state, and I am pleased the Supreme Court ruled to return power to the states with regard to this important issue. With the final decision in hand, we can begin to formulate a policy that is right for Indiana that protects unborn children and cares for the health and lives of mothers and their babies. I expect we will be able to work on that in the upcoming special session,” Bray said.
"We certainly realize this is an extremely contentious and potentially polarizing issue," he said. "We will proceed with this conversation in a civil and substantive way so that all sides have the opportunity to be heard as we chart a course for Hoosiers.”
House Speaker Todd Huston, R-Fishers, anticipates any legislative action limiting abortion access will be paired with the state expanding resources and services to support pregnant mothers and care for their babies.
“It's my expectation for state lawmakers to take action to further protect life when we return to the Statehouse for a special session,” Huston said.
“We recognize the passion from all sides on this issue," he said, "and that's why I expect the General Assembly to thoughtfully vet any legislation through the full legislative process, including committee hearings and public testimony."
Holcomb also said he expects the Legislature to act on abortion in the special session now that the U.S. Supreme Court has given the go-ahead for each state to set its own abortion policies.
"The Supreme Court’s decision is clear, and it is now up to the states to address this important issue. We’ll do that in short order in Indiana. I’ve already called the General Assembly back on July 6, and I expect members to take up this matter as well,” Holcomb said.
“I have been clear in stating I am pro-life. We have an opportunity to make progress in protecting the sanctity of life, and that’s exactly what we will do," he said.
Records show the governor never has failed to enact any abortion restriction approved by the Legislature during his six years in office, even when the statutes were plainly unconstitutional and later struck down in federal court.
State Sen. Liz Brown, R-Fort Wayne, a leading anti-abortion legislator who stood outside the U.S. Supreme Court during oral arguments in the abortion case decided Friday, said she’s ready to act in Indianapolis.
“By overturning Roe, the justices are returning abortion policy making to the states. Hoosier elected officials are better positioned to set abortion policy than unelected judges, as we are answerable to voters and they are not,” Brown said.
“As someone who strongly believes in the sanctity of life, I regret unborn babies will continue losing their lives in states with liberal abortion laws," she said. "In Indiana, we affirm the dignity of mother and child. We must seize this opportunity to empower women and protect unborn human life.”
State Rep. Julie Olthoff, R-Crown Point, echoed that sentiment.
"This is a huge win for Indiana, and we'll now have the opportunity to save thousands of innocent lives. I strongly believe we'll couple any action to protect life with expanding resources and services to help pregnant mothers and their newborn babies," Olthoff said.
State Reps. Hal Slager, R-Schererville, and Jim Pressel, R-Rolling Prairie, were less certain of the final form Indiana's abortion legislation will take. But they're grateful for the opportunity as state legislators to set the abortion policy that will prevail in Indiana.
"The Supreme Court's ruling rightfully returns the question of abortion back to the people of each state. We’ve been clear that once this decision was official we wanted to come back to the Statehouse to pass meaningful legislation to further protect life and build on our strong pro-life track record," Slager said.
U.S Sen. Todd Young, R-Ind., and U.S. Sen. Mike Braun, R-Ind., who both supported the U.S. Supreme Court justices nominated by Republican former President Donald Trump that tipped the high court toward overturning Roe, including Justice Amy Coney Barrett of South Bend, said they’re hopeful Indiana legislators will quickly limit abortion access.
“Today is a monumental day for the protection of life in America and a defining moment for our nation. Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided, and the Supreme Court has corrected a historic injustice,” Young said.
“The American people will now have the opportunity, through their state elected officials, to decide our laws when it comes to protecting life and protecting women. It’s now time to work on solutions that affirm the right to life and support pregnant women and mothers.”
Braun similarly cheered that “after 50 years, the right to life has finally been returned to the people and their elected representatives.”
“I’m excited to see the states take the lead to protect the unborn, and I look forward to crafting solutions that will defend the unborn and save lives,” Braun said.
Republican Attorney General Todd Rokita, a Munster native, said he’s long devoted his efforts to defending Indiana’s “pro-life” laws against the “gross injustice” of abortion, and Rokita vowed to continue doing so in the months and years ahead.
“With today’s Supreme Court ruling, pro-life states such as Indiana should find it easier to legislate and enforce strong laws that protect lives,” Rokita said. “But our fight for unborn children continues in earnest. We will continue working vigorously to protect those little ones and the physical, mental and emotional well-being of their mothers.”
Meanwhile, Democratic members of the Indiana House and Senate said they stand ready to oppose GOP efforts to deny Hoosier women autonomy over their bodies and the right to choose whether and when to bear a child.
“Having control over your body, whether it’s your reproductive health, or the best decisions for your life and your family, are fundamental human rights,” said House Democratic Caucus Chairwoman Terri Austin, D-Anderson, and House Floor Leader Cherrish Pryor, D-Indianapolis.
“They are personal decisions that need to be made by a woman and her physician, not a room of 150 legislators in Indianapolis. Women who can control decisions about their bodies and their reproductive health have the ability to influence the outcome of their future and their family’s future.”
Democrats, however, are very much a minority at the Statehouse with limited influence over public policy since Republicans control 71 of 100 House seats and 39 of 50 Senate seats.
Nevertheless, Senate Democratic Leader Greg Taylor, D-Indianapolis, said his members will work to protect women whose lives are literally on the line as Republicans decide Indiana’s abortion policies.
“Due to decades of underinvestment in key social infrastructure, Indiana does not have the ability to support a forced-birth society. We already have a critical health care provider and OB/GYN shortage. the Department of Child Services is underfunded, and we have the second highest rate of child abuse and the highest rate of child deaths from abuse in the nation,” Taylor said.
“We will be fighting to promote life for women, expand maternal health coverage and support, and invest in key infrastructure in Indiana like child care, education, DCS and public health," he said. "All of these efforts will be critical if we’re about to start forcing girls and women to have babies in a state that currently ranks 3rd in the country for maternal mortality.”
Planned Parenthood, the leading abortion provider in Indiana with an abortion clinic in Merrillville, said it also will continue the battle for care — no matter what.
“Make no mistake — this decision goes beyond abortion. This is about who has power over you, who has the authority to make decisions for you, and who can control your future,” said Jennifer Allen, CEO of Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates.
“This is a dark day for our country, but our fight is far from over," Allen said. "The people of Indiana should know that Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates will always fight for you, and we will not back down. Generations before us have fought tirelessly to gain and protect our rights. Now it’s our turn to pick up the mantle.”
It’s not known at this time how the abortion ruling, and subsequent legislative action, will play with Indiana voters. The most recent, publicly available polling on the subject — the 2019 Hoosier Poll conducted by Ball State University — found just 17% of Indiana adults favor a total abortion ban.
That potentially could boost the campaign of Thomas McDermott Jr., the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate and a five-term Hammond mayor, who described the Supreme Court’s abortion ruling as a “travesty” and said Young is to blame for confirming in the Senate three of the six justices who voted to overturn Roe.
“Today, 50 years of constitutional protections, under Roe v. Wade, has ended. Due to the Supreme Court’s holding, American women lost their most basic fundamental right, the right to make their own medical decisions,” McDermott said.
“I am 100% pro-woman and 100% pro-choice ... I think these women, recently stripped of their civil liberties, need to send a message and fire Todd Young,” he said.
The abortion issue also potentially could scramble existing political party coalitions as voters with a single-minded focus on ending abortion may realize the Republican Party does not represent their interests on whatever their second-most important issue is.
U.S. Rep. Frank J. Mrvan, D-Highland, said he believes the Supreme Court ruling reinforces the importance of elections and the need for the government to stay out of the most intimate parts of peoples' lives.
“Today’s lamentable decision by the Supreme Court reflects the very real consequences of our elections. The decision to become a parent is one of the most important decisions any person can make, and it should be made by women, their families, their faith, and medical professionals, not the government or elected politicians," Mrvan said. "I stand with every woman today, and will continue to fight for a country in which all women, including my two daughters, have the legal right to access safe reproductive care."
"There is a clear choice in this election between a candidate who supports the right for women to control their own bodies, and my opponent, who wants politicians to be able to make women’s health decisions.”
Jennifer-Ruth Green, the Republican challenging Mrvan at the Nov. 8 general election for the right to represent the 1st Congressional District of Lake, Porter and northwest LaPorte counties in the U.S. House, said she viewed Roe v. Wade as a stain on the country “because it took power away from the people and their elected representatives to decide issues of abortion.”
“I am pro-life. I look forward to creating a culture of life with Hoosiers. We must stop the radical Democrat agenda to do the opposite. Respect for human life overall is a key ingredient to our country’s success,” Green said. "The American people want their voices heard and they don’t support abortion on demand, up to the moment of birth, at taxpayer expense."
U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski, R-Elkhart, whose 2nd District includes part of LaPorte County, confirmed she’s already looking to restrict access to the abortion pill at the federal level, even as she’s hopeful Indiana lawmakers soon will do the same at the state level.
“Our prayers have been answered. By rightfully restoring power to the states, the Supreme Court has affirmed the inalienable right to life," Walorski said. “As one of the most pro-life states in the nation, Indiana will lead the way in defending the vulnerable, uplifting women and families, and ensuring every child has the chance to achieve the American Dream. Our enduring commitment to life will prevail.”
Following the high court decision, U.S. Rep. Jim Baird, R-Greencastle, whose 4th District includes Newton and Jasper counties tweeted simply: “Life wins.”
Democratic Gary Mayor Jerome Prince, on the other hand, said he sees the Supreme Court ruling as overturning “a generation of progress” and a “a true setback for everyone who upholds a woman’s right to make decisions about her body and her life.”
“There will be years of work ahead as states, including Indiana, deal with the next steps. I urge everyone to contact your state lawmakers, voice your opposition to the Supreme Court’s decision and insist on state laws that treat families with fairness and dignity. I also encourage you to get involved in activities that will help ensure every woman’s right to her own decisions,” Prince said.
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MICHIGAN CITY — The City Council has rejected a Sanitary District plan to extend city sewers to Long Beach despite an additional state sweetener.
The council voted 7-2 Tuesday night to reject the ordinance that would have seen residents of Lake Shore Drive in Long Beach pay $177.55 a month for the sewer extension.
The State Revolving Fund planned to forgive $2 million of the loan, estimated at up to $13 million, to pay for the cost of the sewer extension. Earlier this month, the council had been told that $1 million would be forgiven.
The $2 million offer came with the condition that all of the homes along the sewer’s route would have to be connected to the new sewer within five years.
The sewer extension was proposed as a way to address about a dozen failed septic systems on Lake Shore Drive.
“I don’t think it’s our issue unless the town of Long Beach wants to annex into Michigan City,” Councilman Sean Fitzpatrick, D-6th, said.
Councilman Bryant Dabney, D-1st, agreed, noting he has long advocated annexing property into the city as a condition of extending city utilities and other services.
Councilwoman Dalia Zygas agreed. “I think that annexation point is very valid. I think this project is way too big for your small town,” she told Long Beach residents at the Michigan City council meeting.
Dabney and Zygas cast the sole votes in favor of the sewer extension, saying it’s important to protect the city from failed septic systems that could spew pollution into Lake Michigan.
The city’s Sanitary District has already spent money on the proposal that won’t be repaid by Long Beach residents now that the proposal was defeated, Dabney said.
Almost all the Lake Shore Drive residents who spoke at Tuesday’s City Council meeting balked about the cost of the project.
“The only people supporting this project are the few, 10-12 people, affected by the pump-and-haul and the Town Council,” Claudia Marciniak said.
Town Council President Robert LeMay told the City Council the sewer project was identified as a high priority in the town’s comprehensive plan adopted six years ago.
LeMay said the town argued unsuccessfully downstate against a state ruling that Presby septic systems would be allowed 50 feet from the lake.
Sanitary District attorney James Meyer said the state won’t consider another request to finance the sewer extension until at least 2024. All the 2023 money is spoken for with other projects throughout the state.
The $2 million loan forgiveness and 2% interest rate were predicated on the loan being closed by July 31, Meyer said.
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TUPELO • “Farming’s all about patience,” Tupelo resident and farmer Maurice Shumpert told Ward 7 Councilwoman Rosie Jones on a hot Friday afternoon as he was planting the last raised bed in Haven Acres’ first community garden.
Two rows of three elevated garden beds cradled a myriad of fruits and vegetables — tomatoes, watermelons, peppers and cucumbers — that Jones hoped would go to those in need in her ward.
“Everybody is hopeful,” she said. “I’m excited to see it grow.”
Shumpert said he started gardening at home a few years ago. He has a 6-acre plot on his parent's property in Nettleton that he farms on now.
“It started as a hobby and turned into buying a tractor, then some more equipment, and it took off from there,” he said. “At first, I just made enough for myself and my family, but now I grow enough to sell.”
The community garden takes the term "community" seriously, Jones said. She got permission from local business owner Linda Williams to use the property adjacent to her restaurant to locate the garden. Mississippi Minority Farmers Alliance donated the materials for the raised beds.
Jones said hopes more members of the community would get involved in the garden as it grows, adding she had been out every day during the heat wave this week and last making sure the plants were thoroughly wet and happy.
Shumpert, who is the community outreach chair for a Project ELECT, a Tupelo-based nonprofit, said he was using the garden as an outreach opportunity.
“Project ELECT and I are happy to help Councilwoman Rosie Jones as much as we can,” he said.
The garden represents the first of what the freshman councilwoman said is a multi-stage plan to broaden the scope of recreational opportunities, particularly for children, inside the ward she represents. In May, Jones told the Daily Journal she'd also like to see the undeveloped land next to Theron Nichols Park, located on Mitchell Road, put to use. Tax records indicate that the city owns the wooded area east of the park and is considered part of the park’s lot.
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Indianapolis man, Oath Keeper arrested in connection with Jan. 6 Capitol riot
An Indianapolis man was arrested Thursday for his alleged actions in connection to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
Michael Greene, 39, was indicted on five charges including conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of an official proceeding, conspiracy to prevent an officer from discharging any duties, entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds and tampering with documents or proceedings. He is expected to make his initial court appearance later Friday in the Southern District of Indiana, according to a news release.
Greene, who is also known as Michael Simmons, is a member of the Oath Keepers, a far-right anti-government militia group. Many other members of the group have been arrested in connection to the Jan. 6 insurrection.
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Greene was named in a superseding indictment that includes seven other previously charged defendants, according to the news release.
The indictment states Greene participated in an online meeting on Nov. 9, 2020, in which Elmer Stewart Rhodes III, founder and leader of the Oath Keepers, outlined a plan to stop the transfer of presidential power. Rhodes later chose Greene to be an operations leader for Jan. 6 and Greene transported firearms, ammunition and other related items to Washington D.C. in early January 2021, according to the news release.
Rhodes, 57, is facing charges of seditious conspiracy and other offenses in a separate case with eight other defendants, according to the news release.
On Jan. 6, Greene and Rhodes left their hotel in Virginia at about 8:30 a.m. and drove to an area close to the U.S. Capitol, according to the news release. Both later went to a restricted area by the Capitol and directed others to meet then at the Capitol.
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According to the news release, Greene sent a text to an acquaintance at 1:42 p.m. with a message saying, "storming the capital," and a photo of a group of people advancing on the Capitol grounds. Greene continued to communicate with Rhodes and other individuals throughout the afternoon and at 3:09 p.m. he texted someone saying, "Congress evacuated."
After other Oath Keepers entered and exited the Capitol building, Greene and Rhodes met them in a plaza outside the building, according to the news release.
The indictment alleges Greene deleted certain photos and messages from his phone after Jan. 6 that showed his involvement in the Capitol riot.
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KYLE, Texas — The Kyle Police Department has launched an investigation into a case where two adults were found dead in their Tower Drive home Thursday evening.
Police received a call at around 9:20 p.m. Thursday reporting a person had been shot and potentially killed. The caller also said a child and another adult were inside the home.
The caller, an adult, had a firearm and did not cooperate with dispatch in providing details and following instructions, according to Kyle PD.
SWAT responded to the scene alongside police, fire and EMS crews. Kyle PD said officers forced their way into the home out of concern for the child's safety.
Officers moved the unharmed child to safety and then found the bodies of an adult man and woman in an upstairs bedroom.
A Hays County Justice of the Peace ordered autopsies on the bodies. Police said this was an isolated incident.
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AUSTIN, Texas — In response to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, some abortion rights supporters will take to the streets of Austin this weekend.
The group TX4Abortion posted on Instagram that they "refuse to accept the Supreme Court's decision to strip our rights to abortion." The group will hold a protest at the Federal Courthouse Plaza, located at 501 W. Fifth Street, at 5 p.m. Friday.
"Roe has been officially overturned, and our basic human right to abortion has been decimated," the group wrote on Instagram. "[Sixth-seven] percent of Americans are against the overturning of Roe. We do not accept this decision."
The group also called the decision "barbaric" and "illegitimate."
Meanwhile, the mutual aid forum Street Forum ATX posted on Instagram stories that they will be holding a protest starting at 5 p.m. Friday in Republic Square, located at 422 Guadalupe Street.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O'Rourke also announced that he will join organizations supporting abortion rights in a "statewide rally for reproductive freedom" on Sunday at 5 p.m. at Pan American Neighborhood Park, located at 2100 E. Third Street.
Austin Police Chief Joseph Chacon tweeted Friday morning that the police department wants "to encourage those who agree or disagree with the Supreme Court's decision to express themselves but do so peacefully."
"Those who wish to express their views about this decision are encouraged to do so peacefully; violence and/or property damage will not be tolerated," Chacon said. "Those who commit illegal acts while protesting take away from the message that peaceful groups intend to communicate."
While abortion rights supporters are upset with the high court's ruling, abortion rights opponents see it as a victory. A number of Texas politicians, including Gov. Greg Abbott, have also praised the justices for their decision.
"The U.S. Supreme Court correctly overturned Roe v. Wade and reinstated the right of states to protect innocent, unborn children," Abbott said in part. "Texas is a pro-life state, and we have taken significant action to protect the sanctity of life."
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TEXAS, USA — This article originally appeared in The Texas Tribune.
Whole Woman’s Health — which runs four clinics in Texas and half a dozen in other states — said it has stopped providing abortions in Texas following a Supreme Court ruling Friday that eliminated the constitutional protection for an abortion, a spokesperson told The Texas Tribune.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday ruled to overturn Roe v. Wade, allowing states to set their own laws regulating abortion procedures. Texas has a “trigger” law in place that will ban all abortions from the moment of fertilization starting 30 days after the Supreme Court’s judgement, which is typically issued about a month after the initial opinion.
But some clinics and abortion funds are ceasing services now because the attorney general of Texas and some anti-abortion activists are arguing that state laws that banned abortion before Roe v. Wade — that were never repealed — could now be in effect in Texas.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued an advisory Friday warning that some prosecutors could immediately pursue criminal prosecutions based on violations of Texas abortion prohibitions predating Roe v. Wade that the Legislature never repealed.
“Although these statutes were unenforceable while Roe was on the books, they are still Texas law,” Paxton wrote. “Under these pre-Roe statutes, abortion providers could be criminally liable for providing abortions starting today.”
As a result of the state’s pre-Roe status, some providers and abortion funds have ceased operations in the legal confusion.
Whole Woman’s Health, the nation’s largest independent abortion provider, said it has temporarily halted abortion services in its four Texas clinics located in Austin, Fort Worth, McAllen, and McKinney. And, the Lilith Fund for Reproductive Equity, an abortion fund that provides financial assistance to people seeking abortions, and the Texas Equal Access Fund, both said they have stopped funding abortions in Texas due to the state’s pre-Roe status.
“Due to the uncertainty and risk of what the decision could bring, we are pausing funding today until we have had a chance to understand the decision,” the Texas Equal Access Fund wrote on Twitter.
Texas first enacted a criminal ban on abortion in 1854. That ban was never repealed, but a 2004 case in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals found that by passing laws that govern abortions — such as the availability of abortions for minors and the practices of abortion clinics — the Texas Legislature repealed its old bans by regulations that implied the ban was no longer in effect.
Still, Jonathan Mitchell, a former solicitor general for Texas and the architect of Senate Bill 8, which banned abortions in Texas as early as six weeks, argued that the pre-Roe statute is immediately enforceable in Texas except procedures necessary to save the life of the patient.
Previously, prosecutors did not pursue charges against patients or providers under Texas’ laws because courts would not uphold convictions under Roe, he said. Now, “no such obstacle exists anymore because Roe has been overruled,” he said in a statement.
The Lilith Fund said that because anti-abortion activists are arguing that the laws predating Roe v. Wade could go back into effect, they ceased operations to protect abortion fund staff and volunteers from the risk of arrest even while legal analysis “is still in the early stages.”
“Lilith Fund has been forced to pause direct funding of abortion care while we evaluate the impact of the recent decision by the U.S. Supreme court,” a statement from the Lilith Fund said. “We are evaluating how we may be able to otherwise assist pregnant Texans, but do not yet have answers.”
Emily Berman, an associate professor at the University of Houston Law Center, said it's unclear whether the old bans would be upheld in court.
"We are in a gray area with respect to what are sometimes called zombie laws, the pre-Roe holdovers," Berman said. "In some ways, it’s sort of going to be up to local prosecutors to decide if they want to bring cases."
She said that while prosecutors could decide to wade into such a legal battle, if they simply wait for Texas' "trigger" law to take effect, their cases will be on more solid footing.
Texas’ “trigger” law won’t go into effect until 30 days after the Supreme Court’s judgment, which could take about a month to be published. Texas’ law will have narrow exceptions to perform abortions only to save the life of a pregnant patient or prevent “substantial impairment of major bodily function.” It will criminalize the person who performs the abortion, not the person who undergoes the procedure.
More than half of all states are expected to essentially ban abortion in the coming months.
Some clinics in neighboring states have also said they have paused abortion services Friday. Planned Parenthood Great Plains said Friday that it has stopped providing abortions in Arkansas. Planned Parenthood in Texas said their “doors are open and they will remain open to serve Texans” but has not said whether the organization is providing abortion procedures in Texas Friday.
In Texas and other states where abortion procedures will no longer be legally protected, Whole Woman’s Health said it will continue to operate a program that provides financial assistance to patients who need to travel for out-of-state care.
“We will do everything we can to help obtain safe, timely, affordable care for those whose rights and access to safe and legal abortion services have been cruelly and unjustly revoked,” Miller said in a statement.
The provider, which largely serves the South and Midwest, said it will continue to operate clinics in Baltimore; Minneapolis; Alexandria, Virginia; and Charlottesville, Virginia. It will also offer abortion pills by mail to patients in Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New Mexico and Virginia.
“Whole Woman’s Health will continue its long and proud tradition of providing high-quality, compassionate, personal abortion care in the remaining states where pregnant people’s needs and rights are still respected and protected under law,” said Amy Hagstrom Miller, president and CEO of Whole Woman’s Health in a statement.
The abortion provider said it is “exploring plans” to expand in-clinic and mail services in additional states where abortion is legally protected.
James Barragán contributed reporting. | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/texas/some-texas-clinics-cease-abortion-services/503-e8e34d5d-81c0-4dd2-b202-82077a098700 | 2022-06-24T18:51:00 | 0 | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/texas/some-texas-clinics-cease-abortion-services/503-e8e34d5d-81c0-4dd2-b202-82077a098700 |
TEXAS, USA — This article originally appeared in The Texas Tribune.
With a near-total abortion ban looming in Texas, advocates and experts say the state’s support systems for low-income mothers and children are already insufficient — and won’t easily bear an increase in need.
“When you say ‘social safety net’ in Texas, it sounds like a joke,” said D’Andra Willis of the Afiya Center, a North Texas reproductive justice group. “Everything they could have set up or increased to protect people if they really cared, they’re not doing it here.”
Pregnant women in Texas are more likely to be uninsured and less likely to seek early prenatal care than the rest of the country. They’ll give birth in one of the worst states for maternal mortality and morbidity. And low-income new parents will be kicked off of Medicaid sooner than in many other states.
This would make many Texans want to avoid pregnancy altogether. But learning about, let alone accessing, contraception can be a challenge in a state that does not require sex education and has narrowed family planning options in recent years.
Republican lawmakers, many of whom have focused on restricting abortion access in recent years, have said strengthening the state’s social safety net will now become a top priority. But advocates who have been working on these issues for years say any help will likely be too little, too late.
“People fail to realize that this is bigger than abortion access,” Willis said. “We’re going to be setting people up for generational poverty.”
Maternal mortality in Texas
Texas consistently ranks in the 10 worst states for maternal mortality, in a country that already ranks worse than its peers in that category.
Maternal mortality and morbidity — death or serious illness or injury — disproportionately impact Black women. The state’s Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee found that Black women made up 31% of pregnancy-related deaths, but only 11% of live births.
The rate of severe maternal morbidity for Black women in Texas is nearly double that of white women, according to a study from the University of Texas.
“This is the worst place and the most dangerous place to have a baby,” said Willis. “It’s safer to get an abortion in Texas than it is to have a baby in Texas.”
Willis also worries about a potential increase in pregnancy-related deaths and injuries as desperate people turn to self-managed abortion care.
One of the causes of Texas’ maternal mortality numbers, according to experts and advocates, is the state’s staggering rate of uninsured residents. Texas is one of just 12 states that has not expanded Medicaid and has one of the lowest eligibility standards in the country: A single parent with three children would have to earn less than $400 a month to qualify for Medicaid.
As a result, in 2019, nearly 1 in 5 Texans had no health insurance, double the national average. And the stats are worse for women of childbearing age — in 2017, more than a quarter had no health insurance, the highest rate in the nation.
Texas also has the lowest rate of women accessing prenatal care in the first trimester, according to an investigation from ProPublica and Vox. Babies are five times more likely to die if their mothers did not access prenatal care, according to the U.S. Office on Women’s Health.
Pregnant Texans can qualify for Medicaid at a much higher income level — up to $4,579 a month for a single parent of three. As a result, half of all births in the state are financed by Medicaid, among the highest rates in the nation.
For years, that program covered women through pregnancy and two months postpartum. But last year, as part of the American Rescue Plan, the federal government allowed states to easily expand coverage through the first 12 months postpartum.
On the recommendation of the state’s maternal mortality task force, Texas House lawmakers approved a bill that expanded coverage to 12 months after birth.
“It was the first time that there was that much bipartisan support for the issue,” said Diana Forester, director of health policy for advocacy group Texans Care for Children. “It was amazing. We were so excited.”
But then the state Senate rolled it back to six months postpartum. While the feds automatically approved states that extended coverage to 12 months, the new six-month plan will require Texas to go through the lengthy and cumbersome waiver process.
Texas has not yet submitted the waiver application, according to Texas Medicaid Director Stephanie Stephens at a hearing last Thursday. While the state hopes to begin offering six months of postpartum Medicaid coverage in October, it will depend on when their waiver is approved.
She said the federal government has at least 120 days to review the waiver “but we’ve seen waivers that they have not acted on for much longer than that.”
Right now, due to the federal public health emergency, no one is being moved off of Medicaid when their eligibility expires. That declaration is set to end in July, though it could be extended, as it has several times already.
The choice to approve only six months of postpartum Medicaid expansion was a huge disappointment for maternal health advocates.
“If you want healthy babies, you’ve got to have healthy mommies,” Forester said. “How do you have healthy mommies? You provide them coverage.”
Access to contraception, sex education
Uninsured and low-income Texans who would prefer to not become pregnant also face challenges in accessing contraception and reproductive health care.
Starting in 2011, Texas began a yearslong effort to “defund” Planned Parenthood, in part by slashing the budget for women’s health care and family planning.
By 2014, more than a quarter of family planning clinics in Texas had closed, most of which were not affiliated with Planned Parenthood. While some have reopened, access to contraception, cancer screenings, STI testing and other sexual health care remains much more sparse than it was before.
The remaining clinics that receive family planning funding from the state struggle to keep up with the demand for services.
“This program has never left money on the table,” said Erika Ramirez, policy and advocacy director for the Texas Women’s Healthcare Coalition. “We really want to ensure that lawmakers know that our women’s health programs are … not currently meeting that need, and that need is only going to increase.”
The state’s reproductive health care programs are additionally stretched, Ramirez said, because Texas is one of just two states that don’t cover contraception on its Children’s Health Insurance Program. Teens on this program who want to access contraception have to go through the state-funded Family Planning Program clinics.
“That’s an easy fix,” said Ramirez. “There’s actually evidence that this would produce cost savings for the state, and presumably if CHIP covers comprehensive care, to be able to access something as essential as contraception should be considered comprehensive care.”
Texas has among the highest rates of teen pregnancy in the country, and the highest rate of repeat teen births — teens having multiple children before their 18th birthday. Texas does not require high school students to take sex education to graduate.
“We can’t get birth control. We can’t get adequate health care. We’re not given comprehensive sex education, so we’re not being educated on birth control or naturally preventing pregnancy, and now you can’t get an abortion,” said Willis. “You take away all of this … and you don’t have any plan in place.”
Lawmakers and abortion opponents have argued that the plan, as it were, rests on the Alternatives to Abortion program, which the state has invested over $100 million into in recent years. The program funds a network of nonprofits intended to support people in continuing their pregnancies, often with little government oversight.
Vincent DiCaro, chief outreach officer of Care Net, told The Texas Tribune last week that the group’s 82 Texas crisis pregnancy centers have seen increased demand since the state banned abortion after about six weeks of pregnancy and are preparing for what a total ban might mean for their work.
“We think crisis pregnancy centers are awesome, of course,” he said. “But if that’s the only solution, we’re not going to have enough manpower to help all of the people who are going to need help if Roe v. Wade gets overturned.”
Other barriers for new parents
These centers typically only offer material support, counseling or parenting classes through the early months of a baby’s life. But an unplanned pregnancy can have lifelong consequences for mother and child.
And many of the most significant changes that advocates are pushing for will have to come through future legislative action.
Texas does not require employers to offer paid time off of any kind, though federal regulations mandate that qualified employees be given 12 weeks of unpaid job protection offered under the federal Family and Medical Leave Act.
Unlike neighboring New Mexico, which just debuted a program that offers a free year of child care to most families, Texas offers a limited child care scholarship program for children of low-income parents who are working or pursuing education.
And if the state decides that a parent can’t adequately care for the baby they had as a result of an unplanned pregnancy, the foster care system intervenes. The state is in the midst of a decadelong lawsuit over its inability to adequately care for children in the foster system, often with troubling consequences.
Willis, with the Afiya Center, said children often end up in the foster care system because of circumstances far beyond their control — or the control of their parents. And whether those children are in foster care or at home with parents, many of those factors are only going to get worse.
“You have young women who do not have control of their bodies to even access birth control,” she said. “And then these same women are living in areas that are food deserts, that are heavily impacted by air quality and environmental issues, that are dealing with poor school systems.”
When she thinks about the systems in place to support low-income Texans who will have to carry their pregnancies to term as a result of the forthcoming abortion bans, she said she feels hopeless.
“Black women in Texas have never had hope that any of this would come through,” she said. “And now it feels like we’re almost all the way back to square one.” | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/texas/texas-isnt-ready-to-support-more-parents-and-kids/503-1aa737d7-653d-451a-be08-bbc0c9cefe6f | 2022-06-24T18:51:06 | 0 | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/texas/texas-isnt-ready-to-support-more-parents-and-kids/503-1aa737d7-653d-451a-be08-bbc0c9cefe6f |
Editor's note: This column by Jan Cleere first appeared in the Star in 2015 as part of the Western Women series. It profiled Margaret Sanger, a Tucson resident for many years, who founded an organization that eventually became Planned Parenthood.
Margaret Sanger Slee first appeared in Tucson in 1934. She was already well known for her sponsorship of birth control, particularly among poor, underprivileged women.
Many believed she was ahead of her time in her crusade to encourage open discussions about sex, procreation and contraception, but in all probability she was the right person for a very tough job.
The years she spent in Tucson became very important to her during times when she faced vilification from the public and press. The town was her haven from those who sought to silence her rhetoric. Yet even in the middle of the desert, she worked tirelessly on women’s health issues.
Margaret Louisa Higgins was born to Irish parents on Sept. 14, 1879, in Corning, New York.
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Her mother suffered from tuberculosis, and after giving birth to 11 children, Anne Higgins died at the age of 50. Margaret bore her mother’s proclivity for tuberculosis and endured several bouts of the disease throughout her life.
She wanted to become a doctor, but after her mother’s death, she left school to work as a nurse. In 1902, at the age of 23, she married architect William Sanger.
Shortly after her third child was born in 1910, Margaret took a position at Lillian Wald’s Visiting Nurses Association on the Lower East Side of New York City where immigrants arrived daily with little money, language barriers and limited knowledge of health care.
She was soon speaking out for indigent women through the Socialist Party and wrote for the Socialist newspaper The Call, producing a column entitled “What Every Girl Should Know.”
The Federal Comstock Law, passed in 1873, condemned all contraceptive information and devices as “obscene,” outlawing the use, sale or mailing of anything having to do with contraception. When Margaret’s column was ruled obscene according to the law, The Call ran the title, “What Every Girl Should Know—Nothing; by order of the U.S. Post Office.”
In 1914, she started her own publication, The Woman Rebel, but the Post Office again claimed she was mailing indecent material and confiscated the first issue. Margaret continued to publish the magazine until she was arrested that August.
To avoid prosecution, she fled to Europe, but when her 5-year-old daughter, Peggy, was diagnosed with pneumonia, Margaret returned to the United States.
Peggy Sanger died in November 1915, and public sympathy for Margaret may have played a role in the dismissal of the charges against her.
In 1916, she set out on tour the country espousing her views on birth control. Her appearance started a riot in St. Louis, and officials in Portland, Oregon, threatened to arrest her. Officials in several cities refused to allow her to speak.
She opened the first birth control clinic in New York City in October 1916. A week later, she was arrested, tried and found guilty of dispensing birth control products. She served 30 days in prison.
Margaret formed the American Birth Control League in 1921. Two years later, New York City opened the first physician-run birth-control clinic, providing legal contraceptive counseling to married women.
Margaret and William Sanger divorced in 1921, and she married 3-in-One Oil inventor Noah Slee in 1922. Slee’s affluence afforded Margaret the opportunity to travel extensively, advocating her views on birth control.
In 1934, Margaret and her son, Stuart, headed for Arizona, hoping to cure Stuart’s severe allergies.
Arriving in Tucson, she was not at all impressed with the heat that greeted her. In a letter to a friend, she wailed, “It’s sizzling hot — I drip. Sleep under the stars at night but with bats flying overhead & rattle snakes underneath & spiders watching for their midnight meal.”
She spoke to Tucson organizations advocating her views on birth control and recruited women of wealth and political connections to open a birth-control clinic.
Renting a small house in the barrio district, she and her followers started Clinica para Madres, the Mother’s Clinic. Charging $1 or less per visit, the nurse on duty had little to occupy her for the first three weeks as no one dared venture through the clinic’s doors.
When the Comstock Law was struck down in 1936, the little clinic began to flourish.
Margaret fell in love with Tucson, despite its heat, and whenever she left she missed “... the indescribable Catalinas, on which light and clouds played in never-ending changes of pattern.”
At the beginning of World War II, an emerging movement encouraged women to have more children for the betterment of the country. Margaret was condemned as a communist and anarchist for her views on birth control.
During the war, she and her husband spent much of their time in Tucson. Noah Slee died here in 1943. That same year, her two sons, Stuart and Grant, were sent to war.
When the war ended and her boys safely home, she took off for Europe in a quest to bring birth control out of the dark ages.
But Tucson was where she wanted to be.
She built a red brick home shaped like a fan so she could see the mountains from every window.
One of her granddaughters recalled her grandmother “Mimi” as a woman who “loved champagne, daiquiris, flambéed desserts, and great big salads that she made at the table. ... Her parties in Tucson were fabulous.”
Margaret was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952, and served as the first president of the International Planned Parenthood Federation from 1952 until 1959. In 1960, the FDA approved use of the birth-control pill.
At age 83, Margaret moved into a convalescent home in Tucson.
The University of Arizona awarded her an honorary doctor of humanities degree in 1965.
That same year, Japan presented her with one of its highest honors, the Third Order of the Sacred Crown, for her diligence in bringing birth control to its country.
President Lyndon B. Johnson awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom shortly before her death on Sept. 6, 1966.
Time Magazine named Margaret Sanger Slee one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century.
Jan Cleere is the author of four historical nonfiction books about the early people of the Southwest. Email her at Jan@JanCleere.com. | https://tucson.com/news/local/margaret-sanger-planned-parenthood-founder-lived-in-tucson-many-years/article_05744d68-f3df-11ec-8ea2-6f0b170db1c3.html | 2022-06-24T18:52:29 | 1 | https://tucson.com/news/local/margaret-sanger-planned-parenthood-founder-lived-in-tucson-many-years/article_05744d68-f3df-11ec-8ea2-6f0b170db1c3.html |
PHOENIX — State lawmakers have agreed to use the lure of millions of dollars in tax credits to try to bring Hollywood to Arizona.
But some said they aren't sure they want the folks associated with the film and TV industry here.
HB 2156, approved by both the House and Senate, would allow any production company to get up to $25 million when it uses an Arizona production facility or films a motion picture primarily in Arizona, as long as it does all of the pre- and post-production activities in the state.
The legislation, now headed to Gov. Doug Ducey, would permit the state to give away up to $125 million a year.
The idea, according to proponents, is to breathe new life into what was once a more thriving Arizona film industry dating back at least as far as the 1930s when John Ford saw Monument Valley and decided to film Stagecoach there with John Wayne.
The studios at Old Tucson were also for a long time the site of various Westerns, ranging from The Lone Ranger to Three Amigos, before much of the facility was destroyed in a 1994 fire.
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But more recently, productions that are supposedly portraying events in Arizona are actually being filmed elsewhere.
Exhibit No. 1 for Rep. Richard Andrade, D-Phoenix, is the 2015 film Spare Parts. It was based on four students on a robotics team from Carl Hayden High School in Phoenix who built an award-winning robot with $800 and parts scavenged from an old car, even competing against a team from MIT.
Only thing, Andrade said, is it was filmed in New Mexico which, unlike Arizona, offers tax incentives.
Rep. David Cook, R-Globe, said he has seen the same thing while watching movies and features on Netflix that were supposedly set in Arizona.
"But guess what? They weren't filmed here, they weren't spending their money here," Cook said. "They were doing it somewhere else as a facade of 'this is Phoenix and in Arizona.' ''
"We are at a competitive disadvantage,'' said Rep. Daniel Hernandez, D-Tucson.
'Woke' Hollywood criticized
But Rep. Shawnna Bolick, R-Phoenix, said she sees HB 2156 as a violation of the gift clause provision of the Arizona Constitution, which prohibits governments from making donations or grants to any individual, association or corporation.
The measure would provide a "refundable tax credit.'' That means if the credits earned by a production company exceeded their actual tax liability, the state would write it a check for the balance.
Bolick's objections, however, went beyond financial and legal issues.
"We don't need another carve-out for specific industries to attract 'woke' Hollywood actors and studios to our state,'' she said.
Rep. Jake Hoffman, R-Queen Creek, said the "woke" issue of Hollywood is just part of the problem.
"They are sexualizing our children, they are degrading our culture, they are glorifying violence,'' he said.
"Hollywood does not represent the people of Arizona,'' Hoffman continued. "It is not the industry the people of Arizona want.''
He acknowledged that the legislation prohibits credits for anything considered "obscene.'' But Hoffman said that still is too broad.
"Under this bill, if Hillary Clinton were to come here in 2024 and film a political commercial, she could qualify for a refundable tax credit,'' he complained.
Rep. Teresa Martinez, R-Casa Grande, had a different take on all of this.
'Blue-collar' jobs cited
"I don't like woke Hollywood, I don't like their ideals, I don't like their ideology,'' she said. "But what I do like? I like jobs.''
And Rep. Justin Wilmeth, R-Phoenix, said those who fear these tax credits will attract the wrong kind of people to Arizona are mistaken.
"The woke Hollywood liberals are not moving here,'' he said. "What they do is fly to wherever they're going, film their movie and leave.''
He foresees a different scenario.
"The people who are going to come here are Trump voters,'' Wilmeth said, referring to the people who work behind the scenes.
"They're blue collar people,'' he said. "And they're going to live in areas that are already pretty red and they're going to bring more Republican voters in.''
Tax credits lost Arizona money last time
The record on such credits in Arizona is not good.
A 2009 report by state commerce officials said the 2008 credits designed to lure Hollywood producers to Arizona actually lost the state $6.3 million that year.
According to that study, the productions given credits generated 317 full-time jobs in the industry. Another 413 jobs were created indirectly through Arizona spending by filmmakers.
All totaled, the report said, that generated about $2.3 million in additional state and local taxes. But Arizona gave out more than $8.6 million in credits to get that benefit.
The state got rid of the credits a decade ago.
Proponents of this new version say it is different, with protections to ensure it does not lose money for the state. | https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/arizona-legislature-oks-tax-credits-to-lure-film-tv-productions/article_f84867ea-f3e4-11ec-8068-3ff5b6c74c8a.html | 2022-06-24T18:52:35 | 0 | https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/arizona-legislature-oks-tax-credits-to-lure-film-tv-productions/article_f84867ea-f3e4-11ec-8068-3ff5b6c74c8a.html |
SCARBOROUGH, Maine — State and local police are investigating the death of a man whose body was found amid the contents of a cardboard recycling truck emptied at Casella Recycling in Scarborough Friday morning.
Scarborough police were called at about 9:15 a.m. to the plant at 13 Gibson Road, where the driver of a recycling truck had discovered the man's body after dumping cardboard from his truck, Scarborough police said in a release.
The truck is owned by Troiano Waste Services of South Portland.
An autopsy will be performed Friday afternoon by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
The man's identity was not released pending notification of next of kin.
No additional information was immediately available. | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/state-police-investigating-body-found-in-contents-of-recycling-truck-casella/97-1f3bc1b2-32be-4382-83db-2c894c3173c0 | 2022-06-24T18:53:26 | 1 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/state-police-investigating-body-found-in-contents-of-recycling-truck-casella/97-1f3bc1b2-32be-4382-83db-2c894c3173c0 |
What to know about abortion access in Bloomington now, and in the future
All-Options Pregnancy Resource Center, a Bloomington nonprofit focused on reproductive care, recently has been fielding about 60 to 75 requests for abortion funding per week, according to State Programs Manager Jessica Marchbank. All-Options can only fund about 30 at a time.
Each week the volunteers listen to every voicemail and read every text message seeking help in obtaining an abortion. Marchbank has to prioritize exacerbating circumstances such as minors, people in domestic violence situations or those experiencing homelessness. Next, she considers those with a higher gestation, such as those who are 10 weeks or more pregnant.
“I cannot tell you the number of times people have just thanked me, not for funding them, but for treating them like a human,” she said. “At first it felt really awesome. And now it actually feels really terrible. Because I shouldn’t be getting a pat on the back for treating someone like a human being.”
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The Supreme Court on Friday released an opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, returning to each state the ability to determine a pregnant person’s access to abortion. For now, access to abortion remains legal in Indiana.
A majority of adult Americans, 61%, believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases, according to a Pew Research Center poll conducted in March 2022.
Abortions are still going to happen, Indiana University professor of law Jody Madeira said, but maternal mortality rates will increase. In Indiana, the maternal mortality rate is already about 3 times that of the national rate, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And if the cost to access an abortion rises, more pregnant people will attempt to self-abort, she said.
Will I be able to get an abortion in Indiana?
Indiana's lawmakers appear poised to further restrict or ban access to abortion in the state. Lawmakers penned a letter to Gov. Eric Holcomb asking him to call a special session and he has, albeit for a different reason. The session is scheduled for July 6, meaning access in Indiana could change dramatically within weeks.
LaKimba DeSadier, Indiana state director for Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates, said Planned Parenthood’s doors, including Bloomington’s, will remain open for reproductive care even if abortion access is restricted or totally banned.
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“No matter what, we will encourage our patients to continue to reach out to us to get help to help navigate their options,” she said.
That reproductive care includes determining if a patient is pregnant and what they may need in lieu of seeking abortion care in another state, DeSadier said, but Planned Parenthood must comply with the law.
Where is the closest place to Bloomington to get an abortion?
In 2019, Illinois lawmakers ensured access to abortion care by declaring it a fundamental right. Indiana and surrounding states are expected to outlaw abortion in most instances, so Illinois will become a safe haven for pregnant people. Tennessee abortion services provider CHOICES has plans to open a new clinic in Carbondale, Illinois, about a four-hour drive from Bloomington. The clinic is scheduled to open in August.
Abortion Finder is one resource for people seeking care close to them, DeSadier said.
“People should also be aware that there are organizations known as Crisis Pregnancy Centers that on the surface appear to offer women’s health care, but in fact are not staffed by medical professionals and exist solely (to) keep women from having abortions,” she said.
In Bloomington, the Women's Care Center is such an organization.
How can I receive funding for an abortion?
Marchbank said she could help more people if she had the money, but All-Options is funded solely by donations and grants. She has to tell those she can’t help to wait a week or two and try again.
“It doesn’t feel great to suggest to someone who doesn’t want to be pregnant, to be pregnant longer,” Marchbank said.
This year, All-Options has aided more than 400 people in accessing abortion care, Marchbank said, including financial assistance, connecting people to a clinic or supporting them around their decision. So many people feel stigmatized, she said.
In addition to abortion funding, All-Options offers diapers, wipes, clothes, pregnancy tests and more for pregnant people and families in need. Anyone can request supplies or seek help.
“Anyone in need, we don’t ask them to prove anything,” she said.
All-Options supports any choice a pregnant person makes, Marchbank said, whether that be parenting, adoption or abortion.
“We don’t have a stake in the outcome of that pregnancy,” she said. “Whatever you decide, we’re here.”
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All-Options services aid about 200 families a month. Every month new people are seeking supplies or parenting resources, Marchbank said.
Planned Parenthood has patient navigators, a team of people who work with anyone who has questions or concerns and who can help patients with financial or logistical support, DeSadier said.
“We’re going to build and reclaim the freedom that is ours,” she said. “We will never stop fighting to restore and defend the rights of people seeking sexual and reproductive health care.”
Where can I talk to someone about abortion?
All-Options volunteers undergo 40 hours of virtual peer counseling training and pregnancy option workshops to support people without bias, Marchbank said.
“People aren’t used to being able to talk to someone about their options in just an open-hearted way,” she said. “Our training is designed to help people recognize their own bias and be able to meet people where they are and help them in a judgment-free way.”
Marchbank said the nonprofit also offers a support line that is answered solely by members of the clergy, so callers can talk to a religious authority who has been trained and is comfortable talking about and supporting abortion.
“A lot of times, people may come from a religious background, and they may want to have an abortion,” she said. “And while they mostly feel OK about it, sometimes they need to talk to somebody in the faith that they’re in.”
Can I go out of state to access abortion care?
Currently, the law in Indiana makes it difficult to get an abortion past 13 weeks, six days, Marchbank said.
All-Options will continue the same work regardless, including funding people to go out of state to receive abortion care, Marchbank said, which the organization does now. Some people prefer to go to clinics in states such as Illinois, where laws regarding abortion are more friendly, she said. About 40% of those receiving abortion funding from All-Options already go out of state.
The organization plans to keep providing essentials, care and supporting access to abortion. Marchbank said she’s hopeful her budget will increase during the next fiscal year, as there was an influx of donations after the Roe v. Wade opinion was leaked.
Where can I receive other reproductive care?
Futures Family Planning Clinic does not provide abortion services, but does provide birth control counseling and supplies, exams, pregnancy counseling, STD testing, emergency contraception and more.
Monroe County Health Department Administrator Penny Caudill said reproductive healthcare is always important. Access to education, healthcare, and birth control is essential to reducing abortions, she said.
With Roe v. Wade overturned, pregnant people will have fewer options, Caudill said.
“It will become more complicated for people to get information in a timely manner so that they can make their decisions and act accordingly,” she said.
The Futures Family Planning Clinic, which has been open since 2006, is a Title X clinic, meaning it receives funding to provide comprehensive family planning and preventative health services, according to Health Resources & Services Administration.
“What we can do is give people information on all their choices,” Caudill said.
Anyone can come to the clinic, no matter their income. Caudill said the fee for services is on a sliding scale, meaning those who make more pay a higher fee than someone with a lower income.
What will Indiana lawmakers do if Roe v. Wade is overturned?
People of color and people in rural areas will be disproportionately harmed by an abortion ban because of where they live, DeSadier said. According to USA Today, many states in the South and Midwest have restrictive abortion laws ready now that Roe v. Wade is overturned.
Madeira said lawmakers in states including Indiana now will be able to pass restrictive abortion laws and criminalize abortion.
“Overturning Roe v. Wade is not a solution,” DeSadier said. “It’s just not. Elected officials will be doing harm to so many groups of folks, intentionally or not intentionally.”
More:How access to abortions has changed in Indiana since Roe v. Wade
Voting, DeSadier said, is essential for constituents to hold their elected officials, who are determining what people can do with their bodies, accountable.
Madeira said the ruling is the most socially, culturally and legally far reaching overturn she can remember.
“We’ve had that right for 50 years,” she said. “We’ve learned that that right is critical to United States society.”
A federal law could take the place of Roe v. Wade in protecting abortion access, but it would be extremely difficult to pass, Madeira said.
“It’s an earth-shaking development," she said. "It’s a development that suggests that no precedent is safe.”
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3-year-old's body discovered in freezer of Detroit home; mother arrested
Detroit — Investigators plan to interview five children to determine whether they knew their brother's decomposing corpse was entombed in a freezer in the basement of their house on the city's west side, police officials said Friday.
The body of the child, estimated to be about 3 years old, was discovered early Friday morning in the house on Monte Vista Street when a team of Detroit police officers from the 2nd Precinct and a representative of the state's Children's Protective Services program did a wellness check.
A woman who answered the door "tried to push the officers away as if there was nothing going on," Detroit Police Chief James White said during a press conference Friday down the street from the house where the body was recovered.
"This discovery would not have been possible if not for the officers' intuition," White said. "When they talked to the occupant of the home, they recognized there was something not right about the conversation."
The officers called a supervisor and entered the home, White said. "Then this sad and tragic discovery happened," he said.
White said the officers who were at the scene are being offered counseling through the department's Peer Support program, and said he was concerned about the trauma experienced by the victim's five siblings.
"The other kids who were in the home — just imagine what they've gone through," said White, who is a licensed mental health counselor. "Imagine what they endured living in that home."
Detroit Police Capt. Kimberly Blackwell said officers arrested the victim's mother, and that her other six children were taken to the hospital. After their physical health is assessed, the children will undergo "Kid's Talk" — a forensic interview with police and a child psychologist.
A collection of stuffed animals lined the front steps of the crime scene Friday, while three children's bicycles lay on the back lawn. | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2022/06/24/3-year-olds-body-discovered-freezer-detroit-home-mother-arrested/7722235001/ | 2022-06-24T18:54:37 | 0 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2022/06/24/3-year-olds-body-discovered-freezer-detroit-home-mother-arrested/7722235001/ |
Where Roe protests, vigils, celebrations are planned in Michigan
Demonstrations are springing up around the country after the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization overturned Roe v. Wade, sending the decision on the legal right to abortion back to individual states to decide.
Abortion is still legal in Michigan, due to an injunction that is preventing a 1931 law that makes the procedure a felony from taking hold once again.
In Michigan, protests are planned across the country both against and in support of the decision. The biggest ones are likely to be in Detroit and Lansing, but activists in small towns are also planning gatherings, vigils and more.
Some of the events around Michigan include:
Detroit
A protest in support of abortion rights is planned in front of the Theodore Levin United States Courthouse in Detroit, 231 W. Lafayette, beginning at 5 p.m. More than 150 people have already indicated they intend to attend the event, according to a Facebook event from the Michigan Coalition for Reproductive Liberation.
There is another abortion rights protest planned for Palmer Park in Detroit at the same time. That one, put together by Planned Parenthood Advocates of Michigan, is scheduled from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at 910 Merrill Plaisance in Detroit. Rep. Rashida Tlaib is expected to attend, as are several progressive community groups.
Ann Arbor
Washtenaw County Prosecutor Eli Savit shared information on a "post-Dobbs community vigil" to be helped at 7 p.m. on the Diag at the University of Michigan. It is to "share space and talk about what it means, where we go from here, and how folks can help," Savit wrote.
Grand Rapids
There are several events in Grand Rapids, including a signature-gathering measure at the Fulton Street Farmer's Market and a rally at Rosa Parks Circle, 135 Monroe Center St. NW. The demonstration is scheduled from 5 to 7 p.m.
Kalamazoo
Reproductive Freedom for All is hosting a signature-gathering event at Bronson Park to gather signatures for their ballot measure.
Lansing
Planned Parenthood Advocates of Michigan also have a rally scheduled at the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing beginning at 5 p.m. A Facebook event for the demonstration notes that signatures are still needed on the ballot initiative that Planned Parenthood and others (through group Reproductive Freedom for All) put forward to try to enshrine abortion rights in the state.
Livonia
An anti-abortion rally, sponsored by Citizens for a Pro-Life Society and Pro-Life Michigan, is scheduled in Livonia. It is scheduled from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Friday at Planned Parenthood's Livonia Health Center.
Ludington
A rally is planned at the Mason County Courthouse, 304 E. Ludington Ave., at 5:30 p.m. Friday evening.
Muskegon
A rally is planned to start at 6 p.m. at 965 Terrace St. in Muskegon, near the Hall of Justice.
Niles
Protestors plan to meet at the Fort St. Joseph Museum, 508 E. Main St., to "make our voices heard and gather signatures" for Reproductive Freedom for All's effort. In a post advertising the event, organizers ask attendees to bring protest signs "and all your friends." | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2022/06/24/where-protests-on-abortion-rights-are-planned-in-michigan/7724362001/ | 2022-06-24T18:54:43 | 1 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2022/06/24/where-protests-on-abortion-rights-are-planned-in-michigan/7724362001/ |
HARRISBURG, Pa. — The U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade makes it up to the states to decide any restrictions on abortion.
Here is the current abortion law in Pennsylvania:
- Abortions are allowed up until 24 weeks of gestation and prohibited after that.
- Abortions are allowed in the third trimester if the life of the mother is in danger.
- Women seeking an abortion must have a 24-hour waiting period that includes counseling.
- Any minor seeking abortion must have parental consent. | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/abortion-law-in-pennsylvania-pa-roe-v-wade-restrictions-trimester/523-41f58a6d-efd8-4f1b-9a67-fdfc12090322 | 2022-06-24T18:58:34 | 0 | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/abortion-law-in-pennsylvania-pa-roe-v-wade-restrictions-trimester/523-41f58a6d-efd8-4f1b-9a67-fdfc12090322 |
Almost immediately after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to overturn Roe. v. Wade, organizations across the nation are calling for action.
Protestors for and against abortion gathered outside the court shortly after the decision was announced, which eliminated women’s 50-year constitutional right to abortion.
A protest calling for the decision’s reversal is planned at Philadelphia’s City Hall Friday at 6:30 p.m. The planned protest is being co-hosted by Working Families Party, Philly DSA, and Socialist Alternative.
“The #SCOTUS 's overturning of Roe is an obvious act of class warfare that will hurt millions of people, particularly Black people, poor people, and those living in red states,” Phily DSA, a local chapter of Democratic Socialists of America, said in a tweet.
Women’s March – a grassroots organization on a mission to create transformative social change – is calling for a "summer of rage" until women across the U.S. have the right to safe, legal and accessible abortion.
“The day that we have warned about for the last five years has arrived,” the organization said in a statement about the We Won’t Go Back campaign that calls for a rage of summer after the Supreme Court’s decision.
Protest organizers say that they are angry and devastated after warning about the outcome for years.
“On May 3rd we gathered at courthouses across the nation,” the organization said on its website. “On May 14th, one million women and allies marched in 453 cities and towns to protect Roe and abortion rights. And we're just getting started.”
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PENNSYLVANIA, USA — The battle between popular convenient stores is about to heat up.
Wawa plans to expand into Sheetz territory, adding 40 stores in central Pennsylvania within the next three to five years, according to a release from the company.
However, the company didn't say what they consider to be central PA, but this would be west of the store's current footprint in the eastern part of the state.
Earlier this month, Wawa announced plans for a new location in Scranton.
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WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Northbound drivers may get a surprise if they try to take the northbound ramp from U.S. Interstate 235 to northbound U.S. Interstate 135 in Wichita Friday night, June 24.
The Kansas Department of Transportation is closing the northbound ramp for two hours, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
KDOT said the closure is so workers can safely off-load bridge beams for the interchange construction in that area.
The goal of the North Junction construction is to improve safety and traffic flow at the connections of I-135, I-235, K-96 and K-254. Click here to learn more about the project. | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/i-235-ramp-to-i-135-closing-for-2-hours-friday-night/ | 2022-06-24T19:03:10 | 0 | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/i-235-ramp-to-i-135-closing-for-2-hours-friday-night/ |
NEWTON, Kan. (KSNW) — Road crews plan to patch the pavement on a busy ramp in Newton next week. While they are working, flaggers will control the flow of traffic. The Kansas Department of Transportation said drivers will have to slow down, and there will be delays.
The work is on the ramp from westbound U.S. Highway 50 to southbound U.S. Interstate 135 on the north side of Newton.
From 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday through Friday, July 1, vehicles will be limited to 11 feet of width. KDOT says drivers should expect delays of up to 15 minutes.
KDOT has been working to patch pavement on all the U.S. 50 and I-135 ramps around Newton. It expects to finish around late July.
Vogts-Parga Construction of Newton is the primary contractor for the $1,179,492 project. | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/us-50-drivers-can-expect-delays-around-newton/ | 2022-06-24T19:03:16 | 1 | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/us-50-drivers-can-expect-delays-around-newton/ |
When mosquitoes outnumbered tourists for Fourth of July in Rehoboth Beach: History
“Like all the summer resorts on the Atlantic coast,” the Wilmington Delaware Gazette and State Journal reported on, July 10, 1902,, “Rehoboth this year suffered from the cool weather of June, and the season did not really open until a few days previous to the Fourth. "There were few guests at the hotels, although most of the cottagers were here and settled for the summer.”
During the last week in June, the weather heated up, and vacationers began to flood into the resort.
The warm weather, however, brought swarms of unwanted visitors to Rehoboth. According to the Delaware Gazette, “Among the Saturday arrivals were half a million or more mosquitos. They arrived early in the evening … They attacked the occupants of the cottages and hotels, and even went to the boardwalk and the beach, where as a rule, they are not to be found to any extent.
"The cottages on the beach are usually well protected from these pests by screens, but even these did not discourage them in their efforts to get inside, for the smaller ones appeared to work their way through, while the larger variety remained outside and urged on the smaller ones in their bloody work”
Swarms of mosquitoes were reported in Rehoboth just a few years after the first vacationers arrived to enjoy the beach.
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On Aug. 11, 1879, the Daily Gazette noted. “Quite a furor has recently been raised over the ravages of those aggravating little pests, mosquitoes, at Rehoboth … There is a plague of mosquitoes in the lower Peninsula. Smokes or smokers are built every evening, but the mosquitoes, hitherto fearful of such things, now gambol about them with delight.”
At the Rehoboth railroad station in the center of the resort, the irritating insects attacked workers and waiting passengers, who covered their heads with mosquito netting veils to avoid the mosquitoes.
The insects also attacked many of the stagecoach horses in the resort; and, while the stages were waiting, a man would be stationed at the head of each horse to hold the nearly frantic animals.
Clouds of mosquitoes engulfed people walking in the streets of Rehoboth, and the swarms were so thick that women wearing light-colored dresses appeared to be dressed in black.
The insects were so annoying that many vacationers cut short their stays. At the beginning of the week before the insects arrived, there were over400 guests at the Bright House in Rehoboth. By Friday, nearly all of the guests had checked out of the hotel.
The mosquitoes were not only numerous, but they were also so large that their size reached legendary proportions.
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On May 20, 1881, the Middletown Transcript joked, “A carpenter at Green Hill, Sussex [County] has unearthed a skeleton, twice the size of a large man. Maybe it is the skeleton of a Rehoboth mosquito.”
Three years after the invasion of 1879, the mosquitoes returned to Rehoboth in unprecedented swarms.
According to the Daily Gazette, “The first sound in the morning was the ever-inspiring hum of the pesky little insect; his humming and stinging was constant throughout the day, and the last sweet note that lulled the weary one to rest was made by him.”
In the early 20th century, the use of pesticides, and a concerted effort led by Mrs. Mary Wilson Thompson, known as the “Mosquito Woman,” to clean the ponds, marshes and other breeding places helped eradicate the mosquitoes that had once gamboled about Rehoboth; and vacationers could plan their July 4th stay at the beach free from “the aggravating little pests”.
Principal sources:
Delaware Gazette and State Journal, July 10, 1902.
Daily Gazette, Aug. 11, 1879; Aug. 21, 1882.
Middletown Transcript May 20, 1881
Daily Evening Bulletin, Sept. 11, 1879, Newspaper Abstracts, http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?action=detail&id=46672
Anthony Higgins, ed., “Mary Wilson Thompson Memoir (Part One)”, Delaware History, Vol. XVIII, NO. 1, Spring-Summer, 1978, pp. 259-262. | https://www.delmarvanow.com/story/news/local/delaware/2022/06/24/when-mosquitoes-outnumbered-tourists-4th-july-rehoboth-beach/7661591001/ | 2022-06-24T19:05:28 | 1 | https://www.delmarvanow.com/story/news/local/delaware/2022/06/24/when-mosquitoes-outnumbered-tourists-4th-july-rehoboth-beach/7661591001/ |
Coates had been appointed to the board's District 4 seat in March. He filed his candidacy in March for the county board seat in the June 28 primary election, but his last day on the board is June 30.
He is also suspending his campaign for the November election and stepping down from his role as communications director for Bloomington District 87. June 30 will also be his last day at the school district, he told The Pantagraph.
Coates has been in both the board and district positions for less than a year. He started at District 87 in February and the county board in March. State law prevents him from holding public office or having another job while serving on the Prisoner Review Board.
In a statement Friday, Coates thanked supporters of his campaign and said he looked forward to continuing to build on the relationships he had built, serving the state and county in a new way.
Coates told The Pantagraph he has received the support of the Illinois Senate executive committee and that he was confident of approval by the full state senate next year.
Bloomington School District 87 spokesman and McLean County Board member Matthew Coates has been appointed to the Illinois Prisoner Review Board, Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced Friday.
Former Illinois Prisoner Review Board member Jeffrey Mears, who failed to receive confirmation for that post from the Illinois Senate last month, has been appointed to the Illinois Labor Relations Board.
The Senate Executive Appointments Committee moved six appointees to the Illinois Prisoner Review Board through committee on Tuesday, but the only appointee of Gov. J.B. Pritzker that came for a vote before the full Senate was rejected.
McLean County Clerk Kathy Michael, right, swears in new county board member Matthew Coates at the board's March 10, 2022, meeting, as county board chairman John McIntyre looks on. | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/coates-to-step-down-from-mclean-county-board-following-state-appointment/article_e7341ec4-f3dd-11ec-a0c7-6313f57a9de1.html | 2022-06-24T19:09:35 | 1 | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/coates-to-step-down-from-mclean-county-board-following-state-appointment/article_e7341ec4-f3dd-11ec-a0c7-6313f57a9de1.html |
POMEROY, OH (WOWK) – Officials are investigating the cause of a house fire in Pomeroy yesterday afternoon, according to the Pomeroy Fire Department.
The PFD says multiple departments responded to the fire that broke out at a home on Wetzgall Street just before 4 p.m. Thursday, June 23, 2022. Officials say heavy smoke was coming from the home when crews arrived on scene and the blaze took about an hour and a half to extinguish.
According to the PFD, no one was injured in the fire and the home was being used for storage.
Along with the Pomeroy Fire Department, the Middleport FD, the Rutland FD, the Syracuse FD, the Mason, West Virginia, FD, the Meigs County EMS, the Pomeroy Police Department, the Meigs County Sheriff’s Office and AEP responded to the scene.
The Ohio State Fire Marshall’s office is investigating the incident. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/cause-of-pomeroy-fire-under-investigation/ | 2022-06-24T19:10:50 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/cause-of-pomeroy-fire-under-investigation/ |
DALLAS — Editor's note: The Associated Press contributed to this report.
The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years in a decision by its conservative majority to overturn Roe v. Wade. Friday's outcome is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states.
The ruling came more than a month after the stunning leak of a draft opinion by Justice Samuel Alito indicating the court was prepared to take this momentous step.
In the wake of the SCOTUS ruling, protests were already being planned in North Texas.
The Dallas Rally for Abortion Justice was scheduled for Wednesday, June 29, from noon to 2 p.m. in downtown Dallas.
Hosts include the Afiya Center, Jane's Due Process, the ACLU and Planned Parenthood.
The rally will be held at Dallas City Hall downtown.
In Fort Worth, a "Decision Day Action" rally was being planned for Saturday at noon outside the Tarrant County courthouse downtown.
In Austin, Beto O'Rourke, who is challenging Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in this year's election, is holding a "Rally for Reproductive Freedom" at the Pan American Neighborhood Park at 5 p.m. Sunday.
"The public event comes in direct response to the Supreme Court’s dangerous decision to roll back women’s rights by overturning Roe vs. Wade," O'Rourke's campaign said in a press release.
Watch WFAA's coverage of the SCOTUS Roe v. Wade overruling here:
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DALLAS — Editor's note: The Associated Press contributed to this report.
The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years in a decision by its conservative majority to overturn Roe v. Wade. Friday's outcome is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states.
The ruling came more than a month after the stunning leak of a draft opinion by Justice Samuel Alito indicating the court was prepared to take this momentous step.
In light of the Supreme Court's decision today and its impact on Roe v. Wade, we're tracking reactions from religious leaders in North Texas. Here's a look at the reactions from religious leaders in the Lone Star State:
Dr. Robert Jeffress – First Baptist Dallas
"There is ONE reason Roe was overturned today: in 2016 Evangelicals elected Donald Trump who kept his promise and appointed 3 pro-life SC justices. Full stop."
Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth
"The long-awaited decision in the case of Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization has been announced today by the U.S. Supreme Court. This decision overturns the 1973 Roe v Wade decision and effectively closes a shameful period in American history that witnessed the evil and legalized killing of 60 million unborn babies throughout the United States of America. While the Catholic Church in the United States, the faithful of the Diocese of Fort Worth, other men and women of good will, and I have prayed and worked diligently for this day to arrive, we must thank God and acknowledge that this decision does not end our work for unborn children and their mothers and fathers. We must be mindful that at the heart of our prayers and labor is not the changing of law but the conversion of hearts — including our own — towards greater gratitude, respect, and love for each human person. Human beings are only as safe as the most vulnerable member of our society. If unborn babies are not protected by law and safe from harm, then it follows any injury to any person can be falsely justified by law and society. The Diocese of Fort Worth through its Respect Life Office, working in concert with our 91 parishes and the many prolife apostolates in our area, will redouble our efforts to serve expectant mothers who are in duress and to promote the care and support for the pre-natal and early development of their children. It is inherent to the mission of the Gospel of Jesus Christ entrusted to us as His Church to turn our hearts away from violence and death as the false solutions to our shared problems of poverty and sickness and turn towards solidarity and compassion for all of God’s children. This will entail an ongoing promotion of behaviors and policies that foster the safety and flourishing of family life anchored in a loving, healthy, respectful, and fruitful marriage between one man and one woman. The anchor of society is not the individual but the family. The family is indispensable for healing our social anarchy and the trauma experienced by survivors of abortion caused by closing our hearts and minds to God and to the design of His creation. Let us pray for those men and women who have procured abortion and, in their suffering, now rage in anger. With the release of the Dobbs decision by the U. S. Supreme Court, I ask all Catholics in the Diocese of Fort Worth to remain prayerful, peaceful, and vigilant especially in case of possible intimidation or the outbursts of protesters and social agitators at Mass. Now is a time for perseverance and resilience in faith in Jesus Christ who alone can grant us peace.
Sincerely Yours in Christ,
Most Reverend Michael F. Olson"
Bishop Edward Burns - Catholic Diocese of Dallas
"Recognizing both the laws of nature and God’s divine plan, we acknowledge that life begins at the moment of conception. At that moment of conception, the child has the right to be born, the child has the right to life. Since 1973, we have prayed and marched for the right to life. We are grateful that this day has come and give thanks to God for the gift of life. Let us continue to pray that all will come to acknowledge this sacred right to life. The Catholic Diocese of Dallas will continue offering support for women in need through the efforts of the Catholic Pro-Life Community, Catholic Charities Dallas, crisis pregnancy resource centers, maternity homes, and other pro-life organizations within our Diocese. We will also continue offering support through our three crisis phone lines (1-800-BABY-DUE, 214-557-5286, or 972-BABY-DUE) and we look forward to the opportunity to grow together in our goal to continue to offer as much additional support as possible to mothers in need and encourage them to make use of these resources. Let us now all join together in prayer asking God our Heavenly Father to bless our country with peace and help us seek understanding for one another and respect for life during this time."
Ed Young – senior pastor of Fellowship Church
"Thank you Jesus! Let us continue to pray for the moral courage of our elected officials to stand up for the rights of the unborn in every state across our country."
Catholic Pro-Life Community – the Respect Life Ministry of the Catholic Diocese of Dallas
"The Catholic Pro-Life Community, the Respect Life Ministry of the Catholic Diocese of Dallas, applauds today’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in Mississippi’s Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health that upheld the constitutionality of a pre-viability abortion ban.
Today’s decision overturns the 1973 ruling on Roe vs. Wade, which made abortion legal throughout the nation. Since then, states have passed laws anticipating the day when Roe would be reversed. Today is that day!
In the majority opinion, the Supreme Court states, ”There is nothing in the Constitution about abortion, and the Constitution does not implicitly protect the right.” The justices also assert that “It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people's elected representatives."
“This is a momentous day for life,” said Geralyn Kaminsky, executive director of the Catholic Pro-Life Community. “This decision corrects an egregious wrong and returns authority over abortion laws back to individual states. We are so proud of our lawmakers who have led the way in making Texas a pro-life state, But our work is not done yet, far from it. We have a responsibility to walk with moms who believed that abortion was their only option, and we will walk with them until they can walk on their own!”
For almost 30 years, the CPLC has supported moms in crisis and assisted them financially, spiritually, and emotionally through its Project Gabriel Ministry.
“There are countless resources available to moms and families throughout our community and our country,” said Kaminsky. “We meet moms where they are in their situation and provide the assistance they need to choose life and save their child.
The CPLC partners with pregnancy resource centers, food banks, maternity homes, medical doctors, and private donors, as well as a host of other resources that enable us to provide necessary assistance that will put a pregnant or parenting mom in better circumstances to love and care for her child.”
Adam W. Greenway – Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
“Today is the day for which pro-life citizens have prayed and worked for since 1973. This monumental victory is on par with Brown v. Board of Education as it overturns a clearly unjust ruling. Now, we must seize this opportunity to enact just laws that protect unborn human life. More than ever, those who value all human life must demonstrate their commitment not merely with their words, but also by their deeds. We must urge legislators to protect the unborn, and we must provide compassionate support for women that will help them choose life. Joining with many other faithful Christians, I pray for the day when abortion will be an unthinkable option because our society truly values all human life.”
Rev. Dr. Neil G. Thomas – Cathedral of Hope
"This is a catastrophic day for America. The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, eliminating the constitutional right to abortion, sets civil rights in our nation back at least three generations.
With this ruling, it is clear that the Supreme Court of the United States intends to limit human rights that Americans have counted on and puts at great risk rights of privacy for contraception, same-sex relationships, and gay marriage.
The right of women to choose what they can do with their bodies has been a fundamental human right for almost fifty years. This majority opinion from the Supreme Court rips away that right, and the United States stands poised to join the company of a few countries where democracy has been faltering, like Poland and El Salvador, in enacting new restrictions on abortion.
This opinion is part of a rising tide of increasingly authoritarian actions around the world and signals a disturbing disregard of established legal precedents on which people in this country have relied to protect all our human rights.
The opinion is very dangerous direction for everyone in the United States and a frightening signal to authoritarians around the world that they can strip long-established rights from their citizens.
And in a separate opinion on the case, Justice Clarence Thomas has voiced his strong opinion that the Court should consider abrogating other rights based on the 14th Amendment's rubric of privacy that Americans count on--from the right to contraception to marriage equality.
All of us should be very, very afraid for the dark days ahead.
That said, we must fight through the courts and through our Legislatures. We must work together to register every person of legal voting age. We must not rest until we have leaders and judges elected or appointed who will uphold civil rights for all.
Our faith tells us that pessimism and hopelessness is the tool of the oppressor. As such, we must fight against all forms of prejudice, hatred, and indifference.
Today, we grieve and pray. Tomorrow, we get to work. We must--and we will."
Jack Graham – Prestonwood Baptist
"Today is a day we have prayed and worked toward for decades. All praise to God who is the one who makes human life sacred. The end of Roe is a tipping point to yet another day when all abortion will not just be rare but unthinkable."
WFAA also put together a list of reactions of Texas leaders, politicians and organizations. You can view those here.
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District Attorney Joe Gonzales stood Friday morning in the shadow of both Bexar County courthouses and pledged to protect women and other vulnerable members of the community in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade.
With more than two dozen members of his staff behind him, Gonzales said he will champion rights for everyone, singling out women and the LGBTQ+ community. He said the latter group could have their right to marry stripped, saying that the reasoning justices applied in rescinding a woman’s right to have an abortion could be applied in other cases.
“Personal health care decisions should not be punished. The right to marry should not be punished,” he said. “At a time when crime is high, we should all be focused on gun violence and supporting victims of crimes. Instead, the government wants to do the opposite and focus on those at their most vulnerable. This is unacceptable, and I promise to keep fighting for women in this county.”
When asked about the possibility he could be removed from office for not following the state’s ban on abortion after the “trigger law” takes effect in 30 days, Gonzales said should cases be brought to his office by law enforcement agencies, he would handle each on a case-by-case basis.
On ExpressNews.com: Texas trigger law: Will abortion be prosecuted after Roe v. Wade?
“Prosecutors have a responsibility to comply with the law,” he said. “I am entrusted with prosecutorial discretion, and I am going to exercise my own discretion, absent an extreme circumstance.”
Saying the abortion process should be consensual, he cited a scenario as an extreme circumstance.
“If someone is forced to have an abortion under duress, that is an extreme circumstance,” he said.
Gonzales added if someone is seeking a consensual procedure, they would have to be investigated by law enforcement and a case would have to be presented to his office, which does not initiate investigations.
“I took an oath when I was sworn in not to prosecute, but seek justice,” he said. “There is no justice in prosecuting women for exercising their own personal choices. There is no justice in prosecuting those of the medical care community who are there to support and assist women in their most difficult time in making this sort of decision.”
On the political front, Gonzales, a Democrat who identifies as a progressive prosecutor, believes in reformative justice, a woman’s right to choose and marriage equality.
“This is consistent with what I believe in protecting the rights of individuals, the LGBTQ+ community, women and constituents,” noting that those are components of the Democratic platform.
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As the heatwave and drought in Texas continues, the water level in the Frio River west of San Antonio is dwindling down to its rocky base.
The river’s flow in Concan, a community roughly 80 miles from Bexar County, has dropped to zero cubic feet per second, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. At Garner State Park, which sits along three miles of the Frio River, visitors cannot enjoy tubing due to the low levels and can swim only in certain parts of the river.
“We’ve had a pretty steep drop off of water flow,” said Aaron Johnston, assistant superintendent of operations at Garner State Park. “Since last Tuesday, the water (flow) has dropped about a foot per cubic second. It’s pretty much a trickle.”
The main swimming area of the river at the park, which is connected to a dam, still has some water flowing through, so people can swim with water to about their chests. But that flow could also be in jeopardy in the next few weeks as drought conditions persist.
Garner State Park issued a park alert for the public to conserve water, citing extremely dry conditions and urging visitors to use water wisely and bring their own drinking water. The use of showers may also be limited.
Also, extremely low river flows can lead to stagnant pools of water, which can cause algae blooms or harmful bacteria, so people recreating should be careful in such areas of the Frio River. Next week, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality will conduct water testing in the Frio River to check for harmful bacteria and will publish its findings.
Nevertheless, Johnston said the park remains open for all other recreational use, such as hiking, camping and the summer dances at the park pavilion from 8:30 to 11 p.m.
“We’ll be open this summer, and there’s still lots to do,” Johnston said.
Elena Bruess writes for the Express-News through Report for America, a national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms. ReportforAmerica.org. elena.bruess@express-news.net | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Frio-River-flow-zero-drought-17263602.php | 2022-06-24T19:16:10 | 1 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Frio-River-flow-zero-drought-17263602.php |
KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) – The Fun Fest Store officially opened Friday to kick off preparations for the nine-day event in July.
Organizers told News Channel 11 that the store opening means Fun Fest has basically already started. They hope to draw out the festival beyond just the nine days by creating more hype than in past years.
“Suddenly it feels like it’s very close when the store opens it’s real. It’s out there that means the schedule is out it means the shirts are on the street. So to us, Fun Fest has begun,” Emily Thompson, Fun Fest Director said.
The 41st anniversary of Fun Fest prompted many vacation plans, according to Director of First Impressions Karen Redman, who has worked on Fun Fest for 34 years.
“I have people call me all year long asking me when Fun Fest sets another date for the next year,” Redman said. “They want to know when it is because they’re putting them for their vacation time. So they want to know cuz lots and lots of people do the vacation for Fun Fest.”
From shirts to accessories, the store sells an array of memorabilia.
“I like all the little trinkets that they have,” Redman said. “I got one for my phone to put my card in and stuff but I just like the different variety of things that they offer.”
Last year was the first time Fun Fest organizers opened sales up online to accommodate those still in the throes of the pandemic.
“Buy your stuff now — it can run out, we proved that last year. We certainly hope that we’re able to provide a shirt for everybody, we’d like you all to come in and get one,” Thompson said.
The festival has a great economic impact on the Model City, drawing people from several states.
“Especially since they found out that Lynyrd Skynyrd is going to be here this year. My phone is ringing off the hook – they ask ‘Is it true that Lynyrd Skynyrd or isn’t it?’ and I’m like ‘yes, it’s really true.’ And they really flip out when I tell them it’s just $20 for a ticket,” Redman said.
The Fun Fest store is open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. till 6 p.m., and Saturdays from 9 a.m. till 1 p.m. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/fun-fest-store-officially-open-organizers-gear-up-for-41st-anniversary/ | 2022-06-24T19:17:20 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/fun-fest-store-officially-open-organizers-gear-up-for-41st-anniversary/ |
Trash pickup rates will rise next month in Leon Valley for the first time since 2018, when Tiger Sanitation began providing the service for the city.
Despite growing operational costs, Tiger delayed seeking the change — a 2.5 percent increase approved by City Council last month — out of deference to the financial struggles of residents hit hard by the pandemic, said Lee Kuhn, the company’s general manager.
“We … tried to be good partners with the city and your citizens,” Kuhn said at a council meeting May 17.
But “our diesel prices have gone up 90 percent since we started this contract,” Kuhn said. “It’s essentially a dollar per mile … to operate a truck.”
On ExpressNews.com: Leon Valley weighs options to limit flooding for area troubled creek
Starting July 1, residents and businesses in Leon Valley who utilize the standard 65-gallon bin will see their rates increase by 42 cents — from $16.75 to $17.17 per month — while those customers who use the 95-gallon bin will end up paying 43 cents more — an increase from $17 to $17.43 per month.
Tiger Sanitation had sought a larger rate increase — 7.5 percent — at the May 17 council meeting to cover increasing labor and landfill costs caused by inflation — in addition to covering higher fuel prices. Kuhn said labor costs have increased by 26 percent, landfill fees by 11 percent, and overall costs by 28 percent since Tiger started its contract with the city four years ago.
No one on the council made a motion to support the 7.5 percent rate increase.
Councilman Josh Stevens said he could support a rate increase greater than 2.5 percent, but only if Tiger Sanitation agreed to make some changes, such as increasing the amount of brush pickup per residence to 20 cubic yards.
Kuhn told the council he was not prepared to change any provisions in the contract at the May 17 meeting, but he said he was willing to listen to any concerns and issues brought up by city leaders.
“We are willing to sit down with the city and hear them out,” Kuhn said.
Councilman Jed Hefner said there is frustration among residents with Tiger Sanitation over inconsistent service. In one instance, Hefner said, all his brush was picked up while his neighbor, who had the same amount of brush, was told it would cost several hundred dollars to have it hauled.
“Those are areas that we’ve commented to Tiger in the past ... areas where their service can be improved,” Hefner said.
Councilman Benny Martinez said there have been a lot of complaints from residents who say their garbage isn’t picked up for a week and they aren’t credited on their bills. Also, Martinez said, the company needs to improve its communication with residents, as some have said their phone calls to Tiger Sanitation have gone unanswered.
Kuhn said the company, to his understanding, has been quick in trying to resolve service problems with residents.
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TEXAS, USA — Texas politicians, including Gov. Greg Abbott and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O'Rourke, are reacting to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
The historic 6-3 decision puts an end to 50 years of the constitutional right to abortion.
In a statement, Abbott applauded the court's decision.
"The U.S. Supreme Court correctly overturned Roe v. Wade and reinstated the right of states to protect innocent, unborn children," Abbott said. "Texas is a pro-life state, and we have taken significant action to protect the sanctity of life. Texas has also prioritized supporting women's healthcare and expectant mothers in need to give them the necessary resources so that they can choose life for their child."
Abbott went on to describe women's health laws that he has signed, including ones "that extended Medicaid health care coverage to six months post-partum, appropriated $345 million for women's health programs, and invested more than $100 million toward our Alternatives to Abortion program."
"Texas will always fight for the innocent unborn, and I will continue working with the Texas legislature and all Texans to save every child from the ravages of abortion and help our expectant mothers in need," Abbott said.
O'Rourke said in a statement that winning the Texas governor race is "the only way to overcome today's decision."
“The Supreme Court has sent this back to the states, and our state’s current governor has outlawed abortion beginning at conception with no exception for rape or incest," O'Rourke said. “If you care about protecting a woman’s freedom to make her own decisions about her own body, health care, and future, join this campaign and help us win.”
On Twitter, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said he's closing his office and making June 24 an annual holiday.
"SCOTUS just overruled Roe & Casey, ending one of the most morally & legally corrupt eras in US history," Paxton's tweet reads. "Praise the Lord."
In an official statement, Paxton said both Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey have no constitutional basis.
"Today, the question of abortion returns to the states," Paxton said. "And in Texas, that question has already been answered: abortion is illegal here. I look forward to defending the pro-life laws of Texas and the lives of all unborn children moving forward.”
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) called the Supreme Court's decision "nothing short of a massive victory for life," saying "Roe was wrong the day it was decided, and it has been wrong every day since then."
"What this decision does is leave abortion policy up to the states and returns power to the American people—which is exactly how questions of abortion were handled before Roe," Cruz said in part. "This is a momentous day, and yet the fight for life doesn’t end with the Dobbs decision. It simply begins a new chapter. I’ve been proud to stand for life in the U.S. Senate, and I will continue to do so as we navigate the path ahead."
Republican Sen. John Cornyn said, "the court has restored one of the core principles of our Constitution with this landmark ruling."
"This decision correctly returns the authority of states to decide the limits on abortion and will save countless innocent lives," Cornyn said. "I commend the Justices for not bowing to the vicious intimidation campaign waged by the radical Left. I join Texans in celebrating this historic victory for life and the rule of law.”
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick tweeted that the decision marks, "A very historic day and a GIANT win for life!"
Hannah Roe Beck, co-executive director of the Texas Democratic Party, said in a statement that the party will continue to fight.
“Today’s decision is a blaring, five-alarm call to action," Beck said. "It is more important than ever that we send to Washington true, fearless leaders who are ready to fight to codify abortion at the federal level. It is more important than ever that we elect Beto O’Rourke as governor, flip the Texas Legislature, and elect Democrats up and down the ticket who will overturn Greg Abbott’s draconian and brutal laws imposing the will of a tiny minority on the entirety of our state."
From the other side of the aisle, Matt Rinaldi, chairman of the Republican Party of Texas, said in a statement that the Roe v. Wade decision marks "a historic day which Republicans and Pro-Life advocates have waited for a generation."
"It will be remembered in history as the day the United States of America reversed one of the most unjust, damaging and plainly incorrect judicial decisions in it's history," Rinaldi said. "Thankfully, the left's egregious attack on our government institutions failed, and justice was done."
Texas is one of at least 13 states with so-called "trigger laws" set to take effect following the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Learn more.
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TEXAS, USA — West Texas cities are reminding the public about not being allowed to use fireworks.
Cities like Big Spring, Midland and Odessa have posted information on their social media pages in regards to the use of fireworks within city limits.
They say fireworks are considered explosive devices and not safe for people who are not professionals to use. There are always injuries around the Fourth of July time for people that try to use their own fireworks.
Some of the effects from illegal firework activity include burns, scaring pets, starting fires and stressing out veterans and military members.
Cities are urging people to leave the firework use to professionals and if they want to see fireworks, they can go to the events happening around July 4th.
Also, with the record drought conditions in West Texas, setting off fireworks can lead to extreme fire danger and red flag warnings.
For more information about specific firework laws, people can visit their individual city websites. | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/west-texas-cities-warn-residents-about-the-use-of-fireworks/513-e0a8dc2f-a1c3-4945-a1f3-089cf1e8ce87 | 2022-06-24T19:24:22 | 1 | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/west-texas-cities-warn-residents-about-the-use-of-fireworks/513-e0a8dc2f-a1c3-4945-a1f3-089cf1e8ce87 |
New York City reported on Friday its biggest surge yet in presumed cases of monkeypox, one day after a single clinic opened in Manhattan to distribute a vaccine.
The city began offering vaccination against monkeypox Thursday to at-risk groups but demand was so high, within hours of launching the program the city had to cut off walk-in appointments. Scheduled appointments have already been booked through early next week.
As opposed to the early days of COVID, when there was no effective treatment, there are already multiple vaccines that work against the orthopoxvirus that causes the ailment. Supply, however, is the question.
At least 39 people have tested positive for the virus in the city city since early May, almost all of them men who have sex with men, and the number of cases has risen 30% since the health department's report on Thursday.
In total, New York City represents more than 20% of all cases diagnosed nationwide.
The Health Department on Thursday announced the opening of a temporary clinic to administer the two-dose JYNNEOS vaccine to eligible people who may have had recent exposure to monkeypox, the city announced. NYC Health Commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vasan said anxiety, particularly among sexually actively gay and bisexual men, prompted the city’s decision to make vaccines available.
The vaccines will be administered at the Chelsea Sexual Health Clinic (303 Ninth Avenue in Manhattan). The clinic will be open on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Sundays from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. moving forward.
But as of 2 p.m. Thursday, just three hours after opening its doors, the city said no more walk-ins would be accommodated and that all appointments were filled through Monday. News 4 counted more than 100 people lined up outside the clinic at the time.
One person in line to get vaccinated said that many appointments were gone about 10 minutes after they became available online.
The health department advised people to check back on Sunday for more appointments next week.
"We are in talks with the CDC to obtain more doses and are looking into how we can boost our capacity citywide," the health department said.
Mark Levine, the Manhattan borough president, tweeted that the city had only been allocated about 1,000 doses of the vaccine from the national stockpile.
How Do You Catch Monkeypox?
The CDC issued new monkeypox guidance last week as the number of suspected cases nationwide boomed, marking America's largest-ever outbreak of monkeypox, which typically has been confined to other continents.
While the CDC says the risk to the general public remains low, people are urged to avoid close contact with those who are sick, including those with skin or genital lesions, as well as sick or dead animals. Anyone displaying symptoms, like unexplained skin rash or lesions, should reach out to their healthcare providers for guidance.
It is also advised to avoid eating meat that comes from wild game or using products (such as creams, powders or lotions) that come from wild animals from Africa.
What Is Monkeypox?
Monkeypox was first discovered in 1958, when outbreaks occurred in colonies of monkeys kept for research -- resulting in its name. (What you need to know about monkeypox.)
The first case in a human was reported in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which still has the majority of infections. Other African countries where it has been found: Cameroon, Central African Republic, Cote d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Liberia, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo and Sierra Leone.
Human symptoms of monkeypox are similar to but milder than the symptoms of smallpox, the CDC says. It presents itself as a flu-like illness accompanied by lymph-node swelling and rash on the face and body.
Monkeypox starts off with fever, headache, muscle aches, and exhaustion. Monkeypox also causes lymph nodes to swell, something that smallpox does not. The incubation period is usually 7−14 days but can range from 5−21 days.
The CDC is urging healthcare providers in the U.S. to be alert for patients who have rashes consistent with monkeypox, regardless of whether they have traveled or have specific risks for monkeypox. See more information from the travel notice here. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/nyc-monkeypox-cases-jump-30-amid-rush-on-limited-vaccine-supply/3748702/ | 2022-06-24T19:28:07 | 1 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/nyc-monkeypox-cases-jump-30-amid-rush-on-limited-vaccine-supply/3748702/ |
INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Criminal Justice Institute (ICJI) is helping 26 Hoosier nonprofits to provide emergency shelter and services to victims of domestic violence and their dependents.
The $500,000 grant will help organizations provide items like food, clothing, transportation and shelter to survivors in crisis.
The grants, funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services through the Social Services Block Grant program, were approved by the ICJI Board of Trustees earlier this month and will be made available to organizations starting in July.
"Domestic violence shelters are there for people during some of the darkest moments in their lives," said Devon McDonald, ICJI Executive Director. "They provide a safe haven in the community, and we'll continue to use every tool at our disposal to reinforce the work they're doing to care for those in need."
Here are the organizations who received funding:
- YWCA Northeast Indiana - $32,200
- Columbus Regional Shelter for Victims of Domestic Violence, Inc. - $27,500
- A Better Way Services, Inc. - $17,500
- Hope Springs Safe House, Inc. - $13,800
- Sheltering Wings Center for Women - $19,700
- Family Service Association of Howard County, Inc. - $12,600
- North Central Indiana Rural Crisis Center, Inc. - $21,800
- Jennings County Council on Domestic Violence - $6,500
- Kosciusko County Shelter for Abuse, Inc. DBA Beaman Home - $17,400
- Stepping Stone Shelter for Women, Inc. - $13,100
- Haven House, Inc. - $18,500
- St. Jude House, Inc. - $16,400
- Alternatives Incorporated of Madison County - $27,300
- The Julian Center, Inc. - $35,000
- The Salvation Army - $11,500
- Middle Way House, Inc. - $23,100
- Family Crisis Shelter - $21,800
- Desert Rose Foundation, Inc. - $11,400
- The Caring Place - $8,300
- Safe Passage, Inc. - $20,000
- YWCA North Central Indiana - $36,000
- YWCA Greater Lafayette - $21,800
- Albion Fellows Bacon Center, Inc. - $23,500
- YWCA of Evansville, IN Inc. - $15,900
- Council on Domestic Abuse, Inc. - $10,000
- Prisoner & Community Together, Inc. - $17,400
Go to www.cji.in.gov to learn more about the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/indiana-grants-500k-to-domestic-violence-nonprofits/531-9036107d-2207-4cb1-85c8-e35ac24e50fe | 2022-06-24T19:31:18 | 1 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/indiana-grants-500k-to-domestic-violence-nonprofits/531-9036107d-2207-4cb1-85c8-e35ac24e50fe |
Purchasing a home is one of the most important investments there is. More than a place to live, homeownership is an asset with the potential to tremendously rise in value. Given the current state of the real estate market, housing affordability plays a determining role for buyers. As of June 17, 2022, the 30-year fixed mortgage rate sits at 6.25%. As a result of higher mortgage rates across the board, home prices have risen significantly. The typical home value in the United States increased over the last year by +20.9% to $334,141.
Although home prices have inflated all across the U.S., there are definitely certain areas that have a higher price tag than others. Location, size, age, and condition are all contributing factors to home value. Whether you choose to hold off your home-buying plans in hopes of the market cooling down or are looking to buy ASAP, it’s good to educate yourself on the market in different cities.
Stacker compiled a list of cities with the most expensive homes in Orlando using data from Zillow. Cities are ranked by the Zillow Home Values Index for all homes as of May 2022. Cities with at least three years of historical data were included. The charts in this story were created automatically using Matplotlib.
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#30. Howey in the Hills, FL
- Typical home value: $404,347
- 1-year price change: +34.6%
- 5-year price change: +74.9%
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#29. Saint Cloud, FL
- Typical home value: $405,280
- 1-year price change: +40.4%
- 5-year price change: +82.6%
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#28. Ocoee, FL
- Typical home value: $406,798
- 1-year price change: +31.7%
- 5-year price change: +75.2%
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#27. Citrus Ridge, FL
- Typical home value: $409,594
- 1-year price change: +41.9%
- 5-year price change: +79.6%
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#26. Conway, FL
- Typical home value: $416,194
- 1-year price change: +27.0%
- 5-year price change: +71.3%
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#25. Winter Springs, FL
- Typical home value: $418,861
- 1-year price change: +28.0%
- 5-year price change: +66.5%
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#24. Clermont, FL
- Typical home value: $419,777
- 1-year price change: +34.6%
- 5-year price change: +75.2%
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#23. Sorrento, FL
- Typical home value: $425,498
- 1-year price change: +33.9%
- 5-year price change: +81.4%
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#22. Christmas, FL
- Typical home value: $430,863
- 1-year price change: +38.1%
- 5-year price change: +78.2%
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#21. Ferndale, FL
- Typical home value: $444,906
- 1-year price change: +39.1%
- 5-year price change: +92.8%
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#20. Longwood, FL
- Typical home value: $447,048
- 1-year price change: +27.7%
- 5-year price change: +64.2%
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#19. Winter Park, FL
- Typical home value: $451,036
- 1-year price change: +28.9%
- 5-year price change: +69.9%
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#18. Lake Mary, FL
- Typical home value: $461,424
- 1-year price change: +27.7%
- 5-year price change: +60.4%
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#17. Gotha, FL
- Typical home value: $471,418
- 1-year price change: +33.3%
- 5-year price change: +65.7%
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#16. Edgewood, FL
- Typical home value: $471,935
- 1-year price change: +30.9%
- 5-year price change: +69.0%
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#15. Wedgefield, FL
- Typical home value: $480,338
- 1-year price change: +33.9%
- 5-year price change: +71.4%
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#14. Oviedo, FL
- Typical home value: $490,558
- 1-year price change: +28.7%
- 5-year price change: +65.0%
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#13. Maitland, FL
- Typical home value: $494,119
- 1-year price change: +30.0%
- 5-year price change: +60.6%
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#12. Bithlo, FL
- Typical home value: $497,086
- 1-year price change: +35.6%
- 5-year price change: +74.4%
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#11. Belle Isle, FL
- Typical home value: $508,207
- 1-year price change: +29.4%
- 5-year price change: +64.7%
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#10. Doctor Phillips, FL
- Typical home value: $508,595
- 1-year price change: +30.9%
- 5-year price change: +57.4%
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#9. Oakland, FL
- Typical home value: $514,914
- 1-year price change: +35.8%
- 5-year price change: +66.9%
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#8. Winter Garden, FL
- Typical home value: $545,443
- 1-year price change: +37.1%
- 5-year price change: +75.5%
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#7. Montverde, FL
- Typical home value: $548,611
- 1-year price change: +36.3%
- 5-year price change: +73.5%
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#6. Geneva, FL
- Typical home value: $549,602
- 1-year price change: +29.5%
- 5-year price change: +65.0%
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#5. Celebration, FL
- Typical home value: $571,605
- 1-year price change: +37.4%
- 5-year price change: +58.6%
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#4. Windermere, FL
- Typical home value: $673,180
- 1-year price change: +34.9%
- 5-year price change: +64.8%
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#3. Bay Hill, FL
- Typical home value: $769,975
- 1-year price change: +29.7%
- 5-year price change: +53.0%
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#2. Lake Hart, FL
- Typical home value: $987,308
- 1-year price change: +34.6%
- 5-year price change: +64.5%
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#1. Lake Buena Vista, FL
- Typical home value: $4,448,133
- 1-year price change: +33.4%
- 5-year price change: +62.1% | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/24/cities-with-the-most-expensive-homes-in-orlando-metro-area/ | 2022-06-24T19:31:19 | 1 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/24/cities-with-the-most-expensive-homes-in-orlando-metro-area/ |
INDIANAPOLIS — There have been celebrations going on all over central Indiana this month as high school seniors move their tassels from right to left.
But one particular graduation party in downtown Indy this week is truly Inspiring Indiana. There were cakes, balloons, and a room full of smiling faces at the party for 33 seniors.
Hosted by the Colts, Cargo Services Inc. and Meijer, these grads all came together from different schools in Indiana to celebrate their big accomplishment.
But graduating isn't the only thing they have in common, all 33 are foster kids.
"It's a blessing," Subhadra Kapase said. "A year ago I would've never seen myself in this position."
Kapase just graduated from Lawrence Central High School, where you could often find her on the football or basketball sideline serving as a team manager. She's now ready to take on the real world, but getting to this point hasn't been easy. She entered the foster care system as a young kid.
"I had to grow up really fast. At a really young age, 5 years old, all the trauma. Life was hitting me hard. Now it's like a breath of fresh air because I've figured out what I wanted to do. And I know my life is in my hands now."
Not only has Kapase finally found a steady home with her foster parents, Karen and Justin, she's also preparing to head to college this fall with big dreams of becoming a doctor.
"My main thing is combining neuroscience and football. My main goal in life is...I want my own hospital for all athletes I work with. Athletes around the world."
Colts General Manager Chris Ballard and his wife Kristin joined the celebration on Tuesday because it's something close to their heart. Two of their five kids are adopted through the foster care system. Ballard had a personal message for the grads.
"You have a skillset that most graduates don't have. There's a skillset inside of you of work ethic, work habits, the ability to persevere, the ability to survive," Ballard said. "The ability to do whatever you wanted to do because you've done it now with this graduation. When no one thought you could do it, you did it."
Hats off to Kapase and the other 32 graduates as this is only the beginning. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/indiana/inspiring-indiana/colts-gm-and-wife-throw-graduation-party-for-foster-children-kids-program-ballard-indianapolis-indiana/531-c171d23d-e73c-463e-90ab-1f7e520a6e82 | 2022-06-24T19:31:25 | 0 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/indiana/inspiring-indiana/colts-gm-and-wife-throw-graduation-party-for-foster-children-kids-program-ballard-indianapolis-indiana/531-c171d23d-e73c-463e-90ab-1f7e520a6e82 |
With the advent of Big Data, it’s now easier than ever to quantify what people like around the globe. And when it comes to food, Americans seem to have specific opinions. American dining brands have a long and storied history, and whether they’re fast food, fast-casual, high-end, or super cheap, U.S. restaurants offer something for almost everyone.
What’s clear about U.S. dining habits is that people love options. Restaurants across America are chock-full of variety, mixing ethnicities, food regions, and cultures into steaming melting pots of (often) fried deliciousness. And when it comes to the most important meal of the day, few people are on the fence about their favorite go-to spots. Stacker compiled a list of the highest-rated restaurants for breakfast in Orlando on Tripadvisor.
Locals reading the list will surely see some favorite eateries and classic go-to restaurants. Keep reading to see if your favorite restaurant made the list—and to see which spots you haven’t been to yet.
Tripadvisor
#30. Denny's
- Rating: 4.0 / 5 (1,657 reviews)
- Detailed ratings: Food (4.0/5), Service (4.0/5), Value (4.0/5), Atmosphere (3.5/5)
- Type of cuisine: American, Diner
- Price: $
- Address: 7660 International Dr, Orlando, FL 32819-8237
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#29. Tesoro Cove
- Rating: 4.5 / 5 (182 reviews)
- Detailed ratings: Food (4.5/5), Service (4.5/5), Value (4.0/5), Atmosphere (4.0/5)
- Type of cuisine: American
- Price: $$ - $$$
- Address: 14651 Chelonia Pkwy Wyndham Grand Orlando Resort Bonnet Creek, Orlando, FL 32821-4017
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#28. Perkins Restaurant & Bakery
- Rating: 4.0 / 5 (606 reviews)
- Detailed ratings: Food (4.0/5), Service (4.0/5), Value (4.0/5), Atmosphere (4.0/5)
- Type of cuisine: American
- Price: $$ - $$$
- Address: 12559 State Road 535 LBV- Disney, Orlando, FL 32836
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#27. Oscar's
- Rating: 4.5 / 5 (323 reviews)
- Detailed ratings: Food (4.5/5), Service (4.5/5), Value (4.0/5), Atmosphere (4.0/5)
- Type of cuisine: American
- Price: $$ - $$$
- Address: 14200 Bonnet Creek Resort Ln, Orlando, FL 32821
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#26. Grand Floridian Cafe
- Rating: 4.0 / 5 (1,593 reviews)
- Detailed ratings: Food (4.5/5), Service (4.5/5), Value (4.0/5), Atmosphere (4.5/5)
- Type of cuisine: American
- Price: $$ - $$$
- Address: 4401 Grand Floridian Walt Disney World, Orlando, FL 32836
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#25. TooJay’s Deli • Bakery • Restaurant
- Rating: 4.5 / 5 (413 reviews)
- Detailed ratings: Food (4.5/5), Service (4.5/5), Value (4.5/5), Atmosphere (4.0/5)
- Type of cuisine: American, Deli
- Price: $$ - $$$
- Address: 7600 Dr Phillips Blvd Suite #116, Orlando, FL 32819-7231
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#24. Denny's
- Rating: 4.0 / 5 (1,879 reviews)
- Detailed ratings: Food (4.0/5), Service (4.0/5), Value (4.0/5), Atmosphere (3.5/5)
- Type of cuisine: American, Diner
- Price: $
- Address: 8747 International Dr, Orlando, FL 32819-9360
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Tripadvisor
#23. Denny's
- Rating: 4.0 / 5 (539 reviews)
- Detailed ratings: Food (4.0/5), Service (4.5/5), Value (4.0/5), Atmosphere (4.0/5)
- Type of cuisine: American, Diner
- Price: $
- Address: 9880 International, Orlando, FL 32819
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#22. IHOP
- Rating: 4.0 / 5 (959 reviews)
- Detailed ratings: Food (4.0/5), Service (4.0/5), Value (4.0/5), Atmosphere (3.5/5)
- Type of cuisine: American, Diner
- Price: $
- Address: 12400 State Road 535, Orlando, FL 32836-6721
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#21. Shakers American Cafe
- Rating: 4.5 / 5 (131 reviews)
- Detailed ratings: Food (4.5/5), Service (4.5/5), Value (4.5/5), Atmosphere (4.5/5)
- Type of cuisine: American, Cafe
- Price: $
- Address: 1308 Edgewater Dr, Orlando, FL 32804-6351
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#20. B-Line Diner
- Rating: 4.0 / 5 (681 reviews)
- Detailed ratings: Food (4.0/5), Service (4.0/5), Value (3.5/5), Atmosphere (4.0/5)
- Type of cuisine: American, Diner
- Price: $$ - $$$
- Address: 9801 International Dr, Orlando, FL 32819-8104
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#19. Starbucks
- Rating: 4.5 / 5 (377 reviews)
- Detailed ratings: Food (4.5/5), Service (4.5/5), Value (4.0/5)
- Type of cuisine: American, Cafe
- Price: $
- Address: 1680 E Buena Vista Dr Downtown Disney, Orlando, FL 32830
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#18. Nick's Family Diner
- Rating: 4.5 / 5 (164 reviews)
- Detailed ratings: Food (4.5/5), Service (4.5/5), Value (4.5/5), Atmosphere (4.5/5)
- Type of cuisine: American, Greek
- Price: $$ - $$$
- Address: 5439 N Orange Blossom Trl, Orlando, FL 32810-1012
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Tripadvisor
#17. Denny's
- Rating: 4.0 / 5 (416 reviews)
- Detailed ratings: Food (4.0/5), Service (4.0/5), Value (4.0/5), Atmosphere (3.5/5)
- Type of cuisine: American, Diner
- Price: $
- Address: 11037 International Dr, Orlando, FL 32821
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#16. Le Gourmet Break
- Rating: 4.5 / 5 (122 reviews)
- Detailed ratings: Food (4.5/5), Service (4.5/5), Value (4.5/5), Atmosphere (4.0/5)
- Type of cuisine: French, Cafe
- Price: $$ - $$$
- Address: 150 S Magnolia Ave Suite 102E, Orlando, FL 32801-3273
- Read more on Tripadvisor
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Tripadvisor
#15. IHOP
- Rating: 4.0 / 5 (1,124 reviews)
- Detailed ratings: Food (4.0/5), Service (4.0/5), Value (4.0/5), Atmosphere (3.5/5)
- Type of cuisine: American, Cafe
- Price: $
- Address: 7661 International Dr, Orlando, FL 32819-8263
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Tripadvisor
#14. Boma - Flavors of Africa
- Rating: 4.5 / 5 (4,066 reviews)
- Detailed ratings: Food (4.5/5), Service (4.5/5), Value (4.0/5), Atmosphere (4.5/5)
- Type of cuisine: American, African
- Price: $$ - $$$
- Address: 2901 Osceola Parkway Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge, Orlando, FL 32830
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#13. Amatista Cookhouse at Sapphire Falls Resort
- Rating: 4.5 / 5 (565 reviews)
- Detailed ratings: Food (4.5/5), Service (4.5/5), Value (4.0/5)
- Type of cuisine: American, Grill
- Price: $$ - $$$
- Address: 6601 Adventure Way, Orlando, FL 32819-7602
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#12. 1900 Park Fare
- Rating: 4.0 / 5 (2,749 reviews)
- Detailed ratings: Food (4.0/5), Service (4.0/5), Value (3.5/5), Atmosphere (4.0/5)
- Type of cuisine: American
- Price: $$ - $$$
- Address: 4401 Floridian Way, Orlando, FL 32836
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#11. The Kitchen at Hard Rock Hotel Orlando
- Rating: 4.0 / 5 (1,025 reviews)
- Detailed ratings: Food (4.0/5), Service (4.0/5), Value (3.5/5), Atmosphere (4.0/5)
- Type of cuisine: American
- Price: $$ - $$$
- Address: 5800 Universal Blvd Hard Rock Hotel, Orlando, FL 32819-7834
- Read more on Tripadvisor
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#10. Harvest Bistro
- Rating: 4.0 / 5 (564 reviews)
- Detailed ratings: Food (4.0/5), Service (4.5/5), Value (3.5/5), Atmosphere (3.5/5)
- Type of cuisine: American
- Price: $$ - $$$
- Address: 14100 Bonnet Creek Resort Ln Hitlon Hotel, Orlando, FL 32821-4023
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Tripadvisor
#9. Latitude & Longitude
- Rating: 4.5 / 5 (434 reviews)
- Detailed ratings: Food (4.5/5), Service (4.5/5), Value (3.5/5), Atmosphere (4.0/5)
- Type of cuisine: American, Seafood
- Price: $$ - $$$
- Address: 8701 World Center Dr Orlando World Center Marriott, Orlando, FL 32821
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#8. Highball & Harvest
- Rating: 4.5 / 5 (564 reviews)
- Detailed ratings: Food (4.5/5), Service (4.5/5), Value (4.0/5), Atmosphere (4.5/5)
- Type of cuisine: American, Southwestern
- Price: $$ - $$$
- Address: 4012 Central Florida Pkwy, Orlando, FL 32837-7662
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#7. The Briar Patch
- Rating: 4.5 / 5 (644 reviews)
- Detailed ratings: Food (4.5/5), Service (4.0/5), Value (4.0/5), Atmosphere (4.0/5)
- Type of cuisine: American, Cafe
- Price: $$ - $$$
- Address: 252 N Park Ave, Winter Park, FL 32789-3814
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Tripadvisor
#6. Keke's Breakfast Cafe
- Rating: 4.5 / 5 (399 reviews)
- Detailed ratings: Food (4.5/5), Service (4.5/5), Value (4.0/5), Atmosphere (4.5/5)
- Type of cuisine: American, Cafe
- Price: $$ - $$$
- Address: 4000 W Town Center Blvd, Orlando, FL 32837-6187
- Read more on Tripadvisor
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#5. Q'Kenan Restaurant
- Rating: 4.5 / 5 (812 reviews)
- Detailed ratings: Food (4.5/5), Service (4.5/5), Value (4.5/5), Atmosphere (4.0/5)
- Type of cuisine: Latin, Venezuelan
- Price: $
- Address: 8117 Vineland Ave Regency Village Plaza, Orlando, FL 32821-6847
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Tripadvisor
#4. Dixie Belle's Cafe
- Rating: 4.5 / 5 (207 reviews)
- Detailed ratings: Food (4.5/5), Service (4.5/5), Value (4.5/5), Atmosphere (4.0/5)
- Type of cuisine: American, Cafe
- Price: $
- Address: 7125 S Orange Ave, Orlando, FL 32809-6050
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Tripadvisor
#3. First Watch
- Rating: 4.5 / 5 (798 reviews)
- Detailed ratings: Food (4.5/5), Service (4.5/5), Value (4.5/5), Atmosphere (4.0/5)
- Type of cuisine: American, Cafe
- Price: $$ - $$$
- Address: 7500 W Sand Lake Rd #a101, Orlando, FL 32819-5110
- Read more on Tripadvisor
Tripadvisor
#2. Keke's Breakfast Cafe
- Rating: 4.5 / 5 (819 reviews)
- Detailed ratings: Food (4.5/5), Service (4.5/5), Value (4.5/5), Atmosphere (4.0/5)
- Type of cuisine: American, Cafe
- Price: $$ - $$$
- Address: 7512 Dr Phillips Blvd, Orlando, FL 32819-5131
- Read more on Tripadvisor
Tripadvisor
#1. Keke's Breakfast Cafe
- Rating: 4.5 / 5 (1,140 reviews)
- Detailed ratings: Food (4.5/5), Service (4.5/5), Value (4.0/5), Atmosphere (4.0/5)
- Type of cuisine: American, Cafe
- Price: $$ - $$$
- Address: 4192 Conroy Rd, Orlando, FL 32839-6416
- Read more on Tripadvisor
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ORLANDO, Fla. – The Walt Disney Co. is reportedly the latest company to offer to cover employee travel expenses for abortions.
According to published media reports, Disney sent a letter to employees Friday, saying it would offer the benefit for family planning for any worker who cannot access abortion care where they live.
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The company said it already had a travel benefit to cover other health-related issues, such as cancer treatments and transplants.
Disney, which is Central Florida’s largest employer, told The Washington Post that it recognizes the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling overturning Roe v. Wade.
“We remain committed to providing comprehensive access to quality and affordable care for all of our employees, cast members and their families, including family planning and reproductive care, no matter where they live,” Disney said in a statement to The Post.
A new Florida law going into effect in July would ban abortions after 15 weeks, with exceptions for the life of the mother. Gov. Ron DeSantis promised Friday to expand abortion restrictions in the state.
Disney is the latest company to offer coverage of travel expenses for abortions since a draft of the Supreme Court’s decision was leaked in April.
Amazon, Starbucks, Yelp, JPMorgan Chase, Tesla, Microsoft, Citigroup, Dick’s Sporting Goods and other companies told employees they would offer a travel benefit in the last few months. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/24/reports-walt-disney-co-to-cover-employee-travel-expenses-for-abortions/ | 2022-06-24T19:31:31 | 1 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/24/reports-walt-disney-co-to-cover-employee-travel-expenses-for-abortions/ |
DEBARY, Fla. – Video shows a man launching a Molotov cocktail into a car in a DeBary neighborhood Friday after deputies responded to multiple vehicle fires in the area, according to the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office.
The sheriff’s office said deputies and firefighters responded to three vehicle fires at two neighboring homes around 4:45 a.m. in the area of Oak Springs Court.
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Surveillance video shows a man catapulting a Molotov cocktail into one of the cars, throwing it at the window multiple times before running away.
Anyone with information about the incident is urged to contact the Volusia County Sheriff’s District 6 Office at 386-668-3830 or the 24/7 non-emergency line at 386-248-1777.
Callers can also submit an anonymous tip to Crime Stoppers of North East Florida by calling 888-277-TIPS or using the P3 Tips app for a potential cash reward. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/24/video-man-wanted-after-cars-set-ablaze-by-molotov-cocktail-in-debary/ | 2022-06-24T19:31:38 | 1 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/24/video-man-wanted-after-cars-set-ablaze-by-molotov-cocktail-in-debary/ |
The Absecon man who was shot May 24 by police outside Dollar General has been charged again, the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office said Friday.
Jalial Whitted, 37, was charged with unlawful possession of a weapon, possession of a weapon by certain persons not to have a weapon and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose.
Whitted had faced the same charges following the shooting, but on June 3, those charges were dropped through an administrative dismissal by the Prosecutor's Office, according to Atlantic County Judicial Clerk Karen Ruberts.
The recent charges stem from an investigation into the facts and circumstances surrounding what occurred at 9:35 a.m. May 24, when members of the Absecon and Pleasantville police departments responded to the 700 block of New Road for a report of a man with a gun inside the Dollar General.
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Review of video surveillance established that Whitted produced a gun inside the store, causing employees to flee outside. While in the store, Whitted discharged at least one round, authorities said.
MAYS LANDING — Charges against an Absecon man who was shot by police May 24 outside a Dollar…
Interaction between Whitted and police outside the store resulted in Whitted being shot, authorities said. Whitted, who was previously hospitalized, is being held in the Atlantic County jail. A detention hearing is pending.
The Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office has been handed the investigation into the shooting under attorney general directive, to avoid any conflict of interest with the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office, according to the release.
The state Office of Public Integrity and Accountability will serve as the independent supervisory reviewer.
By law, the state Attorney General’s Office must investigate police-involved shootings. An independent team interviews witnesses and collects evidence, including video footage. Police are then directed to release any footage tied to the shooting when requested after 20 days. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/absecon-man-in-police-involved-shooting-to-face-charges-again/article_a6558eca-f3eb-11ec-b8a7-ffff0781e450.html | 2022-06-24T19:32:58 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/absecon-man-in-police-involved-shooting-to-face-charges-again/article_a6558eca-f3eb-11ec-b8a7-ffff0781e450.html |
Here’s an update of the COVID-19 numbers in the state:
New positive cases: 2,538
New deaths: 14
Total positive cases: 2,115,026
Total number of deaths: 30,907
Total vaccine doses administered: 14,052,166
Rate of transmission: 0.83
CASES BY COUNTY
Atlantic: 59,526 cases, 950 deaths, 378,823 doses administered
Cape May: 11,762 cases, 261 deaths, 133,886 doses administered
Cumberland: 34,970 cases, 571 deaths, 185,855 doses administered
Ocean: 146,431 cases, 2,849 deaths, 701,504 doses administered
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Figures are as of 1 p.m. June 24
Source: N.J. Department of Health | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/new-jersey-reports-more-than-2-500-new-covid-19-cases-14-new-deaths/article_fe0f3d7a-f3df-11ec-bee5-0b4930c71052.html | 2022-06-24T19:33:10 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/new-jersey-reports-more-than-2-500-new-covid-19-cases-14-new-deaths/article_fe0f3d7a-f3df-11ec-bee5-0b4930c71052.html |
Ryan Weingartner was in the midst of a St. Augustine Prep junior varsity baseball game as a freshman in 2019 when he got the word.
The varsity needed him as a late-inning defensive replacement.
Weingartner cut through the woods that separates the junior varsity and varsity fields on the Hermits' campus.
He ran onto the field to play second base and never went back.
“That’s one of my best memories,” Weingartner said. “I was a 14-year-old playing against 17-year-olds who seemed like grown men. I was like, ‘Wow, maybe I can make something out of this.’”
A four-year varsity player, Weingartner led the Hermits to the Cape-Atlantic League, Joe Hartmann Diamond Classic and South Jersey Non-Public A titles this season. The senior shortstop/closer batted .457 with seven home runs, 31 RBIs, an .864 slugging percentage and a 1.68 ERA. He is The Press Player of the Year.
“Winning is fun,” Weingartner said, “and we did a lot of winning.”
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It was Weingartner’s ability to make plays in clutch situations that differentiated him from other players.
Nowhere was this better seen than in St. Augustine’s 4-2 win over Lenape in the Diamond Classic final.
Weingartner gave the Hermits the lead for good with a solo home run. He then came in relief in the seventh inning with no outs and runners on first and second and pitched out of the jam to preserve the victory.
Weingartner, who lives in Berlin, Camden County, said he wasn’t even sure if he was as an eighth grader if he ws going to attend St. Augustine. He ended up becoming the quintessential Hermit.
“The program has brought me so many great things,” he said.
Hermits coach Mike Bylone said Weingartner’s only baseball priority this season was St. Augustine.
“He took ownership of the program,” Bylone said. “There was a lot of dialogue as to what moves we were making. He was all in. In today’s travel world and worried about your stats, that’s not too common. Ryan was totally invested in what we were doing.”
Weingartner will continue his education and baseball career at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. The Hermits won three South Jersey titles during Weingartner’s high school career. He joins Josh Hood (2018), Kevin Eaise (2017), Joe Gatto (2014), Barry Buchowski (2013) and Ed Charlton (2011) as Hermits to have been named The Press Player of the Year.
Weingartner embraced St. Augustine’s tradition of success.
“I wanted to set a good example for the kids that came after me,” he said. “When you’re watching me play, you’re going to see the real me. I always wanted to be that next guy up.”
Coach of the Year
Bylone achieved a milestone and led the Hermits one of the best seasons in the program’s history this spring.
He is The Press Coach of the Year.
St. Augustine finished 27-2. Bylone got career win No. 300 in a 4-3 South Jersey Non-Public A quarterfinal win over Notre Dame. He finished the season with a 302-97 career record in 14 seasons. Under Bylone, the Hermits have become one of the state’s premier programs in any sport.
“It’s all about the kids and what they can accomplish,” Bylone said. “I was extremely proud to accomplish a personal goal of mine (300 career wins) with this group. They came every day and practiced hard. It’s about the players, making memories for them and remembering the journey of this special year and all that we accomplished.”
Team of the Year
St. Augustine continued an extraordinary streak this spring.
The Hermits won their sixth straight South Jersey Non-Public A title and finished ranked No. 1 in The Press Elite 11. St. Augustine is The Press Team of the Year.
Marco Levari, Andrew Gaines and C.J. Furey sparked the Hermits on the mound. Ryan Taylor led the team with 42 hits, many of them coming in clutch situations. Left fielder Kyle Neri, a three-year starter, provided toughness. Josiah Ragsdale scored 38 runs and emerged as one of South Jersey’s most dynamic players.
“If you like winning and want to get better,” Weingartner said, “there’s no better jersey to put on than St. Augustine Prep.”
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Glendale man arrested on suspicion of killing food delivery driver
A 62-year-old Glendale man was arrested on suspicion of the fatal shooting of a delivery driver earlier this month.
On June 11, Pamela Rae Martinez, 60, was shot and killed in her car after she completed a fast food delivery order in Glendale, near Bell Road and 61st Avenue.
Glendale police officers responded to calls about a car driving into a landscaping area around 7:30 p.m., and found Martinez unresponsive inside. Police forced their way in to the car, according to statement from the Glendale Police Department. Martinez was pronounced dead at the scene.
An investigation found that Martinez took a photo of a man identified as Rusty French, who was parked next to her on the side of the road, after she made her food delivery. The reason remains unclear. Police said French and Martinez apparently didn't know each other and she wasn't delivering food to him.
French told police he must have blacked out during the shooting, according to a statement from the Glendale Police Department. A search of French's house uncovered a handgun that was a match for the one used in the shooting, police said, along with other evidence they said pointed to him as the suspected shooter. No other details were provided.
French was arrested on Thursday and charged with second-degree murder.
Reach criminal justice reporter Gloria Rebecca Gomez at grgomez@gannett.com or on Twitter @glorihuh.
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Phoenix family planning clinic cancels all abortions amid uncertainties in Arizona abortion law
A Phoenix-based family planning clinic began calling patients to cancel abortion appointments on Friday after the U.S. Supreme Court reversed Roe vs. Wade in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization ruling.
Family Planning Associates Medical Group is "temporarily suspending" all abortions regardless of gestational age "while we assess the continued legality of abortion in Arizona," according to its website.
Dr. Paul Isaacson said the office's decision to suspend services may have resulted in about 20 canceled abortion appointments on Friday — "that would be typical" — but that it was the clinic's "safest option."
The suspension comes before the reversal from the nation's highest court takes effect in 25 days. In Arizona, the legality of abortion after the ruling is uncertain.
Abortion laws:What is the law for abortions in Arizona now?
The state has two laws on the books banning abortion, one that's from 158 years ago and another brand new one. It is unclear which ban will prevail.
The newest ban prohibits abortion at 15 weeks, except in cases to save the mother's life. It is supposed to take effect 90 days after the state Legislature adjourns, which could happen in the next week.
Violating physicians would face potential felony charges and loss of their professional licenses.
The old ban criminalizes helping someone access abortion, except to save the mother's life, and calls for a mandatory prison sentence of two to five years for violators.
'There are tears'
"I feel like I don't recognize this as my county anymore," said Isaacson, who has provided abortion services in the Valley since 2004.
"Everybody is sad," he said of the mood in the office Friday morning. "There are tears. I met another doctor who has nothing to do with women's health care walking in from the parking lot into our office building and she was in tears over this. Our staff (is) equally sad this morning and facing potential loss of their jobs."
Unlike at least 13 other states, including Texas and Utah, Arizona does not have a "trigger law" that instantly made abortion illegal when Roe v. Wade was overturned.
As a result, with Roe gone, it likely will be up to individual clinicians in Arizona to choose how they proceed in the immediate aftermath, unless the Arizona courts or the state Legislature take quick action, which is possible.
9 licensed abortion providers in Arizona
Arizona has nine licensed abortion providers, according to the Arizona Department of Health Services. The providers are concentrated in metro areas, with six in the Phoenix area, two in Tucson and one in Flagstaff. Twelve of Arizona's 15 counties do not have any abortion providers, the latest state information shows.
During the 2020 reporting year, the total number of reported abortions performed in Arizona was 13,273, compared with 13,097 in 2019, the state's most recent abortion report says.
This story is developing and will be updated.
Ray Stern and Stephanie Innes contributed to this report.
Reach reporter Taylor Seely at tseely@arizonarepublic.com or 480-476-6116. Follow her on Twitter @taylorseely95 or Instagram @taylor.azc.
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Roe v. Wade protests planned in Phoenix, Tucson after Supreme Court's abortion ruling
Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the Roe vs. Wade decision Friday morning, ending a constitutional right to an abortion, protests are expected to occur across the U.S.
As of Friday morning, demonstrators have already gathered outside the Supreme Court building in Washington, either in support or in protest of the court’s decision.
Here are some of the planned protests in Arizona. The list will be updated as other demonstrations are scheduled.
Phoenix protests
Friday, at 7 p.m. at the Arizona State Capitol
The Phoenix Party for Socialism and Liberation and the Phoenix branch of Radical Women, a feminist socialist organization, have organized a protest for Friday evening at the Arizona State Capitol Building. The information was shared on a flyer posted through the Phoenix PSL Instagram.
On June 22, Radical Women said in a Facebook post it planned to hold a protest at 7 p.m. the evening the court decision was issued.
"This is only the beginning of the fightback!" the organization said in the Facebook post. "Come out to speak your mind and find out how to join with others in the movement for reproductive justice. As working class people, let's elevate the message that Unjust Decisions Will Not Be Obeyed!!"
Friday, at 7 p.m. at the Arizona State Capitol
Women's March Phoenix has also organized a protest at the state capitol building Friday night.
"There is no time to wait, friends. The time is NOW," Women's March Phoenix shared in a Facebook post. "The only way for us to protect reproductive rights in Arizona is now through the state legislature. Our current legislature will not protect us, they will further strip us of our rights."
The organization also requested abortion-rights candidates running for Arizona state Legislature to post campaign donation links as a reply to the Facebook post.
Tucson protests
Friday at 7 p.m., 405 W. Congress Street
The Tucson Women's March organized a protest Friday evening in front of the U.S. District Court in downtown Tucson.
In a post to its website, the organization said it does not have set plans for how the evening will go, unlike previous demonstrations it has set up.
"We are providing space for all of our responses to injustice, and we will do our best to make sure everyone stays safe and hydrated," the organization said in on its website. "We have shown grief, we have expressed our anger, now we unleash our primal scream- shaking the foundations of the establishments who seek to oppress us."
The organization recommended protesters park at El Mercado or ride the streetcar into the location from elsewhere.
In the post, the Women's March requested volunteers for its safety team to deescalate encounters with counter-protesters, as well as volunteers with medical training and water or Gatorade donations.
Friday, on Broadway Boulevard between Randolph and Alvernon ways
The Tucson Women's March will also rally during the day with signs along Broadway Boulevard between Randolph and Alvernon ways.
The protest was announced in the same website post as the other scheduled demonstration downtown Friday evening.
The organization recommended demonstrators use Reid Park for the most convenient parking.
Both protests will occur regardless of weather conditions and masks are encouraged based on Pima County's high number of COVID-19 infections, according to the Women's March's website.
Reach breaking news reporter Sam Burdette at sburdette@gannett.com or on Twitter @SuperSafetySam
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Street sweeper crash on Loop 101 leaves 2 girls dead
A street sweeper vehicle lost control on Loop 101 in Phoenix early Friday morning, killing two children and leaving the driver critically injured, authorities said.
The Arizona Department of Public Safety said the crash happened around 3:30 a.m. in Tolleson, near the intersection of Loop 101 and Interstate 10.
According to Bart Graves, a DPS spokesperson, the driver of the street sweeper was going southbound on the Loop 101 ramp onto I-10.
The driver's two daughters were inside the vehicle when it started rolling down the freeway, Graves said, and one of the girls was thrown from the vehicle.
The vehicle kept turning over and went over the ramp's right-side wall, falling into I-10 westbound lanes.
The 37-year-old driver and her 7-year-old daughter were found inside the vehicle and taken to the hospital, but the child was pronounced dead when she arrived, officials said.
The 10-year-old girl who was thrown off the vehicle was found on the ramp above by authorities, who pronounced her dead at the scene.
The mother remains in critical condition at the hospital.
DPS officials said the street sweeper belongs to a private business. The woman was working at the time of the incident.
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CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. — Over one million dollars has been pledged to 13 green infrastructure projects spanning across Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia.
The Chesapeake Bay Trust, in partnership with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection announced on Friday that $1,058,720 in funding has been awarded to the projects.
The awards help communities develop and implement plans that reduce stormwater runoff; increase the amount of green spaces in urban areas; improve the health of local rivers, streams, the Chesapeake Bay and the human population within the communities.
The Borough of Chambersburg was awarded $150,00 in grants to a project designed to directly reduce stormwater runoff in the Conococheague Creek.
The project also intends to reduce associated flooding in the immediate area, address bank stabilization, and implement green infrastructure components.
Major enhancements to the area include reduction of Hood Street flooding, the instillation of sub-surface infiltration beds to manage stormwater, the planting of pollinator gardens, and the removal of invasive species and planting native riparian buffers.
"We congratulate all grantees for putting forth projects that will support clean water and strong neighborhoods," said EPA Mid-Atlantic Regional Administrator Adam Ortiz.
"This program helps communities reinvigorate gray and green infrastructure projects that reduce stormwater runoff and pollution to local waters and the Chesapeake Bay, while improving their economy, quality of life and community beautification."
The green infrastructure program is designed to facilitate communities implementing traditional "gray" infrastructure projects, such as repaving roads, to add green elements at little additional cost, which then offer cost-effective savings.
The Watershed Alliance of York in York and Lancaster Counties also received a grant of $20,700.
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LANCASTER, Pa. — Note: The video is from July 2021.
Clipper Magazine Stadium, the home of the Atlantic League's Lancaster Barnstormers, has been named "Best MLB Partner League Ballpark" by Baseball Digest for the third consecutive year, the team announced Friday.
The award is voted on by fans. Clipper Magazine Stadium beat out Haymarket Park, the home of the American Association's Lincoln Saltdogs and the NCAA's Nebraska Cornhuskers, in the final balloting.
A total of 48 ballparks, representing the Atlantic League, the American Association, the Frontier League, and the Pioneer League, were considered.
Clipper Magazine Stadium, which opened to the public on May 11, 2005, hosts 66 Barnstormers home games this season -- but it's not just known for baseball.
Past and upcoming events held at the stadium include: the American Mock Trial National Tournament; Community Services Group 5k; Lancaster Pride; graduations for McCaskey High School, Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology, PA College of Health Sciences, Insight PA Cyber School and ABC; Christmas Spirit Drive Through Lights Show; Valour Professional Wrestling; Representative Mike Sturla Backpack Giveaway; Lancaster-Lebanon Tournament; July 3 FREE Independence Day Celebration in partnership with Nordstrom and Truist; plus kickball leagues, blood drives, baseball and softball camps and clinics, movie nights, carnivals, job fairs, corporate events and more.
The stadium is filled with many amenities and features, such as a state of the art Kids Park with inflatables and a carousel, a special dugout for nursing mothers, a picnic area catered by Hess Barbecue, the Broken Bat Craft Beer Deck, and a "backyard" viewing area where fans can play lawn games like cornhole while watching baseball.
There is also an Outdoor Experience area down the right field line, with table games like Jenga, and a suite level that includes a vintage pinball machine arcade.
“We owe a debt of gratitude to our year-round staff, our sponsors, community partners, ownership and the fans," Barnstormers president and general manager Mike Reynolds said. "A special shout out to our incredible event staff and volunteer program through the United Way of Lancaster County that work hard to provide the best experience to all visitors of Clipper Magazine Stadium year-round.
"Every day we strive to make this the best ballpark we possibly can. Cleanliness, striving to provide the best experience and constantly updating the ballpark are always top priorities.”
To celebrate this honor, the Lancaster Barnstormers will hold a “Three-peat Thursday” on Thursday, July 14. Tickets to the game are available for just $3.
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California abortion providers expect more Arizona patients after court's 'Roe' ruling
It's a 250-mile drive from metro Phoenix, home to nearly five million people, to the California desert city of El Centro, population about 44,000.
El Centro sits at the bottom of the Golden State, about 12 miles from the Mexico border in the Imperial Valley, one of California's most productive agricultural regions.
It's there that Planned Parenthood operates the Imperial Valley Health Center, for most Arizonans the closest out-of-state clinic offering abortions. It sits in an ordinary-looking strip mall not far from the freeway, a few beige storefronts down from a Thai bistro.
Getting there from Phoenix means driving south through the saguaro-dotted desert to Gila Bend, joining Interstate 8 southwest. In Yuma, drivers zoom by a blue sign decorated with a posy of yellow poppies, welcoming them to California.
As they pass over the state line, a lot changes when it comes to abortion.
On the Arizona side of the blue sign, patients must receive in-person counseling and wait 24 hours before they can undergo an abortion. They must receive an ultrasound, and be asked if they want to see the image. Abortions via telehealth, where patients receive pills in the mail, are completely banned.
On the California side of the sign, none of these barriers exist. State laws there protect access to abortions with few restrictions and a move is under way to affirm the right in the state constitution.
The differences between Arizona and California will become starker in the wake of Friday's U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down Roe vs. Wade. It is possible many Arizona women will now seek abortions in California, considered a "safe haven" state based on its laws. And many will find themselves on the long drive to El Centro.
Overturned:AZ health professionals, politicians react to Roe v. Wade abortion ruling
Preparing for the worst
For months, as the Supreme Court mulled the fate of Roe, Tessa Hemmi, who works with Planned Parenthood in San Diego, braced for a worst-case scenario.
But still, the draft court opinion that leaked in May, revealing that the 1973 precedent would fall before its 50th birthday, hit hard.
"A punch in the stomach," Hemmi says, describing how she felt when Politico published its bombshell scoop.
“It was a very hard week. And I think that's when reality really started hitting other folks outside of the abortion community."
Inside it, though, the decision was expected. According to Hemmi, people have been busy laying "months and months and months" of groundwork.
Hemmi's official title is care coordination program manager at Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest, which covers three counties across southern California.
The program offers social and medical support for patients, she says. In practice, Hemmi's job is to find solutions to the barriers — be they financial, logistical, or emotional — that people encounter as they seek an abortion.
"We provide really hands-on support and problem solving, just what each individual patient needs help with," she says.
And patients will soon need a whole lot more help.
Hemmi expects many Arizonans may need to to travel out of state, perhaps to El Centro. The Imperial Valley clinic, the closest out-of-state option for Phoenix and Tucson, is under her remit. So are the next two closest clinics, the Rancho Mirage Family Planning Center and the Coachella Health Center, both near Palm Springs along Interstate 10.
Some may go to coastal cities such as San Diego or Los Angeles. For those living in northern Arizona, Las Vegas or even Albuquerque could be the way to go.
But Hemmi is certainly expecting an influx.
So when she heard the news of the leaked draft opinion, she took a minute. But not a second longer.
“The personal side of me was like, 'Oh, my gosh.'" she says. "And the professional care coordination program manager (side) was like, 'All right, we've got our work cut out for us.'”
What will happen in Arizona?
It's unclear what the fall of Roe immediately means for Arizonans and how soon people may start to look for help out-of-state.
In March, Gov. Doug Ducey signed a bill outlawing abortion after 15 weeks, with limited exceptions for medical emergencies.
The majority of abortions in Arizona occur before 15 weeks. According to a 2020 report by the Arizona Department of Health Services, 95% of the state's 13,186 abortions that year were at 15 weeks or earlier.
But a pre-Roe — and pre-Arizona statehood — ban mandating prison time for abortion providers remains on the books. Ducey has said the new law would take precedence, though the text of the bill specifically states it does not override the older law.
Either way, Ducey has a few months left as governor, and activists are aware that the November election could alter Arizona's political landscape.
Brittany Fonteno, the president of Planned Parenthood Arizona, says her understanding is that the total ban — which she described as "antiquated and draconian" — would not take effect.
"We don't have a crystal ball," she adds. "We don't know what would unfold if Roe ceases to be the law of the land."
But what she does know is that she felt "a righteous sense of rage" at the prospect of Roe vs. Wade being overturned. And in the meantime, she will work to ensure patients in Arizona can still access care.
"We know some patients in Arizona are actually already traveling to California to get their abortions because it doesn’t have the onerous and unnecessary barriers to abortion we have in Arizona," Fonteno said.
What those patients have encountered may offer a glimpse into a post-Roe Arizona.
Roe V. Wade:What is the law for abortions in Arizona now?
A ticking clock and a trip to California
Morgan and her husband had not been expecting to start a family so soon after their wedding in November 2019.
But when the Phoenix woman, now 39, got a positive pregnancy test three weeks later, on Thanksgiving weekend, the newlyweds were delighted.
Then came the next surprise: The obstetrician told them it was twins.
“That really caught us off-guard," says Morgan, who asked to be identified by her first name only. “I would say we were very 'deer in the headlights.' But we were excited. Very nervous.”
They shared the happy news with family and friends, who placed bets on the combination of genders.
But when they went for the 12-week check up, during the scan, the ultrasound tech grew quiet, somber.
"There was something she wasn't telling us," says Morgan.
The scan revealed a problem. Twin B had a heart defect, causing blood to pump into the fetus' lungs. The condition posed a risk not just for Twin B, but also for Twin A and Morgan.
The whirlwind of excitement Morgan and her husband had been living in suddenly stopped. They went home and sat with the difficult news, trying to take it in.
Then the doctor called to say a "selective reduction" was an option, a procedure in which Morgan would have an abortion for Twin B, after which she would carry and eventually give birth to the dead fetus. Twin A, a girl, as it turned out, would keep growing as expected.
Morgan had always been a supporter of abortion rights. She says she and her husband had developed an "emotional attachment" to the idea of having twins.
"The idea of having healthy twins," she says, describing their hopes. "The idea of everyone surviving in this situation."
"But once it became something that was risky, it was pretty easy to get on board with the idea of an abortion."
Actually undergoing the procedure, though, was something else. Morgan's doctor could not find a provider in Arizona, and had to hit the phones to find a clinic elsewhere.
“Time was ticking. I think we were 16, maybe 17 weeks," Morgan says. She and her husband were told to prepare to leave for an appointment at a moment's notice, and warned they may have to travel to Washington, D.C., or to New York.
Eventually, the doctor found a provider in Los Angeles. Morgan and her husband drove there, a six-hour trip. It was March 2020, as the world shuddered to a halt with the onset of COVID-19. Morgan was around 20 weeks when the procedure was done.
After a week in Los Angeles, Morgan went home and for the next four months carried the dead fetus alongside her growing daughter. It was "emotionally, mentally and physically traumatic," she says.
"The experience caused me to disconnect from my pregnancy experience entirely because there was death in my body and I had no choice but to keep it there," she says.
"I was constantly reminded of this forced pregnancy and it was a harrowing concept to live with each day."
She went into labor in Phoenix, in July 2020. After her daughter was born, Morgan says, she heard the medical staff whispering.
"I was told I was going to need to give another big push. I remember looking away and just getting through it.
"It was grim."
Shortly after giving birth in Phoenix, Morgan was handed a lengthy death recorder form to fill out and required to decide on cremation or burial for Twin B, something she said was "one of the most traumatic pieces of this whole experience".
It felt religious to her, she says, though she did not give birth at a religious hospital. And it wasn't what she and her husband wanted or felt.
"I think it’s a lovely thing to be able to offer to grieving parents, but it’s not where we were at."
Morgan says no one should have to endure being forced to carry a pregnancy to term.
"My forced pregnancy was necessary to save my daughter's life," she says. "But it does not mean it wasn't agonizing."
Overall, Morgan estimates, the ordeal cost about $10,000.
The procedure was more than $9,000, between the specialist and the hospital fees. None of it was covered by insurance. Gas to and from Los Angeles cost around $150, plus more after criss-crossing the traffic-choked city from their accommodation to the hospital. There were other incidental costs, like boarding their dog, which Morgan estimates at $40 a day.
They stayed with friends, so there were no hotel or motel costs, just the worry about putting their hosts out.
“It’s not lost on me that we were very privileged to jump in a car and drive several hundred miles to another state and stay there for a week and shell out thousands of dollars on the spot," Morgan says.
"Not that any of that was easy for us, but there are so many people in this country and in Arizona that would not be able to do that," she adds.
"What would happen to them? What would happen to their pregnancy?"
Finding new ways to help
Hemmi's job is to get the people who would not be able to do that to the care they need.
As she talks about her work, she constantly throws out hypothetical questions, examples of the very real dilemmas patients traveling out-of-state encounter.
"Who can I have watch my child?"
"Oh, no, I can't take a day off work. What am I going to do?"
"I don't have money for gas, or money for a hotel, or what am I going to do about that?"
"How am I even going to get there?"
Some questions can be answered with money, or a phone call. But others are thornier.
Some patients might be fleeing from intimate partner violence. Some might be experiencing homelessness. Some might not have a driver's license or a credit card, which is fine by Planned Parenthood, but makes checking into a hotel tricky.
It used to be that patients were passed to Hemmi's team on a case-by-case basis, if they asked for help.
Now, every patient is screened for out-of-state or overseas travel. Hemmi and her team will ask if the patient can afford the procedure. If they want to be considered for funding. If they can get there. Where they will stay.
"And so then we follow up with them, kind of as much as necessary, until they get to us," Hemmi says.
"We act as kind of that conduit to make sure that, you know, there are no additional barriers that come up in the process."
Is money a worry? The short answer is no. "Luckily, we have lots of different supports," says Hemmi.
The chapter has just started an internal fund for its highest needs patients, and a partnership with local fund Access Reproductive Justice remains in place. California Gov. Gavin Newsom has also pledged a total of $125 million for reproductive health services in the state.
Preparing for what happens now
Hemmi recently met with Planned Parenthood Arizona's patient navigator, who specializes in financial and logistical support for Arizonans who have to travel out of state.
"We sat down for hours and just really talked about processes and best practices and how we can share patients and make the process as seamless as we can," Hemmi says.
Other meetings between Planned Parenthood Arizona and California chapters have taken place too, the state organizations determined to work together more closely in the post-Roe world.
Fonteno is looking to states "friendlier" to abortion care and also south to Mexico, for potential partnerships across the border in Nogales.
She was devastated by the prospect of Roe being overturned, she says, but not defeated.
"This will absolutely not stop us," she says. "Because we believe that no judge, no politician, no ban should ever interfere with someone making their own personal medical decisions."
The right to an abortion, she adds, "should not be limited to someone's zip code, whether they live in California or Arizona or New York."
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Abortion remains legal in Nebraska following a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the five decades of precedent under Roe v. Wade, backers of abortion rights said Friday afternoon.
An attempt (LB933) by the Legislature to put in place a trigger ban on abortion in anticipation the 1973 decision could fall failed to overcome a filibuster in April.
As such, abortion is still legal and accessible in the state of Nebraska, said Andi Curry Grubb, the state executive director for Planned Parenthood of Nebraska.
"Today's decision did absolutely nothing to change that," Curry Grubb said in a Zoom call Friday afternoon. "Planned Parenthood and the CARE Clinic of Bellevue proudly offer abortion care and will continue to do so."
But, representatives of Planned Parenthood, the ACLU of Nebraska, Women's Fund of Omaha and I Be Black Girl, said they were disappointed in the 6-3 decision released Friday morning.
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"With this decision, the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey and dismantled the federal constitutional protections for abortions that have existed for 50 years," said Scout Richters, reproductive rights counsel for the ACLU of Nebraska.
Richters said the ruling "allows anti-abortion politicians across the country to force women and other people who can become pregnant into lives they did not envision."
The Hobbs decision, according to Ashlei Spivey, founder and director of I Be Black Girl, will have a disproportionate impact on women of color and those living in rural areas.
"If you want to force people to have pregnancies, we know the mortality rate for people of color is significantly higher," Spivey said.
Erin Feichtinger, policy director at the Women's Fund of Omaha, called the decision "an unprecedented stripping away of a fundamental right that has existed for five decades."
Any ban on abortion, which the Legislature is expected to take up in a special session later this summer, would also have "a devastating impact" on the economic well-being of women, as well as businesses and communities, she added.
Instead, Feichtinger said lawmakers should consider bills to ensure women receive equal pay for equal work, are able to be safely housed and food secure, and have paid family leave if and when they do choose to become parents.
All of the speakers at Friday's virtual press conference said they are prepared to fight any proposed abortion ban that may go before the Legislature in the coming weeks.
"We have been doing all the work we need to to prepare for every scenario we could face," Curry Grubb said. "We're going to do the exact same thing we did during the (legislative) session: remind Nebraskans this is now the values they stand for, remind state senators that they serve their constituents.
"We're going to turn people out and we're going to defeat anything that they bring," she added.
Richters said recent polling shows a majority of Nebraskans oppose an abortion ban, which demonstrates there is momentum behind the effort to defeat any proposed legislation.
"We continue to evaluate all of our options including litigation, work in the Legislature, and at the ballot box to use all of the tools we have to fight back against these bans and keep abortion legal," she said.
Reaction from Nebraska politicians and stakeholders to the Supreme Court's abortion decision
Gov. Pete Ricketts
The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe is an answer to millions of prayers on behalf of the unborn and a victory for human life.
— Gov. Pete Ricketts (@GovRicketts) June 24, 2022
I will be working with our legislative leaders to determine what more we can do to protect our preborn babies.
Sen. Jen Day
We will never stop defending our right to decide if, when, and under what circumstances to have a family. Abortion care is still safe and legal in Nebraska and the Nebraska Legislature must reject medically unnecessary restrictions on abortion. https://t.co/jljpfabp21
— Senator Jen Day (@JenDayforNE) June 24, 2022
Archdiocese of Omaha
Many in our country will not agree with the reasoning and the decision of the Supreme Court. And some women will still wonder how they can meet the challenge of an unplanned or unwanted pregnancy. This is a moment for each of us to commit to not let any woman face her challenge. pic.twitter.com/yNmLVKFKSs
— Archdiocese of Omaha (@ArchOmaha) June 24, 2022
ACLU of Nebraska
Abortion remains legal in Nebraska — but with today’s decision overturning Roe, our right to access that care is under threat like never before. Now is the time to act.
— ACLU of Nebraska (@ACLUofNE) June 24, 2022
FIND A RALLY NEAR YOU AND STAY TUNED: https://t.co/XIGsMaXwFk pic.twitter.com/aKI1BMzKOo
Jim Pillen, Republican candidate for governor
From the #PillenPressTeam: A statement from Jim Pillen pic.twitter.com/kDbF38nUGn
— Jim Pillen (@jim_pillen) June 24, 2022
Sen. Carol Blood, Democratic candidate for governor
Be clear about what Nebraska’s trigger bill does and how it violates a woman’s bodily autonomy. Nebraska’s trigger bill creates a police state where doctors must live in fear of being arrested and charged as felons for providing needed healthcare to their patients.
— Senator Carol Blood (@senatorblood) June 24, 2022
Sen. Adam Morfeld
I will not turn every miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, IVF procedure, and split-second life-saving decision by a doctor into a criminal investigation. These are private decisions that should be left to a woman and her doctor not politicians and lawyers.
— State Senator Adam Morfeld (@Adam_Morfeld) June 24, 2022
Sen. Julie Slama
50 years. 64 million lives lost.
— Senator Julie Slama (@SenatorSlama) June 24, 2022
One of the darkest chapters in our history ends today.
Roe v. Wade has been overturned by the Supreme Court.
It's a beautiful day for life! 💗 pic.twitter.com/U400RG0EyC
Nebraska Democratic Party
Nebraska Democrats are assailing the wrong-headed U.S. Supreme Court decision today to overturn #RoeVWade.@janekleeb: “The majority of Nebraskans believe abortion must remain legal and that women must have the right to make their own health decisions."https://t.co/CryZjT0179 pic.twitter.com/qjuqRYT135
— Nebraska Democratic Party (@NebraskaDems) June 24, 2022
Nebraska Family Alliance
The moment we have been praying for and working towards for nearly 50 years is finally here: Roe v. Wade has been fully overturned in a 6-3 vote! Your decades of faithful prayers, support, and advocacy have brought us to this historic moment.https://t.co/fg4YSISanv
— NE Family Alliance (@nebfamily) June 24, 2022
Sen. Megan Hunt
We have already defeated an abortion ban in Nebraska, and WE WILL DO IT AGAIN. We will defeat any other attempt to ban abortion in this state because the majority of Nebraskans understand that banning abortion is as extreme as it is unnecessary.
— Senator Megan Hunt (@NebraskaMegan) June 24, 2022
Mike Flood, Republican candidate for U.S. House
This is a great day for all those committed to the protection of unborn life.
— Mike Flood (@Flood4Nebraska) June 24, 2022
Read my statement on the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision here: https://t.co/UKjv7CXZzd pic.twitter.com/UqaWVL5ELB
Sen. Patty Pansing Brooks, Democratic candidate for U.S. House
Statement from Patty Pansing Brooks on the overturning of Roe v. Wade: pic.twitter.com/4w8aFd2XUR
— 🌈 Patty Pansing Brooks (Vote June 28th, NE-01) (@Patty4Nebraska) June 24, 2022
Sen. Deb Fischer
— Senator Deb Fischer (@SenatorFischer) June 24, 2022
Planned Parenthood for North Central States
Now is the time for every person who supports abortion rights to stand up and act.
— Planned Parenthood (@ppnorthcentral) June 24, 2022
Sen. Ben Sasse
Sen. Tony Vargas
Politicians don't belong in doctor's offices making medical decisions. Women should make the decisions that are the best for them with their doctors. Today's ruling by the Supreme Court takes away an established right that protected Americans’ health & safety for nearly 50 years.
— Senator Tony Vargas (@TonyVargas) June 24, 2022
Rep. Don Bacon
James Michael Bowers
Abortion is still legal in Nebraska.
— James Michael Bowers (@Bowers4Nebraska) June 24, 2022
Republicans in our state are ready to ban abortion - even in the case of rape or incest.
I stand with everyone ready to fight.
Rally tonight 5 PM
Lincoln - City/County building 555 S 10th St.
Omaha - Memorial Park, 6005 Underwood Ave.
Lancaster County Republican Party
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WASHINGTON — King County announced a $1 million emergency fund and Washington state joined a multi-state agreement with California and Oregon Friday to protect women's abortion rights following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
The Supreme Court ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years in a decision by its conservative majority. The outcome is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half of U.S. states.
King County Executive Dow Constantine said the $1 million abortion emergency fund will include $500,000 for the Northwest Abortion Access Fund and $500,000 for Public Health - Seattle & King County.
"It is clear that the Court’s sinister decision will not actually stop abortions from happening – it will, rather, take us back to a time when abortions were not safe," Constantine said in a release. "My administration will continue to support providers, public health workers, women, Trans and Non-Binary people and families to ensure that King County remains a safe and welcoming place to access abortion care, family planning services, and the right to privacy."
Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell said the city is working to expand access to reproductive services, because of the anticipated demand from people out of state seeking safe and accessible care.
The City of Seattle is also investing $250,000 into the Northwest Abortion Access Fund, Harell said.
“Men have an obligation to stand with the women in our country who have seen their constitutional rights eliminated," Harrell said in a statement. "A decision like this makes hope difficult and threatens our most precious rights and liberties. However, in Seattle, we reject this decision – full stop – and will ensure our response is based in a united commitment to maintain and expand our city’s embrace of privacy, freedom, and shared values.”
Hours after the reversal, Gov. Jay Inslee announced a multi-state partnership with California and Oregon to "defend access to reproductive health care, including abortion and contraceptives and committed to protecting patients and doctors against efforts by other states to export their abortion bans to our states."
“The law remains unchanged in Washington state, but the threat to patient access and privacy has never been more dangerous," Inslee said in a release. "Even in Washington state, Republicans have introduced about 40 bills in the past six years to roll back abortion rights and access to reproductive care. The right of choice should not depend on which party holds the majority, but that’s where we find ourselves."
Inslee said more than half of the country's population lacks safe access to abortion.
In 13 states, so-called trigger laws were designed to take effect if Roe v. Wade was overturned. Others states with conservative legislatures are likely to try passing partial or full bans on abortion. According to the abortion-rights think tank the Guttmacher Institute, nine more states fall into this category.
One of Washington state's neighbors, Idaho, has a trigger law in place to ban all or most abortions.
"Washington state remains steadfast in our commitment to protecting the ability and right of every patient who comes to our state in need of abortion care and we will fight like hell to restore that right to patients all across the country," Inslee said.
Despite the Supreme Court ruling, abortion rights are currently secured in the state of Washington.
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Lincoln Public Schools' district office will soon be the Steve Joel District Leadership Center.
That's the name the Lincoln Board of Education landed on after it announced earlier this month it would rename the central office in honor of the retiring superintendent, whose last day is Thursday.
The board is expected to formally approve the name at its Tuesday meeting.
Joel, who is wrapping up his 12th year in Lincoln, helped lead the initiative to build the $15.9 million district office at 59th and O streets after a fire destroyed the previous building in 2011.
Board members surprised Joel by announcing they would name the building after him at their meeting June 14.
"I cannot think of a more fitting name for this district office or a more fitting display of Dr. Joel's work in the district and leaving it better than he found it, so I am very pleased to support this recommendation," said board president Don Mayhew at the time.
The board praised Joel's response in the aftermath of the May 30, 2011, fire that gutted LPS' old central office, which came at the end of Joel's first year in the district.
"I remember you saying that not only would we build back, we would build back better than before," board member Lanny Boswell said.
Before coming to Lincoln, Joel, a New York native, served as a superintendent in Kansas, Grand Island and Beatrice, part of a nearly 40-year career in education.
His successor, Sioux City, Iowa, Superintendent Paul Gausman, starts July 1.
Zach Hammack, a 2018 UNL graduate, has always called Lincoln home. He previously worked as a copy editor at the Journal Star and was a reporting intern in 2017. Now, he covers students, teachers and schools as the newspaper’s K-12 reporter.
A Lincoln Southeast soccer coach noticed the same teams were winning each season, so he decided to look at the data. What he found turned into a larger project to tackle inequities in youth sports access.
Nebraska is one of 37 states with a so-called Blaine Amendment, prohibiting states from funding religious schools with public dollars. Tuesday's Supreme Court ruling on a tuition assistance program in Maine essentially nullifies those provisions.
The ’80s pop music star praised the Silver Hawk cast and crew for putting on a "great version" of her 2012 Broadway musical — and for raising money for the Trevor Project in the process.
The LPS school board is looking at revising its policy and regulations governing advertising on school grounds after Union Bank & Trust offered $1.5 million for the naming rights for the stadium at West Holdrege and Northwest 48th streets.
Lincoln Public Schools — in partnership with local law enforcement and other agencies — became one of the first school districts in the nation to receive sport event risk management training.
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Several local organizations are getting millions of dollars in grants to help them fund capital projects as part of the Shovel-Ready Capital Recovery and Investment Act.
The Nebraska Department of Economic Development on Friday announced 76 recipients of the $115 million in funds that were authorized last year by the Legislature.
"The State of Nebraska and our department are privileged to support so many impactful organizations whose work is serving to build and enhance our communities, improve lives and further economic prosperity,” said Anthony Goins, director of the Department of Economic Development.
Most of the money for the program, $100 million, comes from the federal American Rescue Plan Act. The other $15 million comes from the state's general fund.
Among the Lancaster County organizations that received money were:
* The Nebraska Communities Playhouse in Hickman: $1.5 million
* Star City Optimist Youth Foundation: $1.255 million
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* The Lincoln Children's Zoo: $1.1 million
* Mourning Hope Grief Center: $768,800
* The Lincoln Sports Foundation: $759,000
* Malcolm Youth Sports Association: $363,900
* Nebraska Statewide Arboretum: $66,000
* Lincoln Community Playhouse: $38,000
A number of other organizations in Southeast Nebraska also received funding:
* Seward Changing the Game: $5 million
* Beatrice YMCA: $5 million
* Bone Creek Museum of Agrarian Art in David City: $673,200
* Nebraska City Veteran's Memorial Building Project: $608,300
* Blue River Arts Council in Crete: $333,100
* Historic Resources Group in Friend: $300,000
* Community Players in Beatrice: $96,700
* Yorkshire Playhouse in York: $6,000
Top Nebraska tourist attractions
1. Lake McConaughy and Lake Ogallala
2. Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium
3. Ponca State Park
4. Fremont Lakes State Recreation Area
5. Eugene T. Mahoney State Park
6. Fort Robinson State Park
7. Platte River State Park
8. Harlan County Lake
9. Pawnee State Recreation Area
10. Omaha Children's Museum
11. Calamus Reservoir State Recreation Area
12. Louisville State Recreation Area
13. Wagon Train State Recreation Area
14. Lewis and Clark State Recreation Area
15. Indian Cave State Park
16. Lauritzen Gardens and Kenefick Park
17. Lake Maloney State Recreation Area
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An Air Quality Alert is in effect for Saturday across the region due to potentially elevated air pollution levels.
High temperatures will be in the 90s with light-to-moderate southerly winds and sunny skies, according to the National Weather Service in Wilmington.
These conditions are favorable for ground-level ozone, or smog, to form, according to the alert issued by the Miami Valley Regional Planning Commission and Regional Air Pollution Control Agency for Clark, Darke, Greene, Miami, Montgomery and Preble counties, and by the Southwest Ohio Air Quality Agency for Butler and Warren counties.
The Air Quality Index forecast is 101 for Saturday.
Any reading of 101 or higher is considered “unhealthy for sensitive groups,” according to the agencies
The elderly, children and anyone with respiratory diseases should cut back prolonged and heavy exertion. If spending time outside, anyone considered at-risk should take more breaks and do less strenuous activities.
Anyone coughing experiencing a shortness of breath or unusual fatigue should call their health care provider.
The general public is not expected to be affected.
People are encouraged to do the following to reduce ground-level ozone:
- Avoid driving if possible. If not, combine errands or delay them until the Air Quality Alert is lifted. While driving, avoid excessive idling, especially at drive-thru windows.
- Refuel vehicles after 8 p.m., or wait until the alert is over. Make sure your gas cap is on tightly to avoid letting gas fumes escape.
- Limit the use of gasoline-powered equipment around the home, such as lawn mowers, chainsaws, power trimmers and shredders.
- Mow lawns after 6 p.m.
For more information visit MiamiValleyAir.org or call 937-223-6323.
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