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PORTLAND, Maine — When Karl Schatz and Margaret Hathaway began working in 2019 on the “Maine Bicentennial Community Cookbook,” the project and their hopes for it were modest.
“We envisioned a book that would highlight Maine’s resources and rich food traditions, sharing dishes found in all 16 counties,” they wrote. “We hoped to sell the cookbook from a little booth at fairs and festivals across the state…and in the manner of all community cookbooks, we planned to give a portion of the proceeds to organizations doing good in the community—in this case, fighting hunger in Maine.”
The book, released in 2020, sold briskly and received such a warm reception that Schatz and Hathaway have now produced a companion volume, “Maine Community Cookbook, Volume 2.”
It is, once again, a celebration of home cooking in Maine, deeply rooted in families who are brought to life through the photos and stories they shared.
And, of course, there are the recipes.
All you have to do is look at the names of these dishes to be transported to a different time or place: "Gramma’s Apple Pandowdy," "Steuben Side-Walk Society Oyster Stew," "Camp Kezar Baked Ducks," "Eastport Fish Chowder," and "Aunt Weeza’s Homemade Donuts,” for example.
Every entry has a story, all of them interesting, or illuminating, or both.
Consider the recipe, plucked from a grandmother’s cookbook for cod sounds and tongues:
“Cod sounds are the swim bladder, and the tongues are a muscle taken from the back of a cod’s neck. Both were considered delicacies at the time.”
Bet you didn’t know that.
As was the case with Volume 1, $2 from the sale of every copy of Volume 2 will be distributed to non-profits fighting hunger. So far, Volume 1 has raised more than $20,000 for that cause. | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/207/new-maine-cookbook-showcases-over-200-recipes-found-in-each-county-cooking-recipes-207/97-319d23eb-002e-4ca8-bb82-b58cbde79348 | 2022-08-26T00:16:55 | 0 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/207/new-maine-cookbook-showcases-over-200-recipes-found-in-each-county-cooking-recipes-207/97-319d23eb-002e-4ca8-bb82-b58cbde79348 |
OWLS HEAD, Maine — Just as he did 56 years ago, John “Mac” McComb pulled the hood clips on the old Shelby Mustang, to show off the high-performance 289 V-8.
“It's 400 horsepower,” he said. "The car weighs 2600 pounds.”
It’s a car Mac McComb drove, very fast, just two weeks after he bought it new from Shelby in 1966 and won his first two Trans Am series races.
The Mustang, with the big-time racing history, will be the centerpiece of this year’s New England Auto Auction at the Owls Head Transportation Museum, taking place on Saturday, August 27.
“I can’t tell you how having this car back has brought up so many memories,” McComb said, as he showed off the engine compartment of the now-restored Mustang.
The car is gleaming white with two blue stripes, just as it was when he first raced it to successive wins and helped Ford claim the 1966 manufacturer’s championship.
McComb would go on to race a 1967 Shelby, then drive for other manufacturers in his career, and teach at a racing school.
He retired to Maine in 2012 and began volunteering at the Owls Head museum. That’s when Toby Stinson, director of the annual auto auction, learned his story, and that of the 1966 Mustang.
The car, McComb told him, was still around, owned by a collector.
“I wrote in my head an unofficial mission seven or eight years ago,” Stinson said. "I’m not going to rest until we get John’s car at the museum because the history has to be completed, and we have to tie the circle back together.”
So, the museum worked out the details with the car’s owner and arranged for it to be sold at this year’s auction.
The value is listed as between $800,000 and $2 million.
“On its own, this is a world-class artifact worthy of any historical interpretation,” Stinson said.
He said there is a lot of interest in the car, but potential bidders are being quiet about their intentions.
"High-end auctions are like a game of Texas Hold ‘em," he said.
The car’s history, the Shelby legacy, and the fact that only a handful of the ’66 racers still exist all contribute to the value, Stinson said.
For the museum, Mac McComb’s history only adds to the value of the Mustang.
For McComb, it's been a chance to reconnect with his personal history.
The museum hopes bidders will feel the same enthusiasm and want to make the car their own.
It will most likely go to a private collector for display, said Stinson, but McComb said the powerful car deserves a more active retirement.
“It ought to be driven,” he said as he sat just beyond the driver’s door.
“That’s what it was made to do.” | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/207/rare-shelby-mustang-headlines-auto-auction-owls-head-transportation-museum-travel-antique-automotive/97-b7defc5c-ac33-4ec0-b9ab-9a451ad070f0 | 2022-08-26T00:17:01 | 0 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/207/rare-shelby-mustang-headlines-auto-auction-owls-head-transportation-museum-travel-antique-automotive/97-b7defc5c-ac33-4ec0-b9ab-9a451ad070f0 |
PORTLAND, Maine — The Form Lab, a Portland-based gym, focuses on movements people can incorporate into their daily lives to help make them healthier and stronger.
The gym officially opened its doors in March. Since then, trainers have been teaching clients how to improve the way they move their bodies. The goal is to incorporate those movements into everyday life to help get the most out of each workout and minimize long-term aches and pains.
This week, the focus is on strengthening our shoulder muscles. More specifically, the muscles that are located in the back of our shoulders.
"We are going to focus on the side that no one tends to use in their daily lives. We're going to be focusing more on the rear-delts and lateral heads," Andrew Blais said.
Blais is the co-founder of The Form Lab.
"The front-delts tend to get a lot of use in our daily movements," Blais continued. "[They're used when] picking up children, kind of doing things out in front of us at our desks. We're constantly putting tension into the front of the delts and we're forgetting about the backside. The back side's very underutilized."
Blais suggests warming up before performing your actual workout. He said it's important to stretch the muscles around your rotator cuff to avoid any injury. Stretches include an external rotation and involve using an exercise band with the resistance moving away from you. Tips include dropping your shoulders back and pinning your elbow to your side.
To see a full demonstration and to learn more tips, check out the full video with Andrew Blais.
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PORTLAND, Maine — Advocates for passenger rail service between Auburn and Portland presented their proposal to a Maine Department of Transportation advisory panel on Thursday, a plan that comes against a backdrop of rail expansion nationwide.
The route to be considered by the Portland to Auburn Rail Use Advisory Council would follow a 24-mile section of the idled St. Lawrence & Atlantic line, which extends north from Portland to Montreal.
The Maine Rail Transit Coalition has proposed using an electric-powered train using the existing rails for the “Grand Trunk Flyer.”
The proposed path holds the potential for new or renovated train stations at Ocean Gateway and the planned Roux Institute in Portland, along with Falmouth, Yarmouth, New Gloucester and the Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport, supporters said. It's separate from a proposal to connect Portland and Bangor.
The only regularly scheduled rail service in Maine is Amtrak's Downeaster, which travels between Brunswick and Boston.
Other expansion plans have gone forward. Amtrak just relaunched service from Burlington, Vermont, to New York City.
Last year, President Joe Biden signed legislation that includes $102 billion for passenger and freight rail investment that will help Amtrak improve and expand its services over time. | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/portland/advocates-present-plan-for-portland-to-auburn-rail-service-business/97-da1343ca-6ea0-448c-995b-94e4b303875c | 2022-08-26T00:17:10 | 0 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/portland/advocates-present-plan-for-portland-to-auburn-rail-service-business/97-da1343ca-6ea0-448c-995b-94e4b303875c |
The former Tucson police officer who shot and killed a man in a mobilized wheelchair last year has been indicted on one count of manslaughter, his attorney and Pima County's top prosecutor said Thursday.
Pima County Attorney Laura Conover announced the grand jury indictment of Ryan Remington at a news conference. She said her “office put together a team of seasoned former prosecutors from outside of Pima County to help guide the investigation and inform our decision on how to proceed with potential prosecution.”
Remington was working off-duty security at a Walmart store when he fatally shot Richard Lee Richards, 61.
“There is no joy in this announcement today,” Conover said. “I cannot turn back the hands of time. Not for Mr. Richards and not for Mr. Remington and his colleagues. But we have an absolute obligation to seek justice for the citizens of Pima County. Rest assured that when challenging events occur that require our consideration, we will go quietly and steadily about our work, and we will do what we believe is right.”
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Conover did not take any questions from reporters at the news conference. She said her office began reviewing the case in December and by early summer had decided to seek a grand jury review. The grand jury indicted Remington on Wednesday, Conover said.
Attorney Mike Storie confirmed earlier in the day that Remington, who was fired from the police department in January, had been indicted.
On Nov. 29, a Walmart employee alerted Remington, who was off-duty and working security, after Richards reportedly stole a toolbox, a press release from TPD said.
According to police, the employee said he caught up with Richards as he fled the store and asked for a receipt for the items he was carrying, to which Richards flashed a knife and replied, “Here’s your receipt.”
Richards continued to head through the Walmart and Lowe’s parking lots. According to the Walmart employee, Richards said, “If you want me to put down the knife, you’re going to have to shoot me.”
Remington and another officer followed Richards to the Lowe’s on Valencia Road near Midvale Road and yelled at him to stop as he approached the garden section entrance.
Remington then fired at Richards nine times, striking him in the back and the side, police said. He was declared dead at the scene.
Conover said by bringing in veterans with no ties to Pima County, like Rick Romley, the longtime Maricopa County Attorney, and Don Conrad, a veteran litigator who served Maricopa County, the Arizona Attorney General’s Office, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office, brought independence into the investigation.
Under the direction of police Chief Chad Kasmar, Remington, who was hired on Jan. 6, 2017, was terminated from his job in January.
Kasmar issued a statement of Thursday regarding the indictment.
“This tragedy greatly impacted the Tucson community and this department," Kasmar said. “Today, we received notice that Ryan Remington has been indicted by a grand jury and faces criminal charges. This is now a matter for the courts to adjudicate.”
Former Tucson Police Chief Chris Magnus had moved to fire Remington after the incident, stating that he was “deeply troubled by Remington’s actions.”
In a statement last year, Tucson Mayor Regina Romero also described Remington’s actions as “unconscionable and indefensible.”
Rick Resch and John Bradley, the attorneys representing Richards’ family, said the family is relieved Remington has been indicted and will proceed with a civil rights lawsuit against him.
“A civil lawsuit is an important part of seeking justice for Mr. Richards and his family, too,” Bradley said. “This was not a rapidly changing, dynamic situation where law enforcement officers are called upon to make difficult split-second decisions. This was a slow moving seven-minute walk alongside someone in a battery-powered wheelchair that, according to the manufacturer and the video itself, has a maximum speed of 5 mph. The video of Remington shooting and killing Mr. Richards while he was in a wheelchair rightly shocks the conscience of the country. Nothing Mr. Richards did, might have done, or failed to do justified him being shot in the back nine times."
In Arizona, manslaughter charges typically refer to "recklessly" causing another person's death.
Remington was served with a summons to court and there will be an arraignment next week, Conover said.
Jamie Donnelly covers breaking news for the Arizona Daily Star. Contact her via e-mail at jdonnelly@tucson.com | https://tucson.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/fired-tucson-police-officer-facing-manslaughter-charge-in-fatal-shooting/article_1e0f850c-249c-11ed-9b44-1fded6b010d4.html | 2022-08-26T00:24:26 | 1 | https://tucson.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/fired-tucson-police-officer-facing-manslaughter-charge-in-fatal-shooting/article_1e0f850c-249c-11ed-9b44-1fded6b010d4.html |
AUSTIN, Texas — On Aug. 23, Circuit of the Americas released tickets for the U.S. Grand Prix Formula One Race on Sunday, Oct. 23. When people went online to buy tickets, they saw ticket prices increase within minutes.
Just about fifteen minutes after tickets went on sale, prices had increased more than $100 above face value and only resale tickets were available.
On Aug. 25, COTA’s website said Sunday tickets started at $259, but if you click the button to buy them, you will find the lowest price is more than $400.
COTA told KVUE they did post-primary tickets online when they went for sale, but said they were bought in minutes. COTA said they work with Ticketmaster, to ensure all purchasers are in fact real people. Ticketmaster, which is where COTA’s website sends you to buy tickets, told KVUE that prices can be seen going up and down due to demand.
“Dynamic pricing is about capturing more value for the artist at the initial on-sale, vs that value going to people reselling tickets on the secondary market. Similar to airlines and hotels - prices adjust up or down based on demand,” Ticketmaster said in a statement.
The company said it uses analytical tools to quantify the supply and demand.
“Promoters, artist representatives and sports teams set pricing strategy and price range parameters on all tickets, including dynamic and fixed price points. Ticketmaster has created analytical tools that use historical and real time data to help quantify supply and demand," Ticketmaster said.
The supply and demand model is also used at Ticket City, which is a ticketing website based in Austin.
“It's a marketplace,” said Randy Cohen, CEO of Ticket City. “So, the ticket prices go up and down like the stock market. Right now, people are just so excited about events like Formula One, and so the inventory has really gone down, which means prices are going up.”
He said this year is the highest demand they have seen for U.S. Grand Prix tickets in Austin on their website, as the sport gains popularity.
"Because the recent show on Netflix ‘Drive to Survive’ during COVID, everybody watched that show,” said Cohen.
Cohen said Ticket City has personal seat licenses with different venues that allows them to get tickets for resale. And usually, they have to pay more for these tickets, which is one factor he said makes the tickets above face value many times.
“They might say $100 on the ticket, but if I have to pay, you know, $1,000 to have the right to buy that ticket at $100 every year, my cost is really a lot more than that $100,” he said.
If you want the old days of standing in line for tickets, you can’t do that. COTA, and most other venues, only open their box office on event days. This is because the world has gone virtual.
“We just basically send the tickets via email or mobile,” he said. “You pull up the barcode and you're good to go.”
So, what is Cohen’s best advice?
“You know, watch the market for a day or two. There's no rush necessarily to get them,” Cohen said. “There's always going to be availability. You're never going to get the lowest price. You never most likely going to have to pay the highest price if you're patient.”
COTA told us the best way to prepare for Formula 1 Aramco U.S. Grand Prix ticket sales now or in the future is to be on their email list.
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ATLANTA — People in Midtown are asking serious questions about safety in homeowners associations after a deadly shooting this week. Two people were killed and one person is still fighting for his life after a HOA dispute at a popular Midtown condo.
George Nowack's law firm was representing the condo association at the center of the dispute in Midtown – and he said they were all really scared.
They evacuated their offices Monday and he said now the industry as a whole must focus on how to keep people safe.
"From our perspective, our name is all over that lawsuit as defending these people that she said wronged her," Nowack said. "We got a call basically right after it happened. And we reacted. We did what we needed and wanted to do to protect everyone in our firm. And we did it. And so it's still very emotional."
Nowack said his entire firm is still reeling from the deadly shooting in Midtown Monday that killed two other people named in a lawsuit and left another in critical condition. He said he's always feared this would happen.
"It certainly raised with me the thought, the concern that I've had for many years that there would be at some time: a manager, a lawyer, a groundskeeper, someone who is involved with the association, being hurt or killed," Nowack said.
He said those fears are compounded by a recent Georgia Court Decision that found homeowners associations must go on the properties, regardless of who owns them to fix any violations they see themselves, before coming to the court to collect on fines.
"The court is ordering a confrontation. Between the owner and the association over a failure to maintain," Nowack said.
The Georgia Supreme Court just affirmed the decision this month– meaning board members may have to confront homeowners on their own property.
"What can we do about it? And the answer is we can't do anything about it. But, what is going to be the reaction on dealing with people who are upset with you," he said.
He believes the court ruling has created more opportunities for dangerous situations.
Novak said he knows a number of on-site managers who have refused to go back on their properties right now until some of these safety issues are addressed. He said it's horrifying it took this tragedy to bring those concerns into sharp focus. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/hoa-safety-concerns-deadly-midtown-atlanta-shooting/85-09989db7-235a-40b5-bdfd-b7a3933563d6 | 2022-08-26T00:30:01 | 1 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/hoa-safety-concerns-deadly-midtown-atlanta-shooting/85-09989db7-235a-40b5-bdfd-b7a3933563d6 |
AUSTIN, Texas — The Public Utility Commission of Texas met on Thursday as protesters gathered outside of the meeting.
Members of the Sierra Club rallied outside in an effort to have their voices be heard as they demand commissioners take action to stop high electricity bills.
"We're sick of these higher and higher electricity bills that are occurring here in Texas and we're tired of them ignoring the most cheapest solution to our grid crisis, which is energy efficiency," one rally attendee said.
Inside, the commission introduced a new commissioner, Kathleen Jackson. She's a chemical engineer by training and joins the PUC to lead energy conservation and efficiency efforts. Jackson led efforts on water conservation during her time on the Texas Water Development Board.
“Energy efficiency is critical to the future of grid resiliency in our fast-growing state,” Jackson said in a PUC media release. “I look forward to visiting with Texans about their thoughts and recommendations to strengthen energy efficiency and my priorities will be laser-focused on ensuring grid reliability and cost-savings for all Texans through energy efficiency.”
The PUC also talked about ways to build power lines faster so more electricity could be pulled from power plants during periods of high demand.
During its meeting, the commission announced the creation of the Office of Public Engagement. The new office will serve as a resource for those who wish to participate in electricity, water and telecommunications issues before the PUC. The PUC said the office will provide a single point of contact for customers, stakeholders, legislators and others to make their voices heard.
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PEACHTREE CITY, Ga. — A witness was stunned to see a massive fire rip through a Walmart in Peachtree City Wednesday night. Now, Peachtree City Police said preliminary information shows the fire was intentionally set.
It caused the roof to collapse and injured several police officers in process of smoke inhalation. Rashawn Phon said he was shocked to see how fast the fire spread.
"I saw it, and my heart started going," he said.
He couldn't believe his eyes after seeing a wall of fire and smoke down an aisle at the Walmart.
"The whole entire aisle was just filled with fire. Coincidentally, it started on the aisle that's most likely to be burned. It's the toilet paper aisle. It has plastic goods, plastic cups, plastic plates, toilet paper, paper towels, and stuff like that," he said.
He called 911 and said he noticed something when he got to the front of the building.
"The sprinklers didn't come on when I was walking towards the front of the building, and as I got to the front, I turned around, and the flames started to reach the top of the building already, and the sprinklers still weren't going off," he said.
11Alive reached out to the Peachtree City Fire Department about reports of low water pressure and sprinklers not going off. They said the sprinklers did go off and firefighters used water during the fire as well.
"There's obviously a lot of smoke and water damage, but in the area of origin of the fire, it's significant water damage and a roof collapse," Peachtree City Fire Assistant Chief Wil Harbin said.
Peachtree City Police Lt. Brad Williams said they are investigating the source of the fire right now.
"If anybody out there has intel or information that could be helpful to the investigation, we ask that they reach out to our department and provide that information if we haven't already spoken to them," he said.
Walmart is looking to place employees at other locations and doesn't know when the store could reopen at this time.
"It's really surreal if anything. it's not every day you see a fire in the building," Phon said.
Three police officers went to the hospital for minor smoke inhalation, but are expected to be OK. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/walmart-fire-peachtree-city-witness-description/85-575b31ff-934d-45bd-b538-da03512c85e0 | 2022-08-26T00:30:07 | 0 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/walmart-fire-peachtree-city-witness-description/85-575b31ff-934d-45bd-b538-da03512c85e0 |
Derek Chauvin, convicted of killing George Floyd, transferred to federal prison in Tucson
Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of killing George Floyd, has been transferred to a federal prison in Tucson.
Chauvin had been incarcerated at a state prison in Minnesota after his conviction on state charges of murder and manslaughter.
After Chauvin pleaded guilty to federal charges of violating Floyd's civil rights, a judge sentenced him to 21 years, which he will serve at the federal prison in Tucson.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons website lists Chauvin as located at FCI Tucson, which the government describes as "a medium security federal correctional institution with a detention center."
There are 266 prisoners at FCI Tucson.
An audit from July 2021 shows there are 13 housing units at the facility, composed of multiple occupancy cells, segregation cells and dorms.
Have a news tip on Arizona prisons? Reach the reporter at jjenkins@arizonarepublic.com or at 812-243-5582. Follow him on Twitter @JimmyJenkins.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California plans to require all new cars, trucks and SUVs to run on electricity or hydrogen by 2035 under a policy approved Thursday by regulators that seeks a dramatic cut in carbon emissions and an eventual end to gasoline-powered vehicles.
The decision by the California Air Resources Board came two years after Gov. Gavin Newsom first directed regulators to consider such a policy. If the goal is reached, California would cut emissions from cars in half by 2040.
The move gives the most populous U.S. state the world’s most stringent regulations for transitioning to electric vehicles. It is expected to prompt other states to follow California’s lead and to accelerate the production of zero-emission vehicles by automakers.
The policy still needs federal approval but that’s considered very likely under Democratic President Joe Biden’s administration.
“This is a historic moment for California, for our partner states, and for the world as we set forth this path toward a zero- emission future,” Liane Randolph, chair of the air board, said during a public hearing before the vote.
The policy allows Californians to keep driving gas-powered vehicles and buying used ones after 2035, but no new models would be sold in the state.
One-fifth of automakers’ sales after 2035 could be plug-in hybrids, which run on batteries and gas, but the rest must be powered solely by electricity or hydrogen.
The European Parliament in June backed a plan to effectively prohibit the sale of gas and diesel cars in the 27-nation European Union by 2035, and Canada has mandated the sale of zero-emission cars by the same year.
California climate officials say the state’s new policy is the world’s most ambitious because it sets benchmarks for ramping up electric vehicle sales over the next 13 years.
The first mandated threshold comes in 2026, when one-third of all vehicles sold in the state must be zero-emission. Automakers could be fined $20,000 per vehicle sold short of that goal.
About 16% of cars sold in California in the first three months of this year were electric.
Washington state and Massachusetts already have said they will follow California’s lead and many more are likely to — New York and Pennsylvania are among 17 states that have adopted some or all of California’s tailpipe emission standards that are stricter than federal rules.
Kia Corp.’s Laurie Holmes said the company plans to spend $25 billion by 2025 on electric vehicles and hopes to offer seven models by 2027.
But she and several other representatives for auto companies expressed concern about the state’s timeline given factors such as supply chain challenges and the high cost of materials to build electric cars.
“Automakers could have significant difficulties meeting this target given elements outside of the control of the industry,” she said.
The switch from gas to electric cars will drastically reduce emissions and air pollutants but the transition will be painful for the state’s oil industry. California remains the seventh-largest oil-producing U.S. state, though its output is falling as it pushes forward with climate goals.
California shouldn’t wrap its entire transportation strategy around a vehicle market powered by electricity, said Tanya DeRivi, vice president for climate policy with the Western States Petroleum Association, an oil industry group.
“Californians should be able to choose a vehicle technology, including electric vehicles, that best fits their needs based on availability, affordability, and personal necessity,” she said.
California is the nation’s most populous state , with about about 39 million people. They account for 10%. of the U.S. car market but have 43% of the nation’s 2.6 million registered plug-in vehicles, according to the air board.
Reaching the 100% goal by 2035 will mean overcoming very practical hurdles, notably enough reliable power and charging stations.
California now has about 80,000 stations in public places, far short of the 250,000 it wants by 2025. The Alliance for Automotive Innovation, which represents many major car makers, warned about the lack of infrastructure, access to materials needed to make batteries, and supply chain issues as being among the challenges to meeting the state’s timeline.
The new commitment came as California works to maintain reliable electricity while it moves away from gas-fired power plants in favor of solar, wind and other cleaner sources of energy. Earlier this year, top California energy officials warned the state could run out of power during the hottest days of summer, which happened briefly in August 2020.
That hasn't happened yet this year. But Newsom is pushing to keep open the state's last-remaining nuclear plant beyond its planned closer in 2025, and the state may turn to diesel generators or natural gas plants as a backup when the grid is strained.
Adding more car chargers will put a higher demand on the energy grid.
Ensuring access to charging stations is also key to ramping up electric vehicle sales. The infrastructure bill passed by Congress last year provides $5 billion for states to build charges every 50 miles (80 kilometers) along interstate highways.
Newsom, meanwhile, has pledged to spend billions to boost zero-emission vehicle sales, including by adding chargers in low-income neighborhoods. The rules say the vehicles need to be able to travel 150 miles on one charge.
Driving an electric vehicle long distances today, even in California, requires careful planning about where to stop and charge, said Mary Nichols, former chair of the California Air Resources Board. The money from the state and federal government will go along way to boosting that infrastructure and making electric cars a more convenient option, she said.
“This is going to be a transformative process and the mandate for vehicle sales is only one piece of it," she said.
Though hydrogen is a fuel option under the new regulations, cars that run on fuel-cells have made up less than 1% of car sales in recent years.
Both the state and federal governments have rebates for thousands of dollars to offset the cost of buying electric cars, and the rules include incentives for car makers to make used electric vehicles available to low- and middle-income people.
Over the past 12 years, California has provided more than $1 billion in rebates for the sale of 478,000 electric, plug-in or hybrid vehicles, according to the air board.
Watch Related: Side-by-side comparison | Gasoline vs electric vehicle costs using San Diego fuel prices (Feb 14, 2022) | https://www.5newsonline.com/article/news/local/california-set-to-phase-out-sale-of-new-gas-powered-cars/509-91d4f721-b323-4fcb-8d7b-afacf9afc4c9 | 2022-08-26T00:47:49 | 1 | https://www.5newsonline.com/article/news/local/california-set-to-phase-out-sale-of-new-gas-powered-cars/509-91d4f721-b323-4fcb-8d7b-afacf9afc4c9 |
CASSVILLE, Mo. — A Missouri school district is bringing back corporal punishment as a discipline option for students.
The Cassville School District told NBC affiliate KY3 that the policy is opt-in only and the change was the result of a servey sent to staff, student and parents in May.
“One of the suggestions that came out was concerns about student discipline,” Superintendent Dr. Merlyn Johnson told KY3. “So we reacted by implementing several different strategies, corporal punishment being one of them."
The change will give principals one more option for discipline, acting as a last resort before using more serious punishments such as suspension, Johnson told KY3.
The corporal punishment option will only be used for students whose parents opt in.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1977 that corporal punishment is constitutional, leaving it up to states whether to allow it. Missouri is one of 19 states where school corporal punishment is legal.
Madison Horner with KY3 contributed to this story. | https://www.5newsonline.com/article/news/local/missouri-school-district-corporal-punishment-students/63-ddecb77b-9abe-4ca5-aa08-184123c1a0b6 | 2022-08-26T00:47:57 | 0 | https://www.5newsonline.com/article/news/local/missouri-school-district-corporal-punishment-students/63-ddecb77b-9abe-4ca5-aa08-184123c1a0b6 |
VANCOUVER, Wash. (KOIN) — Three masked men broke into a Vancouver home and reportedly got away with thousands of dollars worth of jewelry on Friday, Aug. 5.
The couple who lives at the residence, who are remaining anonymous for safety purposes, say they went out to celebrate their anniversary, but came home and found every room in their house had been ransacked.
They believe the men were watching and knew the right time to strike.
“About four months ago, our neighbors were also broken into you with three men and they had their jewelry robbed as well, so I think they’re targetting this area,” said one of the couple. “I feel like they were definitely watching us knowing when we were coming and when we were going.”
The couple is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest. | https://www.koin.com/local/caught-on-camera-vancouver-home-burglarized-jewelry-stolen/ | 2022-08-26T00:52:35 | 0 | https://www.koin.com/local/caught-on-camera-vancouver-home-burglarized-jewelry-stolen/ |
Former bank executive Ronald “Wayne” Schroeder, the mastermind of a fraud scheme that the Bank of San Antonio says cost it more than $13 million, is headed to federal prison for 97 months.
Schroeder, who led the bank’s financing subsidiary, submitted bogus invoices to the bank on behalf of a fake company he created. The bank paid the invoices, resulting in him obtaining nearly $3.2 million. He used the proceeds to buy a beach house, an airplane, a boat, recreational vehicle and cars.
“I’m embarrassed to be standing here before you,” Schroeder told U.S. District Judge Jason Pulliam on Thursday. “It’s not who I am. It’s not how I was raised. I’ve done my family and friends a great amount of harm by my actions.”
In December, Schroeder pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud. Prosecutors dropped three counts of bank fraud and a single count of conspiracy to commit money laundering as part of his plea deal.
Chip Lewis, one of the former banker’s defense lawyers, argued for his client to receive home confinement and five years of supervised release. Schroeder, 49, of New Braunfels, is the sole care giver for a young son, Lewis said.
But Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Blackwell countered that Schroeder could have lived a nice lifestyle just by doing his job and working hard. He earned a monthly salary of $18,500 from Texas Express Funding, the bank subsidiary.
“He made a series of choices over the years to defraud the people he was working for, the financial institutions he was working with,” Blackwell said in seeking prison time for Schroeder.
‘Insidious evil’
J. Bruce Bugg Jr., executive chairman of Texas Partners Bank, which operates the Bank of San Antonio, told the judge Schroeder gave the bank a black eye.
“To be sure, Wayne Schroeder has caused our bank to suffer significant damages by his insidious evil and despicable criminal and fraudulent activities,” Bugg said.
Pulliam sentenced Schroeder to a sentence at the low end of federal guidelines, which ranged up to 10 years and a month in prison. In addition to his time behind bars, he must serve five years of supervised release and pay nearly $9 million in restitution.
Schroeder also agreed to forfeit a beach house, which had an assessed value of more than $466,000, a $200,000 airplane, an $80,000 recreational vehicle and various cars.
He has up to 90 days to turn himself in to begin serving the sentence.
Schroeder and four co-defendants submitted fraudulent invoices for companies they owned and two other financial institutions. Some of the money received went to pay off old invoices owed while some went into the defendants’ pockets.
Also Thursday, Pulliam sentenced one of the co-defendants, Phyllis Jo Martinez, 80, of San Antonio, to time served and five years of supervised release. She also must pay about $290,000 in restitution.
She and her son, Ryan Glenn Martinez, 58, owned a cleaning company called Nerd Factory that participated in submitting fraudulent invoices. His sentencing was continued to a later date so the judge can learn about the circumstances of his release from jail in connection with an earlier crime.
Earlier sentencings
The other two defendants were sentenced in June. Rigo Alvarado, 57, was sentenced to 48 days in jail, while his wife, Jill Martin Alvarado, 60, was sentenced to four months of home confinement. The Irving couple must also serve five years of supervised release and pay about $3.9 million in restitution. They owned Alvy’s Logistics, a trucking company.
Bank of San Antonio records show Alvy’s obtained almost $4.6 million, while Nerd Factory obtained nearly $2.1 million, according Schroeder’s plea agreement. .
The Bank of San Antonio launched Texas Express Funding in 2019 and hired Schroeder, a 30-year industry veteran, as president of the factoring company. Factoring involves advancing cash to companies in return for acquiring, at a discount, the debts owed to them. This allows the companies to get money quickly instead of waiting for customers to pay their bills.
About a year after Schroeder was hired, in July 2020, the bank disclosed it uncovered a $13.2 million “Ponzi-style fraud scheme” he orchestrated. It also filed a civil lawsuit against Schroeder and others seeking to recover its losses and collect unspecified punitive damages. The case is pending.
Schroeder operated Texas Express Funding as a “fraud from the get-go,” bank attorney Andy Taylor said at the time. “This was never a legitimate business opportunity. We thought it was but it wasn’t. We were buying snake oil.”
The conspiracy began in April 2017 and continued until Schroeder and the four others were indicted by a grand jury in November 2020. It started at SouthWest Bank, then Bank of San Antonio and finally TransPecos Banks, according to Schroeder’s plea deal.
pdanner@express-news.net | https://www.expressnews.com/business/local/article/San-Antonio-executive-bank-fraud-17398894.php | 2022-08-26T00:52:38 | 0 | https://www.expressnews.com/business/local/article/San-Antonio-executive-bank-fraud-17398894.php |
The Old Forge Fire Department is pretty excited about their new Fire Boat. Before now Chief Chris Stanley says they’ve been using a converted 1963 house boat that’s seen better days.
"Over the years things saw wear and tear, and you know things started to rot out, and we started to have a lot of mechanical issues and everything, and it just started to become a money pit."
Firefighters are now getting trained on how the new equipment operates. One of the major benefits of this new boat is that it comes with a built in pump that allows for an endless supply of water. Old Forge Fire Department Lt. Richard Mathy explains the additional benefits of being able to boat right up to a structure and pump water right from the lake.
"There are a lot of camps on the water that driveways are very difficult to get a large truck down. Now we can just get a boat there immediately and start getting water on the fire right away."
The new boat is three times faster than the old boat shortening response times considerably.
"And it’s a lot easier to get people into this than it was the old boat."
That’s because the front of the boat opens up allowing for easy access in and out of the water. It comes in especially handy for the Dive Team, something many fire departments don’t have.
"We are a very unique area. We have a lot of diverse needs."
Old Forge Fire Department Chief Chris Stanley says the need for these services increased in Old Forge when social distancing requirements went on the rise.
"Water activities are definitely picking up. I mean COVID things were crazy up here. I mean there was more boats than we’ve ever seen on the water."
The dive team generally has about a one hour window where they can resuscitate a drowning victim, but Lt. Mathy says finding them is their biggest challenge.
"You can get to areas where you don’t see anything until you’re about 2 feet above the surface of the bottom of the lake, and if you hit the bottom of the lake you’re immediately covered in dust and debris."
With response times dramatically cut the Chief says the community isn’t questioning the return on this $150 thousand investment.
"I can’t ever remember the town being this excited for the Fire Department to have a piece of equipment." | https://www.wktv.com/news/local/old-forge-updates-it-s-fire-boat/article_99b46372-24af-11ed-be59-4fa8d33cb6f4.html | 2022-08-26T00:52:39 | 1 | https://www.wktv.com/news/local/old-forge-updates-it-s-fire-boat/article_99b46372-24af-11ed-be59-4fa8d33cb6f4.html |
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Authorities have identified a man who was found dead after an Aug. 14 shooting in Portland’s Portsmouth neighborhood.
The man has been identified as 26-year-old Adrian Perdomo. Officials determined his cause of death as homicide by gunshot wound.
The Portland Police Bureau said they received a report of a shooting just after 10 p.m. near Northgate Park off North Fessenden Street. Officers said they found Perdomo dead on the scene.
Authorities did not immediately report any arrests.
Anyone with information on the shooting is asked to contact Detective Jeff Pontius at Jeffery.Pontius@portlandoregon.gov, 503-823-0433 or Detective Tony Merrill Anthony.Merrill@portlandoregon.gov 503-823-4033. Reference case number 22-219057. | https://www.koin.com/local/man-found-dead-after-portsmouth-neighborhood-shooting-idd/ | 2022-08-26T00:52:41 | 1 | https://www.koin.com/local/man-found-dead-after-portsmouth-neighborhood-shooting-idd/ |
The city is looking at ways to crack down on negligent property owners after residents of the Seven Oaks Apartments on San Antonio’s Northwest Side raised concerns about roaches, rats, major water leaks, broken air conditioning, black mold and more in recent months.
Tenants said complaints about the issues went unaddressed by the landlord and some residents have received notices to vacate.
District 7 Councilwoman Ana Sandoval, who represents the Seven Oaks area, wants the city to increase its inspections. Officials presented three options to boost city oversight to a committee of council members Thursday.
“We want to have adequate living conditions for everybody, and inspections are part of making that happen,” Sandoval said.
San Antonio code enforcement officers work reactively, responding to calls and determining if violations exist. The idea is to take a proactive approach.
The first option would create a team of four to six code enforcement officers focused on inspecting apartments only. The city’s general fund would cover the cost, so there wouldn’t be any extra fees for apartment complex owners. The city could also move on the option quickly — starting it up by Oct. 1 with the beginning of San Antonio’s next fiscal year budget.
The second option would focus on so-called “bad actor” apartment owners. Complexes with a high number of code violations would be required to register with the city and be subject to extra inspections. They would be charged a fee to cover the cost.
A third option is to develop a citywide apartment registry, requiring all apartments in San Antonio to register with the city and be subject to regular inspections. All apartment owners would have to pay a fee, chipping in to the cost of the inspections, regardless of how many violations they have.
The second and third options require a change in city code and would take more time — six to 12 months — to flesh out.
Sandoval supported the first option in a memo to City Council this week.
“This issue demands a swift response — we cannot wait 6 to 12 additional months to develop a program while residents continue to live in substandard housing,” she wrote.
City staff recommended the second option because it would focus on problem areas. But Sandoval said that means the city must wait until there is a problem to take action.
Still, she doesn’t want San Antonio to rely on the first option alone.
None of the options address what the city could do to support tenants when an owner is found to be out of compliance with city code. There should be a plan for residents in living situations that are a threat to their health, Sandoval said.
She also wants City Council to explore how to provide portable air conditioning units or temporary housing for residents who go an unreasonable time without working air conditioning.
When Seven Oaks tenants were in the midst of a record-hot summer this year without repaired AC, Sandoval used her campaign funds to pay for motel rooms for some residents. Those tenants have since moved on from the motel, either returning to Seven Oaks with repairs made or moving on to new housing.
There wasn’t an immediate answer for how the city could assist those residents, Sandoval said, so she took it on herself given the extra flexibility in campaign funds.
Increased inspections could face pushback from apartment groups. Celine Williams, interim executive director of the San Antonio Apartment Association, told council members Thursday that most properties comply with city code.
“We hope any policy created will address the few outliers,” Williams said.
The association’s members work to provide housing in San Antonio but have dealt with delays in rental payments and increased operating costs because of the pandemic, Williams said.
That, combined with anticipated increases in property taxes, has delayed some major building improvements. Still, Williams said, the apartment association wants to work with the city on an inspection policy.
District 5 Councilwoman Teri Castillo, who represents the West Side, said she’s interested in seeing some version of all three options. But she wanted more time for City Council to figure out details.
“Putting forward something like this is warranted and long overdue,” Castillo said.
Others agreed, wanting additional public input. The Planning and Community Development Committee of City Council will consider the options again at its next meeting.
It won’t be the first time City Council has tried to increase inspections.
In 2009 and 2010, San Antonio considered an annual inspection and registration program for rental properties. After pushback, the city didn’t pursue it.
In 2017, officials put in years of work toward an inspection program for senior living facilities. But they couldn’t agree, and efforts slowed when the COVID-19 pandemic hit.
Sandoval thinks this time around can be different.
“There’s just a lot more visibility and public pressure on it right now,” she said.
megan.stringer@express-news.net | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/SA-cracks-down-bad-apartment-owners-17398821.php | 2022-08-26T00:52:44 | 1 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/SA-cracks-down-bad-apartment-owners-17398821.php |
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — After a local chef was laid off in 2020, he started cooking dinners for his friends and eventually several families — the number of which kept multiplying.
Out of this grew the idea for a new non-profit that aims to help families who are struggling. Michael Casper did not plan on founding an organization or preparing close to 500 meals each week for families across the region. However, the COVID-19 pandemic changed everything.
“My grandma always said if you don’t know what to do, do what you know and I know how to cook, so I just started cooking for my friends,” Casper explained.
Casper was using his stimulus money and unemployment checks for the meals he’d make and then deliver himself. He called it Milk Crate Kitchen — and every week, the number of meal requests kept growing.
Sherielyn Gardner saw Casper’s efforts via Instagram. With a background in business development, she wanted to help.
“My passion is always [about] how do I share what I know with people,” Gardner explained.
Gardner helped Casper take Milk Crate Kitchen to the next level, getting the non-profit resources and donations so he no longer had to pay for the food out of his own pocket. They also gathered volunteers to help drive delivery orders, which have now grown over 130 per week.
Milk Crate Kitchen posts the meal for the week on Mondays, allowing families until Wednesday to sign up if they need one with no questions asked.
On Thursday, volunteers cook for 5.5 hours. On Friday, they portion the meals. By Saturday, a dozen or so volunteer drivers are out delivering the prepared food.
Because all the work is done by volunteers, no one is getting paid. However, they do have the comfort of knowing they’re helping people from all walks of life who are struggling.
“If somebody is humble enough to ask for food, we’re gracious enough to provide it,” Casper said. “That’s basically what the key point is.”
If you’d like to learn more about volunteering or donating to Milk Crate Kitchen, check out their website. | https://www.koin.com/local/milk-crate-kitchen-local-chef-provides-free-meals-to-those-in-need/ | 2022-08-26T00:52:47 | 0 | https://www.koin.com/local/milk-crate-kitchen-local-chef-provides-free-meals-to-those-in-need/ |
A state district judge here handed a San Antonio man two life sentences for firing 25 rifle rounds at Texas Department of Public Safety troopers while driving a pickup during a 2019 high-speed pursuit.
A jury found Martin Mercado, 33, guilty in June of two counts of attempted capital murder of a police officer and one charge of evading detention with a vehicle. He was sentenced Wednesday by Judge Catherine Torres-Stahl in the 175th District Court, the District Attorney’s Office said Thursday.
A trooper tried to pull Mercado over on June 9, 2019, but he fled in his pickup, driving against traffic during a chase that reached 100 mph and firing at law enforcement with an AR-15 rifle, trial testimony showed. The troopers returned fire before Mercado stopped and officers captured him after a foot chase, according to the DA’s Office.
Because Mercado has a lengthy criminal record and was convicted as a habitual offender, he faced a minimum of 25 years in prison on each of the charges. Following a pre-sentence investigation hearing on Wednesday, Torres-Stahl handed him two life sentences for the attempted capital murder charges, and 30 years for evading detention.
Bexar County District Attorney Joe D. Gonzales lauded the sentence.
“This defendant posed a serious threat to those officers as well as Bexar County citizens who were on the same roads that day,” he said in a statement. “His (Mercado’s) criminal history combined with the dangerous actions in these cases show he has no place in our community.”
Court records indicate Mercado was represented by defense attorneys Miguel Najera and James Ishimoto. Bexar County assistant district attorneys Tamara Strauch and Madeline Flosi of the Felony Trial Division prosecuted the case, which was investigated by DPS Texas Rangers.
ezavala@express-news.net | Twitter: @elizabeth2863 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/San-Antonio-man-shot-DPS-troopers-17398816.php | 2022-08-26T00:52:50 | 0 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/San-Antonio-man-shot-DPS-troopers-17398816.php |
SEATTLE — The state ferry that was damaged during a "hard landing" at the Fauntleroy Ferry Terminal in West Seattle could be out of service the rest of the year.
Washington State Ferries tweeted the Cathlamet was towed from the Eagle Harbor Maintenance Facility on Bainbridge Island to Everett Ship Repair on Aug. 24. There it will go into dry dock for repairs.
The vessel will "likely be out of service through the end of the year," Washington State Ferries tweeted.
On July 24, the Cathlamet was docking at the Fauntleroy ferry terminal when it collided with an offshore dolphin - a structure that guides docking ferries. The collision caused significant damage to the vessel.
The dolphin, primarily made from a wood piling with steel and concrete, made a sizeable tear in the ferry’s front right side. In addition to the ferry itself, several vehicles on the ferry were also damaged, with one trapped in the wreckage.
The crash was classified by the US Coast Guard as a "major marine casualty."
"This was a significant event and the entire state Department of Transportation will put our weight behind the ferry system as we investigate this," Deputy Secretary of Transportation Amy Scarton said at the time. "Our safety record is impeccable in the history of state ferries. We have not had a fatality on board one of our vessels due to collision and so we will take this seriously."
Following the crash, the captain of the ferry at the time of the collision resigned.
The entire crew was tested for drugs and alcohol. All tests came back negative, according to Washington State Ferries.
No injuries were reported.
No pollution was reported.
The United State Coast Guard is the lead agency in the investigation. State Ferries is also working with the National Transportation Safety Board and other federal partners. | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle/ferry-crashed-west-seattle-terminal-under-repair/281-50a86cce-a538-4f50-838a-201123e9bf6c | 2022-08-26T00:52:59 | 0 | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle/ferry-crashed-west-seattle-terminal-under-repair/281-50a86cce-a538-4f50-838a-201123e9bf6c |
GOODYEAR, Ariz. — The Goodyear Police Department are still trying to locate two teenage sisters who were reported missing last month.
Priscilla and Jaqueline Suarez, ages 16 and 13, were last seen at a residence near Yuma Road and Sarival Avenue on July 29 at 5:45 p.m.
The sisters may still be in the Phoenix area or on their way to Mexico, police say.
Priscilla was last seen wearing a green or black t-shirt and leggings. Both sisters have shoulder-length brown hair and brown eyes.
Anyone with information can contact Goodyear police at 623-932-1220.
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A suspect in an early-morning stabbing that critically injured a man was arrested in Ohio, Decatur police said Thursday.
Patrick Michael Scott, 28, was apprehended by Paulding, Ohio, police about 10 a.m. Thursday, Decatur police said in a statement.
Officers sought the public’s help in a Facebook post seeking the assailant wanted in an aggravated battery that happened around 12:30 a.m. in the 300 block of South First Street in Decatur.
Police said witnesses told officers that Scott had stabbed the man, then fled on foot. Officers said the victim was in critical condition at a hospital. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/police-fire/decatur-stabbing-suspect-arrested-in-ohio/article_273e47a8-247e-11ed-8f68-fb0e4b5a58de.html | 2022-08-26T01:00:18 | 0 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/police-fire/decatur-stabbing-suspect-arrested-in-ohio/article_273e47a8-247e-11ed-8f68-fb0e4b5a58de.html |
Three Rivers Ambulance Authority medics are expected to receive $5 an hour raises when the organization takes over its own operations next week.
Rachel Guin, board president, said Thursday Three Rivers Ambulance Authority, also known as TRAA, is moving to give medics $5 an hour raises and increase wages of dispatchers by $2 an hour. The decision follows a review of the ambulance authority’s operations by Washko & Associates emergency medical system consultants.
PatientCare EMS Solutions, which was formerly known as Paramedics Logistics, has been the ambulance authority’s contractor since 2009. The contractor has managed medics, ambulances and operations, and the ambulance authority has handled billing and administrative work. TRAA is funded by user fees and and Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement.
“TRAA, for the first time, is taking over operations completely,” Guin said. “We believe this is necessary for the viability of the organization. Our employees have been woefully underpaid for a variety of reasons, not anyone’s fault necessarily. Doing this will make TRAA more competitive and a better place to work.”
The ambulance authority board made an emergency declaration about a year and a half ago after several months of noncompliance. The city’s contract requires medics to arrive to at least 90% of top-priority emergency calls with life-threatening emergencies within 8 1/2 minutes.
The required standard has not been met for two years, according to the ambulance authority’s data. The board moved to end the contract last month. Medics will officially begin working for TRAA instead of PatientCare when its contract ends.
The ambulance authority is paying PatientCare $971,800 for the depreciated ambulances and equipment that is valued at about $1.7 million, said Joel Benz, executive director. The ambulance authority will take on existing paid time off for employees when it officially takes over Thursday.
Guin said the ambulance authority is meeting with city officials today to go over the consultant’s findings, including the plan for pay raises. Employees who have been with the ambulance authority through the transition are expected to receive $1,000 hazard pay.
“It will give them a better work life balance because our employees have been working so hard to keep our community safe through this process, and they deserve that,” Guin said. “They deserve to be at the level of the Fort Wayne Fire Department, the Fort Wayne Police Department, and other EMTs in our area who are getting paid significantly more.”
Guin said the ambulance authority has found many medics with other organizations are getting paid $3 to $4 more an hour than its employees.
“Frankly, our employees are working two, three, four times harder than many of those other employees because of the number of calls they are responding to on any given day, so they deserve a little more,” Guin said. “That’s the goal here – to not just bring them up to that level but just a little bit over so they are receiving what they are entitled to for their hard work.”
The ambulance authority will look into offering incentives for weekend shifts and nighttime work, Guin said.
The ambulance authority currently has 62 full-time employees, including 18 medics who are being trained through its Earn to Learn program. The goal is to have between 80 and 88 full-time employees, Benz said.
State Medicaid reimbursement for emergency medical services is expected to increase – up to triple the current rate – soon, Benz said. That could help balance out the increase in operational costs.
Guin said the ambulance authority will need help with funding for at least a year, but it could be longer if Medicaid rate increases are delayed.
Ambulance authority officials are not asking the city for a specific amount of funding at today’s meeting. Guin said she’s looking forward to hearing city officials’ concerns before talking “about what a reasonable request looks like under the circumstances.” | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/traa-medics-expected-to-receive-raises-of-5-an-hour/article_84e618be-24c8-11ed-ae43-9fa6ac1fdfa1.html | 2022-08-26T01:00:19 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/traa-medics-expected-to-receive-raises-of-5-an-hour/article_84e618be-24c8-11ed-ae43-9fa6ac1fdfa1.html |
SACRAMENTO, Calif — The state of California will not let Deborah Findley see her son, Andrew, in person.
She has spent over $300,000 in legal fees fighting the state’s court-ordered conservatorship, trying to get access to him.
In December 2021, she was only allowed virtual visitation where she had to follow “guidelines.” Questions like ‘how he’s feeling’ are called “triggering,” and put her future visits in jeopardy.
“Over the past three years, I’ve only been allowed less than 100 hours of contact with him,” said Deborah.
So, to abide by the guidelines, instead of asking questions she shows him his favorite things like his Christmas presents underneath the tree since Andrew is not allowed to come home for the holiday.
“I’ve had that Christmas tree there for three years, waiting for him to come home,” said Deborah.
During the virtual visitation, Andrew, who is 21 years old, was hard to understand and lost focus often. Deborah said he is on many medications that she is opposed to – but because of the conservatorship, Deborah has no say over it.
“It just leaves me as a mom worried sick for my son,” said Deborah. “He used to be fully conversational…he is just a shell of a human being right now.”
This was not what Deborah was expecting when she sought conservatorship nearly four years ago.
“You’re told when your special needs child turns 18, you need to get a conservatorship,” said Deborah. “The regional centers kind of pound that into parents too.”
Experts ABC10 spoke with said there is a pipeline that leads to conservatorship – starting through school, doctors, and/or regional centers.
Andrew has autism as well as other developmental disabilities and requires 24-hour care, court records show.
“Had some challenges but we had the best therapists in northern California,” said Deborah. “The best of everything we provided for him.”
They thought they could continue his care with the conservatorship. They raised Andrew in northern California in Shingle Springs. As he approached age 18, their family moved to Templeton in central California.
After their move, Deborah and her husband petitioned for conservatorship. She says they were blindsided.
“It was pretty much a done deal before our attorney even walked in,” said Deborah. “And he was blindsided too.”
In reality, the court was in control.
“We had no idea that something like this could happen,” said Deborah.
What the probate court received alongside the Findley’s petition for conservatorship was a competing one from California’s Department of Developmental Services (DDS) saying they should be conservator because Andrew’s parents were allegedly abusive.
DDS has continued to say throughout the conservatorship proceedings that, “throughout Andrew’s life his parents have interfered with his health, safety, welfare," and that they could not handle his growing aggression and were not providing proper care, court documents show.
Deborah said she was never asked about this.
“(The) court-appointed investigator never interviewed us. Still hasn’t in three years,” said Deborah. “We never got due process.”
The court listened to DDS, granting them temporary conservatorship in September 2019, after a fiduciary served as conservator for a period and a different Lanterman-Petris-Short (LPS) conservatorship also was instated for a year. The conservatorship stripped Andrew’s parents of their right to care for their son like they had for the first 18 years of his life.
“We became legal strangers to my son,” said Deborah. “He was treated like an orphan.”
Since the conservatorship process began, Deborah said for periods of time she has not been told where her son is.
“It was a lot of nights of crying myself to sleep going, ‘Where is my son? Is he alive? Is he dead? I don’t know. Nobody would tell us,’” said Deborah.
Seeing people like his mother may “cause regression,” DDS told the court and that the court should “not be swayed by impassioned pleas from family.”
“Nine months, I had no idea where he was. They wouldn’t let me know anything about him,” said Deborah. “It’s inhumane. It’s absolutely inhumane.”
With DDS being the conservator, information about her son is impossible for Deborah to get.
“The (regional center) staff and supervisors aren’t allowed to communicate with me. I have to go through the conservator,” said Deborah. “(For) anything with my son. I’m like, ‘Did he get my card?’ ‘Oh, you have to ask the conservator.’”
That means Deborah has to ask a massive multi-billion-dollar state agency if her son received his Christmas card.
Deborah says Andrew wants to come home, asking during every visit they have. DDS says the current situation is what is best for Andrew. Unlike in episode one of this investigation, some of the confidential court documents were not accessible for this complex case. But it provides a window into a broken system, keeping families apart - and we at ABC10 wondered how it is that DDS, a massive government agency, can serve as conservator of an individual with very specific needs.
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“The law permits the Director of the Department of Developmental Services to be appointed as conservator,” said Tom Coleman, attorney, and founder of Spectrum Institute – a human rights non-profit organization.
He believes DDS being able to be a conservator is “ridiculous.”
“Someone who is running a billion-dollar department with hundreds, if not thousands of employees…that person is going to be a conservator of an individual and look after their needs and care for them? It is a farce,” said Coleman.
DDS often becomes a conservator by way of its regional centers. That is what happened in Andrew’s case; Tri-Counties Regional Center nominated DDS to be conservator, court records show.
“It totally is a conflict of interest,” said Deborah.
Deborah believes this is a conflict of interest because when a regional center nominates DDS as a conservator and it is granted, the responsibilities of the conservator are returned to the regional center, funded by DDS.
“DDS is the funding agent…they have full control of how that money is spent,” said Deborah.
What is also funded by DDS is the live-in care facilities where 86% of those conserved by DDS live, according to public records requests as of July 2022, like Andrew – as well as Garth, who we introduced in part one of our five-part investigation.
“Prisoners get calls. They get visitors,” Deborah said. “My child is not allowed any of that.”
These conservatee’s care homes, as well as caregiving expenses, are all paid for by taxpayers.
Yet, a June 2022 audit found these facilities are not being properly monitored by DDS or regional centers as state law requires, including medication not being properly distributed in some – a life-threatening issue.
This “care” is all part of the $12 billion budget DDS has, including the ongoing legal battles to keep conservatorships in place.
“The attorney general represents DDS,” said Deborah. “So, there’s the attorney general, DDS’ lawyers, there’s tri-counties regional center lawyers.”
One of those is Andrew’s own court-appointed attorney. The court approved over $13,300 in pay, funded by taxpayers for about 20 days of work. And he is just one of the many attorneys involved. Others came from the California Attorney General’s office.
“The assistant attorney general. Two of them,” Deborah recalled. “Talk about a waste of taxpayer dollars.”
As a state agency, in a court of law, the Department of Developmental Services is represented by California’s Attorney General.
“It was daunting to be in court with the Attorney General,” said Deborah.
In cases like Deborah’s, they represent DDS to defend the conservatorship. Coleman finds this hugely problematic.
“That is a problem, in my view – a big one, because the Attorney General of California is the Chief Law Enforcement Officer of the state, including civil rights laws,” said Coleman. “The Department of Justice has a civil rights protection division.”
“Protecting and promoting the civil rights of all people in California” is the division’s job, their website states.
“So, the Attorney General can intervene, file lawsuits, and investigate when the civil rights of people are being violated,” said Coleman. “What if the violator is a state official? Or a state entity, like the Department of Developmental Services. Then the Attorney General has a choice because you can’t do both, you can’t be a prosecutor and a defense attorney at the same time – it’s a conflict of interest.”
We reached out to the Attorney General’s office. They said they “do not engage in enforcement against our client state agencies,” one being the Department of Developmental Services.
“However, that does not preclude other entities from bringing civil rights claims where applicable,” their statement said.
One of those “other entities” is Disability Rights California, which under federal law is required to protect the rights of those with disabilities.
“But sadly, every time I’ve reached out to them I’ve just been told that they only will communicate with the client – and that my son has to call them and ask them for help,” said Deborah.
But people with disabilities often communicate in different ways as well as non-verbally. Making a call to express a complicated legal system could be a massive challenge and hurdle.
Disability Rights California has a branch called the Office of Clients Rights Advocacy (OCRA).
“This part of them, this agency, is supposed to protect the civil rights of regional center clients,” said Coleman.
But Coleman said OCRA isn’t helping those conserved.
“As soon as they hear there’s a conservatorship involved, they’re nowhere to be found,” said Coleman.
And guess who OCRA is funded by? The Department of Developmental Services.
“I’ve reviewed their funding. I’ve reviewed their contracts with DDS,” said Coleman. “They have the authority. They have the funding. They have the moral duty.”
So, we asked Disability Rights California’s OCRA Manager Shannon Cogan about this. She said with conservatorships, the organization mainly provides alternatives. Their policy is to not help anyone obtain a conservatorship.
“I think it’s really easy to criticize people who are doing hard work instead of collaborating with them,” said Cogan. “We don’t have a mandate to file lawsuits or administrative complaints about anything related to conservatorship – we do a lot of good work for people who might be impacted by conservatorship.”
“They nibble around the edges. They will do a little bit of this or do an educational forum. We don’t need education,” said Coleman. “You are a law firm. You are a civil rights enforcement legal entity.”
OCRA’s own website states they provide “legal advice and representation” to clients of regional centers – where conservatorships often begin.
But Cogan said OCRA doesn’t take on cases to fight conservatorship – it is “one of the other branches of the tree.”
For months, we asked OCRA for specifics on how many conservatorship cases this “other” Disability Rights branch represented – they never gave us that data.
As for getting involved after a conservatorship happens, Cogan validated Deborah’s experience: a client must give consent – so Andrew, rather than his mother, but a parent calling could spark action.
“Certainly if this was an issue of extreme rights deprivation, health or safety, we send our employees to that person to interact with them,” said Cogan.
Coleman and Deborah say it is not enough.
“I had so many people say, ‘I’ve gone to Disability Rights California. They won’t do anything,'” said Coleman.
Specifically for Deborah, it seems like a never-ending loop of conflict of interest: the regional center, funded by DDS, nominated DDS to be the conservator. When the conservatorship was enacted, the duties of the conservator went back to the regional center which then placed Andrew in a care facility, also funded by DDS. She then went to Disability Rights California to ask for help, an agency also funded by DDS.
Yet, Cogan said their funding would not stop Disability Rights California from representing someone conserved by DDS, like Andrew.
“Yes, we can. Absolutely,” said Cogan. “We have clients that are conserved by DDS…there’s no inherent conflict and we can do it.”
For over eight months, we asked DDS for an on-camera interview. They refused.
We also sent them a detailed three-paged, single-spaced letter outlining our investigation’s findings and asked 15 specific questions including about conflicts of interest. They sent us a written statement, included below. It did not answer any of our questions.
So, we took our questions about DDS’ budget to Amy Westling, the Executive Director of the Association of Regional Center Agencies (ARCA). This association represents all 21 of the state’s regional centers.
Westling knows DDS’ multi-billion-dollar budget in and out.
In addition to fully understanding the budget, we were curious if DDS has an incentive financially to conserve people. Westling doesn’t believe so.
“My experience with DDS is they are pretty conservative with which cases they become conservator for,” said Westling. “DDS doesn’t get additional funds for conserving people.”
But no matter which way you look at it, taxpayer dollars are funding DDS conserving people.
Parents like Deborah continue to lose hope.
“Every time I have a call or visit, I’m scared it’s the last one – that I won’t ever see my son again,” said Deborah. “It’s just not a way to live.”
Since our interview, Deborah’s virtual visitation has been “paused.”
Her long legal fight with the Department of Developmental Services will continue in October 2022 when the probate court will determine if DDS’ conservatorship becomes permanent.
Deborah has no idea if she’ll ever see her son again.
But the Department of Developmental Services is not just responsible for the 414 people they are conservator to; this agency’s main duty, by law, is to help ensure 400,000-plus Californians with disabilities have equal rights and opportunities.
Yet, there’s a concern – and evidence – that they are not doing their job. Even from California’s in-house watchdog, the California State Auditor.
That is next in episode 3 of The Price of Care: Taken by the State.
Department of Developmental Services statement to ABC10:
“In California, unlike any other state in the nation, individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities have a right to the services and supports to help them live their most independent and productive life. With the passage of the ground-breaking Lanterman Act in 1969, the state affirmed its commitment to these rights for Californians. We at the California Department of Developmental Services have the responsibility to deliver on the assurances made by the law.
It is our obligation to hold ourselves and our system partners accountable, while ensuring that individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities receive community-based services and supports that embraces choice and allows them to live with purpose and dignity. We are constantly looking to improve how we serve the whole person, all while protecting the health and well-being of those we serve.
We are striving to create effective, culturally responsive, and efficient services. We have advanced this vision by the historic investments made over the last two years that, when put together, drive us toward a system of value-based services and supports, where our main objective is quality and better outcomes.”
Department of Developmental Services response to our questions:
“DDS does not actively seek conservatorships. In all instances, the Department of Developmental Services’(DDS) involvement in the conservatorship process begins with a submission by a third party requesting that the Director of DDS become conservator of a person with developmental disabilities. DDS only decides to petition to become conservator when clear and convincing evidence shows that a conservatorship is needed to protect the consumer’s health, safety, or well-being. The submission can come from a variety of sources, such as the courts, a regional center, a law enforcement agency, a family member, the county public guardian, the consumer’s court-appointed counsel, local adult protective services, or any other person interested in the consumer’s health, safety, or well-being. The conservatorship process is a court-based, legal process. As such, DDS has the legal burden to present conclusive evidence to a judge demonstrating that the conservatorship is necessary to protect the person’s health, safety or well-being.
Family members can and do participate in the judicial proceedings that decide whether a conservatorship petition should be granted, the scope of the conservatorship, and whether the Director of DDS should be appointed as conservator. Furthermore, a court-appointed counsel is part of this process. These are officers of the court appointed by a judge to represent the interests of the proposed conservatee. These counsels are completely independent of DDS and do not receive any funds from the Department. Court-appointed counsel have a fiduciary duty to act independently and in the best interest of the proposed conservatee to determine whether a conservatorship is necessary and who, if anyone, should serve as conservator.
DDS does not seek to become a person’s conservator without a third-party submission having first being made and thoroughly vetted. DDS conducts a comprehensive, detailed inquiry when it receives a conservatorship nomination. DDS will not seek to become conservator if there are alternate, less restrictive means to protect a consumer’s health, safety, or well-being. DDS also will not seek to become conservator if there is a family member, friend or other close person in the consumer’s life that can protect the consumer’s health, safety or well-being. DDS has a legal and moral obligation to protect the consumer no matter the desires or objections from family members.
It is important to understand that under state law every regional center consumer participates in the development of an Individual Program Plan (IPP) that identifies the supports and services the person needs. An IPP is developed regardless of the legal status of individuals. The amount of funds spent on a consumer is based on costs for the supports and services identified in the IPP, and not on any other factor such as whether a conservatorship is in place. Thus, absolutely no additional funds are spent simply because a consumer is subject to a conservatorship by DDS. In addition, neither DDS nor the regional center receives any additional administrative funding for individuals who are conserved versus those who are not conserved.” | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/abc10-originals/californians-fighting-state-run-conservatorships/103-c7806034-be26-42a0-b827-58a3e05d6766 | 2022-08-26T01:01:42 | 1 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/abc10-originals/californians-fighting-state-run-conservatorships/103-c7806034-be26-42a0-b827-58a3e05d6766 |
LOS ANGELES — This story was originally published by CalMatters.
Antonio Dominguez had never seen a car wash before moving to Los Angeles from Mexico in 1997. As a 24-year-old day laborer, he’d walk home each day, stop along a palm-lined boulevard and watch a team of mostly Mexican workers sponge, rinse, dry and polish a line of cars.
He was charmed by the waiting customers who seemed pleased with how their vehicles were left gleaming. And he simply loved the cars. In his Mexican hometown, there were few paved roads and cars were luxuries. “I just wanted to touch those cars, those new cars,” Dominguez said. “They came out so pretty.”
Dominguez worked five years at his first car wash job, earning only cash tips, and then was put on the payroll, though his weekly check often didn’t pay him for all of his hours, he said.
In his next job, at the Playa Vista Car Wash in Culver City, sometimes Dominguez and the other workers were told to wait in an alley for hours, uncompensated, or they were sent home with no pay, he and the state of California have said.
In 2019 the state Labor Commissioner’s office found Playa Vista had short-changed Dominguez and 63 other workers in wages. It said it was fining the company more than $2.3 million in wage theft violations and penalties, its largest fine ever issued against a car wash business.
Three years later those workers have not been paid. Playa Vista appealed the fine. Last week the Labor Commissioner said both sides had reached a settlement agreement in principle, without describing the details.
An exercise in frustration
Playa Vista’s owner, Hooman Nissani, in his appeal of the fines and citations, has said the investigation was flawed and that an audit his company paid for indicates the car wash overpaid some of the staff. Through an attorney, he declined to comment to CalMatters.
Despite years of legislative efforts, some of America’s toughest labor laws, and some of the nation’s highest levels of income inequality, California’s enforcement of wage theft laws remains an exercise in frustration for workers and businesses alike, many experts and advocates said. In California’s wage theft cases, workers can wait months or years to be repaid lost or stolen wages – even when state regulators step in.
Last year California workers filed nearly 19,000 individual stolen wage claims totalling more than $338 million, according to a database provided to CalMatters by the Labor Commissioner’s office.
While many claims did settle, the average case filed last year that did get to a decision was 334 days old — well over the 135-day limit set by law — and thousands of cases filed in 2021 remain pending.
“While the timeline for investigations can be lengthy, improvements in our laws have given the Labor Commissioner’s Office … new tools to assist workers in recovering stolen wages,” said Erika Monterroza, a spokesperson, adding the state has made progress at hiring people to help enforce those laws.
She did not comment on the Playa Vista car wash case. The Playa Vista action was brought not by individual workers but by a state enforcement office, yet it is involved, years later, in a quasi-judicial and a civil litigation process, according to state documents.
It is one of many investigations aimed at targeting wage theft in specific industries.
The most vulnerable
Wage theft — or the failure by employers to pay employees what they are owed — typically impacts the most vulnerable: people with the least education and financial means and fewest legal protections. Often they are immigrants.
Dominguez said he believes he was taken advantage of because he was ignorant of his rights.
“I would tell myself that in this country I was nobody,” he said.
Now at age 48, Dominguez has graying black hair, bags under his eyes, deep wrinkles and a weary smile. He has described his experiences working at car washes to state investigators, in testimony, and in interviews with CalMatters.
He grew up the son of a small-plot farmer in the Mexican village of Molcaxac, which he said means “bird’s nest” in Náhuatl, the Aztec language. Situated in the central state of Puebla, Dominguez remembers the countryside as a semi-desert marvel of jaguars, eagles, coyotes, cacti, oak trees and cascading waterfalls. His childhood home was a sheet metal house and his father wore huaraches (leather sandals) instead of shoes. They could only get by and never get ahead.
“We had nothing,” Dominguez said. “We were poor by nature. There was only enough to eat, and just the essentials.”
Dominguez migrated to Los Angeles, finding himself in Mar Vista, a neighborhood of midcentury homes and cramped apartment complexes east of Venice Beach. With few connections, Dominguez first found work as a day laborer. On his walk home each day, he passed a large full-service car wash. He got a job there, he said, after striking up a conversation with a car wash worker who coincidentally was from his village.
A low-paying industry
Dominguez said he worked at that car wash from about 1997 to 2005. For the first five years, he said, he made tips only, often little more than $15 a day, and his final years he was paid with weekly checks that barely were enough to cover his expenses and send some money home to his family in Mexico, chiefly his mother and sister.
Dominguez advanced in his car washing skills, learning all aspects of the business, he said. But in 2005 he returned to Mexico after longing for home and feeling disillusioned.
“You arrive at that moment where you say, ‘What am I doing here?’ ” Dominguez said. “Why suffer here if you’re better off over there?”
Around the same time that Dominguez began working in the car wash industry, Victor Narro, now a law professor and project director at the UCLA Labor Center, began researching low-wage workers as an advocate for the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, a Los Angeles nonprofit.
In 2002 Narro helped UCLA law students interview 23 car wash workers for one of the earliest research papers on the industry in Los Angeles. Interviewers found several of the younger, more recently hired car washers were being paid only in tips, and many expressed the attitude of gratitude for the work — calling themselves propineros, a play on the Spanish word for “tip.” Narro presented the paper to Sacramento lawmakers as evidence the industry needed regulation.
“I was shocked when I was encountering that,” Narro told CalMatters. “It was a major practice, and we knew it was a crisis.”
Car wash laws
Workers also were being paid per car, or daily rates, and some were being asked to work off the clock, Narro said. He found an ally in civil rights and antiwar activist Tom Hayden, a state senator who in 1999 authored a bill that would have required car wash businesses to register with the Labor Commissioner and post surety bonds that could be used to recover unpaid wages and benefits.
Democratic Gov. Gray Davis initially vetoed the bill in 2000 but signed an even more robust version three years later, which along with the registration requirement, created a restitution fund for car wash workers. The law required employers to carry surety bonds of at least $15,000.
In 2008 the United Steelworkers and the AFL-CIO launched a mostly unsuccessful attempt to organize Southern California car wash workers. Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown in 2013 signed a bill that increased the bond car washes are required to carry to $150,000, but it exempted owners who signed bargaining agreements with unions. These days there are 28 Los Angeles car washes with United Steelworkers Local 675 members, two others in Orange County and one in San Diego.
Critics say California’s enforcement of its requirement that car washes register with the state has lacked enforcement, particularly during the pandemic. A report this year by UCLA graduate students found 770 car washes registered with the state in 2020. But there were 2,015 of these establishments operating in California according to 2020 U.S. Census figures. Los Angeles County alone had 576 car washes.
Critics say California’s enforcement of its requirement that car washes register with the state has lacked enforcement, particularly during the pandemic. A report this year by UCLA graduate students found 770 car washes registered with the state in 2020. But there were 2,015 of these establishments operating in California according to 2020 U.S. Census figures. Los Angeles County alone had 576 car washes.
Critics say California’s enforcement of its requirement that car washes register with the state has lacked enforcement, particularly during the pandemic. A report this year by UCLA graduate students found 770 car washes registered with the state in 2020. But there were 2,015 of these establishments operating in California according to 2020 U.S. Census figures. Los Angeles County alone had 576 car washes.
By 2009 Dominguez said he had returned to Los Angeles and was working a new job at Playa Vista, a full-service car wash with a gas station and convenience store on the corner of Centinela Avenue. With his years of experience, Dominguez said, he started at $10.25 an hour, which was $2.25 above the minimum wage then. He was content and proud, he said, to send money home to support his family in Mexico. He was later promoted to detailer and got a dollar-an-hour raise, he said.
“Everything was going so well,” he said.
In 2014, Nissani took over the business, and the pay and work environment changed, said Dominguez, as did other former Playa Vista workers interviewed by CalMatters.
The workers described not getting paid for all their work, having to wait long hours off the clock and not being paid overtime, according to a state press release in 2019 describing citations the state issued against Playa Vista.
Nissani appealed the state’s citations, saying some of the workers’ statements are untrue. Since then, COVID-19 and the administrative hearing process have dragged the case on for three years.
In July 2020, the Labor Commissioner also filed a lawsuit against the car wash, Nissani and general manager Keyvan Shamshoni in an attempt to compel them to pay the fines and back wages. Shamshoni also was named in the original citation.
“Hearsay evidence”
Nissani filed objections to the suit, claiming the workers’ statements to the state inspector were hearsay and not backed by evidence.
A trial in that civil case was postponed. During his appeal before the Labor Commissioner, Nissani has argued the investigation into his car wash was flawed, and relied on anecdotal evidence. His appeal brief said the state’s investigator coaxed workers to sign “untruthful statements” and that the state’s fines and wage assumptions are “grossly inflated” and “riddled with erroneous, unfounded assumptions.”
In August 2021 Playa Vista submitted evidence supporting its case, including its own audit by a Los Angeles consulting firm that concluded the carwash may have overpaid its workers.
Two former Playa Vista workers interviewed by CalMatters, Cesar Jacobo and Luis Diaz, told a different story. They also have described the changes under Nissani in sworn statements in the Labor Commissioner’s court case.
In his statement, 47-year-old Jacobo said the following:
Nissani called a worker meeting in November 2014. With one of the managers translating, Nissani introduced himself as the new owner and announced there would no longer be overtime pay. Nissani then asked workers to sign letters agreeing to no further overtime.
A few months later, Shamshoni told the staff they needed to report to work at 7:30 a.m. but workers would begin their shifts whenever managers decided.
“He said that we could not walk or wait around the car wash, as that would disturb the clients that were waiting if they saw us and wanted us to work on their cars,” he continued in his statement.
Unpredictable hours
The workers waited in alleys near the carwash, resulting in unpredictable work hours. When Jacobo complained, he said, he was given fewer hours in retaliation. Lunch also grew to be a problem, with workers asked to wait long stretches, sometimes two hours uncompensated, before returning to work.
In early 2018, Jacobo said that he was promoted to manager but asked to be demoted — in part because he felt uncomfortable choosing which workers would get work and which would not.
In his statement, Diaz, 56, said he was a manager who had worked at Playa Vista for 18 years when Nissani took over.
In their statements, both Diaz and Jacobo said the new managers refused to call in additional workers even when the car wash was backed up with clients, in an effort to cut costs. Business deteriorated and workers went past eight hours a day as a result, they said.
“Under Hooman (Nissani), the car wash was almost always understaffed: The managers hired way fewer people to operate the car wash on a daily basis than the previous owners, but we still had the same number of cars to service,” Jacobo said. “Oftentimes, I was the only person working in the detailing section, or in other sections of the business, and leaving those sections to take a break would result in leaving a part of the business unattended.”
Playa Vista’s attorneys in their appeal wrote that the car wash was undergoing renovations, getting new car washing equipment, “as a result, the need for manual labor by employees diminished.”
Lost earnings
Dominguez said he remembers no punch clock, no means provided to record his hours. Managers kept track of workers’ hours, he said, a point also made by Jacobo and Diaz in their sworn statements. Like Dominguez, they said workers were given no process to keep track of their hours.
More than anything, those long waits in the alley stand out in Dominguez’ memory. At times they would begin work at 8 a.m., other times 10 a.m., other times later, he said. As they waited their turn to work, the workers chatted, rested, played various games, even an occasional match of pickup soccer, Dominguez said. But mostly, they sat in frustration, he said, because they weren’t earning money.
Losing income when his family in Mexico depended on him plunged Dominguez into despair, he said. He worked other jobs on his days off, at times returning to day labor.
“If you lose a day, you have to make it up some other way,” Dominguez said. “There isn’t an option of being without work.”
In December 2017, Alejandra Hernandez, an inspector with the Labor Commissioner’s Bureau of Field Enforcement, received a tip about the pay practices at the Playa Vista Car Wash, according to court filings and records in Nissani’s appeal. By then, with 18 years’ experience, Hernandez had worked on at least 600 audits, 200 workplace inspections and 100 citations. The Playa Vista referral came from the CLEAN Carwash Worker Center, a non-profit organization born out of the 2008 unionization efforts. Jacobo is now an employee of CLEAN and Dominguez has done occasional outreach and education work for the nonprofit.
The referral was one of many stemming from the state’s enforcement efforts to eliminate wage theft in certain low-wage industries, including car wash businesses.
Ripple effects
After years of individual workers struggling to navigate California’s lengthy wage claim process — often unsuccessfully — then-California Labor Secretary Julie Su began partnering with workers’ rights organizations in California to bring targeted, high-profile actions.
“The theory of this partnership is that your average worker who works in janitorial or in a restaurant or even in agriculture, they’re not just going to go on their own to report the labor law violation,” said Amaya Jennifer Lin, a campaign manager for the National Employment Law Project who has worked with 17 worker centers and the Labor Commissioner’s office over the last six years.
“We hope to create, ideally, ripple effects across not just a worksite but across multiple employers and across industries,” Lin said.
Business groups argue that the thousands of claims filed by workers last year are only a tiny fraction of California’s $3.5 trillion economy and that most businesses are trying to comply with labor laws.
“The vast majority … of California employers are compliant in paying wages timely and fairly while trying to untangle and decipher California’s complex and ever-growing body of employment law,” said Denise Davis, spokesperson for the California Chamber of Commerce.
Economists who study the issue argue that such claims data don’t fully capture how much wage theft exists in the economy because so many workers simply don’t report these violations.
A new inspection
When CLEAN’s referral about Playa Vista came to Hernandez, the inspector began an investigation that included surveillance of Playa Vista, two on-site inspections — including an “inspection warrant” on March 9, 2018 — and 19 worker interviews, she said in court records. Jacobo was one of the workers interviewed, Hernandez said in a sworn statement. Dominguez also spoke to investigators, according to records obtained through a public records request from the Labor Commissioner’s office.
Employees gave sworn depositions, including Shamshoni, and the Labor Commissioner’s office issued subpoenas for payroll records and other business documents after Nissani refused to cooperate, according to filings in the court case. A central part of Nissani’s defense has been challenging Hernandez’s audit, arguing she did not interview all of the workers and therefore the state’s citations were too high.
After the audit was complete in March 2019, the state issued 12 citations against Nissani, Shamshoni, and the business entity totaling $2.36 million.
The state noted “workers were required to report to an alley next to the car wash 30 minutes before the business opened to be selected to work that day. Those not selected were typically sent home several hours later without being paid for the waiting time. Workers were also frequently required to take extended lunch breaks with no split shift premium, or worked up to 10 hours a day with no overtime pay. Managers regularly altered workers’ time cards to reduce total hours worked,” in a press release about its findings and citations.
Dominguez said the process has been frustrating, like the days he worked at the car wash and waited in the alley. For the case, he would show up some days at a state office to testify remotely on one of their computers, only to wait around and eventually be sent home, he said.
A worker model
While he awaits resolution of the case, Dominguez and four other car wash workers have launched a new venture. On a recent weekday in July Dominguez awoke at 6 a.m., he said, left his Mar Vista apartment and drove east to Montebello, traversing much of the city before traffic set in. He parked near a garage where he and a team of other self-employed workers, some from the Playa Vista case, keep a van stocked with car-washing equipment.
Dominguez, Diaz and some other car wash veterans started CleanWash Mobile, a worker-owned alternative to the car washes they’ve spent their lives in.
Before 7:30 a.m. Dominguez had pulled the CleanWash Mobile van up to the cracked, uneven driveway of CLEAN’s Los Angeles headquarters, a no-frills storefront with barred windows and a Farmers Insurance office as their back neighbor.
The cooperative had 10 customers lined up for a range of car washing services, including some detailing work. By 8:30 a.m. Diaz and Rodrigo Hernandez, another former Playa Vista worker, had arrived, donning broad brimmed hats to protect from the rising sun and light beige polo shirts over their work clothes.
Future in his hands
Their prices range from $40 for a sedan express wash to a full detail for $300. Adonia Lugo, a bicycle activist, university lecturer and recent appointee to the California Transportation Commission, got her car washed that day, saying she wanted to support the movement.
“This is worker-owned and these are people who are fighting to improve working conditions,” she said. “That’s totally a sustainable transportation issue.”
The pandemic ended Dominguez’ time at Playa Vista, he said, and like many low-income workers, he struggled during lockdowns. He and his sisters sold food out of their kitchen to make ends meet.
“The bills don’t stop,” Dominguez said. “We all helped each other out, and that was the only way we survived.”
Dominguez counts himself lucky. One of his coworkers, Eduardo Flores, who also was a party to the Playa Vista case, died of COVID.
Dominguez has suffered his own losses. His sister died in July. His mother died a year ago.
“I lost my mom, I lost my sister, and they depended a lot on me, so now only I depend on myself,” Dominguez said. “My future is in my own hands.”
As more customers pulled their cars up, Hernandez, Díaz and Dominguez took turns lathering and scrubbing exteriors with sponges and neon colored towels. The men’s movements were measured, their gaits slow. After a few hours all of the men’s cheeks were red and sweaty.
He would work until 7 p.m., not unlike the hours he put in at a commercial car wash, but the pressure was different, Dominguez said, taking a break, watching cars zoom by on Washington Boulevard. Working for yourself, he said, you can set the pace, take your time, cast your thoughts back toward home, toward a little village to which you might one day return.
For the work they do now, the men pay themselves $17.25 an hour.
CalMatters reporter Jeanne Kuang and data reporter Erica Yee contributed reporting.
WATCH RELATED: Wage transparency law proposed in California (Feb. 2022). | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/california/calmatters/wage-theft-car-wash-workers-in-23-million-case-await-pay/509-fc02a601-7e73-4abe-b325-1ce4f54f63a0 | 2022-08-26T01:01:48 | 0 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/california/calmatters/wage-theft-car-wash-workers-in-23-million-case-await-pay/509-fc02a601-7e73-4abe-b325-1ce4f54f63a0 |
A diplomat from South Sudan accused of raping a woman in New York City over the weekend has been released due to his diplomatic immunity, officials said.
Charles Oliha, 46, a diplomat with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Sudan, allegedly pushed his way into the victim’s apartment Sunday at midnight and raped her two separate times, two sources with the New York Police Department told NBC New York.
The woman reported to police that on Sunday at midnight she arrived to her building and the suspect opened the front door, followed her up the steps and forced his way into her apartment, the NYPD said. He forced her to engaged in sexual intercourse then fled, police said.
The victim was taken to Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center for evaluation, the police sources said.
Read the full story at NBCNews.com | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/diplomat-from-south-sudan-accused-of-rape-in-nyc-is-released-after-invoking-immunity/3839729/ | 2022-08-26T01:01:50 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/diplomat-from-south-sudan-accused-of-rape-in-nyc-is-released-after-invoking-immunity/3839729/ |
STOCKTON, Calif. — Plots of partly unearthed dirt and broken tree stakes dot the landscape at some south Stockton parks after vandals allegedly targeted growing trees planted by community groups and volunteers to help the historically disadvantaged community over the past year.
In June of 2020, the city of Stockton was awarded a $10.8 million Transformative Climate Communities grant from the State of California.
The grant aims to help Stockton's southside community, which state studies show deals with the region's poorest air quality and the city's warmest temperatures. Part of the grant funding went to community groups to plant over 1,750 trees in south Stockton, remove old stumps and beautify parks starting in 2021.
Since the disbursement of the funding, south Stockton native and city councilwoman for the area, Kimberley Warmsley, says over 150 trees have been planted during park cleanup events.
"On several of the tree planting events, I mean, you had not only residents from south Stockton, but the whole city of Stockton who came out and donated their time," Warmsley said, adding that the events reminded her of the days she would spend time at the parks as a child. "Some of these parks desperately need to be revitalized and so planting these trees also changed the entire landscape of the parks."
The scene following those tree planting events stands juxtaposed to what Warmsley says she saw at Williams Brotherhood Park after getting an unsettling call from a community member Sunday reporting vandalism.
"I went out there to look at the trees and when I got there, I noticed that there were probably somewhere between five to seven trees either damaged; they were broken in half, some of them were literally uprooted," Warmsley said. "In discussion about replanting some of these trees, I learned from Puentes and Little Manilla Rising, that there has been an uptick in some of the trees that have been donated and planted, being removed and or vandalized"
While they only stood a few feet in size, Warmsley says the effort put in to plant the trees at various parks was a tall ask and made a towering difference for the community.
"Although many of them were very little, just seeing how big they have grown to now knowing that many of them are not there anymore-- that's taking away the process of our young people and our children having access to shade when they do go to the park," Warmsley said. "Trees act as a purifier to our air, so it recycles the air, it cleans the air, and that helps with mitigating people who do suffer from asthma-- and also the beautification."
After seeing the alleged vandalism firsthand, Warmsley says she felt compelled to take action, making a post on her Facebook page and announcing a new allotment of discretionary funding to help replace the damaged or stolen trees.
"I'm going to be writing that check for $500 to send out to Little Manila to repurchase those trees. I'm also thinking about doing a letter-writing campaign to various nurseries within Stockton that may want to donate some trees," Warmsley said. "I'm hoping that this message also empowers the various schools that are in the community to be actively involved and talk to our young people about the importance of preserving our trees."
With hopes of one day restoring a natural tree canopy in south Stockton, Warmsley and community advocates say the responsibility falls on everyone to help the community improve and grow.
"We have to continue to build resilient communities and the only way that we're going to build resilient communities is we continue to get in the game and be proactive and be the example," Warmsley said. "Never give up and let's continue to put in the work and preserve our parks for decades to come."
Watch More Stockton News from ABC10: Stockton crime prevention advocates speak after ghost gun seized at Lincoln High | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/stockton/vandalized-uprooted-trees-south-stockton-community/103-e128e087-a866-46a1-a9a2-cb11a7f072b9 | 2022-08-26T01:01:55 | 0 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/stockton/vandalized-uprooted-trees-south-stockton-community/103-e128e087-a866-46a1-a9a2-cb11a7f072b9 |
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Texas Tech Goin' Band marching in Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
For the first time ever, the Goin' Band from Raiderland will be marching in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in 2023.
The announcement came Thursday as Texas Tech officials unveiled that honor, and outlined plans for Tech's upcoming centennial year.
Wesley Whatley, creative producer for Macy's, said the Goin' Band was one of several selected from high school and collegiate bands from around the nation who auditioned last winter.
"First, we looked at (the Goin' Band's) performance on the football field and I think we all know, they know how to entertain," Whatley said. "And then we noticed this centennial, we thought this is the perfect opportunity."
Having a big sound is a must, Whatley said. People will be far from the street to see the parade - with some watching the parade from several stories above the street.
To help out the Band with whatever they may need, President Lawrence Schovanec said Macy's wrote a $10,000 check for the band to use.
Schovanec also said the new uniforms the band helped fundraise for last year will be in around next spring, ready for them to use at the parade.
As the parade nears its own centennial anniversary, Whatley said it was founded on a tradition from its employees, much like how the Masked Rider tradition was founded by a student.
"I think, how beautiful it is that these rituals that we have that connect us also help us look forward and they connect us as a community moving forward," Whatley said. "So our organizations have a lot in common and that's awfully special."
The announcement came after Texas Tech announced its centennial celebration plans at an event put together by the Office of the President and the J.T. & Margret Talkington College of Visual Performing Arts.
Some events that were announced include the official start of the Texas Tech Centennial Celebration at the annual Carol of the Lights on Dec. 2, 2022.
Other events include:
- Founders Day Centennial Illumination- Feb. 10, 2023
- Texas Tech Day at the State Capitol- March 1, 2023
- Broadway to Broadway: A Texas Tech Centennial Celebration in New York City- Nov. 23, 2023
- Centennial Closing Ceremony- Dec. 1, 2023
Plus numerous events going on around Texas. | https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/news/local/2022/08/25/texas-tech-goin-band-marching-in-macys-thanksgiving-day-parade/65457194007/ | 2022-08-26T01:04:22 | 0 | https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/news/local/2022/08/25/texas-tech-goin-band-marching-in-macys-thanksgiving-day-parade/65457194007/ |
The Casper City Council is accepting applications for two short-term interim positions, as a pair of council members resigned this month because they plan to move out of their respective wards.
Anyone — besides candidates still in the running to be elected in wards 2 and 3 in November’s election — can apply. Applications are available at City Hall or on the city’s website, and are due to the clerk’s office by noon on Aug. 31.
The positions will last just four months, until the new slate of council members is sworn in at the start of the new year. Candidates must be registered voters who have lived in their wards (either Casper’s east or west sides) for at least a year.
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Both of the departing council members were already planning to leave the council in January, as they both chose to run for seats on the Natrona County commission this year rather than seek reelection at the city.
Vice Mayor Steve Freel, who has represented Ward 3 on the council since 2019, won the primary contest for a two-year term on the commission last week. He will likely cement that spot in November’s general election, unless a third-party challenger files to run against him before filing closes on Aug. 29.
Freel said he and his family are moving out of the city limits to a home on Casper Mountain, after years of looking for a place with more land.
“I really didn’t want to leave early,” Freel said. “But the flip side is, over the last four years I’ve had two other opportunities to move my family to where they wanted to be at, but we passed it up because I was representing Ward 3.”
With just four months left in his term, Freel said he felt it made sense to “put family first” and make the move.
Council member Shawn Johnson is also set to leave an open seat in Ward 2, on Casper’s west side, when he moves to Ward 3 later this month. He resigned Monday, effective immediately. Johnson said he would “entertain” applying to fill the Ward 3 spot in the interim if allowed.
“It’s kind of a bittersweet thing ... it’s been kind of a second nature to me,” he said Thursday.
Johnson is running for a four-year term on the county commission as a Libertarian. That means he wasn’t on the primary ballot last week, but will be on the ballot in November. There, he’ll face incumbent commissioners Peter Nicolaysen and Jim Milne, former Casper council member and attorney Dallas Laird and Democrat Tom Radosevich, a physician, for three open seats.
Having two seats on the city council open up at the same time is highly unusual. That happening in the window between a primary and general election, Mayor Ray Pacheco said, is unprecedented.
Council members voted Tuesday to fill the seats on an interim basis, rather than leave them open until after the general election in November. Some ordinances require five votes to advance, city attorney John Henley said, and having just seven council members could make decision-making harder especially when council members miss meetings or are excused because of a conflict.
“That idea that Ward 2 and Ward 3 would have less representation, that was important,” Pacheco said. “It’s fast and furious … we want to make sure it’s as fair as possible.”
The council is set to interview applicants during the first week of September, possibly during a special Wednesday meeting if there is a large group of candidates. That means there should only be one meeting with fewer than nine council members.
Another vice mayor will be appointed to take over from Freel until January, the city said in a release Thursday.
Council members said Tuesday they’d be interested in having former council members apply to fill the short-term spots. But there will be no formal preference given to those candidates, Pacheco said, and he would also encourage council candidates that did not make it through the primary election to apply.
“I would love to have some placeholders that have some of that institutional knowledge, so that they just need to be brought up on the speed on the issues — not everything,” council member Kyle Gamroth said. | https://trib.com/news/local/casper/casper-city-council-seeking-interim-members-as-freel-johnson-move-outside-of-wards/article_9d918002-24ae-11ed-9a46-539096b9deba.html | 2022-08-26T01:08:49 | 0 | https://trib.com/news/local/casper/casper-city-council-seeking-interim-members-as-freel-johnson-move-outside-of-wards/article_9d918002-24ae-11ed-9a46-539096b9deba.html |
A man has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in connection to the shooting deaths of two people earlier this month, the Natrona County Sheriff's Office said.
Luke Thomas Young, 26, also faces a charge of aggravated assault in connection with the homicides. He is being held at the Natrona County Detention Center on a $1 million cash bond.
Young is accused of killing Acacia Colvin, 19, and Kameron Young Johnson, 27, on Aug. 9.
The shooting came after all three had traveled to Basin to sell $400 worth of drugs, including fentanyl, according to a law enforcement affidavit.
Sheriff's deputies responded to a reported shooting late that night on Highway 20/26 west of Casper. They found Johnson and Colvin dead at the scene. According to Natrona County Coroner James Whipps, both victims were killed by gunshots. An autopsy found Johnson appeared to be shot at close range, and Colvin had been shot in her hand, arm, chest and bottom as well as her head.
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Court documents state a motorcyclist saw Young on the highway around 11 p.m. on Aug. 9, along with a man and woman in a car that he saw swerve and stop on the side of the road.
He told police the woman was outside the car “almost down on her knees screaming” on the driver’s side, and the man was “slumped over” the center console and appeared to have been shot in the head, the affidavit states.
The motorcyclist said Young pointed a handgun at him, and he drove away and called 911. As he drove away, the affidavit says, he heard six shots.
Police reportedly found Colvin laying on the ground in front of the car, and Johnson inside. Colvin had multiple gunshot wounds, the affidavit states. Johnson had a single wound in his head. An investigation found Colvin had been driving, and Young had been in the backseat of the car.
Police collected five spent .40 caliber casings from the scene, and found another live round and two copper bullet jackets.
Investigators later found suspected methamphetamine and fentanyl in the car, a red Honda. Young’s Wyoming driver’s license was also found in the car, according to investigators. The motorcyclist later confirmed the photo matched the man who’d threatened him with a gun.
Young was found and arrested the following day, after a resident reported seeing someone matching his description jumping fences around 7 Mile Road — about two and a half miles from the shooting. He was held in jail in Natrona County on an unrelated warrant.
Court documents show Young had escaped from a correctional facility in Gillette, where he was completing a work-release program, about a week before his arrest. Young failed to return to the facility on Aug. 4, and the warrant was issued the day after. He had been there since June, on a three- to five-year sentence for a 2017 drug delivery conviction in Sheridan County.
Young made his initial appearance in Natrona County Circuit Court on Thursday to hear the charges against him. He appeared by video from the jail for the hearing. Two of the courtroom's five rows of seating were filled with sheriff's officers during the hearing, including Sheriff John Harlin.
A lawyer representing the state said District Attorney Dan Itzen recommended the $1 million cash bond because Young presents a "tremendous threat to the community."
Drug deal
Phone records cited in the affidavit show that Young, Colvin and Johnson went to Basin around 3:30 p.m. on the day of the shooting to sell $400 worth of drugs to someone police said was “known but unnamed.” That person later confirmed to police that she had arranged the sale and that the delivery had happened in Basin, court records state.
Investigators found another “known but unnamed” person — who cooperated in the case as a confidential source — sent Johnson two payments of $180 and $80, respectively, using an app.
The source later told police the payments were for fentanyl pills. They also said, according to the affidavit, that Johnson showed them two guns during the second purchase — a Glock 9 mm handgun and a H&K .40-caliber pistol.
Johnson allegedly sent $230 to Colvin using the same app that evening.
Around 8 p.m., Colvin is set to have asked her mother to pick her up “because she was tired of all the fighting.” Her mother, according to court documents, said she couldn’t because she didn’t have enough gas money.
A third “unnamed but known” source told police Colvin also told her she was “tired of listening to all the arguing” while driving back. That source said, according to police, Colvin sounded “scared” and “distraught" on the phone.
Around an hour later, Colvin told her mother she was “on the way” back, according to the court documents. Johnson’s phone records show he made plans to “come by” another person’s home after returning to Casper.
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Idaho House Minority Leader Ilana Rubel speaks at a press conference in the Capitol rotunda on Thursday. From left are Boise Democratic Sens. Carrie Semmelroth, Melissa Wintrow and Janie Ward-Engelking.
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Idaho House Minority Leader Ilana Rubel speaks at a press conference in the Capitol rotunda on Thursday. From left are Boise Democratic Sens. Carrie Semmelroth, Melissa Wintrow and Janie Ward-Engelking.
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Rep. Megan Blanksma speaks in the House of Representatives at the Idaho Statehouse in Boise on March 16.
BOISE — Idaho House Republicans are vowing to fight a preliminary injunction partially enjoining Idaho’s abortion “trigger” law with respect to hospital emergency-room care, saying “some preborn children may die because of this injunction.”
Meanwhile, Idaho House and Senate Democrats called it a “cruel, poorly written law,” and held a press conference Thursday afternoon to call on the Legislature and the Idaho Attorney General’s office to “stop burning taxpayer dollars on groundless legal appeals.” House Minority Leader Ilana Rubel, D-Boise, called the state’s position “legally and morally bankrupt — that women’s health does not merit protection.”
The judge’s preliminary injunction, issued Wednesday evening, only applies to emergency rooms at hospitals that receive Medicare funding, which are required by federal law to provide emergency care to patients whose health is threatened. Idaho’s abortion trigger law has no health exemption.
The law makes all abortions, at all stages of pregnancy, felonies punishable by two to five years in prison for the doctors who perform them. It permits doctors who are prosecuted to assert an “affirmative defense” against prosecution in cases of rape or incest where the doctor was provided with copy of a police report; or when the abortion was necessary to “prevent the death” of the pregnant woman from causes other than suicide.
The law, first passed in 2020, took effect Thursday statewide, except for the narrow emergency-room exemption covered by the preliminary injunction. The injunction is temporary, and will be in place while litigation proceeds in U.S. District Court in Boise. The law also is under challenge in the Idaho Supreme Court, but that court opted not to stay it from taking effect while it considers that and two related cases.
The U.S. Department of Justice sued Idaho over the law, in the first federal challenge to a state “trigger” law since the U.S. Supreme Court in June overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 case that established a constitutional right to abortion nationwide. Idaho’s law was “triggered” to take effect 30 days after the formal judgment was filed in that case, which is why it took effect on Thursday.
The Idaho Attorney General’s office declined to comment Thursday.
"Idahoans have a strong, shared concern for and high value on the life of Idaho’s preborn children,” said the House GOP statement, sent out by House GOP Caucus Chair Megan Blanksma, R-Hammett. “The death of even one preborn child in these circumstances is a tragedy, yet such deaths are the purpose and consequence of the current federal administration’s case against Idaho and the Idaho law. To protect the lives of as many of these children as possible, the Idaho Legislature will pursue all legal means to bring this injunction to an end as quickly as possible. The Idaho House Republican Caucus is confident that a lower or a higher appellate court will hold the federal administration’s case to be without merit."
Blanksma said House Republicans were meeting with their attorneys to discuss "what the options are going forward."
Rubel, said, “This law should never have been passed in the first place. It is an outrage that GOP legislators voted to deny a woman an abortion even where continuing the pregnancy will cause her paralysis, serious organ damage, lifelong infertility or amputation. Maybe they thought Roe would prevent it from ever taking legal effect, but in the wake of the Dobbs decision, the monster they created is coming to life and jeopardizing the lives of Idaho women.”
Idaho Family Policy Center President Blaine Conzatti said in a statement, "The trigger law is a great next step toward ensuring the legal protection of all preborn babies, but it's not our final goal. We're going to keep pushing until every preborn child, regardless of the circumstances of their conception, receives equal protection in every area of state law."
Meanwhile, Idaho Democratic Party Chair Lauren Necochea, who also is a Democratic state representative from Boise, said, “I am relieved to see the court take this step to ensure that every Idahoan receives necessary medical care in an emergency. Governor Little and Idaho’s Republican legislators were warned about the harm their extreme abortion ban would cause to patients, but they didn’t care. Under the GOP ban, a doctor can either risk prison time to provide care for a nonviable ectopic pregnancy or allow it to go untreated, causing life-threatening internal bleeding.”
Idaho’s trigger law, unlike a Texas trigger law that won a favorable preliminary ruling in federal court there a day earlier in an unrelated lawsuit filed by the state of Texas, has no exemption for cases of ectopic pregnancy or miscarriage, neither of which can result in a live birth.
Necochea said, “There is not a single Republican on the ballot this November who has stood up for our reproductive freedoms. We must vote these dangerous, extreme politicians out of office before their cruel quest for control kills Idahoans.”
The trigger law, which was SB 1385 in 2020, passed the Idaho Senate on a straight party-line vote with all Republicans in favor and all Democrats opposed. In the House, it passed 49-18; six Republicans joined Democrats in opposing it, with five of them maintaining the bill didn’t go far enough to ban abortion because of the provisions regarding rape and incest. The sixth didn’t seek reelection this year.
Gov. Brad Little signed the bill into law in March 2020.
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland praised the judge’s ruling, saying it “ensures that women in the State of Idaho can obtain the emergency medical treatment to which they are entitled under federal law. This includes abortion when that is the necessary treatment. … The Department of Justice will continue to use every tool at its disposal to defend the reproductive rights protected by federal law." | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/house-gop-vows-to-fight-trigger-law-injunction-dems-call-the-law-cruel/article_e0083924-24ce-11ed-98b9-73e5a853aef8.html | 2022-08-26T01:09:46 | 0 | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/house-gop-vows-to-fight-trigger-law-injunction-dems-call-the-law-cruel/article_e0083924-24ce-11ed-98b9-73e5a853aef8.html |
AUSTIN, Texas — Elon Musk wants to bring hyperloop tunnels to Central Texas.
The Tesla CEO recently tweeted about creating a tunnel between Austin and San Antonio. He mentioned the idea in a Twitter thread about the tunnels.
The two cities are about 80 miles apart on a stretch of Interstate 35.
"Would be cool to do a (much simplified) Hyperloop demo tunnel between maybe Austin & San Antonio," Musk tweeted.
He explained that a tunnel stretching between both cities would be "the fastest way to get between one downtown and another with known physics."
Tunnels, made by Musk's The Boring Company, are already in use in Las Vegas. The Las Vegas Convention Center Loop is a three-station transportation system consisting of 1.7 miles of tunnel, according to The Boring Company website. The tunnel reduced a 45-minute journey to about two minutes.
The Boring Company is constructing two additional loops in Las Vegas, per the company's website.
Musk's idea to connect the two Texas cities follows a June report stating The Boring Company filed an application to build a tunnel near the Tesla Gigafactory in eastern Travis County.
According to a report by the Austin Business Journal, the address for the project has it located on the west side of State Highway 130 while the Tesla factory is east of the same highway.
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President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced his plan to forgive up to $20,000 per borrower of federal student loans as part of the Biden-Harris administration’s Student Debt Relief Plan.
Originally published Aug. 24 on KTVB.COM.
President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced his plan to forgive up to $20,000 per borrower of federal student loans as part of the Biden-Harris administration’s Student Debt Relief Plan.
Pell Grant recipients could see up to $20,000 of debt cancelled. Non-Pell Grant recipients can receive up to $10,000 of their loan cancelled.
To qualify, individual income must be less than $125,000 annually, or the household income must be less than $250,000, according to the Biden administration.
The total student loan debt in the United States is nearly $1.75 trillion, according to numbers from Federal Reserve.
"It's obviously out of control. It's been a big discussion for a long time and doesn't show any signs of getting better," Boise State University doctoral student Brian Stelbotsky said.
Stelbotsky earned his undergraduate degree in 2009 from the University of Pittsburgh. He's still paying off that loan today, but Stelbotsky says his loan is manageable.
"I'm not going to complain about having some of that relieved, of course," Stelbotsky said.
It's a big help to the individual — such as Stelbotsky, but this plan will have consequences, according to University of Idaho Clinical Associate Professor of Economics, Steven Peterson.
The deficit doesn’t disappear; it is added to the federal debt total. Early estimates suggest this will cost $300 billion.
"I have very mixed feelings," Peterson said. "At some point, if the debt gets high enough, it could ultimately threaten the stability of the economic system in the United States. We're nowhere near that, but we've seen countries where that has occurred, such as Greece."
After adjusting for inflation, Peterson paid $1,000 per semester in the late 1970s. He understands the current financial burden students are under to afford college. However, Peterson believes loan cancellation could send the wrong message to future borrowers.
People may begin to take out federal student loans they cannot repay, because they expect the loan to be forgiven at some point in the future.
"If the incentives don't line up right, you can actually make the student loan debt worse in the long run," Peterson said.
Peterson favors bankruptcy. He believes that is the most tailored system to evaluate borrowers on a case-by-case basis.
"On a complex policy like this, it would be nice to come up with a bipartisan solution," Peterson said. "Congress, many years ago, made it very difficult to file bankruptcy on student loan debt. I would like to see that revisited. That way the court can go through and vet the finances of a family and make sure that it's appropriate to discharge that kind of debt."
Peterson feels the Biden administration’s plan is a one-size-fits-all policy that could award relief to those who otherwise wouldn’t need it — people who are otherwise fully capable to pay off student loans on their own.
"There's always unintended consequences," Peterson said. "People will feel that's a misuse of tax dollars."
However, from Stelbotsky's perspective, this relief is needed because he knows people in far worse situations, stuck living under crippling debt.
"I think if we've gotten ourselves into a situation where there's a level of student debt nationally that we're concerned about, then there have to be some discussions how we got there," Stelbotsky said. "How we might change the systems or structures that got us there in the first place."
The Biden-Harris administration’s Student Debt Relief Plan has ongoing changes for loan repayment that will affect current and future borrowers.
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Former Rep. Aaron von Ehlinger will not be acquitted or granted a new trial, Fourth District Judge Michael Reardon ruled Thursday, and he will be sentenced for his rape conviction next week.
Von Ehlinger’s attorney, Jon Cox, submitted a motion in Ada County Court in early August asking Reardon to acquit his client based on a lack of evidence, and in lieu of acquittal, he asked for a new trial to consider new evidence that was submitted as a sealed affidavit. Cox also argued von Ehlinger’s constitutional rights under the Sixth Amendment were violated because he did not have the opportunity to cross-examine or confront his accuser.
A jury found von Ehlinger guilty of rape, a felony, in April after a four-day trial. A 19-year-old legislative intern, who is referred to as Jane Doe to protect her identity, said von Ehlinger, then 39, took her to dinner, then back to his apartment, where she said he forced her to perform oral sex and he inserted his fingers inside of her without her consent. The jury found von Ehlinger not guilty of the second charge of oral penetration.
At a hearing on Thursday, Cox called witness Brandy Bentzinger to the stand, who said she worked with Doe at a cleaning service agency in 2021. Bentzinger submitted an affidavit alleging she spoke with Doe about the case while they worked together. Cox said in the affidavit, Doe gave conflicting statements to Bentzinger about the night in question.
What’s von Ehlinger’s history?
Aaron von Ehlinger represented Lewiston in the Legislature for less than one year. Gov. Brad Little appointed von Ehlinger to the Idaho House of Representatives on June 3, 2020, to fill the seat held by the late Rep. Thyra Stevenson. He resigned from the Legislature following an ethics hearing in the House of Representatives in April 2021. The ethics committee recommended his suspension or expulsion for the alleged conduct.
Von Ehlinger had a history of misdemeanor violations on his record that were pardoned by the state of Idaho prior to the rape accusation and conviction.
Before Bentzinger could go into more detail, Ada County Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Whitney Welsh objected and asked to question the witness.
Reardon granted the request, and Welsh asked if Bentzinger told a detective that Doe had said she did not want sexual contact with von Ehlinger and that she had turned her head away when he attempted to initiate oral sex. Bentzinger said yes.
Welsh then objected to further questioning, saying Bentzinger did not have any information material to the case, and Reardon agreed to dismiss her.
In his explanation of the ruling, Reardon said after reviewing the affidavit, he wasn’t sure if it was more harmful to Doe or von Ehlinger.
“The substance of that affidavit reads to me as potentially as impeaching to Mr. von Ehlinger’s testimony as it is to (Doe’s) testimony,” Reardon said.
He added that there was not a compelling reason to determine the jury inappropriately considered testimony from the sexual assault nurse who examined Doe, in part because there was physical evidence to bolster the testimony.
“The jury had all of the evidence that it needed to come to a decision on that, and they were free to believe or disbelieve the defendant or the statements that were contained in … the report, and they chose to believe the statements,” Reardon said.
On the question of Sixth Amendment rights to confront an accuser, Reardon said he understands the concern of not having the accuser testify in court, but there are many cases where the injured party does not or cannot give testimony, including murder.
“I’m not inclined to second guess the jury’s decision,” Reardon concluded.
Von Ehlinger’s sentencing is scheduled to take place at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday. He faces between one year and life in prison. | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/no-new-trial-for-former-idaho-legislator-convicted-of-rape-judge-rules/article_da05a2ee-24cb-11ed-b89e-e360d7d021b2.html | 2022-08-26T01:09:58 | 0 | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/no-new-trial-for-former-idaho-legislator-convicted-of-rape-judge-rules/article_da05a2ee-24cb-11ed-b89e-e360d7d021b2.html |
DALLAS — The world's largest podcast conference holding an event in Dallas apologized Thursday for the presence of a conservative podcaster who showed up at his company's booth.
The Podcast Movement conference brings together some of the top and most popular podcast companies and voices every year. In 2022, the conference is being held at the Sheraton Dallas Hotel in downtown Dallas.
Thursday morning, the conference Tweeted an apology before the session started for the day. Podcast Movement apologized for Daily Wire co-founder and conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro being at the conference, saying "we take full responsibility for the harm done by his presence."
The Daily Wire, which is a conservative news website and media company, did have a booth near the PM22 expo area, according to Podcast Movement. It's most known for its podcast, "The Ben Shapiro Show."
The conference did not provide anymore details about what happened while Shapiro was there.
Podcast Movement provided a follow-up Tweet that said:
"There’s no way around it: We agreed to sell The Daily Wire a first-time booth based on the company’s large presence in podcasting. The weight of that decision is now painfully clear. Shapiro is a co-founder. A drop-in, however unlikely, should have been considered a possibility."
Later in the thread, Podcast Movement also tweeted, "The pain caused by this one will always stick with us. We promise that sponsors will be more carefully considered moving forward."
The Daily Wire booth pictured images of three of its main hosts: Ben Shapiro, Candace Owens and Jordan Peterson. None of the company's representatives were scheduled to appear on any panels and Shapiro remained in the common space, according to Podcast Movement.
This situation caused "Ben Shapiro" to trend nationally Thursday on Twitter and brought with it many responses in the comments below Podcast Movement's Tweet.
User Seth Silvers tweeted, "This tweet is frustrating. I LOVE PM. I have always appreciated how inclusive PM has been. However, apologizing for hosting one of the largest networks in the industry because they believe differently than some in the PM community is the least inclusive move I’ve seen PM do."
One user by the name Mary Mo tweeted, "I don’t know why it’s hard to understand that someone such as a trans person or anyone in the LGBTQ+ community might not feel safe around Shapiro, since he & many conservatives are often speaking against them & attacking their very existence. I can see how that could happen."
Twitter user Brian Chovanec said: "Please. As someone who often disagrees w/Shapiro, his mere physical presence at an event, especially as it seems his company had a booth, should be viewed an opportunity for discussion, not something to be feared. Don't help them turn the 'triggered snowflakes' meme into reality."
Daily Wire CEO and co-founder Jeremy Boreing announced in February that The Daily Wire had officially become a $100 million business. The conservative media company has also started moving into the entertainment industry, releasing multiple feature-length films. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/dallas-podcast-conference-apologizes-presence-ben-shapiro/287-9e7be1d2-6885-4975-ae6e-9478caee1bb2 | 2022-08-26T01:12:22 | 1 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/dallas-podcast-conference-apologizes-presence-ben-shapiro/287-9e7be1d2-6885-4975-ae6e-9478caee1bb2 |
DALLAS — The Dallas County Sheriff's Department is searching for two missing teenage girls last seen leaving a juvenile detention center in northwest Dallas.
The girls, identified as Zamaria Pride and Tatiana Luke, were last seen leaving the Letot Center, located near Denton Drive and Lombardy Lane.
DCSD said it was concerned about the girls' well-being.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the sheriff's office at 214-749-8641.
No other details about the missing girls were released. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/dallas-police-department-searching-for-missing-teen-girls/287-883cff9e-250f-4131-9b83-5362efef691a | 2022-08-26T01:12:29 | 1 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/dallas-police-department-searching-for-missing-teen-girls/287-883cff9e-250f-4131-9b83-5362efef691a |
Residents in the Perry Heights neighborhood in Dallas are fighting to return trash collection to their alley.
Sanitation officials recently proposed a citywide reduction of alley collection and Perry Heights is among the places where it happened.
The century-old Perry Heights neighborhood has older homes where many residents still have alley trash collection. But the alley behind the west side of Vandelia Street was deemed unsafe for collection, so trash carts are emptied on the street instead.
Resident Russell Buescher said cars also use driveways on the street and frequently park along the curb.
“There's very limited space here and now to add the trash pickup is another space issue which is not safe for anybody,” Buescher said.
It is a very long path to the curb on the lots that were designed for alley trash collection.
“Almost everyone has some form of a place to put their trash in the back on the alley side. They're not set up to be put in front of the house,” resident Eric Whitten said.
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In October, residents were told alley utility poles were damaging trucks and collection would move to the street temporarily. Then, a May letter told them it would be permanent.
Residents got power provider Oncor to replace the utility poles and got sanitation people to come for a July visit to see the change.
“We walked the alley with them and showed that the poles had been moved and we're ready for the alley service to be restored but we have no indication that's what they're going to do,” resident Gordon Markley said.
Thursday, City of Dallas spokeswoman Catherine Cuellar responded with an email saying a return to alley collection is not planned for the street.
“Sanitation staff also met with Vandelia Street residents in July to explain the alley service criteria, why it is not safe for Sanitation vehicles to currently operate at the location, and walked through the alleyway with them, pointing out the narrow conditions and obstructions impeding Sanitation's safe transit. Sanitation will reevaluate the serviceability of the alleyway if conditions improve,” the email said.
Two years ago in August 2020, Sanitation officials shared a plan with Dallas City Council members to shift collection to streets and out of alleys around the city. The switch was proposed to reduce manpower needed to hoist carts at rear collection vehicles in narrow alleys and use more automated trucks with collection arms that eliminate workers.
Dallas City Council members had concerns about the plan that day.
“You're changing the sanitation and you're going to hear from people. It's ‘Don't mess with my trash,’” Councilmember Jennifer Gates said.
Councilman Tennell Atkins, representing far Southern Dallas, agreed the change would be unpopular.
“There is a big war that's going to come down on the council members, and the community says, ‘I got the alley. I want my trash can picked up from the alley,’” Atkins said at the time.
The Perry Heights residents feel that way now.
“It's a service we want to have and they should provide it,” Buescher said.
Catherine Cuellar’s email said a citywide switch is no longer planned.
“The Sanitation Department does not have a mandate to move its overall alley collections to curbside. Alley collection services are a part of the department’s normal operation. The changes in points of service for collection that customers experience are in response to unsafe alley conditions for Sanitation crews as well as to abate repeat damage to Sanitation equipment and public and private property. Currently, Sanitation will continue to provide alley collection services to those locations in which it is safe and efficient to do so,” the email said.
The Perry Heights residents said they will continue negotiating with sanitation officials and their Dallas City Councilman Paul Ridley for a return to alley collection.
Ridley’s office told NBC 5 Thursday he has no statement on the issue at this time. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/dallas-neighbors-fight-for-trash-collection-returned-to-alley/3057429/ | 2022-08-26T01:17:24 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/dallas-neighbors-fight-for-trash-collection-returned-to-alley/3057429/ |
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Lactation consultants at Franciscan Health Michigan City’s Family Birth Center helped triple the number of mothers they consult who exclusively breastfeed their newborns.
Patty DeStefano launched the initiative when she became the manager of the Family Birth Center two years ago.
“We always had lactation consultants, but people weren’t into exclusive breastfeeding as much and there wasn’t as much support,” said Echo Denny, one of the lactation nurses at the Family Birth Center.
Nurses emphasize the health benefits of breast milk, including lower risks of morbidity, mortality, sudden infant death syndrome, childhood leukemia, gastroenteritis, necrotizing enterocolitis, middle ear infections and respiratory tract infections. They follow up with patients after 30 days, 90 days and six months.
“Our consultants are available to trouble shoot, meet one-on-one, and sometimes they are there to simply listen,” DeStefano said.
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Babies who breastfeed also have lower rates of childhood obesity and type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Moms who breastfeed tend to lose weight more quickly following birth and have a lower risk of cardiovascular disease, hypertension, myocardial infarction and type 2 diabetes.
“Breastfed babies also sleep better at night because breast milk has melatonin in it,” DeStefano said. “Your body knows what the baby needs.”
Some new mothers still need convincing.
“Most people I talk to who don’t breastfeed or who stop think they don’t have enough milk for the baby,” Denny said. “A baby’s stomach is the size of a marble the first day. They don’t need that much. Sometimes they say they had trouble with their first child and I’ll ask why. Maybe it was positioning or latching and we can work on that.”
But recently formula shortages have driven up interest in breastfeeding exclusively.
“People have been calling and Facebook messaging me about relactation,” Denny said. “One patient started breastfeeding, then went to bottle feeding and wanted to try relactation. If the supply was good in the first place, however long it has been since you stopped, it takes that long to get it back.”
For more informaiton, call Family Birth Center at Franciscan Health Michigan City at 219-877-1610. | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/franciscan-health-lactation-consultants-triple-amount-of-breastfeeding/article_b3d83045-4c84-53ed-b501-ed331310dac6.html | 2022-08-26T01:17:45 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/franciscan-health-lactation-consultants-triple-amount-of-breastfeeding/article_b3d83045-4c84-53ed-b501-ed331310dac6.html |
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When it comes to cleaning up from floodwaters, there's not much that can be saved because of possible contamination in the water.
Josh Hobbs, the vice president of Dalworth Restoration, says some items can be saved if properly cleaned.
"Normally with hard surface types of content, you can clean and sanitize and disinfect those materials to get them to pre-loss condition,” Hobbs said. “But for the most part, this stuff that the water comes in contact with is going to be something that is going to need to be removed."
Restoration companies are very busy right now trying to help people restore their lives. But Hobbs warned, you need to make sure you understand your insurance.
"Everyone wants to go, go, go and get things fixed right. But really it's a couple of months down the road from here is when the problems could really set in,” Hobbs said. “So, understanding your insurance coverages and who's responsible for paying."
Waiting on the insurance process isn’t always easy.
"So far we haven't heard anything back yet,” said Monique Little, CEO of You Go Natural. Her business was heavily damaged by floodwaters in Dallas.
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“We have filed a claim, but they said it's going to be at least a week to hear back on what's going to happen."
Hobbs said don't rush into any commitments. It could be a red flag if a company wants money up-front.
Also, know some insurance policies don't cover floodwaters from rain.
"So something that is concerning is when you have rising water is making sure you have qualified contractors in these structures that understand how the insurance works and how they don't as it relates to rising water. Because it's a little bit different than a busted pipe in a house," Hobbs said.
Not knowing your policy could leave you getting a large bill later from the contractor for work that wasn't covered by insurance.
Hobbs recommended using a certified company with proper licensing and liability insurance. You can check certification through the Institute of Inspection Cleaning and Restoration Certification(IICRC).
You can call IICRC at 844-464-4272 or for more information click here. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/restoration-company-gives-advice-to-homeowners-dealing-with-flood-damage/3057248/ | 2022-08-26T01:17:52 | 0 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/restoration-company-gives-advice-to-homeowners-dealing-with-flood-damage/3057248/ |
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A former South Texas mayor was acquitted Thursday of organized election fraud and illegal voting after an eight-day trial.
A Hidalgo County jury deliberated for about six hours Thursday before finding former Edinburg Mayor Richard Molina not guilty of the organized fraud count and 11 counts of illegal voting. Molina sobbed in his attorney’s arms after hearing the verdict.
Edinburg is a city of about 90,000 people and is the headquarters for U.S. Customs and Border Protection operations in the Rio Grande Valley.
The charges against Molina mark a high-profile arrest for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican who has made prosecuting illegal voting cases a priority and has touted tough prison sentences handed down in election fraud cases. In February 2019, however, a federal judge said there was no evidence of widespread voter fraud in Texas after the state wrongly questioned the U.S. citizenship of thousands of voters.
A message to Paxton’s office seeking comment was not returned.
Molina unseated the city’s longtime mayor by about 1,200 votes in 2017. Prosecutors alleged Molina, who was arrested and charged in April 2019, tried to tip the scales by having voters change their addresses to places they didn’t live, including an apartment complex he owned.
Molina testified in his own defense that he believed his actions were legal under the attorney general’s opinions that were in effect.
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Molina’s wife, Dalia Molina, and ex-business partner, Julio Carranza, still await trial on similar charges. Both have pleaded not guilty, but Carranza testified for the protection in his former partner’s trial. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/former-texas-mayor-acquitted-of-election-fraud-charges-after-8-day-trial/3057482/ | 2022-08-26T01:18:06 | 0 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/former-texas-mayor-acquitted-of-election-fraud-charges-after-8-day-trial/3057482/ |
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The City of Fort Worth is seeking volunteers to help clean up debris and litter left along the banks of the Trinity River following this week's flooding.
Large amounts of debris and litter can be seen along the Trinity, Lake Worth and Lake Arlington, the city said. Volunteers, community groups and organizations will be given free supplies to help with the cleanup along the Trinity and other areas of the city.
Volunteers can gather at the Haws Athletic Center, located at 600 Congress Street, at the following times.
Thursday, 10 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Friday, 10 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Saturday, 8 - 11 a.m.
Sunday, 8 - 11 a.m.
There is no need to register and volunteers can come and go. Trash disposal information will be provided.
On Thursday and Friday, supplies can be picked up at the Panther Island parking lot located off Purcey Street.
On Saturday, Aug. 27 and Sunday, Aug. 28, supplies can be picked up at the following locations:
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Emergency crews responded to Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey Thursday night for a report of injuries inside the amusement park.
Jackson Township police said EMS providers were dispatched shortly before 8 p.m.
SkyForce10 was over the park as ambulances gathered in the parking lot.
Police could not confirm whether the injuries were related to any particular ride, however they were not life-threatening.
NBC10's requests for information to Six Flags have yet to be returned.
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Kathy Niezurawski, former Detroit News copy editor, dies at 72
From excelling in Spanish enough to teach teenagers to earning another college degree late in life, Kathy Niezurawski was known as a lifelong learner.
“She was just thirsting for knowledge all the time,” said Marcy Anderson, a friend for more than 50 years. “She just soaked it up.”
Miss Niezurawski, a former copy editor at The Detroit News, died Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022, in Bay City after a battle with Parkinson’s disease, relatives said. She was 72.
In more than 13 years at the paper, the Michigan native honed her linguistic skills to leave a mark on the scores of articles she revised.
“Kathy was about as much a copy editor as a copy editor can get. She had grammar and style in her DNA and was a frequent resource for anyone on the desk,” said Andreas Supanich, news editor at The News. “... She didn’t take any shortcuts; even if deadline was 30 seconds away, she would take the time to do the job the right way. And in the end, the copy would be much clearer.”
Whether filling in on holidays or working late on election nights, Miss Niezurawski deftly trimmed and connected sentences, double-checked titles of sources and authored headlines for the mass of items that would reach readers online and in print.
Honors included a first-place finish in the headline writing category in the Society of Professional Journalists’ Detroit chapter annual awards ceremony.
“I remember her as the go-to person for grammar questions, like when to use lay or laid in a sentence,” said Steve Wilkinson, her longtime colleague on the copy desk.
Miss Niezurawski honed those skills working at publications including the San Diego Union-Tribune and Los Angeles Times, among others, said her cousin, Amy Glaza.
She primarily edited newspapers, which seemed a perfect fit.
“She loved the ability of a newspaper to really inform and educate the community on important issues,” Glaza said. “She really felt it was vital for our country to have an educated and well-informed community.”
Miss Niezurawski’s quest for education started as a youth in Bay City.
While attending Central High School, she joined the yearbook and school newspaper club. Though some classmates viewed the role as an easy way to avoid an English class, Miss Niezurawski relished it, said Anderson, who met her there. “She loved developing stories and coming up with good headlines. That just excited her. She truly loved it.”
After studying history and Spanish at Central Michigan University, she earned a teaching degree from Michigan State University, her family said.
Miss Niezurawski briefly taught in the Thumb region before returning to her love of journalism and taking a job in St. Louis. She later worked for newspapers in Arizona and California, relatives and friends said.
Her western stints were eventful.
“My favorite anecdote of hers was from her time there, when she crossed paths with a young Arnold Schwarzenegger at some kind of media event,” Supanich said. “It was crowded enough that they brushed against each other and that giant of a man ended up stepping on her foot. Instead of apologizing, he just looked at her and said, “Ouch!” in that Schwarzenegger accent.”
During those years, Miss Niezurawski found other pursuits, including serving as a tour guide and taking groups of students to Mexico as well as absorbing the culture in other countries, associates said.
Long active with the Sierra Club, she also loved bird-watching, hiking and camping — sometimes trekking solo, Glaza said. “She was incredibly adventurous and independent. It just astounded me. She was a real inspiration as a single woman forging her way. She just seemed to be fearless.”
Another passion was animals — donating to welfare groups or raising rescues as pets, Anderson said. “They were literally her babies.”
Miss Niezurawski eventually returned to Michigan to care for her mother, Leona, who died in 2003, said her brother, Michael.
While working at The News, she impressed others with her knowledge about far-ranging topics.
Her adoration of the Pittsburgh Steelers “was impossible to avoid,” Supanich said. “She was as well-versed in the ins and outs of football as anyone I’ve met. While the rest of us were suffering through losing Lions season after losing Lions season, Kathy could hold her head high.”
Michael Niezurawski always marveled at the seemingly endless array of facts honed from constant reading, which made his sister a formidable force in trivia games.
“She knew your answers and everyone else’s,” he said. "She was a learner."
To further her interests, Miss Niezurawski earned a degree in library science from Wayne State University before leaving The News in 2016, her brother said.
That led to a part-time library job, where she served as a resource person, Anderson said. “She loved that. That was the teacher in her coming out.”
Besides her brother, survivors include another sibling, David Niezurawski, as well as many nieces, nephews and friends.
A memorial is planned next year. | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2022/08/25/kathy-niezurawski-former-detroit-news-copy-editor-dies-72/7891192001/ | 2022-08-26T01:20:16 | 1 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2022/08/25/kathy-niezurawski-former-detroit-news-copy-editor-dies-72/7891192001/ |
Driver arrested in alleged road rage on I-94 in Detroit, state police say
A driver has been arrested in connection with a reported road-rage incident Thursday on Interstate 94 in Detroit, Michigan State Police said.
The incident was reported in the eastbound lanes of I-94 near Interstate 75 around 3:15 p.m. and involved a motorist pointing a weapon at another driver, according to a statement on Twitter.
The victim called police and provided the driver's license plate number, officials said.
That led troopers to the owner, who said the driver was his son, MSP tweeted.
Troopers learned the driver was renovating a house near Michigan and Livernois in Detroit.
"The suspect was interviewed and admitted to the road rage and stated that he had an air gun that he pointed at the victim," state police said.
He was expected to remain in custody as findings from the investigators are presented to the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office for possible charges.
Meanwhile, troopers were awaiting a warrant Thursday to search his home and car. | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/wayne-county/2022/08/25/driver-arrested-alleged-road-rage-94-detroit-state-police-say/7898959001/ | 2022-08-26T01:20:22 | 0 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/wayne-county/2022/08/25/driver-arrested-alleged-road-rage-94-detroit-state-police-say/7898959001/ |
GREENSBORO — The Biden administration is recognizing Guilford County Schools for its savvy use of American Rescue Plan Act funds.
The U.S. Department of Education highlighted the district's tutoring program as among 15 different examples of model uses from 15 different school districts across the United States, as part of a "Back to School Checklist for Parents" posted to the department's website.
Acting Superintendent Whitney Oakley was one of two leaders from those districts to take part in a national press call about the checklist with Biden administration leaders on Thursday, including first lady Jill Biden and U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona. U.S. House Rep. Kathy Manning, D-Greensboro, also took part.
During the call, Oakley talked about how the district had used part of the American Rescue Plan funding it received to help pay for tutoring and summer learning opportunities for students.
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The district has also worked to link students in need with “high dosage” tutoring — meaning, at least three separate tutoring sessions of half an hour to an hour each week using tutors who consistently work with the same child or children. The hundreds of tutors in the program have ranged from graduate assistants at UNCG and N.C. A&T to teachers, high school students and community partners.
"The pandemic has redefined the way every school functions," Oakley said. "In Guilford County Schools we have looked at the last two and a half years as an opportunity to not focus on what public education has become, but rather to reimagine what public education can and should be."
The call came as the U.S. Department of Education released a list of nine strategies upon which the Biden administration recommends school districts spend their American Rescue Plan dollars, ranging from ensuring students have the educators they need to providing vaccine clinics to upgrading ventilation systems. | https://greensboro.com/news/local/education/guilford-county-schools-gets-kudos-for-academic-recovery-efforts-during-white-house-press-call/article_adcdc920-248c-11ed-8e81-3fa62634d0bf.html | 2022-08-26T01:26:05 | 0 | https://greensboro.com/news/local/education/guilford-county-schools-gets-kudos-for-academic-recovery-efforts-during-white-house-press-call/article_adcdc920-248c-11ed-8e81-3fa62634d0bf.html |
GREENSBORO — Just one day after its grand opening, the new women’s business center at Bennett College played host to a visit by Gov. Roy Cooper.
Cooper was on hand to tour the center with local officials and celebrate the occasion.
“We do live in the greatest country in the world and we have opportunities for people to succeed, but the fact of the matter is it’s not a level playing field for people,” he said. “This women’s center is about leveling the playing field and making sure that everybody has an opportunity. And that excites me.”
The center is expected to help women in Greensboro and the surrounding areas with tasks like developing business plans, marketing, managing finances and accessing loans, grants and investments. It is one of five new proposed centers from across the country that won endorsement and funding from the U.S. Small Business Administration in late May.
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The center is the first Small Business Administration women’s center to be located on the campus of a women’s college of any kind. Bennett is one of two historically black women’s colleges operating in the United States.
The college is partnering with the National Institute of Minority Economic Development, which suggested and applied for the opportunity. The institute is operating the center while the Small Business Administration is providing money to help the launch.
The center’s newly hired executive director, Lu-Ann Barry, said she will be working to assist “fellow small business owners who are ready to dig deep, do the work and continuously strive to raise the bar on what entrepreneurship looks like within Guilford County and beyond.”
Some of those small business builders and owners are Bennett College students. During his tour of the Women’s Business Center of Greensboro, located on the bottom floor of the college’s Catchings Complex, Cooper heard from college senior Ja’Nylah Johnson and junior Zakyha Jones-Walker about the businesses they are pursuing.
The governor’s visit came as Bennett has recently started its new school year and is gearing up for a visit in a couple weeks from the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools, an accrediting agency which will evaluate the quality of the college’s education.
As with any college or university in the U.S., accreditation is key to maintaining federal financial aid for students and access to federal funds for the school. TRACS had planned to visit the school in late January, but those plans were rescheduled due to extreme winter weather coming on top of the ongoing COVID-19 surge at the time, according the the school’s president Suzanne Walsh.
In her remarks as part of the governor’s tour, Walsh said it wasn’t hard for the Institute’s President and CEO Kevin Price to convince her with his proposal to partner on the women’s business center.
“Number one: Our Bennett students, they are already entrepreneurs. They aspire to be entrepreneurs,” she said. “Super easy to say yes.” | https://greensboro.com/news/local/education/new-womens-business-center-at-bennett-gets-visit-from-nc-governor-on-thursday/article_492cc228-24be-11ed-96b6-d33c67ec0018.html | 2022-08-26T01:26:11 | 1 | https://greensboro.com/news/local/education/new-womens-business-center-at-bennett-gets-visit-from-nc-governor-on-thursday/article_492cc228-24be-11ed-96b6-d33c67ec0018.html |
Parents in the Indianapolis Public Schools district are advocating for programs that offer more equitable education for students.
Data from a recent IPS study showed Black and brown students are performing better in other Marion County schools than those in IPS schools.
IPS district parents are urging the school board to replicate school models that work for all children.
"You can see only about 9.9% of students pass both the ILEARN and math portions in 2022. That's a huge gap," said AJ Lucky, organizer of Stand for Children.
"This is an issue of equity and students having access to high quality programs and school models," said Lucky.
An IPS graphic shows Paramount Cottage Home school has 66% of their Black students passing both ILEARN math and reading portions, and they also have 56% enrollment of Black students.
"Their programs are working here for students, and we should be using these programs across the city," Lucky said.
Parents are urging IPS to look at other Marion County schools to get ideas on closing the gap. Some are asking the district to consider a community-wide partnership with those schools.
"I think it starts with strategic partnerships that are based on data not based on popular schools or school types," said Lucky.
They believe doing this will have a positive impact on our community.
"We know when a student is performing well," said Lucky. "They end up being super productive and super successful members of society."
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A Guatemalan immigrant identified by Richmond police as one of two people behind an alleged mass shooting plot on July 4 at Dogwood Dell pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to re-entering the U.S. after having been deported.
Rolman Balcarcel-Bavagas, 38, entered his guilty plea to the immigration charge during an uneventful 30-minute hearing before U.S. District Court Judge M. Hannah Lauck. She convicted him after accepting his plea and set sentencing for Nov. 10. The maximum punishment for the offense is two years in prison, but Balcarcel-Bavagas will likely get half of that or less, according to a court discussion about the matter.
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Assistant U.S. Attorney Kashan Pathan, who is prosecuting the case, made no mention of the alleged mass shooting plot or what role, if any, Balcarcel-Bavagas allegedly played in it.
If the U.S. Attorney’s Office addresses that topic, it will likely occur at sentencing and in a memorandum filed in advance that outlines the government’s position on what punishment Balcarcel-Bavagas should receive.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office assumed prosecution of the case after the Richmond Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office withdrew firearm charges against Balcarcel-Bavagas and co-defendant Julio Alvarado-Dubon, 52, during an Aug. 3 hearing in Richmond General District Court.
During questioning by Judge David Hicks, Assistant Richmond Commonwealth’s Attorney Clint Seal said the prosecutor’s office had no evidence that a mass shooting was planned by the defendants for Dogwood Dell on July 4.
In several subsequent interviews and statements, Richmond Police Chief Gerald Smith has steadfastly maintained that Dogwood Dell had been targeted by the pair for a mass shooting, and that his department thwarted the attack after receiving a tip from a concerned citizen.
On July 1, Richmond investigators seized two AR-15 assault-style rifle and a 9 mm semiautomatic pistol and about 200 rounds of ammunition from a home where the two men were living in the 3100 block of Columbia St. in South Richmond.
According to the government’s statement of facts related to Balcarcel-Bavagas’ guilty plea to the immigration offense, he is a citizen of Guatemala residing illegally in the U.S. who previously was removed twice from the country.
He was first encountered by Immigration and Customs officers in the Carbon County, Wyo., jail on Sept. 13, 2007, after being detained for driving under the influence of alcohol. After appealing an immigration judge’s order that he be removed, and subsequently losing the appeal, he was granted permission to depart the U.S. voluntarily and did so on Oct. 22, 2013, the facts statement says.
Less than a year later, Balcarcel-Bavagas was encountered on July 31, 2014, by the U.S. Border Patrol in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. After determining he had previously been removed, Balcarcel-Bavagas was deported on Aug. 8, 2014, according to the government’s statement.
He was next encountered on July 1 by Richmond police at the house on Columbia Street, as officers investigated the tip about a planned mass shooting on July 4.
When asked by the judge whether the government’s statement of facts needed any corrections or revisions, Balcarcel-Bavagas replied through an interpreter, “It’s all fine.”
The person who tipped Richmond police identified Balcarcel-Bavagas as the person who was planning the shooting, according to a search warrant affidavit. The tipster further advised that Balcarcel-Bavagas, known to the tipster as “Chapin,” had connections to a gang called “Los Zetas.” Police said Zetas refers to the Zetas cartel that operates in Mexico and the U.S.
In city court records, Balcarcel-Bavagas told a Richmond magistrate that he has been living in the city for three or four months and resided in Denver for three years before that. He was employed doing electrical work and earned $1,100 weekly when working 40 hours a week. | https://richmond.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/man-accused-by-richmond-police-of-plotting-july-4-mass-shooting-pleads-guilty-to-immigration/article_8c7a0817-c0cb-5b12-9019-9f3db57fee13.html | 2022-08-26T01:37:45 | 0 | https://richmond.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/man-accused-by-richmond-police-of-plotting-july-4-mass-shooting-pleads-guilty-to-immigration/article_8c7a0817-c0cb-5b12-9019-9f3db57fee13.html |
You'd have a hard time believing Brian Hull's sordid past — the cocaine addiction, the alcohol abuse or the time served behind bars — if you were walking through the Haymarket Farmers Market one Saturday morning this summer.
With the sun shining brightly, Hull, 62, adorned in crisp white summer shirts, multicolored shorts and matching tie, sat at the keyboard playing "Running on Empty," while bandmate Kelly McGovern strummed his guitar next to him.
They were entertaining, and a crowd gathered to listen. A few women danced in the area in front of the make-shift bandstand.
"I’m average, but it’s good," Hull says. "It’s OK to be OK."
Recovery hinges on the notion that it's OK to not be OK, that the struggle is real and never ending. It also helps to realize that your best effort is OK, too, critics be damned.
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In that moment, Kelly Oh Brian was the antithesis of the lyrics they were harmonizing. They weren't running on empty. The tank was full. Full of life. Full of happiness. And full of appreciation for a new lease on life that was granted to them years earlier.
Sobriety, Hull says, is wonderful and the energy he derives from it -- an aura that can't be easily explained --seemed to permeate through everyone within earshot.
"That is basically the gift of clean living and being excited about playing music and entertaining people," Hull said. "It’s just a gift. We’re both lucky guys."
Credit a drummer named Don Holmquist for bringing Hull and McGovern together to play a substance-abuse recovery rally more than a decade ago.
That's where Kelly Oh Brian took root. They play a couple of times a month at street fairs and private parties in addition to the third Friday of every month at Wilderness Ridge Country Club.
"We're busy enough," said Hull, who says they avoid playing bars for an obvious reason. There's no need tempting the demons from within.
Hull and McGovern are also in another band with Holmquist on the drums called The Gears, while McGovern heads up a string band that is enjoying its share of local popularity.
Amazingly, it took decades for Hull and McGovern to find each other despite being lifelong Lincolnites -- children of the 1960s -- and members of a musical community that, relatively speaking, really isn't that big.
McGovern, a Pius X High School graduate, was a couple of years older than Hull, who graduated from Lincoln Southeast in 1978.
McGovern worked on the railroad for 45 years, while Hull's story is much more filled with peril despite its innocently mundane start.
He began taking piano lessons at an early age, but gave it up altogether in the sixth grade to focus his attention on two things.
"I wanted to do sports and get high all the way through Irving (Middle School) and (Lincoln) Southeast," he said. "That was kind of my No. 1 goal. All I wanted to do was party all night.
"It was typical American stuff."
Sad but true. The American epidemic of self-medication isn't new. It's been cultivated over decades. The rock-band stereotype only grew the culture and sucked in a lot of people, Hull included.
He wound up playing football for two years at South Dakota Wesleyan University. And he rediscovered music, but developed a raging cocaine habit that nearly cost him his life in Kansas City and ultimately led to an 18-month stint behind bars.
"When I got to the penitentiary, I ordered these musical theory books," he said. "That’s all I did when I was in the pen."
He tried sobriety and even hooked up with a clean band in his mid-20s, but playing bars and clubs proved to be way too much temptation. Eventually, the booze wore down his willpower.
He then played in a country band that wound up winning a musical showcase. The prize was an appearance at the Comstock Music Festival in western Nebraska, where they were the openers on a lineup that featured the Oak Ridge Boys, Martina McBride and Blake Shelton.
"It was just fun," he said. "But I was just a mess. I was just lucky to be involved."
In his mid-40s, he'd had enough. He knew he needed to clean up his act. On Halloween, he'll celebrate his 16th year of sobriety, five days before The Gears play a concert at the Rococo Theatre to benefit the Complete Family Foundation, which provides funding for families and individuals who cannot afford the costs to receive quality mental health care.
The Foundation also supports the Judy Fletcher Memorial Scholarship, which Hull started 12 years ago at Southeast Community College. Fletcher, who was a classmate of Hull's in the alcohol-drug clinician program, died of a heart attack in 2009.
It's his way of giving back to a community that didn't give up on him. | https://journalstar.com/news/local/leading-off-sobriety-makes-a-lifetime-of-making-music-better-for-this-lincoln-band/article_f2896bed-1e2a-575e-9c02-70763bed347d.html | 2022-08-26T01:40:34 | 0 | https://journalstar.com/news/local/leading-off-sobriety-makes-a-lifetime-of-making-music-better-for-this-lincoln-band/article_f2896bed-1e2a-575e-9c02-70763bed347d.html |
BOISE, Idaho —
Idaho's legislative leaders are responding to the recent decision over Idaho's abortion "trigger" law, after a federal judge issued a partial pause on the abortion law.
The Idaho House Republican Caucus issued a statement in response, pledging to fight the ruling because "some of Idaho’s preborn children may die because of this injunction, children whose lives the Idaho law otherwise would have protected."
"We're disappointed. We were hoping that the judge would go another direction, but it is what it is," Republican Majority Caucus Chair Megan Blanksma said. "And we're now in the process of discussing with the attorneys what we need to do and what our options are going."
The judge ruled that Idaho's law conflicts with the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, which requires doctors to stabilize patients in emergencies and can include various medical procedures.
There is no exception written into the abortion law, Idaho code 18-622, for a health risk, which falls under the EMTALA umbrella.
Republicans at the statehouse believe the Idaho law leaves room for providers to make correct medical decisions, regardless of what EMTALA says. Blanksma said the Idaho law also considers medical emergencies.
"It's not as if we didn't consider the health of the mother when we wrote the legislation; that's why it's written in there," Blanksma said. "So this false narrative the Democrats and the Department of Justice and the administration keep pushing, that this is some sort of total abortion ban, is completely false. That is a false narrative."
Democratic minority leader Ilana Rubel said the ruling just permits doctors to provide emergency abortions when necessary to save the woman's life.
"So we are only talking about situations here where a woman is facing a life-threatening infection, loss of a body, organ paralysis, obesity," Rubel said, "you know, major health consequences."
Abortion can be used to resolve hemorrhaging, sepsis or ectopic pregnancies, which is a life-threatening condition where the embryo develops outside the uterus and can rupture the fallopian tube.
"I think that it was a clever way for the Biden administration to get around a Supreme Court decision," Blanksma said. "I think that's what it is."
"Why are they appealing it then? If this is what they say it's implied, that there's some exception for women's health, then why are they so outraged that the judge is trying to make that clear?" Ilana Rubel said. "That's all this judge's ruling does; it makes clear that, yes, you can treat a woman where there's a health emergency. Republican leadership is saying 'unacceptable, we want to overturn this ruling and make clear that there is no exception for the health of the mother'."
The statement from the House Republican Caucus continued, saying "Idahoans have a strong, shared concern for and high value on the life of Idaho’s preborn children. The death of even one preborn child in these circumstances is a tragedy, yet such deaths are the purpose and consequence of the current federal administration’s case against Idaho and the Idaho law."
The Republican Caucus also stated that they would be pursuing all legal means in order to bring the injunction to an end as quickly as possible, "to protect the lives of as many of these children as possible."
Democrats say they will also put up a fight.
"We are going to hope that somebody listens to our call today to stop litigating this," Rubel said. "Failing that, we certainly hope that voters will pay attention to this in November. And it's not just women. There are a lot of men who have women in their lives who hopefully don't want to see them, you know, dead or suffering, grievous health consequences. We are in a completely unacceptable situation right now. And our laws need to change. Our lawmakers need to change."
Blanksma said the caucus will meet with attorneys to discuss what options are available moving forward.
"You either trust the process or you don't," Blanksma said. "We disagree with the decision, but right now we're looking at what we need to do as far as process."
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Pima County says it will reopen storm-damaged East Sunrise Drive at the Esperero Wash by early Friday morning, nearly two weeks sooner than initially expected.
Permanent repairs of the road — near Sabino Canyon Recreation Area on the Tucson area's northeast side — will be performed after the monsoon season, the county's transportation department said in a news release Thursday.
The closure, which shut down the portion of Sunrise between Barrasca Avenue and Via Umbrosa, began last weekend after recent storms caused erosion in the shoulder of the road and underneath the pavement.
Catalina Foothills School District, which has a few schools in the area, had adjusted its bus routes around the road closure.
Sabino Canyon also saw disruptions to one of its main access routes, though visitors were still able to access the park through alternative routes. | https://tucson.com/news/local/storm-damaged-sunrise-drive-to-reopen-friday-sooner-than-expected/article_884ffa90-24cf-11ed-9949-e72e962a211c.html | 2022-08-26T02:00:05 | 0 | https://tucson.com/news/local/storm-damaged-sunrise-drive-to-reopen-friday-sooner-than-expected/article_884ffa90-24cf-11ed-9949-e72e962a211c.html |
Supporters of Sen. Vince Leach are challenging the eligibility of the candidate who beat him in the Republican primary, Justine Wadsack.
Edward and Onita Davis, of Oro Valley, filed a lawsuit Aug. 17 arguing that Wadsack lives at a home she and her husband own on East Sixth Street in midtown Tucson, not at the address she claims as a residence, on East Oakbrook Street on Tucson’s far east side.
The midtown address is not in Legislative District 17, where Wadsack won the Aug. 2 primary election, but the east side address is. Wadsack won 41% of the vote in the primary to Leach’s 35% and Robert Barr’s 24%.
“The only discernible connections of Wadsack to the Oakbrook Residence stem merely from Wadsack’s own claims to reside there,” the lawsuit says.
It argues that because Leach got the most votes among legally eligible candidates, he should be declared the winner of the primary. The Republican will face Democratic candidate Mike Nickerson in the general election.
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Reached by text message on Thursday, Wadsack scoffed at the suit.
“Leach is out of his mind,” she wrote. “It’s a desperate move. I can hear Leach saying, ‘If I can’t win, SHE can’t win.’ “
Wadsack was the Republican nominee for state Senate in Legislative District 10 in 2020. That district covered much of midtown Tucson and the near east side. During that 2020 race, Wadsack used her East Sixth Street address, which is in the old LD 10.
After redistricting, Wadsack’s midtown home became part of a district, Legislative District 20, with a vast Democratic advantage, the lawsuit notes. LD 17, on the other hand, was drawn to give a registration advantage to Republicans.
While Wadsack and her husband still own the East Sixth Street home, she said Thursday she now lives in the Oakbrook residence, which is owned by a woman named Rosa Alfonso. Alfonso contributed $50 to Wadsack’s campaign in January.
Asked what her connection is to the Oakbrook address, Wadsack responded Thursday “I live here.”
She said she lives with Alfonso and has “for more than 6 months under a lease.”
Wadsack changed her voter registration to the Oakbrook residence in February, the lawsuit notes.
Chris Baker, Leach’s campaign consultant, said the campaign didn’t have any hard facts, beyond rumor, about Wadsack’s residence until about a week before the primary election.
Baker acknowledged that it is notoriously difficult to have candidates removed for residency reasons under Arizona’s lenient laws and court rulings, but he said he thinks this case is different.
The campaign investigated her residence and, Baker said, “I could not find a single connection to the Oakbrook address that she’s registered to vote at.”
A trial on the case has been set for 1:30 p.m. Monday at Pima County Superior Court before Judge Richard Gordon.
Big spending on PCC race
Demion Clinco, an incumbent member of the Pima Community College board, has apparently smashed fundraising records for his reelection campaign to the traditionally low-key position.
As of the last campaign-finance report, filed in July, Clinco had raise $156,026. That compares to $11,010 raised by his opponent, Theresa Riel.
What explains the massive haul is that word spread in local business circles earlier this year that Chancellor Lee Lambert’s job was in danger if Clinco is not reelected. The divided five-member board has a 3-2 majority that supports Lambert, with the two-member minority wanting to replace him.
“It’s about controlling that board,” explained Fletcher McCusker, who gave the maximum $6,450 to Clinco’s campaign. “Everybody from SALC (Southern Arizona Leadership Council) to the Chamber has got on board to support Lee Lambert.”
Among the local people who have donated the maximum to Clinco’s campaign:
Rob Draper, president of O’Reilly Automotive
Humberto Lopez, founder of HSL properties, and his wife Czarina
Sarah Smallhouse, president of the Thomas Brown Foundation
Jim Click, the automotive dealer, and his wife Vicki
Reached Thursday, Clinco said “I think there’s a lot of concern this election could tip the scale and derail the positive work that’s gotten extraordinary national attention.”
For her part, Riel said she does not want to fire Lambert. She taught math at Pima Community College for more than 25 years and questions whether the board is making decisions based on accurate information.
“I don’t think the board has much autonomy,” she said. “It seems like a lot of the decisions they make are working for the chancellor, instead of the chancellor working for the board.”
She said the financial disadvantage simply means she’ll have to walk door-to-door more than Clinco, who can use mailers.
RNC opens Hispanic center
The Republican National Committee has opened a Tucson office to help the party’s outreach efforts to Hispanic voters.
The RNC Hispanic Community Center, at 1790 E River Road, opened on Friday Aug. 17. U.S. Senate candidate Blake Masters, U.S. House candidate Juan Ciscomani and Arizona GOP Chair Kelli Ward all spoke at the event.
Polls and some election results are showing that some Hispanic voters are drifting away from their traditional home in the Democratic Party to the GOP.
The Tucson center is the RNC’s first in Arizona and it’s 37th minority outreach center nationwide, the committee said in a press release.
Contact columnist Tim Steller at tsteller@tucson.com or 520-807-7789. On Twitter: @senyorreporter | https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/political-notebook-gop-senate-candidates-eligibility-challenged-in-court/article_34414c7a-2492-11ed-9609-7b225d19b3f8.html | 2022-08-26T02:00:11 | 0 | https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/political-notebook-gop-senate-candidates-eligibility-challenged-in-court/article_34414c7a-2492-11ed-9609-7b225d19b3f8.html |
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania's highest court on Thursday reversed its own two-decade-old rule that required medical malpractice cases to be filed in the county where the alleged harm occurred, a win for civil plaintiffs and the lawyers who represent them but a potentially costly change for health care providers.
The decision by the state Supreme Court is likely to mean the number of such lawsuits will increase in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, where jurors are considered to be more sympathetic to patients and more likely to produce larger verdicts.
The justices sided with a recommendation from their own Civil Procedural Rules Committee. In a report issued by the committee, its majority argued that medical malpractice cases should be subject to the same rules as other types of civil litigation.
“There appears to be a misconception that patients harmed by the negligent actions of healthcare providers somehow enjoy a windfall verdict in more populous counties,” the committee majority wrote in its report. “Many of these patients have endured substantial injuries seriously lessening their quality of life in perpetuity, requiring permanent medical care and assistance in activities of daily living.”
A 2020 report by the nonpartisan Legislative Budget and Finance Committee said the cost of medical professional liability insurance had fallen in the state since 2007, following a national trend.
“The available data does not support a conclusion that changes in the availability, cost, and affordability of medical professional liability insurance are the result of changes in Pennsylvania law,” the report concluded.
Zachary Shamberg, head of the Pennsylvania Health Care Association, called the change “a dramatic step backwards” for long-term care providers in the state.
“This could ultimately disrupt the sustainability of our industry as we know it,” Shamberg said.
The court’s decision could return Pennsylvania to conditions in the late 1990s, when a medical liability insurance crisis prompted the Legislature and courts to act, said Curt Schroder with the Pennsylvania Coalition for Civil Justice Reform, an association of health care providers and related businesses.
“We’re going to see cases that really have no business being in, say, the city of Philadelphia,” Schroder predicted. “We’re going to see jury awards skyrocket.”
The president of the trial lawyers' Pennsylvania Association for Justice, Kila Baldwin, said the new rule “accomplishes the goal of returning fairness to the rules and the basis of our legal system of treating all parties equally under the law.”
“It’s really quite simple. Cases should be heard before twelve jurors that do not have a connection to a hospital or surgical center that is often times the largest employer in the county. The new rule levels the playing field and will improve access to justice for all Pennsylvanians,” Baldwin said in a statement.
Twenty years ago, the Legislature, governor and Supreme Court adopted a host of changes to address what was seen as a crisis in the state's medical malpractice system, with high premiums for doctors and concern it was harming medical care.
The Legislature overwhelmingly passed the MCARE Act in 2002, signed by Republican Gov. Mark Schweiker, and restricted lawsuits to the county where the patient was allegedly injured.
The state Supreme Court, then with a Republican majority, in 2003 adopted its own similar rule about where medical malpractices cases can be filed. The court today has a 5-2 Democratic majority, and political contributions from plaintiffs trial lawyers tend to favor Democratic candidates, while Republicans are more supported by the insurance industry.
A brief filed two years ago in a Superior Court medical malpractice case, from a coalition of doctors' associations and other medical groups, argued that overturning the venue rules would “put the commonwealth back on a ruinous path” by shifting cases to Philadelphia and other city courts.
In that case, a woman whose lawsuit against Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals Inc. and a host of other medical providers had been filed in Philadelphia did not want it to be transferred to the adjacent suburb of Delaware County. She lost that appeal.
The lawyer who filed the friend-of-the-court brief in that case on behalf of medical providers, Steven Burgess Davis, said Thursday he saw no reason for the court to reverse the policy.
“With all of the stressors placed on the healthcare industry and infrastructure over the past two years especially, I am left scratching my head wondering how this can be seen as good for the citizens of commonwealth right now,” Davis wrote in an email. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/court-loosens-rules-on-where-malpractice-cases-can-be-filed-pennsylvania/521-d7f0a233-6379-4ed8-b435-f85e75091580 | 2022-08-26T02:00:36 | 1 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/court-loosens-rules-on-where-malpractice-cases-can-be-filed-pennsylvania/521-d7f0a233-6379-4ed8-b435-f85e75091580 |
SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — Little League International says participation in its baseball and softball leagues was up this season, and team managers are optimistic about another bump next year coming off the first full-scale Little League World Series since the pandemic.
After the number of participating teams dropped 7% from 2020 to 2021, mostly because of COVID-19, the organization saw a 17% rebound this season, Little League spokesman Kevin Fountain told The Associated Press on Thursday.
Little League's baseball and softball programs now reach approximately 2 million children in 80 countries, he said. The growth comes amid a push by Major League Baseball to reach young fans by encouraging bat flips and engaging them on TikTok, among other initiatives.
This year's Little League World Series is the first since 2019 to include international teams. The 2020 tournament was canceled due to COVID-19, and only American teams competed last year.
Australia’s representative in the Williamsport area this week was the first LLWS team to come from Brisbane North Little League in Queensland. They were eliminated after two games but still hope to have made an impact Down Under.
“Hopefully what we’ve done here will encourage more and more boys and girls to play,” Australia manager Keith Land said. “Back home, we’ve already had our sign-ons for the next season, and numbers in our region have just blown up. Everyone wants to play again because they’ve read this story.”
Youth baseball participation in the U.S. was steadily increasing pre-pandemic, according to annual surveys from 2013 to 2018 by the Sports Fitness & Industry Association. The Aspen Institute also reported a 3% increase in participation among 6-to-12 year olds between 2015 and 2018.
The surge appears to have resumed, and not just in the U.S.
“I’m sure we’ll see a spike in registrations,” Canada manager Ulysses Yan said. “From what I hear back home, it’s all over the news, and people are following and loving it across the country. Just want to hopefully promote baseball in Canada.”
Perhaps unsurprisingly, even a local American team making a trip to South Williamsport can boost interest.
Hollidaysburg, a town of about 6,000 just 124 miles away from the Little League World Series complex, represented the Mid-Atlantic Region this year. It's the first team from Hollidaysburg in LLWS history, and it won three games before getting knocked out by Texas.
“We’re talking to a lot of different people that have younger kids and kids that are 1 and 2 years old. Boys, girls — all sorts of different people that are excited to come and be a part of this and see that the dream is possible,” Hollidaysburg manager Jim McGough said. “We’re excited to get home when everything’s finished and help the next group to be able to have this dream as well.” | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/little-league-participation-on-the-rise-post-covid-19-pennsylvania/521-33d66aee-be9a-4464-a207-a69354ff00bb | 2022-08-26T02:00:43 | 0 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/little-league-participation-on-the-rise-post-covid-19-pennsylvania/521-33d66aee-be9a-4464-a207-a69354ff00bb |
DILLSBURG, Pa. — On Tuesday, Northern York County School District officials gave the green light for the Satanic Temple to host an event at Northern High School. The event is a back-to-school night for the After School Satan Club.
“We know people have assumptions about what Satanism is and those assumptions are almost universally wrong," said Lucien Graves.
Greaves is the co-founder of the Satanic Temple, which is based in Massachusetts. The scheduling of the satanic event comes just a few days after Northern York hosted a prayer night by the Christian-affiliated, Dillsburg Community Worship and Prayer.
Greaves says congregants of the Satanic Temple should have similar access to school facilities.
“We don’t decry or begrudge anybody having a prayer event or anything like that," said Greaves. "It does become a problem, a serious problem, when you allow a back-to-school prayer event, but you don’t allow any other religious representation.”
The Satanic Temple first sought approval of an After School Satan Club at a Northern York school back in April, but the school board shot it down at the time. The event drew widespread condemnation from parents.
"They already took God out of schools now they're going to let Satan in, it's just crazy," said Perry County resident Jennifer McAllister back in April.
"Anything that has to deal with worshipping Satan is bad news," said Michael Tichnell, Operations Manager at New Hope Ministries.
Greaves says parents should view the event as people expressing their right to religious freedom.
“We’re talking about upholding fundamental pillars of democracy and the First Amendment.”
The Northern York County School District released a statement about the event, saying that it does not endorse the activity of outside organizations that rent its facilities. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/northern-high-school-to-host-back-to-school-satanic-temple-event-dillsburg-york-county/521-856f555d-550d-4c1d-b84f-c6794bf055b0 | 2022-08-26T02:00:49 | 1 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/northern-high-school-to-host-back-to-school-satanic-temple-event-dillsburg-york-county/521-856f555d-550d-4c1d-b84f-c6794bf055b0 |
FORT WORTH, Texas — A federal court in Fort Worth on Thursday struck down a Texas prohibition that limited adults under 21 from carrying handguns.
Texas law bars most 18- to 20-year-olds in the state from obtaining a license to carry a handgun or carrying a handgun for self-defense outside their homes. Two plaintiffs, who fall within that age range, and the Firearms Policy Coalition Inc. filed a lawsuit against the state to challenge the statute.
“Based on the Second Amendment’s text, as informed by Founding-Era history and tradition, the Court concludes that the Second Amendment protects against this prohibition,” U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman wrote in the ruling.
The order will not go into immediate effect. Pittman stayed the ruling for 30 days pending appeal.
The decision comes just three months after an 18-year-old gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde in the deadliest school shooting in Texas.
The Firearms Policy Coalition filed the lawsuit in November 2021. It came months after a legislative session in which lawmakers passed a law that allows Texans to carry handguns without a license or training, despite previous promises from Republican leaders to address gun safety following the 2019 El Paso and Midland-Odessa mass shootings.
In the last 13 years, as firearms have become more accessible in the state, Texas has had eight mass shootings.
Gov. Greg Abbott’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Thursday’s ruling.
This is a developing story; check back for details.
This article originally appeared in The Texas Tribune at https://www.texastribune.org/2022/08/25/federal-court-texas-21-handguns/.
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The Board of Directors of Women and Children’s Horizons has hired Jennifer Paine as its next executive director.
Paine, a family law attorney from Canton, Mich., has a background in domestic violence and sexual assault advocacy and non-profit leadership, according to a news release earlier this month announcing her hire.
Officials of the organization said Paine is committed to raising awareness about the pervasive domestic violence and sexual assault in communities and advocating for survivors.
In addition to her law practice, Pinnacle Family Law, she served on the Board of Directors of Surviving to Thrive and as counsel for The Enough Initiative, a Michigan domestic violence organization that focuses on prevention and recovery through education.
“In the few weeks Jennifer has been with WCH she has met with many of our community partners and looks forward to a close collaborative relationship that will most effectively serve our clients and community,” said Joe Riesselmann, the organization's president.
Paine took over for Byron Wright who had served as interim director since October of 2021.
“Byron stepped in to provide crucial leadership to WCH during a transition in executive directors. We are so thankful to Bryon for coming out of retirement to once again provide critical social services to our community,” said Past President Clara-Lin Tappa.
Wright was the executive director of Kenosha Human Development Services before his retirement in 2017.
Women and Children's Horizons was established in 1976 and operates the oldest incorporated domestic violence shelter in Wisconsin. It provides support, advocacy, education, training and healing for victims of sexual and domestic violence/abuse, their families and the community.
In addition to the shelter, the nonprofit organization has offices in Kenosha and Salem and operates Nifty Thrifty, a resale store in Kenosha.
Milestones in women's history from the year you were born
Milestones in women's history from the year you were born
The feminist movement of the 1960s and 1970s reminded the world that women have always played important historical roles, despite often being overlooked. But even in the 21st century, many popular history books are written by and about men —usually covering war heroes, generals, and the country's founding fathers. Studies of U.S. history and social studies classes also find that state education standards focus on men and gloss over the roles of women outside of the home. Though many people today proudly proclaim to be feminists , women around the world are still paid less for the same work, live in fear of physical violence and sexual assault , and lack rights and representation across industries.
Women’s History Month in March and the commemoration of International Women’s Day on March 8 allow us to celebrate the strides women have made across social, economic, political, and cultural spectrums. Observing milestones in women's history also reminds us of the steps still required to achieve true gender equality, Stacker dug through historical records and selected the most inspirational or important moments in women’s history every year from 1919 to 2020.
Women have left marks on everything from entertainment and music to space exploration, athletics, and technology. Each passing year and new milestone makes it clear both how recent this history-making is in relation to the rest of the country, as well as how far we still need to go. The resulting timeline shows that women are constantly making history worthy of best-selling biographies and classroom textbooks; someone just needs to write about them.
Scroll through to find out when women in the U.S. and around the world won rights, the names of women who shattered the glass ceiling, and which country’s women banded together to end a civil war.
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1919: National Women's Party sparks ‘Watchfires of Freedom’
Members of Congress introduced a constitutional amendment enshrining women's right to vote in 1878, but it would take decades of protest for it to become the law of the land. In 1918, President Woodrow Wilson started supporting women's suffrage, but members of the National Women's Party thought he wasn't using his influence to sway the last two senators needed for an amendment to pass. In January 1919, activists starting burning Wilson's speeches outside public buildings, implying he was a hypocrite for not doing more. The amendment passed a few months later.
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1920: The 19th Amendment becomes law
After the 19th Amendment passed through Congress, it was turned over to the states; two-thirds (or 36) had to ratify the amendment before it could become law. Seven states rejected the amendment outright. The decisive vote came from Tennessee after a young representative's mother convinced him to vote in support of suffrage, breaking a tie in that state's legislature. The amendment was certified on Aug. 26, 1920, and women in every state could vote in elections that November.
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1921: Edith Wharton wins the Pulitzer Prize
In 1921, Edith Wharton won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (then called the Novel Prize), becoming the first woman in the award's four-year history to do so. She was honored for her 12th novel, “The Age of Innocence,” which explores the upper-class 1870s New York society in which Wharton grew up. Her win was controversial , but not because of her gender; the committee originally decided to give the prize to the novel, “Main Street,” a decision that was changed for political reasons.
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1922: First woman serves in the Senate
The first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate held her role for only two days . Rebecca Ann Felton of Georgia was appointed to fill a vacancy and served from Nov. 21–21, 1922. Her short appointment was largely ceremonial, honoring her long career in journalism and state politics. It would take another decade before another woman was elected to a Senate seat.
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1923: Equal Rights Amendment is first proposed
Even after women won the right to vote, Alice Paul—a women's rights activist and founder of the National Woman's Party—realized the U.S. still had a long way to go before it reached true equality. She fought for the Equal Rights Amendment , which, if added to the Constitution, would make it illegal to discriminate on the basis of sex. The amendment was proposed in every Congress from 1923 to 1972 when it finally passed, but it fell three states short of being officially added to the Constitution.
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1924: First woman diplomat gets to work
Revolutionary Marxist Alexandra Kollontai joined the new Russian government formed after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution as the People's Commissar of Social Welfare. In that capacity, she founded a Women's Department that fought to improve the lives of women in the Soviet Union. After a few years, she was asked to tackle diplomatic work, and in 1924, Kollontai was promoted to second-in-command of the Soviet Union's Norwegian embassy, which officially added her to the diplomatic corps. She continued working in Sweden, Finland, and Mexico until her retirement in the 1940s.
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1925: Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first woman governor in the U.S.
One month after her husband, Gov. William B. Ross, died of appendicitis, Nellie Tayloe Ross was elected to fill his seat. Through her victory, Wyoming, the first state to give women the right to vote, became the first to elect a woman to a state's highest office. Ross was inaugurated in January 1925, but lost reelection in 1926. She had a long career in politics after her term, and remains the only woman governor in Wyoming's history.
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1926: Gertrude Ederle swims the English Channel
Gertrude “Queen of the Waves” Ederle did what only five men had done before her when she swam the 35-mile length of the English Channel on Aug. 6, 1926. An Olympic gold medalist, Erdele first attempted the swim between England and France in 1925, but she didn't let her failure prevent a second try. Covered in grease and wearing a more practical self-designed suit, Erdele beat the men's record by over two hours, at a time when women's sports were just coming into the spotlight.
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1927: Women petition to become ‘persons’ in Canada
Five Canadian women's rights activists, dubbed the “Famous Five,” brought a case before the country's Supreme Court in 1927 arguing that women had the right to be appointed to the Senate. In 1928, the Court ruled that women were not considered “persons” according to the Canadian constitution and therefore ineligible for Senate seats. An appeal reversed the ruling, opening up new opportunities for women in Canada.
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1928: Britain's Equal Franchise Act becomes law
British women technically won the right to vote before Americans, but it took 10 years for them to achieve the same voting rights men already had. The 1918 Representation of the People Act allowed all men over 21 to vote, but only female householders or those married to householders, female university grads over 21, or women over 30 could vote. The Equal Franchise Act of 1928 removed all those restrictions ; any British citizen over 21 was now free to vote.
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1929: Nigeria's Women's War wins rights
Through the late 1920s, British colonial rule in Nigeria wildly changed how the country was governed. The native Igbo women, who had an important political role in their communities, found themselves increasingly undermined by new leaders. These women used their powerful communication networks to stage a nonviolent protest against their mistreatment. The British didn't understand the cause of the protests, and the campaign ended after just over one year when the British turned to violence—but not before Nigerian women won important protections for their rights and regained some of their political power.
[Pictured: Community of men, women, and children standing in front of the Akaniobio Church, Old Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria, sometime between 1900–1930.]
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1930: Frances Marion writes Oscar-winning ‘The Big House’
As movies transitioned from silent black-and-white affairs into talkies and Technicolor, screenwriter Frances Marion and actress Mary Pickford became some of early Hollywood's biggest names. The two worked together to adapt dozens of novels and stories into films, from classics like “Anne of Green Gables,” to “The Big House,” which won Marion her first Oscar (Adapted Screenplay). By the end of her career, Marion had written over 100 scripts.
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1931: Jackie Mitchell strikes out two of baseball's best
Jackie Mitchell, a 17-year-old pitcher, took the mound against the New York Yankees in an early season exhibition game. One of the first female pitchers in the league with a contract, Mitchell managed to strike out legends Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig . But then a few days later, her contract was revoked amid claims that the occupation was dangerous for women. Some modern historians believe that Mitchell's history-making pitches were staged to get more people in the stands, but many still see her achievement as important , either way.
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1932: Amelia Earhart's first solo flight across the Atlantic
Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean when she traveled from Newfoundland to Ireland on May 21, 1932. Earhart had already completed a similar feat a few years earlier as part of a three-person crew, and her fame only grew after flying solo—just like Charles Lindbergh, who had completed the feat five years before. Earhart, who was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross by Congress, infamously disappeared a few years later while attempting to fly around the world.
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1933: First female Cabinet member is appointed
Frances Perkins spent the early days of her career working to improve the lives of disadvantaged people living in New York City, making her well suited to the position of U.S. secretary of labor . President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed her to the post during the height of the Great Depression in 1933. As the first female member of a presidential cabinet, she pushed for the New Deal and spearheaded the creation of the Social Security program, one of Roosevelt's most important legislative achievements.
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1934: First woman serves on board of directors of a major corporation
Lettie Pate Whitehead Evans married a wealthy man who struck a deal with the brand new Coca-Cola company to bottle their syrupy-sweet product. Her husband died young, leaving Evans to take over his share of the bottling empire, where she expanded her own wealth as well as the company's success. When her branch of the company was bought out, she was appointed to the board of directors, a position she would hold for nearly 20 years. Lettie ultimately used her fortune to create a scholarship foundation .
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1935: National Council of Negro Women is founded
Disappointed by the lack of communication and cohesiveness between groups advocating for African American women's rights, educator and civil rights leader Mary McLeod Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women. In the decades since, the Council has grown to represent more than 25 national organizations, and more than 4 million women have been associated with the organization.
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1936: Wallis Simpson is Time's first female Person of the Year
Time's Person of the Year award has been given to an individual woman only five times . Wallis Simpson, an American socialite, was the first. Her relationship with King Edward VIII took the world by storm, and the 1930s press was obsessed with their movements . Edward, who caused a scandal by courting Simpson while she was still married to her second husband, was told he couldn't marry her and keep the throne. He became the only British monarch to voluntarily give up the throne; the two married and lived out the rest of their years together.
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1937: First woman climbs the Adirondack High Peaks
Born and raised in New York's Adirondack Mountains, Grace Dolbeck Leach Hudowalski became the ninth person and first woman to climb all 46 peaks in the mountain range between 1922 and 1937. She went on to start the Adirondack 46ers club alongside her husband, promoting the high peaks she loved and keeping track of others who managed to climb them. In 2014, the U.S. Board on Geographic Names officially renamed one of the peaks in her honor.
[Pictured: A view of some of the Adirondack Mountains high peaks.]
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1938: First woman wins the Nobel Prize in Literature
Pearl S. Buck used her experience growing up in China with her missionary parents to fuel much of her writing career, which focused on the life of the peasant class in the country. Her most notable work was a family trilogy: “The Good Earth” (1931), “Sons” (1932), and “A House Divided” (1935), which propelled her to become the first female Nobel laureate in Literature.
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1939: Kitty O'Brien Joyner is NASA's first woman engineer
Kitty O'Brien Joyner broke ground twice in 1939. After suing to be admitted into the University of Virginia's engineering program, she was the first woman to graduate from the program that year. The electrical engineering knowledge she gained let her blaze a new trail several months later when NACA, the predecessor to NASA, hired her. She worked there for decades, eventually becoming branch head , before retiring in 1971.
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1940: First African American woman wins an Oscar
It took 12 years for the Academy Awards to acknowledge a nonwhite performer. Even when Hattie McDaniel won for her supporting role as Mammy in “Gone with the Wind”—making her the first Black person to win any Oscar—she was seated at a separate table from her costars, and the show's organizers had to fight for her to be allowed inside the venue. Though later audiences would take issue with McDaniel's stereotypical character, her win was still historic; another Black actor would not win an Oscar until 1964, and diversity in the Academy remains an issue .
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1941: Wonder Woman debuts
Wonder Woman wasn't the first female superhero to grace the racks of comic book shops across America, but her appearance in 1941 sparked an obsession that's lasted just as long as Batman and Superman . Created by a psychologist, the Amazon woman was heavily influenced by feminism. In 2017, her enduring popularity made her the first female superhero to earn her own movie, which smashed records and gender barriers alike.
[Pictured: One of many iterations of Wonder Woman, Lynda Carter, portraying Wonder Woman in the television series in 1975.]
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1942: First woman is awarded Purple Heart medal
On Dec. 7, 1941, Annie G. Fox found herself organizing the response to the chaos and numerous injuries caused by the attack on Pearl Harbor. The first lieutenant and head nurse of Hickam Field Hospital was awarded the Purple Heart for her work on Oct. 26, 1942, alongside several other army nurses. When the criteria of the award later changed to apply only to those injured in the line of duty, Fox was awarded the equally prestigious Bronze Star in place of the Purple Heart in 1944.
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1944: French women win the right to vote
France fell behind many of its European counterparts in granting women the right to vote. Sixteen years after Britain finally enshrined equal rights at the ballot box, the newly liberated French government signed a law allowing women to cast votes. French women still struggle to see themselves represented in the federal government, though numbers have started trending up after recent elections.
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1945: Ireland's laundry workers go on strike
After years of mistreatment , Ireland's laundry workers (who were almost entirely women) decided they were done putting up with the long hours and harsh conditions. The Irish Women's Worker Union went on strike , and after 14 weeks, they won the right to a second week of holidays every year for all Irish workers.
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1946: UN establishes the Commission on the Status of Women
Soon after the United Nations was founded, it established the Commission on the Status of Women, the first intergovernmental body with the sole purpose of promoting the rights of women around the world. The Commission's 15 female representatives first met in New York, and until 1962, they focused on setting global standards for women's rights, changing discriminatory language in different documents, and bringing awareness to women's issues to a worldwide audience.
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1947: First woman wins a Nobel Prize in medicine
Alongside her husband, Gerty Cori became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in medicine, and only the third woman in history to win the award in any category. The couple won for developing the Cori cycle, which explained how energy moves through different parts of the body. Though colleagues warned her she could hold back her husband's career, Cori and her husband continued working together and went on to make further important biological discoveries.
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1948: UN Declaration of Human Rights debuts
The United Nation's historic Declaration of Human Rights was the first international document to explicitly state that both men and women should have their “dignity and worth of [their] human person” protected. The Commission on the Status of Women was integral in the fight to make sure gender-neutral language was inserted into the document, which was adopted by the General Assembly on Dec. 10, 1948.
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1949: ‘The Second Sex’ is published
In 1949, French essayist, political theorist, and intellectual Simone de Beauvoir published her most famous and influential work on the oppression of women. De Beauvoir attempted to explain why women are oppressed in society and argued that political advancements like the right to vote meant nothing to women who don't have the means to support themselves in other ways. Its English translation (published in 1953) was long considered deeply flawed, but that didn't stop the work from becoming required reading for feminists and scholars around the world.
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1950: First girl plays Little League baseball
At 13, Kay Johnston wanted nothing more than to play Little League baseball. So she decided to sign up as a boy named Tubby. Even after revealing her identity, she played a successful season as a member of a team. After that year, the “Tubby Rule” was put into place, barring girls from playing Little League under any circumstances. The rule was abolished in 1974, and since then, 18 girls have made it all the way to the Little League World Series.
[Pictured: A Little League baseball player sliding into home base safe.]
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1951: Rosalind Franklin makes crucial DNA discoveries
James Watson and Francis Crick were credited with the discovery of DNA's double-helix structure, which won them a Nobel Prize in 1962, but they would not have been able to do so without the help of a pioneering female scientist. Rosalind Franklin's expertise in X-ray diffraction techniques allowed her to take clear pictures of DNA's structure. A male colleague who often disagreed with Franklin gave her photographs to Watson and Crick, and they formed the basis of their eventual model. Franklin never knew her work had been so integral to their discovery, as she died in 1958.
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1952: Grace Hopper revolutionizes computers
A trailblazer throughout her life, mathematician and U.S. Navy Admiral Grace Hopper revolutionized the way we use computers. After working on the Mark I computer during World War II, she moved into private industry , where she and her team developed the compiler. This device allowed software developers to write code in humanlike language—instead of 1s and 0s—and was a precursor to the widely used COBOL programming language.
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1953: First woman breaks the sound barrier
Jacqueline Cochran worked her way out of poverty to become one of the most successful female aviators of the 20th century. After obtaining her pilot's license in three weeks while working as a cosmetics saleswoman, she took the aviation world by storm and set record after record. Her most notable feat might be flying faster than the speed of sound (761.2 miles per hour), a speed she later doubled in 1964.
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1954: UN Convention on the Political Rights of Women goes into force
The Convention on the Political Rights of Women became the first piece of international law explicitly formed to protect and expand women's political rights. A total of 122 United Nations member states and the state of Palestine have since signed onto the document, parts of which formed the basis of later, more comprehensive treaties protecting women's rights.
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1955: Rosa Parks sparks Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks' decision not to give up her seat to a white man on an Alabama bus changed the course of American history. The same day Parks was convicted of violating segregation laws, black community leaders, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., organized a boycott of the Montgomery bus system. It would not end until the Supreme Court ruled bus segregation laws were unconstitutional. Parks subsequently became a symbol of the civil rights movement and continued her work as an activist against inequality.
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1956: Women march on Pretoria
In the 1950s, South Africa's government passed new laws to limit the movement of African women in the country, with the goal of further entrenching the deep racial separation, also known as apartheid. Thousands of women from across South Africa marched on the capital city in protest of these laws, including several who would later become key figures in the apartheid resistance movement. When the prime minister wouldn't meet with them, the women stood in complete silence for 30 minutes before singing songs of protest and female empowerment.
[Pictured: A group of South Africans demonstrates in Pretoria, South Africa.]
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1957: First television show built around a female protagonist airs
“Decoy: Police Woman” might be an all-but-forgotten relic from the early days of television, but it was groundbreaking as the first show to feature a female police officer and a female protagonist. If not for “Decoy,” the powerful female characters in “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” and “Law and Order” might not exist. Shot on location in New York (another first), Casey Jones went undercover as a ballerina, model, and other aliases to catch criminals, doing her job without any discrimination from her male colleagues.
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1958: First woman wins multiple Grammys
Ella Fitzgerald became a household name when she made her debut on the stage of New York's famous Apollo Theater in 1934. “The First Lady of Song” went on to become a jazz icon, and at the first Grammy Awards , she took home Best Female Vocal Performance and Best Individual Jazz Performance. She'd go on to win 13 awards over her 40-year career, capping off her Grammy success by becoming the first woman to win a Lifetime Achievement award.
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1959: Tibetan Women's Uprising commences
The long struggle for Tibet to gain independence from China came to a head in the late 1950s, ultimately forcing the Dalai Lama to flee to India in exile. Tibetan women made their voices heard when they took part in a protest against the Chinese government on March 12, 1959. The women surrounded the Dalai Lama's home but were later arrested; many were beaten and executed .
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1960: Sri Lanka elects world's first female prime minister
When Sirimavo Bandaranaike won Sri Lanka's 1960 election, she became the first woman head of state to hold the title without inheriting the position due to her birth. She was elected after her husband was assassinated the year before and continued implementing his socialist economic policies and promotion of Buddhist cultural practices in the country (then called Ceylon). Bandaranaike stepped down in 1965, but returned in the 1970s to serve two more terms before retiring for good at 84.
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1961: India bans dowries
Dowries were a common custom in Indian culture hailing from its days as a British colony ; a bride’s parents would give money or other gifts to help their daughter start a new life, but the practice soon became more of a payment to the groom's family at the time of marriage, as an incentive for the union. Unfortunately, the custom also led to violence against the women it hoped to protect. Sometimes a woman’s husband or in-laws would attack her in hopes of getting a higher bride price. The 1961 Dowry Prohibition Act aimed to stop this violence against women by getting rid of the tradition, but it's been difficult to enforce and is often misused .
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1962: Katherine Johnson helps send a man to space
In NASA's early days, African American women often worked as human computers, doing the necessary calculations for different projects by hand. In 1953, Katherine Johnson became one of them. By the 1960s, she was working on flight trajectory calculations and often double-checking the work done by electronic computers. Astronauts like John Glenn relied on her calculations to ensure a safe landing, contributions that were immortalized in the 2016 movie “Hidden Figures.”
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1963: Betty Friedan publishes ‘The Feminine Mystique’
People often describe feminism as coming in several waves and historians often credit Betty Friedan's seminal book, “The Feminine Mystique,” with helping spark the second wave. While far from a perfect book, the tome sold nearly 3 million copies, which allowed more women to think about, discuss, and discover the “problem with no name” shaping their lives for the first time. Friedan's writing gave a voice to the anger and repression many women were feeling.
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1964: First woman of color elected to Congress
Patsy Takemoto Mink became the first woman of color elected to Congress when she won one of Hawaii's seats in the House of Representatives in 1964. She served until 1977, advocating for the rights of women, immigrants, and children. Mink also worked hard to pass Title IX, which increased opportunities for women in education.
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1965: Dolores Huerta directs a five-year strike
Working alongside fellow labor activist Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta co-founded the United Farm Workers Union in 1965 and quickly took the lead in negotiating contracts between the Coachella Valley grape growers and their employers. Five years later, she won a historic victory when 26 grape growers agreed to sign fairer contracts. Huerta continued to fight for the rights of farmworkers—as well as women and other Mexican Americans—and she continues to be an active, influential figure in those communities today.
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1966: National Organization for Women is founded
On June 30, 1966, Catherine Conroy put a $5 bill on the table in Betty Friedan's hotel room and told the 15 other activists in the room to “Put your money down and sign your name .” The National Organization for Women (NOW) was founded at that moment, and it originally aimed to figure out how to enforce the Title VII section of the Civil Rights Act. NOW has grown over the past half-century , but still uses grassroots power to advocate for women's economic, political, and social equality.
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1967: First woman runs the Boston Marathon
At 19, Kathrine Switzer—who was unofficially competing with Syracuse University's men's cross-country team—told her coach she wanted to run the Boston Marathon . After proving she could complete the 26-mile race, she registered for the marathon, which didn't technically have gender limitations. Though officials tried to pull her out of the race once she started, Switzer ultimately completed the run and spent years advocating for women to be officially allowed to enter.
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1968: Miss America ignites ‘bra burning’ protests
Contrary to popular belief, no bras were burned during this Sept. 7, 1968, protest outside the Miss America beauty pageant. But 400 feminists did throw symbols of what they thought society used to oppress them—including bras—into a “freedom trash can” in protest of the pageant's support of what they saw as unattainable beauty standards.
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1969: Nation's first ‘no fault’ divorce law passes
California's no-fault divorce law, adopted in some form by every other state by 2010, made it much easier to obtain a divorce. Instead of couples having to prove that their spouse wronged them in some way, one person’s desire to leave a relationship became grounds for ending unhappy marriages. Advocates believed that with this law in place , women were able to leave relationships they did not find fulfilling in a safer, fairer way.
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1970: First woman plays American football
Patricia Palinkas joined the Orlando Panthers alongside her kicker husband, beginning a short, but historic career as the first woman signed to a professional football team. As a holder for her husband, Palinkas only played a few games before deciding she'd rather do something other than hold the ball for someone else. Still, her short career impacted a generation of female athletes, who wouldn't see another woman in professional football until Katie Hnida in 2010.
[Pictured: Football players in 1971.]
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1971: Reed v. Reed is decided
Reed v. Reed was a Supreme Court case that invalidated an Idaho law requiring a man to be chosen when an equally qualified man and woman were arguing over who should execute a will. As such, it is a consequential case for the legal rights of American women. For the first time, the Supreme Court ruled that the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment applied to discrimination against women. This established a stricter standard for sex discrimination and set a precedent for others—like future Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg —to argue more cases on gender discrimination.
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1972: Title IX goes into effect
Title IX is part of a larger education reform act that requires gender equality for boys and girls in any education program that receives funding from the federal government. This applies to college athletics, sexual assault and harassment, employment, financial aid, and more. Title IX has been subject to a number of controversies since it was passed, most recently around issues of sexual assault , even as schools continue to work toward gender equity.
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1973: Roe v. Wade is decided
One of the most well-known and controversial Supreme Court decisions , Roe v. Wade established a woman's right to an abortion at any time during the first three months of her pregnancy, and, with some restrictions, in later trimesters as well. In the decade since the decision, the battle over abortion and reproductive rights has been among the most heated in American politics.
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1974: Women earn the right to open their own credit cards
Before Congress passed the Equal Credit Opportunity Act , banks made men co-sign when a single, widowed, or divorced woman wanted to open a credit card, no matter how much she made. The new law made it illegal to discriminate based on gender, race, or national origin when issuing credit cards, giving women more independent access to money. Studies today still find that women are paying more for their credit cards.
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1975: Icelandic women go on strike
The women of Iceland were tired of being paid less than men and not seeing women in government. So on Oct. 24, 1975, 90% of Icelandic women didn't go to work, take care of their children, or do any housework; instead, 25,000 marched in the streets of the capital city. The rousing turnout led to some changes, and Iceland's first female president was elected five years later. Iceland, the country where political representation of women is highest in the world, is now considered one of the best places in the world for women , and it is currently working on ending its persistent pay gap within five years.
[Pictured: Iceland's first female president, Vigdis Finnbogadottir, in 1980.]
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1976: First class of women enters West Point
American women worked alongside men in wars throughout the country's history, but on July 7, 1976, 119 female cadets first entered the service academy at West Point. Sixty-two would graduate in the class of 1980, completing their training as future military officers.
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1977: First woman wins an EGOT
Actress Helen Hayes—the first woman to win an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award—started on the stage at age 8, and went on to have a Tony-winning Broadway career spanning decades. She also picked up an Oscar in 1931 for her performance in “The Sin of Madelon Claudet” during a brief stint in Hollywood. After discovering an allergy to theater dust in the 1970s, she went on to star in several TV shows and took home a Grammy in 1977 to finish her sweep.
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1978: Pregnancy Discrimination Act passes
Prior to the passage of this law, some employers refused to hire a woman if she was pregnant, while others commonly refused to promote or give raises to pregnant women for fear they'd soon quit and stay home with their families. The law protected the rights of women who also wanted to have children, but working mothers are still not treated equally compared to their male counterparts; studies have found the gender wage gap increases when women start families.
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1979: UN adopts the Women's Bill of Rights
The United Nations' Commission on the Status of Women netted another huge win for women's rights when the General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) on Dec. 18, 1978. The most comprehensive document the office has produced to date, the treaty defines equality , lays out clear steps on how to achieve it, and requires countries that sign CEDAW to actively work for women's rights. As of 2015, 189 countries adopted the resolution, making CEDAW the second most ratified UN human rights treaty.
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1980: First democratically elected female president takes office
Five years after a women's strike ground Icelandic society to a halt, citizens elected their first female president, the first democratically elected female president in the world. Vigdís Finnbogadóttir's 16-year-long presidency put her in a mostly ceremonial role , but she enjoyed actively promoting her country abroad. After her victory, Icelandic women's representation in their government shot up to the highest levels of any country without a quota system, and Iceland is now one of the most gender-equal countries in the world.
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1981: First woman is appointed to the Supreme Court
Even though Sandra Day O'Connor graduated third in her class (and a year early) from Stanford Law School, the Texas-born lawyer struggled to overcome gender discrimination and find work in her field. She eventually earned her way into the courtroom, then began a career in Texas state politics. In 1981, President Ronald Reagan nominated her to the Supreme Court, and she was confirmed unanimously by the Senate. Before her retirement in 2006, O'Connor was known for defending women's rights from the bench, even blocking a case that would have overturned Roe v. Wade.
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1982: First African American principal ballerina leads a U.S. company
When Debra Austin joined the Pennsylvania Ballet as its principal dancer, she became the first African American woman to lead a major American ballet company. Others have attributed the title to Lauren Anderson, who rose to the same position in Houston the same year Austin retired in Pennsylvania. In an art form that has long struggled with racism , both women were history-makers and positive influences for aspiring ballerinas today.
[Pictured: Ballet Dancer Lauren Anderson, arriving at ABC's "Scandal" 100th Episode Celebration on April 8, 2017, in West Hollywood, California.]
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1983: Sally Ride becomes first American woman in space
The U.S. might have won the Space Race by putting a man on the moon, but the Soviet Union put the first woman in space in 1963, two decades before the Americans managed the feat. Of course, that doesn't make Sally Ride's trip to the stars any less monumental. As the first American woman and youngest astronaut to go to space, Ride inspired generations of girls and worked to promote women in science long after she hung up the space suit for good.
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1984: First woman is selected VP candidate for a major political party
Geraldine Ferraro's career as a lawyer in New York, and later as a leading Democratic politician, was marked by her dedication to women's rights . She established a special victims unit as an assistant district attorney in Queens and kept her seat in a conservative New York House district despite her progressive voting record. Ferraro's ambition helped her climb the ranks of the party before she became Walter Mondale's running mate in his 1984 presidential campaign against Ronald Reagan. Reagan was re-elected in a landslide, but Ferraro remained an important voice in party politics until her death in 2011.
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1985: Guerilla Girls forms
The Guerilla Girls were formed in New York City by a group of anonymous female artists tired of sexism and racism holding back women and people of color in the art world. Wearing gorilla masks and going by the names of famous deceased female artists, the collective still works today in hopes of using art to reveal “gender and ethnic bias, as well as corruption in politics, art, film, and pop culture” to the wider public.
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1986: Oprah becomes first woman to own and produce her own talk show
After overcoming an abusive childhood, a young Oprah Winfrey briefly worked in radio and TV broadcasting . Later, she landed her own chat show in Baltimore, Maryland, which eventually became the area's #1 show. She went on to star in Steven Spielberg's 1985 adaptation of “The Color Purple,” and Oprah used that success to launch a nationally syndicated talk show. Running until 2011, the program turned Oprah into a household name. Though many fans want her to run for president , she's fine with running her OWN TV network instead.
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1987: First woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul and one of the most powerful singers of modern music, received the r-e-s-p-e-c-t her talent deserved when she became the first woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. One of the most awarded artists in history , her induction opened doors for other black female musicians. Of the 50-plus women inducted after Franklin, more than half are African American .
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1988: Switzerland establishes Federal Office of Gender Equality
Swiss civil law still explicitly said that women's roles were as traditional homemakers until 1988. That year, new changes went into effect that wrote gender equality between the sexes into law and established the Federal Office of Gender Equality (FOGE) to enforce the mandates. Though it has struggled at times, FOGE took home the 2018 United Nations Public Service Award due to its ongoing commitment to ensuring equal pay in Switzerland.
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1990: First female president of the Americas is elected
Violeta Chamorro's history-making term as the first democratically elected female president of the Americas might not be the most interesting aspect about her life. Living in war-torn Nicaragua, Chamorro took over a newspaper opposed to the government and used the power of the press to call for peace and democracy. By 1988, she was a prominent opposition leader and she easily won the presidency at the conclusion of a war which she is credited with helping to end.
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1991: Anita Hill testifies before the Senate
Clarence Thomas' nomination to the Supreme Court was controversial before Anita Hill came forward with allegations of sexual harassment, as many wondered if he was qualified for the job. But Hill's testimony about Thomas' behavior while she was his assistant changed the tone of the hearings, and her tense questioning by the Senate Judiciary Committee—all white men—that October proved to be a historic moment. Thomas was still confirmed, but Hill inspired more women to run for office the next year, sparked new conversations about sexual harassment, and is sometimes credited with starting third-wave feminism.
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1992: Junko Tabei finishes climbing the Seven Summits
Japanese climber Junko Tabei became the first woman to summit Mount Everest in 1975 as part of an all-female team of climbers, but even climbing the world's tallest mountain couldn't sate her desire for adventure. In 1992 , she reached the top of Carstensz Pyramid in Indonesia and became the first woman to reach the top of the Seven Summits, the highest mountains on every continent. Before her death in 2016, she climbed the highest peaks in 79 countries and blazed trails for other women along the way.
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1993: Family Medical Leave Act becomes law
The Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) provides up to 12 weeks of unpaid time off to certain employees dealing with particular medical situations and guarantees their job will be there upon return. This was a huge win for working moms, who previously had no guarantee that they'd be able to take time off to recover after giving birth. Still, many women can't afford to take three months off work without pay, and the U.S. remains one of the only countries in the world that doesn't give new parents paid family leave.
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1994: Violence Against Women Act passes
The Violence Against Women Act was a landmark bill that gave new attention to issues faced by women like stalking, intimate partner violence, and sexual assault. The bill created the Office on Violence Against Women, administered grant programs to state and local governments to open new shelters and information centers, and required the government to study these issues. It's been reauthorized three times, but lapsed during the 2018–2019 government shutdown.
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1995: Fourth World Conference on Women commences
Then-First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton gave her famous “women's rights are human rights ” speech at this United Nations conference, which saw tens of thousands of activists convene in Beijing, China, to discuss issues of women's rights. The conference produced the Beijing Declaration , reaffirming commitments to women's rights and laying out new plans of action for achieving them that still serve as a source of guidance for leaders and activists.
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1996: United States v. Virginia is decided
Virginia Military Institute was an exclusively male college until it was sued by the federal government, which argued that its gender-exclusive admissions policy was unconstitutional. The school proposed that, rather than letting women enter, it would establish a separate, all-female school instead. The court disagreed in a 7-1 decision—Clarence Thomas sat the case out, as his son was a student at VMI—arguing that the school didn't show "exceedingly persuasive justification " for the policy and wouldn't offer women in the new school the same opportunities as men.
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1997: First female secretary of state joins Cabinet
Before Madeleine Albright was appointed secretary of state in 1997 by the Clinton administration, she worked on President Jimmy Carter's National Security Council, taught foreign affairs at Georgetown, and spent several successful years as the U.S. representative to the United Nations. With this experience under her belt, Albright pursued an active foreign policy, visiting North Korea, encouraging sanctions against Iran, and more. Her term ended once George W. Bush was elected president, but she remained enmeshed in politics and foreign policy debates.
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1998: Senegalese mothers end female circumcision in their villages
Procedures that require men to be circumcised at birth are more familiar in the U.S., but some cultures require young girls to undergo a similar treatment in order to enter adulthood. A controversial and often misunderstood practice , female genital cutting became a topic of debate in the international rights community in the late 1990s. It was common in the small Senegalese village of Malicounda Bambara until a group of mothers decided to put an end to the practice. They educated others on the harm female circumcision caused young girls, and the village and those around Malicounda Bambara decided to abandon the practice, inspiring 5,000 other villages in the country to do the same.
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1999: Google's first female engineer gets to work
Google only hired 19 employees at its start, but among them was its first female engineer, Marissa Mayer. As the company became the technology behemoth we know today, she rose up the ranks to become the head of Google's successful Maps and Location Services. In 2012, Mayer became the CEO of struggling rival Yahoo for several years before stepping down in 2017, amid accusations of mismanagement.
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2000: Million Mom March commences
In a true show of grassroots activism, an estimated 750,000 people marched in Washington D.C., on Mother's Day to protest gun violence and advocate for stricter gun control reforms. Donna Dees-Thomases had watched news coverage of a shooting and created a website in hopes of rallying other moms horrified by the carnage they were seeing. The march was organized entirely by word of mouth and led to dozens of Million Mom March chapters around the country advocating for gun control.
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2001: Take Back the Night Foundation forms
Take Back the Night got its start in two unrelated marches: one in Philadelphia in 1975 and another in Brussels in 1976. Participants marched down streets with candles, protesting increased violent crime against women. In the years since, the movement became more focused on issues of sexual assault and in 2001, Katie Koestner—who had publicly shared her own story of campus date rape—created the Take Back the Night Foundation . Today, the foundation provides resources to survivors and holds annual marches on college campuses.
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2002: U.K.'s Sex Discrimination (Election Candidates) Act passes
In 2001, the number of women in British parliament declined for the first time in two decades, after a policy used by one party to ensure half their candidates would be women was declared unconstitutional. The Labour Party decided they would prioritize changing laws that would allow parties to use “positive discrimination” to ensure that more women would have their voice heard in Parliament; this promise eventually became the 2002 Sex Discrimination (Election Candidates) Act.
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2003: Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace ends a civil war
A second civil war broke out in Liberia in 2000, a bloody conflict that killed 200,000 people by the end of its second year. As it continued into 2003, social worker Leymah Gbowee brought together women from her church in protest, spawning a movement that quickly grew to include women of all faiths encouraged to speak out for peace in the country. Women marched in the streets, withheld sex from partners fighting in the war, and continued nonviolently protesting. By the end of 2003, their efforts helped begin a peace process.
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2004: March for Women's Lives takes place
The April 25, 2004, March for Women's Lives capped off a year of planning by seven diverse women's activist groups, creating one of largest marches in the abortion debate in U.S. history. Their effort saw hundreds of thousands march in Washington to support access to abortion, birth control, more comprehensive reproductive health care, and improved sex-ed programs while protesting policies they saw as “anti-women .”
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2005: Kuwait's Blue Revolution secures women's suffrage
Women of Kuwait finally achieved victory in their decades-long struggle over the right to vote. From 2002 until their May 2005 triumph, activists used nonviolent protest in a final push, protesting outside voter registration centers and casting fake ballots. Activists often protested wearing light blue clothing, representing one of several nonviolent campaigns associated with a color to signify international solidarity in the fight for human rights that peaked in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
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2006: Iran's One Million Signatures campaign ends polygamous marriage
Iranian women hatched an ambitious plan in order to achieve an ambitious goal . To get the government to reform laws that discriminated against women, they would get 1 million Iranian citizens to sign a petition asking Parliament for equal rights including marriage and divorce rights, an end to polygamous marriages, equal inheritance rights, equal rights to testimony in the country, harsher punishments for honor killings, and more. The two-year campaign never reached its million-signature goal, but did manage to put an end to polygamous marriages.
[Pictured: Iranian women's activist Parvin Ardalan, head of the One Million Signatures Campaign.]
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2007: First woman Speaker of the House takes the gavel
The 2006 midterm elections in the United States swept huge majorities of Democrats into Congress, and California representative and party leader Nancy Pelosi was subsequently named speaker of the House . With her powerful new position, Pelosi facilitated the passage of some of President Barack Obama's key legislative victories, including the economic stimulus and the Affordable Care Act. She ceded the gavel in 2011 when Republicans regained a majority, but she brought her formidable experience back to the position for the 2019–2020 congressional session.
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2009: Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act is signed into law
After years of fighting for equal pay, women still make on average 77 cents for every $1 a man makes. The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, signed by President Obama in January 2009, allows women to file for wage discrimination suits within 180 days of their most recent paycheck, rather than from their first paycheck on the job. The law was named after Goodyear employee Lilly Ledbetter, who was awarded $3.3 million after discovering she made less than a male manager.
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2010: First woman wins Oscar for Best Director
Kathryn Bigelow took home two of the Oscars’ biggest prizes—Best Director and Best Picture—for “The Hurt Locker,” a dramatization of the Iraq war. Lauded by critics for her tight, suspenseful action sequences and realistic depictions of soldiers at war, she bested a cadre of well-known male directors (including her ex-husband, “Avatar” director James Cameron) and shattered the stereotype that women can only be successful directing films about women.
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2011: Saudi Arabian women protest driving ban
Saudi Arabia was the last country in the world that prevented women from taking the wheel. But in 2011, Saudi women's rights activists used social media to organize a protest of this rule and grabbed the world's attention. They made some headway—one female driver was given a ticket rather than being arrested when she was pulled over—and the ban was finally lifted in 2018.
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2012: UN passes resolution to ban FGC
Female genital cutting (FGC) is a traditional but harmful cultural practice in many countries that affects an estimated 100 to 140 million women and girls around the world. Ending FGC has become a key issue for human rights advocates internationally, and on Dec. 20, 2012, they scored a huge win in the United Nations, when the General Assembly unanimously voted to ban the practice. It set Feb. 6 as the International Day of Zero Tolerance, but the practice persists since the UN has no means to enforce it.
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2013: Pentagon announces end to ban on women in combat
The formation of the Women's Auxiliary Corp in the 1940s marked the first time women could officially serve in the U.S. military in some capacity, but even as more roles opened, women were still banned from direct combat. The Pentagon announced plans to lift the final official barrier for women in the military in 2013, in an effort seemingly driven by the military itself. It went into full effect in 2015 .
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2014: Malala Yousafzai wins the Nobel Peace Prize
Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai had been an advocate for girls' education from a young age, but she came to global notice at the age of 15, when she was shot in the head by the Taliban for her outspokenness. Yousafzai gave a powerful speech at the United Nations on her 16th birthday, stating "We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.” In 2014, she became the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and she continues to use her global platform to speak out while continuing her own education at Oxford University.
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2015: Emma Sulkowicz carries her mattress across campus
Columbia University senior Emma Sulkowicz's year-long visual arts thesis , “Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight),” became a flashpoint in the ongoing conversation about sexual assault on college campuses. Sulkowicz—who uses they/them pronouns—carried a dorm mattress from September 2014 to May 2015, using art as a way to protest the school's failure to remove the student they alleged sexually assaulted them from campus. Since then, they've continued using art to bring attention to issues of sexual violence and harassment while universities continue to grapple with an issue that affects 23% of women in college .
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2016: Hillary Clinton becomes first female presidential candidate for a major party
Eight years after losing the 2008 Democratic presidential primary to Barack Obama, former First Lady Hillary Clinton wrote her own name into the history books when she beat Bernie Sanders to win the 2016 Democratic nomination. Gender played a role throughout the election ; the late-breaking tape showing Donald Trump making lewd comments about women made Clinton the clear favorite for many in the campaign's final days. The 2016 election saw the biggest gap in men and women's voting in history.
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2017: #MeToo movement takes off
In October 2017, The New York Times and The New Yorker released stories detailing horrific allegations of sexual assault against Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, and a pervasive culture of sexual harassment in the entertainment industry. A few days later, actress Alyssa Milano reignited the #MeToo movement started by activist Tarana Burke in 2006, encouraging women to share their stories. As more stories emerge, #MeToo continues to spark an international conversation about sexual assault and harassment, and what the world can do to fix it.
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2019: First all-woman spacewalk
In late October, NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch performed the 221st spacewalk ; only this time, the space station assembly support marked the first all-woman spacewalk. Although the milestone wasn’t intentionally planned, NASA explains, “It was bound to happen eventually because of the increasing number of female astronauts,” and that “the agency looks forward to putting the first woman and next man on the moon by 2024.” Meir and Koch replaced a battery unit that had failed to activate on the exterior of the station, and their achievement is the latest shining example of women influencing and leading an industry historically controlled by men.
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2020: First woman elected US vice president
Kamala Harris made history on several major fronts in 2020 when she was elected vice president of the U.S. Born to an Indian mother and a Jamaican father, Harris is not only the first woman to become vice president, she is also the first Black American and the first South Asian American to win the vice presidency. In her victory speech , Harris said, “While I may be the first woman in this office, I will not be the last. Because every little girl watching tonight sees that this is a country of possibilities.”
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Milestones in women's history from the year you were born
The feminist movement of the 1960s and 1970s reminded the world that women have always played important historical roles, despite often being overlooked. But even in the 21st century, many popular history books are written by and about men —usually covering war heroes, generals, and the country's founding fathers. Studies of U.S. history and social studies classes also find that state education standards focus on men and gloss over the roles of women outside of the home. Though many people today proudly proclaim to be feminists , women around the world are still paid less for the same work, live in fear of physical violence and sexual assault , and lack rights and representation across industries.
Through decades of activism and organizing, women have made hard-won gains across social, economic, political, and cultural spectrums. Observing milestones in women's history also reminds us of the steps still required to achieve true gender equality. Stacker dug through historical records and selected inspirational or important moments in women’s history every year from 1919 to 2021.
Women have left marks on everything from politics to entertainment and music to space exploration, athletics, and technology. Each passing year and new milestone makes it clear both how recent this history-making is in relation to the past, as well as how far we still need to go. The resulting timeline shows that women are constantly making history worthy of best-selling biographies and classroom textbooks; someone just needs to write about them.
Scroll through to find out when women in the U.S. and around the world won rights, the names of women who shattered the glass ceiling, and which country’s women banded together to end a civil war.
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1919: National Women's Party sparks ‘Watchfires of Freedom’
Members of Congress introduced a constitutional amendment enshrining women's right to vote in 1878, but it would take decades of protest for it to become the law of the land. In 1918, President Woodrow Wilson started supporting women's suffrage, but members of the National Women's Party thought he wasn't using his influence to sway the last two senators needed for an amendment to pass. In January 1919, activists started burning Wilson's speeches outside public buildings, implying he was a hypocrite for not doing more. The amendment passed a few months later.
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1920: The 19th Amendment becomes law
After the 19th Amendment passed through Congress, it was turned over to the states; two-thirds (or 36) had to ratify the amendment before it could become law. Seven states rejected the amendment outright. The decisive vote came from Tennessee after a young representative's mother convinced him to vote in support of suffrage, breaking a tie in that state's legislature. The amendment was certified on Aug. 26, 1920, and women in every state could vote in elections that November.
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1921: Edith Wharton wins the Pulitzer Prize
In 1921, Edith Wharton won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (then called the Novel Prize), becoming the first woman in the award's four-year history to do so. She was honored for her 12th novel, “The Age of Innocence,” which explores the upper-class 1870s New York society in which Wharton grew up. Her win was controversial , but not because of her gender; the committee originally decided to give the prize to the novel, “Main Street,” a decision that was changed for political reasons.
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1922: First woman serves in the Senate
The first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate held her role for only two days . Rebecca Ann Felton of Georgia was appointed to fill a vacancy and served from Nov. 21–21, 1922. Her short appointment was largely ceremonial, honoring her long career in journalism and state politics. It would take another decade before another woman was elected to a Senate seat.
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1923: Equal Rights Amendment is first proposed
Even after women won the right to vote, Alice Paul—a women's rights activist and founder of the National Woman's Party—realized the U.S. still had a long way to go before it reached true equality. She fought for the Equal Rights Amendment , which, if added to the Constitution, would make it illegal to discriminate on the basis of sex. The amendment was proposed in every Congress from 1923 to 1972 when it finally passed, but it fell three states short of being officially added to the Constitution.
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1924: First woman diplomat gets to work
Revolutionary Marxist Alexandra Kollontai joined the new Russian government formed after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution as the People's Commissar of Social Welfare. In that capacity, she founded a Women's Department that fought to improve the lives of women in the Soviet Union. After a few years, she was asked to tackle diplomatic work, and in 1924, Kollontai was promoted to second-in-command of the Soviet Union's Norwegian embassy, which officially added her to the diplomatic corps. She continued working in Sweden, Finland, and Mexico until her retirement in the 1940s.
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1925: Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first woman governor in the U.S.
One month after her husband, Gov. William B. Ross, died of appendicitis, Nellie Tayloe Ross was elected to fill his seat. Through her victory, Wyoming, the first state to give women the right to vote, became the first to elect a woman to a state's highest office. Ross was inaugurated in January 1925, but lost reelection in 1926. She had a long career in politics after her term, and remains the only woman governor in Wyoming's history.
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1926: Gertrude Ederle swims the English Channel
Gertrude “Queen of the Waves” Ederle did what only five men had done before her when she swam the 35-mile length of the English Channel on Aug. 6, 1926. An Olympic gold medalist, Erdele first attempted the swim between England and France in 1925, but she didn't let her failure prevent a second try. Covered in grease and wearing a more practical self-designed suit, Erdele beat the men's record by over two hours, at a time when women's sports were just coming into the spotlight.
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1927: Women petition to become ‘persons’ in Canada
Five Canadian women's rights activists, dubbed the “Famous Five,” brought a case before the country's Supreme Court in 1927 arguing that women had the right to be appointed to the Senate. In 1928, the Court ruled that women were not considered “persons” according to the Canadian constitution and therefore ineligible for Senate seats. An appeal reversed the ruling, opening up new opportunities for women in Canada.
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1928: Britain's Equal Franchise Act becomes law
British women technically won the right to vote before Americans, but it took 10 years for them to achieve the same voting rights men already had. The 1918 Representation of the People Act allowed all men over 21 to vote, but only female householders or those married to householders, female university grads over 21, or women over 30 could vote. The Equal Franchise Act of 1928 removed all those restrictions ; any British citizen over 21 was now free to vote.
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1929: Nigeria's Women's War wins rights
Through the late 1920s, British colonial rule in Nigeria wildly changed how the country was governed. The native Igbo women, who had an important political role in their communities, found themselves increasingly undermined by new leaders. These women used their powerful communication networks to stage a nonviolent protest against their mistreatment. The British didn't understand the cause of the protests, and the campaign ended after just over one year when the British turned to violence—but not before Nigerian women won important protections for their rights and regained some of their political power.
[Pictured: Community of men, women, and children standing in front of the Akaniobio Church, Old Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria, sometime between 1900–1930.]
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1930: Frances Marion writes Oscar-winning ‘The Big House’
As movies transitioned from silent black-and-white affairs into talkies and Technicolor, screenwriter Frances Marion and actress Mary Pickford became some of early Hollywood's biggest names. The two worked together to adapt dozens of novels and stories into films, from classics like “Anne of Green Gables,” to “The Big House,” which won Marion her first Oscar (Adapted Screenplay). By the end of her career, Marion had written over 100 scripts.
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1931: Jackie Mitchell strikes out two of baseball's best
Jackie Mitchell, a 17-year-old pitcher, took the mound against the New York Yankees in an early season exhibition game. One of the first female pitchers in the league with a contract, Mitchell managed to strike out legends Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig . But then a few days later, her contract was revoked amid claims that the occupation was dangerous for women. Some modern historians believe that Mitchell's history-making pitches were staged to get more people in the stands, but many still see her achievement as important , either way.
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1932: Amelia Earhart's first solo flight across the Atlantic
Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean when she traveled from Newfoundland to Ireland on May 21, 1932. Earhart had already completed a similar feat a few years earlier as part of a three-person crew, and her fame only grew after flying solo—just like Charles Lindbergh, who had completed the feat five years before. Earhart, who was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross by Congress, infamously disappeared a few years later while attempting to fly around the world.
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1933: First female Cabinet member is appointed
Frances Perkins spent the early days of her career working to improve the lives of disadvantaged people living in New York City, making her well suited to the position of U.S. secretary of labor . President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed her to the post during the height of the Great Depression in 1933. As the first female member of a presidential cabinet, she pushed for the New Deal and spearheaded the creation of the Social Security program, one of Roosevelt's most important legislative achievements.
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1934: First woman serves on board of directors of a major corporation
Lettie Pate Whitehead Evans married a wealthy man who struck a deal with the brand new Coca-Cola company to bottle their syrupy-sweet product. Her husband died young, leaving Evans to take over his share of the bottling empire, where she expanded her own wealth as well as the company's success. When her branch of the company was bought out, she was appointed to the board of directors, a position she would hold for nearly 20 years. Lettie ultimately used her fortune to create a scholarship foundation .
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1935: National Council of Negro Women is founded
Disappointed by the lack of communication and cohesiveness between groups advocating for African American women's rights, educator and civil rights leader Mary McLeod Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women. In the decades since, the Council has grown to represent more than 25 national organizations, and more than 4 million women have been associated with the organization.
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1936: Wallis Simpson is Time's first female Person of the Year
Time's Person of the Year award has been given to an individual woman only five times . Wallis Simpson, an American socialite, was the first. Her relationship with King Edward VIII took the world by storm, and the 1930s press was obsessed with their movements . Edward, who caused a scandal by courting Simpson while she was still married to her second husband, was told he couldn't marry her and keep the throne. He became the only British monarch to voluntarily give up the throne; the two married and lived out the rest of their years together.
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1937: First woman climbs the Adirondack High Peaks
Born and raised in New York's Adirondack Mountains, Grace Dolbeck Leach Hudowalski became the ninth person and first woman to climb all 46 peaks in the mountain range between 1922 and 1937. She went on to start the Adirondack 46ers club alongside her husband, promoting the high peaks she loved and keeping track of others who managed to climb them. In 2014, the U.S. Board on Geographic Names officially renamed one of the peaks in her honor.
[Pictured: A view of some of the Adirondack Mountains high peaks.]
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1938: First woman wins the Nobel Prize in Literature
Pearl S. Buck used her experience growing up in China with her missionary parents to fuel much of her writing career, which focused on the life of the peasant class in the country. Her most notable work was a family trilogy: “The Good Earth” (1931), “Sons” (1932), and “A House Divided” (1935), which propelled her to become the first female Nobel laureate in Literature.
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1939: Kitty O'Brien Joyner is NASA's first woman engineer
Kitty O'Brien Joyner broke ground twice in 1939. After suing to be admitted into the University of Virginia's engineering program, she was the first woman to graduate from the program that year. The electrical engineering knowledge she gained let her blaze a new trail several months later when NACA, the predecessor to NASA, hired her. She worked there for decades, eventually becoming branch head , before retiring in 1971.
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1940: First African American woman wins an Oscar
It took 12 years for the Academy Awards to acknowledge a nonwhite performer. Even when Hattie McDaniel won for her supporting role as Mammy in “Gone with the Wind”—making her the first Black person to win any Oscar—she was seated at a separate table from her costars, and the show's organizers had to fight for her to be allowed inside the venue. Though later audiences would take issue with McDaniel's stereotypical character, her win was still historic; another Black actor would not win an Oscar until 1964, and diversity in the Academy remains an issue .
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1941: Wonder Woman debuts
Wonder Woman wasn't the first female superhero to grace the racks of comic book shops across America, but her appearance in 1941 sparked an obsession that's lasted just as long as Batman and Superman . Created by a psychologist, the Amazon woman was heavily influenced by feminism. In 2017, her enduring popularity made her the first female superhero to earn her own movie, which smashed records and gender barriers alike.
[Pictured: One of many iterations of Wonder Woman, Lynda Carter, portraying Wonder Woman in the television series in 1975.]
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1942: First woman is awarded Purple Heart medal
On Dec. 7, 1941, Annie G. Fox found herself organizing the response to the chaos and numerous injuries caused by the attack on Pearl Harbor. The first lieutenant and head nurse of Hickam Field Hospital was awarded the Purple Heart for her work on Oct. 26, 1942, alongside several other army nurses. When the criteria of the award later changed to apply only to those injured in the line of duty, Fox was awarded the equally prestigious Bronze Star in place of the Purple Heart in 1944.
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1944: French women win the right to vote
France fell behind many of its European counterparts in granting women the right to vote. Sixteen years after Britain finally enshrined equal rights at the ballot box, the newly liberated French government signed a law allowing women to cast votes. French women still struggle to see themselves represented in the federal government, though numbers have started trending up after recent elections.
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1945: Ireland's laundry workers go on strike
After years of mistreatment , Ireland's laundry workers (who were almost entirely women) decided they were done putting up with the long hours and harsh conditions. The Irish Women's Worker Union went on strike , and after 14 weeks, they won the right to a second week of holidays every year for all Irish workers.
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1946: UN establishes the Commission on the Status of Women
Soon after the United Nations was founded, it established the Commission on the Status of Women, the first intergovernmental body with the sole purpose of promoting the rights of women around the world. The Commission's 15 female representatives first met in New York, and until 1962, they focused on setting global standards for women's rights, changing discriminatory language in different documents, and bringing awareness to women's issues to a worldwide audience.
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1947: First woman wins a Nobel Prize in medicine
Alongside her husband, Gerty Cori became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in medicine, and only the third woman in history to win the award in any category. The couple won for developing the Cori cycle, which explained how energy moves through different parts of the body. Though colleagues warned her she could hold back her husband's career, Cori and her husband continued working together and went on to make further important biological discoveries.
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1948: UN Declaration of Human Rights debuts
The United Nation's historic Declaration of Human Rights was the first international document to explicitly state that both men and women should have their “dignity and worth of [their] human person” protected. The Commission on the Status of Women was integral in the fight to make sure gender-neutral language was inserted into the document, which was adopted by the General Assembly on Dec. 10, 1948.
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1949: ‘The Second Sex’ is published
In 1949, French essayist, political theorist, and intellectual Simone de Beauvoir published her most famous and influential work on the oppression of women. De Beauvoir attempted to explain why women are oppressed in society and argued that political advancements like the right to vote meant nothing to women who don't have the means to support themselves in other ways. Its English translation (published in 1953) was long considered deeply flawed, but that didn't stop the work from becoming required reading for feminists and scholars around the world.
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1950: First girl plays Little League baseball
At 13, Kay Johnston wanted nothing more than to play Little League baseball. So she decided to sign up as a boy named Tubby. Even after revealing her identity, she played a successful season as a member of a team. After that year, the “Tubby Rule” was put into place, barring girls from playing Little League under any circumstances. The rule was abolished in 1974, and since then, 18 girls have made it all the way to the Little League World Series.
[Pictured: A Little League baseball player sliding into home base safe.]
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1951: Rosalind Franklin makes crucial DNA discoveries
James Watson and Francis Crick were credited with the discovery of DNA's double-helix structure, which won them a Nobel Prize in 1962, but they would not have been able to do so without the help of a pioneering female scientist. Rosalind Franklin's expertise in X-ray diffraction techniques allowed her to take clear pictures of DNA's structure. A male colleague who often disagreed with Franklin gave her photographs to Watson and Crick, and they formed the basis of their eventual model. Franklin never knew her work had been so integral to their discovery, as she died in 1958.
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1952: Grace Hopper revolutionizes computers
A trailblazer throughout her life, mathematician and U.S. Navy Admiral Grace Hopper revolutionized the way we use computers. After working on the Mark I computer during World War II, she moved into private industry , where she and her team developed the compiler. This device allowed software developers to write code in humanlike language—instead of 1s and 0s—and was a precursor to the widely used COBOL programming language.
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1953: First woman breaks the sound barrier
Jacqueline Cochran worked her way out of poverty to become one of the most successful female aviators of the 20th century. After obtaining her pilot's license in three weeks while working as a cosmetics saleswoman, she took the aviation world by storm and set record after record. Her most notable feat might be flying faster than the speed of sound (761.2 miles per hour), a speed she later doubled in 1964.
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1954: UN Convention on the Political Rights of Women goes into force
The Convention on the Political Rights of Women became the first piece of international law explicitly formed to protect and expand women's political rights. A total of 122 United Nations member states and the state of Palestine have since signed onto the document, parts of which formed the basis of later, more comprehensive treaties protecting women's rights.
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1955: Rosa Parks sparks Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks' decision not to give up her seat to a white man on an Alabama bus changed the course of American history. The same day Parks was convicted of violating segregation laws, black community leaders, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., organized a boycott of the Montgomery bus system. It would not end until the Supreme Court ruled bus segregation laws were unconstitutional. Parks subsequently became a symbol of the civil rights movement and continued her work as an activist against inequality.
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1956: Women march on Pretoria
In the 1950s, South Africa's government passed new laws to limit the movement of African women in the country, with the goal of further entrenching the deep racial separation, also known as apartheid. Thousands of women from across South Africa marched on the capital city in protest of these laws, including several who would later become key figures in the apartheid resistance movement. When the prime minister wouldn't meet with them, the women stood in complete silence for 30 minutes before singing songs of protest and female empowerment.
[Pictured: A group of South Africans demonstrates in Pretoria, South Africa.]
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1957: First television show built around a female protagonist airs
“Decoy: Police Woman” might be an all-but-forgotten relic from the early days of television, but it was groundbreaking as the first show to feature a female police officer and a female protagonist. If not for “Decoy,” the powerful female characters in “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” and “Law and Order” might not exist. Shot on location in New York (another first), Casey Jones went undercover as a ballerina, model, and other aliases to catch criminals, doing her job without any discrimination from her male colleagues.
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1958: First woman wins multiple Grammys
Ella Fitzgerald became a household name when she made her debut on the stage of New York's famous Apollo Theater in 1934. “The First Lady of Song” went on to become a jazz icon, and at the first Grammy Awards , she took home Best Female Vocal Performance and Best Individual Jazz Performance. She'd go on to win 13 awards over her 40-year career, capping off her Grammy success by becoming the first woman to win a Lifetime Achievement award.
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1959: Tibetan Women's Uprising commences
The long struggle for Tibet to gain independence from China came to a head in the late 1950s, ultimately forcing the Dalai Lama to flee to India in exile. Tibetan women made their voices heard when they took part in a protest against the Chinese government on March 12, 1959. The women surrounded the Dalai Lama's home but were later arrested; many were beaten and executed .
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1960: Sri Lanka elects world's first female prime minister
When Sirimavo Bandaranaike won Sri Lanka's 1960 election, she became the first woman head of state to hold the title without inheriting the position due to her birth. She was elected after her husband was assassinated the year before and continued implementing his socialist economic policies and promotion of Buddhist cultural practices in the country (then called Ceylon). Bandaranaike stepped down in 1965, but returned in the 1970s to serve two more terms before retiring for good at 84.
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1961: India bans dowries
Dowries were a common custom in Indian culture hailing from its days as a British colony ; a bride’s parents would give money or other gifts to help their daughter start a new life, but the practice soon became more of a payment to the groom's family at the time of marriage, as an incentive for the union. Unfortunately, the custom also led to violence against the women it hoped to protect. Sometimes a woman’s husband or in-laws would attack her in hopes of getting a higher bride price. The 1961 Dowry Prohibition Act aimed to stop this violence against women by getting rid of the tradition, but it's been difficult to enforce and is often misused .
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1962: Katherine Johnson helps send a man to space
In NASA's early days, African American women often worked as human computers, doing the necessary calculations for different projects by hand. In 1953, Katherine Johnson became one of them. By the 1960s, she was working on flight trajectory calculations and often double-checking the work done by electronic computers. Astronauts like John Glenn relied on her calculations to ensure a safe landing, contributions that were immortalized in the 2016 movie “Hidden Figures.”
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1963: Betty Friedan publishes ‘The Feminine Mystique’
People often describe feminism as coming in several waves and historians often credit Betty Friedan's seminal book, “The Feminine Mystique,” with helping spark the second wave. While far from a perfect book, the tome sold nearly 3 million copies, which allowed more women to think about, discuss, and discover the “problem with no name” shaping their lives for the first time. Friedan's writing gave a voice to the anger and repression many women were feeling.
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1964: First woman of color elected to Congress
Patsy Takemoto Mink became the first woman of color elected to Congress when she won one of Hawaii's seats in the House of Representatives in 1964. She served until 1977, advocating for the rights of women, immigrants, and children. Mink also worked hard to pass Title IX, which increased opportunities for women in education.
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1965: Dolores Huerta directs a five-year strike
Working alongside fellow labor activist Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta co-founded the United Farm Workers Union in 1965 and quickly took the lead in negotiating contracts between the Coachella Valley grape growers and their employers. Five years later, she won a historic victory when 26 grape growers agreed to sign fairer contracts. Huerta continued to fight for the rights of farmworkers—as well as women and other Mexican Americans—and she continues to be an active, influential figure in those communities today.
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1966: National Organization for Women is founded
On June 30, 1966, Catherine Conroy put a $5 bill on the table in Betty Friedan's hotel room and told the 15 other activists in the room to “Put your money down and sign your name .” The National Organization for Women (NOW) was founded at that moment, and it originally aimed to figure out how to enforce the Title VII section of the Civil Rights Act. NOW has grown over the past half-century , but still uses grassroots power to advocate for women's economic, political, and social equality.
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1967: First woman runs the Boston Marathon
At 19, Kathrine Switzer—who was unofficially competing with Syracuse University's men's cross-country team—told her coach she wanted to run the Boston Marathon . After proving she could complete the 26-mile race, she registered for the marathon, which didn't technically have gender limitations. Though officials tried to pull her out of the race once she started, Switzer ultimately completed the run and spent years advocating for women to be officially allowed to enter.
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1968: Miss America ignites ‘bra burning’ protests
Contrary to popular belief, no bras were burned during this Sept. 7, 1968, protest outside the Miss America beauty pageant. But 400 feminists did throw symbols of what they thought society used to oppress them—including bras—into a “freedom trash can” in protest of the pageant's support of what they saw as unattainable beauty standards.
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1969: Nation's first ‘no fault’ divorce law passes
California's no-fault divorce law , adopted in some form by every other state by 2010, made it much easier to obtain a divorce. Instead of couples having to prove that their spouse wronged them in some way, one person’s desire to leave a relationship became grounds for ending unhappy marriages. Advocates believed that with this law in place , women were able to leave relationships they did not find fulfilling in a safer, fairer way.
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1970: First woman plays American football
Patricia Palinkas joined the Orlando Panthers alongside her kicker husband, beginning a short, but historic career as the first woman signed to a professional football team. As a holder for her husband, Palinkas only played a few games before deciding she'd rather do something other than hold the ball for someone else. Still, her short career impacted a generation of female athletes, who wouldn't see another woman in professional football until Katie Hnida in 2010.
[Pictured: Football players in 1971.]
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1971: Reed v. Reed is decided
Reed v. Reed was a Supreme Court case that invalidated an Idaho law requiring a man to be chosen when an equally qualified man and woman were arguing over who should execute a will. As such, it is a consequential case for the legal rights of American women. For the first time, the Supreme Court ruled that the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment applied to discrimination against women. This established a stricter standard for sex discrimination and set a precedent for others—like future Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg —to argue more cases on gender discrimination.
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1972: Title IX goes into effect
Title IX is part of a larger education reform act that requires gender equality for boys and girls in any education program that receives funding from the federal government. This applies to college athletics, sexual assault and harassment, employment, financial aid, and more. Title IX has been subject to a number of controversies since it was passed, most recently around issues of sexual assault , even as schools continue to work toward gender equity.
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1973: Roe v. Wade is decided
One of the most well-known and controversial Supreme Court decisions , Roe v. Wade established a woman's right to an abortion at any time during the first three months of her pregnancy, and, with some restrictions, in later trimesters as well. In the decade since the decision, the battle over abortion and reproductive rights has been among the most heated in American politics.
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1974: Women earn the right to open their own credit cards
Before Congress passed the Equal Credit Opportunity Act , banks made men co-sign when a single, widowed, or divorced woman wanted to open a credit card, no matter how much she made. The new law made it illegal to discriminate based on gender, race, or national origin when issuing credit cards, giving women more independent access to money. Studies today still find that women are paying more for their credit cards.
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1975: Icelandic women go on strike
The women of Iceland were tired of being paid less than men and not seeing women in government. So on Oct. 24, 1975, 90% of Icelandic women didn't go to work, take care of their children, or do any housework; instead, 25,000 marched in the streets of the capital city. The rousing turnout led to some changes, and Iceland's first female president was elected five years later. Iceland, the country where political representation of women is highest in the world, is now considered one of the best places in the world for women , and it is currently working on ending its persistent pay gap within five years.
[Pictured: Iceland's first female president, Vigdis Finnbogadottir, in 1980.]
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1976: First class of women enters West Point
American women worked alongside men in wars throughout the country's history, but on July 7, 1976, 119 female cadets first entered the service academy at West Point. Sixty-two would graduate in the class of 1980, completing their training as future military officers.
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1977: First woman wins an EGOT
Actress Helen Hayes—the first woman to win an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award—started on the stage at age 8, and went on to have a Tony-winning Broadway career spanning decades. She also picked up an Oscar in 1931 for her performance in “The Sin of Madelon Claudet” during a brief stint in Hollywood. After discovering an allergy to theater dust in the 1970s, she went on to star in several TV shows and took home a Grammy in 1977 to finish her sweep.
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1978: Pregnancy Discrimination Act passes
Prior to the passage of this law, some employers refused to hire a woman if she was pregnant, while others commonly refused to promote or give raises to pregnant women for fear they'd soon quit and stay home with their families. The law protected the rights of women who also wanted to have children, but working mothers are still not treated equally compared to their male counterparts; studies have found the gender wage gap increases when women start families.
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1979: UN adopts the Women's Bill of Rights
The United Nations' Commission on the Status of Women netted another huge win for women's rights when the General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) on Dec. 18, 1978. The most comprehensive document the office has produced to date, the treaty defines equality , lays out clear steps on how to achieve it, and requires countries that sign CEDAW to actively work for women's rights.
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1980: First democratically elected female president takes office
Five years after a women's strike ground Icelandic society to a halt, citizens elected their first female president, the first democratically elected female president in the world. Vigdís Finnbogadóttir's 16-year-long presidency put her in a mostly ceremonial role , but she enjoyed actively promoting her country abroad. After her victory, Icelandic women's representation in their government shot up to the highest levels of any country without a quota system, and Iceland is now one of the most gender-equal countries in the world.
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1981: First woman is appointed to the Supreme Court
Even though Sandra Day O'Connor graduated third in her class (and a year early) from Stanford Law School, the Texas-born lawyer struggled to overcome gender discrimination and find work in her field. She eventually earned her way into the courtroom, then began a career in Texas state politics. In 1981, President Ronald Reagan nominated her to the Supreme Court, and she was confirmed unanimously by the Senate. Before her retirement in 2006, O'Connor was known for defending women's rights from the bench, even blocking a case that would have overturned Roe v. Wade.
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1982: First African American principal ballerina leads a U.S. company
When Debra Austin joined the Pennsylvania Ballet as its principal dancer, she became the first African American woman to lead a major American ballet company. Others have attributed the title to Lauren Anderson, who rose to the same position in Houston the same year Austin retired in Pennsylvania. In an art form that has long struggled with racism , both women were history-makers and positive influences for aspiring ballerinas today.
[Pictured: Ballet Dancer Lauren Anderson, arriving at ABC's "Scandal" 100th Episode Celebration on April 8, 2017, in West Hollywood, California.]
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1983: Sally Ride becomes first American woman in space
The U.S. might have won the Space Race by putting a man on the moon, but the Soviet Union put the first woman in space in 1963, two decades before the Americans managed the feat. Of course, that doesn't make Sally Ride's trip to the stars any less monumental. As the first American woman and youngest astronaut to go to space, Ride inspired generations of girls and worked to promote women in science long after she hung up the space suit for good.
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1984: First woman is selected VP candidate for a major political party
Geraldine Ferraro's career as a lawyer in New York, and later as a leading Democratic politician, was marked by her dedication to women's rights . She established a special victims unit as an assistant district attorney in Queens and kept her seat in a conservative New York House district despite her progressive voting record. Ferraro's ambition helped her climb the ranks of the party before she became Walter Mondale's running mate in his 1984 presidential campaign against Ronald Reagan. Reagan was re-elected in a landslide, but Ferraro remained an important voice in party politics until her death in 2011.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Two teenagers were arrested after allegedly leading police on a pursuit in a stolen vehicle on Thursday, according to authorities.
The Oregon City Police Department said they received a report of a stolen vehicle on Talawa Drive at 4:45 a.m. after a neighbor reported two vehicles parked in their driveway were stolen in the past two hours.
Officers found one of the stolen vehicles a short distance away, but the driver reportedly failed to yield to police — leading officers on a pursuit up I-205.
Another agency was able to stop the car after spiking the tires near I-205 and Highway 212. Authorities said they arrested the 16-year-old driver and 15-year-old passenger.
The Oregon City Police Department is seeking more information on the break-ins and thefts in the neighborhood off Glen Oak Road, and is looking for any home surveillance footage in the area that may help in the investigation.
Anyone with information on the case is asked to call the Oregon City Police Department Tip Line at 503-905-3505 and reference OCPD case number # 22-019171. | https://www.koin.com/local/clackamas-county/two-teens-arrested-after-stolen-vehicle-pursuit-on-i-205/ | 2022-08-26T02:28:14 | 0 | https://www.koin.com/local/clackamas-county/two-teens-arrested-after-stolen-vehicle-pursuit-on-i-205/ |
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Authorities have identified a man who was found dead after a shooting in the Powellhurst-Gilbert neighborhood on August 10.
Officials said 40-year-old Dejohntae Campbell’s cause of death was homicide by gunshot wound.
Officers responded to the shooting near 134th and Bush Street at 9 p.m. where officers found Campbell dead.
Police said the suspect or suspects fled the scene and no immediate arrests were made.
Neighbors posted on social media saying they heard the shots and saw a man fall and another man run away. They also told KOIN 6 News they’re no strangers to gun violence in this area at night.
“In the last year, I’ve seen three different incidents where I’ve seen police block off the road. I’ve gone out and asked them and most of the time it’s for shootings. I’ve heard drive-bys where cars are going by literally shooting out their windows,” neighbor Shane Vinje said. | https://www.koin.com/local/multnomah-county/man-found-dead-after-powellhurst-gilbert-neighborhood-shooting-identified/ | 2022-08-26T02:28:20 | 1 | https://www.koin.com/local/multnomah-county/man-found-dead-after-powellhurst-gilbert-neighborhood-shooting-identified/ |
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — August is Black Business Month and entrepreneurs in the Portland area could be eligible for grants to help advance their businesses.
On Wednesday, DoorDash announced it’s partnering with the Black Business Association of Oregon and the Accion Opportunity Fund to bring its Accelerator for Local Restaurants program to the greater Portland area.
Accelerator for Local Restaurants will provide $20,000 grants, training and education, one-on-one customized business advising, marketing benefits and more to eligible restaurant owners.
DoorDash hopes it will help stabilize, adapt and grow restaurants throughout the Portland area.
The program offers an 8-week intensive curriculum that features local experts and the opportunity to connect with other local restaurant owners. The lessons cover topics such as marketing, access to capital, managing cash flow and menu creation.
“As Portland area businesses operate in an uncertain and challenging economic environment, help is needed to ensure all businesses are able to rebound and thrive. That’s why we’re proud to extend our Accelerator for Local Restaurants to Portland,” said Tasia Hawkins, a Social Impact Program lead at DoorDash.
The company has already provided this opportunity to more than 100 restaurant owners located in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City and Philadelphia.
“With this new cohort and our partnership with the Black Business Association of Oregon, we look forward to supporting the local Portland community and its entrepreneurs,” Hawkins said.
DoorDash is seeking applications from local restaurant owners in Portland, Hillsboro, Gresham, Beaverton, Tigard, Happy Valley, Wilsonville, Forest Grove, Oregon City, Sherwood, West Linn, Tualatin, Lake Oswego, Milwaukie, Aloha and Cedar Hills who operate three or fewer restaurant locations.
Eligible restaurants are required to have been operating for at least two years and must not employ more than 50 people across all locations.
Restaurant owners must apply by Sept. 9. The 8-week-long program begins Oct. 11 and will be a combination of in-person and online trainings.
GoFundMe is also giving away up to 15 $2,000 grants to eligible Black-owned businesses in the U.S. that are giving back to their communities. Business owners can apply online through August 31. Eligible businesses must start a GoFundMe fundraiser and set up bank transfers in the month of August 2022. They must also add the hashtag #BlackBusinessGrant to their fundraiser story. | https://www.koin.com/local/portland-black-restaurant-owners-can-apply-for-20k-grants-training-courses/ | 2022-08-26T02:28:26 | 0 | https://www.koin.com/local/portland-black-restaurant-owners-can-apply-for-20k-grants-training-courses/ |
A celebration of aviation and community is planned for Saturday at Airpark.
The executive airport along Loop 250 in north Midland will host a 5K (the Run for the Runway) at 8 a.m. followed by the Fly into Fall, which officials hope can help better connect the Midland community with its executive airport.
Aviation and aerospace will be front and center from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Airpark as officials will welcome Midlanders and those from around the region. At-large Councilwoman Robin Poole said the festivities will include exhibits from spacepark tenant AST & Science, a velocity rocket airframe, a Commemorative Air Force fly-in, classic cars, face-painting, food trucks and jumpers.
Grand marshals are Congressman August Pfluger, who served in the Air Force as decorated fighter pilot and commander and continues to serve as a Colonel in the Air Force Reserves, and State Board of Education member-elect Aaron Kinsey, a former captain in the Air Force.
Another “hero” at the event will be former NASA astronaut Don Thomas. He will take part in a question-and-answer.
“It will be a really fun day where we are able to bring the community of Airpark together with the general community,” Poole said. “We can introduce families to aviation on new level.”
The events will also include the opportunities for residents young and old to take discovery flights – courtesy of Floris Flight Services.
Other interactive displays include flight simulators, pre-flight simulation complete with preflight inspection and mock cockpit experience and a drone obstacle course.
“This event has grown into something bigger than I thought it could be,” Poole said. “We want to introduce kids to aviation as a career path.”
Poole commented that interest in aviation has waned, and that aviation and aerospace companies are experiencing shortages. Even this week, Midland College came up with a plan to bring back an aviation maintenance program to help deal with the shortages there.
“This is a first step to showcase Airpark as the gem that it is to the community,” Poole said.
Event Schedule
8 a.m.: Run for the Runway 1 Mile Fun Run & 5K
(Race participants must sign up by visiting MidlandAthleticCompany.com)
9 a.m.: Fly Into Fall Gates Open
9:15 a.m.: Grand marshals arrival
10 a.m.: Commemorative Air Force Fly-in
10:30 a.m.: Grand Marshal Congressman August Pfluger: Speaker/Q&A on being an Air Force pilot
11:30 a.m.: Former NASA Astronaut, Don Thomas: Speaking/Q&A on being an astronaut
12:30 p.m.: Grand Marshal Aaron Kinsey: Speaker/Q&A on being an Air Force Pilot
1:30 p.m.: CAF Fly-out
Online: https://www.midlandtexas.gov/1034/Fly-Into-Fall | https://www.mrt.com/news/local/article/Airpark-takes-center-stage-this-weekend-17398737.php | 2022-08-26T02:31:02 | 0 | https://www.mrt.com/news/local/article/Airpark-takes-center-stage-this-weekend-17398737.php |
Gas can be found for less than $3.40 across Midland this week.
While AAA Texas showed an average of $3.52 in Midland in its weekly report, TexasGasPrices.com showed at least 11 locations in the city where the price had dropped below $3.40 a gallon.
The cheapest price on Thursday was $3.29 at the Sam’s Club in west Midland. The lowest price for a non-membership location was $3.33 at the Murphy Express on Andrews Highway and Midkiff Road.
Other fast facts about the price of gas this week included:
- The average in Midland dropped 5 cents, according to AAA Texas. That drop was the same as the average across the state.
- The average in Odessa fell by 6 cents to $3.43, which is 9 cents less than the average in Midland.
- The most expensive average of the 27 larger metropolitan areas was found in El Paso ($3.72). The price there spiked 34 cents this week. College Station-Bryan was second with an average of $3.56.
- Across the region, AAA Texas reports the following averages -- $3.32 in Abilene (an increase of 1 cent this week), $3.34 in Lubbock (a decrease of 2 cents), $3.35 in Amarillo (a decrease of 3 cents) and $3.35 in San Angelo (a decrease of 5 cents).
- The cheapest average across the state was $3.10 in McAllen.
- AAA Texas reported the Texas statewide pump average fell for the 10th week in a row.
- The price in Midland has fallen $1.00 since it reached an all-time high of $4.52 on June 11. The state average ($3.41) has fallen by $1.03 since hitting its record price of $4.34 on June 2.
- The average in Midland is 59 cents higher than it was one year ago. The state average is down 61 cents compared to one year ago.
Lowest prices in Midland
$3.29 Sam’s Club (west Midland)
$3.33 Murphy Express (Andrews Highway/Midkiff)
$3.34 Murphy USA (Briarwood/Midland Drive)
$3.35 H-E-B (Midkiff/Wadley)
$3.35 Texaco (Midkiff/Wadley)
Highest averages in state
This week
El Paso $3.72
College Station $3.56
Midland $3.52
Longview $3.47
Wichita Falls $3.46
Texas $3.41
National $3.88
Last week
College Station-Bryan $3.64
Midland $3.57
Victoria $3.51
Odessa $3.49
Dallas $3.48
Longview $3.48
Texas $3.46
National $3.93 | https://www.mrt.com/news/local/article/Cheapest-gas-below-3-30-in-Midland-17398569.php | 2022-08-26T02:31:08 | 1 | https://www.mrt.com/news/local/article/Cheapest-gas-below-3-30-in-Midland-17398569.php |
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A proposed raise of 28% for jailers and 22% for patrolmen and other law enforcement officers in the Sheriff’s Office has created division within the county ranks.
The Midland County Commissioners’ Court is receiving comments this week from department heads and elected officials about County Judge Terry Johnson’s proposed budget – one he admitted to showing preferential treatment to certain Sheriff’s Office personnel.
The budget calls for double-digit percentage increases in individual salaries from jailers to patrolmen to courthouse security to Civil & Warrants Criminal Investigation Division.
The rank-and-file of the county’s “civilian” workforce are set to receive stipends of 3, 4 or 5% depending on how much money they currently make – 3% for those making $100,000 or more, 4% for those making between $50,000 and $100,000 and 5% for those making less than $50,000.
Mitzi Baker, county treasurer, responded to the Reporter-Telegram questions about the proposed budget saying there was no cost-of-living increase for civilian employees and no permanent raise. And while law enforcement inside the Sheriff’s Department were set to receive 20-plus percent raises (part of Johnson’s $2.5 million increase in the Sheriff’s budget), that payment push wouldn’t apply for those in Warrant services, Emergency Management and juvenile detention.
“In my 33 years, I have not seen anything exactly like this – not this kind of an increase,” Baker said.
Johnson said during court proceedings – available online – that he is attempting to help the Sheriff’s Office and the vacancies in the jail (said to be around 35 to 40) and among patrolmen. Johnson said the pay for those two areas in particular have the department missing out on candidates – even those who the county paid to go through law enforcement academies – to other area agencies like Greenwood ISD.
The Sheriff’s Office is not alone in being shorthanded. Midland Police Department Chief Seth Herman recently told the Reporter-Telegram his police force isn’t close to where it needs to be.
Johnson said he’d like to see wages of those working patrol and inside the jail closer to wages paid inside the police department.
This week, other department heads, including those with the District Attorney’s Office, County Clerk’s Office, the District Clerk’s Office, Justice of the Peace Office and Juvenile Detention mentioned the budget’s preference.
Justice of the Peace John Barton said, “You can’t forget other individuals doing their job.”
Midland County Clerk Alison Haley mentioned Midland being home to some of the highest inflation rates in the nation, many of her deputies make the bare minimum pay grade inside the county and make less than the county’s “event coordinator” and that even the county mentioned on its website a perk of working for the county was regular cost-of-living raises for employees. To which Johnson responded to an official, “can you get that off” (the website).
District Clerk Alex Archuleta mentioned that he had employees held at a “higher standard” than “secretarial science people” and couldn’t even recruit paralegals because of the low pay offered.
“I’m not understanding the stipend dynamic,” Archuleta said.
Chief Juvenile Probation officer Forest Hanna expressed his concern that officials working at the Barbara Culver Juvenile Center wouldn’t get the proposed pay raise and they would then apply for positions at the Sheriff’s Office. Johnson told him the county could put into place restrictions on employees making such a move and then told him he had only four openings compared to the 40 at the jail.
District Attorney Laura Nodolf said the discrepancy was an “issue of fairness.” To which Johnson responded, “Are you saying I’m not fair?”
Johnson reminded those coming before the court, his “priority is in some other areas.” He also told those in the Commissioners’ Courtroom inside the Midland County Courthouse that “when you get more money this year than last year, it is a raise.”
He also offered the following during an exchange with a department head.
“I am surprised how much jealously there is in what other people make. I can’t make everybody equal. It is not my job to make everybody equal.”
Other members of the Commissioners’ Court stayed out of the debates about fairness, 20-plus-percent salary increases and smaller stipends for other employees. They are expected to weigh in later in the process, possibly as early as on or after 1:30 p.m. Friday when discussions about Johnson’s proposed budget continue. The proceedings Friday also will include Midland County’s Sheriff David Criner having the opportunity to comment on the budget that Johnson prepared. | https://www.mrt.com/news/local/article/Johnson-county-officials-debate-proposed-budget-17398990.php | 2022-08-26T02:31:14 | 1 | https://www.mrt.com/news/local/article/Johnson-county-officials-debate-proposed-budget-17398990.php |
KENNESAW, Ga. — A Kennesaw Mountain High School student has been hospitalized after getting hit by a vehicle Wednesday evening, a district spokesperson said.
The 15-year-old was crossing Kennesaw Due West Road by Westover Way around 5 p.m. as the driver of a 1981 Toyota Land Cruiser approached the intersection.
Cobb County Police Department traffic enforcement officers said the 15-year-old was trying to cross the street on the crosswalk when traffic lights warned not to. The child was struck by the front of the vehicle and was badly hurt.
Police said the teen was life-flighted to Grady Memorial Hospital with life-threatening injuries. The driver was not hurt.
"Our thoughts are with the student and their family during this difficult time," the district said in a statement.
Police said they are still investigating the crash and urged anyone with information to call investigators at 770-499-3987.
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CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. — Authorities are investigating a crash involving a Clayton County Sheriff's Office deputy cruiser Thursday night.
A patrol car was towed away from the crash site along Tara Boulevard in Jonesboro near Mount Zion Road.
Traffic was backed up around A Town Wings and The Juicy Crab as Clayton County medical services and Clayton County Police arrived to investigate.
Video shows the hood of the patrol vehicle was damaged in the crash.
11Alive reached out to the sheriff's office to learn the condition of the deputy and to see if anyone else was hurt. Authorities have not offered any details about the crash.
This is a developing story. Check back often for new information.
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SUWANEE, Ga. — A grieving mother is asking for the public's help in finding the people who shot and killed her 16-year-old son in Suwanee.
It's been more than a month since Abel Castellanos was shot dead and his mother, Maria Alejandra Camacho said justice has felt slow as she mourns her child's death. He would have turned 17 years old Friday.
"My life will never be the same," Camacho said in Spanish. "It’s this hole for a mother. He was my first child, my first love. I love all my children equally but he taught me how to be a mother."
Castellanos was found dead July 19 around The Residences apartment complex off McGinnis Ferry Road. Suwanee Police said the teen was shot in the chest.
Now three teens are facing charges in Castellanos' death.
Police recently announced the arrest of 16-year-old Miguel Gabriel Flores. He is facing felony murder, armed robbery and aggravated assault charges. However, police are still searching for two people.
"Abel didn’t know any of the three suspects," Camacho said. "There was one who was driving who is still on the run and is being looked for, another shot, and the other one is behind bars tonight."
His family's pastor said Castellano and his family moved to the United States from Venezuela in search of a better life and to escape violence in their home country. His mother said, unfortunately, her family has not been able to escape trouble in the U.S. either.
"What I see right now is there is such freedom for children to somehow get ahold of weapons in any corner and we have to see how we can control that," she said.
Though to some, the death of her son may seem like part of an ongoing problem with youth violence, to her it's a lost opportunity as she'll never see her son's dreams come to fruition.
"Throughout his teenage years, he had a tough phase but he had so many expectations, so many goals to reach," she said.
Describing Castellanos as disciplined, she said her son would wake up at 5 a.m. to catch the school bus at 6 a.m. He'd go to work at 4 p.m. and end his day at 11 p.m.
"Then do it all over again the next day," she explained.
She said he came to the U.S. at 10 years old and was very focused on what he wanted to accomplish.
"He was very ambitious and had been working since he was 14 years old," she said. "You won't find that strength and discipline in many kids his age."
Police have not said who fired the fatal shot, only that Flores is being detained at the Regional Youth Detention Center and that they are searching for two 17-year-old boys. Camacho said she wants her son's case to see closure.
"Through it all, I feel some sense of peace that justice could be made, so that this doesn’t keep happening," the mother said. "If that person is still on the run, just like he did this to my son who he didn’t even know – he could do it again. He had no reason to do what he did."
Authorities said Jermaine Dondi Rimson and Joshua Ryan Poteat are wanted on similar charges as Flores. Anyone who knows about their whereabouts is asked to call Detective Dawn Zaenglein at 470-360-0689 or 770-904-7627. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/three-teens-accused-of-murder-in-16-year-old-abel-castellanos-death/85-6bfa118c-eccc-407a-ad0b-6145fcd89a57 | 2022-08-26T02:32:00 | 0 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/three-teens-accused-of-murder-in-16-year-old-abel-castellanos-death/85-6bfa118c-eccc-407a-ad0b-6145fcd89a57 |
At least 12 people suffered injuries and five were hospitalized after a roller coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey malfunctioned at the end of the ride, the amusement park said.
The El Toro roller coaster had a minor accident around 7:30 p.m. Thursday, according to park officials. As the ride was coming toward its conclusion, something malfunctioned and caused multiple injuries to the passengers aboard at the time.
At least 12 people reported back pain, while five guests were taken to a nearby hospital with minor injuries. The coaster was shut down after the incident, which occurred just before the park was set to close at its usual time of 8 p.m., the park said.
The incident is under investigation, and the ride remains closed for inspection.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/roller-coaster-malfunction-at-njs-six-flags-great-adventure-leaves-at-least-12-hurt/3839824/ | 2022-08-26T02:33:36 | 1 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/roller-coaster-malfunction-at-njs-six-flags-great-adventure-leaves-at-least-12-hurt/3839824/ |
SEATTLE — New data from the Downtown Seattle Association shows downtown hotels are making a major comeback, with some closing in on pre-pandemic occupancy levels right now.
"We went from being one of the bottom five in the country to the top five," said Craig Schafer, the owner of Hotel Andra located in downtown Seattle on the corner of Fourth and Virginia.
Schafer said the past three years have been difficult for the hospitality industry, but Schafer said they've taken a step forward in the last couple months.
"It went from devastating and dark, to reemerging this spring and summer, beyond a lot of people's expectations," said Schafer.
According to a new report from the Downtown Seattle Association (DSA), downtown welcomed more than 2.9 million visitors last month, which is the highest total since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The report also shows demand for hotel rooms is the highest it's been since 2019. With demand for hotel rooms downtown last month reaching 94% of 2019 levels and 96% in June.
"It's refreshing compared to the last two years and we still have a ways to go," said Schafer
Schafer acknowledges the numbers may take a slight step back as we enter fall. But he's still grateful for the strides the industry has made to get back on its feet and is optimistic tourism will see another boost with companies beginning to travel and conventions reconvening in downtown.
"It's up and up, we'll go through the year and just hope that we don't have any setbacks,” said Schafer.
The DSA report also pointed out that hotel revenue on Saturday, July 16 was the third-highest revenue day in Seattle’s history at $4.3 million. | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle/downtown-seattle-hotels-occupancy-nearing-pre-pandemic-levels/281-fffc5a41-8145-46f4-a375-f90384c34158 | 2022-08-26T02:40:28 | 0 | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle/downtown-seattle-hotels-occupancy-nearing-pre-pandemic-levels/281-fffc5a41-8145-46f4-a375-f90384c34158 |
SEATTLE — The countdown is on to the West Seattle Bridge reopening date, Sept. 18.
"I am at the point now where I am counting days, I can't wait for that to reopen because it's not just a big deal for me, it's a big deal for all of Seattle," said Brian Callanan who is a volunteer with the Bridge Reopening Committee.
The committee is creating Reunited West Seattle t-shirts with proceeds going to local businesses.
"It's been a real challenge just to get around so when you pile that on top of the pandemic and all the issues with that, it's just been really difficult," said Callanan.
September 18 remains the steadfast reopening date according to the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT.)
"I expect it will open early in the morning on Sunday and people can resume their lives," said Heather Marx who is with SDOT.
The last hurdle is testing the critical stress conditions which means loading up to twelve trucks each with 80 thousand pounds and positioning them onto the bridge. A test they are confident the bridge will pass.
With a closure lasting well over two years, KING 5 asked Marx why it took so long.
"We closed this bridge before it fell down so we had to do work to figure out what exactly it was that was creating those cracks," she said.
KING 5's Kristin Goodwillie went below the deck to see the repairs and better understand what went wrong. The cracks can be seen on the wall, dates reflect the progress.
"You go to any structure and you can find a crack. The danger is when the crack is a little too wide and so moisture gets in and can corrode the rebar on the inside," said Marx.
KING 5 is told what went wrong has to do with the post-tensioning tendons. Tendons are steel wires that are each stressed to 40,000 pounds. Each tendon has either 19 or 27 wires in it.
According to SDOT, once all the tests are completed and the bridge reopens, the repairs should last for the next 40 years. Commuters are watching the clock as that much-anticipated deadline ticks closer.
"I'm excited about it, I know my neighbors are excited about it, I just want it to happen. It can't happen soon enough," said Callanan. They have sold 340 shirts so far and are hoping to get over 1,000. The shirts can be found on Westseattlebestseattle.org. | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle/west-seattle-bridge-on-track-for-september-18-reopening/281-be485d47-60fd-47e5-bb07-d7afccc88a02 | 2022-08-26T02:40:34 | 1 | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle/west-seattle-bridge-on-track-for-september-18-reopening/281-be485d47-60fd-47e5-bb07-d7afccc88a02 |
MONROE, Wash. — “Grandma Elsie” can’t stop bragging about the firefighter who changed her life.
She’s in her 90’s and said a dramatic life twist came after accidentally setting off her Life Alert pendant. She wears it in case of emergency and one press will alert and dispatch help.
The Monroe resident admits she didn’t realize she had activated her pendant when she was attempting to mow her lawn. Snohomish Regional Fire & Rescue showed up and learned that it was a false alarm, but firefighter Brandon Huber felt compelled to help with the yard work.
“I have four sons so I told her we would come and take care of her lawn,” Huber said.
That’s when Huber started to ask Elsie about the condition of her aging home.
“It was in rough shape," Huber said. "Mostly wood and almost no paint to it needed some love.” s
He said the Fire 7 Foundation supported his idea to paint her home and donated the supplies. Fire 7 foundation is a nonprofit that provides support for the community through financial, education and emotional means.
Huber said he and his sons provided the elbow grease and completed the project in about four days. The pristine white house with royal blue trim is a far cry from the original condition 1939 house that looked tattered for decades.
Elsie marveled at his old-fashioned attitude for helping a neighbor in need. “Nobody asking him to do this," she said. "He has four kids and works 24-hours shifts but he did this on the side and it’s amazing. It changed my life!”
Huber admits the attention he’s receiving makes him uncomfortable, but was willing to share the story in the hopes that it will inspire more people to reach across the fence and help someone in need just because.
Elsie said she wishes more people were like Brandon and not just because she finds him “very cute with his handlebar mustache!” | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/snohomish-county-firefighter-fixes-home/281-19980b9c-4e83-4946-a078-a287277062e6 | 2022-08-26T02:40:40 | 1 | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/snohomish-county-firefighter-fixes-home/281-19980b9c-4e83-4946-a078-a287277062e6 |
FORT WORTH, Texas — Usually, the trails along the Trinity River in Fort Worth are home to cyclists, runners or fishermen, but after record rain Monday, the Trinity became home to trash.
Now, Fort Worth and local community groups are asking for volunteers to assist in a cleanup along the banks.
“There’s just a lot of trash everywhere,” Natalie Trevino, a walker on the trail, said. “I’ve only been walking a mile and I’ve seen tons.”
The city effort began Thursday working from Panther Island Pavilion to University Drive and picking up enough trash along the river that they filled a standard three-cubic-foot dumpster one-and-a-half times over. They plan to start again at 10 a.m. Friday.
Jeanette Frank is part of the group Streams and Valleys, which tries to protect and beautify rivers, and is helping to coordinate with other community groups.
“We saw a lot of rain here, so I knew that the river was going to take a toll,” She said. “It’s devastating to see all that trash, but we love this amenity. The Trinity River is what brings people together. We want to see it clean and beautiful.”
The banks of the river now have a water line of plastic bottles and there are some points clogged with debris.
“There’s a whole line of trash on the grass from the flooding,” Laura Noller, a runner, said. “It’s horrible. I have no idea why people even litter ever.”
“It’s lined up a lot of litter, a lot of trash. It’s getting bad,” David Delgado, who came to the river to fish, said. “I’m willing to help. If they’re out here, give me a trash bag.”
For those wanting to help, the city is handing out supplies 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday at Panther Island Pavilion on Purcey St and from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. Saturday and Sunday at the Panther Island location along with the White Settlement Park Trailhead at 4570 White Settlement Rd. and Clear Fork Trailhead at 4801 Edwards Ranch Rd.
“When you got trash like that running down, it’s just killing the habitat,” Delgado said.
City officials plan to start Friday at 2302 E 4th St.
“It’s focused on the next few day, but it should be a daily thing,” Frank said. “If you see some trash, just pick it up. It’s as simple as that.” | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/fort-worth-asking-community-help-clean-trinity-river-flooding-fills-banks-with-trash/287-61debcba-b418-416b-9e95-4f81dcefa5aa | 2022-08-26T02:44:59 | 0 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/fort-worth-asking-community-help-clean-trinity-river-flooding-fills-banks-with-trash/287-61debcba-b418-416b-9e95-4f81dcefa5aa |
DALLAS, Texas — Krystal Pena stood in front of a mural in Uvalde Thursday night dedicated to the children who were senselessly killed inside their Robb Elementary school classrooms on May 24.
The mass shooting has rocked Texas, the nation, and any parent like Pena who was visiting the mural from San Antonio to pay her respects.
But a different piece of artwork--changed her mood when WFAA showed it to her: new billboards in California using the shooting as a selling point not to move to Texas.
"That's so disrespectful for the families," Pena said. "Somebody always has something stupid to say."
The billboards have been seen in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
They say 'Don't Move to Texas': a play on the state's famous anti-littering campaign 'Don't Mess With Texas.'
The latter phrase can be seen on the billboard but crossed out.
Alongside it: 'The Texas Miracle Died in Uvalde.'
'The Texas Miracle' is a phrase coined by state leaders after Texas weathered an economic storm during the 'Great Recession' from 2007-2009.
It even added jobs during that timeframe. In the years following--it's been a staple for growing the state's economy and a bragging point to political rivals in California.
That's an attractive selling point for someone wanting to move.
Another bragging point? If you look at the decade from 2010 through 2019 (the last year that Census data is available), it shows a net number of 885,000 people moving to Texas -- about 303,000 of which were from California.
That means 34% of new Texas residents are migrating from California.
In the pandemic--a similar story unfurled as the state's economy rebounded quicker than others.
Any republican would say the 'Texas Miracle' was built on low taxes, light regulations, and small-government philosophy.
The billboard? SMU Political Professor Matthew Wilson says the message is that Texas has a gun violence problem.
"There are frequent jabs between both states, and there is no love lost," Wilson said. "The numbers don't lie in terms of where people are moving, and people are voting with their feet. But the billboard says that Texas isn't what it's cracked up to be and that it's a dangerous place."
"Every year, there are a lot more Californians moving to Texas than Texans are moving to California, and that has been a source of some sensitivity among Californians," Wilson continued.
On average, according to U.S. Census Data, 68,700 Californians moved to Texas every year from 2009 to 2019.
That's small, though, considering the Californian state population is more than 39 million, less than 1%.
Still, the billboard falls flat if you ask the CEO of the Miller Ad Agency, Eric Radle.
The business is based in Dallas and was founded in 1984.
"If you have to mention the competition, you've already lost the game in advertising," Radle said. "All this has done is given attention to Texas."
As far as the message goes? Radle says it's distasteful.
"It's a bridge too far, and I think it's left-handed to try to equate a move to Texas with violence. Every populous state has these issues," Radle said.
"And the timing is always poor if you're referencing the pain of others to drive home your message--that's a bad idea in advertising."
It's still not clear who or what entity is behind the billboard. FoxPoint Media leased the space and didn't return requests for comment on Thursday.
Wilson said you couldn't rule out if someone from Texas was behind the billboard too.
"There's a little ambiguity and mystery associated with this," Wilson said. "We don't know if people from California put up this billboard or if it is someone from Texas. Or if any political affiliation is associated," Wilson said.
"It certainly has gotten a lot of people's attention." | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/grabbing-attention-disgust-new-california-billboards-point-uvalde-mass-shooting-reason-not-move-texas/287-e9f6c12b-8736-48fe-a6ed-71356b2aacb5 | 2022-08-26T02:45:05 | 1 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/grabbing-attention-disgust-new-california-billboards-point-uvalde-mass-shooting-reason-not-move-texas/287-e9f6c12b-8736-48fe-a6ed-71356b2aacb5 |
TEXAS, USA — Texas' trigger law went into effect Thursday, banning nearly all abortions across the state.
It's one of 11 states banning nearly all abortions.
One research group shows New Mexico is the nearest state offering protection for those seeking an abortion.
That state’s nearest clinic to Houston is in Santa Teresa, which is more than 700 miles away. It’s closer to the Pacific Ocean than the Bayou City.
Many women, though, are taking this option because it's the only option they have.
“You’re talking about multiple days to them, make the trek, get the procedure, and come back. And that is only again for the patients who are able to navigate that situation and the resources that it takes to do that," said Dyana Limon-Mercado, Executive Director of Planned Parenthood Texas Votes.
Houston-area doctors say they’re limited to performing ultrasounds, giving information and referring women looking for an abortion out of state.
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Texas' trigger law makes performing an abortion a felony, punishable by up to life in prison.
Prescribing medication knowing it will be used for an abortion carries the same penalty.
"In this trigger ban, there is no exception for rape or for incest, no matter how young the victim is," said Limon-Mercado.
But the new law allows exceptions for saving the mother’s life, ending an entopic pregnancy, or removing a miscarried fetus.
Abortion providers can still face civil penalties from Senate Bill 8, which was passed last year.
The “Heartbeat Bill”, as it’s known, bans abortions after fetal cardiac activity. That’s usually around six weeks of pregnancy.
"You might be able to be sued multiple times all over Texas at $10,000 a pop, plus you’re gonna lose your license," said Seth Chandler, law professor at University of Houston Law Center.
One legal expert said the Texas trigger law is written so that if a pregnant woman were to get an illegal abortion in Texas, she would not be penalized. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/texas/new-mexico-abortion/285-81e9dca8-bce9-4b54-83f3-8260637d107c | 2022-08-26T02:45:11 | 0 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/texas/new-mexico-abortion/285-81e9dca8-bce9-4b54-83f3-8260637d107c |
A fourth grader at Jim Spradley Elementary in Frisco is encouraging kids to share with an app she invented called "Toy Share."
Ten-year-old Saliha Abbas signed up for coding classes at BYJU's FutureSchool during the pandemic's peak. That led to her creating the app that's made her a finalist in a coding competition.
The app allows kids to give away or exchange their toys with others.
Abbas coded the app and designed it.
She hopes to one day be a digital artist. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/frisco-fourth-grader-creates-app-focused-on-sharing/3057489/ | 2022-08-26T02:48:37 | 0 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/frisco-fourth-grader-creates-app-focused-on-sharing/3057489/ |
ODESSA, Texas —
Demand for automotive mechanics is on the rise, but thankfully some Odessa College students are answering the call.
Nineteen new automotive technology students from OC signed their commitment letters for the Ford Automotive Student Service Education Training program on Thursday.
For the next two years, they'll switch between learning in the classroom and getting hands-on experience at a Ford or Lincoln dealership.
Automotive and Diesel Technology Program director Robert Turner said this extensive training even goes beyond gas powered cars.
“Starting this semester, we implemented the hybrid and battery electric vehicle training,” Turner said. “So, our students, one of the goals here at OC and the auto and diesel program, is not to just teach students for today, but to give them the future. So, our students can come out more qualified than a lot of the techs in the field right now.”
Once they finish the program, students will have earned an associate degree and several Ford certifications.
For more information on ASSET, click or tap here. | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/odessa-college-students-commit-to-ford-asset-program/513-f9365f71-3f1c-4a75-ac2b-e4b56c15bd92 | 2022-08-26T02:50:50 | 0 | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/odessa-college-students-commit-to-ford-asset-program/513-f9365f71-3f1c-4a75-ac2b-e4b56c15bd92 |
TUCSON, Ariz. — Four people died, including a Pima County Constable, in a shooting in central Tucson Thursday, police say.
The shooting happened at Lind Commons, an apartment complex in the 3400 block of E. Lind Rd, near Fort Lowell Road.
Police identified one of the victims as Constable Deborah Martinez-Garibay and a Lind Commons employee.
They said one suspect also died. The fourth victim has not been identified.
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MESA, Ariz. — If you're planning on cooling off in the Salt River anytime soon, you may run into some rough and potentially dangerous waters.
The Tonto National Forest said recent monsoon storms created a rockslide that flooded the river with debris. This has caused a section of the river known as Pinball Alley to completely change and shut down.
"To me, it just didn't look like Pinball Alley at all," said Mesa resident Dylan Buzzard.
Buzzard kayaks down the river every weekend and noticed right away that the path he usually travels narrowed significantly from the rockslide.
"Which makes the water move faster and the rapids that are there way more aggressive," he said.
Buzzard posted a TikTok video showing the change and the dangers people are now facing.
"I, unfortunately, witnessed about 15 people flip, whether it was on their kayak, on a tube," he said.
The fast-moving rapids also started pushing people into low-hanging trees. Which is when the Tonto National Forest stepped in.
"The trees hanging in the river was an obvious hazard," said Jason Scow, a recreation staff officer with Tonto National Forest.
He said they closed down that part of the river for two weeks, preventing people from entering water users' recreation sites until they could go in and clear out the branches.
It was a challenge for Scow.
"We had to kayak out to the island just to get to the trees," he said.
Still, the aggressive rapids remain. As of now, there are no future plans for crews to go in and dig out the rocks.
"The same thing could happen again," Scow said. "We can't dig the river out every time that there's some debris in it."
Those who want to ride the entire river and avoid the narrow pathway should stick to the right side of the river to miss the rapids. If you want to not worry about the situation at all, Scow said you can start your river trip at the bridge.
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KIMBERLY — A 35-year-old man faces aggravated assault and other charges after stabbing his stepfather and threatening his mother with a knife, court records say.
Officers from the Kimberly Police Department arrested Roberto H. Juarez at about 12:30 a.m. Aug. 14 after the altercation and charged him with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and battery with intent to commit a serious felony, in addition to possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia, records say.
His mother said she was sleeping and awoke to hear her husband and son fighting, and that Juarez retrieved a knife and stabbed her husband and threatened her with the knife.
Juarez told police that his stepfather started fighting with him first, kicking him in the head and that he acted in self-defense, records say.
The man was taken to the hospital after the incident, where his condition is unknown. A bloody knife with a 12-inch blade was recovered at the scene.
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Police officers found Juarez to be in possession of drugs and paraphernalia after the incident, court records say.
Juarez is being held on $250,000 bond. | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/kimberly-man-charged-in-stabbing/article_286771b0-24c2-11ed-b4a6-837fc65ba302.html | 2022-08-26T02:51:29 | 1 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/kimberly-man-charged-in-stabbing/article_286771b0-24c2-11ed-b4a6-837fc65ba302.html |
TWIN FALLS — Some local school districts won't experience the significant increase in student numbers educators were accustomed to seeing pre-pandemic.
"There's not a lot of growth this year," Twin Falls School District Superintendent Brady Dickinson said as he reviewed numbers Thursday.
Student enrollment is about 9,500 this year — essentially unchanged from the fall of 2021, Dickinson said.
It's a different situation than in the years leading up to the pandemic. For a 10-year stretch, the school district regularly saw a 2% annual increase in student enrollment.
Then came the pandemic.
Numbers dropped 4% during the 2020-21 school year; enrollment increased 2% last year.
Dickinson attributed this year's figures to three factors: Lack of affordable housing, a broader choice of schooling options, including charter schools and homeschooling, and people moving to Twin Falls seem to have fewer school-aged children.
He isn't surprised that student numbers are relatively unchanged and the school district's budget was built expecting that.
In Jerome School District, total enrollment is up about 100 students from this time last year, Assistant Superintendent Wendy Ohlensehlen said, which is on par with what the school district has seen the last several years.
Total enrollment at the district Thursday was 4,240 students, Ohlensehlen said.
School enrollment numbers matter to school districts because a funding formula determines how much they will receive of the more than $2 billion set aside statewide for kindergarten through 12th-grade education.
Because of the pandemic, which led to sharp decreases of up to 15% fewer students attending online instruction, the Idaho State Board of Education switched from an average daily attendance funding formula to an average daily enrollment formula.
Dickinson said using the daily enrollment-based funding formula makes sense because the school district's costs are about the same regardless of the number of students that attend.
The Jerome School District also supports enrollment-based funding.
"Enrollment funding is a more equitable way to fund schools," Brian Bidwell, business manager of Jerome School District, said in a written statement. "We have to hire enough staff based on the number of students in the classroom. Regardless of whether or not a student is absent, we still need to have staff available."
With the attendance-based formula, a change of a few percentage points in attendance can change a district's funding significantly, Twin Falls School District spokesperson Eva Craner said.
Whether enrollment-based funding remains is up in the air, because this spring Gov. Brad Little vetoed legislation that would have kept Idaho on the formula through July 2025.
“My preference is not to commit to this change in advance of such data for the following year,” Little wrote in a veto letter. He said he would support the State Board of Education if members vote to extend it another school year. | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/twin-falls-school-district-student-numbers-unchanged/article_e6ff8ebe-249a-11ed-83ff-af0c9ca4d4c0.html | 2022-08-26T02:51:35 | 0 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/twin-falls-school-district-student-numbers-unchanged/article_e6ff8ebe-249a-11ed-83ff-af0c9ca4d4c0.html |
Thomas G. Ross, 55, of Coos Bay died August 18, 2022 in Coos Bay. Cremation rites were under the direction of Coos Bay Chapel 685 Anderson Ave. 541-267-3131. www.coosbayareafunerals.com
Dolores J. Cukrov, 89, of Reedsport died August 12, 2022 in Coos Bay. Cremation were under the direction of Coos Bay Chapel 685 Anderson Ave. 541-267-3131. www.coosbayareafunerals.com
Muriel Irene Bowron, 91, of Lakeside, passed away on August 13, 2022 in Lakeside. Arrangements are under the care of North Bend Chapel, www.coosbayareafunerals.com, 541-756-0440.
Helen J. Doving, 100, of Coos Bay, passed away August 21, 2022 in Coos Bay. Arrangements are under the care of Coos Bay Chapel, 541-267-3131 www.coosbayareafunerals.com
Betty L. Ridling, 87, of North Bend, passed away on August 22, 2022 in North Bend. Arrangements are under the care of North Bend Chapel, www.coosbayareafunerals.com, 541-756-0440.
Edith May Schroeder, 87, of Bandon, formerly of Myrtle Point, died August 23, 2022 in Bandon. Arrangements are under the direction of Amling/Schroeder Funeral Service - Coquille Chapel, 541-396-3846
Robert E. Fields, 68, of Coos Bay, passed away August 21, 2022 in Coos Bay. Cremation Rites are under the direction of Nelson's Bay Area Mortuary, 405 Elrod Ave., Coos Bay, Oregon 541/267-4216
Darla Marie Shanty, 70, of Lebanon (formerly of Coos Bay) , passed away August 19, 2022 in Lebanon. Cremation Rites are under the direction of Nelson's Bay Area Mortuary, 405 Elrod Ave., Coos Bay, Oregon 541/267-4216 | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/obituaries/august-26-2022-death-notices/article_74366426-2232-11ed-ac59-fb6d767697e2.html | 2022-08-26T02:53:37 | 0 | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/obituaries/august-26-2022-death-notices/article_74366426-2232-11ed-ac59-fb6d767697e2.html |
October 18, 1938 – March 28, 2022
Tom was born in San Francisco October 18, 1938 and stepped into glory March 28, 2022 where he finally met his Savior and truly came to understand grace and mercy.
He was incredible at remodeling, painting, wallcovering, and building anything, staying active until his home going, always working on some project. He owned Thompson’s Painting and Wallcovering in Coos and Curry counties for many years.
Soccer was a lifelong passion and Tom played well into his late 70's and was always willing to build fields, referee, or help out wherever there was a need or an opportunity. Tom played the trumpet and made it a habit in his later years to play Taps from the rooftop of his home in Frazier Park with his dogs by his side.
No accomplishment compares to the love he had for his family and his Savior. He rose early every morning to pray, study his Bible, and exercise. The highlight of everyday was the conversations he had with his family and friends.
He is survived by his wife, Susan of Frazier Park; his daughter, Diana Swenson and husband, Thomas; son, Thomas Thompson and wife, Sharie; son, Jacob Thompson and wife, Paula, all of Bandon; 11 grandchildren; and 25 great grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his son, Robert Garland Thompson and his sister-in-law, Sheila Stephens, whom he was eternally grateful to for sharing Christ with him.
There will be a family and close friend gathering at the Denmark Cemetery on Sunday, September 4, at 3 pm. | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/obituaries/thomas-garland-thompson/article_0429b162-24c9-11ed-9d38-2f75d3cf819d.html | 2022-08-26T02:53:43 | 1 | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/obituaries/thomas-garland-thompson/article_0429b162-24c9-11ed-9d38-2f75d3cf819d.html |
CROWN POINT — A man previously charged at age 16 with attempting to murder a friend in 2020 made an initial appearance Wednesday on new charges alleging he fired a gun altered to function as fully automatic in January in Gary.
Aaron L. McLain, who had addresses in Gary and Midlothian, was arrested Jan. 12 by Gary police who heard the gunshots, saw him running through an alley and caught him after a foot chase, according to Lake Criminal Court records.
At the time of that arrest, McLain was wanted on a warrant linked to allegations he violated the terms of his pretrial release in his attempted murder case from 2020.
According to court records, several Gary police officers were outside the police station at 555 Polk St. about 8:15 a.m. Jan. 12 when they heard gunshots within a two- or three-block radius.
Moments later, an officer saw a man, later identified as McLain, run from an alley while wearing a ski mask and ordered him to stop. The man continued to run and was stopped near the Gary Health Department in the 1100 block of West Fifth Avenue, records state.
McLain repeatedly denied having any weapons, but police found a loaded 9mm pistol in his jacket picket, documents state. The gun had a switch that caused it to function as a fully automatic weapon.
McLain was charged in January in Lake Juvenile Court in connection with the incident, records show. He was waived to adult court this week.
A Lake Criminal Court magistrate entered not guilty pleas on McLain's behalf to felony counts of possession of a machine gun and criminal recklessness and misdemeanor counts of dangerous possession of a firearm and two counts of resisting law enforcement.
McLain pleaded not guilty in his 2020 case to felony charges of attempted murder, aggravated battery, battery by means of a deadly weapon and battery resulting in serious bodily injury.
In that case, he's accused of shooting a teenage friend June 14, 2020, while they both were seated in a broken-down car in the 500 block of Lincoln Street in Gary.
The wounded teen, who was paralyzed from the waist down as a result of the shooting, told police he thought McLain was a friend and they had not had any disagreements before the shooting.
In November 2020, McLain was ordered released from jail to home detention with supervision by ICU Monitoring.
The court issued a bench warrant for McLain in December 2021, after ICU Monitoring filed several violation notices. The company filed several additional violation notices after the warrant issued, records show.
Judge Gina Jones in April granted the state's petition to revoke McLain's bond in the 2020 case.
His formal appearance before Jones in his new case was set for Aug. 31.
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"Kelsie stated she would never leave her children home alone during the daytime while they were awake, however she thought they were asleep, so she left them overnight," police said.
Anyone with information on the whereabouts of the missing woman is encouraged to contact Gary police Detective Sgt. Mark Salazar at 219–881–1209 or dial 911.
The arresting officer said in his incident report he did not immediately arrest the woman because he not see her exposing herself as he did with the man.
"We're very saddened by the loss of Demetrius, and our thoughts and prayers go out to his family and siblings," Lake Station Community Schools Superintendent Tom Cripliver said.
Employees at the Dick's Sporting Good store and Schererville police were on alert Saturday, because two thefts had been reported earlier in the day at the company's stores in Valparaiso and Hobart. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/man-charged-at-16-with-attempted-murder-had-automatic-gun-while-out-on-bond-police/article_4d9e7b51-cd50-56da-98d6-4b837e2e17b6.html | 2022-08-26T02:56:03 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/man-charged-at-16-with-attempted-murder-had-automatic-gun-while-out-on-bond-police/article_4d9e7b51-cd50-56da-98d6-4b837e2e17b6.html |
The News & Record won 17 awards — seven of them first place — in the annual North Carolina Press Association contest.
The awards were announced Thursday at a banquet in Raleigh. The contest period was longer than usual, running from Oct. 1, 2020, to Feb. 28 this year. And the daily divisions were reduced to two: papers with circulation over 10,000 and papers with circulation under 10,000.
The News & Record’s sister paper, RockinghamNow, won four awards in its division of weekly papers.
The N&R staff won first place awards for a special “Honoring our Veterans” section and for appearance and design.
Photographer Woody Marshall took first place in sports photography feature and assistant editor Mike Kernels won first place for headlines.
Editorial Page Editor Allen Johnson won first place for the opinion page.
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Reporter Nancy McLaughlin took first place in profile feature for a story about former judge Elreta Alexander-Ralston.
Dawn DeCwikiel-Kane won first place in arts and entertainment reporting for a story about arts programs coming back from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Marshall also received second-place awards in feature photo and photo illustration and third place in sports photography.
Johnson also won a second-place award for editorials and a third-place award for serious columns.
Former reporter Jamie Biggs won a second-place award in news feature writing.
Former reporter Richard M. Barron won a second-place award for government reporting.
Former photographer Kenneth Ferriera took third-place awards for photo page and video.
Ferriera and McLaughlin also took third place in news enterprise reporting for their series about families forced to move from a mobile home park after the property was sold to developers.
RockinghamNow editor/reporter Susie Spear won three first-place awards and one third-place award.
The first-place awards were in general news reporting for stories on a fatal tubing trip on the Dan River; education reporting on the ouster of the Rockingham County Schools superintendent; and beat news reporting on a series of deaths at the county jail.
The third-place award was for government reporting. | https://greensboro.com/news/local/news-record-wins-ncpa-awards/article_9e1dc736-228a-11ed-90c5-374802668286.html | 2022-08-26T02:57:19 | 1 | https://greensboro.com/news/local/news-record-wins-ncpa-awards/article_9e1dc736-228a-11ed-90c5-374802668286.html |
INDIANAPOLIS — Former Indianapolis City-County Council President Robert (Bob) Eugene Cockrum passed away Aug. 22, 2022, in Indianapolis at age of 88.
Cockrum served on the council from 1996 to 2012. The last four years of his term, he served as the council's president.
Born in Jeffersonville, Indiana, he graduated from Purdue's ROTC program with a degree in electrical engineering and served two years on active duty with the U.S. Army in Germany and France. He retired from military service in 1987 as a colonel in the Indiana National Guard after 20 years in the Army Reserves.
Cockrum worked as a civilian engineer with the Federal Aviation Agency, Hazeltine Electronics and the Allison Division of General Motors in the Aircraft Engine Plant.
He also served on the Decatur Township School Board.
Visitation will be held at Flanner Buchanan at 5463 Kentucky Ave. on Monday, Aug. 29 from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. with an additional hour of calling on Aug. 30 prior to a funeral service which is set for 11 a.m. at Valley Mills Christian Church, 5555 Kentucky Ave, in Indianapolis.
Burial and military honors will be at West Newton Cemetery. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/former-city-county-council-rpresident-leader-bob-cockrum-dies-at-88/531-abbfddd4-6bec-4019-b964-15b1967827c8 | 2022-08-26T03:00:38 | 1 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/former-city-county-council-rpresident-leader-bob-cockrum-dies-at-88/531-abbfddd4-6bec-4019-b964-15b1967827c8 |
WESTFIELD, Ind — 13Sports director Dave Calabro was right at home at Indianapolis Colts training camp at Westfield's Grand Park, but this week's visit was all about meeting visitors and hearing their positive, uplifting stories.
"35 years of marriage," said one man, standing next to his wife.
"Wow, 35! Congratulations. That's a long time," Dave replied.
"Not long enough," the man added, to which Dave offered a fist bump for his "suaveness."
We also met one fan who said the day was the kickoff for some time off from work.
"I'm on vacation, first day, and I had to come here. You know it, Colts fan, big time Colts fan," he said.
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"Vacation is always good news," Dave said.
Another visitor said she was counting down the days to the start of the NFL season.
"I'm excited to be here at Colts Camp," she said. "And anxious for the season to begin and I hope Matt Ryan has an excellent year."
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HANCOCK COUNTY, Ind. — At least one person was injured in a crash Thursday evening on Interstate 70 in Hancock County.
An alert from the Indiana Department of Transportation said the crash, near the State Road 9 interchange, left at least one person injured.
All eastbound lanes of I-70 were closed shortly after the collision. A check of INDOT's traffic camera network shows cars and trucks stopped in both lanes for miles behind the crash.
In a social media post, Hancock County's 911 Center said those lanes would be closed "for an extended amount of time" during the investigation. They suggested eastbound traffic exit at Post Road to avoid the delays. The exit at Mount Comfort Road is currently closed for construction.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Indianapolis police are investigating a shooting that left one person injured Thursday evening.
It happened around 9 p.m. in the 4000 block of Meadows Drive, which is near East 38th Street and North Sherman Drive.
A police department spokesperson said officers answering reports of a shooting discovered a person with an apparent gunshot wound.
The victim was said to be awake and breathing and was taken to a hospital.
There's no word on whether police have identified a suspect in the case, nor whether a motive has been determined.
This is a developing story, which will be updated as more information becomes available.
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YUBA COUNTY, Calif. — A child died after being found submerged in a Yuba County lake for nearly 30 minutes Saturday.
The 4-year-old girl was reported missing around 5:30 p.m. while swimming with family in the recreational area of Collins Lake on Aug. 20, according to the Yuba County Sheriff's Office.
Just before deputies arrived to help find the child, she was found submerged in the water by family and others who joined the search.
Deputies said they attempted to perform life-saving measures on the girl before she was transported to a local hospital, where she later died.
The girl's family identified her as 'Tatum' in a GoFundMe created to help pay for funeral expenses. It's raised over $7,600 so far.
The GoFundMe created by her grandmother can be found HERE.
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LOS ANGELES — Homicides in California increased again last year — as did other violent crimes — amid rising frustration as the state's top Democrats are seeking to keep their jobs in upcoming elections.
The state Department of Justice released its annual crime reports Thursday, showing upticks in violent crime and property crime rates in 2021 even as the total arrest rate decreased.
Californians across the state have been deluged with headlines about rising crime in recent months, from rampant car break-ins and drug use in San Francisco's troubled Tenderloin district to street racing and illegal takeovers across a new $588-million bridge in Los Angeles.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta are among the Democrats facing challengers in November and are struggling to explain how their policies are keeping the state safe. San Francisco's progressive district attorney was ousted from his post in June, and his counterpart in LA just survived a second recall attempt.
Three Bonta opponents in the June primary all tried to make an issue of rising crime and the Democrat's support for criminal justice reforms when he was in the Legislature. Bonta still advanced with nearly 60% of the vote in heavily Democratic California. But his Republican opponent in November's general election — Nathan Hochman, a former federal prosecutor and former assistant U.S. attorney general — has continued criticizing Bonta on crime.
The new numbers "reflect what Californians have been experiencing every day: a spiral of lawlessness," Hochman said.
Bonta's reports noted that the current number of homicides and the violent crime rate remain significantly below historical highs set in the early 1990s, while the property crime rate is far below its historical high in 1980. But Hochman said that comparison "demonstrates how out of touch he is with the suffering of victims across the state today."
Bonta was in San Diego on Thursday to tout the state's tough gun control laws, which he says are keeping homicides from being worse.
"We all know the gun violence epidemic plaguing communities across our nation is sickening and it's unacceptable," Bonta said, without addressing the increase in homicides and violent crime in his office's reports.
He added: "You are less likely to get shot and killed in California than in Texas, than in Florida, than in nearly every other state in the nation because of our common-sense gun laws."
The red states are also favorite targets of Newsom, who is overwhelmingly favored to beat little-known Republican state Sen. Brian Dahle in November. But Newsom also is seen as a potential White House candidate and high crime at home would be an inviting target for opponents.
Thursday's reports came two months after Bonta's department wrongly made public the personal information of perhaps hundreds of thousands of gun owners in state-operated databases. The state's criminal justice data portal was offline for weeks in the aftermath and only relaunched Thursday after the 2021 reports were released.
There were 2,361 homicides in the California last year, surpassing 2020's figure by more than 150 deaths, according to the reports. While the number remains far below the historic high — 4,095 homicides in 1993 — last year was the deadliest year since 2007.
Three-quarters of 2021's homicides involved a firearm, and more than eight in 10 of the victims were male. Nearly half of the people killed last year were Hispanic and nearly 30% were Black. By contrast, about 5% of the state's population is Black and about 39% Latino, according to the 2020 census.
About 40% were killed by strangers, 40% by friends or acquaintances and the remainder by a relative — a spouse, parent or child, the reports state. More than half of women were killed in a residence, while more than 40% of male victims died on the street.
"Today's report further solidifies what decades of research have shown: More guns on our streets leads to more gun violence; and community safety is inextricably tied to economic, racial, and social equity," said Anne Irwin, founder and executive director of Smart Justice California, in a statement.
The state's violent crime rate increased from 437 per 100,000 people in 2020 to 466.2 per 100,000 in 2021. The property crime rate ticked up 3% in 2021 after hitting a historic low in 2020.
Meanwhile, the total arrest rate decreased — from 2,812.3 per 100,000 people in 2020 to 2,606.3 per 100,000 in 2021 — as part of a downward trend since 2004.
Bonta's office also released a report showing a continued drop in arrests of juveniles, which have plummeted in recent years — from nearly 63,000 in 2016 to fewer than 20,000 last year.
A final report outlined police use of force, though changes in reporting prevent ready comparisons to previous years. Last year 660 civilians were involved in such incidents that resulted in the discharge of a firearm or a use of force that brought serious injury or death. By racial breakdown, half were of Hispanic origin, one-quarter white and about 17% Black people.
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Thompson reported from Sacramento, California.
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CITRUS HEIGHTS, Calif. — A California nonprofit is set to purchase the Auburn Oaks assisted living facility for low income seniors in Citrus Heights.
City council approved an official agreement Thursday stating the facility will not change from serving its current demographic.
The vote comes after council approved a non-binding agreement noting the city would sponsor the nonprofit to get a state grant to permanently dedicate Auburn Oaks Senior Apartments at 7501 Sunrise Blvd. as low-income senior housing.
The Low Income Family Enrichment Corporation, or The Life Foundation, is a Colorado-based nonprofit working to “uplift the lives of those in need,” according to their website.
The grant could come from the Community Care Expansion Program, a California Department of Social Services program. Those who are deemed qualified to receive grants must support seniors and adults with disabilities to live in safe communities.
No funding would come from the city or any city budgets.
Auburn Oaks is a senior living facility built in 1975 with 129 units. Assisted living facilities make up nearly 70% of the units. Care at the facility is more specifically for residents with Alzheimer’s disease, mild cognitive impairment, advanced memory loss or other types of dementia.
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FOLSOM, Calif. — This Friday marks a year since the deadly attack at the Kabul Airport in Afghanistan.
On Aug. 26, 2021, 13 U.S. service members were killed as they were helping screen Afghans and others at the Abbey Gate of the Kabul airport. At least 169 Afghans were also killed in the bombing as they struggled to get into the airport and on flights out of the country.
Roseville's Nicole Gee was among the 13 U.S. service members killed in the suicide bombing. An Instagram post from Gee, posted a week before her death, shows a baby being held with "I love my job" in the caption.
Folsom's Tyler Vargas-Andrews was among the 18 U.S. service members catastrophically injured. He lost his entire left leg, his right arm just above the elbow, and suffered several other injuries. He needed 43 surgeries at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland after the bombing.
Warfighter Overwatch; a nonprofit supporting veterans, first responders and their families, is hosting a tribute on Friday from 5-6 p.m. at the Sutter Street Amphitheater to honor the 13 fallen U.S. service members.
"Those directly impacted by the bombing have not forgotten what happened, what's missing from their lives, or how their lives have changed," Danny O'Neel, the chairman of the board for Warfighter Overwatch, said. "We just want to make sure that those folks know they're not alone and that their local community supports them."
According to O'Neel, they will have a moment of silence at 5:36 p.m., which was the local time the bombing went off in Kabul.
O'Neel says Friday's tribute will allow them a moment to say the names of the 13 U.S. service members killed, remember their sacrifice, and show their families that they are not forgotten.
"I think it is incredibly important that every single person knows their names and hears their story," O'Neel said. "This event will be a way for our community to pay tribute to those service members because it is an honor to say their names and tell their stories."
O'Neel encourages the community to come to the event and write a note or words of support to the families of the fallen service members. The notes of support will be placed in a replica of the battlefield cross, and then sent to the families following the event.
"This is an opportunity for us to come together and show that we're much more alike than we are in our differences," O'Neel said.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif — Does a jazz festival, a stamp show, or even a rib cookoff sound fun to you? If so, then it goes to show there's something for everyone this weekend in Northern California.
The weekend weather has cooled down just a bit, with temperatures in the mid-80s and a slight southwest breeze. Whether you'd like to go out, stay in, or a bit of both, here are some weekend events!
Gather up some friends, maybe family members, or even go solo but head outside, soak up some sun and enjoy the weekend.
The City of Elk Grove will showcase the diversity of cultures in their community through entertainment, dance, music, food, art and more. August is diversity month, and there will be two performance stages, an art show, an international food court, a fashion show, over 60 vendors, crafts and displays and much more!
- 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Saturday, August 27
- Located at District56 (8230 Civic Center Drive, Elk Grove)
- Organized by The City of Elk Grove
- More information about this event HERE.
A day filled with real jazz! This year's line-up includes soul/new jack swing vocalist Tony Terry and musicians Jeanette Harris, Steve Gray, Lin Rountree, The Braxton Brothers, Joel Del Rosario, Tony Exum Jr, and many more!
- 12 p.m. – 8 p.m. Saturday, August 27
- Located at Weber Point Events Center (221 North Center St., Stockton)
- Organized by SMA Entertainment
- More information about this event HERE.
A family-friendly afternoon of community, lowriders, food, music and culture, this fundraiser is to raise funds to create the Washington Neighborhood Center Urban Art & Garden Landscape project. This is also in hopes bring to young artists to build and create a beautiful space for the community to enjoy and flourish.
- 3 p.m. – 7 p.m. Saturday, August 27
- Located at the Washington Neighborhood Center (400 16th St., Sacramento)
- Organized by The Washington Neighborhood Center
- More information about this event HERE.
A day of fun for the kiddos! There will be free games and activities, ceramics, origami, ikebana, Japanese language and calligraphy, and more including snacks and drinks like Binchoyaki Bentos and Kona shaved ice!
- 3 p.m. – 7 p.m. Saturday, August 27
- Located at Sacramento Japanese United Methodist Church (6929 Franklin Blvd., Sacramento)
- Organized by Jan Ken Po Gakko and Sacramento Japanese United Methodist Church
- More information about this event HERE.
There will be an array of classic cars, trucks, and antique fire trucks as well as antique tractors and gas engines. Shop around, enter raffles for prizes to win, listen to some good music, grab some free books and activities for the kids, and eat some yummy food!
- 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. Saturday, August 27
- Located at Yolo Branch Library (37750 Sacramento St., Yolo)
- Organized by Yolo Branch Library and the Friends of the Yolo Branch Library
- More information about this event HERE.
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The 17th Annual Children's Film Festival Seattle comes to Sacramento for this special event. Featuring 10 different short animations, come see skilled talent in your own city!
- 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. Saturday, August 27
- Located at the Crest Theatre (1013 K St., Sacramento)
- Organized by Northwest Film Forum and Crest Sacramento
- More information about this event HERE.
With a fresh, Grammy-winning score of jazz, gospel, ragtime and blues, "The Color Purple" is an unforgettable, intensely moving musical based on Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and the Oscar-nominated film. A story about a young woman’s epic journey through joy, despair, anguish and hope to discover the power of love and how it leaves its mark on the soul.
- 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday, August 27 and 3 p.m. Sunday, August 28
- Located at UC Davis Health Pavilion (1419 H St., Sacramento)
- Organized by Broadway At Music Circus
- More information about this event HERE.
The largest national postage stamp show in the country is coming to Sacramento! Whether you're a collector or just like to look at stamps, there will be 100+ dealers offering to buy and sell stamps, 50+ specialty stamp societies and collectors, 10,000 pages of stamp exhibits, stamp collecting seminars, and a youth area filled with fun activities!
- 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Saturday, August 27 and 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Sunday, August 28
- Located at SAFE Credit Union Convention Center (1401 K St., Sacramento)
- Organized by the American Philatelic Society, American Topical Association, and the American First Day Cover Society
- More information about this event HERE.
Calling all vegans and all vegan food lovers! This is a free local event with various plant-based goodies, live music, organic drinks, vegan sweets and local artisans.
- 8:30 p.m. – 11 p.m. Saturday, August 27
- Located at HATCH Workshop (40 South Union St., Stockton)
- Organized by Vegan Soulstice
- More information about this event HERE.
This event will feature over 20 teams competing for the title and trophy of All American Rib Cook off Champion! Come through and enjoy craft beers, a full bar, multiple bands/live music, vendors, a super fun kids zone and more.
- 8:30 p.m. – 11 p.m. Saturday, August 27
- Located at Recreation Park (123 Recreation Dr., Auburn)
- Organized by Crime Victims United
- More information about this event HERE.
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