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Former House Speaker Tina Kotek leads state Treasurer Tobias Read in the Democratic primary for governor, but the majority of Democratic voters haven’t decided who to support, according to a poll released Thursday by the Read campaign.
Between April 7 and 11, California-based FM3 Research surveyed 653 registered voters who are likely to vote in the May 17 Democratic primary. It found that 25% would support Kotek, 20% would support Read and more than half have yet to make up their minds.
The firm’s president, Dave Metz, said in a briefing with reporters Thursday morning that the poll showed a “wide open” race between Read and Kotek. Pollsters didn’t ask about the other 13 Democrats running for governor.
“Voters have been pretty late to engage in this race,” Metz said. “They just haven’t been paying very close attention so far, so there’s going to be a lot of activity over the course of these last couple of weeks.”
County election offices will begin mailing ballots to registered Democrats on April 27, one day after the April 26 deadline to register to vote or choose a party. Voters can return their ballots by mail or drop them off at the county election office or official dropboxes by May 17. For the first time this year, ballots postmarked by May 17 will be counted if they arrive within a week after the election.
The Read campaign’s poll showed that he didn’t receive a larger share of voters who planned to support Nick Kristof, the former New York Times columnist who was ruled ineligible to run because he wasn’t living in Oregon three years ahead of the election.
Pundits speculated that Kristof’s absence would help Read, as both were trying to appeal to the same group of moderate voters and positioning themselves as outsiders. Read explicitly invited Kristof’s supporters to back his campaign and has been endorsed by Sheryl WuDunn, Kristof’s wife and writing partner.
A November poll by FM3 for the Read campaign showed Kotek and Kristof tied at 19%, with Read at 14% and 1% supporting Casey Kulla, a Yamhill County commissioner who has since dropped out of the governor’s race to run for commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries. Since then, Kotek and Read each picked up 6%, but more voters are undecided.
Thomas Wheatley, an adviser to Kotek’s campaign, noted that Read began running television ads weeks ago. Filings with the Federal Communications Commission show Read first began running ads on cable networks on March 21, while Kotek’s first ads ran this week.
“The treasurer has been running TV ads all by himself for weeks and clearly his message isn’t resonating,” Wheatley said. “Even his own polling shows that Tina Kotek is a stronger candidate for governor. Tina begins advertising this week and her lead will only grow from here. This poll may well show the high water mark for the Treasurer’s campaign.”
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The University of Oregon will launch a new bachelor’s degree and certification program in children’s behavioral health to meet growing needs in state and regional schools.
When it comes to school psychologists, Oregon has about one per 1,400 students, according to the National Association of School Psychologists. It recommends one per 500 students.
The new Ballmer Institute will award bachelor’s degrees and certificates in children’s behavioral health, and will be based in Portland. It will make the University of Oregon the first university in the country to offer a bachelor’s degree program in children’s behavioral health.
The bachelor’s program is awaiting state approval of the curriculum, and the university expects new students will begin their classes in fall 2023. A shorter certification program could begin enrolling students sooner, according to Randy Kamphaus, who will lead the institute. Kamphaus was formerly the dean of the University of Oregon’s College of Education and a professor in the School of Psychology.
The non-degree certification program is for school counselors, teachers and other instructional staff who want to learn about the latest research and innovations in childhood behavioral health, or transition to serving in mental and behavioral health work within their schools, Kamphaus said.
At a public meeting Tuesday, he briefed U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley on the Institute’s plans and its potential to graduate a pipeline of at least 200 new childhood behavioral and mental health specialists per year, with the first graduating class in 2027.
At the briefing, Wyden said mental health among Oregon youth was an urgent problem.
“There are far too many kids living in mental health deserts,” he said. “This is particularly hard in rural Oregon.”
Merkley has been trying since 2019 to get his Elementary and Secondary School Counseling Act passed by Congress but has not succeeded. The act would allot each state at least $1 million to staff buildings with mental health care professionals.
At the briefing, both Merkley and Wyden said they hope that the Ballmer Institute will be the pipeline of professional staff that schools have been missing, and that it can be a regional and even national hub for such training.
Despite the passage of the Student Investment Account in 2019, when the Oregon Legislature allocated $200 million to help schools pay for mental health staff, schools have continued to struggle with hiring, according to Merkley.
“The legislature is committed to having the resources available, but we have to have the people,” he said.
Toya Fick, executive director of Stand for Children, a national nonprofit in Portland that works with schools to improve graduation rates and student outcomes, was also at the briefing. Fick said recent state investments in hiring staff to help with student mental and behavioral health haven’t been fully realized during the challenges of the last few years.
“We were excited because resources would flow into schools. Then, 10 months later, Covid happened,” she said.
She said Portland Public Schools currently has more than 200 job openings “about 100 of them are in mental health. Teachers, principals, they need support,” she said.
Kamphaus said he will begin to hire faculty for the bachelor’s and certification programs as soon as possible, including 15 clinical professor practitioners who will supervise students in the field. The first cohort of behavioral health specialists training through the Ballmer Institute will get hands-on experience working in Portland Public Schools and eventually at districts across the state.
The Ballmer Institute was funded by a $425 million donation from Connie and Steve Ballmer, a former Microsoft CEO. Connie Ballmer is a graduate of the University of Oregon and has served on the university’s board of trustees.
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Beckley Temple celebrates start of Passover
BECKLEY, W.Va. (WVVA) - This weekend marks the beginning of religious celebrations for many.
On Sunday, churchgoers will gather for Easter and commemorate Jesus Christs’ rising from the grave. But, for those who practice Judaism, the celebrations begin a few days earlier.
Passover celebrates the exodus of the Israelites from Egyptian slavery.
Members of the Temple Beth-El in Beckley held Seder Friday evening. This tradition, heavily rooted in symbolic rituals, indicates the start of the eight days of Passover.
Seder is a large meal guided by the Jewish text, Haggadah. During Seder, participants must eat unleavened bread and partake in the other traditional items on the Seder plate. Each item acts as a different aspect of Passover.
One Temple Beth-El member, in particular, has been participating for decades. He says the significance of the holiday has remained the same for thousands of years.
“One of the main themes of Passover is if we were ourselves were slaves in Egypt,” explained Dr. Joseph Golden. “And that we led my an outstretched arm by God, leading us out of slavery and that we should do all we can to help people today find freedom from whatever is enslaving them.”
The holiday is celebrated for eight days. The first and last full two days are earmarked as “days of rest.”
Passover will conclude on Saturday, April 23, 2022.
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Biden increases crude oil royalty rate, scales back leases
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration is sharply raising rates for royalties companies pay on oil and natural gas extracted from federal lands as it moves forward under court order with sales of public fossil fuel reserves in nine states, Interior Department officials said Friday.
The announcement comes as Republicans pressure President Joe Biden to expand U.S. crude production and rein in higher gasoline prices contributing to record inflation. Biden also faces calls from within his own party to do more to curb emissions from fossil fuels that are driving climate change.
The royalty rate for new leases will increase to 18.75%, from the current 12.5%. That’s a 50% percent jump and marks the first increase to royalties for the government in decades.
Leases for 225 square miles of federal lands primarily in the West will be offered for sale in a notice to be posted on Monday, officials said. That’s about 30% less land than officials had earlier proposed for sale in November and less than what was originally nominated by the industry.
The sales notices will cover leasing decisions in nine states — Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Montana, Alabama, Nevada, North Dakota and Oklahoma.
Interior Department officials declined to specify which states would have parcels for sale or to give a breakdown of the amount of land by state, saying that information would be included in Monday’s sales notice.
Burning fossil fuels extracted from public lands accounts for about 20% of energy-related U.S. emissions, making them a prime target for climate activists who want to shut down leasing.
Republicans want more drilling, saying it would increase U.S. energy independence and help bring down the cost of crude. But oil companies have been hesitant to expand drilling because of uncertainty over how long high prices will continue.
The onshore lease sales will be the first by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management since Biden suspended them just a week after taking office in January 2021, as part of his plan to address climate change.
The administration was ordered last year to resume the sales by a federal judge in Louisiana, who said Interior officials offered no “rational explanation” for canceling them.
Hundreds of parcels of public land that companies nominated for leasing had been previously dropped from the upcoming lease sale because of concerns about wildlife being harmed by drilling rigs.
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Chamber of Commerce of the Two Virginias hosts post legislative breakfast
Published: Apr. 15, 2022 at 6:16 PM EDT|Updated: 45 minutes ago
BLUEFIELD, Va. (WVVA) - The Chamber of Commerce of the Two Virginias hosts a breakfast for lawmakers from two states.
The panel made of Republicans from West Virginia and Virginia gave their points of view from this year’s sessions in Charleston and Richmond.
The panelists were as follows:
- Sen. Travis Hackworth (R)-Va., 38th District
- Del. James W. Moorefield (R)-Va., 3rd District
- Sen. Mark Maynard (R)-W.Va., 6th District
- Sen. Chandler Swope (R)-W.Va., 6th District
- Del. Joe Ellington (R)-W.Va., 27th District
- Del. Doug Smith (R)-W.Va., 27th District
- Del. Marty Gearhart (R)-W.Va., 27th District
One of the goals of the get-together is to allow lawmakers to collaborate across state lines.
The statewide primary election for West Virginia will be held on May 10th. The primary day this year in the commonwealth is June 21st.
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Easter Bunny to visit Beckley in style
Published: Apr. 15, 2022 at 5:17 PM EDT|Updated: 1 hours ago
BECKLEY, W.Va. (WVVA) - This year, the Easter Bunny is arriving in style. Rather than hopping, he will be flying into Tamarack in Beckley Saturday, April 16, 2022.
After the Easter Bunny makes his helicopter landing, there will be a massive Easter egg hunt on the lawn.
All of this is an effort made by Beckley’s Shade Tree Car Club to raise money for Saint Jude’s. This is the club’s second year hosting an Easter event for this cause.
The day’s events will begin at 10 a.m. with a car show. The Easter Bunny will arrive at 1 p.m., and the hunt will begin at 2 p.m.
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Employee with 40 years behind him named 2021-2022 Raleigh County Schools Service Personnel Employee of the Year
BECKLEY, W.Va. (WVVA) - A Raleigh County Schools Employee with more than four decades under his belt was named the 2021-2022 Service Personnel Employee of the Year.
Thursday evening, the school board held its annual dinner to recognize and thank service personnel. The event was held at the Academy of Careers and Technology in Beckley.
36 employees were awarded cash prizes and plaques for their hard work, but only one was named the “Service Personnel Employee of the Year.”
This individual was Russell Shrewsberry. Shrewsberry was honored for his work in custodial maintenance. The last 12 of his 41 years with Raleigh County Schools have been spent as a crew leader.
David Price, Superintendent of Raleigh County Schools, congratulated Shrewsberry on his accomplishments and thanked all the county’s employees for their constant work.
“Raleigh is very blessed to have the service personnel and professionals that we have to serve our kids. We have 1500 employees in our county and over 500 service personnel. They are the heroes of our school system so it’s a great honor and a pleasure to be able to recognize them tonight.”
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Fertilizer company complains about railroad shipment limits
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A major fertilizer company says the limits Union Pacific is putting on rail traffic to clear up congestion will delay shipments that farmers need during the spring planting season.
CF Industries said Thursday that the railroad ordered it to cut its shipments nearly 20%. Union Pacific has said it is limiting rail traffic and hiring aggressively as part of a plan to improve service after grain and ethanol shippers complained about shortcomings.
Federal regulators have announced plans to hold a hearing later this month about the service problems along Union Pacific and other major U.S. railroads that have forced some grain mills and ethanol plants to curtail production while waiting on trains and left farmers without a place to sell their crops because grain elevators are having trouble shipping grain.
“The timing of this action by Union Pacific could not come at a worse time for farmers,” said CF Industries CEO Tony Will. “Not only will fertilizer be delayed by these shipping restrictions, but additional fertilizer needed to complete spring applications may be unable to reach farmers at all.
CF Industries said the limits will affect fertilizer deliveries to Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, Texas and California from its plants in Louisiana and Iowa. The company said it believes it is one of just 30 companies Union Pacific imposed restrictions on.
Union Pacific spokeswoman Kristen South said the measures the Omaha, Nebraska-based railroad is taking are designed to address problems in the supply chain that have clogged rail shipments. The railroad has also brought 100 locomotives out of storage and shifted roughly 80 crew members to high-demand locations.
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Future soldier loses 145 pounds on weight loss journey
PRINCETON, W.Va. (WVVA) - Kadyn Punturi is a graduate of Princeton Senior High School. When he graduated in 2020, he realized college wasn’t for him. He went to the Armed Forces Career Center, but he weighed in at 365 pounds. The Army will not take soldiers who are obese. But Recruiter, Sergeant First Class Michael Keathley sat down with Punturi and put him on a path to lose the weight.
“A lot of what we do here is coaching and mentoring, especially with these young men and women who are looking to join the military service. So a lot of it with us was adjusting his diet plans, helping him come up with new workout plans. When he hit his plateaus, keep him from giving up and stuff like that,” said Keathly.
“I got up everyday and went to the gym. Worked out about an hour and a half, two hours every day with a lot of cardio just sticking to it and my diet plan. Just mainly eating a lot of grilled chicken, vegetables. Just trying not to eat junk food, staying healthy and drinking a lot of water,” said Punturi.
Punturi lost 145 pounds. Now he’s fit and a lot trimmer at 220 pounds. This is his first full day as an enlisted Army recruit with a military career path to become an Aviation Operation Specialist.
“I mean this journey is not impossible. Kadyn here is proof of that. So to anybody that is looking or thinking that hey I weigh too much or I have too many medical issues or the army wouldn’t accept me. You don’t know unless you try. I mean I’m willing to help anyone out who truly wants to be here. If they show that dedication, the same dedication that this young man showed, we’ll help them along their journey as well,” said Keathley.
“Stay motivated and it’ll come. Your time will come, just stay after it and just make sure you have the right group of friends around to make sure you’re on top of everything,” said Punturi.
Kadyn will deploy to boot camp in September.
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Kisses from your pet may contain deadly bacteria, study finds
(Gray News) - If you are a pet owner you undoubtedly have been greeted with a “kiss” from your favorite companion, but they might be giving something else than just some affection.
According to a study from a veterinary college and the University of Lisbon, dogs, cats, and their owners can share bacteria through those displays of affection.
The study said the sharing of bacteria is likely from owners letting their pets kiss them on the mouth or not washing their hands thoroughly enough after picking up their pet’s waste or cleaning the litter box.
Researchers note these findings are not new but the concerning part is that some of the bacteria being shared is resistant to antibiotics.
According to the study, several of the infected pets they tested had antibiotic-resistant strains of bacterial infections, such as E. coli.
Researchers noted that owners who are not washing their hands well enough after touching their pet’s waste can cause bacteria transmission when they later touch their own mouth.
The human participants in the study were above the age of 18 and researchers said this was an observational study but it was also one of the first to focus on humans and companion animals who are living in close contact.
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Two arrested in Daniels after child overdoses on heroin
Published: Apr. 15, 2022 at 5:46 PM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
BLUEFIELD, W.Va. (WVVA) - On Tuesday, April 12, deputies with the Raleigh County Sheriff’s Office were notified that a toddler had accidentally overdosed on heroin.
Deputies were dispatched and when they arrived to the scene, they immediately administered Nalaxone (Narcan) to the child.
The child was transported to BARH, the child appeared to be recovering well when turned over to medical staff.
James L. Minton, 41, of Daniels and Amanda G. Richmond, 34, of Daniels, were both arrested and have been charged with child neglect resulting in serious bodily injury.
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Hawaiian Airlines told KITV4 on Friday morning: "We expect things to begin to normalize as we head into the weekend. We have a sufficient larger aircraft to insert into the Neighbor Island schedule as needed."
ORIGINAL on 4/14:
HONOLULU (KITV4) -- Hawaiian Airlines told KITV4 it's canceling 32 neighbor island flights on Friday, April 15 -- the start of the three-day Easter holiday weekend.
The 32 flights are in addition to the 19 flights Hawaiian Airlines cancelled on Thursday because of a shortage of pilots cleared to fly Boeing 717 planes.
The airline said affected passengers are being notified and accommodated on other flights.
On Friday, Hawaiian Airlines will operate 119 flights within the state.
"We are also substituting our 128-seat Boeing 717 aircraft with larger aircraft – including our 189-seat Airbus A321neos and 278-seat A330s – on 33 of those flights to ensure we can accommodate all guests scheduled to fly with us," said Hawaiian Airlines spokesman Alex Da silva.
One passenger told KITV4 he received an email on Wednesday night notifying him of Thursday's canceled flight and was told to contact Hawaiian Airlines Reservations to reschedule.
He said it took him nearly two hours to rebook his flight from Maui to Oahu and the only solution was to fly out the following morning, which was a big inconvenience for his family.
"We apologize for the inconvenience and thank them for their patience and understanding," Da silva said.
Hawaiian Airlines is catching up on pilot training after its flight simulator was down earlier this year for maintenance.
"With our 717 flight simulator now back online for several weeks, we are training at full capacity to minimize future disruptions," Da silva said.
The airline has not said yet whether flights on Saturday and Sunday will also be canceled.
Marisa Yamane joined KITV4 in January 2022 as an anchor and executive producer. She is an award-winning veteran journalist, who’s spent most of her career in Hawaii. She’s a proud graduate of Iolani School and UCLA.
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WAILUKU, Hawaii (KITV4) – A Maui man was struck and killed by a vehicle on Honoapiilani Highway, Thursday night, and police believe the driver may have been under the influence at the time of the crash.
The crash happened around 8:30 p.m. about 0.3 miles south of Kuikahi Drive.
According to the Maui Police Department, a 57-year-old Waianae man was driving a 2016 Toyota Tacoma north on Honoapiilani Highway when for unknown reasons he crossed over the “solid white fog line” and struck the victim who investigators said was either walking or running in the right paved shoulder lane if the highway.
The victim suffered critical injuries in the crash and was pronounced dead at the scene, MPD said. That person has only been identified as a 47-year-old man.
The Toyota driver was arrested on a complaint of first-degree negligent homicide and for operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant. He was not injured in the crash and at last check was still in custody.
The case remains under investigation.
This is Maui County’s ninth deadly crash of 2022. There were only two over the same period of time in 2021.
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Matthew has been the digital content manager for KITV4 since September 2021. Matthew is a prolific writer, editor, and self-described "newsie" who's worked in television markets in Oklahoma, California, and Hawaii.
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HONOLULU (KITV4) -- The 50th Annual Hawaii State Fair will be back this Memorial Day weekend.
The fair had been postponed for two years beacause of the COVID-19 pandemic. KITV4 talked with owner Scott Fernandez about the fair making its come back and with locals who are excited about the Fair’s return.
Fernandez said he was not even sure if the 50th State Fair would be able to return this year.
From its founding in the Territory of Hawaii in 1903, through today, this third-generation, family-owned business has been entertaining the people of our islands.
The entertainment company has seen a lot over the decades, and the owner, of E.K. Fernandez Shows, was not even sure he would be able to pull off the fair this year, until, decided to give it a go. Scott Fernandez is the owner, of E. K. Fernandez Shows.
"We survived the 1918 pandemic, World War II, of course. We never went through anything like this. We never went through anything like this where we were shut down for two years, never in the history, 120 years of history has this occurred. We didn't think we could do it at all, so happy," Fernandez said.
And others, like Kalvin Wilson, 14, are also happy to see the 50th State Fair finally return to Hawaii.
"I like going to the State Fair, especially if you bring friends, you get to do more. I feel like if you're the certain type who likes to go to concerts, like outgoing. I would recommend it for locals and stuff," said Wilson.
Valerie Yap Baldovi was at Ala Moana Beach with her grandchildren visiting from California. She fondly remembers the State Fair and hopes to show the next generation all the fun.
"I went there for the rides. And just the fun being around all these people," Baldovi said.
That fun will include new rides, a circus with animals, and food booths provided by local non-profits.
Scott is the grandson of the company founder E.K Fernandez and says with local families in mind, his company is trying to keep prices for admission, rides, and entertainment similar to what they were two years ago. But he says increasing shipping costs have also upped the price of bringing the 50th State Fair back.
"We're coming out in full force so, after two years of these mandates, this will be the only event of this year of this size for the entire state," Scott's mom, Linda Fernandez, said.
The 50th Annual State Fair kicks off on May 27 and runs through the July 4. It takes place at Aloha Stadium located at 99-500 Salt Lake Boulevard.
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Cynthia is an award-winning journalist who returned to Hawaii as an Anchor/Reporter/MMJ from Houston. She is a graduate of the University of Hawaii with a B.A. and M.B.A. DM her on IG @CynthiaYipTV to share stories.
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| 2022-04-15T23:22:46Z
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HONOLULU (KITV4) -- The set to Akea Kahikina's comedy Ho'oilina is adorned with portraits of the playwright's great grandmother.
"It's a love letter to our kupuna, it's a love letter to the things they've left behind for us. And the things we celebrate and carry on," Kahikina said.
The sentiment is paired with the farcical plot of Ho'oilina, meaning legacy, or inheritance. The play's actions surround a will reading after the passing of the matriarch of a wealthy family.
"They are a Kanaka Maoli family living in Kahala on the luxurious slopes of Le'ahi," Kahikina told KITV 4.
The proceedings are turned upside down with the arrival of an unexpected visitor from the mainland. Confusion ensues.
The play is performed primarily in English and Hawaiian but also works in a mix of dialects, "as well as Pidgin English, a little Texan, a little Mahu," Kahikina said.
That's just the beginning of the culture clash, which also manifests visually throughout the caper. Kahikina describes the look as, "Aloha wear, juxtaposed to ABC store dress."
Kahikina is completing the final year of the MFA program in "Hana Keaka", the Hawaiian Theatre discipline. The comedy marks the first full run with large audiences on the mainstage since the pandemic.
Kahikina wanted the audience to connect to Olelo spoken in a contemporary context, so as to illuminate the past.
"And we also question, what is family? How do Hawaiians see family? Is it blood? Or do we go beyond? How do we define who we are related to, and how do we define who is Hawaiian?" Kahikina asked.
Jeremy Lee joined KITV after over a decade & a half in broadcast news from coast to coast on the mainland. Jeremy most recently traveled the country documenting protests & civil unrest.
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The Department of Interior announced Friday it planned to resume onshore oil and gas lease sales on federal land, with a higher royalty rate for companies to pay to the federal government.
The Bureau of Land Management will issue sale notices on Monday for upcoming oil and gas projects.
The Biden administration had previously planned to hold the lease sale, but paused it after a judge blocked the administration from using a metric to quantify the economic harm caused by the climate crisis, such as sea level rise, more destructive hurricanes, extreme wildfire seasons and flooding. The Biden administration appealed that ruling and argued it necessitated a pause on all of the many projects in which the government used that particular analysis.
The royalty rate increase comes after the Interior Department issued a controversial report last November recommending that rates be increased for more of a return to taxpayers. The newly increased royalty rate is 18.75%, up from of 12.5%. It's the first time the federal government has ever increased what companies pay to drill for oil and gas on public land.
"For too long, the federal oil and gas leasing programs have prioritized the wants of extractive industries above local communities, the natural environment, the impact on our air and water, the needs of tribal nations, and, moreover, other uses of our shared public lands," Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said in a statement, adding the department would "begin to reset how and what we consider to be the highest and best use of Americans' resources."
The bureau will offer around 173 parcels on roughly 144,000 acres of federal land, which Interior said is an 80% reduction from the acreage originally being considered for leasing. Interior said it reduced the amount of land being offered after "robust environmental review" and engagement with Native tribes and local communities.
The department also said it would focus on offering new leases near existing oil and gas infrastructure and will continue to disclose greenhouse gas emissions that would result from oil and gas drilling on federal lands.
Environmental groups blasted the move, saying the Biden administration is disregarding its promises on the climate crisis.
"The Biden administration's claim that it must hold these lease sales is pure fiction and a reckless failure of climate leadership," Randi Spivak, public lands director at the Center for Biological Diversity, said in a statement. "These so-called reforms are 20 years too late and will only continue to fuel the climate emergency. These lease sales should be shelved and the climate-destroying federal fossil fuel programs brought to an end."
Natasha Léger, executive director of Citizens for a Healthy Community, said restarting the lease sales will only lead to more climate disasters.
"The West is drying up and going up in flames. Between extreme drought, the shrinking of the Colorado River, and now urban wildfires in the winter, how much more death, destruction and devastation do we have to see before this administration takes action?" said Léger. "It's time for climate leadership and to stop leasing our public lands for oil and gas development. We need heroes to break through the political and economic inertia that has us on a collision course to inhabitability."
Varshini Prakash, the executive director of Sunrise Movement, said "it's never a good sign when the President announces something at 5pm on a Friday."
"This is why young people are doubting the political process altogether," Prakash said in a statement. "If Biden wants to solve for voter turnout in 2022, he should actually deliver on the things he promised, not move farther away from them."
A representative for the American Petroleum Institute, a powerful oil lobby, welcomed the action in a statement but said it didn't go far enough toward opening the country's federal land to drilling.
"At a time of high energy costs, these changes to long-standing fair and reasonable lease terms may further discourage oil and natural gas investment on federal lands," said Frank Macchiarola, the institute's senior vice president of policy, economics and regulatory affairs. "We look forward to seeing the additional details of the leasing proposal."
This story has been updated with additional information.
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HONOLULU (KITV4) -- Waimanalo is home to beaches worthy of the big screen and neighbors who want to protect them.
"We're not just looking out for the community, but also environmentally," says resident Mialisa Otis.
"If they're filming towards the shore you have the sand turtles and if you shine a light in the air it's the sea birds," Otis says.
Recently, a resident found an injured sea bird and another dead bird at Kaiona Beach Park. We took those concerns to the city, and learned the supposed dead bird was never recovered and there's no way to known if lighting would have even played a role.
But it is prompting the state film office to reiterate that there are strict permitting procedures in place to protect the environment.
Crews are doing everything necessary to make sure that they don't create harm in the process of making their various projects," says State Film Commissioner Donne Dawson.
Part of that includes not pointing lights into the water and some limitations on night filming and filming near the shoreline. Trisha Kehaulani Watson is among those who trains film crews so they understand the rules.
"I think there's sort of a misperception that these film crews are all from the continent and come in and then know nothing about Hawaii , theres unions a lot of local labor this is an industry that brings a lot of jobs," Watson says.
Tom anchors Good Morning Hawaii weekends and reports for KITV4. He comes to Hawaii after reporting in Nevada, Oklahoma and Georgia. Tom is a proud Terp, graduating from the University of Maryland in 2012.
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Bluefield students, city workers and more help cleanup effort
Published: Apr. 15, 2022 at 7:24 PM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
BLUEFIELD, W.Va. (WVVA) - A city-wide cleanup effort took place in Bluefield, W.Va. Friday.
Bluefield High school and Bluefield State College students, along with Recovery Point joined the city’s public works department in Friday’s mission. Groups spread across the city with designated areas set for each team to clean up.
Recovery Point’s program director sees the work put into such a project as beneficial to all involved.
“To see them out making a difference and doing something positive in the community, it benefits them because people to see the changes that they’re trying to make, and continue to make on a daily basis.” said Brandon Lafferty.
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Five overdoses in 1 week cause concern in Fayette County
FAYETTE COUNTY, W.Va. (WVVA) - Five overdoses were reported in Fayette County this week, 3 proving fatal. Local leaders and advocates see the problem as seemingly impossible to solve.
“We are probably never going to put a stop to it,” said Fayette County Prosecuting Attorney Anthony Ciliberti. “But we can certainly do as much as we can to put as big a dent into it as possible.”
“It’s terrifying and devastating,” said Leslie Pease, Communications Director at Brian’s Safehouse. “I mean, it’s a tiny amount that can take a life.”
Pease sees it as a herculean effort needed to pinch-off the pipeline supplying substance misuse problems at every source.
“We still see doctors’ offices prescribing Oxycontin for, or Oxycodone for dental procedures,” said Pease. “[They’re] not realizing how devastating it is and how easily addicted some people can become.”
For now the prosecutor’s office’s focus remains determining what the five individuals overdosed on -- but it’s clear the problem remains much more than everyday crime.
“Aside from the fact that we’re dealing with criminal behavior, we’re dealing with criminal behavior that has significant impact on our communities,” said Cilberti.
“It catches them and gets a hold of them,” said Pease. “They can’t break it and realize ‘hey this has taken over my life.’ And so the whole, all of it is on the rise. It’s just heartbreaking.”
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Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine tests positive for COVID-19
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has tested positive for COVID-19.
The 75-year-old Republican said in an announcement late Friday he was diagnosed by his personal physician after experiencing mild symptoms such as a runny nose, head ache, body aches and a sore throat.
DeWine was administered a monoclonal antibody treatment, which is designed to fight the infection. He said he is following the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention protocol and quarantining.
The governor’s office said First Lady Fran DeWine was experiencing no symptoms and has tested negative. Both the governor and his wife have received two coronavirus vaccines and a booster.
DeWine’s diagnosis comes just 18 days before Ohio’s May 3 primary, in which he faces two Republican challengers, and just eight days before former President Donald Trump plans an Ohio rally.
It was unclear whether his diagnosis would affect DeWine’s attendance at the rally, or if he would have attended in any case. He had previous plans to attend a celebration of the 200th birthday of President Ulysses S. Grant, an Ohio native, on that day.
DeWine tested positive for COVID-19 once before, in 2020, before testing negative later the same day. Those conflicting results came just before the governor was to meet with Trump, then the president, in Cleveland.
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Republican state senator uses Hitler as inspiration in message to homeless
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT/Gray News) - Recent comments made by a Tennessee state senator when lawmakers were discussing a homeless bill are raising some eyebrows.
WVLT reports Sen. Frank Niceley said that homeless people could aspire to not just find a home but also lead historic lives by comparing them to the life experiences of Adolf Hitler.
“I haven’t given you all a history lesson in a while, and I wanted to give you a little history on homelessness,” Niceley said. “Hitler decided to live on the streets for a while. So for two years, Hitler lived on the streets and practiced how to connect with the masses and then went on to lead a life that got him in the history books.”
Niceley made the comments while other state leaders were debating a bill that would classify camping on public property as a misdemeanor in Tennessee.
Bryan Goldberg, with the Knoxville Jewish Alliance, said Niceley’s comments were insensitive and released the following statement:
“As a Jewish leader in East Tennessee, it deeply saddens me to have read the comments Sen. Niceley chose to make on the Senate floor in our state capitol building yesterday. I’ll admit I do not know Sen. Niceley personally, however, I would hope that he realizes his comments were amazingly inappropriate. It is beyond time that all politicians stop using references to Hitler, Nazi Germany and the Holocaust to make comparisons to modern-day events. His comments were not only deeply insensitive to the Jewish community of Tennessee, but also to the individuals that work tirelessly to help the homeless in our communities and completely disrespectful to the homeless people suffering on our streets. No one chooses to be homeless as many are affected by mental illness. To make a comparison to a complete sociopath who performed horrors to our world is simply wrong and below the elected position Sen. Niceley holds.”
Niceley supported the bill, which criminalizes homelessness by making homeless camps near interstates, on-ramps and exit ramps a class C misdemeanor. He said he believed homeless people could still lead productive lives.
“It’s not a dead end. They can come out of these homeless camps and have a productive life,” Niceley said.
The bill passed and is headed to Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee’s desk for approval.
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Nathan Baker allowed one hit over five scoreless innings and struck out eight to lead Mazama to a 14-0 baseball victory Friday in their Skyline Conference opener at North Valley.
The Vikings (6-6 overall) completed the sweep with a 16-5 victory in the second game of the doubleheader.
Marcus Ulloa-Ford went 2 for 3 with a double and triple and five RBI In the opener. His bases-loaded triple was the key hit in a nine-run fifth inning.
Mazama leadoff hitter Braden Davis went 3 for 5 with a double and two RBI and scored three times. Brody Hubble had and double and three RBI.
The only hit for North Valley (1-11) was a one-out double by Joseph Munoz in the second inning.
in the second game, Ulloa-Ford went 3 for 5 with a double and three RBI and earned the victory on the mound. Drew Raebel had two hits, a double and two RBI for the Vikings, who scored in every inning but the fifth.
Hidden Valley 8, Henley 3: The Mustangs, the top-ranked team in Class 4A, defeated the visiting Hornets in the Skyline Conference opener for both teams Thursday.
Leo Ahalt and Tyler Harper each had a double and an RBI for the Hornets, ranked seventh.
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Henley 16, Hidden Valley 7: TheMalia Mick tripled, homered and drove in five runs as the Hor nets won their Skyline Conference opener Thursday in Grants Pass.
It was the first victory of the season for the Hornets, who went 0-9 in nonconference play.
Elizabeth Powell was 4 for 5 with two doubles, four runs and two RBI and Lily Fitzpatrick went 2 for 3 with a double and five RBI.
Annie Campos struck out 11 in the complete-game victory.
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The Klamath Tribes are suing the Biden administration over its decision to release some water from Upper Klamath Lake for use by drought-besieged farmers and other irrigators.
That’s not the only grief the U.S. government is getting over its decision to release a small amount of water in the Klamath Basin as the region faces severe drought conditions.
Oregon-based Klamath Tribes contend the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s decision to release 50,000-acre feet of water for the Klamath Project violates the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The tribes are made up of the Klamath, Modoc, and Yahooskin peoples in southern Oregon and northern California.
The Klamath Tribes argue the release of water will hurt the Lost River sucker fish and shortnose sucker fish. Both are listed as endangered species. Don Gentry, the Oregon’s tribe’s chairman, has written the heads of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service notifying them of the intent to sue the government alleging ESA violations. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation will provide 50,000 acre-feet of water this season to Klamath Project irrigators as the region grapples with a third consecutive year of extreme drought conditions.
That is about 15% of what farmers say they need from the Klamath Reclamation Project, which gets irrigation allotments from the dammed river water in Upper Klamath Lake. Farmers did not get any water allocations last year as the region faces the severe drought conditions.
Gentry said in his April 14 letter to USBR Acting Commissioner David Palumbo and USFWS Director Marsha Williams that a planned Klamath water release will negative impact spawning for the sucker fish. It will be the third lawsuit the tribes has brought against the federal government in the last five years, Gentry said in his letter.
“We implore you to rescind the 2022 plan and operate the project this year consistent with the law, which requires the prioritization of the needs of the C’Waam and Koptu,” Gentry said using native language terms to describe the suckerfish. The fish also have spiritual, cultural and historical significance to the tribes.
In an interview with the Herald and & News, Gentry said he was disappointed in the Biden’s administration’s decision to release Klamath water. “We want people to follow the law,” Gentry said. He said the U.S. government has a moral obligation to abide by the ESA.
Push for farming
On the other side of the proverbial river, the region’s two Republicans lawmakers — U.S. Reps. Doug LaMalfa, who represents Northern California, and Cliff Bentz, who represents Southern Oregon and the Klamath Basin — want the federal government to find a solution for the water and drought issues that takes into account the importance of local agriculture.
They wrote the Biden administration earlier this month pushing for one-third of the available Klamath water to be released for farming.
The local lawmakers want to see the U.S. government adopt broader policies to release more water so farmers can boost production with Russia’s war in Ukraine sparking concerns about food shortages and inflation (which is already at 40-year highs in the U.S.).
The war and U.S sanctions on Russia and its ally Belarus are raising concerns about shortages and rising prices of commodities such as wheat, corn, fertilizers and crude oil.
“President Biden has repeatedly warned of coming food shortages. Food prices are hitting record price surges. Over 275 million people are facing food insecurity,” said LaMalfa Friday, referencing pending international meetings on potential food shortages.
The California Republican wants the U.S. to boost domestic food production — and that takes more water.
“Unfortunately, the federal and state governments are making sure that they don’t have the water needed to grow food due to misguided and ineffective environmental flows,” LaMalfa said in a statement. “At a time like this, with so much at stake, why shut down domestic food production? The growing season is now. We need an urgent response to the looming food shortage crisis. The only rapid, reasonable, and sound solution is to deliver water to U.S. farmers now.”
Paul Simmons, executive director of the Klamath Water Users Association, told the Herald and News he is also hoping to see more civility and collaboration on the water crisis which stems from severe drought conditions.
“Those things seem to be in shorter supply than water,” said Simmons of the need to find common ground. “That’s what we need,”
The water users group — which represents farmers and other irrigation users — is also upset with the smaller allocation this year after no water was released in 2021. They worry about the future for local farmers in the basin and one of the larger agricultural regions in the Pacific Northwest.
Concerns about salmon
The Yurok Tribe, whose California-based reservation is located along a stretch of the Klamath River, worries about river flows impacting salmon runs.
“The Bureau of Reclamation’s 2022 Plan provides a reduced flushing flow to the upper Klamath River and protects minimum flows at Iron Gate Dam," Yurok Vice Chairman Frankie Myers said in a news release. "Although we are gratified that the river is afforded minimal protections under this plan, it is no time for celebration. Salmon runs will continue to suffer under these conditions, and as climate change intensifies, such protections will become increasingly important.
“The Upper and Lower Klamath Basin once functioned as an integrated system that provided abundant salmon, suckers and waterfowl with minimal intervention. The fact that these systems now appear to be in conflict with each other is a direct result of the ecological collapse brought on by water withdrawals, the loss of Lower Klamath and Tule Lakes, dams and mining. It is our duty to bring this system back into balance and we will never stop working toward that goal," Myers said in a statement to the Herald & News,
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BILLINGS, Mont. — The Interior Department on Friday said it's moving forward with the first onshore sales of public oil and gas drilling leases under President Joe Biden, but will sharply increase royalty rates for companies as federal officials weigh efforts to fight climate change against pressure to bring down high gas prices.
The royalty rate for new leases will increase to 18.75% from 12.5%. That's a 50% jump and marks the first increase to royalties for the federal government since the early 1900s.
Biden suspended new leasing just a week after taking office in January 2021. A federal judge in Louisiana ordered the sales to resume, saying Interior officials had offered no "rational explanation" for canceling them.
The government held an offshore lease auction in the Gulf of Mexico in November, although a court later blocked that sale before the leases were issued.
Friday's announcement comes as Republicans pressure Biden to expand U.S. crude production and rein in higher gasoline prices as the pandemic and war in Ukraine roil the global economy. The Democrat faces calls from within his own party to do more to curb emissions from fossil fuels that are driving climate change.
Leases for 225 square miles (580 square kilometers) of federal lands primarily in the West will be offered for sale in a notice to be posted Monday, officials said. The parcels represent about 30% less land than officials had proposed for sale in November and 80% less than what was originally nominated by the industry.
The sales notices will cover leasing decisions in nine states — Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Montana, Alabama, Nevada, North Dakota and Oklahoma.
Interior Department officials declined to specify which states would have parcels for sale or to give a breakdown of the amount of land by state, saying that information would be included in Monday's sales notice. They said the reduced area being offered reflects a focus on leasing in locations near existing oil and gas development, including pipelines.
Hundreds of parcels of public land that companies nominated for leasing had been previously dropped from the upcoming lease sale because of concerns about wildlife being harmed by drilling rigs.
At the time, officials said burning fuel from the remaining leases could cost billions of dollars in climate change impacts. Fossil fuels extracted from public lands account for about 20% of energy-related U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, making them a prime target for climate activists who want to shut down leasing.
Republicans want more drilling, saying it would increase U.S. energy independence and help bring down the cost of crude. But oil companies have been hesitant to expand drilling because of uncertainty over how long high prices will continue.
Friday's announcement comes after Interior officials had raised the prospect of higher royalty rates and less land available for drilling in a leasing reform report issued last year.
"For too long, the federal oil and gas leasing programs have prioritized the wants of extractive industries," said Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland. "Today, we begin to reset how and what we consider to be the highest and best use of Americans' resources."
But the move brought condemnation from both ends of the political spectrum: Environmentalists derided the decision to hold the long-delayed sales, while oil industry representatives said the higher royalty rates would deter drilling.
Nicole Ghio with the environmental group Friends of the Earth said Biden was putting oil industry profits ahead of future generations that will have to deal with the worsening consequences of climate change.
"If Biden wants to be a climate leader, he must stop auctioning off our public lands to Big Oil," Ghio said in an emailed statement.
American Petroleum Institute Vice President Frank Macchiarola said officials had removed some of the most significant parcels that companies wanted to drill while adding "new barriers" that would discourage companies from investing in drilling on public lands.
Lease sales and royalties that companies pay on extracted oil and gas brought in more than $83 billion in revenue over the past decade. Half the money from onshore drilling goes to the state where it occurred.
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SUNDAY AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...West winds 30 to 40 mph with gusts up to 60 mph
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* WHERE...East Platte County and Central Laramie County.
* WHEN...From late Saturday night through Sunday afternoon.
* IMPACTS...Mainly to transportation. Strong cross winds will be
hazardous to light weight and high profile vehicles, including
campers and tractor trailers.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A High Wind Watch means there is the potential for a hazardous
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Pavement work could cause delays on U.S. 85 north of Cheyenne
CHEYENNE – Crews with McGarvin-Moberly Construction Co. and the Wyoming Department of Transportation are scheduled to begin work on U.S. Highway 85 between Cheyenne and Torrington on Monday, weather permitting.
The project spans mile markers 47-56.6, and will primarily focus on milling and paving work, according to a WYDOT news release.
A lane closure and pilot car operation should be expected during daytime operations, which will likely cause delays of up to 15 minutes. Additionally, a 14-foot width restriction will be in place while the milling and paving work is being completed. Traffic will be opened up at the end of each day.
The nearby Meriden Rest Area is expected to remain open during the project.
Motorists are encouraged to obey all posted signs, signals, flaggers and other traffic control, and avoid distractions like cellphones while driving through work zones.
All WYDOT project scheduling is subject to change, including due to adverse weather or material availability.
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| 2022-04-16T01:01:25Z
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CHEYENNE – Following her confirmation as the Constitution Party of Wyoming’s candidate for the state's lone seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, Marissa Selvig faces two Republican frontrunners with millions flowing into their campaigns.
But the Riverton resident said she doesn’t believe money defines a candidate's ability to win.
“People in Wyoming are hungry for change,” she told the Wyoming Tribune Eagle. “And I personally don’t believe that whoever has the most money is the best candidate.”
Quarterly campaign finances reports were posted Friday by the Federal Elections Commission for contenders in the 2022 election, totaling nearly $4 million in contributions in this race. Incumbent Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., raised more than $2.5 million between January and the end of March, close to $90,000 of which came from political action committees, according to her campaign's filing. She was trailed by Trump-endorsed challenger Harriet Hageman, who received almost $1.3 million in contributions, of which $58,500 was from PACs.
Selvig said she understood this helped those candidates get their message out faster and farther than her at this point, but she criticized the thousands of dollars coming from out of state and super PACs contributing to races. She said concerns over raising millions of dollars prevents qualified candidates from running, and also leaves room for hidden influence.
“When big money comes into one campaign or another, those candidates are really beholden to those people who are giving them hundreds of thousands of dollars,” she said. “And is that good for their constituents? I don’t think it is. I think there’s a lot of money exchange in government that is unhealthy for our country.”
She said this was one of the reasons she doesn't want to be involved with big money, and why she plans to run her campaign as frugally as possible. The Constitution Party candidate raised close to $8,000 in the first quarter in individual contributions, and spent around $7,000. As time progresses, she said she will gain more financial support, but it is not what qualifies her as a candidate.
“I am a qualified candidate because I am a citizen of this nation who loves it, and I believe in the Constitution,” she said. “Nowhere in the Constitution does it say you have to be from a fancy family, or be an attorney, or be a rich person.”
Although positions of power or family influences did not play a part in her decision to become a candidate in the race for the U.S. House of Representatives, her identity as a woman of faith did. Selvig said she was called by God to run, and she obeyed.
It also played a part in her leaving the Republican Party last fall.
“The Constitution Party really puts God first, and an emphasis on the Constitution,” she said. “And I know that the Republicans say they do the same thing, but I feel that the Constitution Party is more serious about it.”
Her goals align with these ideals in that she wants to restore fiscal responsibility in the federal government, bring back proper communication into the role of a representative and return virtue to government. She said standing up for moral excellence, being prudent and conducting yourself with integrity are all missing in politics today.
But she also said she sees an absence of constitutional values and policies. Changes she would advocate for, if elected, are to remove many bureaucratic organizations, such as the Department of Education and the USDA, repeal the 16th Amendment to remove personal income tax and give more responsibility back to the states.
“We take an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution,” she said. “And people aren’t doing that. They aren’t voting for things that are constitutional, and I hope to.”
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...HIGH WIND WATCH IN EFFECT FROM LATE SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH
SUNDAY AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...West winds 30 to 40 mph with gusts up to 60 mph
possible.
* WHERE...East Platte County and Central Laramie County.
* WHEN...From late Saturday night through Sunday afternoon.
* IMPACTS...Mainly to transportation. Strong cross winds will be
hazardous to light weight and high profile vehicles, including
campers and tractor trailers.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A High Wind Watch means there is the potential for a hazardous
high wind event. Sustained winds of at least 40 mph...or gusts of
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Urban Forestry to spray spruce trees in city parks and properties
CHEYENNE – Crews from the city of Cheyenne Urban Forestry Division will begin spraying spruce trees on Tuesday, April 19, to prevent ips beetle infestation at several city parks and city-owned properties.
Spruce trees will be treated on calm days to minimize drift, according to a news release. Crews will need to spray the entire trunk and larger branches with an insecticide.
Residents are asked to stay away from spraying crews and avoid parking vehicles adjacent to trees being sprayed. Crews may have to close off parking spaces and sidewalks to give themselves adequate space to work.
If you have questions about the spraying operations or to learn more about spruce ips beetle, contact Urban Forestry at 307-637-6428.
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...HIGH WIND WATCH IN EFFECT FROM LATE SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH
SUNDAY AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...West winds 30 to 40 mph with gusts up to 60 mph
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* WHERE...East Platte County and Central Laramie County.
* WHEN...From late Saturday night through Sunday afternoon.
* IMPACTS...Mainly to transportation. Strong cross winds will be
hazardous to light weight and high profile vehicles, including
campers and tractor trailers.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A High Wind Watch means there is the potential for a hazardous
high wind event. Sustained winds of at least 40 mph...or gusts of
58 mph or stronger may occur. Continue to monitor the latest
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Water distribution system flushing to begin next week in Cheyenne
CHEYENNE – The Cheyenne Board of Public Utilities will be flushing the water distribution system and conducting annual fire hydrant testing in various locations beginning next week through June, weather and time permitting.
Hydrant flushing helps to maintain water quality and keeps Cheyenne’s water fresh, according to a BOPU news release. This preventative maintenance allows crews to assess the condition of the water distribution system and fire hydrants. It also helps keep insurance premiums manageable for Cheyenne’s residents. Information gathered by crews is used by the Insurance Service Office to rate Cheyenne’s fire suppression abilities.
Releasing water at high velocities from hydrants scours and scrubs water mains, which removes film and sediment. If left unattended, these deposits could eventually impede water flow, which can also reduce water flow for fire protection, and may cause taste and discoloration issues.
Hydrant flushing may cause your water to appear cloudy or discolored. Though not harmful, discolored water may stain laundry. If you find your water is discolored:
Wait until the nearby hydrant flushing is complete.
Clean out faucet aerators or filters.
Allow cold water to run through faucets or outside spigots until the water is clear.
The cloudy or discolored water can be used on plants or landscape. If the water doesn’t clear, call the BOPU’s water department at 307-637-6471. More details and maps of current hydrant flushing areas can be found at www.cheyennebopu.org or by following the BOPU’s Facebook and Twitter accounts.
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ROCK SPRINGS – The Rock Springs Chamber of Commerce held their monthly membership connection luncheon on Thursday, April 14 at the Holiday Inn.
Southwest Wyoming Regional Airport Director Devon Brubaker was the keynote speaker.
Brubaker shared the pre-pandemic economic impact figures with everyone in attendance.
According to Brubaker, the commercial service airport saw three years of record growth before the pandemic.
About 27,000 visitors came through the airport, 324 new jobs were created and $1,392,750 was generated from annual tax revenue.
An increase of 40 percent in economic activity was generated by the airport before the pandemic took place.
He went on to say that from 2016 to 2019, the airport saw record growth in passengers of 56.7 percent.
“We were at a point where we added a third daily flight to Denver,” said Brubaker.
Since the terminal was built in 1978, the airport board felt a need to begin the terminal modernization project back in 2002. Part of the plan is to reduce crowdedness and introduce technology that will enhance the airport.
“The city council and county commissioners recognized the need and helped fund the conceptual design,” he shared. “We had a plan in place in time for federal funds to become available.”
He added, “We went into 2020 excited for lots of opportunities of growth and then March 13, 2020 happened.”
Brubaker revealed that in three weeks they lost 97 percent of their business.
“This didn’t just affect passengers and employees but the revenue.”
He pointed out that over 80 percent in operating revenue comes from general aviation at the airport.
“A lot of people forget about the importance of general aviation,” said Brubaker. “There are several companies who use general aviation such as Rocky Mountain Power, Dominion Energy, Gem City Bone and Joint to serve our community so it’s an important component.”
Before the pandemic, they saw 10-20 percent growth in aviation within five years.
Southwest Wyoming Regional Airport received $1.1 million dollars to offset their lost revenue.
“While we suffered that huge loss of revenue, Congress utilized their powers to rescue the airport industry so it can survive the worst event.”
He stated that the mask mandates have been challenging.
“The mandate was supposed to be lifted on April 18th but they extended it to May 3rd so that continues to be an issue but the vaccine mandates were shot down in court,” he said. “The courts stepped in and allowed folks to make a personal decision.”
Leading up to the pandemic, Congress invested almost $1 billion in additional funding, on top of the $3.5 million in appropriations funding for the airport.
“It was an opportunity for us to go after capital funding for some of our big projects that normally wouldn’t get funded because we’re a smaller airport,” he said. “We just don’t stand the chance of getting the same kind of funding Denver does.”
Brubaker said they were very successful in securing, just for the terminal project, $13.7 million. They also secured $3 million from the business council to go forward with the project along with $1.5 million from WYDOT. The city council and county commissioners contributed about $1.25 million. They moved forward with other projects such as the maintenance building, which is almost completed.
“We’re creating local jobs and returning that money to the community,” he said. “We’re using that federal investment here at home,” Brubaker said.
Brubaker indicated there will be more challenges ahead.
“I’m really energetic about the future but the reality of the future is murky at best right now,” he revealed. “We’ve been in triage since March 16 of 2020.
“Once you think one incident is over, we’re moving into a different incident.”
Brubaker discussed pilot shortages, high fuel costs and supply-chain issues.
“It impacts every part of our airport.”
“For the next 20 years, 87 new pilots will need to be trained every single day – that's a total of over 637,000 pilots that we’ll need in 20 years,” he pointed out. “If you’re looking into a career in aviation, there’s no better time to get into it.”
The economics of becoming a pilot has shifted drastically.
“If you want to switch careers, you can get a sign-up bonus of $200,000 and your first-year salary as a first officer could be up to $200,000.”
The airport is going into a new contract period with their air carrier.
“The numbers are alarming,” he noted. “We are going to see an increase of over 200 percent in the cost of air service to rural areas across the country.”
He added, “We know it’s going to be tough on the state, local and communities – the economic impact you saw early on make it worthwhile.”
A few years ago, Brubaker and his team saw themselves as a self-sustaining airport within a year.
“We really thought that was going to happen by 2021,” he said. “The day when we don’t have to pay United Way and SkyWest for air service though, is not going to happen.”
The cost of fuel alone is adding more pressure to airports.
“The cost of fuel is $7 per gallon,” Brubaker revealed. “There’s a lot that hurt the economics of air service.
“We’re going to have to take a serious, long look at how we’re going to change air service delivery,” he said. “The last two years have been nothing but stress on our industry as well as on our staff, myself, our board and our counterparts around the state and in the country.”
Brubaker quoted United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby from October 2021.
“We feel some obligation to keep the communities connected but the economics aren’t ultimately going to work.”
A month later, he said, “We don’t have enough pilots to fly all the airplanes.”
Brubaker pointed out 50-seater airplanes are at risk.
“It’s alarming to us in this industry especially to a small airport but we needed to know what that truly meant.”
Since November 2021, United Airlines have terminated services to 60 markets in the United States, according to Brubaker.
“The only thing that’s kept us safe at the time being is because of the phenomenal relationship we have with United and Skywest.”
Brubaker noted that over the years, the state of Wyoming and its communities have stood behind their airlines through thick and thin by making sure they were getting paid for the service they provide.
“That stability means something to those airlines.”
Business travel decreased by 70 percent but leisure travel has gone up.
“The problem with that is business travelers pay more for airfare,” he revealed. “Our average fare before the pandemic was $105. It dropped to $79 during the pandemic.”
He is skeptical that a second daily flight will be added by September.
“I just don’t know if there will be pilot stability and resources for that to happen.”
On another note, Brubaker reported that they’re in their best year for general aviation.
“We’re excited for that side of the business - it's growing.”
Over the last three years, $26 million in federal grants have come to the airport for operating efforts.
A fuel farm that holds 60,000 gallons of jet fuel, 2,000 gallons of diesel and 2,000 gallons of unleaded gas was built.
“We are well-prepared to grow well into the future,” he stated.
Last summer, every airport in Wyoming had run out of fuel except for Southwest Wyoming Regional Airport.
“We were able to make fuel purchases in advance and stockpile fuel and it resulted in people flying into Rock Springs just for fuel,” Brubaker explained. “We were lucky that the fuel shortage happened after the fuel farm was opened.
“It’s a great asset to the airport.”
A four-acre air tanker base was also built. It’s capable of holding six single-engine air tankers, six jumper aircraft or command aircraft.
A 24,000 square foot, heated maintenance facility was built as well. Airport maintenance equipment will be stored in this building.
Winter, he pointed out, was a depressing time for revenue and operations but that has changed recently.
“We’re busier in the winter than in the summer now in the airport,” he shared. “It’s pretty exciting for us.”
They plan to double the size of the airport terminal as well as add canopies to the building, a new façade, USB chargers, automated systems, snack machines and new indoor tunnels.
“Passengers won’t have to deal with the outdoor elements during travel,” he chuckled.
During their April 2020 board meeting, members were starting to understand the complexity of the pandemic and the issues that were presented to them.
“But we’ve made the decision to keep our foot on the gas pedal and that resulted in $26 million worth of investment in our airport in the last three years – that's pretty exciting for us.”
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TORRINGTON — The Eastern Wyoming College (EWC) Board of Trustees discussed the unsuccessful presidential search with students, staff and community members during the regular meeting on Tuesday.
During the open forum, members of the public shared their thoughts about the recent search for a new college president which ended with the board deciding not to pick any of the final three candidates.
Susie Delger, the Interim Director of Nursing at EWC, told the board she had a very sad heart about the decision and said Dr. Randy Smith had 75% of the support from the students and faculty to be the school’s next president.
Delger had previously informed the board she would stay one more year if he were chosen to help the nursing program she initially helped establish.
“I didn’t do it alone. I did it with a team,” Delger said. “I wanted to be on Dr. Smith’s team as many others did. He told a truth that somehow falls on deaf ears here.”
Delger told the board the staff has long deserved raises and believed Smith would have addressed it.
“Dr. Smith, while perhaps not the most diplomatic, had a vision for this college that gave us hope that he could help us get it significantly better,” she said.
Another concern addressed by Delger was the involvement of Gold Hill Associates consulting firm, which was hired by the school for the search process. She claimed the consultant did not properly vet the candidates and added the committee was tasked with searching for “dirt” on the candidates.
Delger asked the board if Dr. Smith had the appearance of “dirt” and could not share it. A major concern highlighted by several speakers was about the transparency and communication between the board and the public in regard to making the decision.
Associate Professor Kelly Strampe said the staff felt its feedback was part of the reason none of the candidates were selected based on the language used in the press release from the college on Friday, April 8.
She also said there was confusion amongst the faculty and staff since there was more than 70% support for one candidate.
Strampe added the staff should have received a separate email about the decision rather than finding out at the same time as the public through the press release.
“To believe that the same press release that is sent to social media and local news media is appropriate for the people with the most to lose and gain in this situation is incomprehensible to us,” she said.
Strampe asked the board not to appoint an interim president and to reconsider the favored candidate or one of the other two final candidates.
Instructional Technologist Aaron Bahmer said the staff was and still is angered by the press release and added the language of the press release misrepresented them.
“We see this declaration to be ultimately detrimental to the community’s support of the college,” he said. “And by this, I mean us, the employees, our donors and the people in the counties we serve as well as the students and parents of students, applicants and prospective students.”
Bahmer said whatever the reason was to reject the three candidates could have been conveyed to the staff before the press release was sent out.
Jonathan Pieper, a student at EWC, said many students are discontent with the decision and said he knows several freshmen who plan to transfer since the announcement.
“I personally wasn’t going to come back but I know I can’t leave a place worse than when I came here. I wanted to come back and be part of something and hopefully turns this college around,” he said.
Trustee John Patrick said Gold Hill returned to the college 47 applicants for the position, which was narrowed down by the search committee to 10 for Zoom interviews.
“Out of that process they were then ranked… one through 10 in the order that the selection committee felt that they should be,” he said.
After multiple votes, the top five were forwarded to the board who felt there was a gap in confidence between the top three candidates and the other two.
Director of Institutional Development John Hansen, who was on the search committee, clarified there was confidence in all of the candidates, but the final three were the strongest applicants.
Patrick said the three candidates came to campus and met with students and staff along with the president’s cabinet members and the board.
“None of them disqualified themselves at that time,” Patrick said. “They were all people that the board was willing to consider.”
Two days after the board members’ meeting with the candidates, the trustees met again and met with Walt Nolte with Gold Hill Associates who reported the results of further investigation. Nolte listed the strengths and weaknesses of each candidate, and Patrick said for one candidate, “he could not give us a recommendation on.”
After Patrick was advised by the board’s legal counsel to refrain from discussing any further information on the process, Pieper asked the board if there would have been a better way to conduct the search to have known each candidate was qualified before they visited the campus.
“Why did we even get to meet them as student senate and every other student here, we were all there, we talked with them we wrote down our choice, we don’t know if they were considered or not… and we were wondering, if you’re going to take all that time, why would they be disqualified after the fact? They should be all ready to hire at that point,” Pieper said.
“Would you take any comfort in the fact that the board asked the exact same question,” Patrick asked, which was followed by mixed responses from the audience.
Trustee Kurt Sittner said every decision made by the board was made with the interest of the community in mind.
“I may see things slightly different than you do but… all the decisions that we made were made with EWC in mind and the reason that we did not hire any of these candidates is because none of these people were the best people for EWC,” Sittner said.
Board members were asked if they believed an interim president would be able to move the college forward.
Chairman Bob Baumgartner said he personally believes an interim president could with the help of the board. Sittner asked the audience if Baumgartner’s response was “tough to stomach” which many community members said it was.
“We will regain your confidence. We have the ability to do that; we have the desire to do that,” Sittner said. “I hope that you can work with us long enough to allow us to do that.”
Converse County Advisory Member of the board Jim Willox responded to a previous statement about how the language in the press release appears to read as though the staff feedback led to none of the candidates being picked and acknowledged how it may have been confusing.
“That was supposed to convey, we really did take it into effect, and still had to make a hard decision. So don’t think it was ignored. That’s what it was supposed to say, and I understand how it got interpreted a little different,” Willox said.
In terms of the search firm used during the process, Patrick said the board will not be working with Gold Hill Associates in the future.
Baumgartner added the board will only have to pay the consultant for his expenditures and not his $30,000 contract due to the unsuccessful search.
One community member asked the board to provide an “entirely false scenario” for more context as to why no one was selected. Trustee Patrick began to talk about a hypothetical situation of one candidate being accused of a serious crime but was advised by the board’s attorney Tim Bush to not go any further.
Trustee Tom John McCreery told the public the board worked really hard to find a new president during the process.
“The board was as crushed as you guys, it was awful. So I want you to understand that it’s one of those things we can’t talk about of course, legally, but believe me we really worked at it,” McCreery said. “It just didn’t work out.”
In terms of appointing an interim president, Patrick said it is needed since current President Lesley Travers retires on July 1, and the school needs to have a president.
This story was published on April 15, 2022.
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CHEYENNE – For Brent Bien, there were three specific incidents that motivated his run for governor.
The first time the idea came up was when former President Bill Clinton was elected in 1992. The second time was when current Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon “shut the state down” because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We are 20,000 square miles bigger, 300,000 people fewer than South Dakota, and (they were) open for business,” Bien told the Wyoming Tribune Eagle on Thursday.
The final trigger for Bien came with President Joe Biden’s election in November 2020.
At that point, Bien thought, “We have a governor that’s already put our freedom on the table, (and now) there’s nobody at the federal level that’s going to stand up for our freedom,” he said.
After speaking with some other conservatives in the state and learning they weren’t planning to challenge Gordon in 2022, Bien decided he was the man for the job.
Bien, who is running as a conservative Republican, is originally from Laramie. He and his wife, Susan, moved back to Wyoming about three years ago, following Bien’s retirement as a colonel from the U.S. Marine Corps after close to three decades.
Working primarily as a Marine Corps aviator, Bien provided support in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as Kosovo, and spent time in Iraq and Afghanistan. Most recently, the candidate was in Guam, leading the ongoing Defense Policy Review Initiative, which he said included building a Marine Corps base on the island territory.
Bien then worked as director of safety and standardization for Bighorn Airways in Sheridan until last fall, when he retired to focus on his run for governor.
Throughout all of his travel, Bien said he had maintained his Wyoming residency and has voted in every Wyoming election since he was 18.
Having watched the state’s politics for decades, Bien said he’s seen “a lack of leadership” among Wyoming’s governors – especially the current one. In shutting down the state, Gordon hurt businesses and workers, and allowed an appointed health official to run the state, Bien said.
The gubernatorial candidate wants to see “proactive leadership” in Cheyenne – a strong governor like Gov. Kristi Noem of South Dakota or Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, he said.
“Wyoming should be leading,” he said. “I know that we are involved in some lawsuits against certain things that are coming down federally, but it seems like we always jump on the bandwagon. ... Let’s be the first.”
‘The three P’s’Bien said his campaign “revolves around making Wyoming the freest state in the nation.” To do that as governor, Bien would emphasize “the three P’s”: protecting personal freedoms, pursuing government accountability and promoting state sovereignty.
When it comes to personal freedoms, Bien said he’s particularly focused on “protecting private property rights, rights of the unborn, and, of course, the Second Amendment.”
Bien said working toward government accountability means protecting voter integrity and ending crossover voting, moving toward more limited government, “fiscal discipline,” and school choice and educational transparency.
In promoting state sovereignty, Bien said the goal would be to protect the state from federal overreach and reduce dependency on the federal government.
“I’m all about working with the federal government, as long as it doesn’t encroach upon personal freedoms, nor the sovereignty of the state,” Bien said.
He said that overreach has been happening for a long time, but has really ramped up since Biden took office. As an example, he cited what he called “the Biden 30/30 land and water grab,” referring to a goal announced early in Biden’s presidency to conserve at least 30% of land and water in the U.S. by 2030.
Bien also said he is a “big believer in promoting energy expansion.”
“I think that fossil fuels are just as much our future as they were our past – we just have to change the narrative on them,” he said. “We have the technology to make – particularly coal, because we’re such a coal state – to make this extremely clean.”
Bien said coal coming from the Powder River Basin is “the cleanest coal in the world” because of its low sulfur content.
Bien also spoke in favor of what he called “insulationism.” At its core, he said, it means strengthening certain industries within Wyoming so the state doesn’t have to rely as much on the federal government and industry outside the state.
The candidate drew a distinction between “insulationism” and isolationism, which he said he’s not at all interested in.
“It’s just to better protect the state, to insulate the state from bad federal policy,” he explained. “And there’s no way to completely do that by any means. But when I look at the cost of everything in the grocery store, the gasoline and all this stuff – I mean, there is a way to do this.
Grassroots campaigning
When he spoke to the WTE Thursday morning, Bien was readying for an evening visit to Thermopolis.
Visiting towns across the state, even those with a small number of residents, has so far been a significant part of his campaign. In the past month, Bien has made stops in Hudson, Recluse, Thayne and even tiny Spotted Horse, according to his Facebook page, alongside larger destinations like Gillette, Casper and Cheyenne.
During one recent visit to Cody, Bien said a campaign event originally scheduled for two hours lasted about eight.
These visits and interactions with potential voters have only strengthened his commitment to his core campaign principles, Bien said.
Bien acknowledged that the road ahead would be difficult in terms of challenging an incumbent for the gubernatorial seat. Even so, he feels he’s developed a following through grassroots campaigning.
“I’ve had a career successfully leading people to accomplish desired results, but it does come down to putting teams together and listening,” he said. “I always listen. And some ideas may work, some may not, but I always listen to the folks on what their concerns are.”
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CASPER — An abortion clinic is set to open in Casper this summer. The clinic would be the only facility to offer surgical abortions in Wyoming, and opponents have begun to organize against it.
Surgical abortions can end a pregnancy further in its term than abortions by medication. A Jackson doctor is currently the only provider of medical abortions in Wyoming.
The Casper clinic’s Second Street facility is still under construction, but its founder says it should be staffed and ready to open by the summer if all goes according to plan. It’s operated by Circle of Hope, a national health care nonprofit with a mission of providing reproductive care to underserved, rural areas.
In addition to performing abortions, the clinic plans to offer family planning, OB/GYN and gender-affirming services.
Casper will be the company’s first location, but founder Julie Burkhart said the organization is planning on expanding across the country. The nonprofit lists a Washington, D.C. address on its website but registered the Casper address with the Wyoming Secretary of State’s Office earlier this year.
“Casper is centrally located, so this clinic will be as accessible as possible to the majority of Wyomingites ... including people in the rural parts of the state,” Burkhart said. It’s also positioned to be accessible to people in nearby areas of South Dakota and Nebraska, she said.
Abortion is a divisive topic in Wyoming. In this most recent legislative session, lawmakers passed three abortion-related bills through the committee stage, one of which became law. That bill would ban abortion in the state if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade.
The clinic is working with a community advisory board of Wyoming residents from local churches, tribes and health care.
“There is a robust, diverse community of people in Wyoming who believe that people should be able access the health care they need, including abortion,” said Rev. Leslie Kee of Casper’s Unitarian Universalist Church, who sits on the committee. “Opening this clinic is essential for those across our state who currently find that care is out of reach, including people living in rural areas, members of Native tribes, and those with low incomes.”
But others in Casper and around the state oppose the clinic’s opening.
“I don’t think there’s a market for it,” said Michelle St. Louis, an anti-abortion Casper resident. “We all know teenagers who chose to go through with their pregnancy; it’s not their first inclination to get an abortion. Most women don’t want to do that.”
Several local residents are planning a prayer event outside the facility on April 21, and a “life chain” demonstration the following Sunday.
A larger coalition from across Wyoming is coordinating a trip to Casper for the clinic’s anticipated opening in June, Park County Right to Life President Tim Lasseter said.
The groups are planning a peaceful protest for the opening, Lasseter said, reaching out to churches and anti-abortion groups around the state.
“We expect there to be a large turnout,” he said. “We’re not looking for confrontation, we’re just looking to let people know we disagree.”
Marti Halverson, president of Right to Life Wyoming, said the statewide group is planning “multiple tracks” of opposition to the clinic.
“The organization has some money we’re willing to put behind the effort,” she said Thursday, but declined to specify what members were planning. “You have 53 life-friendly legislators, a governor who says he’s pro-life,” Halverson said. “This should be shut down tomorrow.”
Sen. Anthony Bouchard, R-Burns, opposes abortion and said the practice shouldn’t be used as birth control.
Bouchard himself was adopted as a baby, and said that since Americans are leaving the country to adopt children, there should be no reason to abort a fetus that could be adopted in the U.S.
Burkhart says she’s no stranger to opposition — she’s operated reproductive health clinics in Washington, Oklahoma and Kansas. Her former boss, nationally known abortion provider Dr. George Tiller, was murdered in 2009 at his Wichita church.
“We do recognize that there are people in Wyoming who are opposed to what we’re doing, including many in the state legislature,” Burkhart said. “We hope that those who oppose our work will do so peacefully and without harassing or intimidating people seeking or providing reproductive health care.”
Surgical abortions can be performed later in a pregnancy than medical ones, which are limited to those who have been pregnant for 10 or fewer weeks.
Until recently, one doctor in Jackson did provide surgical abortions — though state health department statistics from recent years show very few were actually performed. But after the doctor sold his clinic to St. John’s Health in 2020 and resigned as a hospital contractor in October, the Jackson Hole News&Guide reported that he’s barred from practicing there by a non-compete clause in the sale.
Another Jackson-based doctor is now the state’s sole abortion provider, though her office only offers medical abortions.
“Because of legal restrictions and other barriers to abortion access, people sometimes need access to abortion care after that (10-week) period,” Burkhart said.
Chelsea’s Fund, a nonprofit that provides financial assistance to Wyomingites seeking abortions, has assisted 63 people so far in 2022.
Its money helps cover the cost of the abortion medication, which starts at $350 for a mail-in dose.
Nurse Cristina Gonzalez, who works with the fund, said the organization doesn’t turn away anyone who needs help.
“(The Casper clinic) would increase access because it’s providing options to individuals in the state, not overwhelming one resource,” Gonzalez said. “Now, if you’re outside that 10-week time frame, you’re looking at having to go to Colorado.”
A Wyoming law passed in 2019 prohibits all abortions after viability, the point when a fetus could survive outside the womb.
According to the health department, 91 abortions were performed by Wyoming providers in 2020 — the first full year the state required providers to report statistics. One of those was reported as a surgical dilation procedure. Eighty-eight were medical, and the other two did not specify the method.
Among those who received abortions in 2020, 48 (or 53%) were already mothers to at least one child. Four had four or more children.
Every abortion during that year was performed before 10 weeks, though one did not report. More than half were performed before reaching six weeks of pregnancy. Gonzalez said most of the people Chelsea’s Fund helps are single working mothers who already have children.
This story was published on April 15, 2022.
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Manoa Valley Theatre has been Honolulu’s “Off-Broadway Playhouse” for over 53 years. They are known for taking artistic risks and producing challenging, thought-provoking shows, as well as educational experiences.
Manoa Valley Theatre was created in 1969 by a group of graduate students from the University of Hawaii with a mission to “enrich local artists.” Actress and acting coach, Julia Ogilvie, shared how they are continuing to fulfill that mission through their new MVT Studio classes. These classes focus on “enriching local artists with opportunities to train and grow in the theatre arts.”
From the dressing room to the stage, art is alive throughout the theatre. As actors prepared to perform, we could feel their excitement and passion for their craft. Because this is “an Off-Broadway sized house,” they showcase intimate plays, musicals, readings and concerts. They are known for "pushing the envelope a bit" and many of their productions are Hawaii premieres. While actors performed on stage, Julia expressed, “There is a kind of energy that can’t be beat when there is a live performance happening in a public space. Performing is an expression of creativity, of your sense of joy, and also your sense of identity.”
At Manoa Valley Theatre, you can enjoy the show from the audience, or take a class to be a part of it! The classes range from acting for theater and film, to audition technique, and technical theater classes like lighting and set design. Julie added, “it is so exciting when someone comes in and has never acted in their life, it’s so meaningful and exciting cause they’re discovering the work for the first time and they’re so open and excited about it.”
Whether preparing for an audition in the theatre, film and tv, or are just looking to gain some confidence or public speaking skills, MVT Studio has something for everyone.
As Miss Hawaii 2019 & 2020, Nikki was a representative for the Aloha State and was highly involved with the community as she promoted the importance of service. Nikki is the host of KITV's entertainment and culture platform, ISLAND LIFE.
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Twitter's board of directors has adopted a limited-term shareholder rights plan called a "poison pill" that could make it harder for Elon Musk to acquire the company.
The "poison pill" provision, announced in a press release Friday, preserves the right for Twitter shareholders other than Musk to acquire more shares of the company at a relatively inexpensive price, effectively diluting Musk's stake. The provision will be triggered if Musk (or any other investor) acquires more than 15% of the company's shares. Musk currently owns around 9% of Twitter's shares.
The move marks an effort by Twitter's board to wrest back some control in the deal after Musk's stunning acquisition offer. The poison pill — a corporate anti-takeover defense mechanism — won't necessarily stop Musk's bid in its tracks, but it could make buying the company more expensive or force Musk to the negotiating table with the board.
"The Rights Plan will reduce the likelihood that any entity, person or group gains control of Twitter through open market accumulation without paying all shareholders an appropriate control premium or without providing the Board sufficient time to make informed judgments and take actions that are in the best interests of shareholders," the company said in its statement.
Musk's first public statement after Twitter's announcement came Friday afternoon, through a quote tweet of a Twitter poll by the account @BTC_Archive asking: "Do you want Elon Musk to buy Twitter?"
"Thanks for the support!" the billionaire wrote while sharing the poll, which at the time of writing had a majority of respondents voting "Yes." Musk did not respond to a request for comment from CNN Business.
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO on Thursday offered to acquire all the shares in Twitter he does not own for $54.20 per share, valuing the company at $41.4 billion. That represents a 38% premium over the closing price on April 1, the last trading day before Musk disclosed that he had become Twitter's biggest shareholder, and an 18% premium over its closing price Wednesday. The deal offer came 10 days after Musk first disclosed that he had become Twitter's largest shareholder (he has since been eclipsed by Vanguard Group).
The offer capped off a whirlwind 10-day period during which Musk revealed he had become the company's largest shareholder, accepted a position on the board only to ditch it, and tweeted throughout about how Twitter may be dying and should consider eliminating the "w" from its name, among other suggestions.
The company now appears to be prepping for what could be a drawn-out acquisition drama.
Wedbush analyst Dan Ives called the poison pill a "predictable defensive measure" by Twitter's board and added, "we believe Musk and his team expected this poker move." Ives also noted there is a risk that Twitter's plan could get challenged by Musk or other shareholders in court, which could put the board in the position of defending that the plan was in the best interest of shareholders.
Even so, there seem to be sincere doubts about whether Musk, a successful but sometimes erratic entrepreneur who ended up in hot water with regulators in 2018 after falsely suggesting that he had secured funding to take Tesla private, is serious about moving forward with the deal.
Despite being the richest man in the world, there are questions about how he would come up with the cash to finance the nearly $42 billion deal. Musk himself admitted in an interview Thursday that closing a deal would be challenging, saying, "I'm not sure I'll actually be able to acquire it."
Twitter's stock fluctuated a bit Thursday but remained mostly flat, closing around $45, well below Musk's offer price of $54.20 per share. The lack of enthusiasm — unusual after a takeover offer — suggests investor skepticism about the deal going through.
Twitter's poison pill plan will stay in effect for one year, the board said. More details about the plan are expected to come in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which is not yet publicly available.
-- CNN Business' Rishi Iyengar contributed to this report.
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The FDA said the InspectIR Covid-19 Breathalyzer, which is about the size of a piece of carry-on luggage, can be used in medical offices and mobile testing sites.
The US Food and Drug Administration has granted emergency use authorization to the first Covid-19 test that spots chemical compounds associated with the coronavirus in breath, the agency said Thursday.
The FDA said the InspectIR Covid-19 Breathalyzer, which is about the size of a piece of carry-on luggage, can be used in medical offices and mobile testing sites. It can give results in less than three minutes.
The system separates and identifies chemical mixtures to detect five compounds associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection.
A study of the InspectIR Breathalyzer found that it accurately identified more than 91% of positive samples and nearly 100% of negative samples. Similar sensitivity was found in another study that focused on the Omicron coronavirus variant. However, a positive result should be confirmed with a PCR test, the FDA said.
"It's another tool, and the FDA announcement suggests it's reasonably accurate and a relatively user-friendly tool," Dr. Emily Volk, president of the College of American Pathologists, a board-certified anatomic and clinical pathologist, said Friday.
"It waits to be seen how widely this will be adopted," Volk said. "That could rely on how expensive it is."
In an email to CNN on Friday, InspectIR Systems said it is not releasing the price of the machine or when it will be available.
The agency's authorization "is yet another example of the rapid innovation occurring with diagnostic tests for COVID-19," Dr. Jeff Shuren, director of the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health, said in a statement. "The FDA continues to support the development of novel COVID-19 tests with the goal of advancing technologies that can help address the current pandemic and better position the U.S. for the next public health emergency."
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The 40-story "Ala Moana Plaza" project will be located at 451 Piikoi St., where several current retailers and restaurants are currently operating, including Eggs 'n Things, Taiyo Ramen and Cho Dang Restaurant.
HONOLULU (KITV4) -- Ala Moana Center's owner filed public documents Thursday to develop a new condominium project that will replace a retail strip center next to the Honolulu shopping mall.
The 40-story "Ala Moana Plaza" project will be located at 451 Piikoi St., where several current retailers and restaurants are currently operating, including Eggs 'n Things, Taiyo Ramen and Cho Dang Restaurant.
Brookfield Properties pulled $330 million in permits for the new 40-story tower building with a parking garage, as well as site work.
The project, which received approval for its Interim Planned Development Transit Application, includes 459 market-rate residential units, 124 affordable residential rental units and 1,570-square-feet of commercial space.
KITV4 has reached out to Brookfield Properties for comment.
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Blue Water Area Transit gets $8.8M in federal funding
The Blue Water Area Transit Commission will replace almost half its fleet in the coming years with federal funds from a program designed to improve air quality and reduce traffic congestion.
The transit commission received $8.8 million in federal funds through the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program for fiscal years 2024 through 2026, according to the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments, the entity administering the funds.
The program is designed to improve air quality by supporting initiatives that reduce vehicle idling and traffic congestion. About $74 million in funding will be allocated to projects in each of the seven counties in SEMCOG's service area.
Dave McElroy, BWAT's general manager, said the transit commission expects to receive another approximately $2.2 million from the Michigan Department of Transportation, putting the total funding at more than $11 million.
The commission plans to purchase 36 new buses through fiscal year 2026 to replace buses that reach the end of their useful life. The buses take about 18 months or longer to build, so the first buses will probably arrive in fiscal year 2027, McElroy said.
The purchase will include five, 40-foot buses and 31 smaller buses, McElroy said.
The commission has about 80 active buses in its fleet. About 54 of those buses are usually in operation per day.
A 40-foot bus has a useful life span of about 12 years, while a small bus has a lifespan of about seven. Buses usually run for about a year longer than their useful lifespan while a new one is being built, McElroy said.
All new buses will run on compressed natural gas, which is cleaner than traditional gas or diesel. There were discussions to include more electric buses in the fleet, but the commission couldn't find a manufacturer for the smaller buses that provided a large enough range for the bus routes.
"We looked at it and discussed it just for this round of funding it wasn't feasible with the range of the smaller buses. With the five larger buses that we're ordering we're just still in our learning phase of electrification," McElroy said. "So we want to make sure that we truly understand the ramifications of moving into an electric fleet before we apply for more electric buses."
Buses cost more to maintain as they age, so the grant will help reduce the commission's overhead, McElroy said. It will also ensure the public is getting the best service possible.
"It'll allow the citizens to continue to receive the service that we provide so they can travel to work, school, medical appointment and any other essential trips that they need," he said.
SEMCOG announced the St. Clair County Transportation Study would also receive $1.17 million for a new traffic roundabout. St. Clair County Road Commission did not return requests for comment on the project.
Contact Laura Fitzgerald at (810) 941-7072 or lfitzgeral@gannett.com.
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Sheriff: Casco Twp. man allegedly posed as burglar in attempt to kill wife
A Casco Township man police alleged posed as a burglar in an attempt to kill his wife is facing several felony charges.
Gregory Ringel, 47, was arraigned on April 8 for assault with intent to murder, discharging a firearm in a building, false report of a felony and two felony firearms charges.
His bond was set at $750,000 10% cash/surety.
St. Clair County Sheriff deputies responded to the 4000 block of Palms Road shortly after 3 a.m. March 29 for a report of a home invasion, according to a press release from the department.
The residents of the home said an armed suspect entered through the garage with a shotgun, walked through the kitchen and knocked over a steel tumbler, waking the victim. The woman got out of bed to check the noise and was met at her bedroom door with a shotgun barrel as the suspect attempted to enter her room.
The suspect shot at her, but she was not struck. She shut the door on the gun barrel, preventing the suspect from entering. The residents said Ringel, the victim's husband, woke up in another room and retrieved a handgun from the night stand. He saw a shadow and then shot towards the direction of the supposed intruder as the suspect was fleeing.
Deputies were near the area at the time of the incident and quickly responded, but they did not see any suspect vehicle fleeing the area in any direction. The investigation confirmed the shotgun blast and home owner's gunshot, but continued investigation revealed inconsistencies in the residents' stories, the sheriff department said.
Police also learned Ringel was having an extramarital affair with another individual who lives out of state.
During a follow-up interview, police said Ringel confessed that the home invasion was made up and he used a shotgun with the intent to enter the bedroom and shoot his wife. She was awakened by a noise he made while walking through the kitchen and she met him at the door, where he shot at her as she opened the door.
The victim did not see Ringel. He allegedly walked off to hide the shotgun and then fired the second shot with his handgun to cover up the crime, police said.
Ringel is scheduled for a probable cause hearing at 9 a.m. April 20 and an examination hearing at 9:30 a.m. April 27 in front of St. Clair County District Court Judge Michael Hulewicz.
A request for comment to Ringel's attorney was not immediately returned Friday afternoon.
Contact Laura Fitzgerald at (810) 941-7072 or lfitzgeral@gannett.com.
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Marysville using $1 million federal grant to bolster water, sewer infrastructure needs
Clay Township and the city of St. Clair weren’t the only St. Clair County communities to get a $1 million federal appropriations grant this spring for infrastructure projects.
Marysville was also on that list of local community projects receiving funds for 2022 when announced in late March. But confirming the city’s selection days after its neighbors, city officials were surprised to learn their plans were getting a boost.
“We didn’t think we were going to get it,” City Manager Randy Fernandez said last week. Marysville and other communities applied for the funds a year ago. He added, “I can tell you that council and I, we’re ecstatic. We’re doing cartwheels.”
While the awards for St. Clair and Clay are going toward upgrading a local pump station and sewer interceptor, respectively, Marysville’s $1 million is earmarked for water and sewer system improvements.
However, like in St. Clair, where the city is using its grant to help address $10 million worth of needs, Marysville is also eyeing much larger improvements, including in its water and wastewater treatment plant facilities.
Fernandez didn’t put a final amount on what they’d need overall but said they are weighing borrowing the remaining funds in addition to any other potential grant funds.
“This is where we’re headed. … What this does is maybe we won’t have to bond for as much money, as an example,” he said of the $1 million. “I want to say we might have to bond for $8 million. Maybe now we only have to bond for seven million.”
According to the work description, parts of the city’s decades-old infrastructure, particularly fire hydrants and gate valves, will be replaced as part of the project's phase one. There are about 650 fire hydrants and 820 gate valves in the system.
Combined with water main replacement, not addressed in the grant, officials said the upgrade will help prevent challenges that come with main breaks and undersized pipes, among others. Some of the city’s water mains date back prior to 1920, and Finance Director Mike Booth said they’ve already awarded a bid for $593,590 for a water main on Connecticut between 15th and 18th streets as this year’s water main project.
Water main, hydrant, and valve replacements were also aimed to improve water quality, reliability, and protection, according to the city’s grant application. A second phase of the project will include the replacement of 20 lead service lines.
Bari Wrubel, supervisor of Marysville’s water and wastewater operations, said their longer list of infrastructure improvements includes upgrades at both facilities.
At the water plant, for example, he said plans are mainly about improved treatment, such as taking steps to study and change the system’s coagulant, or what's used to treat water for solids removal, and review its filter system. Some of that also includes necessary upgrades based on recommendations and requirements from the state.
They also need to address equipment upgrades in the plant’s intake room.
Of all of it, though, Wrubel said, “It’s complicated.”
“About every year, we’ll go down and clean out the intake pits, and there’s sand and debris left that was pulled in from the river,” Wrubel said. “We’re looking at replacing it, that pump equipment, to remove that debris. Some of that stuff is probably 40 years old, and it’s just time to renovate. It’s well past its life expectancy.
“The other one is our chemical containment area. We’re looking at beefing up how we have containment for our fluoride and our coagulant and just downsizing some of the tanks. … We’ll order more frequently, but it’s just to keep a smaller amount of chemicals on hand instead of having way too much that lasts six or eight months. We don’t need that much on hand. It’s just in case you do have a spill, it’s better to have less.”
They have other improvements on the wastewater side, too, but Wrubel added, “I’m not sure which way this is all going to shake out.”
Fernandez pointed to the state’s drinking water and clean water revolving funds as other potential sources of funding they’ve approached or plan to seek out.
But he said they’re putting an emphasis on water and sewer improvements and the commitment that comes with the decades-old facilities — challenges, he added, many other communities are also facing.
“It’s a money pit, and there’s always something we have to spend our money on, and I go, ‘But it’s our money pit,’” Fernandez said, referencing a discussion at a recent budget session. “Those are our buildings. We have to maintain them. What else are we going to do?
“No one’s going to see the improvements you make in the plant or you make outside the plant. That’s the unfortunate thing. But they’re needed,” Fernandez said. “You have to keep up with your aging infrastructure.”
Contact Jackie Smith at (810) 989-6270 or jssmith@gannett.com. Follow her on Twitter @Jackie20Smith.
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God’s power, hidden on Good Friday, is about to be revealed
It’s 1:30 p.m. on Good Friday as I write this.
The one thing I appreciate about the liturgies of Holy Week is that it’s easy to meditate on the last days of Jesus. On Good Friday, we don’t just acknowledge Jesus’ death. We structure our liturgies and devotions around the events of that horrible, and yet wonderful day.
At 1:30 p.m., Jesus would have been halfway through his agony on the cross. According to tradition, the soldiers drove the first nail at noon, and Christ died at 3 p.m. At 1:30, the Lord was struggling to breathe under the weight of his own beaten, bruised and badly bleeding body.
Between the hours of noon and 3 p.m., we can imagine being at the foot of the cross. We see the sweat and the blood. We hear the cries of pain and the gasping of breath. It’s incredibly humbling.
We Christians spend a lot of time — rightfully so — discussing God’s love. We also talk quite a bit about His mercy, and a considerable amount about His justice. But one thing I don’t think we meditate on nearly enough is God’s power.
A reason for that, I think, is that we’re afraid of it. Not afraid that God might use His power in our lives, but afraid that He won’t.
We’re used to hearing Gospel stories about miracles. We hear that God’s power can “move mountains,” raise the dead and make even the stars and seas obey His commands. But we’ve never seen a mountain move, or a dead man rise, or the seas calm or a star dim. We’ve also prayed and not received the answer we hoped for.
But meditating on God’s power, we recognize that despite not seeing these things, we know that God could do them. If He couldn’t, He wouldn’t be God.
It would have been easy for Jesus’ followers to think the same things while watching their master humiliated and suffering at the hands of an army that God could, in an instant, obliterate if He wanted to.
But He didn’t. Why?
It’s difficult in moments of suffering to “be still and know that I am God” (Psalm 46:10). But it’s precisely in those moments when it’s most important to do so. We know God is powerful. And we also know He is merciful. And just. And loving. So why does He allow suffering?
In our particular case, we may not know until we reach heaven. But I suspect His answer will begin and end with Good Friday. The Lord doesn’t just allow us to suffer. He suffers with us. And in His case as in ours, He allows it because He knows what’s coming on the other side of the Cross.
“I lay down my life in order to take it up again,” Jesus said. “No one takes it from me, but I lay it down on my own. I have power to lay it down, and power to take it up again” (John 10:17-18).
Jesus said these words long before Good Friday. They didn’t make sense when he said them. And they didn’t make sense on Good Friday.
It wasn’t until the stone was rolled away on Easter Sunday that world saw God’s power finally — and definitively — revealed.
Contact Mike Stechschulte at mikestech187@gmail.com.
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A power surge by Oregon Tech led the Lady Owls to a key Cascade Conference sweep of the University of Providence, earning 10-2 and 11-1 run-rule victories at Stilwell Stadium.
OIT (36-7, 21-2 CCC) hit four home runs on the day, while starters Sarah Abramson and Mckenzie Staub limited the Argos to just five total hits. Tech maintained a 2-game lead on College of Idaho and a 3-game lead on Eastern Oregon in the league standings with seven conference games remaining in the regular-season.
“We came out aggressive at the plate and hit the ball well up and down the lineup,” said OIT head coach Greg Stewart.
Abramson struck out the first six batters of Game 1 — with her offense giving her a 3-0 second inning lead, as McKenna Armantrout and Jayce Seavert hit back-to-back home runs.
The Argos (2-28, 1-21) cut into the lead in the third, as Karlie Davis tripled in a run and scored on an OIT error, only to see the Lady Owls bat around in the fourth. Staub and Zoe Allen each had 2-run singles in the rally, while an inning later, Armantrout ended the game with a walk-off RBI double into the left-center gap.
Armantrout was 2-for-2 with three RBI, with Staub and Kennedy Jantzi each logging two hits. Abramson won her league-best 21st game, striking out nine in the 2-hit complete game.
Providence took a quick 1-0 lead in the nightcap on a McKenzie Staats RBI single — but the lead did not last long. Jantzi tied the score with an RBI single and Maggie Buckholz followed with a long opposite field 3-run homer — part of a 5-run frame.
Tech continued the offensive onslaught — as Jantzi launched a 2-run homer in the second, followed by an Allen RBI single to push the lead to 8-1. In the third, Buckholz gapped a 2-run double and Lexi Klum plated her with an RBI single to cap the inning.
Staub worked four innings, striking out six, to earn her 12th win of 2022. Jantzi was 3-for-4 with three RBI, Buckholz was 2-for-3 with five RBI, with Kacie Schmidt adding a pair of hits.
“Our pitching and defense continue to set the tone and our attitudes and effort is fantastic,” Stewart said.
The two teams will close out the series Saturday with an 11 a.m. doubleheader.
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Four candidates for position No.1 on the board of Klamath County Commissioners participated in a forum at Oregon Tech sponsored by the chamber of commerce on Thursday night. Allen Headley, Dave Henslee, Todd Gessele, and Brandon Fowler, all of whom will appear on the primary ballot May 17, appeared onstage.
A recurring theme on the evening was the use and distribution of county resources, with all candidates agreeing that they would first focus on public safety and supporting the Klamath County Sheriff’s Office. All four agreed that the first step to growing a successful community starts with making the people feel safe.
Henslee also brought up the need for more housing, saying that housing was one of the most important resources to the county. Headley brought up education and discussed the need to expand on our current higher education organizations and bolster their internships and trade offerings. All of the candidates said focusing on public safety would help the county grow in industry and population, thus expanding the business market of the area.
On the public safety topic, the wildfires that have plagued the county in recent years were brought up. Community members wanted to know what the role of the commissioners would be in managing wildfire emergencies, and how to mitigate them altogether.
Fowler reiterated that there needs to be more funding for emergency services. He said the funding should not stop with law enforcement and should be expanded to fire departments and other public safety agencies. The extra funding would allow, according to Fowler, more suppression and prevention tools and strategies. Headley suggested cutting through and getting rid of federal red tape that prevented the management of fuels. Henslee also wanted to get rid of the red tape, but suggested that there needs to be funding and grants available for agencies to manage forests and fuels.
The discussion then turned to the homeless population in Klamath County. Questions were asked of the candidates regarding what action they would take to assist the homeless population. Headley suggested that more HUD housing be built. He also spoke about the need to develop more jobs that the homeless population could fill.
Henslee disagreed about HUD housing. He said throughout the night that there is not as high a need for low-income housing and there is more need for mid-income housing. Henslee suggested that the lack of middle-income housing puts a huge strain on the low-income housing market. The former police chief suggested forming a committee to assist and advise homeless people. The committee would be able to connect people with agencies that can help them get jobs and get into housing. Gessele suggested asking nonprofit organizations, such as the Gospel Mission, to assist in mitigating the problem. Fowler discussed the need to add more funding to mental health assistance in the county. He said the lack of mental health resources available to the community directly contributes to the homeless population in the county.
One of the most polarizing questions of the night was regarding the ongoing water crisis gripping the basin. Gessele started the conversation by saying that the water issues are above what the commissioners can control. He said that it is actually a state and federal problem. Fowler tied it back to public safety. He mentioned that illegal marijuana growers stole an estimated 30 million gallons of irrigation water from Klamath Project irrigators. Fowler said he would “work hard to stop theft.”
Henslee said the basin is “not getting more water, we are getting less.” He went on to say that both sides have valid points and concerns. He continued, “No side overshadows the other.” Henslee offered suggestions such as exploring programs to clean and deepen Klamath Lake to expand the water capacity and thus, expanding the output.
When the topic turned to the Great Idaho initiative, which will appear on the May ballot, Headley said he has done extensive research on the issue in an effort to see if the move would be beneficial to him in taxes. “If it’s a plus, I’m for it,” he said. Headley also said the sales tax would be offset by the decline in property tax.
The other three candidates expressed major concerns about the movement. Henslee, Gessele and Fowler had concerns about citizens that hold state licenses in Oregon. Teachers, law enforcement officers, doctors and others would potentially have to get their licenses transferred to Idaho. The three candidates were very concerned about the financial burden this may place on the citizens of Klamath County. Henslee mentioned that he would, of course, listen to his constituents as it is not about what he wants personally, but about what the people want. Fowler discussed finding the reason people want to move to Idaho and fixing it, such as restoring local control.
The final few questions that were asked related to ways to grow the community and ensure resources are available to support population growth. Candidates expressed various ideas about how to grow the county both in population and economy. They all said housing would be a major issue. Henslee reiterated his points about middle class housing while Fowler spoke about several subdivisions that are full of empty lots and the need to build on them.
Another portion of the community growth conversation was regarding the growth of the workforce. All four men focused on trades and internships. Fowler and Henslee suggested working with local educators and schools to increase the volume of working internships in organizations and trades. Gessele focused more on trade and suggested the need to find more people to drill wells. Headley expressed concerns with how difficult it is for a person holding a California contractor license to get an Oregon contractor license.
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Wailuku, MAUI (KITV4) - Disappointed parents and students at Maui's Baldwin High School are hoping school administration will rethink its ban on lei giving at this year's May 20 graduation ceremony.
Principal Keoni Wilhelm sent a letter to parents Tuesday detailing COVID-19 safety measures for the event, which also announced that guests will not be allowed to give leis to graduates before, during, or after the ceremony, including in the parking lot.
"[Lei giving] is just a wonderful thing, so I just don't get how the island is open for business, business as usual for everyone, but the kids can't have their first really important celebration," florist Sandi Ioakimi said.
Aside from the potential loss in business for her and many other floral companies on Maui, Ioakimi said she sympathizes with this year's graduates.
"It's kind of upsetting, I mean I've looked forward to having a graduation ceremony since I started high school and having my family come and give me leis and I don't know it's just sad that we don't get to give leis this year," Baldwin High senior Danlie Awai said.
Awai hopes students can reach a compromise with school administration.
"Maybe the parents can just pass out leis to their kids, I don't know just make it a little fun," Awai suggested.
KITV4 reached out to Principal Wilhelm and have not heard back.
'A'ali'i is a reporter with KITV. He was born and raised on the island of Maui and graduated from the University of Southern California with a bachelor's degree in Journalism.
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(CNN) -- Three-year-old Miru plays with a bright red toy car, seemingly oblivious to the crisis unfolding around him.
Outside the small room where he lives with his parents, an economic disaster is gripping Sri Lanka, prompting protests, food scarcity and electricity cuts -- and leaving the medicine Miru needs in desperately short supply.
Miru has a malignant brain tumor that causes him to have frequent epileptic seizures and fall unconscious for minutes on end. The only thing that helps is an anti-convulsant drug, but with Sri Lanka's financial crisis hitting medical imports, Miru's father, Upul Chandana, has struggled to find the medicine anywhere.
"This is not available in the hospital anymore. Even nearby pharmacies have run out of stock," said Chandana, as his only son plays on the thin mattress behind him. "Now, even with money, we can't find the medicine."
Sri Lanka is battling its worst economic crisis in decades, as high foreign debt repayments and a massive trade deficit leave the country unable to import basic goods and medicine. Sri Lankans struggle to buy essential items such as milk powder and cooking gas, and protesters have taken to the streets demanding the resignation of the country's President, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who has refused to step down. Sri Lanka has suspended its external debt repayments while it works with the International Monetary Fund on a bailout package.
Now, with medical drugs and equipment running low, the country is facing what's being described by Singapore's Red Cross as an "unprecedented humanitarian crisis."
Doctors report washing and reusing medical equipment -- and even performing a surgery by the light of mobile phones. So far authorities have not confirmed any deaths from the medicine shortages -- but experts warn the toll from the crisis could surpass the country's more than 16,000 Covid deaths.
"This is a crisis, we can't predict how bad it's going to get," said Athula Amarasena, the secretary of the State Pharmaceutical Association in Sri Lanka that represents pharmacies across the country. "But we are aware we are heading into a further crisis."
A dire situation in hospitals
Each day, Wasantha Seneviratne traipses from pharmacy to pharmacy in Sri Lanka's capital Colombo, desperate to find Topotecan, the chemotherapy drug his 7-year-old daughter needs to stay alive.
At both the hospital where his daughter was admitted on April 7, and at each pharmacy he visits, it's the same answer: The medicine isn't available anywhere in the country.
"No government hospital, pharmacy or importer has it. It is nowhere in Sri Lanka," he said of the drug his daughter needs to treat neuroblastoma, a form of cancer. "What should I do? My child may not live long if she doesn't not receive the medication."
Just a few weeks ago, Topotecan was offered free of charge by hospitals, but patients' families are now tasked with sourcing it themselves from private pharmacies, Seneviratne said.
Even that feels impossible. And the problem is much bigger than Seneviratne.
According to a letter released by the Sri Lanka Medical Association (SLMA), all hospitals across the country lack access to emergency drugs and medical equipment. Several government hospitals have been ordered to suspend routine surgeries and reduce laboratory tests due to limited supplies of anesthetics and reagents used for tests, the SLMA says.
And medical equipment, too, is in short supply. The president of the Perinatal Society of Sri Lanka, for instance, has ordered hospitals to sterilize and reuse endotracheal tubes used to deliver oxygen to newborn babies' lungs as the tube shortage becomes "extremely critical," according to a letter sent to the Ministry of Health from the society earlier this month and provided to CNN.
An intensive care surgeon who asked not to be named for fear of losing her job said vital medicine used to treat strokes and heart attacks is now in critically short supply and her hospital is being forced to reuse catheters.
"I know I am endangering the next patient's life. I feel hopeless and utterly helpless," she told CNN this week, adding that she now spends much of her time disinfecting equipment to be reused. "This goes against everything we have been taught to do."
Although hospitals have mostly been spared electricity outages, the doctor told CNN they experienced a power cut while she and others performed surgery on a toddler for a heart condition. They were forced to continue operating using the torches on their mobile phones held by other medical workers until the generators powered up.
"Despite having at least two mobile phones being held up, it is not easy to perform procedures or sutures in such light," she said.
A doctor from a government hospital in the central city of Kandy, who asked not to be named for fear of losing her job, said at her hospital's intensive care unit, they are low on anesthetic, and she worries how hospitals will conduct surgeries with no pain relief. Her hospital has cut back on elective surgeries.
Like the unnamed surgeon, she's been told to reuse catheters and tubes on patients -- and though she knows it could cause damage to patients, she says there's no other choice.
Her team is facing tough choices about who needs the medicine the most.
"We have had to make tough choices these days, particularly in the intensive care unit, such as who gets to live and who doesn't," she says. "We may continue to admit patients but will have no way to treat them."
The surgeon is facing a similar concern.
"I don't know if half of the patients we have in (the intensive care unit) will be alive in the coming weeks if this drug shortage continues," she said.
How this happened
Some say the government should have seen the situation coming.
According to experts, Sri Lanka's economic crisis was caused by a combination of government mismanagement and misfortune, including the Covid-19 pandemic which hurt the country's tourism industry.
Tax cuts and economic malaise hit government revenue, prompting rating agencies to downgrade Sri Lanka's credit rating to near default levels -- meaning the country lost access to overseas markets. Sri Lanka fell back on its foreign exchange reserves to pay off government debt, shrinking its reserves from $6.9 billion in 2018 to $2.2 billion this year, according to an IMF briefing.
The cash crunch impacted imports of fuel and other essentials -- including medical equipment and drugs.
For months, medical workers have warned of the impending crisis, and doctors and nurses have taken to the streets to protest the government's perceived inaction.
On Wednesday, after playing down concerns and claiming there was no shortage, the country's Health Ministry admitted Sri Lanka is facing a lack of certain drugs and surgical equipment. According to the ministry, the government received $10 million from the World Bank to purchase medicine, although it's unclear when this is due to arrive.
"I would refer to this as more of a challenge and not yet a crisis," the Ministry of Health's coordinator in charge of donor activities and medical supplies Dr Anver Hamdani told CNN this week.
There was no single reason behind the issue, he said, adding that the government would resolve the problem behind the shortage before the end of the month.
But others claim the shortages are a man-made issue that could have been averted.
According to Dr. Rukshan Bellana, the president of the Government Medical Officers Forum (GMOF) and an administrator of a state-owned hospital in Colombo, the government could not pay lines of credit for supplies.
He told CNN there are 2,500 listed pharmaceutical items approved by the government, and of those, 60 are in short supply.
"The President has ignored the calls (for action), so what has happened is the situation is getting worse and worse every day," Bellana said.
What next
The government claims it is addressing both the economic and medical crisis. In a statement this week, the Ministry of Health said it was in interim talks with the World Health Organization and Asian Development Bank to obtain funds or medication, and is working to get donations from overseas Sri Lankans.
But doctors say urgent help is needed.
In a letter addressed to the president on April 7 and made public on Sunday, the Sri Lanka Medical Association said health issues generally not considered emergencies could become life-threatening problems.
"Without urgent replenishment of supplies, emergency treatment may also have to be halted within a matter of weeks, if not days," the letter said.
"This will result in a catastrophic number of deaths."
State Pharmaceutical Association's Amarasena says the problem will get worse before it gets better. Even if Sri Lanka gets help from international organizations or other countries, it could take weeks or months for shipments to arrive -- and some suppliers only start making medications once an order is made. And the country doesn't even have a health minister at the moment -- a string of Cabinet ministers resigned over the crisis.
"The appointed person in charge of this is not empowered enough to make quick decisions," Amarasena said. "We don't have enough time."
At the start of this month, Seneviratne and his family came to the capital from Kandy province, hoping that they'd have a better chance of helping their daughter.
"We come to hospitals with the hope we can find good treatment, so when we find there is not even medicine, we are helpless," he said.
For Seneviratne, there is little he can do to help his daughter. The economic crisis has left him without a steady job, meaning there is no way he can import the drugs from overseas.
"There are many more (parents) who are also in deep sadness because they can't find this medication, even if they have (enough money) in their hands," he said. "We are holding in a lot of pain and sorrow. We don't have the money to take our daughter overseas for medical treatment."
Back in the tiny room in Colombo, Miru's father, Chandana, has similar fears. The family left their paddy farm and moved to Colombo so Miru could be treated. When he bought his last bottle of medicine, the pharmacist who sold it to him said it was his final bottle in stock.
But now he only has a few days left of medication. His only hope is to keep searching for a way to find more.
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1-year-old needs 3 doses of Narcan after ingesting fentanyl, mother charged
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS5/Gray News) – First responders and medical staff had to use three doses of Narcan on a 1-year-old boy after he ingested fentanyl, according to court documents.
AZFamily reports emergency crews were called to respond to a home in southwest Phoenix for reports of a toddler not breathing.
His mother, 23-year-old Anna Chavez, gave him CPR until they arrived.
Paramedics gave the little boy two doses of Narcan and rushed him to the hospital where he was given a third dose.
According to police, tests revealed the 1-year-old had fentanyl in his system.
Court documents say officers found eight counterfeit pills and about $10,000 in cash inside the home.
Chavez denied there could’ve been fentanyl in the home, saying she cleans the home, according to police.
She told officers she gave the boy a bottle in the morning and afternoon, and he was breathing normally.
Chavez was charged with felony child abuse.
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2 bird flu cases confirmed in US zoos as virus spreads
(AP) — Two cases of bird flu have been confirmed in U.S. zoos, but officials said they won’t order widespread euthanasia of zoo birds the way they have on farms.
U.S. Department of Agriculture spokesman Mike Stepien declined to release any details about the zoo cases Thursday, including which two zoos were involved.
Many zoos across the country have closed down their aviaries and moved birds inside whenever possible to help protect them from avian influenza that officials believe is primarily being spread by the droppings of wild birds.
At many zoos, penguins might be the only birds visitors can see because they are generally kept inside behind glass where they are shielded from the virus.
Nearly 27 million chickens and turkeys have been slaughtered in 26 states to limit the spread of bird flu during this year’s outbreak. Officials order entire flocks to be killed when the virus is found on farms.
Stepien said zoos work with state veterinary officials when the virus is found, but unlike farms, zoos are generally allowed to isolate and treat an infected bird as long as they take precautions to protect the other birds in their collections.
Health officials emphasize that bird flu doesn’t jeopardize food safety because infected birds aren’t allowed into the food supply and properly cooking meat and eggs to 165 degrees Fahrenheit will kill any viruses. The disease also doesn’t represent any immediate public health threat, and no human cases have been found in America.
This year’s outbreak is the worst one since 2015 when roughly 50 million chickens and turkeys were slaughtered because of the virus. Stepien said that there were very few bird flu cases in captive wild birds in 2015 and none in large zoos, and no wild birds at zoos were euthanized that year.
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$80 million ‘Field of Dreams’ movie site expansion unveiled
DYERSVILLE, Iowa (KCRG/Gray News) - The “Field of Dreams” movie site will soon feature more baseball fields, team dormitories, a hotel and an outdoor concert amphitheater.
The new owners of the “Field of Dreams” movie site, Go the Distance Baseball, LLC, unveiled their master plan to expand the site after buying it in September.
The $80 million expansion will add nearly 100 acres to the original 190-acre site. That additional land will provide space for nine new baseball fields, dormitories for youth teams, and a hotel to be completed in phases by the end of 2023.
Other additions include a 100,000-square-foot field house, an outdoor concert amphitheater, an RV park, jogging trails and a large park inclusive for children and adults with disabilities. These additions will be completed in phases through 2025.
In a news release, Go the Distance Baseball said the plan will create a youth baseball and softball oasis while maintaining the property as a working farm.
“I am grateful for all that the game of baseball gave me throughout my career, and now I am proud and excited to lead a team that is building opportunities for players, fans and families to enjoy our national pastime and for teams to train and compete,” said Frank Thomas, CEO of Go the Distance Baseball and a first-ballot member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Go the Distance Baseball also said the development will create about 170 new full-time equivalent jobs.
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Biden administration unveils steps to boost equity in government
(AP) - The Justice Department is improving language access to its programs to help people with limited English proficiency better report crimes. The Interior Department is providing technical assistance to Native American tribes to help them apply for grants. The Energy Department is helping low-income households access programs to weatherize their homes and save energy.
Those efforts are among hundreds of strategies and commitments the Biden administration released Thursday. They are the product of an executive order that President Joe Biden signed hours after taking office with the goal of advancing racial equity and support for underserved communities across the federal government.
The order was the first of its kind by a president, said Chiraag Bains, deputy assistant to the president for racial justice and equity.
“We set the mission and the mandate for every agency, the entire federal government, to center equity in all that we do,” Bains told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
After more than a year of review, more than 90 federal agencies, including all major Cabinet departments, released their “equity action plans” on Thursday.
The plans outline more than 300 strategies and commitments that aim to make federal policies fairer for everyone, including poorer communities and communities of color; tribal, rural and LGBTQ communities; and people with disabilities and women and girls. The White House posted an overview of the plans on its website Thursday.
They were discussed at a White House event hosted Thursday by domestic policy adviser Susan Rice, budget director Shalanda Young and members of the Cabinet. Biden, a Democrat, has one of the most diverse Cabinets, with Black and Hispanic people and women leading major departments, including Defense, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, and the Environmental Protection Agency.
Some of the equity plans have been announced, such as work by the Department of Housing and Urban Development to close the racial gap in homeownership, address disproportionate rates of homelessness among underserved communities and reduce bias in home appraisals.
Others strategies are being made public for the first time, such as Defense Department efforts to promote the use of artificial intelligence technology to reduce algorithmic bias by investing in the development of a more diverse AI workforce. That work includes partnerships with historically Black colleges and universities.
Equity action teams at every agency led the reviews. Bains said that, taken together, the strategies “will advance equity and justice so that everybody can thrive in America.”
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Alabama administrators suspend students following swap of high schools for senior prank
CHILTON COUNTY, Ala. (WBRC/Gray News) - Some high school seniors in Alabama are saying the punishments they’ve received from school administrators for a senior prank are too harsh.
The students planned the prank through a Snapchat group message, according to WBRC. The idea was that students from two different high schools would attend the other school for the day. Close to two dozen students from Chilton County High School and Jemison High School participated. Now, several feel the consequences for the prank are over the top.
“My scholarships are in jeopardy because of this,” Haileigh Greer, a senior at Jemison High School, said.
Greer was not the only Jemison senior who participated in the senior prank. Kathryn Blow did as well, and believes the district’s punishment is far too harsh for what they call a harmless prank.
“I just don’t think that’s very fair. I think it’s really blown out of proportion,” Blow said.
Some Chilton County High School students agree. That includes Colby Hughes, who says past pranks were way worse.
“Past classes have peed on the gym floor, put desks on the ceiling, and pigs in the school, and all we did was swap schools and we got suspended for three days -- goes on our transcripts, all of that,” Hughes said.
Several students fear this will hurt their grades and chances to pick up scholarships. While Greer knows the students must face punishment, she never suspected she would be stripped of her passion -- softball.
“I don’t mind the three day suspension. I understand,” she said. “But we shouldn’t have gotten kicked off the teams. I mean, I have played softball since I was 8 and I got kicked off my senior year.”
Some people argued online that this is about student safety, and that’s why the district must be so strict.
Students like Chilton County Senior Austin Knight believe that isn’t the responsibility of the senior class.
“I think that’s the main thing they are upset about. It’s not our fault that your security is not as good,” Knight said.
WBRC reached out to the district for a comment.
Superintendent Jason Griffin stated, “Due to safety protocols, employee and student privacy rights, I will be unable to provide a statement or response.”
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BC softball splits doubleheader with No. 10 Roanoke, Men’s LAX sets multiple records
HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - The Bridgewater College softball team split a home doubleheader against No. 10 Roanoke Wednesday afternoon.
The Eagles dropped game one, 5-4, before responding with a 9-0 victory in game two. Bridgewater improves to 20-14 overall and currently sits at third in the ODAC standings with a 10-4 league record. BC is just one game behind first-place Randolph-Macon in the ODAC standings.
Three records set in Bridgewater men’s lacrosse victory Wednesday night
Three single-season, program records were set by members of the Bridgewater men’s lacrosse team Wednesday night when the Eagles defeated Randolph, 25-4, in Bridgewater. Chris Martel scored four goals to give him 57 on the season, which sets a new record at BC. Connor McLean recorded three assists to give him 34 this season, setting a new program standard at Bridgewater. Gabriel Alexander picked up 12 ground balls to put his season total at 116, which also sets a new single-season mark at Bridgewater. The Eagles improved to 9-5 overall (4-3 ODAC) following Wednesday’s victory.
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COVID relief is stalled in the Senate with lawmakers on a two-week recess
The Senate is debating a $10 billion package that would provide funding to handle another potential surge in COVID-19 cases as the BA.2 subvariant causes cases to rise.
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - The omicron BA.2 subvariant is causing a rise in COVID-19 cases in certain areas of the country. The uptick has lawmakers on Capitol Hill working on another relief funding package.
The Senate is debating a $10 billion package that would provide funding to help handle another possible nationwide surge in COVID cases. Reps. Susie Lee (D-NV) and Dina Titus (D-NV) argue the bill needs to pass immediately. The package stalled before lawmakers left for a two week recess a week ago.
As parts of the northeast are seeing a surge in cases, lawmakers moved toward passing the bill that would bolster funding for things like therapeutics, testing, and vaccines. The stalemate occurred when Republicans tried to add in language in the bill that would prevent the Biden administration from ending a restrictive immigration policy enacted under President Donald Trump for national health reasons.
In response to the Biden administration’s decision to end the public health order under Title 42, Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said, “This White House is using the pandemic as a pretext to shamelessly pick and choose liberal policies to advance. The effects will be functionally open borders while a state of emergency continues for Americans. Completely unacceptable.”
Lee and Titus said the funding package needs to pass before another nationwide crisis.
“The problem with government is too often it’s reactive as opposed to proactive. So we often wait until something becomes a disaster before we get involved in trying to fix it,” said Titus.
“Make these types of what I call a smart investment in preparedness ahead of the curve. I think it’s incredibly important,” said Lee.
Lawmakers will not return to Capitol Hill until the week of April 25, which means picking back up debate on the package is still more than 10 days away, and passing a final bill is even further off.
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CUTE: Firefighters save baby owl that fell from nest
Published: Apr. 14, 2022 at 3:06 PM EDT
WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. (CNN) - The Los Angeles Fire Department saved a baby owl that fell from its nest.
The baby got separated from its mom after taking a tumble from high atop a house in Woodland Hills.
The people who live there found the little bird, and firefighters showed up to make sure the baby got back home safe and sound.
With a gentle touch – and a ladder – the feathered family was finally reunited.
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Experts eye ventilation improvements as COVID spikes continue
As another COVID-19 subvariant spikes around the country, experts want to mitigate further risks with indoor air quality control.
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - Another COVID-19 subvariant is causing a new spike in cases in some areas across the U.S. But as the country tries to live with the potentially deadly virus, health and technology experts are working to mitigate risks, with a push to improve indoor air quality to help curb COVID.
“Improving the quality of our indoor air through having adequate ventilation in the space will reduce our risk,” said Dr. Krystall Pollitt from Yale University.
Pollitt focuses on environmental health sciences at Yale. She said better ventilation will cut some risk in places like schools, but she cautions ventilation overhauls are not going to make indoor spaces completely safe.
“We also have to think about how many kids are going to be in that classroom, what are they doing in that classroom? So is it going to be a very packed space where they’re playing wind and brass instruments where we have a lot of aerosols being generated?” said Pollitt.
The Biden White House recently released a so-called “Clean Air in Buildings Challenge”, laying out a roadmap for building owners to inspect and maintain their HVAC systems, circulating outdoor air indoors, and enhancing air filtration. Some in the biodefense community, like Eric Schlote’s company Synexis, are getting involved in the fight for reduced transmission.
“It goes everywhere the air goes, and it reduces microbial load, viruses, molds on air and surfaces,” said Schlote of his company’s “Dry Hydrogen Peroxide” technology.
Schlote said the technology deployed in indoor spaces fights viruses and bacteria. He said their product takes naturally occurring oxygen and humidity from the air and is reused to zap bacteria.
Schlote notes they are already seeing success in children’s hospitals and other indoor environments. The Synexis CEO argues indoor air quality is a national security issue, and he hopes to be involved in the White House’s action plan to make business and schools low-risk as the search for a new, safe, normal continues.
“Filtration’s important, ventilation’s important. We augment that,” said Schlote.
The American Rescue Plan passed last year provided $122 billion to schools. The White House said those funds can be used for ventilation and filtration upgrades.
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Florida high school senior gets into 27 schools, including Ivy League
PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WJHG//Gray News) - A senior at a Florida high school has been admitted into all of the 27 schools he applied to. Among those include multiple Ivy League universities such as Harvard, Yale, and the University of Pennsylvania.
Jonathan Walker said he is ecstatic about his future.
“That’s such a rare thing to occur, but the fact that it did happen, I’m so excited about it,” Walker told WJHG.
The 18-year-old is in the International Baccalaureate Program, which means he completed college-level classes in his junior and senior years of high school. The program covers all subjects and gives students college credits after they complete multiple assessments.
He also loves sports and is on the school’s football team. Besides extracurricular activities and making time for a social life, Walker is also an inventor. He said he wants to help people, so he created a device that helps the deaf and blind. It’s currently in the process of being patented.
Walker said he made sure to take his time during the application process.
“It’s really just like writing a set of essays for one college and then tweaking them specifically for the colleges,” Walker said.
His advice for students applying to colleges is to make sure they are passionate and put in the hard work.
“Keep grinding no matter what,” Walker said.
Walker has received scholarship offers totaling over $4 million from all the schools. He is still deciding which school he will attend.
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GRAPHIC: Husband of Food Network star pleads guilty in 3-year-old’s beating death
GRAPHIC WARNING: The details of this story may disturb some readers.
GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina/Gray News) – The husband of a Food Network star pleaded guilty Thursday to charges in the death of the couple’s 3-year-old foster daughter.
Jerry “Austin” Robinson pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting homicide by child abuse in the death of Victoria “Tori” Smith.
Prosecutors say Tori died in January 2021 after she was beaten by Ariel Robinson, the winner of season 20 of Food Network’s “Worst Cooks in America.”
Jerry Robinson will remain on house arrest until his wife’s trial.
Prosecutors said Jerry Robinson claims he never physically hurt Tori but told investigators Ariel Robinson would beat the child with different items, including a belt.
Ariel Robinson was angry with Tori the night before her death because she vomited on herself on the way to church, Jerry Robinson told investigators. The next morning, he said Ariel Robinson was frustrated with Tori for not eating her pancakes fast enough.
He described hearing Ariel Robinson giving Tori a “whooping” with a belt that was audible from outside the home. According to prosecutors, when Jerry Robinson went inside, he saw his wife standing over Tori with the belt, saying, “You don’t get to tell me when you’re done.”
Jerry Robinson claims he told his wife, “You’ve gone too far. You went too far this time.” He went to CVS to buy liquid Tylenol to try to bring Tori’s bruising down, attorneys said, and then gave the child an Epsom salt bath.
Jerry Robinson called 911 hours later, and when first responders arrived at the home, Tori was in cardiac arrest.
Jerry Robinson’s attorney asked the judge to take his cooperation with the investigation into account when considering sentencing. He faces 10 to 20 years minimum in prison. He will be sentenced after Ariel Robinson’s trial.
Ariel Robinson will go to trial on May 9.
Prosecutors asked for body camera footage from when first responders responded to the 911 call to be admissible in court during Ariel Robinson’s trial. The body camera footage captures first responders’ “horrified” reactions when they found the bruising on Tori’s body, according to prosecutors.
Prosecutors said Ariel Robinson told first responders the bruising on Tori’s abdomen was caused by the force she used trying to do CPR. She claimed the bruising on Tori’s legs was caused by her then-7-year-old brother, according to prosecutors.
However, Ariel Robinson’s attorney has pushed for the body camera footage to be inadmissible since she was not read her Miranda Rights on the scene at the time.
The judge will decide Friday whether the body camera footage is admissible in Ariel Robinson’s trial.
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Harrisonburg Public Works recognized with national award for improved waste collection system
HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - Staff with the sanitation department at Harrisonburg Public Works partnered with technology company Rubicon to better their waste collection.
Through digitized maps and city code enforcement, officials say they’ve been able to decrease trips to the landfill and improve employee safety.
“We have a lot of guys who were getting injured being out in the field for as long as they were. So that became our primary focus. And then the secondary we noticed there was quite a bit of trash and waste that was in inconsistent containers throughout the entire city,” Public Works Support Services Manager Harsit Patel said.
The Rubicon Program has saved the city more than $90,000 and cut down on CO2 emissions by over 230,000 pounds.
“Our sanitation division hits every street every single week. So, we have a lot of infrastructure throughout the City of Harrisonburg, so this can certainly help us log, tag, and get ahead of issues that may potentially occur down the line,” Patel added.
He says this is only the beginning, adding the department has other projects in the works.
The Smart 50 Award is the second national honor for a Harrisonburg Public Works program. Recently, the department received the Gold Medal Governor’s Award for its Urban Forestry and Urban Wood program.
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How Congress plans to buoy your retirement savings
(CNN) - Congress is taking action to help avoid a potential retirement crisis.
A bill expected to reach President Joe Biden’s desk later this year could bring about new rules involving 401(k) programs and could impact your retirement savings.
“Part of this overhaul is to actually force people into saving in the 401(k) plan,” said Ted Jenkin, Financial expert & CEO at oXYGen Financial.
If passed and signed, the legislation, Secure Act 2.0, could require most employer-sponsored retirement plans to enroll eligible workers automatically at a 3% level.
That would increase by 1% until you’re contributing 10% of your paycheck annually, but workers would have the option to opt out or change their contribution level.
“Most people do not understand something called the ‘pay yourself first’ rule, and that means put money in your retirement plan before you start spending money on things like entertainment and travel,” Jenkin said.
The plan would also delay mandatory withdrawals and limit penalties for those who fail to withdraw on time.
The proposed act could also make it easier for those with student loans to save and for older workers to make catchup contributions.
It’s also a major change for part-time workers, who would be able to contribute to 401(k) plans for the first time.
With pension plans nearly extinct and the social security trust fund facing a 75-year deficit, experts said 401(k) plans are more critical than ever.
“The three-legged stool of retirement has basically turned into a pogo stick, and it’s going to be on your back and your responsibility to save money,” Jenkin said.
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JMU lacrosse dominates Liberty
HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - On Wednesday evening, James Madison rolled past Liberty 22-3 at Sentara Park.
After jumping ahead 9-0 in the first, the Dukes stayed in control with consistent offense to power past the Flames.
“It’s about staying engaged in the process, not getting caught up in the scoreline, and staying hungry,” said head coach Shelley Klaes.
The eleventh-ranked Dukes improve to 10-4 on the season. JMU set a new season-high for goals while 12 different players scored throughout the game.
“Every single person on our team was a huge part of this win,” said redshirt junior Katie Checkosky, who scored one goal and had three assists.
Redshirt sophomore Isabella Peterson led the Dukes with five goals while Kat Buchanan had six saves.
The Dukes are back in action on Saturday as James Madison faces William & Mary on the road.
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Migrants bused from Texas arrive in Washington, DC
Published: Apr. 14, 2022 at 1:55 PM EDT
(CNN) - The first round of migrants bused from Texas to Washington, D.C. arrived at Union Station on Wednesday, with a second arriving early Thursday.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott started this voluntary transfer of immigrants as a way to blast the Biden administration’s border policies.
Abbott, a Republican, issued a statement saying his state shouldn’t have to “bear the burden of the Biden administration’s failure to secure our border.”
Officials from Catholic Charities D.C. were on hand to meet the migrants and offered assistance, including food and medical care.
So far, there’s been no comment from either the Department of Homeland Security or U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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Missing California teen found safe in Utah years later
PARK CITY, Utah (KSTU) - Connerjack Oswalt, an autistic teenager who went missing in California in 2019, was recently found in Utah.
After years of fearing for his safety, the family is overjoyed.
Connerjack was 16 years old when he was reported missing from Clear Lake, California.
After his disappearance, his family didn’t see or hear from him.
A few weeks ago, the Summit County Sheriff’s Office started receiving reports about a man pushing around a shopping cart. One concerned citizen reported the same man sleeping in front of a store.
Body camera video shows officers approaching Connerjack in front of the store and asking if he would like to sit in the car to warm up after a very cold night.
In the car, Connerjack would not tell the officers his name, but he allowed deputies to scan his finger and with technology, it showed that he had a warrant out of Nevada.
Sheriff Justin Martinez said the officers felt there was something more to his story.
“There’s something more, this individual being resistant, reluctant to communicate,” he said.
The officers took it upon themselves to comb through the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children database. After nearly 20 pages of scouring through names and photographs and trying to find something that might match up, his name came up.
Deputies then called his family, who had moved from California to Idaho.
Connerjack’s stepfather, Gerald Flint, immediately drove from Idaho Falls, Idaho, to Park City, Utah.
After fearing the worst for nearly two years, his family was finally reunited with Connerjack.
“There wasn’t a dry eye in the room,” Martinez said. “They’ve been reunited with this individual they haven’t seen for three years when he was 16. He’s now 19.”
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Pfizer to seek COVID booster for healthy 5- to 11-year-olds
(AP) - Pfizer said Thursday it wants to expand its COVID-19 booster shots to healthy elementary-age kids.
U.S. health authorities already urge everyone 12 and older to get one booster dose for the best protection against the newest variants -- and recently gave the option of a second booster to those 50 and older.
Now Pfizer says new data shows healthy 5- to 11-year-olds could benefit from another kid-sized shot.
In a small study, 140 youngsters who’d already gotten two shots were given a booster six months later, and researchers found the extra shot generally revved up their immune response. But a closer look at 30 of the children found a 36-fold increase in virus-fighting antibodies, levels high enough to fight the super-contagious omicron variant, Pfizer and its partner BioNTech said in a press release.
The data has not been published or vetted by independent experts.
Pfizer tested the kid booster while omicron was surging this winter. While COVID-19 cases now are at much lower levels in the U.S., in recent weeks an even more contagious version of omicron, called BA.2, has become the dominant type locally and around the world.
In the coming days, the companies plan to ask the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to authorize a booster for healthy 5- to 11-year-olds. They also plan to share the data with European and other regulators.
Vaccinations are generally less effective against the omicron variant than earlier versions of the coronavirus -- but they do still offer strong protection against severe disease. While COVID-19 is a bigger threat to adults, youngsters can get seriously ill. But regulators will have to decide if healthy elementary-age kids really need a booster, and if so, when.
The Pfizer shots are the only vaccine available to U.S. children. Those ages 5 to 11 receive one-third of the dose given to everyone 12 and older. Just over a quarter in the younger age group have gotten two doses since vaccination opened to them in November, shortly before omicron struck.
The U.S. hasn’t yet allowed vaccinations for children under 5. But certain 5- to 11-year-olds -- those with severely weakened immune systems -- already are supposed to get three doses, to give that high-risk group a better chance of responding.
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Puppy rescued by fire department fostered by firefighter and pit bull advocate
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KOVR) – A puppy in California is ready to play after a pretty rough day.
Sacramento fire crews rescued the little guy, covered in burned plastic and with his fur singed, during a debris fire Tuesday.
The captain on the scene knew the puppy needed a good friend, so he called Mike Thawley at Station 19.
“He said ‘Do you want him?’ and I said ‘Yes,’” Thawley said.
Thawley is fostering the pup while Front Street Animal Shelter finds him a forever home. The puppy is already making himself comfortable.
“He perked up pretty good when we gave him water, a bath, some food, started picking off some of the plastic and then yesterday personality started coming out, tail wagging, following us around chewing,” Thawley said.
This isn’t the first time Thawley has fostered a dog the fire crews had rescued. Five years ago, he took in Chunk, an abandoned pit bull found chained to a fence.
Thawley is an advocate for pit bulls. He said knew right away the dog was home. And that’s where she’s been ever since. He had documented her journey on social media.
“We had well over 30 million people following Chunk,” Thawley said. “Donations into Front Street, donations to the bully rescues, Chunk had a two-page article in Women’s World magazine and an award from PETA.”
Thawley said its a doggone shame someone would leave a puppy in such bad conditions. But he said he hopes the rescue tells a tale of how people can help other rescue and shelter animals.
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Researchers at UVA Health studying COVID-19 antibodies
Published: Apr. 14, 2022 at 12:17 PM EDT
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - A new UVA Health study suggests antibodies generated by Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine rise more slowly and decline more quickly than Moderna’s vaccine.
More than 200 UVA employees were tracked over a period of 10 months after their vaccinations. Six months after their second doses, Pfizer recipients had antibody levels lower than Moderna recipients.
Researchers say while the vaccines are similar, there are differences in formulation, which could explain the differences in antibody response.
RELATED: Study Tracks COVID-19 Antibodies Over Time
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Softball umpire speaks after parent attack leaves her with severe nerve damage
LAUREL, Miss. (WDAM/Gray News) - An umpire in Mississippi is speaking out while she recovers from being punched in the face after a softball game for 12-year-old children.
Kristie Moore was filling in for an umpire who got sick, something she said she has been doing for several years with 10 years of experience calling games.
However, during this game, the coach asked one of the athlete’s mothers to leave the game for excessive cursing. Instead of going home, the woman is accused of waiting to confront Moore after the game, punching her and then running away.
Moore told WDAM that the parent became irate after a call she made at second base, but the coaches and other officials had no opposition to the call.
The 10-year umpire said abuse to referees, whether physical or verbal, is becoming too familiar and leading to an umpire shortage.
“This is not a Laurel thing or a Mississippi thing,” Moore said. “This is a nationwide thing for officials across the board. It’s harder and harder, every weekend because of the abuse that umpires and officials across the board are experiencing.”
According to police, the parent in question, Kiara Thomas, was arrested after the incident and charged with simple assault.
Moore said she wants people to understand that umpires are just human.
“Officials in any sport are expected to be perfect and we’re not,” Moore said. “We never will be.”
Moore experienced a severe contusion and nerve damage in her left eye, but it won’t stop her from umpiring.
She hopes that her story will bring awareness to the umpire shortage and brings consequences for similar actions.
“There definitely needs to be stricter consequences and laws to stop and to deter this from happening to anyone else,” Moore said.
Earlier this year, a bill was introduced in the legislature that would make assaulting a referee or umpire a felony as aggravated assault. That bill, however, did not make the calendar.
Moore said she hopes after this incident lawmakers will take a second look at the bill.
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Team of lawyers work to prove innocence of 14-year-old convicted in mother’s murder
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV/Gray News) – Michael Politte was 14 years old when his mother died.
Rita Politte was beaten, then set on fire in December of 1998. Politte and a friend were sleeping in the next room and say they woke up to smoke.
Despite swearing his innocence, Politte was convicted of killing his mother.
“This kid never had a chance,” Politte’s attorney Megan Crane told KCTV.
He’s now 38 years old and will be released from prison at the end of April due to new sentencing guidelines for juveniles.
The crime
“I remember the hair on the back of my neck rising up – I didn’t know what to do,” said Politte. “What’s a 14-year-old kid supposed to do in that moment?”
After he woke up to smoke, he tried to put the fire out himself with a garden hose, but the hose wouldn’t stretch that far.
Politte remembers kneeling down to see what he could see and saw his mother’s legs covered in blood.
“She was on fire from her waist up,” he recalled.
Police expected Politte to be more emotional at the crime scene, maybe even shed tears. But he didn’t. He was quiet – and angry.
“I mean, I can still hear it – I can hear the fire crackling,” said Politte. “There are times I wake up in the morning that I can smell (it). It’s with me forever.”
Politte was defiant throughout the investigation. A police dog alerted investigators to his shoes – three times. Testing revealed gasoline on them.
When the case went to trial, Politte had a public defender. He believed in the system and that the truth would come out.
But with no explanation for gasoline on the shoes, a jury convicted Politte and the judge sentenced him to life in prison.
He’s lived more than half of his life behind bars.
“I can’t describe the feeling of helplessness,” said Politte. “There’s no reason to exist anymore.”
Nagging questions
In the years since Politte’s conviction, many people question whether the court got it right.
His case attracted the attention of the Midwest Innocence Project, the MacArthur Justice Institute and a Kansas City law firm, Langdon & Emison, in part, because of his age.
“According to law enforcement, he just wasn’t acting right. He wasn’t emotional. He wasn’t crying. He wasn’t upset. But psychologists tell us that’s what trauma often looks like, especially in a kid,” Crane explained.
Politte’s attorneys point the court to another possible motive for the murder.
The week of Rita Politte’s murder she was granted alimony, child support and part of her ex-husband’s pension and 401K.
They also argue that her ex-husband, Ed Politte, responded, “You will never see the day when you’ll get the money.”
Investigators found a boot print behind the burning trailer, but Ed Politte was quickly dismissed as a suspect in the case. He had an alibi. He was at work at the time of the murder.
Politte’s current lawyers sent investigators back to Hopewell to conduct new interviews.
That investigation turned up witnesses who place one of Ed’s cousins near the scene of the crime the morning of the fire. Circumstantial evidence suggests he had a financial windfall shortly after the murder. They argue the evidence implicates the cousins in a murder-for-hire scheme.
Ed released the following statement in response to the accusation:
I’m grateful and happy Mike is being released. Now about me, I did a dozen or so interviews with the law. I did a lie detector test, a blood test, a DNA test and fingerprints. I cooperated 100% with the law. I don’t know what else I could have done. My place of work was checked out. My coworkers were interviewed, I have a couple dozen witnesses that placed me 85 miles from my ex…. That’s all I have to say. Your (sic) a reporter I’m sure you can verify what I’ve said. I will discuss this no further. Thank you for atleast(sic) getting my side.
New evidence supports Michael’s innocence claim
More than 20 years after the murder, evidence is now on Politte’s side.
A new test revealed there is no gasoline on the shoes that helped convict him. The newer test can tell the difference between accelerants. The earlier test was positive for the adhesive in the shoes – information that was revealed six years ago.
The majority of jurors who are still alive and even a former member of the sheriff’s office are now advocating for Michael Politte’s release.
“It shouldn’t be this hard. We’re the greatest country in the world, but yet here I am, after six years of discovering that I was wrongfully convicted with false science, my jury was lied to, and I’m still sitting in a prison cell,” Politte said. “I don’t want to be angry – I just want to live.”
Release is not “The End”
As it turns out, Politte will be released from prison at the end of April. Not because a judge ruled in his favor, but because the parole board granted his release due to new sentencing guidelines for juveniles.
Politte plans to visit his mother’s grave soon after his release.
“She can probably finally rest,” he said. “I don’t think she’s been resting since she passed away knowing what happened in the aftermath.”
Politte said he will fight to clear his name. He hopes the local prosecutor will reopen the case and look at new evidence.
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Teen says gaming headset saved him from stray bullet
LOS ANGELES (KCAL/KCBS) - A family counts itself fortunate. They still don’t know where a bullet that struck an 18-year-old came from, but they now realize how close they came to tragedy.
A gaming headset is credited with saving the life of Jonathan Gonzalez.
“You can see the damage. It actually bent this piece of metal here and went through,” said Gonzalez, an active gamer.
He was on his PlayStation the morning of April 1 just after midnight listening to music and chatting with friends when he felt something hit his head.
“It felt like if you’re wearing a bike helmet, and someone just smacks the top of your head,” Gonzalez said.
He looked up and found the bullet hole in his bedroom window. The gunshot ripped his curtains down.
After it struck him in the head, the bullet ricocheted against the wall and landed in his bed.
“If it wasn’t for these on my head, it probably would’ve went through,” Gonzalez said.
He ran to his parents’ room shouting he thought he’d been shot.
Nearly two weeks later, his family is still trying to process this close call.
“It’s still a trigger for me to process the thought that I could’ve lost my son. We were asleep, and if it did hurt him, we would not have known until we woke up hours later,” said Janet Popoca, the teen’s mother.
When the Los Angeles Police Department responded, officers could not find the shooter. They don’t believe the gun was fired at close range.
Gonzalez’s mom says even officers couldn’t believe what happened. “They were just shocked,” she said.
Gonzalez said he keeps thinking about how an inch in either direction could’ve changed things drastically.
“Minding my own business in my own room, and I could’ve been gone. Just thinking about it for the first week made me sick,” he said.
Razer, the company that makes the headphones, sent him a replacement.
Gonzalez said he still loves to game, but he’s now leery of what’s happening outside his window.
Police are still investigating the shooting.
Gonzalez’s family said they hope for an arrest, but they are learning to appreciate life a lot more.
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Tesla issues 2nd recall for obstructing pedestrian warning
Published: Apr. 14, 2022 at 8:38 AM EDT
DETROIT (AP) — Tesla is recalling nearly nearly 595,000 vehicles in the U.S., most for a second time, because a “Boombox” function can play sounds over an external speaker and obscure audible warnings for pedestrians.
The company says in government documents that the new recall will disable “Boombox” if owners are using a feature that lets them “summon” the vehicles at low speeds.
The first recall in February disabled “Boombox” if the Teslas are in drive, neutral or reverse.
Both recalls will be done with online software updates.
The new recall covers certain 2020 through 2022 Model Y, X, and S vehicles, as well as the 2017 through 2022 Model 3.
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Texas lawmakers respond as second bus of immigrants arrives in DC
A second bus of undocumented immigrants arrived in Washington from Texas Thursday. According to Gov. Greg Abbott (R-Texas), it’s part of his response to President Biden’s decision to end Title 42 expulsions.
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - A second bus of undocumented immigrants arrived in Washington from Texas Thursday. According to Gov. Greg Abbott (R-Texas), it’s part of his response to President Biden’s decision to end Title 42 expulsions.
Some Texas lawmakers support Gov. Abbott’s plan, but some of their colleagues are calling the bus trip a political stunt.
Noting that Texas is bearing the burden of an unsecured border, Gov. Greg Abbott began bussing migrants, who are awaiting deportation trials to Washington D.C.
Two buses have arrived so far, filled with only those who, according to Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas), volunteered for the trip.
“[It] wouldn’t surprise me if we take people to Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, but we’re trying to move people to where they want to go as an option,” Sessions said. “I support what the governor is doing.”
But it’s the location: Washington D.C., that feeds into concerns that the bus trips are purely political.
Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) said the governor is using the trips to make a political point, though he does agree with Abbott on some facets of immigration, such as his push to keep Title 42.
“He’s trying to get publicity. But, you know, that’s the whole key I think people need to understand that, that we at the border, we’re the ones that see the whole thing. We’re the ones who see the migrants,” Cuellar said.
Politically, this is all part of broader conflict at the border. Immigration has been one of the most divisive issues between the primary parties and it remains so, as the next election cycle nears.
Title 42 was first written decades ago to prevent sick immigrants from crossing the U.S. border. It was enforced during the coronavirus pandemic, but now, it’s set to end next month.
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Thinking small: Biden scrounges for ways to break through
WASHINGTON (AP) — With his sweeping domestic agenda on hold and images of horror in Ukraine dominating headlines, President Joe Biden is scrounging for ways to demonstrate that he’s still making progress for Americans at a time when many feel the country is heading in the wrong direction.
Six months out from the midterm elections, Biden’s team is betting that smaller, discrete announcements can break through to voters better than talk of transformational plans that are so far only aspirational. And as the global focus is on Ukraine, the White House is eager for Americans to see Biden tackling the kitchen table issues important to them –- none more so than the searing inflation exacerbated by the Russian invasion.
Last week, that meant aides positioned big rigs outside the White House so Biden could talk about efforts to get more truck drivers on the road. A day later, he welcomed back former President Barack Obama for the signing of an executive order updating the Affordable Care Act. And after that, he signed bipartisan legislation intended to safeguard the U.S. Postal Service’s financial future.
This week, he’s notching his heaviest domestic travel in months. On Thursday, he visited Greensboro, North Carolina, to highlight his plans to boost domestic supply chains and high-tech workforces at North Carolina A&T State University. It comes after a Tuesday stop in Iowa to announce that his administration was granting a waiver to allow more ethanol in gasoline year-round, a move that officials estimated would shave 10 cents per gallon off gasoline prices — but at just 2,300 gas stations out of the nation’s more than 100,000.
The White House says the public focus on the war in Ukraine is “understandable” and it’s realistic about the challenges facing Biden in breaking through.
“While the world needs to understand and see how he is leading on the war, the country needs to see how he is continuing to lead on the economy,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Wednesday. “Being able to continue to speak to our domestic audience about that is a huge priority. And his schedule tells the story of how much of a priority it is.”
All of the policies Biden is touting will have direct impact on American lives — but they also fall far short of the goals that Biden set for himself when taking office. Taken together, they show how the White House is trying to regain momentum at a time when Biden is under pressure to recalibrate his ambitions.
“I think it makes good strategic sense that, if you’re going to be stymied by Congress, you take matters into your own hands,” said Eric Schultz, a communications official in the Obama White House.
It’s a dynamic that Obama himself confronted, particularly in his second term in office, when he used his executive authority to push forward his agenda as much as possible.
“It’s not a coincidence that this strategy emerged when Republicans threw up their hands and decided they didn’t want to be governing partners,” Schultz said.
Schultz said Democrats need to demonstrate they’re making progress even if they’re not passing the sweeping legislation they promised.
“Did we accomplish everything we wanted to? No,” he said. “But did we roll up our sleeves every day and push the needle forward? Yes.”
While there have been successes, notably the confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to be the first Black woman on the Supreme Court, much of Biden’s agenda remains stalemated — or worse.
Lawmakers are struggling to hash out a bipartisan compromise on legislation that’s intended to help the U.S. compete economically with China. Biden’s sweeping Build Back Better legislation is dead in the water, waiting for Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin to decide what, if anything, he’ll support. Immigration reform, gun control legislation and voting reform have fallen out of the national conversation.
That’s left Biden touting the benefits of infrastructure legislation that passed last year — old bridges slated for replacement are a staple of his domestic travels — and looking for other, small policies that can be advanced.
Adam Green, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, said smaller initiatives are only going to help if they “lay the groundwork for passing much bigger policies.”
“Singles are fine if they’re a prelude to a grand slam,” he said, adding that Democrats face “a motivation challenge” ahead of the midterms. “Democrats are not going to get people to the polls with a lot of singles.”
William Galston, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, said Biden is trying to make the most of a difficult situation.
“He’s doing what he can now that some of his grander plans have been sidetracked,” he said.
Galston recalled a similar strategy when he worked on domestic policy for President Bill Clinton. Before the midterms in 1994, the White House worked on “running up the score” with policy proposals that were less controversial.
“It was just what happened when the White House conceded defeat on its central agenda item,” which was health care reform for Clinton.
“Those smaller victories made absolutely no difference in the midterms. The fact that they were below the radar screen was good news for passing legislation, but bad news for their political effectiveness,” he said. For Biden, “that’s likely to be the case this time, too.”
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VHHA releases statement on conviction of former Tennessee nurse
RICHMOND, Va. (WHSV) - With the unanimous support of its Board of Directors, the Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association (VHHA) issued a statement regarding the March 25, 2022 conviction of former Vanderbilt University Medical Center nurse RaDonda Vaught.
She was charged with criminally negligent homicide and impaired elder abuse in connection to a December 2017 incident in which she mistakenly administered the wrong medication to a patient resulting in the patient’s death. The full statement from VHHA can be found below.
“Delivery of health care services can be extremely complex and often occurs in fast-paced, high-stress environments, at times on an emergency basis. Unfortunately, mistakes happen, sometimes with tragic consequences. Learning from those mistakes and implementing best practices and corrective action are an important component of delivering safe care, protecting patients, and ensuring mistakes are not repeated. In fact, the VHHA and its member health systems have made it a strategic priority to apply the principles of highly reliable organizations and create learning cultures that are constantly designing safe systems and viewing medical errors as opportunities to improve patient safety and outcomes.
To support this work, in 2013, the VHHA established the federally-certified Virginia Patient Safety Organization (PSO), providing a forum for aggregation and sharing of adverse event data and root cause analyses and identifying opportunities for improvement and avoidance of harm across multiple health systems and other provider organizations. In 2017, the VHHA launched its “Virginians Speak Up for Safety” awards program to acknowledge the efforts of individuals and teams within Virginia hospitals who speak up to prevent potential harm to patients or other staff members. Promotion and support for speaking up about safety without concerns of negative repercussions is a key principle of highly reliable organizations. The VHHA believes that employees who feel safe and empowered to speak up to peers as well as to those in authority are able to do so because of a positive safety culture in their organization and that this is a vital component on the journey to achieving zero harm.
VHHA is extremely concerned about the implications of, and precedent set by, criminally charging and convicting health care providers for medical errors. This will undoubtedly have a chilling effect on the willingness of nurses, physicians, and other clinicians to report errors and facilitate the shared learning that is so critically important to safe patient care.
VHHA is even more concerned with how this conviction will impact our health care providers, particularly our nurses who have served on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic for nearly two years. Nurses and other health care providers have experienced untold stress leading to burnout, mental and physical health challenges, and, in some cases, nurses leaving the profession altogether.
The challenges of COVID-19 and their impact on nurses have contributed to an unprecedented nurse staffing crisis in Virginia and nationally. Add to these challenges the prospect of potential criminal prosecution for unintentional medical errors and our nursing crisis will only continue to grow.
VHHA strongly supports our nurses and other health care providers, and we are actively working with our members and stakeholders to address the challenges facing the nursing profession. We will continue to work with our members and other stakeholders to determine what steps need to be taken to ensure our nurses are protected and encouraged to continue reporting medical errors to improve patient safety.”
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Woman killed by falling tree as storms hit Midwest, South
RISON, Ark. (AP) — A 20-year-old Arkansas woman was killed when a tree fell on her home as severe storms swept through the state and a possible tornado ripped roofs off homes in Alabama, officials said.
The woman’s death occurred Wednesday as part of a multiday severe weather outbreak that caused tornadoes, powerful winds and huge hail in parts of the central and southern United States.
A weak tornado confirmed by the National Weather Service tore roofs from homes in a public housing community and peppered cars with debris Wednesday night in rural Greene County, Alabama, located about 90 miles (145 kilometers) southwest of Birmingham. Billy Hicks, who lives in the area, told WBMA-TV he was lying down when he heard a rush of wind that lasted only a few seconds.
“I jumped up and put my clothes on, put my shoes on when everything was over with. I come to the side door and looked across the street. I knew that something had hit all these houses,” said Hicks, who got in his car to go check on neighbors.
Authorities swarmed the area but didn’t find anyone who was hurt, said Zac Bolding of Greene County Emergency Medical Services.
“Most of the people we talked to as we were doing a house-to-house search explained that they were in their bathroom or an interior hallway, so they were listening to those warnings and without that I think we would have been looking at a much different situation,” he said.
In Arkansas, the woman was died when a tree toppled on her home in Rison shortly after 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, pinning her to the couch, said Stephen McClellan, Cleveland County’s emergency management coordinator. Rison is about 55 miles (90 kilometers) south of Little Rock.
A day earlier, 23 people were injured in the central Texas town of Salado. The National Weather Service in Fort Worth said Wednesday that the twister was rated an EF3 with peak wind speeds of 165 mph (265 kph). On Thursday, Gov. Greg Abbott declared Bell County, where Salado is situated, and nearby Williamson County to hasten state assistance to storm-ravaged areas.
Tornadoes were also reported Tuesday in parts of Iowa and Minnesota. Residents in the small southeastern Minnesota farming community of Taopi were cleaning up after a devastating tornado destroyed half of the town’s homes, toppled tall trees and left piles of debris.
A tornado that was rated EF2 with peak wind speeds of 130 mph (209 kph) struck Taopi near the Iowa border late Tuesday night, tearing the roofs off houses, overturning vehicles and bringing down power lines. There were no reports of serious injuries.
Volunteers arrived Wednesday to help residents clean up the debris in the community of about 80 people. Family members sifted through rubble looking for keepsakes.
“Half the town is gone,” City Clerk Jim Kiefer said. Of Taopi’s 22 homes, at least 10 are beyond repair, with roofs and walls missing, he said. Kiefer said his house is OK, but his mother’s home is a total loss.
“She won’t be going home,” he said.
Also, a blizzard struck North Dakota this week, closing the state Capitol, schools, government offices and some businesses for a third day Thursday.
The National Weather Service’s blizzard warning for much of the state and smaller sections of South Dakota and Montana remained in effect Thursday. More than a foot of snow (30 centimeters) has fallen in Bismarck with about 2 feet (61 centimeters) in Dickinson and Glenburn.
“For the month of April it’s not uncommon to get the snow. Now, snow of this magnitude — this is something that’s a little bit more unique,” said Rick Krolak, at the weather service’s Bismarck office.
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Work on two Harrisonburg trails to cause brief closure to public
HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - The unfinished Friendly City Trail in the area of Hillandale Park and Westover Park has already become one of the most popular amenities in Harrisonburg for people looking to enjoy the outdoors.
But work is still taking place to complete the project, and patrons are being asked to please avoid using the path in the coming days to allow the project to be completed.
Asphalt work on the Friendly City Trail between Bluestone Elementary School and Hillandale Park will make the path unusable starting Friday and lasting the entirety of next week.
Additional work to install trail lane indicators along the entirety of the trail, from Harrisonburg High School to Thomas Harrison Middle School, and on the nearby Cale Trail from Thomas Harrison Middle School to Westover Park, will make both paths unsafe for use while work takes place.
Signage will be in place urging visitors to refrain from using either trail until work is complete.
“While we are thrilled to see how many people are already enjoying the Friendly City Trail, we must ask that you please check out one of our other great walking and bicycling areas for the next few days and allow our team to make sure our newest addition is safe and ready to accommodate your families,” Harrisonburg Public Works Director Tom Hartman said. “In the meantime, we encourage you to visit the Bluestone Trail, Northend Greenway, or the many safe places to enjoy the outdoors at our parks.”
More information on the official opening of the Friendly City Trail will be available in the near future.
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Man, 21, arrested a week after 3 killed at Georgia gun range
Published: Apr. 16, 2022 at 12:03 AM EDT|Updated: 28 minutes ago
GRANTVILLE, Ga. (AP) — A 21-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a fatal armed robbery at a Georgia gun range that left three members of a family dead last week.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said Friday that Jacob Christian Muse, of College Park, is charged with three counts of malice murder.
Grantville officers who arrived at the scene of Lock Stock & Barrel Shooting Range on the night of April 8 discovered the bodies of the gun range’s owner, along with his wife and grandson.
Investigators said that as many as 40 guns and the range’s surveillance camera were also stolen. Authorities did not release additional information about Muse’s arrest.
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Over 900 civilians dead around Kyiv, Russia vows new attacks
US official: Sunken Russian cruiser was hit by Ukrainian missile
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Indignant over what it called Ukrainian strikes in Russian territory and following the stunning loss of its Black Sea flagship, Moscow threatened renewed missile attacks on Kyiv, where authorities said the bodies of more than 900 civilians were found outside the capital. Most had been shot dead, police said, and likely “simply executed.”
Russian forces continued preparations for a renewed offensive in eastern Ukraine, and fighting also went on in the pummeled southern port city of Mariupol, where locals reported seeing Russian troops digging up bodies. In the northeastern city of Kharkiv, the shelling of a residential area killed seven people, including a 7-month-old child, and wounded 34, according to regional Gov. Oleh Sinehubov.
In the towns around Kyiv, said Andriy Nebytov, who heads the region’s police force, bodies were abandoned in the streets or given temporary burials. He cited police data indicating 95% died from gunshot wounds.
“Consequently, we understand that under the (Russian) occupation, people were simply executed in the streets,” Nebytov said.
GRAPHIC WARNING: Videos and photos contain disturbing images.
More bodies are being found every day under rubble and in mass graves, he added, with the largest number found in Bucha, more than 350. According to Nebytov, utility workers gathered and buried bodies in the Kyiv suburb while it remained under Russian control. Russian troops, he added, had been “tracking down” people who expressed strong pro-Ukrainian views.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russian troops occupying parts of the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions in the south of terrorizing civilians and hunting for anyone who served in Ukraine’s military or government.
“The occupiers think this will make it easier for them to control this territory. But they are very wrong. They are fooling themselves,” Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address. “Russia’s problem is that it is not accepted — and never will be accepted — by the entire Ukrainian people. Russia has lost Ukraine forever.”
More violence could be in store for Kyiv after Russian authorities accused Ukraine of wounding seven people and damaging about 100 residential buildings with airstrikes in Bryansk, a region bordering Ukraine. Authorities in another border region of Russia also reported Ukrainian shelling Thursday.
“The number and the scale of missile attacks on objects in Kyiv will be ramped up in response to the Kyiv nationalist regime committing any terrorist attacks or diversions on the Russian territory,” Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said.
Russia used missiles to destroy a facility for the repair and production of missile systems in Kyiv, Konashenkov said. The Ukrainian state arms manufacturer, Ukroboronprom, said Russian forces struck one of the missile workshops at the Vizar plant, located near Kyiv’s Zhuliany airport.
Ukrainian officials have not confirmed striking targets in Russia, and the reports could not be independently verified.
However, Ukrainian officials said forces did strike a key Russian warship with missiles. A senior U.S. defense official backed up the claim, saying the U.S. now believes the Moskva was hit by at least one Neptune anti-ship missile, and probably two. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss an intelligence assessment.
The Moskva, named for the Russian capital, sank while being towed to port Thursday after taking heavy damage. Moscow did not acknowledge any attack, saying only that a fire had detonated ammunition on board. The loss of the ship represents an important victory for Ukraine and a symbolic defeat for Russia.
The sinking reduces Russia’s firepower in the Black Sea and seemed to symbolize Moscow’s fortunes in an eight-week invasion widely seen as a historic blunder following the Russian retreat from the Kyiv region and much of northern Ukraine.
“A ‘flagship’ russian warship is a worthy diving site. We have one more diving spot in the Black Sea now. Will definitely visit the wreck after our victory in the war,” Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov tweeted Friday.
Russia’s warning of renewed airstrikes did not stop Kyiv residents from taking advantage of a sunny and slightly warmer spring Friday as the weekend approached. More people than usual were out on the streets, walking dogs, riding electric scooters and strolling hand in hand.
Such tentative signs of prewar life have resurfaced in the capital after Russian troops failed to capture the city and retreated to concentrate on eastern Ukraine, leaving behind evidence of possible war crimes. But a renewed bombardment could mean a return to the steady wail of air raid sirens heard during the early days of the invasion and to fearful nights sheltering in subway stations.
In Mariupol, the city council said Friday that locals reported seeing Russian troops digging up bodies buried in residential courtyards and not allowing new burials “of people killed by them.”
“Why the exhumation is being carried out and where the bodies will be taken is unknown,” the council said on the Telegram messaging app.
Fighting continued in industrial areas and the port, and Russia for the first time used the Tu-22М3 long-range bomber to attack the city, said Oleksandr Motuzyanyk, a spokesman for the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense.
Mariupol has been blockaded by Russian forces since the early days of the invasion, and dwindling numbers of Ukrainian defenders have held out against a siege that has come at a horrific cost to trapped and starving civilians.
The mayor said this week that the city’s death toll could surpass 20,000. Other Ukrainian officials have said they expect to find evidence in Mariupol of atrocities like the ones discovered in Bucha and other towns outside Kyiv.
Mariupol’s capture would allow Russian forces in the south, which came up through the annexed Crimean Peninsula, to fully link up with troops in the Donbas region, Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland and the target of the looming offensive.
It’s not certain when Russia will launch a full-scale campaign.
Also Friday, a Russian rocket hit an airport at night in the central city of Oleksandriia, Mayor Serhiy Kuzmenko said via Facebook. He made no mention of casualties.
And a regional Ukrainian official said seven people were killed and 27 wounded when Russian forces fired on buses carrying civilians in the village of Borovaya, near Kharkiv. The claim could not be independently verified.
Dmytro Chubenko, a spokesman for the regional prosecutor’s office, told the Suspilne news website that authorities had opened criminal proceedings in connection with a suspected “violation of the laws and customs of war, combined with premeditated murder.”
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Fisch reported from Kramatorsk. Burns reported from Washington. Associated Press journalists around the world contributed to this report.
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Residents fed up with crime: 17-year-old shot in neck during botched carjacking
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE/Gray News) - A New Orleans man shot at two teenagers who were attempting to steal his car Thursday night, and residents say these incidents are becoming too familiar.
WVUE reports a law enforcement source said two 17-year-olds approached a 48-year-old man in a neighborhood outside of downtown and demanded his keys at gunpoint.
According to the police source, as the pair took off in the man’s car he shot at them and struck one of the thieves in the neck. They both ended up at the Tulane Medical Center, where two handguns were recovered, with one reported as stolen.
“The neighborhood is tired of the crime, and they’re tired of no response from the city,” said neighbor Michael Ferweda.
He said the community has tried to beautify the neighborhood for years, but they feel alone in their attempts.
“The number of carjackings, robberies, and smash and grabs is sad,” Ferweda said. “It’s really sad to see this in our city, and the reason why it’s occurring is that there isn’t anything being done about it.”
Police did not release any further immediate information about Thursday’s incident.
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Tazewell captures Coppinger tournament championship
Bulldogs score four in the first inning
Published: Apr. 16, 2022 at 12:15 AM EDT|Updated: 14 minutes ago
BLUEFIELD, Va. (WVVA) - Tazewell jumped out to an early lead and finished the job on Friday night.
The Bulldogs scored four in the first inning en route to a 14-2 win over Shady Spring.
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Woman arrested with $1.4M worth of fentanyl pills, deputies say
Published: Apr. 15, 2022 at 10:25 PM EDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
TUCSON, Ariz. (Gray News) - Authorities in Arizona arrested a woman with thousands of synthetic opioid pills in her possession during a traffic stop on Thursday.
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department reports detectives with the Border Interdiction Unit conducted a traffic stop near Interstate 10. And during the stop, officers said they found about 371,000 fentanyl pills.
The driver of the vehicle was identified as 47-year-old Imelda Carter. The sheriff’s department said Carter was turned over to federal authorities for further investigation and was eventually booked on multiple felonies.
According to police, the pills recovered have an estimated street value of $1.4 million.
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...HIGH WIND WATCH IN EFFECT FROM LATE SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH
SUNDAY AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...West winds 30 to 40 mph with gusts up to 60 mph
possible.
* WHERE...East Platte County and Central Laramie County.
* WHEN...From late Saturday night through Sunday afternoon.
* IMPACTS...Mainly to transportation. Strong cross winds will be
hazardous to light weight and high profile vehicles, including
campers and tractor trailers.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A High Wind Watch means there is the potential for a hazardous
high wind event. Sustained winds of at least 40 mph...or gusts of
58 mph or stronger may occur. Continue to monitor the latest
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Steven Lyle Larson 1954-2022 Steve Larson 67, of Rochester, MN passed away April 13, 2022, at his home with his devoted wife of 38 years by his side. He fiercely fought a 7-year battle with Multiple Myeloma Cancer. Steve was born in Augusta, Georgia to Lloyd Larson and Marian Cutshall Larson. They moved to Rochester when Steve was 6 weeks old. Steve graduated from Mayo High School in 1973. He entered the Air Force immediately upon graduation. He spent 23 years traveling the world visiting foreign countries such as Okinawa, Paraguay, and South Korea. While stationed at Vandenberg AFB, CA and Warren AFB, WY, from 1989 - 1993. He was in the Geodetic Survey section and team leader with the Defense Mapping Agency. He managed survey teams temporarily located worldwide. Also lead survey teams on government surveys, including mapping Paraguay, space shuttle landing system, and airport surveys. At F.E. Warren Air Force Base, he was First Sergeant and base contracting office manager before retiring and returning to Rochester, MN. He retired at the rank of SMSgt. In Rochester he became known as the "computer guy" for the American Cancer Society or Technology Support Analyst. He maintained connections for American Cancer Society (ACS) offices and Hope Lodges in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa, also ACS offices and Hope Lodges and Mayo Clinic. He retired from ACS in 2017 due to cancer. Steve married his soulmate Gina Greenwalt on July 21,1984 at Vandenberg AFB. Steve is survived by his wife, his youngest brother Ron of Burnsville, MN; 3 aunts and many cousins. Steve was preceded in death by his parents and brother David of Mankato. Visitation will be held at Rochester Cremation Services, Rochester, MN on Wednesday April 20, from 3-6 pm. A Military of Honors funeral service will be held in Preston, MN at the State of Minnesota's Veterans Cemetery at 10 AM April 21, 2022 In lieu of flowers please donate to two of Steve's favorite charities, Best Friends and Safe Haven Animal Shelter. Rochester Cremation Services is assisting the family with arrangements. Memories and condolences of Steve may be shared at rochestercremationservicesmn.com
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...HIGH WIND WATCH IN EFFECT FROM LATE SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH
SUNDAY AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...West winds 30 to 40 mph with gusts up to 60 mph
possible.
* WHERE...East Platte County and Central Laramie County.
* WHEN...From late Saturday night through Sunday afternoon.
* IMPACTS...Mainly to transportation. Strong cross winds will be
hazardous to light weight and high profile vehicles, including
campers and tractor trailers.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A High Wind Watch means there is the potential for a hazardous
high wind event. Sustained winds of at least 40 mph...or gusts of
58 mph or stronger may occur. Continue to monitor the latest
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Burned Humvee returned to F.E. Warren Air Force Base from Nebraska
CHEYENNE – 90th Missile Wing airmen successfully returned a burned Humvee to F.E. Warren Air Force Base on Friday.
The vehicle caught fire while airmen from the 790th Missile Security Forces Squadron were traveling on Highway 71 near Kimball, Nebraska, on Monday, closing the roadway for five days. There were no injuries in the incident.
A team from the 90th Explosive Ordnance Disposal flight worked throughout the week, detonating ammunition and grenades that were not able to be removed from the burning vehicle. The area has been determined clear and safe due to their efforts and partnership with the Kimball community, according to a base news release.
“We are grateful for our community partners and support from Kimball officials,” Col. Catherine Barrington, 90th Missile Wing commander, said in the release. “From the first responders who reacted quickly to help put out the fire on scene and halt traffic along the road, to all those who provided support to our airmen as they worked the incident, we appreciate the teamwork.”
The base will conduct an investigation into the incident to determine the cause of the fire and prevent future mishaps.
To make claims for damage to property or services related to this incident, contact the 90th Public Affairs Office at 307-773-3381.
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| 2022-04-16T04:34:32Z
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Henley and Hidden Valley matched up in a double header late Friday afternoon, which saw the Hornets handing the Mustangs their first loss of the season.
The Hornets came into this game on a slump, losing the last three games they played, including a 3-8 loss at Hidden Valley on Thursday.
Hidden Valley is starting off the season red hot, winning their first 10 games and eyeing a school record in consecutive wins. The Hornets had other plans.
The first game saw the Hornets cashing in on the errors of Hidden Valley, with the Mustangs having five errors by the end of the second inning. The Hornets tallied up 5 runs due to the errors and cruised to a 6-2 victory, despite Hidden Valley’s late home run.
Hornets’ infielder Hunter Schwenk was a big part of Henley’s win with his stellar hitting. While Schwenk was great, he only had praise for his team, “The boys played phenomenal,” Schwenk said, “All gas no breaks, that’s what coach (Randall) taught us.”
Schwenk and the Hornets tried to ride this momentum into game two, however, despite their efforts, they came up short, losing 4-2.
Schwenk had outstanding pitching and batting during the second game, surrendering only a few hits. However, Henley this time had many errors by their defense which cost them the second game and, despite a late game rally in the 7th, the errors were just too much to overcome.
Hidden Valley takes the season series winning two of the three games; however we still have a long way to go and anything can happen.
The Hornets next game will be at Klamath Union on April 20, where they will attempt to bounce back from the second game loss.
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| 2022-04-16T05:38:42Z
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HONOLULU (KITV4) -- The Hawaii Tourism Authority (HTA) has issued a new Request for Proposals (RFP) for branding and visitor education in the U.S. market, four months after the state rescinded the initial offer.
The contract would run June 30, 2022 to December 31, 2024, with the option of extending for two more years.
According to the RFP, the contract is worth no more than $16.3 million for July through December 2022, and no more than $18.8 million for 2023. No dollar amount is listed for 2024.
The contractor would also provide support services for Hawaii’s official travel website, app, social media channels, and creative content used worldwide.
The Hawaii Department of Business, Economic Development & Tourism (DBEDT) rescinded the offer HTA had made to the applicant that won the contract last December. HTA is administratively attached to DBEDT.
DBEDT would not say exactly why it took back the offer, just that it had determined the solicitation did not consider all factors of significance to HTA.
The U.S. market contractor is the largest of HTA's global marketing and branding teams since most of Hawaii's visitors come from the mainland.
According to HTA, domestic air seats accounted for 70 percent of total seats to Hawaii in 2019 -- the year before the COVID-19 pandemic started.
Visitors from the mainland also helped to keep Hawaii's tourism industry afloat during the pandemic, at a time when international travel was down.
According to DBEDT, in 2021, nearly 4.5 million visitors came to Hawaii from the U.S. West, and nearly 2 million visitors came from the U.S. East. They spent about $12 billion in Hawaii.
The Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau has long held the contract for marketing and branding Hawaii to the U.S. mainland, and was given a six-month extension, which ends on June 29, 2022.
Anyone interested in applying for the RFP must register their intent to apply by April 22. Proposals are due on May 17.
HTA will hold a pre-proposal conference via Zoom on April 20 at 8 a.m. You can register for the webinar here.
Marisa Yamane joined KITV4 in January 2022 as an anchor and executive producer. She is an award-winning veteran journalist, who’s spent most of her career in Hawaii. She’s a proud graduate of Iolani School and UCLA.
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HONOLULU (KITV4) -- From the look of the Ohana Hale Marketplace, you'd never know it was the next to last day for vendors to operate at the location.
But little signs are everywhere. Some are sad this is ending. "It has been so long that I have been coming here. Just goodbye to everyone," cried customer Bernadette Dicus. "It's like one whole big family. It's going to be hard for all of us, because when we leave...I wouldn't have met all of these people if I wasn't here," said Ruth Cates as she shed a tear.
In the dog eat dog world of business, this place was something else to those who bought and sold goods. 'It felt like home and family," said two customers.
"It's so sad, I will miss my customers," said Sarah Baik of $5 Bento, who has her shop at the marketplace. She has not only has created friendships with her customers, she's also used the money she's earned to help others. "She's helped not only her own daughter go to college and her own family, but I know she's helped other people from Korea as well. She's helped them monetarily," said Cates.
However, not all the news is bad many of the vendors have found new places.
Others say they're going on vacation for the first time in decades. Owners of the marketplace say they've narrowed down their search to find a new, bigger location that will serve the same purpose. "We definitely are going to have a place made for cooking. Previously, we had the problems with the cooking. and the heating area. But there's going to come some advantages of having a bigger space," said Ohana Hale Marketplace President Christopher Ulu.
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HONOLULU (KITV4) -- A shortage of trained pilots of larger aircraft lead to a wave of cancellations for neighbor island flights on Hawaiian Airlines this Easter weekend.
There were over 30 scheduled cancellations for Friday. Some reporting being stuck at the airport for hours waiting on a different flight or trying to rebook.
One of them was Tihani Kekiwi from Maui, who traveled with her young toddler and family. They arrived at the Kahului airport around 9 a.m. but because of cancellations, didn't make it to Oahu until around 1:00 pm
"I'm kind of discouraged with Hawaiian not gonna lie, they've always been so good and this is probably the worst experience I've had with them," says Kekiwi.
Shortly after arriving, she also got a notification on her phone saying that their flight back to Maui on Sunday would also be cancelled.
Hawaiian Airlines says they're working to substitute the smaller planes normally used for neighbor island flights with larger ones normally used for international travel to accommodate passengers impacted by the delays.
Tom anchors Good Morning Hawaii weekends and reports for KITV4. He comes to Hawaii after reporting in Nevada, Oklahoma and Georgia. Tom is a proud Terp, graduating from the University of Maryland in 2012.
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5,000 under evacuation orders as New Mexico wildfire rages
(AP) - Douglas Siddens’ mother was among those who made it out with just the clothes on her back when a deadly, wind-fueled wildfire ripped through a mountain community in southern New Mexico.
The RV park where she lived was reduced to “metal frame rails and steel wheels,” said Siddens, who managed the site
“I had like 10 people displaced. They lost their homes and everything, including my mom,” he said.
The fire has destroyed more than 200 homes and killed two people since it broke out Tuesday near the village Ruidoso, a vacation spot that draws thousands of tourists and horse racing fans every summer.
Hundreds of homes and summer cabins dot the surrounding mountainsides. The RV park that Siddens managed is near where an elderly couple was found dead this week outside their charred residence.
Elsewhere in the U.S., crews have been battling large fires this week in Texas, Oklahoma and Colorado, where a new blaze forced evacuations Friday along the Rocky Mountain’s eastern front near Lyons about 18 miles (29 kilometers) north of Boulder.
That fire was burning in the Blue Mountains near the Larimer-Boulder county line about 20 miles (32 kilometers) southeast of Estes Park, the east entrance to Rocky Mountain National Park.
In New Mexico, power was restored to all but a few hundred customers, but evacuation orders for close to 5,000 people remained in place.
Donations poured in from surrounding communities all too familiar with just how devastating wildfires can be.
It was a decade ago that fire ripped through part of the village of Ruidoso, putting the vacation spot on the map with the most destructive wildfire in New Mexico’s recorded history when more than 240 homes burned and nearly 70 square miles (181 square kilometers) of forest were blackened by a lightning-sparked blaze.
On Friday, Mayor Lynn Crawford was rallying heartbroken residents once again as firefighters tried to keep wind-whipped flames from making another run at the village. She said the response from their neighbors has been amazing.
“So we have plenty of food, we have plenty of clothes, those kinds of things but we still appreciate and need your prayers and your thoughts,” the mayor said during a briefing. “Again, our hearts go out to the family of the deceased, to those that have lost their homes.”
Authorities have yet to release the names of the couple who died. Their bodies were found after worried family members contacted police, saying the couple had planned to evacuate Tuesday when the fire exploded but were unaccounted for later that day.
While many older residents call Ruidoso home year round, the population of about 8,000 people expands to about 25,000 during the summer months as Texans and New Mexicans from hotter climates seek respite.
Fans also flock to Ruidoso Downs, home to one of the sport’s richest quarter-horse competitions. The racing season was expected to start May 27, and horses that board there aren’t in any danger as fire officials use the facility as a staging ground.
Part-time residents have taken to social media over the last few days, pleading with fire officials for updates on certain neighborhoods, hoping their family cabins weren’t among those damaged or destroyed.
The hotlines lit up Friday afternoon as people in the village called in to report more smoke. Fire information officer Mike DeFries said that was because there were flare-ups within the interior of the fire as the flames found pockets of unburned fuel.
While the fire didn’t make any runs at the lines crews had established, he said it was still a tough day for firefighters due to single-digit humidity, warmer temperatures and the wind.
Authorities reiterated that it was still too early to start letting people in to see the damage. They asked for patience as fire crews put out hot spots and tried to build a stronger perimeter around the blaze.
“It’s still an active fire area in there and it’s not a safe place,” DeFries said. “It’s going to require patience. At the same time, every step that we’re taking is designed to suppress this fire and to get people back home as soon as possible.”
New Mexico authorities said they suspect the fire, which has torched more than 9.5 square miles (24 square kilometers) of forest and grass, was sparked by a downed power line and the investigation continued Friday.
Hotter and drier weather coupled with decades of fire suppression have contributed to an increase in the number of acres burned by wildfires, fire scientists say. The problem is exacerbated by a more than 20-year Western megadrought that studies link to human-caused climate change.
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Cedar Attanasio contributed reporting from Santa Fe. Attanasio is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on under-covered issues.
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Bidens paid 24.6% taxes on $610,702 earnings, returns show
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, earned $610,702 during their first year in the White House and paid $150,439 in federal income taxes. That was a tax rate of 24.6% for 2021, well over the average of around 14% for all Americans.
The totals were similar to the Bidens’ 2020 returns, when they reported earning $607,336 as he ran for president. They reported a federal income tax rate of 25.9% then.
The national median household income was $67,521 in 2020, according to U.S. Census data.
It’s the second straight year Biden has released his tax returns from the White House, reestablishing a tradition that presidents make their filings public after President Donald Trump declined to do so.
Both this year and last were steep drops from 2019 for the Bidens, when they earned nearly $1 million, primarily from book sales, speeches and their teaching positions at the University of Pennsylvania and Northern Virginia Community College.
Jill Biden still teaches in Virginia while serving as first lady. The returns show Biden earning $378,333 as president — his $400,000 annual salary minus the time before noon on Inauguration Day on Jan. 20, 2021 — and his wife receiving $67,116 for her teaching.
The couple gave $17,394 to 10 different charities in 2021. The largest gift was $5,000 to the Beau Biden Foundation, a nonprofit that works to combat child abuse named for their son, Beau, who died of brain cancer in 2015 at age 46.
The Bidens also released their 2021 Delaware income tax return and reported paying $30,765 in state income tax there. The first lady released a Virginia return showing she paid $2,721 in Virginia state income tax.
Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, released their 2021 tax filings, which showed them earning $1,655,563 in 2021 and paying $523,371 — a federal income tax rate of 31.6%. Harris and Emhoff also paid $120,517 in California income tax and $2,044 in New York income tax.
The second gentleman, who teaches at Georgetown Law School, paid $54,441 in District of Columbia income tax, and the couple contributed $22,100 to charity in 2021.
Biden campaigned on the transparency of his personal finances, releasing 22 years of tax filings ahead of the 2020 election. It was a direct challenge to Trump, who argued for years that an audit prevented him from releasing his taxes — though the IRS had mandated for four-plus decades that the tax returns of sitting presidents and vice presidents be audited.
The New York Times later obtained Trump’s tax records and reported that he paid just $750 in federal income taxes during his first year in the White House. IRS figures indicate that the average tax filer paid roughly $12,200 in 2017, about 16 times what the former president paid.
The returns were released on April 15, traditionally the deadline for paying federal taxes. This year the deadline has been extended to Monday, April 18.
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UPDATE: Maui Police have identified the man killed in a car crash on Thursday, as 46-year-old Christopher Macleod of Wailuku.
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WAILUKU, Hawaii (KITV4) – A Maui man was struck and killed by a vehicle on Honoapiilani Highway, Thursday night, and police believe the driver may have been under the influence at the time of the crash.
The crash happened around 8:30 p.m. about 0.3 miles south of Kuikahi Drive.
According to the Maui Police Department, a 57-year-old Waianae man was driving a 2016 Toyota Tacoma north on Honoapiilani Highway when for unknown reasons he crossed over the “solid white fog line” and struck the victim who investigators said was either walking or running in the right paved shoulder lane if the highway.
The victim suffered critical injuries in the crash and was pronounced dead at the scene, MPD said. That person has only been identified as a 47-year-old man.
The Toyota driver was arrested on a complaint of first-degree negligent homicide and for operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant. He was not injured in the crash and at last check was still in custody.
The case remains under investigation.
This is Maui County’s ninth deadly crash of 2022. There were only two over the same period of time in 2021.
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Matthew has been the digital content manager for KITV4 since September 2021. Matthew is a prolific writer, editor, and self-described "newsie" who's worked in television markets in Oklahoma, California, and Hawaii.
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