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HONOLULU (KITV4) -- Proposals for replacing Aloha Stadium are on hold as Hawaii Gov. David Ige apparently wants to take plans for a new Stadium and entertainment district in a different direction.
The Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism is taking over the project from the Department of Accounting and General Services and putting the brakes on the proposals that have been in the works for months.
Some longtime supporters of the stadium project like Hawaii Sen. Glenn Wakai say the sudden about face is baffling.
“I do know that any delay costs us $2 million a month and this administration has delayed this project for well over a year now. The costs keep escalating. There is absolutely no advantage of delaying this project,” Wakai told KITV4.
It's unclear what Ige wants for the stadium site. The Governor’s office released a brief statement on Tuesday, saying, “The administration is currently conducting its due diligence following the enactment of laws this year relating to Aloha Stadium. We are committed to developing a feasible course of action for the University’s sports programs, UH fans, and the State of Hawaii.”
Aloha Stadium project shakeup - Governor Ige announced he wants to take new stadium / entertainment plan in different direction, but wouldn't specify what that is - Sen. Glenn Wakai says delay is costing the state, and says Gov. is throwing a wrench in the works #HawaiiFB@KITV4pic.twitter.com/lfd6zoZe1g
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The New York state attorney general filed a sweeping lawsuit Wednesday against former President Donald Trump, three of his adult children and the Trump Organization, alleging they were involved in an expansive fraud lasting over a decade that the former President used to enrich himself.
In the more than 200-page lawsuit, Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, alleges the fraud touched all aspects of the Trump business, including its properties and golf courses. According to the lawsuit, the Trump Organization deceived lenders, insurers and tax authorities by inflating the value of his properties using misleading appraisals.
"This conduct cannot be brushed aside and dismissed as some sort of good-faith mistake," James said at a news conference in New York.
"The statements of financial condition were greatly exaggerated, grossly inflated, objectively false, and therefore fraudulent and illegal," she added. "And as a result of that we are seeking relief, and Mr. Trump, the Trump Organization, his family -- they should all be held accountable."
Trump and his children, Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump and Ivanka Trump, are named as defendants in the lawsuit. Allen Weisselberg, former CFO for the Trump Organization, and Jeff McConney, another longtime company executive, are also named.
James said she believes state and criminal laws may have been violated and referred the matter to the US attorney's office for the Southern District of New York and the Internal Revenue Service.
The US attorney's office declined to comment.
"These acts of fraud and misrepresentation were similar in nature, were committed by upper management at the Trump Organization as part of a common endeavor for each annual Statement, and were approved at the highest levels of the Trump Organization -- including by Mr. Trump himself," the lawsuit states.
As part of the lawsuit, James is seeking $250 million in allegedly ill-gotten funds and to permanently bar Trump and the children named in the lawsuit from serving as the director of a business registered in New York state. She is also seeking to cancel the Trump Organization's corporate certificate, which, if granted by a judge, could effectively force the company to cease operations in New York state.
Trump previously called James a "renegade prosecutor" who he said is running a "vindictive and self-serving fishing expedition." The Trump Organization called her previously allegations "baseless" and denied any wrongdoing.
Responding to Wednesday's announcement, Trump attorney Alina Habba said in a statement to CNN: "Today's filing is neither focused on the facts nor the law -- rather, it is solely focused on advancing the Attorney General's political agenda. It is abundantly clear that the Attorney General's Office has exceeded its statutory authority by prying into transactions where absolutely no wrongdoing has taken place."
Weisselberg's attorney, Nicholas Gravante, declined to comment.
The civil lawsuit comes as Trump is under increasing legal pressure as prosecutors are taking investigative steps that move ever closer to his inner circle.
Trump is facing numerous criminal investigations from federal and state prosecutors involving the accuracy of his company's financial statements, interference in the 2020 presidential election, and his handling of classified documents after leaving office. Trump has denied any wrongdoing.
AG alleges that Trump lied 200+ times about the value of his assets
James alleges that the former President and his company made "scores of fraudulent, false, and misleading representations" over a 10-year period, according to the lawsuit, which specifically highlighted what it called "200 false and misleading valuations" of Trump's assets.
"The financial statements in question were issued annually; each contained a significant number of fraudulent, false, and misleading representations about a great many of the Trump Organization's assets; and most played a role in particular transactions with financial institutions," the lawsuit alleges.
"The number of grossly inflated asset values is staggering," the suit adds.
According to James, Trump's businesses prepared statements of financial condition every year to submit to banks and other financial institutions. The statements showed the financial position of the Trump businesses, James said, and were relied upon if the Trump Organization wanted to apply for loans.
Each statement was personally certified as accurate by Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., or Weisselberg, James told reporters on Wednesday.
Trump "made known" that "he wanted his net worth reflected on those statements to increase," James said, "a desire Mr. Weisselberg and others carried out year after year in their fraudulent preparation of those statements."
As an example of allegations Trump inflated valuations to increase his own profits. James highlighted what she says happened with 40 Wall Street, a property known as The Trump Building in New York City's financial district, which is referenced dozens of times in the lawsuit.
Trump's company obtained appraisals for the property in 2010 and 2012, which found that it was worth $200 million and $220 million respectively, according to the lawsuit. But Trump's company repeatedly claimed that the property was worth a lot more in its official financial statements, according to the lawsuit.
In 2011, Trump's company said the property was worth $524 million. He said it was worth $527 million in 2012, and $530 million in 2013, according to the lawsuit, which argued that there was not a valid basis for these inflated valuations, and that Trump falsely claimed these numbers came from "professionals."
During Wednesday's news conference James also said that Trump inflated the square footage of his Trump Tower triplex apartment in order to misrepresent the value at over $300 million.
"Mr. Trump represented that his apartments spanned more than 30,000 square feet, which was the basis for valuing the apartment. In reality, the apartment had an area of less than 11,000 square feet, something that Mr. Trump was well aware of," James said.
She added: "Based on that inflated square footage, the value of the apartment in 2015, in 2016, was $327 million. To this date, no apartment in New York City has ever sold for close to that amount."
Three-year investigation
The announcement is the latest development in what has been a three-year investigation led by James into the Trump Organization's finances.
In January, James' office said it found "significant" evidence indicating the Trump Organization used false or misleading asset valuations in its financial statements to obtain loans, insurance and tax benefits. The following month, Trump's long-time accounting firm resigned.
James' launched her investigation in 2019 after Trump's former fixer and personal attorney Michael Cohen testified before Congress alleging that Trump inflated the value of certain assets to obtain loans and insurance and undervalued others to gain tax benefits.
In addition to the new fraud lawsuit, the Trump Organization is going on trial next month on charges it was engaged in a 15-year tax fraud scheme and its long-time chief financial officer has agreed to testify against the company.
Weisselberg, who served as chief financial officer at the Trump Organization for decades, pleaded guilty in August to his role in a 15-year-long tax fraud scheme, and as part of the deal, he had agreed to testify against Trump's real estate company at trial.
In recent weeks, the Trump Organization had offered to settle to ward off the lawsuit even as they denied any wrongdoing, but James' office made it clear it wasn't interested in a deal, people familiar with the matter said.
AG: Trump's oldest children 'knowingly participated'
Eric Trump, Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. "knowingly participated" in the alleged fraudulent schemes, the lawsuit states.
The alleged scheme "required the participation of Mr. Trump and his children," the lawsuit said, adding that the children were "aware of the true financial performance of the company."
The lawsuit, for instance, alleges that Eric Trump was involved in an approach to appraising properties in Las Vegas in a way that lowered their value for tax purposes while inflating their value on Trump financial statements.
It also quotes testimony from Trump Jr. as it describes how the value of Trump Park Avenue was allegedly inflated on Trump financial statements. An appraisal of the property by an outside firm in 2010 for a loan took into account how some of the units were rent-stabilized, lowering their value, according to James' complaint. Yet, Trump financial statements put a value on the units roughly six times higher than what the appraiser had concluded, the lawsuit said.
And the lawsuit pointed to Ivanka Trump's involvement in securing a loan for purchasing the Doral golf course in Florida and Chicago properties in 2012 -- loans that James claims were extended in part because of financial statements allegedly containing misrepresentations.
"On each of those transactions with Deutsche Bank, Ms. Trump was aware that the transactions included a personal guaranty from Mr. Trump that required him to provide annual Statements of Financial Condition and certifications," the lawsuit says.
Family was deposed by AG's office
In April, after a protracted legal fight to enforce subpoenas for Trump and his adult children's depositions, lawyers with James' office saying they were nearing the end of the investigation and needed the Trumps' testimony before making a decision.
Last month, Trump did not answer questions and asserted his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination when deposed by the attorney general's office. Eric Trump, who runs the business on a daily basis, also invoked his Fifth Amendment right in 2020 in response to more than 500 questions.
Since Trump and Eric Trump declined to answer questions, if the case goes to trial, the jury can draw an "adverse inference" against them for not answering questions. That could result in a higher judgment against them or the company if they're found liable.
Ivanka Trump and Trump Jr. both answered questions during interviews that spanned more than seven hours, sources told CNN.
James noted that Trump and Weisselberg invoked their Fifth Amendment privilege during her news conference.
"When asked under oath if he, Mr. Trump, continued to review and approve the statements after becoming president of the United States in 2017, Mr. Trump again invoked his Fifth Amendment privilege and refused to answer," James said Wednesday.
This story has been updated with additional details.
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Carnival Cruise Line has opted to continue its retail partnership with Starboard Cruise Services for an additional five years, including expanding the partnership to the newest upcoming ship, the highly anticipated Carnival Celebration, which will feature even more exclusive and customized merchandise.
Luxury Retail Partnership to Continue
Starboard Cruise Services curates high end luxury merchandise for cruise ship partners, including brands such as Dior, Cartier, Chanel, TAG Heuer, Michael Kors, Swarovski, and more.
Furthermore, the company also creates innovative, custom-designed merchandise and an expansive line of Carnival-branded products, bringing amazing retail and souvenir options at all price points to passengers eager to commemorate their cruise vacations.
“Starboard is a trusted retail partner who knows exactly what our guests want and expect – more Carnival branded assortments and products that remind them of where they’ve traveled to with us,” said Jeremy Schiller, vice president of retail operations for Carnival Cruise Line.
Carnival Cruise Line began partnering with Miami-based Starboard Cruise Services in 1992, and today the partnership encompasses nine ships within the Fun Ship fleet: Dream, Freedom, Horizon, Legend, Magic, Miracle, Pride, Sunrise, and Sunshine.
New Merchandise Coming to Carnival Celebration
In just a few weeks, the partnership will expand to include the Excel-class Carnival Celebration, debuting November 6, 2022 from Southampton, and setting sail from her new Miami homeport on November 21.
“As retailers, we saw more opportunity to really kick it up a notch on Carnival Celebration, so we’re excited to see how our guests love our new offerings as much as our classics,” said Schiller.
Aboard Carnival Celebration, guests can expect to shop first-at-sea brand launches, destination-inspired merchandise, and the largest logo assortment offered on any Carnival ship to date. Overall, Carnival Celebration will feature the fleet’s largest retail selection, including the highly coveted 50th Birthday exclusive merchandise.
“Our extensive and successful partnership with Carnival Cruise Line uniquely positions us to build upon our track record of keeping families at the center of our retail offerings and bringing to life fun retail vacation experiences,” says Lisa Bauer, Starboard’s President and CEO.
“Our dedicated account team of industry experts is excited to continue taking Carnival’s memorable vacation retail concepts to the next level with new offerings and a revamped commercial model.”
The continuation of partnership not only recognizes Starboard’s significant contributions to Carnival’s expanding shopping options, including exclusive first-at-sea collections and innovative retail concepts, but also acknowledges the rich market insights the company uses to refine marketing strategies with great success.
For more than 60 years, Starboard Cruise Services has been consistently recognized for excellence by the travel retail industry with numerous awards, including Asia/Pacific Cruise Retailer of the Year; Global Cruise Retailer of the Year; and Exceptional Achievement by a Cruise Retailer.
In addition to Carnival Cruise Line, Starboard Cruise Services also partners with nine other cruise lines, including Norwegian Cruise Line, Celebrity Cruises, Costa Cruises, Holland America Line, Royal Caribbean International, and Silversea to bring superb retail options to cruise passengers around the globe.
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Carnival Cruise Line is going full-steam ahead with the transformation of Carnival Luminosa. The cruise line announced today, September 21, that it has completed the formalities regarding registration of the ship in the cruise line’s preferred port of convenience.
Carnival Luminosa is the sixth ship in the fleet to sail under the Bahamian flag, all the other vessels are registered in Panama. While sailing for Costa Cruises, the ship was registered under the flag of Madeira, Portugal.
Carnival Luminosa Now Flying The Bahamas Flag
Following in the footsteps of five other Carnival Cruise line ships, Carnival Luminosa will be flying the flag of the Bahamas. Carnival Cruise Line announced today that it has completed the vessel registration with the Bahamas Maritime Authority (BMA).
During a ceremony held at the shipyard where Carnival Luminosa is currently being transformed, the senior leadership team onboard and the classification society completed all necessary registration processes. Deck Cadet Mark Casson, a Bahamian citizen from Freeport, raised the new Bahamian flag.
“We’re proud and honored to have Carnival Luminosa join the five other ships we have registered in The Bahamas,” said Christine Duffy, president of Carnival Cruise Line. “The BMA is among the most respected administration in international shipping, and we value their level of cooperation and professionalism aimed to achieve the highest safety standards. This moment serves as a symbol of our ongoing commitment to this special country.”
Other Carnival ships that sail under the Bahamian flag are Carnival Sunshine, Carnival Sunrise, Carnival Spirit, Carnival Legend, and Mardi Gras.
The Bahamas is currently the most used flag of convenience for cruise ships worldwide. While there has been a fair share of criticism that cruise lines use flags of convenience while sailing from the United States, the choice of the Bahamas as the flag state is understandable.
The country has ample experience dealing with cruise ships, and the Bahamas Maritime Authority is widely regarded as a very professionally run organization where safety and security are paramount. Bahamian Port State Control checks are considered some of the strictest in the industry.
First Cruise to Set Sail November 6
Registering the 92,720 gross tons Carnival Luminosa with the Bahamas Maritime Authority is another hurdle now taken by Carnival Cruise line as the cruise line prepares for the official launch in November.
Currently, the vessel is still at the shipyard in Palermo, Italy, where workers are hard at work transforming Carnival Luminosa to Carnival standards.
Outlets that will be present on Carnival’s newest cruise ship include The Punchliner Comedy Club, Limelight Lounge, Piano Bar 88, Alchemy Bar, RedFrog Rum Bar, Fahrenheit 555 Steakhouse, and Chef’s Table.
Also present will be Bonsai Sushi Express, Serenity Adult-Only Retreat, and Cloud 9 Spa, among others. As part of a program called ‘Costa by Carnival, the vessel will retain many of the features she had while sailing for Costa cruises; yet, she will be distinctly Carnival.
In the following weeks, Carnival Luminosa will sail from Palermo towards Australia, where she will sail her first cruise starting November 6. She will operate in Australia and New Zealand through April 13, 2023. The vessel will visit the Great Barrier Reef, Cairns, Port Douglas, Willis Island, and homeport in Brisbane, Australia, during the various cruises down under cruises.
In summer next year, Carnival Luminosa will offer guests 7-night cruises visiting some much-loved Alaskan destinations from Seattle.
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Video footage and eyewitness reports from Grand Turk have confirmed some damage to the popular cruise port dock, with large sections of the dock now missing after the passage of Hurricane Fiona.
While no cruise line has yet commented on the damage and the full extent of necessary repairs is yet to be assessed in the aftermath of the storm, it is possible that future cruise ship visits may be canceled until appropriate repairs can be completed.
Popular Dock Damaged in Grand Turk
Aerial video of Grand Turk obtained with the assistance of a United States Coast Guard airlift clearly shows significant damage to the cruise ship dock, with extensions completely missing from the concrete pier. Those extensions permit larger ships to safely berth at the dock.
An additional video shows the missing sections washed up on an adjacent beach at some distance from the dock. The retaining walls at the base of the pier where it reaches the beach have also been damaged.
While it appears that the majority of the pier’s structure is intact, an engineering assessment and safety inspection will likely be necessary to ensure the structure’s integrity before it can be used.
Furthermore, the length of the pier impacts what size of cruise ships can safely tie up. If replacing the extensions is a challenging process, larger cruise ships such as Carnival Cruise Line’s Mardi Gras may be unable to visit the port as planned.
Mardi Gras, which measures 1,130 feet (344 meters) long, is the longest vessel scheduled to visit Grand Turk in the next few weeks, with its next visit planned for Thursday, September 29.
Several other Carnival Cruise Line ships are also scheduled for Grand Turk in the coming weeks, including Carnival Legend (963 feet / 294 meters), Carnival Freedom (952 feet / 290 meters), and Carnival Sunrise (893 feet / 272 meters).
Celebrity Cruises’ Celebrity Infinity (965 feet / 294 meters) also regularly visits Grand Turk, but will not be at the port until Wednesday, October 5. Celebrity Infinity was scheduled to be docked at Grand Turk today, but the ship’s itinerary was changed due to Hurricane Fiona.
Hurricane Fiona Impact on Grand Turk
Hurricane Fiona crossed Grand Turk on Tuesday, September 20, 2022, as a Category 3 storm with maximum sustained winds of 115 miles per hour (185 kilometers per hour). Large-scale power outages and cell service disruptions occurred on the island, but no injures or deaths due to the hurricane have been reported.
Local hurricane warnings were discontinued at 11:50 p.m. on Tuesday, and restoration efforts began immediately to restore power and assess damage. Other than the pier damage, the island appears to have suffered only minor damage elsewhere.
Possible Economic Impact
If the cruise ship pier cannot be repaired in short order or if multiple larger ships are unable to dock for several weeks, this could have significant economic impact on the island.
Grand Turk faced significant hardship during the COVID-19 pandemic that disrupted all tourism to the island, and only reopened to cruise travel in mid-December 2021.
In the first quarter of 2022, Grand Turk welcomed record numbers of cruise passengers, with more than 173,000 guests arriving via 79 cruise ship visits in just three months. The winter sailing season in the early months of the year is traditionally the busiest for many Caribbean destinations.
If the cruise dock is now inaccessible, multiple missed visits could have a grave economic impact on the island’s continued recovery from pandemic losses.
Furthermore, increase Caribbean hurricane activity could cause further damage and create repair delays, as well as canceling more cruise ship visits as itineraries are rerouted.
While Hurricane Fiona has moved well past the Turks & Caicos – the storm will impact Bermuda within 48 hours – more storm systems are currently developing in the Atlantic and may also threaten Grand Turk and other popular ports of call as they move east.
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If you’re a frequent cruiser, chances are likely that you keep a close eye on all the new cruise ships set to hit the high seas in the coming years. After all, you want to be one of the first of your traveling friends to check out all the latest and greatest in cruising, as soon as it’s available to the public.
So, if you’re in the process of planning out your cruising itineraries for 2023, here are the new cruise ships you’ll want to check out.
There’s a lot to look forward to in 2023, with new cruise ships coming from all your favorite cruise lines, from Virgin to Viking, Celebrity to Carnival.
In This Article…
- Viking Saturn (Viking Cruises)
- Vista (Oceania Cruises)
- Resilient Lady (Virgin Voyages)
- Explora I (Explora Journeys)
- MSC Euribia (MSC Cruises)
- Silver Nova (Silversea)
- Icon of the Seas (Royal Caribbean)
- Norwegian Viva (Norwegian Cruise Line)
- Carnival Jubilee (Carnival Cruise Line)
- Seven Seas Grandeur (Regent Seven Seas Cruises)
- Celebrity Ascent (Celebrity Cruises)
- Brilliant Lady (Virgin Voyages)
Viking Saturn (Viking Cruises)
An adults-only ship and the ninth cruise ship for Viking Cruises, Viking Saturn is an ocean ship, but is small enough that it can dock at ports where larger cruise ships just can’t.
The ship will offer all-balcony staterooms across five categories, two pools, a handful of dining venues and a handful of entertainment venues.
If you’re considering traveling on a Viking ship for the first time, when Viking Saturn debuts, it’s worth noting that the cruise line is definitely a more refined one, with a thoroughly adult vibe. Don’t expect a lot of rowdy pool parties here. Instead, everything is tasteful, luxurious and Scandinavian-inspired.
- Gross Tonnage: 47,800
- Guest Capacity: 930
- Crew Capacity: 470
- Debut Date: Early 2023
- Shipyard: Fincantieri, Italy
Vista (Oceania Cruises)
At just 67,000 gross tons and a guest capacity of only 1,200, there’s no denying that Oceania’s Vista is small. However, what the small, new cruise ship lacks in size, it makes up for in style. If you’re looking for a more intimate cruising experience, with fewer crowds and more peace and quiet, you’ll find it here.
Compared to past Oceania ships, Vista offers new dining options, such as Ember and Aquamar Kitchen. In terms of accommodations, expect all-veranda options, and staterooms and suites with oversized rainforest showers.
For the first time ever for Oceania, the ship will offer a new category of concierge-level staterooms that are designed with solo travelers in mind. Dramatic new “Signature Spaces” offer carefully designed rooms with the idea that there’s a space on the ship for every mood and every purpose.
- Gross Tonnage: 67,000
- Guest Capacity: 1,200
- Crew Capacity: 800
- Debut Date: April 14, 2023
- Shipyard: Fincantieri, Italy
- Class Ship: Allura
Resilient Lady (Virgin Voyages)
Virgin Voyages has not one but two new cruise ships coming out in 2023. Resilient Lady appears in May 2023, when it’s expected that the cruise ship will take its inaugural sailing from Greece.
Just like all four of the Virgin Voyages ships, Resilient Lady will offer the adults-only environment infused with fitness, music and party-esque amenities that the cruise line is known for.
Expect the same restaurants that you’ve seen on other Virgin ships, including a range of international restaurants and none of the main dining rooms or buffets you’re used to on traditional cruise ships.
There will be more than 1,400 cabins and most will offer ocean views and nearly 90% will offer balconies. Solo cabins are available, as well as beds that reconfigure into a sofa for better use and more space on sea days.
- Gross Tonnage: 110,000
- Guest Capacity: 2,770
- Crew Capacity: 1,150
- Debut Date: May 2023
- Shipyard: Fincantieri, Italy
Explora I (Explora Journeys)
From MSC Cruises, Explora I is a new offering that’s designed to be a luxury experience like you’ve never seen before from MSC Cruises. The first of this new class of ships, Explora I is the first of three sister ships that are expected to appear over the next four years, through 2026.
Designed with the yachting lifestyle in mind, Explora I offers just over 450 balcony suites, with each boasting 377 square feet of space. The crew to passenger ratio is 1.25 to 1.
Other planned features include more than 27,000 square feet of outdoor deck space, four pools and nine restaurants. Like many of the cruise ships we’re looking forward to in 2023, Explora I pays close attention to new cruising technology and eco-friendly designs.
- Gross Tonnage: 63,900
- Guest Capacity: 922
- Crew Capacity: 640
- Debut Date: May 2023
- Shipyard: Fincantieri, Italy
- Class: Explora Journeys
MSC Euribia (MSC Cruises)
MSC Euribia is the third of MSC Cruises’ Meraviglia Plus class, following MSC Grandiose and MSC Virtuosa. The beautiful (and big!) ship is not just filled with gorgeous spots to take in the views, inside and out, but also is an example of how cruising can be at least a little more eco-friendly.
This new cruise ship features an LNG power system that reduces its greenhouse gas emissions by up to 20%. Its advanced onboard wastewater treatment system ensures that no water leaves the ship without undergoing strict treatments that reduce pollution and harm to local ecosystems. Smart energy efforts have also been applied to the ship’s waste elimination, climate control and ventilation.
Read Also: MSC Cruises Ships by Size, Age and Class
But as for the fun stuff, MSC Euribia will offer five pools, one of the largest waterparks at sea, the longest LED dome at sea in the promenade, 10 restaurants and 21 bars.
- Gross Tonnage: 181,541
- Guest Capacity: 6,334
- Crew Capacity: 1,704
- Debut Date: June 2023
- Shipyard: Chantiers de l’Atlantique, France
- Class Ship: Meraviglia Plus
Silver Nova (Silversea)
Silversea’s new cruise ship, Silver Nova, is the first of the cruise line’s Nova class and, as such, comes with a lot of “firsts” for the line in general.
The ship will offer seven new suite categories and new premium aft suites, a new wellness program, and a new comfort food menu for in-room dining.
The ship will offer 75 GRT per passenger, making it one of the most spacious cruise ships in the world in terms of space afforded to each passenger.
Guests also enjoy a 1:1.3 crew-to-guest ratio, eight restaurants and 270-degree views from suites. The ship will also be the very first hybrid luxury cruise ship free from port emissions.
- Gross Tonnage: 54,700
- Guest Capacity: 728
- Crew Capacity: 556
- Debut Date: July 2023
- Shipyard: Meyer Werft, Germany
- Class: Nova
Icon of the Seas (Royal Caribbean)
Royal Caribbean can always be relied upon to deliver new and exciting features when it announces its new cruise ships. Icon of the Seas does not deviate from this fact, as it kicks off the cruise line’s brand-new Icon class, with three other Icon-class ships slated to debut before 2030.
Originally, the Icon-class ships were expected to be bigger than Royal Caribbean’s Quantum-class ships, but smaller than its Oasis-class ships, with a gross tonnage of 200,000 and guest capacity of around 5,600.
However, in May 2022, the cruise line confirmed the Icon ships would actually be larger than the existing Oasis-class ships, which will put the gross tonnage at over 236,857 and the guest capacity at more than 6,988 people, making Icon of the Seas the largest cruise ship in the world.
More details about what we can expect on this mega-ship are expected to be released in fall 2022. Until then, construction in Finland progresses, and Royal Caribbean is taking viewers behind the scenes in a new video series.
- Gross Tonnage: Over 200,000
- Guest Capacity: Over 5,600
- Debut Date: Fall 2023
- Shipyard: Meyer Turku, Finland
- Class Ship: Icon
Norwegian Viva (Norwegian Cruise Line)
The upcoming Norwegian Viva will be the sister ship to Norwegian Prima, and Norwegian Cruise Line has said that you can expect nearly identical experiences on both ships.
Think 44,000 square feet of outdoor space, a new take on the classic cruise ship promenade, two infinity pools, the fastest free-fall drop slide at sea, the largest three-level race track at sea, and more than 100 suites in The Haven VIP area.
The only things that might change? A Norwegian Cruise Line spokesperson mentioned a potential switch up in a few of the restaurants and/or entertainment venues, but, otherwise, they’re sticking to what they’ve already proven to do well with Norwegian Prima.
- Gross Tonnage: 142,500
- Guest Capacity: 3,250
- Crew Capacity: 1,388
- Debut Date: Aug. 26, 2023
- Shipyard: Fincantieri, Italy
- Class Ship: Prima
Carnival Jubilee (Carnival Cruise Line)
The new Carnival Jubilee is named after the original MS Jubilee, a Carnival cruise ship that was launched in the 1980s. You’ll find that this new ship is a big step up from its predecessor, though, with lots to do and family fun everywhere you look.
Following a similar format to that found on sister ships Mardi Gras and Carnival Celebration, Carnival Jubilee will be split into six fun zones and will offer lots of new fun alongside Carnival classic venues and activities. While the cruise line hasn’t given us many peaks behind the curtain just yet, it promises that there’s a lot of fun yet to be announced.
The ship won’t be among the largest in the world when it debuts, but it will be Carnival’s largest to date, larger even than Mardi Gras, placing Carnival Jubilee just shy of the world’s current top 10 largest cruise ships.
- Gross Tonnage: 182,800
- Guest Capacity: 5,374
- Crew Capacity: 1,735
- Debut Date: November 2023
- Shipyard: Meyer Werft, Papenburg, Germany
- Class Ship: Excel
Seven Seas Grandeur (Regent Seven Seas Cruises)
From Regent Seven Seas Cruises, Seven Seas Grandeur will be a sister ship to Seven Seas Splendor and Seven Seas Explorer. When it debuts, Seven Seas Grandeur will offer one of the highest space and crew to passenger ratios out of not just all of Regent’s cruise ships, but industry-wide as well.
This series of three ships that include Grandeur, Splendor and Explorer is known for a particularly high level of luxury. This can be most clearly seen in the new Grandeur Regent Suite, which offers 4,443 square feet, a sauna, steam room, spa room, capacity for six, 270-degree views, a balcony and a sunroom.
On Grandeur, you can also expect a redesigned main dining room that departs from what you may have seen on Regent’s recent ships.
- Gross Tonnage: 55,254
- Guest Capacity: 750
- Crew Capacity: 542
- Debut Date: November 2023
- Shipyard: Fincantieri, Italy
Celebrity Ascent (Celebrity Cruises)
Celebrity Ascent, the fourth ship in Celebrity’s Edge class, offers all of the luxuries that you likely already associated with the cruise line. For this particular ship, though, you can expect the widest range of staterooms and suites available on a singular cruise ship within the Celebrity line.
These will include the Retreat suites, the cruise line’s VIP, exclusive area that provides private spots for dining, relaxation and more, away from the cruising crowds. Ascent’s Retreat will include a two-level sundeck.
In addition to having a huge number of staterooms and suites to pick from, on this ship, you’ll also have a wide array of restaurants and bars to pick between, as you plan your itinerary.
Ship plans include more than 30 food and beverage experiences, including more than a dozen cafes and bars, eight specialty restaurants, four main dining rooms, four complimentary casual restaurants and two exclusive restaurants.
- Gross Tonnage: 140,600
- Guest Capacity: 3,260
- Crew Capacity: 1,430
- Debut Date: Dec. 3, 2023
- Shipyard: Chantiers de l’Atlantique, France
- Class Ship: Edge
Brilliant Lady (Virgin Voyages)
Virgin Voyages is relatively new to the cruising game, but that doesn’t mean that the line is lacking in any way. The line’s unique, adults-only cruising experience is one you won’t find anywhere else, with its party-esque atmosphere alongside a high level of luxury.
The fourth ship from Virgin Voyages, Brilliant Lady will follow the same design as its predecessors. While not much has been announced regarding the ship thus far, you can expect a good array of restaurants (while the ship forgoes the traditional buffet and main dining rooms that are common on other cruise lines).
There will be many cabins with ocean views and balconies, large rock star-themed suites, lots of fitness offerings and basic fare packages that include extras like WiFi and a basic beverage.
- Gross Tonnage: 110,000
- Guest Capacity: 2,700
- Crew Capacity: 1,160
- Debut Date: Late 2023
- Shipyard: Fincantieri, Italy
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The Port of Tampa Bay has announced it will raise the parking fees for cruise ship passengers and the wharfage fees for cruise ships from October 2023. The port will remain one of the most competitive and cheap ports to park a car for the duration of a cruise.
Port Tampa Bay has been developing its cruise offerings in the last years, leading to an increase in cruise ships using the port as a homeport for cruises to the Caribbean.
Parking Becomes More Expensive In Port Tampa Bay
Starting in October 2023, parking fees at Port Tampa Bay will increase by 5% over the current prices. The change in parking fees comes together in a package of other price hikes, 13 in total. The price hikes do not just affect cruise ships, fees for cargo ships, cargo operations, and wharfage fees for cruise ships will also see increases.
As reported by Tampa Bay Times, parking for passengers at the Tampa Bay port facilities will increase from $15 per car per day to $15,75 per car per day. Prices for recreational vehicles will increase from $30 to $31,50 per RV.
“I would say 99 out of 100 times, our rates are on the low end, if not the lowest,” Greg Lovelace, the port’s senior director of business development, said at the port’s monthly board meeting. “For the most part, we remain very competitive.”
While the increases might seem steep, fees remain well below the $17.00 per day charged at Port Canaveral for cars. However, Port Canaveral charges the same amount for RVs, whereas the price doubles in Port Tampa Bay.
Other Miami ports, such as Fort Lauderdale, which charges $15 per day for standard vehicles and $19 per day for RVs, and PortMiami, which charges between $22 and $28 per day, are significantly higher for cars but much cheaper for RVs.
Choosing the correct port to sail from could save significant amounts of money on parking fees. Driving down to Florida by car for a seven-night cruise from Port Canaveral would cost $119.
A similar 7-night cruise from Tampa would cost $110,75. Sailing from Port Miami’s Royal Caribbean terminal would cost $196 on parking fees.
If traveling by RV, the differences are even more considerable. A 7-night cruise from Tampa would cost $220,50 on parking fees, while a similar voyage from Port Canaveral would cost only $119. That’s more than 100 dollars savings just on parking.
Parking for disabled drivers or 100% disabled veterans is free at Port Tampa Bay. Vehicles must have modifications to the foot controls, such as extended pedals or hand controls. Disabled drivers with a car with a wheelchair ramp, lift, or official DV plates can also park free for the duration of their cruise.
Which Cruise Lines Sail From Tampa?
This year, some 187 cruise ships have called in Tampa Bay or will do so before the end of the year. With some 400,000 passengers onboard those ships, Tampa Bay is slowly but surely becoming a bigger player in the cruise industry, although the port is still far behind the millions that sail from other Florida ports.
At this time, only Carnival Paradise is sailing from Tampa, offering 5-night Western Caribbean cruises to Cozumel. From October, Serenade of the Seas will begin operations from Port Tampa Bay, sailing 5-night Western Caribbean cruises to the Cayman Islands and Cozumel.
Starting in November, Celebrity Constellation will begin its Tampa Bay cruise season with a 6-night cruise to Belize and Cozumel, followed by 10-and eleven-night cruises to the Eastern and Western Caribbean.
Other ships offering cruises from Tampa this year include Norwegian Dawn, Brilliance of the Seas, and Carnival Pride.
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Royal Caribbean International has announced that more than 1,400 new opportunities for entertainers – musicians, dancers, choreographers, etc. – will be opening up across its fleet in the next year.
This includes not only brand new positions aboard the forthcoming Icon of the Seas, but also expanded entertainment offerings on all Royal Caribbean ships.
More Performance Opportunities
Royal Caribbean offers a diverse array of opportunities for artists and behind-the-scenes teams to bring to life entertainment experiences, with different performances available on every ship, every day.
“Music and entertainment are essential to making Royal Caribbean holidays memorable,” said Nick Weir, Senior Vice President, Entertainment, Royal Caribbean International. “We keep pushing the boundaries of what is possible in entertainment in front of 105,000 guests each night.”
The opportunities for entertainers aboard some of the world’s largest cruise ships are phenomenal. Not only are music and dance performances featured across the Royal Caribbean fleet, but the cruise line also employs acrobatic artists, contortionists, Olympic swim and dive athletes, world class ice skaters, and many other diverse performers with extraordinary talents.
Furthermore, behind-the-scenes talent is also essential to pull off Royal Caribbean’s amazing performances, which includes the skills of choreographers, sound technicians, producers, directors, costume designers, and much more.
More than 3,000 entertainers and production staff are currently part of Royal Caribbean International’s entertainment team, and the cruise line is projected to hire for more than 1,400 additional positions in the next year to support its nearly 800 music sets and 142 production shows performed each night.
“To continue raising the bar, we are expanding our incredibly talented roster of world-class vocalists, Olympic athletes, Broadway and West End stars, acclaimed producers and directors, to name a few,” said Weir. “We are also committing more resources than ever before to music and entertainment for 2023.”
Amazing Careers for Performers
Performing aboard a cruise ship is a unique experience and offers unparalleled opportunities for performers to expand and refine their skill set.
Read More: 11 Best Entertainment Options Aboard Cruise Ships
Not only will may a performer participate in a production show, but may also provide live music at a bar or lounge, help train newcomers to the entertainment staff, or interact with guests through Q&A sessions, behind-the-scenes tours, or quirky dance lessons.
Rachael Hudson performs as a superhero in Royal Caribbean’s original production “Effectors II: Crash ‘n’ Burn” on board Wonder of the Seas, and she has worked with the cruise line for more than five years as a featured singer on multiple other vessels.
“In our industry, the opportunity to perform live and hone your skills every day is so rare, and I am truly able to build a career at Royal Caribbean,” Hudson said. “I work alongside the world’s most experienced producers, choreographers, and coaches in the business while travelling to amazing places like Miami, The Bahamas, and Rome.”
Cruise ship performers have the opportunity to develop their talent with regular work – multiple nights a week – in front of an engaged, entertainment-loving audience of thousands. As many as 25,000 performers from across the world audition for Royal Caribbean every year, with many training at its 132,500-square-foot, state-of-the-art studio facility in Miami.
The past two pandemic years have been tumultuous not only for the cruise industry, for the entertainment industry as well.
According to a report by Help Musicians in January 2022, 75% of musicians have worried about their financial situation at least once a day, and 25% have considered leaving their profession altogether.
The opportunities Royal Caribbean offers give thousands of emerging artists the career kickstart they need, and allows them to perform for live audiences – which 70% of musicians cite as the most rewarding part of their career.
Read Also: How Much Do Cruise Ship Workers Make?
“After the last few years, it is incredible to be back performing live in front of audiences from all over the world,” said Hudson.
These new opportunities for entertainers also provide incredible new options for Royal Caribbean guests to enjoy spectacular performances and unique talents, add even more ways for cruise travelers to make amazing memories every time they set sail.
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IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ProLabs, a global leader in optical networking and connectivity solutions, has launched a new long range 80km DWDM solution by pairing its 100G erbium-doped fiber amplified multiplexer (EDFAMUX) with QSFP28 PAM4 DWDM 2x50G transceivers.
The EDFAMUX is an integrated solution that combines the multiplexer, EDFA, and dispersion compensator in a single 1 rack unit (1RU) 19" container to diminish space requirements and resolve complexity while enhancing flexibility. The 100G EDFAMUX models were designed to work with QSFP28 100G DWDM PAM4 optics, which require amplification to go any distance and dispersion compensation beyond 5km.
"Network operators are looking to reduce engineering and operational complexity as well as shrinking footprint and power consumption through streamlining PAM4 DWDM deployments. By incorporating the EDFA and dispersion compensator inside the multiplexer, coupled with our web-based and command line configuration options, the ProLabs EDFAMUX accomplishes these objectives," according to Jon Eikel, Chief Technology Officer at ProLabs. "The EDFAMUX simplifies the entire DWDM architecture and deployment while freeing up valuable rack space and power facilities to help service providers continue meeting the market's explosive bandwidth demand."
ProLabs' new 100G EDFAMUX solution with a transceiver portfolio supports 10G & 100G EDFAMUX deployments. The 10G EDFAMUX models are a simple and affordable solution for long-distance applications from 80km to 200km that can be used with standard 10G 80km/ZR fixed color or tunable DWDM optics.
For more information on ProLabs' 10G & 100G EDFAMUX + QSFP28 PAM4 DWDM transceivers, visit booth #7047 at Cable-Tec Expo or here.
ProLabs is a leading provider of optical networking solutions. For over two decades, it has delivered optical connectivity solutions that give customers freedom, choice, and seamless interoperability. It serves a diverse range of industries including enterprises, governments, and the largest worldwide service providers.
By championing higher standards for technology and service, ProLabs is changing the mindset of data center and service providers the world over. It supplies solutions that are 100% compatible in form and functionality across 100 OEM manufacturers, covering more than 20,000 systems and platforms. For more information, please visit www.prolabs.com.
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SANTA CRUZ, Calif., Sept. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Santa Cruz County Bank www.sccountybank.com (OTCQX: SCZC), with assets over $1.76 billion, is a top-rated community bank headquartered in Santa Cruz County. On September 20, 2022, the Bank's Board of Directors declared an increased quarterly cash dividend of $0.125 per share. The dividend is payable on October 11, 2022 to shareholders of record as of the close of business on October 4, 2022.
Chairman William J. Hansen stated, "We are pleased to continue to reward our shareholders for their investment in our stock. In 2022, the Board of Directors of Santa Cruz County Bank have declared a 2-for-1 stock split, two increased quarterly cash dividends, and a $5 million share repurchase program."
For the quarter ended June 30, 2022, Santa Cruz County Bank reported $6.37 million in net income, a 20% increase over the same period in 2021. Return on average equity was 13.77% for the quarter ended June 30, 2022. The book value per share of Santa Cruz County Bank's common stock at June 30, 2022 was $21.73, an increase of $0.75 from the same period in 2021. Shareholders' equity grew to $186 million, an $6.94 million increase compared to the same period in 2021.
Santa Cruz County Bank was founded in 2004. It is a top-rated, locally-owned and operated, full-service community bank headquartered in Santa Cruz, California. The bank has branches in Aptos, Capitola, Cupertino, Monterey, Santa Cruz, Scotts Valley and Watsonville. Santa Cruz County Bank is distinguished from "big banks" by its relationship-based service, problem-solving focus and direct access to decision makers. The bank is a leading SBA lender in Santa Cruz County and Silicon Valley and a top USDA lender in the state of California. As a full-service bank, Santa Cruz County Bank offers competitive deposit and lending solutions for businesses and individuals; including business loans, lines of credit, commercial real estate financing, construction lending, agricultural loans, SBA and USDA government guaranteed loans, asset-based lending, credit cards, merchant services, remote deposit capture, mobile and online banking, bill payment and treasury management. True to its community roots, Santa Cruz County Bank has supported regional well-being by actively participating in and donating to local not-for-profit organizations.
Santa Cruz County Bank stock is publicly traded on the OTCQX U.S. Premier marketplace under the symbol SCZC. Stock purchase orders may be placed online, through a brokerage firm, or through Market Makers listed in the Investor Relations section of the bank's website. For more information about Santa Cruz County Bank, visit www.sccountybank.com.
This release may contain forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties. Such risks and uncertainties may include but are not necessarily limited to fluctuations in interest rates, inflation, government regulations and general economic conditions, and competition within the business areas in which the Bank is conducting its operations, including the real estate market in California and other factors beyond the Bank's control. Such risks and uncertainties could cause results for subsequent interim periods or for the entire year to differ materially from those indicated. Readers should not place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements, which reflect management's view only as of the date hereof. The Bank undertakes no obligation to publicly revise these forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances.
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Never before has there been a major type event devoted to the past, present and future of the Native North American people. The 2022 installment of the Type Directors Club’s groundbreaking “Type Drives Culture” series, titled Ezhishin, is co-curated by Neebin Southall, Chippewas of Rama First Nation, and Ksenya Samarskaya, managing director of the TDC. This year it will be held virtually from Nov. 11–13, and will feature what promises to be an invaluable range of talks, workshops, speakers and makers (read more and register here).
To whet appetites for this historic and heritage-laden event, Samarskaya arranged for a few of the scheduled participants to take part in an email discussion about the content and context of the planned proceedings. What follows are their responses and examples of some of the work to be shown.
The available literature on Native American typography is minimal, but as a preface to the event I suggest reading the chapter on Sequoyah’s Cherokee syllabary in Jill Lepore’s A is for American: Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States. For more information on hundreds of Native American languages, symbols and letters, visit Native Languages of the Americas.
Ezhishin is the first mainstream graphic design conference that I know of on the Native typographic experience. In fact, being in the design world bubble, I hadn’t even considered until now a typo-cultural Native history. How did this unique concept develop and evolve?
Samarskaya: It was all pretty organic and natural. I got the position of being the managing director of the TDC in winter, and part of it is that I had the leeway to drive my own initiatives, or partner with outside organizations. I’d been watching and reading Native Twitter for a long time, and had done two previous interviews, one with Neebinnaukzhik (Neebin) Southall for Typographica, and one with Kathleen Sleboda for Eye on Design. (Huronia was also the first typeface I reviewed for Typographica when I started taking part in their yearly reviews in 2014.) So I guess you can say the evidence was all out there. I knew I couldn’t curate this conference all on my own, and thankfully Neebin (who also runs the Native Graphic Design Project on the side) has been gracious enough to donate a lot of their time, both in helping me line up the right speakers, but also much of the logistics, including collaborating on the design and the messaging. And, of course, I’m grateful to all those that we reached to for their interest and willingness to participate—the roster is truly incredible and it’s their willingness to share their work and perspectives that makes this conference and learning experience what it is.
Southall: When I was being trained as a graphic designer over 10 years ago, I noticed the overarching exclusion of Native creatives within my art and design education. This prompted a number of questions, which formed the basis of my senior project and shaped many professional involvements since. I maintain a growing list of Native graphic designers, write about art and design by Native practitioners, and have collaborated with others to advocate for Native designers and discuss the issues. Ksenya Samarskaya and I first connected when she reached out to interview me for Typographica. When she became the managing director of the Type Directors Club, she asked me to co-curate a conference with her on Native North American typography. The title Ezhishin comes from the Ojibwe language—my tribe’s language—and means “s/he leaves a mark,” a nod to the mark-making of typographers and the legacy we leave as designers. I am well aware of the responsibilities we have as designers—and historians of design.
My priorities in organizing this conference are to leverage the Type Directors Club’s influence to bring more balance to the design sphere, by elevating Native designers; by facilitating a space for Native practitioners to connect with each other, whether working professionals, academics, self-taught designers or design students; and by broadening awareness of resources for the benefit of individuals and our respective tribal communities.
I also want the general public to know that Native designers are out there doing the work, even if their efforts have frequently not been acknowledged or prioritized by the design establishments. There are plenty of interesting developments happening outside of the expected outlets. The more you look and spend time in the community, the more you find. This conference is a way to showcase some of the inspiring work that Native designers are creating, and I look forward to seeing the ideas, connections and collaborations that will come out of this conference.
Roy Boney Jr: Jeff Edwards and I have worked in our own Cherokee design bubble for nearly two decades. We started off creating materials in Cherokee syllabary for our Cherokee language immersion school. At that time, the support of Cherokee syllabary in desktop publishing was negligible at best. A handful of Cherokee fonts had been made but they weren’t cross-platform compatible. That led us to investigate ways Cherokee syllabary in design software could be better compatible for our needs. Knowing Sequoyah developed the syllabary originally in handwritten cursive form, only later to adapt it for the printing press, we realized getting new Cherokee fonts made was just part of the historical continuum of adapting to new technology.
Dr. Jessica Moore Harjo: As a whole, we are just now arriving at the idea of Native American typography being a valid topic of interest/importance as more students and professors and design professionals are exposed to this type of knowledge. For myself, being the first Native American Ph.D. in design (that I know of), I have single-handedly witnessed many gaps in academia, and there is a lot of work to be done to slowly bridge those gaps. I was really excited to see Ezhishin begin and to become a part of this work.
What will be learned from Native written languages that will open the audience to greater knowledge?
Samarskaya: I believe people from all walks of life can come away with a lot from partaking in this conference.
—For someone living in, or that has a relationship with, North America, an understanding of the land and original communities seems pretty crucial—what they’re doing today, how their experience is, what their priority and needs are. And as a subsegment of that, absolutely every corporate Diversity & Inclusion program should be signing up its designers, communicators and decision-makers to attend.
—For anyone that’s an educator, or leads a design/advertising/communication department, these presentations contain content that you’re not going to get from textbooks—as it’s mostly not been written. And here you have a chance to get it in real time, and in a much more engaging format. (We also have group rates for students, so get in touch directly.)
—For anyone that writes a minority script, or feels that the roots to their language contain a different style or aesthetic from what is currently mainstream, there are a lot of lessons to be learned in how to preserve, create or revive typographic practices.
—Last and very much not least, for anyone that loves great art, or design, or typography, we have incredibly talented practitioners giving us a rare glimpse of their works. And the presentations, like typography itself, span genres and categories, so there’s something for almost everyone.
It’s like travel, right? By learning another person’s experience, we get to understand ourselves and our place in the world better. And very rarely do we get a chance to hear from Native practitioners in an open forum such as this; it’s an opportunity not to be missed.
Bobby Joe Smith III: Lakota, the language of my people, predates English. The language, along with all of the cosmological, ontological and epistemological knowledge coded into it, was passed down over millennia without the use of a written form. As a highly mobile, pre-dominantly nomadic society, there was no need for a writing system, let alone an unwieldy archive of information recorded on bound sheets of pulverized plant matter. Although we did not create an alphabet, we still possessed multiple means of visual communication, which employed a variety of symbols representing concepts from the mundane to the divine. These forms of visual language were typically adorned (and thus portable), used to bring out the beauty of a particular object, imbue it with power or significance, or aid in the practice of our oral traditions. The formal attributes, tools and substrates of this visual language reflect the needs and values of its speakers.
If my ancestors needed a writing system like the Latin alphabet, we would have built it. The ongoing violent occupation of my ancestral lands, coupled with state-sanctioned projects of cultural genocide (e.g., boarding schools, “kill the Indian to save the man,” etc.) have created a situation today in which my tribe needs a writing system to document and preserve our language. The belief is that if our language is well-documented, it can go dormant rather than extinct when the last of our fluent speakers pass away. The syllabaries and orthographies developed in recent years to write and record Lakota were designed with this initiative in mind. They use Latin glyphs accompanied by a series of diacritics most familiar to linguists. Notably, however, early attempts to create a method for writing Lakota were devised by Christian missionaries to translate the bible into Lakota with the hope of expediting our conversion to Christianity. Subsequently, the early Lakota syllabaries were tools of colonization rather than organic expressions from the people for whom Lakota was their Native tongue. They were also often designed around the mark-making capabilities of the typewriter—an emerging, commercially available technology favored by anthropologists, government agents, and other paper pushers hanging around the reservation. Today, however, the primary means of communication and mark-making amongst the Lakota are computational, mobile and networked.
The visual design of Indigenous languages like my own, Lakota, is more than a formal exercise. It must contend with the needs and desires, histories and futures, symbolisms and realities of its Native speakers. It must honor the dead and welcome its future users. These are sentiments that likely resonate with type designers. Although my entry into the field of type design emerged out of an interest in the revitalization of my Native culture, as opposed to a lifelong admiration of letterforms, it is exciting to be engaging in this design challenge today.
Boney Jr.: The general public thinks of Native people as being relics of the past. It’s far too common to see us being written about and discussed in the past tense. Native writing systems like Cherokee syllabary demonstrate that we as a people have rich, continuous history. We continue to document our social histories, governmental processes, religious and cultural practices, and intellectual life through our writing. Existence of Cherokee syllabary fonts allows us to continue being seen in the 21st century.
Harjo: Native written languages are part of language preservation, which is history. A very new concept to most people, it is important to understand that many of the written languages that are being developed for Native tribes/nations are relatively new and still going through changes and stages of implementation within Native communities.
I presume most of the participants of Ezhishin have gone through the mainstream Western methods of learning design and typography. How does this background mesh with Native backgrounds?
Southall: It’s going to be individualistic for every person, and everyone’s experiences and tribal culture(s) are going to shape that person in unique ways. The positions that Native designers hold are varied, and everyone has their own creative priorities. For the Ezhishin conference, we have speakers across the United States and Canada participating, and attendees will be able to see the diversity evident in their work.
As an Anishinaabe person, it’s important for me to study Anishinaabe cosmology, visual systems and aesthetics, and to intelligently reinterpret and apply these to my own work. When I design within inter-tribal contexts, it’s important for me to understand the Indigenous design conventions that I am working with to use them properly and respectfully. Whether I am using some facet of Swiss Style or another framework, it is important for me to be aware of how I engage with ideas and to be cognizant of the messaging I am creating. Thus far, my layout design favors a minimalist aesthetic that is unmistakably influenced by Western design conventions. However, what is more to the point is that I create work that broadly aligns with my values. Graphic designers have been culpable for promoting and popularizing harmful ideologies and imagery. The idea of some pure design objectivity and neutrality is false; we all have our own experiences, perspectives, cultures and biases that we bring to the table as designers. It’s important for me to question paradigms. I think it’s fair to say that many Native designers are especially mindful that they are part of a broader community and have responsibilities to them.
Chris Skillern: I’m a graduate of Type West and am passionate about type in general. I can’t speak for other writing systems, but I absolutely believe that the basic rules of type design apply to the Cherokee syllabary as well, especially given its history and the changes that were made to Sequoyah’s designs when it made the transition to metal type. At the same time, I would love to see, and even help develop, educational materials geared specifically toward designing the syllabary.
Boney Jr.: I studied graphic design in college just around the time the transition was occurring from the literal cut-and-paste days to digital design. As a Cherokee who grew with a household that had Cherokee-language bibles, newspapers and other documents written in our language, I was always fascinated by letterforms. I brought that familiarity of the Cherokee syllabary to my studies in typography and design. Design education meshes very well in some ways with Cherokee philosophy, particularly the idea of approaching design in a solution-based way. When Sequoyah developed the Cherokee syllabary in the early 1800s, he did it to solve the problem of why our people were not communicating like the white settlers encroaching on Cherokee territory at the time. His invention allowed our people to educate the public about the policies that were stripping away tribal lands and to inform the Cherokee citizens through the mass media of the era, the newspaper.
Harjo: My educational background has afforded me the opportunity to design typefaces that truly have meaning but also has allowed me to be an asset/tool to help with developing resources for my tribe. On the flip side, as a master’s student and Ph.D. student, researching/planning/writing about Native American typography was very new to all of my professors/colleagues and so it helped to educate and shed light on this topic to non-natives/natives on the other end.
Regarding Sequoyah’s development of a Cherokee syllabary, are such revelations from the past going to be addressed by Ezhishin‘s speakers? Or is this conference focused more on contemporary work?
Southall: Several of our speakers are Cherokee and are designing typefaces and incorporating the Cherokee syllabary into projects, such as Chris Skillern and Monique Ortman. Roy Boney and Jeff Edwards, program managers within the Cherokee Language Department and creatives themselves, will give a talk about the Cherokee syllabary. The work of these aforementioned individuals is deeply tied to the history of Sequoyah’s work. Notably, Boney was part of the team that brought integration of the Cherokee language into Google and Apple products.
Additionally, Dr. Jessica Harjo will be speaking about an Osage typeface that she developed as part of her graduate work. Speaker Leo Vicenti created a typeface suited for the Jicarilla Apache language, and we also have speakers who have created Cree syllabic typefaces and/or are working with Cree syllabics, including Sébastien Aubin, Joi T. Arcand, Violet Duncan and Kaylene Big Knife.
Skillern: Several of us will be addressing it in some form. As a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and a type designer, the syllabary is a primary focus of mine. It’s an enormously important part of our culture and a monumental achievement. Even so, we suffer from a dearth of well-designed fonts, and I hope that I can help in designing more high-quality and contemporary syllabary fonts, because I believe it’s important for the survival of the language. There are a few other Cherokee presenters at the conference who are working toward the same goal and some non-Cherokee presenters who have made great syllabary fonts in the past.
There is quite a long roster of speakers. Would you say that the design establishment has been benignly neglectful of Native output, or is there something more historically distorted?
Samarskaya: A lot of people accept, and continue, on any given path as if it’s normal. It’s physics, right? An object in motion will continue with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon. And culture is a relay race in motion. So today’s design establishment might think that because they’re not actively excluding something that they’ve subsequently covered everything there is to cover. I think that hospitality, and outreach, is a much more proactive endeavor. And if you exclude a community for long enough, you have to pivot harder to show that the mentality of the establishment has started to shift.
So, to get to the heart of the matter. Settlers killed off almost all of the buffalo to starve out the Native populations. Mount Rushmore was carved on sacred ground in order to annihilate it. Residence schools, which you ask about in the other interviews, were created for the sole purpose of wiping out generational knowledge and collective identity. And none of this was very long ago. So I think nothing is exactly by accident. That all is, at least originally, by someone’s design, and subsequent sleight of hand that makes us used to accepting it as normal.
Erasing culture is a very powerful political weapon. As is the rebuilding of it.
Southall: There’s no doubt that the history of genocide and racism against Native peoples in the European colonization of the Americas set the scene for everything else. The design establishment has participated in, benefited from and perpetuated white supremacy, and we all know that the world of design in the USA and Canada has a diversity problem. Art and design schools have routinely relied on Eurocentric curricula and philosophies in their instruction. I’m glad that at this point in time, there’s been serious critiques about the narrow selection of individuals and perspectives that have been elevated and centered throughout the years. And, with the developments of the internet and social media, I’m glad for the ways that the brilliant work of Native and other BIPOC designers are more accessible. For all the serious issues with social media and the internet at large, they have also allowed a number of individuals to share their work and perspectives in a democratized way. There are many stories yet to be incorporated within the design canon, but things are shifting and, I hope, will continue to shift.
Historically, Native people’s creative outputs have often been relegated to mere ethnographic curiosities by white power holders, and consequently, their work has been viewed as less intelligent than the creative output of other people. It’s not hard to find a book that refers to our ancestors’ work as primitive. Even someone as innovative and prolific as Anishinaabe painter Norval Morrisseau, who died in 2007, had his work described with backhanded compliments and racially charged language. I work within the Native art sphere, where I myself have seen uninformed attitudes and problematic power dynamics. Why shouldn’t our Native ancestors be considered designers—they intentionally created well-made, useful, informative and, dare I say, beautiful works. Or is the label of designer only meant for particular classes and ethnic backgrounds, or those of a particular gender, for that matter? As the exhibition description of Hearts of Our People notes, “Women have long been the creative force behind Native art.” Considering how negative stereotypes about Native peoples are so deeply embedded within society at large, plenty of people in the dominant culture wouldn’t even stop to think that we just might have something to offer, and for some people, it would be a revelation to know that we even exist. For some, I do think the lack of inclusion is benign, because if they knew what was out there, they would be excited about it too. Everyone alive today inherits the situation that has come before, and I certainly don’t think everyone has a negative intention. However, once you understand the context in which we are operating, there’s a responsibility to take action if you have the ability to do so.
Skillern: I think the challenge for Native designers is the same as it is in most areas, and that is visibility. Native people and their contributions are routinely overlooked. It does feel like the tide is starting to turn a bit, with TV shows like “Reservation Dogs,” among other things, and I’m hopeful that this conference can be part of that.
Boney Jr: I studied design both as an undergraduate and graduate student. Nowhere in any of those courses did any book or class touch on Indigenous design or typography. There might have been some references to Indigenous African art and its influence on modern art, or a passing reference to Mayan codexes. But as far as any serious study, there was none. As part of my graduate school work, I did several projects utilizing Cherokee syllabary. It was a learning experience not just for me but for my fellow students and instructors, as well.
We routinely talk about cultural differences influencing design in general. Native cultures have been often lumped together as monolithic. What revelations regarding diversity within the Native communities stand out regarding design and type?
Samarskaya: That happens a lot, doesn’t it? Often it’s with acronyms—BIPOC, LBGTQIA+. I guess all the Native communities were too much to fit into one acronym but I sure would be amused if someone tried. There’s a map that geographer and designer David Edmondson has been working on cataloging the living and dormant languages of the U.S. and Canada, viewable here. Just glancing at it you can see the immense wealth of linguistic cultures that span this region. An even more robust resource is the Native Land site, where you can toggle off of territories and onto languages as you spin around the globe. It really helps put things into perspective.
There’re a few studies that’ve been done that link linguistic diversity to biodiversity in a given region, which is something that’s always somewhere in the back of my mind—how encouraging a thriving diversity of linguistic and typographical practices can fractal in all these other ways to benefit our planet and environment.
Boney Jr: Cherokee syllabary was the first writing system developed for a tribe by a member of the tribe in the United States. Since that time several other native languages have developed writing systems and fonts, particularly Canadian First Nations. What is interesting about them all is how these communities have helped each other. For example, the Cherokee Nation’s work with Unicode resulted in connecting the Osage Nation with some encoders and typographers to get their writing system encoded into Unicode. This is reflective of the supportive and collaborative nature of Indigenous peoples.
Smith III: The “Native” of the American imaginary is an invention designed to serve the desires of our colonizers—whether it’s language about “merciless Indian Savages” inked in the U.S. Declaration of Independence to justify settler insurrection from the British empire, sage wisdom bequeathed through broken English to cleanse polluted landscapes and spirits, or caricatures clad in buckskin and feathers to sell everything from tobacco to trapper keepers and event tickets. The invention of “the Native” and the narratives and actions the caricature propels are violent and dehumanizing—intentionally so. It diminishes on an intercontinental scale the vast array of identities, cultural expressions and ways of knowing and being that came from and flourished upon this land long before Columbus’ wayward voyage. From this monolithic representation of indigenous identity has proliferated the pastiche of pan-Indian design.
Pan-Indian design—as I’ve experienced it—is a one-dimensional caricature of indigenous visual expression that pales in comparison to the plethora of striking and unique visual languages emanating from the hundreds of indigenous cultures still in existence in the United States. Early on in my design education, I was encouraged by Lakota scholar and graphic designer Sadie Redwing to look beyond the façade of pan-Indian design trafficked to us through the corporate imaginary by investigating the visual language specific to our own tribe. Looking at the various forms of Lakota visual expression, both traditional and contemporary, has been an inspiring and humbling revelation in form, aesthetics and praxis. The shallow, decontextualized and generic nature of pan-Indian design felt stagnant and suffocating. In stark contrast, the generative relationship I am fostering with the design traditions of my people has freed my definition of design from the confines of the wasicu (“settler”) imagination and, consequently, liberated my understanding of who I can be and what I can make as a designer, especially a “Native designer.”
Harjo: There are over 565 tribes/nations in North America. Some tribes/nations fall under similar language groups but they still have different dialects and speaking patterns that are unique even within their own type design. It is impossible for one designer to know about all languages and not enough designers to fully relate to all the needs that each tribe/nation is undergoing in terms of design/type/written language development.
In conversations regarding the genesis of this conference, was there much talk about why it has taken so long?
Harjo: Everything is new in my opinion, and design research is underfunded in this area and often misunderstood by non-designer entities. The pandemic provided a nice segue into online learning/virtual conferences, a great cost-efficient way to connect and network.
We’ve read about the infamous residence-schools where Native peoples were forcibly and brutally assimilated into white society. Language and writing was a big part of this system. How, if in any way, did it impact typography and type design?
Southall: This is a heavy question, and one that Native communities are grappling with. Across Canada and the United States, many Native children in boarding schools were physically abused and punished for expressing their cultures and speaking their languages, which has put many Native languages at risk. There’s no doubt that we are dealing with the repercussions of this abuse. Many tribes are challenged with figuring out how to carry their languages into the future, and type designers have a role to play in this process. It’s an incredibly complex situation.
The typographic needs of Native communities and potential areas of application are broad. The Ojibwe language itself has only recently become more standardized when it comes to spelling (and it can also be written in Canadian Aboriginal syllabics). Knowing about the success of the Cherokee syllabary, I think it would be exciting to see Native typographers develop new syllabaries to suit their respective languages. Recently, I designed an exhibition catalog for WINIKO: Life of an Object for the First Americans Museum in Oklahoma. There are 39 tribal nations in Oklahoma and many different languages to consider, given the history of forced relocation of diverse tribes to the state. I was instructed to use Noto Sans because it was designed to accommodate a broad range of languages and had the necessary diacritical marks for the Native languages in question. I also specifically used Noto Sans Cherokee and Noto Sans Osage.
Boney Jr.: The aim of these schools was to wipe out any lingering Indigenous cultural aspects of the students’ lives. This meant the language of choice was English. I believe this resulted in a community response among Cherokees, in particular, to be sure that our writing system did not die. In 2021, the Cherokee Nation celebrated the bicentennial of the Cherokee syllabary. In 200 years since its invention, we have ensured that has not happened.
Harjo: Something to understand is that besides the Cherokee syllabary, the development of written Native languages did not come to many tribes until more recently. For example, the Osage orthography of the Osage Nation was not fully developed until 2005. Many tribes/nations believe (and still is true) that oral language learning is best. Written language only came to (some) tribes/nations as first speakers began to die and there was a more urgent need to document language in order to preserve it. This shift is very new to many. The forced assimilation to white society was the bowling ball that killed a lot of languages, and if a language was not forgotten, there were many language speakers that feared for their lives and their future generations’ lives if they continued to speak their own language. Language dies with them. The work of Native American typography and type design today is one attempt to reverse the damage that was done, although, things will never be the same.
What are the parameters of this conference? Is it meant to be an ongoing conversation or a one-off event? This is such an underexplored, if explored at all, area of design history. What is the intended outcome?
Samarskaya: I’m going to merge those two questions into one, and say that I definitely intend for this to be part of an expanding set of conversations. TDC started a dedicated Slack group for Ezhishin that’s going to stay open for all speakers, participants and attendees after the conference. There are free workshops for participants as well, one on using contemporary design software and how to turn your lettering or designs into a proper working font, and another one that gives a full tutorial on how to get a new script through Unicode. (There are two other workshops we’re in conversations about by Native practitioners, but those are yet unconfirmed.) We’re working on finding the right partner and will announce a scholarship for Native designers that we can start distributing every year. And as we could only focus on the regions spanning the U.S. and Canada in this round, we already have another conference in the works focusing on the Indigenous scripts and type practitioners spanning Latin America (an irony to use that label in this context) for next year. So this conference, it’s a place to plant seeds and bridge the communication channels between Native designers and those with budgets, or megaphones, or differing expertise. And I hope that when we come back to do the next edition, it’s an even bigger explosion of talent and more nuanced dialogue.
Skillern: Speaking for myself, I hope it draws more attention to the importance of designing for Native scripts and to the contributions of Native designers in particular, and I hope it inspires and encourages other Native designers. I’d love to see it become a regular event!
Harjo: Personal outcomes: to educate on how we got here today; to expose others to the incredible work Native designers are doing; to provide a network of Native designers that are interested in/involved in type design; and to ground this subject in order to build off of it in the future. I’m sure this will be an ongoing thing, at least that is what I envision.
Boney Jr.: Several years ago, Jeff and I attended a Typecon in New Orleans. We talked about the history of the syllabary and why it was important it is still being used in our schools. That one appearance led to quite a number of designers taking up the challenge of making Cherokee syllabary fonts. Since that time, every major operating system, from iOS, Android, Windows and Mac has a handful of Cherokee syllabary fonts included. We hope this conference results in growing the community of Indigenous typographers, whether they are legitimately Indigenous people or are allies of our cause.
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When it comes to the environmental cost of our profession, it’s easy to get lost in doom and gloom. But it doesn’t have to be that way, and this year, Dieline Conference is changing the conversation by focusing on the sheer power we have to change the future, and the creative possibility that comes with it.
While sustainability feels especially critical to the world of brands and packaging at the moment, it’s been critical to Dieline for years. We, the makers, can truly change the world— if we have a roadmap to follow— and that’s exactly what Dieline Conference will provide at this year’s hybrid event on October 20.
Dieline founder and CEO Andrew Gibbs and his team have brought together a cutting-edge group of speakers to point the way forward:
- Sian Sutherland, Co-Founder of A Plastic Planet and PlasticFree.com
- Brandi Parker, Head of Sustainability at Pearlfisher
- Andrew Gibbs, Founder & CEO at Dieline, Co-Founder with Sian, PlasticFree.com
- Katie Levy and Mike McVicar, Co-Founders/Creative Directors of Gander, who value “Purpose Over Perfection.”
This year, Dieline Conference is also part of New York Advertising Week, a four-day celebration of the confluence of culture, commerce, and creativity. A Dieline delegate pass grants you exclusive access to the entire event, including networking happy hours, lounge access, and more.
But hurry, because in-person passes to this high-level event are limited to 125, and once they’re sold out, they’re sold out. Don’t miss out on the packaging event of the year, which can wholly revolutionize your career. Register today!
ANDREW GIBBS
Founder & CEO at DIELINE, Co-Founder of PlasticFree.com
BRANDI PARKER
Head of Sustainability at Pearlfisher
SIAN SUTHERLAND
Co-Founder of A Plastic Planet and PlasticFree.com
KATIE LEVY & MIKE McVICAR
Partners at Gander
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HBO is Developing a Series Based on David Cronenberg’s Scanners
Last year marked four full decades since David Cronenberg released Scanners and established himself as a master of body horror. Scanners was Cronenberg’s first movie to gain significant attention outside of his native Canada. And despite earning mixed reviews upon its release, it has since become a cult favorite among his fans. Now, HBO is revisiting the film’s universe with a new TV series that already has some impressive talent attached. The Hollywood Reporter brings word that the network is bringing Scanners to the small screen, with Cronenberg onboard as an executive producer.
Cronenberg’s film originally hit theaters in 1981 and imagined a world where people with telepathic and telekinetic abilities (the titular “scanners”) are recruited by a private military contractor to stop another superpowered individual gone rogue. The movie’s cast included Jennifer O’Neill, Stephen Lack, Patrick McGoohan, Lawrence Dane, and Michael Ironside.
The TV series, on the other hand, is a “visceral thriller” that reportedly takes place in the same universe as its predecessor. The story centers on “two women living on the fringes of modern society who are pursued by relentless agents with unimaginable powers and thus must learn to work together to topple a vast conspiracy determined to bring them to heel.”
RELATED: David Cronenberg Revisits Sci-Fi Body Horror In Crimes of the Future’s Trailer
Leading Scanners’ development is William Bridges, who will serve as the project’s writer and showrunner. In 2018, Bridges won an Emmy for co-writing the “USS Callister” episode of Black Mirror. He also wrote an episode of Stranger Things 3 and co-created AMC’s Soulmates with Ted Lasso star Brett Golstein. Additionally, HBO has tasked Yann Demange with directing the series after previously working with him on Lovecraft Country’s pilot episode.
The original Scanners actually spawned two direct-to-video sequels in 1991 and 1992. Two additional spinoff films were also released in 1994 and 1995. However, none of these were made with Cronenberg’s involvement, making his participation with HBO’s series all the more surprising. Regardless, Cronenberg will produce alongside Media Res Studio’s Michael Ellenberg and Lindsey Springer. Wayward Films’ Meredith Duff and Sarah Sullivan are executive producing as well.
What are you hoping to see from a Scanners TV series? Let us know in the comment section below!
Recommended Reading: Consumed: A Novel by David Cronenberg
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Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall speaks at the 2022 Air and Space Forces Association’s Air, Space & Cyber Conference in National Harbor, Md., Sept. 19, 2022. The ASC Conference is a professional development seminar that offers the opportunity for Department of Defense personnel to participate in forums, speeches and workshops. (U.S. Air Force photo by Wayne Clark)
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Health experts are warning this flu season might be worse than a few years ago. Is that a good indicator?
"It was Australia's worst flu season in five years and came earlier than any other flu season with the exception of the '09 pandemic," said Dr. Andrew Pekosz, a professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
In the past two flu seasons, COVID protocols like mask-wearing, hand washing, and lockdowns have protected us from the flu virus. Now that restrictions have been lifted, people are traveling more.
We're more than likely to come into contact with the virus. Another reason is there were fewer people who got the flu, which means less natural immunity.
Dr. Bruce Y. Lee is a journalist at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health.
"But now that that many people aren't maintaining a lot of those precautions and also the fact that people haven't been exposed to the flu over the past couple of years leave people a lot more susceptible," said Lee.
Experts recommend getting the flu shot — or getting both a COVID booster and flu shot at the same time.
"Both of those are needed. Both of those should be scheduled as soon as possible and ideally at the same time so that one doesn't fall into the trap of getting one and forgetting to get back to get the other," said Pekosz.
But others are choosing not to get the flu vaccine, like an Omaha resident who says she's never gotten the flu.
"I'll wait and see if I get it. I just try to eat healthy live healthy, stay healthy, clean, and neat," said Theresa Gart.
"The influenza vaccine won't prevent you from getting influenza, but it dramatically decreases your illness and dramatically decreases your risk of hospitalization," said Dan Fick, a doctor at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.
This holds particularly for the elderly and children, who are the most vulnerable. An NIH 2020 study found vaccines reduced flu-related hospitalizations for children by 41% and ER visits by 51%.
"The best thing you can do to get your child ready to stay healthy and in school is to get them vaccinated and boosted. It is a lot. As a parent of three kids, I can't take them all together because then they all scream. I know this pain. But it is really important to keep your child healthy and in school," said Keri Alhoff, a Johns Hopkins Blomberg School of Public Health researcher.
Ultimately, it's also about preventing a strain on our medical system as we go through another winter season of the pandemic and flu.
"What we always say is we don't do it for us, we are doing it for other people, so we want to make sure if we are around babies or around older people, we are looking out for them," said Jessica Charlsen, who took all three of her kids to get a flu shot.
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About 26% of Americans live with a disability, whether it's physical or mental, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
Advocates say there’s a lot of misunderstanding about a person who has a disability. And that stigma not only runs deep — it can also have a huge impact on that individual's mental health.
Twenty-eight-year-old New Yorker Chloé Valentine Toscano knows beauty, from walking in fashion week to her Instagram reels to publishing in magazines like Allure.
"I'm a writer. I'm someone who likes the color pink. I like butterflies. I like learning a lot about anyone and anything," she said. "I think we all have differences, and I want to understand differences."
She also has fought face-to-face with ugly mental health struggles caused by doctors who didn't understand her disability.
"It is a journey," Valentine Toscano said.
She lost motor function from her elbow down in 2014. She adapted and spent years living with — as she calls it — dead weight. She got into paralympic swimming and started her career.
Then, after years of research and soul searching, she chose to amputate her arm.
"I know amputation can be very traumatic because some people, a lot of people, will experience it through trauma," she said. "But that wasn't where I was in my case. So, it wasn't traumatic talking about it, but it was traumatic playing a game with the yeses and the nos."
Valentine Toscano spent three years fighting to get her procedure. She says some surgeons told her any elective amputation was too risky, even though she was healthy. Other rejections came after her surgery had been approved and scheduled.
"The answer I got from one, he said, 'Well, some people just need to learn to live with what they've got.' That made me feel like someone else who wasn't in my body was telling me what was better for me," she said. "It felt very frustrating to have it and very offensive to have someone say that."
Bodily autonomy — or the right to control what happens to your body — is a common struggle in the disability community. And disability experts say misunderstanding is common and can cause undue stress as well as impact a person's mental well-being.
Valentine Toscano's case, it happened a few times.
She recounted that at one appointment, "I cried, I broke down and I felt like the minute I expressed that emotion, he sent me in for a psych evaluation, which felt like I was being punished for expressing emotion." And then she described the examination, saying: "She was asking me, she said, 'Do you find that you're unattractive because of your arm and that you would be more attractive without it?' And I was like, 'It's not about that at all. It's never been about that.' ... I felt angry and belittled and just, not heard, because I was asking for one thing and being evaluated for something that wasn't even remotely there."
Clinical Psychologist Dr. Linda Mona has spent the past two decades working on disability and how it relates to health care.
"If you haven't been exposed to it personally — you have not been exposed to it through being a family friend, a lover, whoever that might be — And you're not called to do it professionally and you don't see it around you, you don't think about it."
She says, unfortunately, Valentine Toscano's experience is all too common. Mental health experts with lived experience or expertise in disability are rare.
"It can be quite challenging to find somebody," Mona said. "The other thing to think about is the steps that come before that, which is that it's very hard for people to access education if they have disability, let alone graduate school. And internship and fellowship..."
A 2021 anonymous survey of graduating medical students showed that 7.6% identified as having a disability. But data collected directly from medical schools show that only about 4% of medical students disclosed their disability.
That stigma against disability —physical or mental — runs deep.
From 1867 to 1974 U.S. cities had laws governing who could be in public. Codes included fining or jailing those deemed "diseased, maimed, mutilated, or anyway deformed."
Mona says it's a federal bias favoring able-bodied people.
"You're best at home. You're best tucked away. Or, you're best institutionalized out of the way of anybody else who is displeased with the way that you look," she said.
She adds structural stigmas fueled misconceptions about disabled people's decision-making about their own bodies.
NEWSY'S LINDSEY THEIS: When we talk about bodily autonomy, what type of impact cannot have long-term on someone's mental well-being?
LINDA MONA: Trying to bring that in and make your choices can have a huge effect on your mental health in the long run. ... It also happens a lot with pregnancy and people with disabilities. Right? So, you know, somebody has some kind of cognitive mental difference or physical difference. There's, you know, constant questioning about, you know, 'you want to be pregnant? You know what that's going to do to your body?' ... I don't think anybody thinks those types of decisions are a simple decision. They're complex. But you have to trust that somebody has made that made that decision with that context in mind and not assume that they're uninformed.
In summer 2021, Valentine Toscano had her amputation surgery. She calls it a dream come true.
"I just felt happy," she said. "I was like, 'Oh my gosh.' I got this is like a huge step in my life. It just felt like one of those, like, huge dreams. I got there. I got a huge part of my personality back immediately."
Toscano uses a prosthetic, as needed. It's bright pink and purple with a lot of glitter.
"If I could have decided to have been born with an arm with butterflies and sparkles on it, like right out of the womb, I would have picked that," she said.
Toscano said her prosthetic cost $13,000.
"It's something that's very expensive," she said. "I was fortunate to have it covered by health insurance. But that's not something everyone has."
Toscano continues to advocate and write, sharing her experience now from two different sides of disability. She's also writing a book on the side.
She says the ability to share those stories in her voice and having others listen is not only good for her well-being, it's truly beautiful.
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NASA discovered a leak in its Artemis I moon rocket on Wednesday during a cryogenic tanking test.
Leaks spoiled the first two scheduled launches. On Sept. 3, NASA called off the launch because of the fuel leak. Days earlier the launch was called off because of problems with the rocket's hydrogen tanks.
NASA reportedly added seals and made repairs to limit the leaks.
According to The Associated Press, NASA was able to get the leak down to acceptable levels on Wednesday. However, it's unclear whether the rocket will be ready for takeoff. The earliest window would be on Sept. 27.
Artemis I is the first of several missions as part of the Artemis program, which NASA hopes will prepare humans to go farther than the moon.
While Artemis I will be unmanned, Artemis II will send four astronauts on a flyby of the moon. Artemis III is expected to include a crewed mission to the moon's surface.
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Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan are expecting their third child together.
The Meta CEO made the announcement on Facebook.
"Happy to share that Max and August are getting a new baby sister next year," Zuckerberg posted.
Zuckerberg and Chan have been married for 10 years. Their children are five and six years old.
This has been an interesting year for Zuckerberg. According to Bloomberg's Billionaires Index, which tracks the world's wealthiest people, the Facebook founder has seen his wealth cut by over half in 2022.
Zuckerberg's net worth is currently estimated at $55.9 billion.
Zuckerberg's wealth hit its peak in September 2021. At the time, he was worth $142 billion.
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With several holidays happening soon, Walmart announced that it's looking to hire 40,000 seasonal workers this holiday season.
The company is looking to hire several positions: full-time, permanent truck drivers, seasonal store associates, and customer care associates.
The company added that they'd first offer current employees the opportunity to pick up additional hours if they want them.
Though the number they're hiring may seem high, it's lower than last year.
According to the Associated Press, the company was looking to hire 150,000 permanent employees this time last holiday season.
CNN and the AP reported that companies expect a slower holiday season this year due to inflation.
Walmart isn't the only company looking to hire help with the holiday rush.
UPS announced last week that it's looking to hire more than 100,000 seasonal employees.
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The Congress party had acted quickly after Hindutva ideologue VD Savarkar made an appearance on a banner raised to welcome Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Yatra in Ernakulam caused it great shame.
The party suspended the man -- Suresh, INTUC, Nedumbassery area president -- who was responsible for the gaffe. However, damage had been done as video and images of Savarkar on the Congress banner soon went viral.
Hours later a tearful Suresh told Manorama News what had happened. According to him, it was an oversight on his part, which was supplemented, partly by Google and an ignorant press worker.
"The banner was 88 feet long. I was held up with other work and the guy at the press searched the internet for freedom fighters and selected the 20 photos that showed up. I couldn't proof the content and he didn't know who Savarkar was," said Suresh.
He says the printing was done overnight and he was tying up the long banner when Anwar Sadath MLA rang him up. "Someone was filming and I think the MLA might have seen it so he called me. Only then I knew there was Savarkar's image in the banner. I immediately covered it with an image of Mahatma Gandhi but soon we took down the whole banner."
Suresh said he was disappointed to have let down his party. "I should have been careful. It was my mistake, I take responsibility."
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Say "theater" and many people think "Broadway."
The musical 1776, perhaps, in a freshly revolutionary, re-gendered mounting by Tony winner Diane Paulis and Emmy-nominated Jeffrey L. Page. Or Hamilton, Rent, A Chorus Line. Or maybe they think of some of the plays that have won Pulitzer Prizes in the last 30 years.
As it happens, every one of those shows was first applauded — before it went to Broadway or won the Pulitzer — at America's regional theaters, a nationwide network of more than 1,800 professional, not-for-profit resident stages.
Before 2020, those theaters were producing between 14,000 and 25,000 productions each year, attended annually by an average of more than 35 million people, according to the Theater Communications Group. That's more than twice as many as attend pro football games in the U.S., according to figures from the NFL.
Regional theaters were conceived as an alternative to Broadway, but they long ago became indispensable to their showbizzy commercial cousin. In the 2010s, they helped nurture and develop eight of the 10 shows that went on to win Broadway's Best Musical Tony, including Memphis, Hadestown, Once, Dear Evan Hansen, and the runaway international smash Hamilton. The movement's success was contagious.
Alas, so was something else: a coronavirus that brought live performance staggering to a halt on March 13, 2020.
The show won't go on
'It was the worst day of my life," said Michael J. Bobbitt, who now is the highest ranking arts official in Massachusetts as the head of the Mass Cultural Council, but who was then in rehearsals as the leader of Watertown's New Repertory Theater, which was producing the Billie Holiday musical Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill. To his distress, he had to say to his cast something that's almost never said in the theater: The show won't go on.
"This was one of the rare times, remembered Bobbitt, "that New Repertory Theater did shows by and about people of color, so to have to fire all those Black artists, and then let all those audience members who were excited about coming to the show know that we didn't know when we were going to bring it back was very, very hard."
Bobbitt wasn't alone. Molly Smith at Washington, D.C.'s Arena Stage had a world premiere that night, Celia and Fidel, by Cuban playwright Eduardo Machado, and remembered a full day of emergency conversations with theater staff and government officials about what was happening with COVID-19.
"At the end of the show" she recalled, "right after I'd done a toast with the actors in the green room, I moved them into another room because all of their friends and families were in the green room, and said, 'This was our opening and closing night.'"
What no one knew at the time was...until when.
"We closed the theater that night and didn't really reopen for almost two years," she said.
But a closed theater doesn't mean there's not an audience, or that the theater couldn't still put up a show.
Keeping the lights on, online
"We immediately started doing programming online, because we knew we needed to maintain our connection with our audiences, our artists and our patrons," Smith said.
Actors and directors taught theater classes. Smith did weekly interviews with artists that they called "Molly's Salons." They also produced several full-blown films – basically they did anything they thought might keep them in the public mind.
"And also," she said, "we were trying to give a bit back to artists so they would continue working."
Continuity was a concern at every resident theater in the country during the pandemic. Commercial touring shows could just shut down and wait. Regional stages are communities. They have staff, subscribers who might not re-up if a whole season of plays disappears, and continuing expenses like mortgages that link them to the neighborhoods they're situated in.
Arena had basically reinvented southwest Washington, D.C., as an entertainment district when it expanded its complex in 2010 and wrapped it in a spaceship-like glass shell with a swooping roof after more than a decade of planning. The surrounding neighborhood had previously been largely residential with a few seafood restaurants along the Potomac riverfront. Now known as "the Wharf," it's a sparkling day-trip destination with high-rises, music venues and teeming nightlife.
"Once we began building," said Smith, "suddenly all of the developers who had been waiting jumped on, because theaters really bring people to areas."
With that kind of community investment, regional theaters couldn't just sit back when Covid hit. They needed to use the downtime. And many used it to rethink the way they'd been operating for decades, especially regarding racial equity.
We See You, White American Theater
"We are not just props to be pushed on the stage every February," Chicago playwright Ike Holter told NPR member station WBEZ in June 2020, "we are the backbone of the theater."
Holter and much of the creative staff at the Victory Gardens Theater had just resigned en masse, partly in protest over the theater's board of directors hiring a new artistic director without consulting them. The theater later hired — and then fired — a Black artistic director, and has recently fired its entire staff, and become a presenting organization, rather than a producing organization.
All of which backs up Holter's assertion on WBEZ's show The Reset that the problem ran deeper:
"These large theaters that present themselves as liberal hotspots where, 'Oh we can talk about ideas here, we can share space here,' that's all fine and dandy, but if they do seven shows a year and only two of them are by people of color in a city that is over half people of color, that is a sign of something that is systemic, and that is a sign of something we shouldn't be silent about."
Shortly after Holter's radio appearance, a coalition of hundreds of prominent theatermakers of color issued a statement. "We See You White American Theater," it declared, and a 29-page list of demands followed, to make sure white American theater saw them back.
The open letter got the theater world's attention, with resident theaters doing some very public soul-searching, and pledging to do better.
Bobbitt said this should always have been a no-brainer, because "diversity is good for business."
"If someone were to ask me what makes me Black," he said, "I would say that art and culture are inherent in who I am. It's the music, it's the food, it's the dance, it's the words. So there's a group of people out there that a lot of organizations don't market to, or program for, or include in their planning. And they're missing out on all those people who would probably come and engage with them."
Using the pandemic pause to reflect, and shift gears
Many in the theater world argue that should be just the start, that stages should also consider things like leaping into digital experimentation the way sports leapt into television; overhauling fundraising models developed in the 1960s; and reworking labor practices, fellowships, and internships that require artists to sacrifice for their art.
And there's more. Theaters also started rethinking subscription plans that prioritize well-off people who can purchase a season's worth of prime seats in advance, while leaving everyone else scrambling for leftovers. And they began reconsidering the current, frustrating governance model at most non-profits, where theater artists must answer to a volunteer board of directors, often with little theater expertise, which has all of the authority and none of the accountability. (The board structure is among Internal Revenue Service requirements for tax-exempt organizations under subsection 501(c) of the tax code).
Bobbitt, who has both answered to boards as an artistic director and served on boards himself, wrote a much-debated open letter to American Theatre magazine, suggesting that the board model, initially intended to foster community involvement, has gotten warped over time.
"If I was a surgeon," he said to NPR, "I don't know if I would want a group of volunteers telling me how to do my surgery. I don't think the patient on the table would also appreciate that."
Taking their cue from that letter, all but the three legally-mandated board members at A Contemporary Theater (ACT) in Seattle, one of the nation's leading resident theaters, voluntarily stepped down last month.
ACT Artistic Director John Langs said in a statement that the pandemic, while immensely difficult for theater artists, has also prompted reflection. "We recognize that this moment represents a rare and unique opportunity to disrupt the status quo and lead the institution towards necessary change. By doing so openly, we hope to be a part of the long overdue cultural shift in our field."
A cultural engine roaring back to life
That shift comes at a time when the not-for-profit regionals are finally regaining their footing as a $2 billion business and a powerful cultural engine. The regionals over the last 30 years have become the originators of nearly all new American plays.
Arena's Molly Smith, who just produced American Prophet, a world-premiere musical telling the story of abolitionist Frederick Douglass using his own words as lyrics, said that nurturing new works and new artists has actually been part of the movement's DNA from its inception.
"The regional theater movement was started by three intrepid women, two in Texas [Nina Vance at the Alley Theater, and Margo Jones at Theater '47], and Zelda Fichandler [founder of Arena Stage] here in Washington, D.C."
Smith said these women didn't just give birth to a new kind of professional theater, they made it a point to nurture playwrights and artists in the process. And when Arena expanded its physical complex in 2010, Smith added a new auditorium specifically to be an incubator for new plays. To emphasize that purpose, she called it "The Cradle."
She noted that even though there were still just a handful of women in positions of authority at major resident theaters when she arrived at Arena 25 years ago, now there are "many many more women that are running theaters, and many more artists of color. It's an exciting shift."
There is also more interconnection among theaters – a network of producing organizations — ensuring that a new play doesn't rise or fall on the basis of a single production.
Ain't No Mo', for instance, an evening of satirical sketches currently playing at D.C.'s Woolly Mammoth Theater Company, was first nurtured at The Public Theater in New York. The show is on its way to a Broadway opening in November, where it will join that new 1776 that was reconceived from the ground up at Boston's American Repertory Theater, and is now being co-produced with another regional, the Roundabout Theatre.
So clearly, this is a system that works, if it's also — as many say from the inside — a system that needs work.
"It's time," said Bobbitt. "I think it's time for us to re-imagine. Seventy-five years of doing it the same way is a long time."
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Kim Kardashian Just Got Her Malibu Dreamhouse
Kim Kardashian’s Instagram followers are probably familiar with her unique taste in decor. The reality star has showed off her living space a handful of times over the years, and it is always met with a bit of confusion. Her bathroom sinks left many baffled, debated the physics of the design, and her recent office tour made the Internet grateful for their own, ergonomic chairs. Basically, Kim likes to keep her living spaces minimal and natural, and she will go to the extreme to reach that aesthetic, which is what makes her most recent real estate purchase all the more intriguing.
According to real estate news site Dirt.com, Kardashian has purchased an oceanfront estate on the Encinal Bluffs in Malibu, previously owned by Cindy Crawford, for $70.4 million. The home was originally built in 1944, before being renovated in the ‘90s and more recently in 2016. It has a distinct Mediterranean villa aesthetic, more ornate than Kardashian’s norm, though the inside is very modern, which is likely what drew Kardashian to the property. It also probably helped that the villa boasts 7,450 square feet on a 3.18 acre lot, with four bedrooms and five-and-a-half bathrooms. There are also wraparound decks, a tennis court, pool cabana, a private path to the beach, and, of course, a private gym.
Kardashian bought the property from retired hedge fund manager Adam Weiss, who purchased it from Crawford in 2018. Crawford and family, however, never lived in the main house, but do live in the neighborhood.
The deal holds the highest price tag in Malibu this year, as well as the fourth-highest in California. It also means Kardashian can now count Leo DiCaprio and Neil Diamond as neighbors. It should be noted that her ex-husband, Kanye West, has his own Malibu house, though it is about 14 miles away, so there’s little chance of an unplanned neighborly run-in. It is assumed the beauty mogul will keep her Hidden Hills mansion as her primary residence, and use the new Malibu pad as more of a vacation home.
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Diesel’s Glenn Martens Drives a Nail Into the Democratization of Fashion
Thousands of guests attended Diesel’s spring 2023 show in Milan. In fact, 3,000 tickets were offered to the public. Creative director Glenn Martens has quickly become one of the designers hellbent on breaking down the barriers of the traditional fashion industry, and he did just that, once again, for the brand’s spring 2023 collection.
The show, which took place in a room full of massive, vaguely sexual inflatable sculptures, opened with a procession of denim looks: bra tops, oversized vests, sliced jeans, shredded maxi dresses, distressed hot pants, baggy trench coats, and structured corsets. Taking influence from his work at Y/Project, where Martens did a deep dive into the material, the designer has made it clear that Diesel is a vessel to play with every kind of denim, as well as a way to discover how those very concepts interact with the Diesel archives. “How can we reinvent denim or what can we do with denim [that’s] unexpected?,” he told W in April. “How can we twist it? How can I conceptualize the way our denim is perceived?”
From the chunky denim bomber jackets to the tiny denim tube tops, spring 2023 at Milan Fashion Week was a character study carried out through jeans. There truly was something for everyone, and many of the looks felt like they touched on the expressive subcultures that are flourishing online and in the real world right now. We saw the Y2K fan, the whimsigoth girl (in an ombré denim dress that faded into sheer oblivion) and even the Gorpcore guy, in all of his glory.
Within the finish of each piece, we could see Martens really indulge in the luxury of denim exploration. Grainy, wood-like textures covered long and jean jackets; cargo pants had a layer of chiffon on top. The chunky, distressed hems that resembled faux-fur trim were divine. We’ve seen all of this before, of course, but under Martens’s eye it felt distinctly directional and extremely well-executed.
Beyond denim, there were leather jackets, silky cargo pants, printed jersey maxi dresses, and skirts and dresses with neon lace insets. The collection felt extra joyous when Martens experimented with colors that touched on the hues of the sunset: Near-neon orange sweaters paired with metallic pink skirts, for example; or flaming tangerine denim sets.
Since Diesel’s show in Milan last season, we’ve seen the brand’s 1 DR Bag worn by everyone from Kylie Jenner to Julia Fox (who sat front row again this season). Spring 2023 didn’t feel like it had one particular “It” item, but the outerwear and its range were particularly strong.
Beyond inviting the public to his show, a real rarity in the world of intimate post-Covid presentations, Martens’s expression through denim telegraphs an overwhelming message of democracy in fashion. This is a designer who often takes inspiration from the metro, after all. “I feel that denim is a very democratic material,” he said. “You can wear it with a high heel, you can go to a cocktail, you can go rave.”
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Dua Lipa Does Leather in Two Very Different Ways
While much of fashion’s most influential names are in Milan at the moment, taking in the spring 2023 runway shows, Dua Lipa is on the other side of the world in Mexico City. In true Lipa fashion, though, the pop star is still serving looks like she’s sitting front row. On Tuesday, Lipa shared a set of photos from her Future Nostalgia tour stop, showing off two of her latest looks, and proving the versatility of leather in the process.
The singer chose Naucalpan’s Nido de Quetzalcóatl and its unique, quirky architecture as the backdrop for her outfit photos. The greens and yellows of the house’s facade allowed her chocolate brown leather look to really pop. Lipa nabbed the set from Miu Miu’s fall 2022 ready-to-wear collection, pairing the cropped moto jacket and lace-up, double-belted pants with a blue striped poplin shirt from the brand and a brown leather shoulder bag she’s been touting around a lot lately.
The dress code for the trip must have been leather, because during another outing, Lipa opted to stick to the fabric, while exhibiting a very different aesthetic. Her second ensemble featured what looks to be a classic, black motorcycle jacket fashioned into a corset from Dion Lee’s fall 2022 collection, with zippers running down the torso. She styled the top similarly to how it was presented on the runway, with black pants that feature an attached leather skirt. Lipa then finished off the outfit with some silver Bottega Veneta hoops, GCDS sunglasses, and her other favorite bag, the Balenciaga Le Cagole.
Lipa will remain in Mexico for a bit longer to play her last show on the Latin America leg of her tour in Monterrey. After that, she has some time off, so it wouldn’t be too surprising if we saw her in Milan later this week, or perhaps Paris after that. Of course, the singer may need a bit of break before she heads to Australia and New Zealand to finish off her Future Nostalgia tour in November.
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Leni Klum and Aris Rachevsky Make Their Fashion Week Couple Debut
For models, there’s no better place than fashion week to put their relationships on the map. Seven months after posting what remains the only photo of him on her Instagram feed, Leni Klum proved that she and Aris Rachevsky are still growing strong by bringing him along to Tuesday night’s About You show in Milan. Since they’ve so laid low—the 18-year-old model didn’t even feature him in her below Instagram of the evening, instead posing with her supermodel mom Heidi—that the outing made for a rare look at their couples style in the three years that they’ve been together. Both wore baggy pants, with Klum in a Cultnaked pair made of black leather and Rachevsky in cargos.
So, who is Aris Rachevsky? For starters, he was born in California to Rhea Rachevsky, cofounder of the creative agency Early Morning Riot, in 2003. According to his Facebook page, he went on to study at Harvard University. You won’t find out much more about him on his Instagram; he’s only posted six times, though that’s been enough for him to rack up more than 38,000 followers. And while he does have an IMDb page, Rachevsky appears to have given up on acting after making a cameo in the small 2016 film Dirty. From what we can tell, these days, Archevsky spends most of his time playing hockey, going shopping with Klum, and playing Wordle.
For those wondering why it’s the first time we’ve seen Klum and Rachevsky attend a show together in the roughly three years that they’ve been quietly dating, that’s because Klum is relatively new to this whole modeling thing. She’s only walked two runways since making her modeling debut on the cover of German Vogue alongside her mom at the start of last year—though given that they were both Dolce & Gabanna, we wouldn’t be surprised if the brand’s spring 2023 showing on Saturday makes for no. 3.
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EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — The three Democrats vying to become Providence’s next mayor met for their only live televised debate on Tuesday night, laying out how they would handle taxes, the state takeover of city schools and a deeply underfunded pension system.
Gonzalo Cuervo, Nirva LaFortune and Brett Smiley, all of whom have several years of experience working in city government, are seeking to replace the term-limited outgoing mayor, Democrat Jorge Elorza. No Republicans or independents have filed for mayor, so the winner of the Democratic primary is all but certain to become leader of the capital city in January.
During the one-hour live debate on 12 News, the trio took turns arguing why voters should pick them to lead the capital city, while also defending criticism tied to ethics, likeability and opportunism.
In one of the more contentious segments of the debate, Cuervo and LaFortune took aim at Smiley for violating the state’s code of ethics last year. At the time, he acknowledged accepting campaign contributions from state contractors while still holding a top cabinet position under then-Gov. Gina Raimondo.
The controversial donations were first reported by Target 12.
“He is an expert in campaign finance,” Cuervo said about Smiley, who spent several years running a private firm that specialized in campaign finance compliance.
“When he asked for guidance, he turned around and did exactly what he told the Rhode Island Ethics Commission he was not going to do,” added Cuervo, who most recently worked as deputy secretary of state under Nellie Gorbea.
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Smiley has established a sizable financial advantage in the race, with a campaign account four times the size of his opponents. He defended the ethics violation, saying he took full responsibility – which included paying a $4,500 fine. He also argued public servants should admit more often when they make a mistake.
“The minute I found out that I had received contributions from people I had no idea had contracts with the state, I promptly returned them and then I fully cooperated with the Ethics Commission,” Smiley said.
Smiley — who notably never went on offense against his two rivals during the debate — wasn’t the only one who ended up in the hot seat. Cuervo also faced criticism for admitting he moved out of Providence in 2013, living in Cranston for six years before returning to the capital city in the lead-up to the current mayoral contest. (He sold his Cranston home in 2020.)
“Moving back in 2019 just to run for office I think says a lot about you as a person,” LaFortune said.
Cuervo defended the moves, saying his family relocated to Cranston – 11 minutes away from his current home – because at the time he couldn’t afford any Providence homes within his price range that didn’t require major renovations.
LaFortune, who represents Ward 3 on the East Side on the City Council, moved to Providence from Haiti when she was three years old, attended public schools and was first elected to the council in 2017. But she so far has failed to raise as much money and political support as her rivals.
Asked specifically why only one of her 14 City Council colleagues have endorsed her for mayor, LaFortune pointed out a former councilor — state Sen. Sam Zurier — has also backed her and dismissed the lack of support from the others on the body.
She also argued she’s proven she can “compete with the guys,” and noted if elected she would become the first woman and woman of color to serve as mayor.
“I have worked hard as a City Council person, I’ve worked ethically while also being a parent, while working full time,” she said. “It’s hard for some people to accept something they haven’t seen before.”
Education
One of the biggest issues facing Providence is education, as the state’s takeover of city schools beginning in 2019 has been marred with controversy and strife tied to personnel and the pandemic.
The Democratic candidates agreed over wanting to see the school district return to local control, but they differed slightly on how it should be done.
Smiley — who was Raimondo’s chief of staff when the state took over the Providence schools — argued the city should allow the state to get back on track with its turnaround plan.
Whenever that happens, Smiley said he’s committed to creating universal pre-K for every child whose family needs it by the end of his first term, calling child care the “great divide” between the rich and poor.
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LaFortune, who in 2019 declined to try and to block the state’s takeover of schools, also supported the city regaining control at some point. But she said there needs to be a plan created around performance benchmarks that would ensure the transition happens responsibility. She did not provide a timeline for when that might happen.
“We have deviated from the course on multiple occasions,” she said. “We have to stay the course.”
Cuervo, who previously served in prominent positions under former Providence mayors Angel Taveras and David Cicilline, said he supports the schools coming back to the city and he would prioritize spending more money on improving the district’s “ancient buildings” and crumbling infrastructure.
“We have an opportunity to make sure these dollars that are available right now will be used in an intelligent and thoughtful way,” he said.
Housing and pension woes
Other areas of governance where the candidates largely agreed there are problems, but offered different ideas about how to attack them, included housing and the city’s woefully underfunded pension system.
On the issue of housing, all three candidates said the city is facing an affordability crisis. Cuervo and LaFortune both supported some type of rent stabilization program that would limit how much landlords could raise rent prices on tenants each year. Cuervo has proposed capping annual rent increases at 4%; LaFortune declined to specify.
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Smiley argued a better approach would be to focus on building more affordable housing while also creating a new tier of benefits to help subsidize rent for people who make more than those who qualify for low-income subsidy programs. He said the state should pay for the cost of the new benefit.
On the issue of the Providence pension fund — which this year will require a roughly $100 million payment from city taxpayers — Smiley said he would advocate for the plan to join the state-run municipal pension system. The state has only accepted a couple locally controlled pension funds since its creation, and it’s unclear whether Providence’s locally controlled plan would even be accepted at its current funding level — about 23% — and lucrative benefit plans currently paid out to retirees.
LaFortune said she’d likewise support pushing for the local plan to join the state system, although she also argued the city needs to find new ways to generate more revenue to help pay for expenses that continue to rise at a 5% clip each year.
Cuervo argued the city should focus on growing its economy to help make up for the payment. He also said the city must focus on limiting future benefits compared to what was agreed to decades ago to make sure “we don’t fall into that trap again.”
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How well do you know the city?
During a rapid-fire and pop-quiz segment of the debate, candidates were asked for their positions on different issues, along with a series of questions about city governance.
Here are the rapid-fire results:
Would you vote yes or no on a hybrid city school board?
- LaFortune: Yes
- Cuervo: No
- Smiley: No
What letter grade would you give to the state takeover of the Providence schools?
- Smiley: Incomplete
- LaFortune: D, or a D-minus, or even a C
- Cuervo: D
Who was the best mayor over the last 50 years?
- Cuervo: No choice
- LaFortune: No choice
- Smiley: Mayor David Cicilline
Here are the pop-quiz results:
How much money was in the city’s pension investment account as of July?
- LaFortune: No answer
- Smiley: $300 million
- Cuervo: $300 million
- Answer: $325 million
What is the current residential property tax rate?
- Cuervo: $22 per $1,000 assessed value
- Smiley: Cuervo isn’t far off
- LaFortune: It’s a little over $22 per $1,000 assessed value
- Answer: $17.80 per $1,000 assessed value
What is the current police budget?
- Smiley: $100 million
- Cuervo: $100 million
- LaFortune: $100 million
- Answer: $100 million
Bonus question (for fun):
Where would you recommend someone propose to their significant other in Providence?
- Cuervo: The pedestrian bridge
- LaFortune: The rose garden at Roger Williams Park
- Smiley: Prospect Park
The candidates were asked a wide variety of other questions during the hour-long debate. Clips of those discussions can be found broken down by issue below.
Taxes
Policing
Guaranteed income program
Last-minute questions
Closing statements
Post-debate wrap up
Eli Sherman (esherman@wpri.com) is a Target 12 investigative reporter for 12 News. Connect with him on Twitter and on Facebook.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A new study measuring the incidence of injury and illness among runners in the New York City Marathon and the association of injuries with training patterns was recently published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine by sports medicine physicians and experts at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS). The researchers found that runners who avoided rapid increases in weekly mileage were less likely to become injured during the lead-up to the event. This was demonstrated regardless of whether the runners were newcomers to the sport or experienced racers.
For the study, sports medicine physician and lead author Brett G. Toresdahl, MD, Research Director for the Primary Sports Medicine Service at HSS, and his colleagues partnered with Strava to monitor the training habits of 735 men and women who trained for the 2019 New York City Marathon. Of those, 699 (95.1 percent) started the 26.2-mile race and 692 finished the event. Over 16 weeks of training, 40 percent of runners in the study reported an injury, of which 30 (4.1 percent) were serious enough to prevent participation in the marathon. Another 12 runners (16 percent) suffered injuries during or immediately after the race.
To assess the effects of training rates on the risk of injury, the researchers used a measure called the acute:chronic workload ratio (ACWR), which compares how much training a person does in a short amount of time to their training over a longer period. Athletes in many other sports, such as rugby and soccer, use the ACWR to track and modify their workouts so that they can optimize their training and performance.
An ACWR above 1.5 means the weekly mileage in the past week was 50 percent higher than the average weekly mileage over the past 28 days. Runners who reported an injury during the first four weeks of training spent more days with an ACWR ≥1.5 than uninjured runners (P=0.009). The researchers also found that when controlling for age, sex, body mass index, and running experience, the number of days when the ACWR ≥1.5 was associated with injury (logistic regression odds ratio 1.06, P=0.002).
"We now have a more robust understanding of the health of runners of the New York City Marathon – including their backgrounds, training patterns, if and when they became injured or ill, and the various ways that their training patterns were associated with injury," said Dr. Toresdahl. "We hope these insights will motivate runners to avoid rapid increases in training volume that we found were associated with injury."
The study also found that a frequently used guide for increasing training doesn't appear to protect against injury in preparation for a marathon. Historically, runners have used the '10 percent rule,' which advises against upping weekly running mileage by more than 10 percent over the previous week. The HSS researchers however did not observe a link between exceeding the 10 percent rule and more injuries, and the perception that novice and older runners are at higher risk for injury is not true – the risk of injury was the same among all runners, despite their age, sex, body mass index, experience level, or goal finishing times.
Strenuous exercise has been associated with changes in the immune system, which might in turn leave athletes more prone to infectious illnesses. The study found that 27.2 percent of runners reported falling ill during training, mostly with upper respiratory infections and gastrointestinal complaints. While these runners experienced interruptions in training by an illness, it was rare for an illness to prevent a runner from participating in the race.
"The results reinforce the importance of smart training – running consistently, increasing mileage slowly, and being flexible with a plan when interruptions occur," Dr. Toresdahl said. "In the future, we hope to explore additional factors that may play a role in the development of injuries such as the effect of weather and altitude during marathon training."
HSS is the world's leading academic medical center focused on musculoskeletal health. At its core is Hospital for Special Surgery, nationally ranked No. 1 in orthopedics (for the 13th consecutive year), No. 3 in rheumatology by U.S. News & World Report (2022-2023), and the best pediatric orthopedic hospital in NY, NJ and CT by U.S. News & World Report "Best Children's Hospitals" list (2022-2023). In a survey of medical professionals in more than 20 countries by Newsweek, HSS is ranked world #1 in orthopedics for a second consecutive year (2022). Founded in 1863, the Hospital has the lowest complication and readmission rates in the nation for orthopedics, and among the lowest infection rates. HSS was the first in New York State to receive Magnet Recognition for Excellence in Nursing Service from the American Nurses Credentialing Center five consecutive times. An affiliate of Weill Cornell Medical College, HSS has a main campus in New York City and facilities in New Jersey, Connecticut and in the Long Island and Westchester County regions of New York State, as well as in Florida. In addition to patient care, HSS leads the field in research, innovation and education. The HSS Research Institute comprises 20 laboratories and 300 staff members focused on leading the advancement of musculoskeletal health through prevention of degeneration, tissue repair and tissue regeneration. The HSS Innovation Institute works to realize the potential of new drugs, therapeutics and devices. The HSS Education Institute is a trusted leader in advancing musculoskeletal knowledge and research for physicians, nurses, allied health professionals, academic trainees, and consumers in more than 145 countries. The institution is collaborating with medical centers and other organizations to advance the quality and value of musculoskeletal care and to make world-class HSS care more widely accessible nationally and internationally. www.hss.edu.
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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
BACKGROUND:
Learning to drive is an exciting step toward independence for teens; for their parents, who clutch the passenger-seat armrest with every terror-filled twist and turn, it can be scary. For teenagers to become safe, successful drivers, they need to learn basic skills and keep their states' laws in mind. Young drivers who ignore rules may speed excessively, fail to use seat belts or drive under the influence, all of which could lead to bad results.
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SAFE DRIVING TIPS FOR TEENS:
- Don't be Reckless. Learning to drive for the first time makes teenagers high-risk drivers, which is one of the reasons why the cost of car insurance for teens is so high.
- Avoid Distractions. Sadly, due to higher rates of distracted driving,15 to 20-year-olds are 33% more likely to die in crashes than the national average across all age groups.
- Scan the Road. Check your surroundings by peering down intersecting streets and looking at the rearview mirror to see what other cars are doing.
- Slow Down. Speeding drivers are more likely to die in fatal crashes at night than during the daytime.
- Wear the Right Shoes. Take the heels off and keep a pair of flats on hand to avoid the heel getting jammed into the gas or brake pedals.
Amanda Mushro discussed safe driving tips for teen drivers and provided resources for parents to help get through this stressful time. She also explained why teens need car insurance along with ways parents can save money on insurance for their young drivers.
For more information please visit: www.autoinsurance.com/teens/
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Amanda Mushro is a nationally recognized parenting and lifestyle expert whose creative tips, tricks and life hacks have reached millions of people through TV segments, videos, and her writing. Amanda has appeared on The Today Show, Fox and Friends, The Rachael Ray Show, CNN, and TV stations across the country. Amanda hosts a web series for the TLC network called TLC Lifehacks, and is their parenting and lifehacks contributor on TLC.com. She is also a contributor at Forbes, Today Parents, and Highlights Magazine. A highly sought brand spokesperson and consultant, Amanda has worked with numerous brands to host satellite media tours, media events in person and online, and content creation. A native of Pittsburgh, PA, Amanda currently resides in the Washington, D.C. area with her husband and three children.
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MCLEAN, Va., Sept. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Steampunk announced today that Raiza Basilio has joined the company as Vice President for their Citizen, Service, and Defense (CS&D) Portfolio. Raiza brings to Steampunk over 15 years of expertise in government contracting, strong client relationships, and a unique perspective that Steampunk has sought-after for their leadership team.
Raiza Basilio was born in the Philippines and immigrated to the United States when she was 6 years old. Her family is her true North Star, keeping her grounded and focused on pursuing what she believes is the key to success: building lasting relationships. The youngest of 4 children, Raiza, her two sisters, and their older brother watched their mother work 3 jobs to provide for their family. "I personally saw my mom take risks, put herself in uncomfortable situations, and absolutely thrive so that my three siblings and I could experience a better life," said Raiza. "I hope I can inspire my own three children the same way my mother inspired me."
Raiza went to school to become a data scientist and has led first-of-their-kind IT projects as a consultant. She has spent most of her career in the federal intelligence space and Department of Homeland Security (DHS). She is recognized for developing client relationships and growing existing relationships on all levels. Her unwavering dedication to her clients and passion for her work ultimately led Raiza to oversee growth and delivery of one of IBM's largest portfolios.
"I seek new challenges and thrive in fast-paced, always-changing situations. My diverse background and entrepreneurial spirit have shaped my client-centric approach to consulting and problem-solving. I am thrilled to join the Steampunk team and help design and deliver cutting edge solutions for our federal clients," said Raiza. "Steampunk is all about positive disruption, and I'm here to do just that!"
"Raiza's experiences and successes are precisely what will take Steampunk to the next level," said Max Licht, Executive Vice President. "Raiza has an inspiring background, and we're thrilled to be a part of her story, as well as have her be a part of Steampunk's family."
Raiza views Steampunk as the next up-and-coming business in the federal contracting space and is confident that her new role at Steampunk will not only help her grow but also elevate everyone else on the team. "We can't be successful unless we come together as a team, and that's what Steampunk's WE over ME culture is all about," explained Raiza.
Witnessing her own mother take risks, like moving their family to the United States, and placing herself in uncomfortable positions has always inspired Raiza, but she especially thought of her mother when deciding to take on a new role with Steampunk. "Just like my mom thrived in changes and challenges when she came to the US, I too thrive in these positions," said Raiza. "Solving our client's toughest challenges is what gets me really excited to conquer each day and I'm ready to make a difference in this world with my Steampunk Family!"
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Steampunk is a Change Agent in the Federal contracting industry, bringing new thinking to clients in the Homeland, Federal Civilian, Health and DoD sectors. Through our Human-Centered delivery methodology, we are fundamentally changing the expectations our Federal clients have for true shared accountability in solving their toughest mission challenges. As an employee-owned company, we focus on investing in our employees to enable them to do the greatest work of their careers – and rewarding them for outstanding contributions to our growth. If you want to learn more about our story, visit http://www.steampunk.com.
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(CN) — In a speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, U.S. President Joe Biden placed all the blame for the war in Ukraine on Russian President Vladimir Putin and accused the Kremlin leader of “making irresponsible nuclear threats.”
Biden's condemnation came only hours after Putin seriously escalated the war in Ukraine by ordering a partial mobilization of up to some 300,000 reservists for the Ukraine war and said Russia would defend itself against Western attacks.
In a televised speech on Wednesday, Putin warned Western leaders that Russia was prepared to use “all means” to defend its territory.
“If the territorial integrity of our country is threatened, we will use all available means to protect Russia and our people – this is not a bluff,” Putin said. “I shall stress – by all means available to us. Those trying to blackmail us with nuclear weapons should know that the tables can turn on them.”
Putin's statement was seen as threatening the use of nuclear weapons in the event that territories Russia is moving to annex in Ukraine are attacked by NATO-backed Ukrainian forces.
On Tuesday, Russia-affiliated authorities in four Ukrainian regions mostly under the control of Russian troops announced they will hold referendums asking to be made Russian territory.
The process of annexation could happen within weeks and once Moscow claims them to be Russian territory then any attacks on them could be deemed attacks on Russia itself. Western leaders and Kyiv called the referendums a sham and illegal.
“A nuclear war cannot be won, and must never be fought,” Biden said Wednesday as he blasted Putin for “making irresponsible nuclear threats.”
Biden accused Putin of violating the most fundamental principles of the U.N. charter meant to ensure peace and stop countries from attacking each other without reason.
“If nations can pursue their imperial ambitions without consequences, then we put at risk everything this very institution stands for, everything,” Biden said. He said a country “cannot seize a nation’s territory by force.”
Before launching the invasion, Putin warned that Russia's national security was threatened by NATO's interest in expanding into Ukraine and by the Western alliance's training and arming of Kyiv's forces.
Putin's warnings over the threat posed by NATO expansion toward Russia's borders go back to 2007 when he made a speech in Munich denouncing plans to invite Ukraine and Georgia, two former Soviet republics, into NATO. But the Kremlin's concerns were disregarded and in 2008 former U.S. President George W. Bush announced both countries would be welcomed into the alliance.
Biden blamed Putin for sparking a “brutal, needless war.”
“This war is about extinguishing Ukraine’s right to exist as a state, plain and simple, and Ukraine’s right to exist as a people,” Biden said. “Wherever you are, wherever you live, whatever you believe… That should make your blood run cold.”
Courthouse News reporter Cain Burdeau is based in the European Union.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Intensifying its fight against high inflation, the Federal Reserve raised its key interest rate Wednesday by a substantial three-quarters of a point for a third straight time and signaled more large rate hikes to come — an aggressive pace that will heighten the risk of an eventual recession.
The Fed’s move boosted its benchmark short-term rate, which affects many consumer and business loans, to a range of 3% to 3.25%, the highest level since early 2008.
The officials also forecast that they will further raise their benchmark rate to roughly 4.4% by year's end, a full point higher than they had envisioned as recently as June. And they expect to raise the rate again next year, to about 4.6%. That would be the highest level since 2007.
By raising borrowing rates, the Fed makes it costlier to take out a mortgage or an auto or business loan. Consumers and businesses then presumably borrow and spend less, cooling the economy and slowing inflation.
Falling gas prices have slightly lowered headline inflation, which was a still-painful 8.3% in August compared with a year earlier. Those declining prices at the gas pump might have contributed to a recent rise in President Joe Biden’s public approval ratings, which Democrats hope will boost their prospects in the November midterm elections.
Speaking at a news conference, Chair Jerome Powell said that before Fed officials would consider halting their rate hikes, they would “want to be very confident that inflation is moving back down” to their 2% target. He noted that the strength of the job market is fueling pay gains that are helping drive up inflation.
And he stressed his belief that curbing inflation is vital to ensuring the long-term health of the job market.
“If we want to light the way to another period of a very strong labor market," Powell said, "we have got to get inflation behind us. I wish there was painless way to do that. There isn’t.”
Fed officials have said they are seeking a “soft landing,” by which they would manage to slow growth enough to tame inflation but not so much as to trigger a recession. Yet most economists are skeptical. They say they think the Fed’s steep rate hikes will lead, over time, to job cuts, rising unemployment and a full-blown recession late this year or early next year.
“No one knows whether this process will lead to a recession, or if so, how significant that recession would be," Powell said at his news conference. "That’s going to depend on how quickly we bring down inflation.”
In their updated economic forecasts, the Fed's policymakers project that economic growth will remain weak for the next few years, with rising unemployment. They expect the jobless rate to reach 4.4% by the end of 2023, up from its current level of 3.7%. Historically, economists say, any time unemployment has risen by a half-point over several months, a recession has always followed.
Fed officials now foresee the economy expanding just 0.2% this year, sharply lower than their forecast of 1.7% growth just three months ago. And they envision sluggish growth below 2% from 2023 through 2025.
Even with the steep rate hikes the Fed foresees, it still expects core inflation — which excludes the volatile food and gas categories — to be 3.1% at the end of next year, well above its 2% target.
Powell acknowledged in a speech last month that the Fed’s moves will “bring some pain” to households and businesses. And he added that the central bank’s commitment to bringing inflation back down to its 2% target was “unconditional.”
Short-term rates at a level the Fed is now envisioning would make a recession likelier next year by sharply raising the costs of mortgages, car loans and business loans. Last week, the average fixed mortgage rate topped 6%, its highest point in 14 years, which helps explain why home sales have tumbled. Credit card borrowing costs have reached their highest level since 1996, according to Bankrate.com.
Inflation now appears increasingly fueled by higher wages and by consumers’ steady desire to spend and less by the supply shortages that had bedeviled the economy during the pandemic recession. On Sunday, Biden said on CBS’ “60 Minutes” that he believed a soft landing for the economy was still possible, suggesting that his administration’s recent energy and health care legislation would lower prices for pharmaceuticals and health care.
The law may help lower prescription drug prices, but outside analyses suggest it will do little to immediately bring down overall inflation. Last month, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office judged it would have a “negligible” effect on prices through 2023. The University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Wharton Budget Model went even further to say “the impact on inflation is statistically indistinguishable from zero” over the next decade.
Even so, some economists are beginning to express concern that the Fed’s rapid rate hikes — the fastest since the early 1980s — will cause more economic damage than necessary to tame inflation. Mike Konczal, an economist at the Roosevelt Institute, noted that the economy is already slowing and that wage increases — a key driver of inflation — are levelling off and by some measures even declining a bit.
Surveys also show that Americans are expecting inflation to ease significantly over the next five years. That is an important trend because inflation expectations can become self-fulfilling: If people expect inflation to ease, some will feel less pressure to accelerate their purchases. Less spending would then help moderate price increases.
The Fed’s rapid rate hikes mirror steps that other major central banks are taking, contributing to concerns about a potential global recession. The European Central Bank last week raised its benchmark rate by three-quarters of a percentage point. The Bank of England, the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Bank of Canada have all carried out hefty rate increases in recent weeks.
And in China, the world’s second-largest economy, growth is already suffering from the government’s repeated Covid lockdowns. If recession sweeps through most large economies, that could derail the U.S. economy, too.
Even at the Fed’s accelerated pace of rate hikes, some economists — and some Fed officials — argue that they have yet to raise rates to a level that would actually restrict borrowing and spending and slow growth.
Many economists sound convinced that widespread layoffs will be necessary to slow rising prices. Research published earlier this month under the auspices of the Brookings Institution concluded that unemployment might have to go as high as 7.5% to get inflation back to the Fed’s 2% target.
“The risk is that the Fed acts more aggressively in its mission to return inflation back to its 2% objective, pushing the funds rate higher than previously expected and keeping it higher for longer,’’ Nancy Vanden Houten, lead U.S. economist at Oxford Economics, said Wednesday after the Fed's meeting.
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By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer
AP Economics Writer Paul Wiseman contributed to this report.
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (CN) — Pillow magnate, Donald Trump ally and election conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell filed suit against the FBI late Tuesday, claiming the seizure of his cellphone at a Hardee’s drive-thru in Minnesota violated his civil rights.
In the federal complaint made public Wednesday, Lindell sought the return of his phone and an injunction preventing federal agents from accessing or releasing data found on it.
According to the lawsuit, agents blocked him in at a Hardee’s drive-thru window in the southern Minnesota city of Mankato while he was returning from an Iowa hunting trip. After half an hour of questioning, they revealed they had a warrant to seize his phone.
Lindell’s complaint asserts five civil rights claims: one under the First Amendment, alleging that the seizure was an attempt to intimidate him and others questioning the 2020 election; three under the Fourth Amendment, claiming that seizing his phone rather than subpoenaing specific documents and data was unreasonable, that the method used to track him to the Hardee’s was used without a warrant, and that blocking Lindell’s vehicle into a drive-thru lane and questioning him without reading his Miranda rights was an unreasonable seizure; and one under the Fifth Amendment, alleging that the entire affair violated his right to due process.
After rising to prominence as the face of his company MyPillow, Lindell has spent the last two years promoting the idea that voting machines enabled widespread fraud in the 2020 election.
His complaint says the FBI sought his phone as part of an investigation into Colorado election clerk Tina Peters. A copy of the warrant, presented as an exhibit, supports that idea, saying that Lindell’s phone was seized as part of a search for evidence of identity theft, intentional damage to a protected computer and conspiracy to commit those crimes involving Peters, Lindell and a number of other election conspiracy theorists.
Peters, who has been barred from overseeing midterm elections in Mesa County and whose campaign for Colorado secretary of state ended in a GOP primary loss in June, was indicted in March and charged with seven felonies and three misdemeanors for her alleged involvement in a scheme to breach security protocols for voting machines nationwide. The indictment alleged that Peters allowed an unknown, unauthorized person to make copies of the hard drive of Mesa County’s voting systems and to post them online, along with voting system passwords.
The clerk pleaded not guilty to the charges against her earlier this month, releasing a statement that accused prosecutors of persecuting her in an effort to silence “anyone who dares to question our elections systems.”
Peters appeared onstage at a “cyber symposium” hosted by Lindell in August 2021, where she promised to provide proof of Trump’s stolen election claims. In Lindell’s complaint, he alleged that images Peters took of Dominion Voting Systems’ election management programs proved that a Dominion software update in May 2021 destroyed election records that should have been preserved.
“The Warrant was obtained by the Government in bad faith,” Lindell’s attorneys wrote in the complaint. “Those who were involved in applying for and serving the Warrant were aware that Mr. Lindell depended on his cell phone as his exclusive method of operating his business.”
The government, according to the lawsuit, also did not tell U.S. Magistrate Judge Tony Leung about Lindell’s efforts to expose claimed violations of election law.
Lindell is represented by Andrew Parker, of the local firm Parker Daniels Kibort, along with three Beltway attorneys – Kurt Olsen, of Washington, D.C., Patrick McSweeney, of McSweeney, Cynkar & Kachouroff in Powhatan, Virginia, and prominent conservative attorney Alan Dershowitz.
Parker did not respond to a request for comment Wednesday afternoon, and representatives of the FBI, citing a no-comment policy for pending litigation, declined to make one.
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CINCINNATI (CN) — Courthouse News will continue its fight for same-day access to newly filed complaints in Hamilton County, Ohio, following a ruling Wednesday from a federal judge that denied the court clerk's motion to dismiss on various grounds, including a doctrine that says federal courts should not interfere with state courts.
The decision comes on the heels of a ruling by the Eighth Circuit on Monday to reinstate Courthouse News' lawsuit against the Missouri state court system, whose beleaguered e-filing process creates access delays of up to a week for members of the press.
Courthouse News sued Aftab Pureval, then-Hamilton County clerk of courts, in 2021, following a yearslong battle with the clerk's office for immediate access to new civil complaints. Pureval, now mayor of Cincinnati, was replaced as clerk by Pavan Parikh in January 2022.
The suit seeks a declaratory judgment that the clerk's currently policy of delaying access to complaints until after its employees "administratively process" them is unconstitutional and violates the First Amendment.
When the outlet began coverage of Hamilton County in 2003, all lawsuits were paper-filed, meaning attorneys handed complaints over the counter to a clerk, who time-stamped the documents and placed them in a bin to provide immediate access to a reporter.
Things changed when the county implemented an e-filing system that required employees to process cases before images of the complaints were made available through a log-in on the clerk's website.
Access was delayed – sometimes by several days – and the public was denied the opportunity to review lawsuits on the day they were filed.
Courthouse News tracked the availability of new complaints in the year leading up its suit against the clerk's office, and statistics showed over 41% of newly filed civil lawsuits were withheld from press and public alike for at least one day, while over 11% of cases had a two-day delay.
U.S. District Judge Michael Barrett cited these statistics on Wednesday in his opinion and denied Parikh's motion to dismiss the news organization's First Amendment suit.
Parikh argued the court lacked jurisdiction over the constitutional claims brought by Courthouse News through the application of the Younger abstention doctrine, which prevents federal courts from interfering in ongoing state court proceedings.
The doctrine requires federal courts to abstain in three scenarios: criminal prosecutions, civil enforcement proceedings and cases involving orders that affect a state court's ability to carry out its judicial functions.
While the Chicago-based Seventh Circuit applied the abstention doctrine in a case brought by Courthouse News against the clerk of courts for Cook County, Illinois in 2018, Barrett sided with the news outlet and called that ruling an "outlier."
Both the Fourth and Ninth Circuits have since ruled the abstention doctrine does not apply to delayed-access cases brought by Courthouse News, and Barrett followed their lead in Wednesday's opinion.
He adopted and cited a June 2022 decision out of Florida by Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker, who ruled in Courthouse News Service v. Forman the court was not required to abstain from the case, in which "clerical processing of complaints – divorced from judicial functions – are at issue."
"This case does not involve state criminal prosecutions or civil enforcement proceedings," Walker wrote at the time, "thus the first two Younger categories can be readily dismissed. As for the third category, no 'orders' are at issue here.
"Moreover, as shown above, complaint processing is a ministerial, administrative function, not a practice 'uniquely in furtherance of the state courts' ability to perform their judicial functions.' This case thus presents none of the 'exceptional' Younger categories, and ... this court will not invoke 'general principles of federalism, comity, and equity' to force Younger beyond its defined scope."
Parikh had also requested dismissal of the Ohio complaint on the grounds Courthouse News failed to state a claim upon which relief could be granted, but Barrett was not convinced.
The clerk argued his office has no formal policy pertaining to when members of the media or general public can access newly filed complaints, but that he simply follows the Rules of Superintendence for the Courts of Ohio and, locally, the Local Rules of the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas.
"Defendant's catch-22 argument is unavailing," Barrett said. "Because the Rules of Superintendence and the Local Rules are not referred to in the complaint, they may not be considered in deciding a [motion to dismiss]. Further, assuming (for this limited purpose) the rules in fact underpin defendant's 'no-access-before-process policy,' the constitutional question nevertheless remains."
Attorneys for both sides did not immediately respond to requests for comment Wednesday.
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MANHATTAN (CN) — The case, which is 12 years old, has been before the U.S. Supreme Court and has wound its way through several federal courts, but pensions seeking more than $13 billion in damages from Goldman Sachs may be no closer to class certification now.
On Wednesday, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals again seemed primed to decertify a class action securities lawsuit against Goldman Sachs, as judges wrestled with whether the investment bank lied to investors about conflicts of interest on securitized mortgages leading up to and during the Great Recession.
The case originally was filed in 2011 by the Arkansas Teacher Retirement System a year after Goldman Sachs settled with the Securities and Exchange Commission and paid a $550 million fine — the largest penalty against a Wall Street firm at the time.
The pension and other investors claim Goldman put certain clients’ interests ahead of others’ regarding its holdings of collateralized debt obligations, securities that at that time often were comprised of subprime mortgages. The suit also claims Goldman Sachs misstated its holdings in those risky securities and therefore inflated its stock price.
In one such transaction cited by investors, known as the Abacus transaction, Goldman admitted it had allowed a favored client to participate in the asset selection process for a collateralized debt obligation (CDO) without telling other investors the client held a short position and hoped the underlying mortgages would fail.
The day the SEC took action against Goldman Sachs in 2010, the bank’s stock fell from about $184 to $160.
The case has twisted itself into knots over the last 12 years as it wound its way through various federal courts, including the highest in the land.
In 2021, Goldman Sachs successfully petitioned the Supreme Court to decertify the class action complaint, arguing that it was undisputed at the time that its share price was inflated when the misstatements allegedly were made and that the stock drop was unrelated to the conflicts of interest regarding CDOs.
The Second Circuit also had twice before decertified the class action, with attorneys for Goldman stating throughout the years that granting class certification in this case would be a “cheap ticket” and “boon for plaintiffs,” since most class action securities cases settle once certification is granted.
Government attorneys have not sided with either party in the complaint but have sought clarification on how securities statements can be used in such class action lawsuits.
In this latest iteration, brought about since a federal court again certified the class action complaint, Goldman Sachs argued that its statements to investors in 2010 “could hardly be more generic” and lacked price import. The bank’s corrective disclosures after the SEC settlement, according to Goldman, were not related to the “longstanding statements about Goldman’s values and risks” but about the specific government enforcement action.
The pension and other investors, on the other hand, argued in its briefs that Goldman’s statements about its conflict of interest polices and systems were not merely generic but rather a “peculiar risk” to the bank’s business model. “As the market commentary reflects, the disclosures showed uncontrolled conflicts of such significance as to risk serious damage to the firm’s reputation and its bottom line,” the pension’s brief stated.
During oral arguments, which went well over the ten minutes per side the court had allotted, the three-judge panel walked well-tread ground on whether Goldman’s business model lent itself to conflicts of interest, and whether the bank’s statements were overly generic.
“Seems like we’ve been here before,” U.S. Circuit Judge Richard Sullivan joked at the beginning of the arguments.
Indeed the court had been, and Sullivan — who has previously taken Goldman Sachs’ side — seemed again swayed by the bank’s arguments, noting that if a company disclosed that it intended to comply with the spirit and letter of federal laws but had an employee under investigation by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, that company would need to disclose the identity of that employee.
“What was the truthful statement that they should have made?” Sullivan, a Donald Trump appointee, later asked the attorney representing the pension funds. “They should have said ‘we have actually had a bunch of conflicts that we have identified but we’re not disclosing’?”
Thomas Goldstein, of Goldstein Russell, answered that the bank should have told investors that they didn’t have the extensive procedures in place to prevent such conflicts of interest.
“So, if you say something about having procedures in place and you know that there are certain problems, even if they’re isolated, you need to disclose them or you have to say that statement is no longer true?” Sullivan asked.
“I think that you have to tell the truth,” Goldstein answered.
The other two judges on the Second Circuit’s tribunal were less inclined to the bank’s side. Senior U.S. Circuit Judge Richard Wesley, who was appointed to the bench by George W. Bush, noted that it was publicly reported in various publications, from the New York Times to Rolling Stone, that Goldman might have conflicts of interest since the bank represented individuals and was itself a market maker. “And the stock didn’t move” after those statements, Wesley noted.
Goldstein noted a SEC action is considered more credible than news reports, and that is why the investment bank’s stock dropped after the settlement but not after those reports.
Kannon Shanmugam, who represents Goldman Sachs in this case, noted the bank’s statements were merely generic promises to investors. “This was a conflict warning, it was not a warranty that conflicts would not arise,” he argued. “The whole point was to warn [investors] about the risks.”
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Carson Schwesinger was already on the path to a scholarship before he even stepped into a UCLA football practice.
“With Chip Kelly, we talked about him prior to coming here and I told him he was a scholarship player in the making,” said Charlie Collins, who coached Schwesinger at Oaks Christian School.
Schwesinger walked on at UCLA and, sure enough, the redshirt freshman linebacker earned a scholarship during the Bruins’ most recent fall camp. Counting him, four Oaks Christian graduates dot the current depth chart. Senior running back Zach Charbonnet and redshirt senior linebackers Bo Calvert and Shea Pitts are also products of the esteemed prep football program in Westlake Village.
It’s the high school that shows up the second-most on UCLA’s current roster behind powerhouse St. John Bosco because, for one, the culture at the prep program closely mirrors what is in Westwood.
“I think me and Chip are two brothers from another mother,” said Collins, the Oaks Christian head coach since 2018. “We kind of believe in the same principles, like relationship-building in the program. We have the same approach, we’re very like-minded, look at the development and look at players to play at their best by using all (their) tools.”
Recruiting conversations between UCLA and Oaks Christian revolve around character, Collins said, who first met Kelly when they were coaching in the NFL. The talks branch out into a passion for the game and something Collins calls “want-to-it-ive-ness,” a term that refers to a player’s ambition to reach his full potential.
Oaks Christian is ranked one of the top Christian schools in the state of California and has a 100% graduation rate, with 99% of students going on to study in college, according to educational website niche.com. That’s a good look for a student-athlete headed to an academically renowned school like UCLA.
“We know we’re getting a really well-coached kid when he comes from that program,” Kelly said. “We also know we’re getting a kid that’s really solid when it comes to the academic side of things because of what a great job they do preparing the kids.”
Kelly cited Pitts as an example, saying he has an undergrad degree in political science and is now working on his second master’s degree.
The connection doesn’t start and end with Collins. Jim Benkert, who preceded him at Oaks Christian, coached the program to a CIF Southern Section Division 2 championship title in 2017. Charbonnet and Calvert were on that team, and Pitts graduated a year prior to the championship.
“That high school program was very unique,” Calvert said. “(Benkert) had practices a lot similar to how we have up here. We have up-tempo and scripted. And so being able to utilize that in high school and step into here made the transition a lot easier.”
Benkert, now the head coach at Simi Valley High School, isn’t giving away the secrets to his practice designs, only saying that the team prepared hard and players knew their jobs. What he does lend, however, is recruiting insight developed based on experience and observation.
“Whenever kids go out of their base of support, it’s a problem,” Benkert said, referring to a geographical recruiting area. On the West Coast, he says, it’s a triangle that spans from Washington to Colorado to Arizona and up.
“When you’re away from your base of support,” he said, “when the coaches have to make decisions and you’ve got great players everywhere, they tend to maybe favor those kids in the area that is their base of their recruiting.”
Benkert theorized this was happening when Charbonnet was at Michigan, based on what he was seeing in games and some text messages exchanged. His surmise was confirmed when Charbonnet transferred to UCLA, a school that is within the Benkert base-of-support concept.
Benkert takes pride in the UCLA players he’s coached, as does Collins. The latter expects several players on Oaks Christian’s team this season to draw interest from the Bruins, including linebacker Hayden Lowe and receiver Justice Williams.
Nearly any Oaks Christian player could be the next Charbonnet, Calvert, Pitts or Schwesinger.
“When they see those players, they see that it’s possible. But they also know that the work’s involved and it sets the bar for our athletes to know you can be that,” Collins said. “That’s where the bar is. Our young guys know that they have a whole lot to chase and it’s possible.”
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A Florida man will spend the rest of his life in prison after he was found guilty of molesting underage girls.
32-year-old Jacob Ramirez of DeFuniak Springs was found guilty of sexually abusing three children that were left in his care.
According to the Walton County Sheriff’s Office, the victims were between the ages of 7 and 12 at the time.
Ramirez was sentenced by Judge Kelvin Wells to serve two life sentences, in addition to 15 years in the Florida Department of Corrections.
Ramirez was initially charged in July 2021.
“This is part of our relentless pursuit of charging sexual predators who prey on children and getting them out of our community and behind bars,” Sheriff Michael Adkinson said at the time of the 2021 arrest.
The Emerald Coast Children’s Advocacy Center assisted the Walton County Sheriff’s Office with its investigation.
Ramirez’s charges included two counts of lewd and lascivious molestation of a victim less than 12 years of age. Another count involved lewd and lascivious molestation of a victim 12 years or older.
Defuniak Springs is a small city of roughly 7,000 people located in the Florida Panhandle.
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It’s been more than two years since a police officer fired seven shots into the back of 29-year-old Jacob Blake, Jr., setting off days of protest in the small Wisconsin city of Kenosha, and making it a lightning rod for nationwide tensions. Amid the unrest, a call to arms was made by Kevin Matthewson, a former Kenosha alderman who created a Facebook page called “Kenosha Guard — Armed Citizens to Protect our Lives and Property.” It attracted armed counter protesters, including Kyle Rittenhouse, a teenager who arrived with a semiautomatic rifle and killed two men and wounded a third.
In November 2021, Rittenhouse was acquitted of all five charges stemming from his actions, including two counts of homicide, two counts of reckless endangerment, and a weapons charge. But the jury’s finding that Rittenhouse — who used a scoped, AR-15-style rifle acquired from a friend — acted in self-defense only deepened Kenosha residents’ concerns about the city’s treatment of Black residents, repression by law enforcement, and the role of guns. As community members and leaders continue to grapple with local policies and legislation around firearms, it is the events of the summer of 2020, and the Rittenhouse shootings in particular, that define the conversation.
“We went back to the 50s, 40s, the 1920s,” said Kyle Johnson, a member of Black Leaders Organizing Communities (BLOC), a community advocacy group in Kenosha. “They tried to turn Kenosha into a sundown town before our very eyes,” he said, referring to the whites-only towns of the Jim Crow era and afterward, where segregation was enforced after dusk.
“So many of us were there when the verdict came down,” said Erica Ness, director of community engagement and operations at Leaders of Kenosha (LOK), a nonprofit dedicated to social justice. She recalled the opposing crowds that gathered in and outside of the courtroom, and a man speaking to the crowd after the verdict was announced, defending the decision and saying, “‘The only ones who are guilty are us, because we weren’t there with him shooting.’ And they all cheered.”
For Ness, it was a chilling statement underscoring a shared fear: After the Rittenhouse shootings, the militias never left Kenosha.
BLOC organizer Kyle Johnson is a gun owner who advocates for responsible gun ownership. But the shooting of Blake, ruled as justified by the Kenosha County District Attorney’s Office in 2021 — and the protests that followed — amplified another dimension of public safety that people often overlook, he said. “Police shootings are also gun violence,” said Johnson, pointing to community fears of active, militia-style organizations in the area, as well as concerns that those groups at times work in tandem with police.
The public understanding of the relationship between law enforcement and armed vigilantes in Kenosha, revealed most acutely in the summer of 2020, is one of the most haunting traces left by the Rittenhouse shooting in the community.
“Why wouldn’t they still be here?” Johnson said, referring to the armed groups. “The government hasn’t done anything.”
Just before the shooting, Rittenhouse and a group he was with received water and praise from police in an armored vehicle, and text messages obtained by the Wisconsin Examiner showed that officers regarded the armed groups as friendly, and were aware of escalating activity — including militia members slashing the tires of Black Lives Matter protesters — just half an hour before the shooting. After Rittenhouse fired his rifle, police allowed the teen to leave the scene and the city. Rittenhouse traveled back across state lines to his hometown of Antioch, Illinois, where he turned himself in.
But text messages obtained by the Examiner suggested the tolerance went deeper. “If problems arise and those groups enter into the mix please provide the verbal orders to stand down if we have the resources to handle the calls for service,” Sergeant Adam Jurgens wrote within the Kenosha Police Department’s internal messaging system. “Very friendly but we need to handle our business in-house as much as possible.”
Federal law enforcement agencies pointed to Wisconsin’s open carry law when debriefing one another on their response to armed groups that night. A redacted U.S. Marshals Service communication obtained by the Examiner noted that marshals responded to “multiple, armed subject calls and vehicles of armed people roving neighborhoods.” Although people in those groups were identified by the marshals, no arrests were made. “Wisconsin is an open carry state,” a marshal wrote.
Meanwhile, both federal and local law enforcement disrupted even peaceful Black Lives Matter protest groups using tear gas and rubber bullets and engaged in targeted arrests in unmarked vehicles, surveillance, and other tactics. As the violence unfolded, federal officers of the Marshals Service discussed with one another how the protests and unrest could be used to accumulate resources which could then be steered toward other violent crime operations in southeastern Wisconsin.
Tanya McLean, executive director of LOK, noted that about 100,000 people live in Kenosha, about one fifth the size of Milwaukee, yet “there’s two to three shootings a week,” she said. McLean and other community organizers feel the city government is more concerned about keeping the issues quiet in order to protect property values and development, rather than addressing systemic problems.
McLean, Ness, and several other Kenosha residents joined Johnson for a private group interview in August, marking the anniversary of the unrest.
“It’s emboldened all the Kyle Rittenhouse supporters and given them a green light to say, ‘Oh, we can do this and we’re going to be lauded as heroes,’” said Ness.
Reflections of that angst appeared in June, during a meeting of the County Board of Supervisors, when the public was invited to comment on a resolution that would allow people to carry weapons into county buildings. Many Kenosha residents arrived to speak both for and against the measure. Among them was Matthewson, the former alderman who had invited armed citizens to come defend the city from protesters. On August 25, 2020, just hours before the Rittenhouse shooting, Matthewson emailed then-Kenosha Police Chief Daniel Miskinis: “We are mobilizing tonight and have about 3,000 RSVP’s… I ask that you do NOT have your officers tell us to go home under threat of arrest as you have done in the past.”
During the June meeting, Matthewson argued that the resolution wasn’t just about keeping guns off county grounds, instead arguing, “It’s that they don’t want guns in the hands of any of us, period.” Matthewson’s supporters in the audience muttered “lies” as the former alderman alluded to “crazy people” and pointed behind him at audience members who were against allowing guns on county grounds. He went on to suggest that gun-free school zone policies should be reevaluated.
But for many other residents who spoke, it wasn’t Second Amendment rights they felt needed defending. Instead, an overwhelming sense of insecurity rose to the surface, whether in the context of domestic violence or the country’s troubling rate of mass shootings, a small piece of rising rates of nationwide gun violence every year.
Russ Han, a Kenosha resident, brought up the mass shooting at a Virginia Beach municipal building in 2019. “I imagine there are a number of county supervisors over the past couple of meetings who have been wondering why so many Kenosha County residents have appeared to speak in opposition to this resolution,” said Han. He named people who had lost loved ones in mass shootings across the nation, including the killing of 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas. “The fact is that these ordinances have life-and-death consequences. The encouragement of the carrying of firearms in public facilities endangers county employees and county residents.”
Joel Trudell, a 43-year-old Kenosha resident, also spoke out in opposition to the resolution. “There’s only one person here tonight that brought more guns into our community,” said Trudell, referring to Matthewson. “There’s only one person here that called for a militia, with guns, to come into our community. And what was the result of that? We made national news, we killed people, we shot people.”
Trudell then called attention to the campaign finance support some board members received from the Kenosha County Republican Party when he directly addressed a heckler in the audience. One of the board members told Trudell to “be civil” before he was arrested and forced to the floor. Some residents who attended the meeting appeared to jump on him, in a chaotic scene that laid bare the community tensions that had been mostly dormant since the events of two years ago.
Republican-sponsored measures, including an anti-riot bill that critics said would expose peaceful protesters to felony charges, were proposed specifically in response to the Kenosha unrest, and Wisconsin Republicans have made Kenosha a synonym for chaos and what they claim are Democrats’ soft-on-crime policies. (The anti-riot bill was ultimately vetoed by Democratic Governor Tony Evers.)
Immediately after Trudell’s arrest, the board adjourned the meeting. He was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting an officer, and released from custody the next day. Trudell did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
In a subsequent meeting in early July, the board voted 13-7 to lift the ban on concealed weapons within county buildings, as questions about public safety, how guns fit in, and how best to protect private property and businesses have continued to bleed into one another in the community.
In July, the city of Kenosha’s Common Council discussed passing an ordinance that would make business owners responsible for nuisances or disorderly behavior of patrons. The ordinance was very similar to one passed in the nearby city of Racine. Discussions of the ordinance among Kenosha’s residents started not long after a Racine bar owner’s husband was fatally shot while breaking up a fight outside the establishment. The 42-year-old’s death made the prospect of adopting a similar policy in Kenosha less attractive to business owners and activists alike.
Devynn Johnson, a volunteer at the Grace Welcome Center food pantry who served as a medic during the unrest, decried the ordinances. “The only reason he had gone out into the parking lot to stop the fight was because the city of Racine had told him that his parking lot was his responsibility,” said Johnson, who fears what could happen if a similar ordinance were to pass in Kenosha in the current atmosphere around gun violence and public safety. “So he lost his life going out there to keep his business open.”
Following the August 20 shootings, the Kenosha Police Department posted on its official Facebook page that the shootings occurred during a bar fight. The department went on to post: “This cannot be tolerated as the way things are now. We need community members to step up and talk to police before this stuff happens. Guns don’t belong in bars or in the hands of intoxicated people. Guns shouldn’t be possessed by people who are prohibited from possessing them.”
Kenosha County supervisor John Franco was out of town at the time of the meeting, but spoke of a “profound frustration” among those who promote the expansion of gun rights in society “but are often the last to consider common sense gun safety measures to ensure those rights are used responsibly.”
After the Rittenhouse shootings and the protests that preceded them, Franco said, he has seen conversations around gun ownership become more rooted in fear, whether of an outsider or one’s own neighbors.
“So, is this our future?” asked Franco, who like most other members of the board is worried about how new policies will shape the city. “A dystopian world where every man and woman will have to be armed in order to protect themselves from the potential of deadly violence?”
“All rights come with responsibilities,” Franco added. “No right is absolute.”
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Federal judge, citing Bruen, says people under indictment can buy guns. A district court judge in Texas ruled that the 54-year-old federal ban on gun purchases for people with certain pending criminal charges is unconstitutional because it doesn’t pass the history-and-tradition test established in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen. In his opinion, U.S. District Judge David Counts wrote that “the Court’s historical survey finds little evidence that [the law] aligns with this Nation’s historical tradition.” He also seemed to suggest that despite the potential impact of invalidating the law, his hands were tied: “There are no illusions about this case’s real-world consequences — certainly valid public policy and safety concerns exist. Yet Bruen framed those concerns solely as a historical analysis.” The plaintiff in the case, USA v. Quiroz, bought a gun while under felony indictment for burglary and bail-jumping, and lied about it on his background check. More than 106,000 people have failed an FBI background check since 1998 because they’ve been under indictment. Context: The ruling is one of the most dramatic consequences of Bruen since the decision came down in June. In August, a district court judge in Fort Worth struck down a Texas law restricting guns for people under 21, citing the June SCOTUS decision.
Republican AGs ask credit card companies to reconsider coding gun sales. A group of 24 attorneys general said in a letter to Visa, Mastercard, and American Express on Tuesday that a recently announced plan to assign a new category code for gun retailers could lead to the misuse of gun owners’ data, The Wall Street Journal reported. The NRA has slammed the plan as “financial surveillance” that will be used to create a “gun owner registry,” while proponents say the merchant code will allow law enforcement to flag suspicious gun sales and possibly avert violence. The perpetrator of the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting spent more than $26,000 on guns and ammunition in the 12 days before the massacre. Follow the money: As our Will Van Sant reported last year, the NRA has given more than $1.3 million to the Republican Attorneys General Association since 2014 and has a “business services” contract with the group.
Michigan prosecutor trying Oxford school shooter’s parents launches gun reform commission. Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald said she is convening a panel of researchers, gun violence survivors, faith leaders, law enforcement, and school safety officials to devise a set of data-driven recommendations for reducing gun violence in the Detroit suburb. The commission will study the county’s threat assessment protocols and develop a violence intervention program for area schools. McDonald’s controversial decision to charge the parents of the teen perpetrator of last November’s shooting at Oxford High School for allowing him to access a gun earned praise from gun reform advocates.
Women emerge as violence intervention leaders in California. Violence interrupters, who diffuse conflict in communities before it leads to gunfire, are mostly men. The Guardian highlights three women with visible leadership roles in intervention groups for the latest installment in its “Guns and Lies” series. When Claudia Bracho, a trainer at the nonprofit Urban Peace Institute, began this work in the late 1990s, she was one of four women violence interrupters in Los Angeles. “I wasn’t let in,” she said. “Now I see other women coming up quicker.” That’s because women excel at street-level intervention, as well as fundraising and program management, the group’s executive director tells Abené Clayton. From our archives: Tina Padilla, also profiled by Clayton, spoke to us for this March 2021 story about the push to pay violence interrupters a living wage.
Three people shot at a state fair in Texas. Police say a man opened fire at the Tri-State Fair & Rodeo in Amarillo on Monday night, hitting a sheriff’s deputy, an off-duty firefighter, and a bystander before he was shot by police. Police did not offer a motive, but said he targeted a group of off-duty sheriffs working the fair. The suspect was taken to the hospital with reportedly life-threatening injuries. Meanwhile, police in North Texas say they averted a mass shooting at a high school last week, arresting two teens who were headed to the homecoming game with an AR-15 pistol and a 60-round magazine. More than 3,000 people were in attendance. “I certainly believe wholeheartedly … that these officers did save countless lives,” a police spokesperson said. The teens were charged with the unlawful carrying of a firearm in a prohibited place.
Data Point
$1.42 million — the cost of a murder in Philadelphia, according to a recent report from the city. The figure includes medical expenses, criminal justice costs, lost wages, and property damage, most of it borne by taxpayers. [The Philadelphia Inquirer]
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Reno's on the Runway, the restaurant on the grounds of Yakima Air Terminal, is celebrating its third anniversary on Saturday.
From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Reno's will offer food specials, raffles, free soda, discounted merchandise and other specials.
The restaurant at 2012 S. 16th Ave. in the airport's original passenger terminal opened in September 2019. For more information, visit renosontherunway.com or call 509-571-1340.
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An affordable housing development serving farmworker families in Tieton was recognized for its use of the low-income housing tax credit.
U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell presented the Charles L. Edson Tax Credit Excellence Award to the project Tuesday at the Affordable Housing Tax Credit Coalition Conference in Washington, D.C., according to a news release.
St. Catherine De’ Vigri Villas, a 53-unit housing development at 65 Baughman St. and 200 Judd Ave. in Tieton, was developed by Catholic Charities Housing Services and the Office of Rural and Farmworker Housing this year.
Most of the units are two-story townhomes, and the residents earn between 30-50% of the area’s median income.
The complex is the largest multi-family housing development in Tieton and the first affordable housing development built in the area in more than 30 years, according to the release.
Marty Miller, executive director of the Office of Rural and Farmworker Housing, said the development is an asset that supports families and the agricultural economy of the Yakima Valley.
“It's built well and, more importantly, creates affordable rents for families who work in the agricultural industry,” he said in an interview. “It's important to have a good workforce to help support that industry, and housing is a critical piece of the puzzle to try to secure a good workforce.”
The low income housing tax credit is an incentive to construct affordable housing, subsidizing costs for acquiring, building or rehabilitating housing for low- or moderate-income renters. The credit has funded 90% of federally-funded affordable housing construction across the country since 1986, financing about 3.5 million affordable homes, according to the news release.
“I want to thank the National Equity Fund for facilitating the properties’ financing, and to everyone who is involved creating safe and stable affordable housing for the Tieton community. I can't just emphasize how important this is,” said Cantwell, who supports expanding the credit.
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Old Sally Bryce Angell Sep 21, 2022 4 hrs ago 0 Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The first time I saw Sally, she was barely three years old. Her nose was snubbed tight to a post. She was shivering from the cold.“She isn’t mean, just not too bright.” That’s what her owner said. Her gut was ganted up. The horse was needing to be fed.She hopped up in the trailer and didn’t even balk. The little mare just needed someone with an easy talk.We fed our filly grain and hay. I watched her fill out fast. I wondered how much animals remember of their past.My father named her Sally. Said, “I guess I’m not sure why.” I wonder if he knew someone who seemed to be that shy.Well Sally fit right in and didn’t cause us any fuss. I sure was glad she had a home away from that old cuss.Some horses require extra work to get them fit to ride. But Sally was a natural. She had a perfect stride.We rode our Sally every day. Hers was a household name. My kids would ride three at a time, ‘cuz Sally was so tame.One day my younger children didn’t cinch the saddle tight. It slipped down underneath the horse. But the kids showed little fright.‘Cuz they knew their Sally wouldn’t move or even step at all. My kids climbed out from underneath. Good thing she wasn’t tall.As years went by, each child of ours grew up and left the fold. Old Sally, we all called her then, now twenty-two years old.I didn’t have the time to ride Old Sally every day. So, she’d whinny, and she’d whimper, kinda sad in her own way.Old Sally must have felt alone. The years flew by too fast. Maybe horses do remember a little of their past.When our kids come home to visit, they bring children of their own. And all those grandkids tell me, “She’s the best horse ever known.”They ride her every day until they’ve said all their goodbyes. Old Sally really loves our kids. I see it in her eyes.Will Sally be around much longer? None of us can say. But this will always be her home until her dying day. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Tags Sagebrush Cowboy Food Botany Brown Sugar Shrub Spam Bunch Dang Gasoline Cash Commerce Economics Motor Vehicle Transports Pump Money Glove Box Price Vice Sally Horse Hay Equitation Zoology Zootechnics Filly Mare Horses Saddle Recommended for you Latest E-Edition Teton Valley News Read the latest edition of the Teton Valley News. Archive Search the complete digital archives for all papers in the Pioneer News Group. Visit the Archives Latest Special Sections Get Out Summer 2022 Read the latest special sections.
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THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
542 IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS
IN IDAHO THIS WATCH INCLUDES 19 COUNTIES
IN CENTRAL IDAHO
BLAINE BUTTE CUSTER
IN EASTERN IDAHO
CLARK TETON
IN SOUTH CENTRAL IDAHO
FREMONT LINCOLN MINIDOKA
IN SOUTHEAST IDAHO
BANNOCK BEAR LAKE BINGHAM
BONNEVILLE CARIBOU CASSIA
FRANKLIN JEFFERSON MADISON
ONEIDA POWER
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF ABERDEEN, AMERICAN FALLS, ARCO,
ASHTON, BELLEVUE, BLACKFOOT, BURLEY, CAREY, CHALLIS, DRIGGS,
DUBOIS, EDIE SCHOOL, GRACE, HAILEY, HEYBURN, HOLBROOK,
IDAHO FALLS, ISLAND PARK, KETCHUM, KILGORE, MACKAY, MALAD CITY,
MALTA, MCCAMMON, MONTPELIER, MORELAND, OAKLEY, POCATELLO,
PRESTON, REXBURG, RICHFIELD, RIGBY, RIRIE, ROCKLAND, RUPERT,
SHELLEY, SHOSHONE, SODA SPRINGS, SPENCER, ST. ANTHONY, VICTOR,
AND WAYAN.
County helps establish regional board of community guardians
On Sept. 12 the Teton Board of County Commissioners voted to join the Upper Valley Board of Community Guardians to provide legal guardianship to adults in the region who aren’t able to care for themselves and may pose a danger to themselves and the community.
County prosecuting attorney Bailey Smith told the commissioners that she was “beyond ecstatic” to be able to bring a resolution and joint powers agreement to the board, saying it was an issue she had been working on since she took office.
Smith explained that in Idaho, there’s a common pattern present among people who fall through the cracks in the legal system. An older individual who develops dementia begins committing crimes such as unlawful entry or driving under the influence. The person is found unfit to stand trial, but can’t be criminally prosecuted or involuntarily hospitalized under mental health commitment statutes, because dementia doesn’t qualify as a mental health condition in this state.
“The criminal cases will need to be dismissed at some point, which means they will be released from jail, but without a guardian to place them in a secure memory-care facility, they are likely to injure themselves or others by continuing to commit crimes,” Smith said. “It’s a really big issue and I’m very pleased we’ve gotten this resolution and agreement to a place where it can be signed.”
She noted that Teton County sees a couple cases per year that fall into this category, including one person who would benefit from a guardian as soon as possible. “I’m sort of reaching the end of the rope for permissible stalling techniques to keep them safely in custody,” she said.
The Upper Valley Board of Community Guardians has historically been a loose board of volunteers that provided guardianship services to certain wards in the region on an ad-hoc basis. However, it has been under-resourced and underfunded, and Teton County hasn’t been a participating entity and so wasn’t able to establish guardianships for people in need.
The seven-county board is a partnership with Madison, Lemhi, Jefferson, Custer, and Fremont, with Clark County expected to join soon. Teton committed $2,400 for the next fiscal year to support the organization. Smith told the commissioners that there is a significant amount of Medicaid funding available and that the cost could decrease over time as number of wards increases and the board becomes self-sustaining.
The Teton County commissioners will be responsible for appointing at least one volunteer to serve a four-year term on the board.
Board volunteers will meet remotely at least once a month and will be responsible for reviewing applications for potential wards and guardians, and ensuring that the needs of existing wards are being addressed.
No prior experience with guardianship is necessary and training will be provided, but relevant skills and experience are helpful. Anyone who is interested in volunteering should complete a brief application form at tetoncountyidaho.gov and send it to Teton County manager Dan Reyes at dreyes@co.teton.id.us. Community members will also be able to refer a potential ward for consideration.
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40 Depot Road, Driggs
Open 7:30 am — 2 pm, 7 days a week
Arriving mid-morning on a Monday morning, Rise is a buzz of energy and bustle. It is the adventurers and the workers who wait patiently in a line that snakes outside the door as they chat in the most familiar and friendly way.
“The wait is worth it,” I hear many people commenting to those first timers and this is “the best place in town” pops up a few times. The doors are open and welcoming, people sit inside the well designed and decorated space. The spacious courtyard has a few sunny spots and a few shady spots, a few lounge chairs and a few tables so you can linger leisurely or get down to business.
Kisa Koenig, RISE owner, and I sat on the deck and two lattes were delivered with the milk foamed to perfection with a lovely bubble size. Yes, it’s a thing and if that’s something that delights you, you will be thrilled. A classic fleur de lis flower design artistically drawn on top, I felt special and delighted as I sniffed in the scent of the high-quality roast of the carefully chosen Doma coffee beans. It moved me to snap a picture and savor for just a moment.
The bakers and baristas have been at it for many hours preparing pastries, breakfast sandwiches and spending that extra time and attention to the coffee getting the right grind and volume for each shot and prepping for any special offering of cold brew, pour over and drip.
Coffee and community are at the center of Rise’s focus, well-brewed and well-steamed. From there radiates the other offerings of breakfast slider, quiche, avocado toast, granola, tea cakes, burrito, savory croissants, G-F muffins, banana bread, all the things guaranteed to make your day better. Mix in a little social connection of a friend you haven’t seen in a while or share a table with a stranger and Rise delivers a classic, local, coffee house experience with all the joyful feels.
Kisa Koenig sits at the helm of this cruise ship. She has a clear mission and oversees everything from the training of the staff to developing menu items, to figuring out the logistics of a small space and storage, to brand management, to bookkeeping. “It’s a puzzle and a dance,” Kisa says.
She cares deeply about the plated product, consistency and cleaning (that’s non-negotiable). The kitchen vibe is focused on teamwork which is the cornerstone of their culture. It is a tight knit group in a respectful working environment where there is no room for drama and they feel valued by the community support.
This coffee house gem is focused on the locals. “Locals run this place,” Kisa says. Kisa and the staff personally care about the current and future local and this shop has grown and prospered into a year-round sustainable establishment.
After our chat, Kisa went on to collect her kids for an outdoor adventure which helps her fill her well and keeps her balanced and inspired. I snuck back in line and ordered a breakfast slider for myself and breakfast bun for a co-worker and sat outside and lingered on the friendly chatter, game playing, dog sleeping, the flow of foot traffic. I relished in my gratitude for this community and savored every bite.
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542 IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS
IN IDAHO THIS WATCH INCLUDES 19 COUNTIES
IN CENTRAL IDAHO
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BONNEVILLE CARIBOU CASSIA
FRANKLIN JEFFERSON MADISON
ONEIDA POWER
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF ABERDEEN, AMERICAN FALLS, ARCO,
ASHTON, BELLEVUE, BLACKFOOT, BURLEY, CAREY, CHALLIS, DRIGGS,
DUBOIS, EDIE SCHOOL, GRACE, HAILEY, HEYBURN, HOLBROOK,
IDAHO FALLS, ISLAND PARK, KETCHUM, KILGORE, MACKAY, MALAD CITY,
MALTA, MCCAMMON, MONTPELIER, MORELAND, OAKLEY, POCATELLO,
PRESTON, REXBURG, RICHFIELD, RIGBY, RIRIE, ROCKLAND, RUPERT,
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A line forms outside of Figgie’s Deli, located in the old Pono Ono’s Sushi location near the Standard True-Value north of Driggs.
On Sept. 5, Figgie’s Deli added a new flavor to the Teton Valley restaurant scene as it began serving customers on a grab-and-go basis.
The lunch spot, serving house-made sandwiches and homemade potato chips, has got off to a hot start with a pleasant reception from the community. From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Friday, owner Hannah McClellan has been busy slinging sandwiches out of Figgie’s dutch door, in the space north of Driggs formerly occupied by Pono’s Ono Sushi.
McClellan ultimately opened Figgie’s due to seeing a need in the community for a quick and easy lunch.
“I just thought that there was a need. This space just fell into my lap and I thought this would be a pretty good opportunity,” said McClellan.
Figgie’s has already been seeing solid business from customers in construction and the trades, a natural fit for their business hours and to-go business model.
Additionally, McClellan has already been fielding questions about online ordering and office catering, although with the limited opening is only able to do so much with the resources currently at her disposal.
“We have already had a lot of that crew stop by and want us to expand our hours,” said McClellan. “We will do full-service eventually and being able to order online, I have had people and offices around here ask to be able to order. We just don’t have the people or the capacity so we are doing what we can right now.”
The soft opening for Figgie’s has been “wildly successful” according to Mcclellan, who has many plans for expansion including dine-in and catering aspirations.
“I would love to do a grand opening of Figgie’s as a market. Once we get into this space we’ll have in-house dining and I will offer beer and wines. I would also love to do catering to have sandwiches and picnic lunches to take on hikes,” said McClellan.
McClellan has prior experience as a pastry chef serving locales in the Minneapolis and Chicago areas. That is something she hopes to incorporate as well.
“I’m a pastry chef, that’s my background,” said McClellan. “We’re going to expand to do cookies and cakes and stuff like that as well.”
An important value for Figgie’s will be to grow at an appropriate pace, with feedback from the community being highly valued.
“I want to see the input from the community before we make any big decisions moving forward so we can really cater to the needs that locals want. Yeah, we get tourism four months really strong out of the year, but the other months I want it to be a very hot local spot. It will be nice to see everyone hanging out here,” said McClellan.
Figgie’s is already receiving some very positive feedback from Teton Valley, with McClellan getting advice from other Driggs restaurant owners.
“I am friends with Lisa Hanley who owns Forage and Kisa Koenig who owns Rise and they have been instrumental with the ins and outs. I moved out here and just met all these wonderful restaurateurs and they have been my backbone for sure,” said McClellan.
Those friends, along with family, is something that Figgie’s and McClellan are very grateful for.
“I thankfully have a lovely husband who is supporting me and fabulous friends who are helping me every day. It is so special, I feel exhausted, but we’re going to keep going for it every day,” said McClellan.
While still having a ways to go to see her vision fully realized, McClellan is confident that with customers getting a taste, that will keep them coming back for more.
“Just having the doors opening is marketing enough and we can kind of prove with our food and what we’re creating people will want to come back and see what the next iteration is,” said McClellan.
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BLAINE BUTTE CUSTER
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FREMONT LINCOLN MINIDOKA
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BANNOCK BEAR LAKE BINGHAM
BONNEVILLE CARIBOU CASSIA
FRANKLIN JEFFERSON MADISON
ONEIDA POWER
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF ABERDEEN, AMERICAN FALLS, ARCO,
ASHTON, BELLEVUE, BLACKFOOT, BURLEY, CAREY, CHALLIS, DRIGGS,
DUBOIS, EDIE SCHOOL, GRACE, HAILEY, HEYBURN, HOLBROOK,
IDAHO FALLS, ISLAND PARK, KETCHUM, KILGORE, MACKAY, MALAD CITY,
MALTA, MCCAMMON, MONTPELIER, MORELAND, OAKLEY, POCATELLO,
PRESTON, REXBURG, RICHFIELD, RIGBY, RIRIE, ROCKLAND, RUPERT,
SHELLEY, SHOSHONE, SODA SPRINGS, SPENCER, ST. ANTHONY, VICTOR,
AND WAYAN.
Starting on Sept. 26, Teton Canyon Road will be closed intermittently as crews lay down fresh gravel, upgrade culverts, and improve trailheads.
Work delays and closures expected through beginning of winter
Starting next Monday, crews will be performing heavy road maintenance work on Teton Canyon Road and several of the trailheads, which will require intermittent road closures through autumn.
“Teton Canyon is one of our most popular roads with access to our most highly used recreation sites,” said Joe McFarlane, recreation manager of the Teton Basin Ranger District.
Workers will blade and reshape the gravel road and trailheads, replace roadway culverts to improve drainage, and lay down four inches of new surface material. With an increasing number of overnight visitors and day users accessing Teton Canyon and its trailheads, the road needs upgrades to stretch its longevity and make it easier to maintain.
“The new surface material will give us something to grade when we grade the road,” Teton Basin District Ranger Jay Pence said about putting down fresh gravel. The USFS usually has the road graded a couple times a season, smoothing out the potholes caused by sitting water and speeding drivers.
The $2.5 million road improvement project is funded by the Federal Lands Transportation Program and contracted out to a Rexburg firm.
Starting Sept. 26, access to the canyon will be closed for up to three hours twice a day, with intermittent openings. Specifics about the closures will be announced and updated via the Caribou-Targhee National Forest Facebook page through the duration of the project. Work is expected to wrap up this year but could extend into next spring, depending on weather and snowfall.
For more information, contact the local ranger district at (208) 354-2312.
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THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
542 IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS
IN IDAHO THIS WATCH INCLUDES 19 COUNTIES
IN CENTRAL IDAHO
BLAINE BUTTE CUSTER
IN EASTERN IDAHO
CLARK TETON
IN SOUTH CENTRAL IDAHO
FREMONT LINCOLN MINIDOKA
IN SOUTHEAST IDAHO
BANNOCK BEAR LAKE BINGHAM
BONNEVILLE CARIBOU CASSIA
FRANKLIN JEFFERSON MADISON
ONEIDA POWER
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF ABERDEEN, AMERICAN FALLS, ARCO,
ASHTON, BELLEVUE, BLACKFOOT, BURLEY, CAREY, CHALLIS, DRIGGS,
DUBOIS, EDIE SCHOOL, GRACE, HAILEY, HEYBURN, HOLBROOK,
IDAHO FALLS, ISLAND PARK, KETCHUM, KILGORE, MACKAY, MALAD CITY,
MALTA, MCCAMMON, MONTPELIER, MORELAND, OAKLEY, POCATELLO,
PRESTON, REXBURG, RICHFIELD, RIGBY, RIRIE, ROCKLAND, RUPERT,
SHELLEY, SHOSHONE, SODA SPRINGS, SPENCER, ST. ANTHONY, VICTOR,
AND WAYAN.
A few weeks ago, we attended the Tin Cup Awards celebration at Moose Creek Lodge. Folks ignored the dark skies, wind, and rain to celebrate the culmination of the Community Foundation of Teton Valley’s (CFTV) 2022 Tin Cup Challenge. We are grateful to everyone who included PAWS in their Tin Cup giving.
We were stirred by the heart-felt talks presented by the CFTV staff. We were warmly greeted and told how much taking over the animal shelter is appreciated. It increased our excitement at the new opportunity that lies before all of us. We also know there is much work to be done.
A little about us
PAWS was founded in 1999 in Jackson, with a free spay neuter program for the animals at the Jackson/Teton County Animal Shelter. We were hoping to lower the homeless pet population in Jackson. With the program in place, shelter numbers decreased significantly. Over time we added other services: spay/neuter vouchers for all residents, financial assistance for veterinary care, grant support of local animal shelters, care for pets of victims of domestic violence and emergency shelter for pets caught in disasters. In 2012, we expanded our spay/neuter program to Star Valley, WY and Teton Valley, ID. Since then, we have altered more than 2,500 pets in Teton Valley alone. PAWS has been serving thousands of local pets and people in our tri-county region. We have supported local shelters with grant funding, including the Teton Valley Shelter, for more than a decade.
A shelter in need
In the fall of 2021, the Board of the Teton Valley Community Animal Shelter approached us about taking over the shelter. There was no doubting their commitment to help homeless pets, but financial obligations had become a challenge. As of the first of this year, PAWS acquired the shelter and renamed it PAWS of Teton Valley. When we acquired the facility, there were 83 homeless pets in the building who needed care.
We were concerned that without our help Teton Valley would be left without a home for lost and found pets or a safe place to relinquish pets that could no longer be cared for.
When a shelter closes, animals are left to fend for themselves. To keep this from happening as it has in the past, we wanted to learn how to best serve the region. We gathered a Teton Valley Advisory Committee and listened to their thoughts and ideas. We met with others who had been involved with the shelter, friends at the Community Foundation of Teton Valley and members of local governmental agencies.
We would appreciate new opportunities to meet with community members and welcome ideas to help PAWS get more involved and informed about the community.
This year, with the state of the economy and the housing crisis, we anticipate caring for twice as many pets than the shelter has cared for in past years. We are starting from scratch with a new budget for the shelter. The cost for caring for animals seven days a week, including staffing, veterinary costs, and facility operations, is expensive. PAWS’ Shelter is funded entirely on public donations and grants. We are not tax-funded so we have our work cut out for us. Funding from the Teton Valley community is critical to our success. All funds we receive for PAWS of Teton Valley will go directly to support this shelter.
Keeping our pets and communities safe
Animal shelters are essential in providing a safe, healthy environment for people who must make the difficult decision to give up a beloved pet. Shelters also offer space for dangerous, at-large animals, for pets being held for rabies quarantine, court holds, and pets temporarily separated from beloved families. The absence of an animal shelter in our community can put a strain on law enforcement and put people at risk. No one wants to see homeless animals suffer like what we faced within days of taking over the shelter – a dog who had been shot in the face, a litter of parvo puppies, and a cat who was found nearly frozen to the ground. We were able to save them all.
PAWS’ commitment is to the homeless pets of Teton Valley – ensuring no animal goes without vital care in 2022 and for years to come. We are pleased to be part of Teton Valley and grateful for the warm reception we have received since acquiring the shelter. But to make this commitment sustainable, we need your help.
We’re hosting an open house at the shelter on Saturday, September 24 from noon to 3 p.m. to give people a chance to check out our facility, get to know some of the staff and animals, and celebrate the generosity of the community with food, drinks, and music. Please join us!
Eunice Nicholson is the Development Director for PAWS and Amy Moore is the Executive Director for PAWS.
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THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
542 IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS
IN IDAHO THIS WATCH INCLUDES 19 COUNTIES
IN CENTRAL IDAHO
BLAINE BUTTE CUSTER
IN EASTERN IDAHO
CLARK TETON
IN SOUTH CENTRAL IDAHO
FREMONT LINCOLN MINIDOKA
IN SOUTHEAST IDAHO
BANNOCK BEAR LAKE BINGHAM
BONNEVILLE CARIBOU CASSIA
FRANKLIN JEFFERSON MADISON
ONEIDA POWER
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF ABERDEEN, AMERICAN FALLS, ARCO,
ASHTON, BELLEVUE, BLACKFOOT, BURLEY, CAREY, CHALLIS, DRIGGS,
DUBOIS, EDIE SCHOOL, GRACE, HAILEY, HEYBURN, HOLBROOK,
IDAHO FALLS, ISLAND PARK, KETCHUM, KILGORE, MACKAY, MALAD CITY,
MALTA, MCCAMMON, MONTPELIER, MORELAND, OAKLEY, POCATELLO,
PRESTON, REXBURG, RICHFIELD, RIGBY, RIRIE, ROCKLAND, RUPERT,
SHELLEY, SHOSHONE, SODA SPRINGS, SPENCER, ST. ANTHONY, VICTOR,
AND WAYAN.
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Representatives from TVTAP, the City of Victor, the US Forest Service, and the Federal Highway Administration held a ribbon cutting on Friday afternoon at the Moose Creek bridge. The 2.3-mile section of pathway from Old Jackson Highway to Trail Creek Campground is now open.
Representatives from TVTAP, the City of Victor, the US Forest Service, and the Federal Highway Administration held a ribbon cutting on Friday afternoon at the Moose Creek bridge. The 2.3-mile section of pathway from Old Jackson Highway to Trail Creek Campground is now open.
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TVTAP program director Nick Beatty tests out the underpass to Mike Harris Campground.
After nine years of planning, grant applications, and construction, the Teton Centennial Trail between Old Jackson Highway and Trail Creek Campground opened last weekend.
The 2.3-mile section of paved trail begins at a new parking lot across the refurbished Moose Creek bridge and ends just over the Wyoming border at the Trail Creek Campground. Two underpasses allow walkers and cyclists to safely cross the highway at Mike Harris and Trail Creek. A ribbon of singletrack on the south side of the highway connects the eastern campground to the Happy Hour trail and ties back into the Southern Valley trail system.
The non-motorized path is open to pedestrians, cyclists, horseback riders, and people on class 1 and 2 e-bikes. Leashed dogs are allowed year-round on the trail.
Teton Valley Trails and Pathways executive director Dan Verbeten said that the organization is waiting to see how highway snow plowing impacts the trail and underpasses before committing to any winter grooming, but he said he wouldn’t rule out the possibility of maintained track. Either way, he said, there’s a pretty good chance that enough people will use the path in winter to compact it.
The next section of the Teton Centennial Trail, traversing the three or so miles between Trail Creek and Coal Creek, was designed and reviewed this summer and will be put out to bid next year, with construction starting in 2024. Eventually the pathway will take users all the way over Teton Pass onto Old Pass Road.
Last year, Verbeten told the Post Register that while these major infrastructure projects can take decades to go from vision to reality, as they near completion, public interest builds.
“Once the momentum of the dominoes starts to go down and sections are put in, you create a situation where there is more interest for the next phase,” he said. “Maybe people are curious about when the two communities will be linked by non-motorized pathway. It’s pretty much in place on the Wyoming side up to the top of the pass.”
The Old Jackson Highway to Trail Creek project began back in 2013 when the City of Victor, with help from TVTAP, submitted the first Federal Lands Access Program Grant application. A supplementary application was necessary in 2017 after the Idaho Transportation Department recommended an underpass on Highway 33 at Mike Harris Campground and the project cost and scope greatly increased. The Teton Basin Ranger District, Wyoming Pathways, Wyoming Department of Transportation, and Teton County, WY, also partnered on the project.
Construction started last year and at times commuters were forced to be patient as the installation of large structural elements underneath and next to the roadway caused traffic delays.
While it was a year behind schedule, the multi-million dollar project came in below budget, Western Federal Lands project engineer Blaine Johnson said. The City of Victor contributed a $150,000 match to the effort, despite the pathway being outside of city limits.
Verbeten pointed out that four different Victor mayors had signed off on the project through the years; Scott Fitzgerald, Zach Smith, Jeff Potter, and Will Frohlich all gave their support to the pathway.
“I think it’ll be a huge economic asset to this community,” Mayor Frohlich added after cutting the ribbon on the pathway last Friday evening. “I think the doors it could open up are massive. To look at the end goal, the possibility of getting on the trail here or in Grand Teton National Park and ending up in Island Park, is really amazing for locals and for visitors.”
That end goal Frohlich referred to is the Greater Yellowstone Trail, a 180-mile concept that is nearly 75% complete. The route combines existing pathways, rail trails, and back roads, along with proposed and in-progress sections, to encircle the Teton region and connect three states, two national parks and over ten communities.
Other segments of the Greater Yellowstone Trail besides the Teton Centennial Trail are currently in the works. This fall bridges are being placed on the Yellowstone Shortline Trail, which will eventually be a paved nine-mile path on the abandoned railroad bed between West Yellowstone and Reas Pass. Other plans include the paving of the Ashton-Tetonia Trail, and even closer to home, local project partners are trying to piece together a Tetonia-Driggs connection on the old railroad right-of-way, which is complicated by the fact that it crosses a patchwork of private properties.
As for the Teton Centennial Trail, in its first weekend open to the public, dozens of recreationists took advantage of the perfect weather to check out the curvy, hilly, scenic pathway.
TVTAP does not have a trail counter installed on the path but Verbeten said he was happy to know that, anecdotally at least, many users were already out enjoying the new resource.
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THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
542 IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS
IN IDAHO THIS WATCH INCLUDES 19 COUNTIES
IN CENTRAL IDAHO
BLAINE BUTTE CUSTER
IN EASTERN IDAHO
CLARK TETON
IN SOUTH CENTRAL IDAHO
FREMONT LINCOLN MINIDOKA
IN SOUTHEAST IDAHO
BANNOCK BEAR LAKE BINGHAM
BONNEVILLE CARIBOU CASSIA
FRANKLIN JEFFERSON MADISON
ONEIDA POWER
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF ABERDEEN, AMERICAN FALLS, ARCO,
ASHTON, BELLEVUE, BLACKFOOT, BURLEY, CAREY, CHALLIS, DRIGGS,
DUBOIS, EDIE SCHOOL, GRACE, HAILEY, HEYBURN, HOLBROOK,
IDAHO FALLS, ISLAND PARK, KETCHUM, KILGORE, MACKAY, MALAD CITY,
MALTA, MCCAMMON, MONTPELIER, MORELAND, OAKLEY, POCATELLO,
PRESTON, REXBURG, RICHFIELD, RIGBY, RIRIE, ROCKLAND, RUPERT,
SHELLEY, SHOSHONE, SODA SPRINGS, SPENCER, ST. ANTHONY, VICTOR,
AND WAYAN.
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The east side of Fred's Mountain and South Leigh Creek from the northeast, taken by Eliot Blackwelder on August 24, 1912.
Photo courtesy of the American Heritage Center, Laramie, Wyoming
After seven years and many, many adventures through the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Driggs ecologist Mike Merigliano is nearing the end of an ambitious repeat photography project documenting the passage of centuries in the mountainous landscape of the northern Rockies.
He started in 2015 by re-taking a series of photographs by wildlife biologist George Gruell, who in the 1960s and 1970s made repeat photos of almost 100 historic photos in and around Jackson Hole that show what the landscape and vegetation looked like in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Although his initial project was supported by the Bridger-Teton National Forest and the Teton Conservation District in Wyoming, Merigliano has let it sprawl to encompass more of his stomping grounds, including the Caribou-Targhee National Forest around Teton Valley.
“It’s really three projects in one,” he explained this April. He is working with the University of Wyoming to archive the photos and notes online for public consumption, he plans to publish a book eventually, and he still has around 50 more scenes to capture (out of over 300), some deep in the Teton Wilderness northeast of Jackson.
The purpose of repeat photography is to assess complex changes over time by recording the landscape’s vegetation, which reflects patterns in soil, climate, wildlife, and wildfire. By mimicking the exact spot, time of year, and time of day that the original photo was taken, and using similar equipment, Merigliano is able to weed out some extraneous variables and focus on trends in vegetation, especially the effects of fire.
The photographers from past centuries didn’t provide convenient GPS coordinates in their notes; Merigliano counts himself lucky when their records include exact dates (sometimes he has to glean these from daily journals or third-person reports). Finding the spot can sometimes turn into a multi-day scavenger hunt, which he has been known to subject his wife and other hiking partners to.
His peregrinations and methodical comparisons between hundred-year-old photos and his own captures have given him ample opportunity to reflect on conventional wisdom, outdated hypotheses, and the resilience of the landscape, at least in the brief time spans that humans view as long.
“When people look through historical evidence, they tend to cherry pick to fit their own hypotheses, and then myths are perpetuated,” Merigliano said. “Conventional wisdom tells us that frequent fires would maintain stands of bigger trees, like Ponderosa pines, by clearing out the underbrush. But fire ecology is really advancing, and it tells us that there was a tendency to exaggerate the frequency of fire. What we’re finding is that it’s really boom or bust in the Rockies, with fires that span millions of acres, like the Yellowstone fires [of 1988].”
While he avoids sweeping prognostications, Merigliano does make poetic observations about the landscape, ruminating on the longevity and scrappiness of smaller shrub species; the footprint of spot fires on an ecosystem; the traces of wildlife migration across meadows; the loss of white bark pine in the Gros Ventre and Wind River ranges thanks to blister rust and beetle kill; or the relatively small impact that humans (including Native Americans) and livestock have had in the wilder places of the northern Rockies.
His lack of concrete conclusions could come off as maddening to interest groups that were looking for a tidy narrative but, he said, it’s simply not enough of a time scale. And the higher the elevation, the slower ecological change happens. But that doesn’t lessen the value of repeat photography for building a body of work to use for past research and future observations, not just for public agencies but for casual viewers.
“The good thing about repeat photography is that it’s not esoteric, it’s very intuitive. You just look at the comparison and can make your own judgments,” he said.
One noteworthy example hangs in the Teton Valley Museum: a photograph by William Henry Jackson that shows the camp of the Hayden Expedition at the mouth of the Teton Canyon in 1871. Merigliano has done a repeat of that photo, which is believed to be the first ever taken of the Tetons.
He’s looking forward to offering community presentations on the project, an intention that fell by the wayside during the pandemic. As of this spring, Merigliano was still deliberating over which pairings he wanted to feature in a possible future exhibit at the Teton Geo Center in Driggs, whether to focus on the familiar, eponymous range of Teton Valley or to venture further afield and give residents here a taste of something different.
“I have pictures all over the place in northwest Wyoming. Should I give a sampling of the whole Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem or stick with the Tetons?” he mused. “We’re so provincial here. Maybe this could remind people that this isn’t the only mountain range on the planet?”
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There are many sure signs of fall in Teton Valley. Snow on the Tetons, Timberwolves football, and head-to-toe camouflage in Broulim’s are just a few of the indicators that winter is once again drawing near.
For Curtis Hendricks, Idaho Fish & Game regional wildlife manager, it’s one of his favorite times of the year.
While hunters are heading out into the hills to fill their tags, it is important to remember the pastime isn’t all about the thrill of the hunt.
Hunters are, as they have always been, a crucial conservation tool for F&G to maintain game populations across the state and correct population sizes that ebb and flow with natural influences.
Chief among those influences is the weather. Each fall is drastically shaped by the preceding three seasons that come before it. In this fall’s case, we are wrapping up a hot, but at times wet summer that followed a particularly cold and wet spring. Last winter was relatively dry but still cold and snowy.
“It is always interesting what our perception of weather severity or climate and what the impacts are versus the reality on what happens to populations,” said Hendricks. “Although it wasn’t a through-the-roof year, winter kind of held on and came late. We did see some mortality associated with that. If it would have broke and gotten a little warmer and spring would have come on a little earlier it wasn’t bad. It was one of those average years, which we’ll take.”
Mule deer, like most other ungulates, haven’t fully recovered from tougher winters that occurred semi-recently.
“On all these [populations] we are trying to still kind of get back to where we were right before the 2016 winter. That was a crusher. 2019 was another pretty heavy year as far as mortality,” said Hendricks.
Hendricks remains hopeful that mule deer populations are trending upwards, getting nearer and nearer to being back to the numbers that F&G want them to be in.
“This year should be even a little better than last year was, and last year was a bit better than the year before. Our harvest last year supported that,” said Hendricks.
Seasons and regulations were last set for 2021, so there remains a fair number of areas where antlerless harvest is still being regulated. The only exception is in the units around Island Park, where herds grew despite those tough winters.
Elk are following the same trends as mule deer, with populations for the most part inside F&G objectives with a surplus into those same northern units.
“Elk continue to do well, populations across the board are within objectives, and a few populations are above objectives, mainly back into Island Park,” said Hendricks.
The only exception is for the Palisades zones, which consist of units 67 (north of the Palisades reservoir and Swan Valley), 65 (Teton Valley), and 64 (southeast of Rexburg). This specific elk population was also a concern last year.
“We’re looking at trying to make that herd grow a little bit and try to get the cow segment to grow back into our management objectives, we were under it in our last survey in 2020,” said Hendricks.
The Palisades elk are challenged by many factors, including limited winter range. That limited winter range means F&G has a tough job in that it has a particularly small room for error in this zone. Too many animals equal an increase in wildlife collisions and agricultural conflict. Too few animals and populations start to become threatened.
Whitetail deer differ from the common trends elk and mule deer share and, due to more efficient reproduction and recruitment, F&G has fewer regulations on their bigger populations.
“They tend to hold their own. The philosophy has been to keep a good amount of pressure on whitetails so as to not see expansion and over the top population levels throughout the areas where they inhabit,” said Hendricks.
Whitetails tend to focus their attention on terrain like riparian corridors and areas that sit adjacent to agricultural land. Teton Valley, specifically units 65, 64, 62, and 62A, were noted as areas that are seeing a lot of deer.
“The reason for that is there is a lot of diversity on those landscapes, if you look at places where whitetails are, it’s a lot of riparian corridors intermixed with agricultural interface and the lower elevations of our mountain communities,” said Hendricks.
While whitetail deer, mule deer, and elk numbers are coming up, there is an emerging, always-fatal threat to all three species in addition to moose and caribou. Chronic Wasting Disease was first discovered in Idaho last fall, in F&G hunting unit 14 near Riggins.
While that case was located on the other side of the state, Hendricks can attest to it only being a matter of time before it shows up in eastern Idaho due to its proximity to Montana, Wyoming, and Utah, which have all had recorded cases in free-ranging populations.
“For years we were expecting to detect CWD on our eastern boundary down here in our Pocatello region and Idaho Falls region, or our northern potions of our state up against Libby, MT,” said Hendricks. “It was a bit of a surprise for it to show up in the Riggins area, as it wasn’t where we anticipated it showing up, but it showing up in the state was not surprising.”
F&G in the Upper Snake region will have multiple collection sites where hunters can deposit samples from each animal. Since there have been no confirmed cases in eastern Idaho, it is still a detection game for wildlife officials.
“On our end down here it is still a detection and monitoring process. We do like to get our hands on as many samples whether it is from deer or elk. If you pay attention we have head collection barrels and head sample sites across the region at eight locations,” said Hendricks.
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THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
542 IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS
IN IDAHO THIS WATCH INCLUDES 19 COUNTIES
IN CENTRAL IDAHO
BLAINE BUTTE CUSTER
IN EASTERN IDAHO
CLARK TETON
IN SOUTH CENTRAL IDAHO
FREMONT LINCOLN MINIDOKA
IN SOUTHEAST IDAHO
BANNOCK BEAR LAKE BINGHAM
BONNEVILLE CARIBOU CASSIA
FRANKLIN JEFFERSON MADISON
ONEIDA POWER
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF ABERDEEN, AMERICAN FALLS, ARCO,
ASHTON, BELLEVUE, BLACKFOOT, BURLEY, CAREY, CHALLIS, DRIGGS,
DUBOIS, EDIE SCHOOL, GRACE, HAILEY, HEYBURN, HOLBROOK,
IDAHO FALLS, ISLAND PARK, KETCHUM, KILGORE, MACKAY, MALAD CITY,
MALTA, MCCAMMON, MONTPELIER, MORELAND, OAKLEY, POCATELLO,
PRESTON, REXBURG, RICHFIELD, RIGBY, RIRIE, ROCKLAND, RUPERT,
SHELLEY, SHOSHONE, SODA SPRINGS, SPENCER, ST. ANTHONY, VICTOR,
AND WAYAN.
Tetonia Mayor Brent Schindler dons a body filter and prepares to do some sewer service in August. The mayor and clerk had to step up and take care of an array of public utilities after the city’s public works director left in April.
In a small town like Tetonia, one of the local government’s most roles is the maintenance and upkeep of public utilities and infrastructure. For almost six months, the city’s small staff has been making do without a public works employee, learning new duties, and receiving help from community members.
Tetonia’s previous public works director, who was responsible for managing the city’s water and wastewater systems, landscaping the park and public grounds, reviewing land use applications, overseeing street plowing and maintenance, and performing repairs, left the position at the end of April. As the only remaining paid employee of the city, clerk Jacque Beard had to step in and take on a lot of additional tasks.
“It was a huge and overwhelming learning curve for me,” Beard said about the ten to 12 hours a week she spent this summer doing public works jobs. Mayor Brent Schindler stepped in to manage the city’s wastewater system.
“We have been limping through the summer,” Schindler said during a Tetonia council meeting on Sept. 13. Not only is the city short-staffed, it also has been awaiting some essential parts ordered six months ago that will help the sewer lagoon aerators work again.
The city got a helping hand at various times from Teton County, the City of Driggs, past public works employees, the Idaho Rural Water Association, and Jared Gunderson, who works for the City of Rexburg but is Tetonia’s sewer backup operator.
“His help has been invaluable, and he’s undercharging the city for his services,” Schindler said about Gunderson.
The mayor added that he has a list that’s several pages long of ongoing tasks that need to happen in the public works department.
“We have successfully managed to keep things moving as needed but cannot wait for a full time person to join us,” Beard said.
Tetonia may have found a candidate, but until the job offer is accepted, Beard said that the city doesn’t want to officially announce anything.
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On Wednesday, Sept. 14, the proposed sale of the Victor public works building received a reality check as debate forced a continuation of the public hearing to the next city council meeting on September 28th.
If approved, the sale of the public works facility located at 32 Elm St. (with an adjacent city-owned lot at 53 Fir St.) would become subject to a bidding process under Idaho’s Land Use Planning Act. The minimum bid was set at $1.8 million.
As long as at least one bid comes in above that threshold, the council would have to take the highest bid. However unlikely, if no bids come in at the $1.8 million minimum, the city would be freed from the required bidding process.
There was only one public comment, which came from Victor resident and Teton County commissioner Cindy Riegel. Riegel’s concern was that she did not want the city to rush the process and lose say in what the property’s future development would look like.
Crucially, the plot is zoned Industrial Flex, “probably the best” zoning according to city attorney Herb Heimerl. Industrial Flex, as the name indicates, is very flexible in its uses.
“Basically, it allows for mixed-use buildings, some light manufacturing, but we have defined differing manufacturing elements. Food processing, construction, storage, mini-warehouses, etc.,” said Kim Kolner, Victor planning and zoning director. “It allows for a mix and residential as long as there is a commercial entity on the ground floor. There are a lot of options with this zoning district.”
If the properties were to be sold with the industrial flex zoning, potential developers would have the possibility of building a wide range of projects. With the dearth of housing in Victor and Teton Valley looming over the discussion, council was wary of what that flexibility could mean.
“There are so many things that would be appropriate for there and there are also so many other things that are not appropriate at that space,” said councilwoman Emily Sustick.
“I am 100% on board for our need to sell it for our end goal of a new public works facility, but I didn’t realize how broad the industrial flex is and what that could mean,” said councilwoman Stacy Hulsing.
In the resolution, special and capital projects manager Troy Butzlaff included a provision in which buyers would need to submit a project narrative in their bids for what their vision would be for the site. However, the city has no way to legally enforce that narrative, as long as it fits within the zoning.
“If we’re asking people what their vision is, they could dupe you. There is no way to enforce what they tell you,” said Heimerl. “We’re asking people to be honest with us, but some people would be honest and others might not be.”
The doubt cast over the current zoning could mean future turmoil for the sale of the properties. If the city opted to change the zoning it would be subject to a zone change process that would have to go through the planning and zoning department, just like any other zone change.
“It still requires a 15-day notice to go up in front of P&Z and then a recommendation, you still have to wait for a recommendation, and then notice a second hearing with the [city] council,” said Heimerl. “If the city thinks this is the wrong zoning, we ought to change the zoning before we put it to bid.”
However, an added wrinkle would be that the city would have to essentially restart the sale process. The $1.8 million minimum bid was set compared to comparable properties that have the same Industrial Flex zoning.
If the zoning were to be changed, that would mean the value of the properties would have to be reassessed. Mayor Will Frohlich was not confident they could come close to the current $1.8 million valuation.
“I would caution that the price tag of the comps [comparable properties] of anything else in the downtown core will be less to substantially less than what the Industrial Flex is now,” said Frohlich.
Additionally, Heimerl stressed that if the process were to drag on, that gives room for the commercial market to move to a less desirable place.
“It is a valuable piece of property. The market is good now and we should sell it. We need the money,” said Heimerl.
With so much doubt present in the discussion, council agreed to err on the side of caution and continue the hearing to the next city council meeting. In the meantime, Frohlich directed council to work with planning and zoning staff to take a hard look at the different zoning districts and their requirements as well as how the property fits into Victor’s comprehensive plan.
The funds from the sale of the properties are set to go towards the construction of a new public works facility located off of baseline road, north of Kotler Ice Arena. The $1.8 million minimum bid is around $400,000 more than the cost of the new public works facility. The city owns the land on which the new facility would sit on.
While the funds from the sale would inevitably provide a huge boost to the funding of the new public works facility, they are not completely necessary.
At the July 27 Victor City Council meeting, financing options for the new facility were discussed which were not tied to the sale of the existing facility. However, if (or when) the current public facility sells, that money would be used to pay off the balance of the lease.
During that meeting, council expressed unanimous interest in a five-year principal-deferred lease through Zion Bank. The financing mechanism is set to be formalized at some point during next month’s city council meetings.
Correction 7/21: The next Victor City Council meeting is September 28th, not as mentioned in a prior edition as October 5th.
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THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
542 IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS
IN IDAHO THIS WATCH INCLUDES 19 COUNTIES
IN CENTRAL IDAHO
BLAINE BUTTE CUSTER
IN EASTERN IDAHO
CLARK TETON
IN SOUTH CENTRAL IDAHO
FREMONT LINCOLN MINIDOKA
IN SOUTHEAST IDAHO
BANNOCK BEAR LAKE BINGHAM
BONNEVILLE CARIBOU CASSIA
FRANKLIN JEFFERSON MADISON
ONEIDA POWER
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF ABERDEEN, AMERICAN FALLS, ARCO,
ASHTON, BELLEVUE, BLACKFOOT, BURLEY, CAREY, CHALLIS, DRIGGS,
DUBOIS, EDIE SCHOOL, GRACE, HAILEY, HEYBURN, HOLBROOK,
IDAHO FALLS, ISLAND PARK, KETCHUM, KILGORE, MACKAY, MALAD CITY,
MALTA, MCCAMMON, MONTPELIER, MORELAND, OAKLEY, POCATELLO,
PRESTON, REXBURG, RICHFIELD, RIGBY, RIRIE, ROCKLAND, RUPERT,
SHELLEY, SHOSHONE, SODA SPRINGS, SPENCER, ST. ANTHONY, VICTOR,
AND WAYAN.
The St. Anthony Sand Dunes is the epitome of multi-use public land. Victor resident and horse trainer Sarah Hoffmann takes her charge Koka into the water while a dirt biker zips past on the sandy shore.
This article first appeared in the Teton Valley News in 2004. It has been updated with some new information from the Bureau of Land Management, but the idea remains the same.
Idaho conjures images of potatoes, vast plains, and craggy peaks. Seldom does the image of miles of golden wind-shaped sand dunes come to mind. But only a few west of St. Anthony, a treasure for hikers, ATV riders, dirt bikers and dune buggy enthusiasts seems to have appeared from nowhere.
How the Dunes Were Formed
Ten thousand years ago, when the weather in eastern Idaho was much cooler and wetter than it is today, lush vegetation was grazed by one-humped camels, mammoths, pony-sized horses and large bison. These animals may have gone for a drink along the sandy shores of Mud and Market Lakes, which are located about 20 miles southwest of the dunes. Although Mud and Market Lakes still exist today, they shrank considerably when the climate warmed at the end of the last ice age. As the shoreline sands dried out, that sand, as well as sand from floodplain deposits of the Snake, Teton and other rivers, began to be blown eastward to form the St. Anthony Sand Dunes. This process continues today.
The Dunes Today
The dunes are an important environment for a variety of plants and animals. The sand dunes themselves may appear lifeless, but they harbor three unique and sensitive species: the Saint Anthony evening primrose and two species of beetle. The dunes are ringed by thousands of acres of native grasses, junipers and sagebrush that provide habitat for sage-grouse and critical winter range for elk, mule deer and moose.
To see the sharp edges of the wind-capped peaks and shadows from the steep slopes, it is a wonder the Bureau of Land Management allows recreation on the site at all. But just as the sand dunes were formed, wind continually re-deposits sand that has been kicked up by two-legged humans, four-legged animals, and motorized two- and four-wheeled vehicles, it is as if nothing ever played there once the wind dies down.
During the winter months, the west side of the dunes are closed in order to protect wildlife habitation, but 6,000 acres on the east side are open for tubing and sledding. Approximately 2,000 elk, 500 moose, and 1,500 mule deer winter in the vicinity. This area is home to the largest high desert wintering moose herds in North America.
In the past decades, recreation at the dunes has jumped from a thousand people to hundreds of thousands of people per year. BLM manages the area to ensure that wilderness values are not lost. Not all of the area’s 35,000 acres is open to motorized vehicles. The dunes are declared a Special Recreation Area, so management of such highly trafficked areas is more organized for safety and preservation. The area features Deadhorse Bowl, a popular OHV sand bowl one-mile in circumference and 400 feet deep, located in the western section of the dune complex.
Facilities and services provided at the dunes include parking, camping, restrooms and concessions, as well as emergency transportation by dune buggy and air rescue services. (Hundreds of people are injured every year recreating at the sand dunes. Precautions when riding ATVs or dirt bikes can help prevent some accidents, as well as providing a more enjoyable experience.)
Off-Highway-Vehicle Recreation Rules for Motorized Use on the Dunes
All off-highway vehicle use must occur on the open sand areas or roads and trails displaying a “Designated Route” sign.
Stay on the open sand and avoid all vegetated areas.
All vehicles must be equipped with a minimum 8-foot above level ground whip mast and brightly colored flag.
Idaho residents must display a valid Utility Type Vehicle (ATV) sticker on all off-road motorized vehicles.
All OHVs are required to have spark arrestors and mufflers that meet the maximum 96 decibel sound level.
Out of state off-road motorized vehicle users must have a valid registration sticker for the state in which they reside or purchase an Idaho “out of state registration sticker.”
Idaho law requires all riders under the age of 18 to wear helmets.
Guidelines for a Safe Experience
Yield the right-of-way to uphill riders.
Check over dune crest before descending.
Watch for hikers, horse riders, sunbathers or those unfamiliar with surroundings such as children or beginners.
Be cautious until you know what the sands are like and how to read them.
If you are jumping, please have a spotter sit at the top of the dune you will be jumping.
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THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
542 IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS
IN IDAHO THIS WATCH INCLUDES 19 COUNTIES
IN CENTRAL IDAHO
BLAINE BUTTE CUSTER
IN EASTERN IDAHO
CLARK TETON
IN SOUTH CENTRAL IDAHO
FREMONT LINCOLN MINIDOKA
IN SOUTHEAST IDAHO
BANNOCK BEAR LAKE BINGHAM
BONNEVILLE CARIBOU CASSIA
FRANKLIN JEFFERSON MADISON
ONEIDA POWER
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF ABERDEEN, AMERICAN FALLS, ARCO,
ASHTON, BELLEVUE, BLACKFOOT, BURLEY, CAREY, CHALLIS, DRIGGS,
DUBOIS, EDIE SCHOOL, GRACE, HAILEY, HEYBURN, HOLBROOK,
IDAHO FALLS, ISLAND PARK, KETCHUM, KILGORE, MACKAY, MALAD CITY,
MALTA, MCCAMMON, MONTPELIER, MORELAND, OAKLEY, POCATELLO,
PRESTON, REXBURG, RICHFIELD, RIGBY, RIRIE, ROCKLAND, RUPERT,
SHELLEY, SHOSHONE, SODA SPRINGS, SPENCER, ST. ANTHONY, VICTOR,
AND WAYAN.
September is National Suicide Prevention and Awareness Month, a time to acknowledge those affected by suicide, raise awareness, reduce stigma, and connect individuals with suicidal ideation to treatment services.
My thoughts this month have been with Idaho youth in particular, a population for whom the CDC says suicide is the third leading cause of death.
Idaho Kids Count data shows that the situation is worsening for Idaho children. While the report shows children fare well in terms of economic well-being, family and community factors, there has been frustratingly little progress in the last decade to improve children’s mental health. This is having a very real impact. Increasing numbers of Idaho children ages 3 - 17 had anxiety or depression in 2020 from 2016, and nearly 10% of Idaho high school students overall and 13% of Latino high school students attempted suicide in 2019.
A call to increase education/resources for Idaho youth
NAMI Idaho stands with the Idaho Voices for Children, the Kids Count partner in Idaho, in urging policymakers to address the mental health needs of children in Idaho by:
- Prioritizing meeting kids’ basic needs. Youth who grow up in poverty are two to three times more likely to develop mental health conditions than their peers.
- Ensuring every child has access to the mental health care they need, when and where they need it. In addition to increasing the presence of social workers, psychologists and other mental health professionals on staff and striving to meet the 250-to-1 ratio of students to counselors recommended by the American School Counselor Association, NAMI Idaho can offer support with peer lead support groups and suicide prevention training.
- Bolstering mental health care that considers young people’s experiences and identities. It should be trauma-informed — designed to promote a child’s healing and emotional security — and culturally relevant to the child’s life.
At home, know the warning signs to help someone close to you
Is a young person in your life at risk? Teens who are experiencing a crisis, such as the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, bullying, financial instability, or suicide in their school or friend group, are at increased risk of depression and by extension possibly suicidal ideation.
If you worry a loved one of any age may be at risk, don’t be afraid to ask them how they feel, if something is wrong, or share with them that you have noticed they are not their usual self. Then listen without judgment. Watch for signs of indifference, prolonged sadness, and a sudden desire to give away prized possessions.
Take every statement about suicide seriously and don’t dismiss such language as “teenage drama.” Respond with empathy and seek professional help right away. Above all, never underestimate the value of your presence when any loved one needs support.
If you or someone you know is experiencing a mental health, suicide or substance use crisis or emotional distress, reach out 24/7 to the Idaho Crisis and Suicide by dialing or texting 988. You can call for yourself or someone you care about.
Beth Markley, CFRE, is the executive director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness Idaho chapter. To learn more visit namiidaho.org.
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IN EASTERN IDAHO
CLARK TETON
IN SOUTH CENTRAL IDAHO
FREMONT LINCOLN MINIDOKA
IN SOUTHEAST IDAHO
BANNOCK BEAR LAKE BINGHAM
BONNEVILLE CARIBOU CASSIA
FRANKLIN JEFFERSON MADISON
ONEIDA POWER
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF ABERDEEN, AMERICAN FALLS, ARCO,
ASHTON, BELLEVUE, BLACKFOOT, BURLEY, CAREY, CHALLIS, DRIGGS,
DUBOIS, EDIE SCHOOL, GRACE, HAILEY, HEYBURN, HOLBROOK,
IDAHO FALLS, ISLAND PARK, KETCHUM, KILGORE, MACKAY, MALAD CITY,
MALTA, MCCAMMON, MONTPELIER, MORELAND, OAKLEY, POCATELLO,
PRESTON, REXBURG, RICHFIELD, RIGBY, RIRIE, ROCKLAND, RUPERT,
SHELLEY, SHOSHONE, SODA SPRINGS, SPENCER, ST. ANTHONY, VICTOR,
AND WAYAN.
When Jackson Hole Airport closed last Spring, in order to accommodate the increased numbers of large private aircraft using the Driggs Reed Memorial Airport (DIJ), the City of Driggs employed a ‘Police Action’ to commandeer the private property rights of eight landowners surrounding the airport. I am one such property owner.
This isn’t just a personal grievance; it matters to our whole community because the City of Driggs is not only guilty of egregious overreach, they appear to be taking great pains to ensure the community at large is not aware of the ways that DIJ does business.
A “Police Action” is intended to be invoked in the instance of ‘an eminent threat to life and health”. Large jet traffic has been flying into DIJ for years seemingly without such worries. Evidently, increased scrutiny from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ahead of the uptick in air traffic this Spring revealed that DIJ had been non-compliant with safety zone rules required for large aircraft all along. Specifically, DIJ had failed to establish the Runway Protection Zone (RPZ) that allows larger aircraft to use the facility safely. The FAA describes an RPZ as an area which ideally would be owned by the Airport Sponsor (City of Driggs) and maintained as an “object free zone”. Thereby reducing the potential for damage to aircraft in the event of a crash.
The DIJ had several ways to comply with FAA regulations without affecting anyone’s private property rights. Most obviously, they could, and should have, confined their operations to within the air and land limits of their own property. The runway at DIJ is already more than long enough to accommodate the RPZ inside its own property. By simply repainting the lines on the runway a shift could have been made to accommodate the FAA requirement. Tellingly this solution was deemed “impossible” by DIJ based on the fact that their own hangars and restaurant property would then have been inside the RPZ.
Instead, seven of my neighbors and I received letters from the City of Driggs effectively notifying us that since our land falls within a never before disclosed RPZ, our properties were subject to draconian new restrictions ranging from the financially ruinous, to the ridiculous; for example, a freeze on all building permits for up to 10 years, a prohibition on congregating (no parties, or family gatherings), a ban on tree planting.
We purchased our 3-acre property seven years ago, specifically because it had no CC & Rs, and no deed restrictions whatsoever: The title issued showed no stipulation that our land did, or would ever, fall under DIJ’s regulations.
DIJ having opted to not redesign its own space to become compliant, still had other options to satisfy the FAA requirements. For example, the city could have imposed Eminent Domain, requiring it to pay land owners a fair market value for their property, as is the legal norm in these situations.
Another legal avenue would have been to purchase Avigation easements from affected landowners for the use of their airspace. A contract that would expire with the removal of the RPZ from our properties. The City chose instead to change the zoning by Police Action to achieve their goal. Thereby avoiding the Constitutional obligation of due process and the ethical provision of just compensation.
In 2017 a new zoning ordinance was passed which included airport overlay zoning. While the Northeast RPZ was well represented on the official zone map, it failed to represent the Southeast RPZ which would have clearly shown that private property was affected.
Four years later, as the deadline to contest the new ordinance expired and the need to comply with FAA regulations neared, a move to “correct” the inaccurate map came before the city council. Without much information or debate the council voted in favor of the “correction”. DIJ had won its endeavor to impose its will over the long-established rights of private property owners.
Instead of a lengthy legal battle against the DIJ and the City of Driggs, which is not financially feasible, I am asking for the public’s help at the ballot box. Please look for and sign coming petitions designed to help the community regain control of the City of Driggs, and DIJ, who have demonstrated that the right to private property is not one of their priorities.
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542 IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS
IN IDAHO THIS WATCH INCLUDES 19 COUNTIES
IN CENTRAL IDAHO
BLAINE BUTTE CUSTER
IN EASTERN IDAHO
CLARK TETON
IN SOUTH CENTRAL IDAHO
FREMONT LINCOLN MINIDOKA
IN SOUTHEAST IDAHO
BANNOCK BEAR LAKE BINGHAM
BONNEVILLE CARIBOU CASSIA
FRANKLIN JEFFERSON MADISON
ONEIDA POWER
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF ABERDEEN, AMERICAN FALLS, ARCO,
ASHTON, BELLEVUE, BLACKFOOT, BURLEY, CAREY, CHALLIS, DRIGGS,
DUBOIS, EDIE SCHOOL, GRACE, HAILEY, HEYBURN, HOLBROOK,
IDAHO FALLS, ISLAND PARK, KETCHUM, KILGORE, MACKAY, MALAD CITY,
MALTA, MCCAMMON, MONTPELIER, MORELAND, OAKLEY, POCATELLO,
PRESTON, REXBURG, RICHFIELD, RIGBY, RIRIE, ROCKLAND, RUPERT,
SHELLEY, SHOSHONE, SODA SPRINGS, SPENCER, ST. ANTHONY, VICTOR,
AND WAYAN.
Infrastructure Investments Will Benefit Our Region
Planned improvements along the ID SH 33/WY-22 corridor between Driggs and Jackson, Wyoming, will help connect residents and visitors with local economic hubs and recreational activities, increasing mobility while improving public safety.
As Community Development Director for the City of Driggs, I’m excited about the transformations that will take place as the Teton Mobility Corridor Improvements BUILD Grant Project moves forward. This project will make long-overdue updates to meet the transportation needs of our area, including safety improvements, increased transit options, and the incorporation of clean energy technologies.
These efforts include installation by Fall River Rural Electric Cooperative of level three electric vehicle (EV) chargers along the corridor, including at the Driggs Transit Center. These chargers will help make EV use more practical and affordable for Idahoans while also cutting down carbon emissions to help keep our air cleaner and preserve the beauty of our state and its abundant natural resources.
I’m excited for the future and thankful to Senator Mike Crapo for his work to pass an infrastructure bill that helps make projects like these possible. Continuing to improve and modernize Idaho’s infrastructure will spur economic development, strengthen local businesses, and power local economies, leading to a higher quality of life for Idaho communities of all sizes.
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IN CENTRAL IDAHO
BLAINE BUTTE CUSTER
IN EASTERN IDAHO
CLARK TETON
IN SOUTH CENTRAL IDAHO
FREMONT LINCOLN MINIDOKA
IN SOUTHEAST IDAHO
BANNOCK BEAR LAKE BINGHAM
BONNEVILLE CARIBOU CASSIA
FRANKLIN JEFFERSON MADISON
ONEIDA POWER
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF ABERDEEN, AMERICAN FALLS, ARCO,
ASHTON, BELLEVUE, BLACKFOOT, BURLEY, CAREY, CHALLIS, DRIGGS,
DUBOIS, EDIE SCHOOL, GRACE, HAILEY, HEYBURN, HOLBROOK,
IDAHO FALLS, ISLAND PARK, KETCHUM, KILGORE, MACKAY, MALAD CITY,
MALTA, MCCAMMON, MONTPELIER, MORELAND, OAKLEY, POCATELLO,
PRESTON, REXBURG, RICHFIELD, RIGBY, RIRIE, ROCKLAND, RUPERT,
SHELLEY, SHOSHONE, SODA SPRINGS, SPENCER, ST. ANTHONY, VICTOR,
AND WAYAN.
I would like to sincerely thank and express our gratitude to everyone who gave a hug, offered a meal, sent cards and flowers and expressed sympathy to myself and our family.
Thank you to our close friends and family who immediately rallied to help in our home, feed us, comfort us, house our visiting family and assist in making difficult decisions.
Thank you to the Tributary Family, owners, members and staff for offering the driving range for Mo’s service, then going way above and beyond with incredible loving support for our family and the hundreds of people in attendance. We appreciate all of the hard work and efforts that went into making that such a beautiful celebration.
To Jim Otto, Karee Miller Jaeger and Ted Wells, thank you.
Much love and gratitude to the medical, nursing and hospital staff of Teton Valley Hospital for your support and love for Mo for the last 16 years. He loved TVH. Thank you specifically to the Orthopedic Clinic and OR crew. Emma Harrison and Mike Haskell…you are our family. Your support of Mo and our family has meant the world to us.
To the Teton County Sheriff’s department, first responders, Tyson Clemons, and coroner Theresa Lerch, your hard work and compassion is recognized and appreciated. You have all been very kind.
To the many former and current patients who have reached out and shares stories and love with us…thank you. He loved taking care of and fixing the amazing people of Teton County. He would always remark how lucky he was to live here and take care of the most motivated, cool people that he had ever met.
I hope he feels the love that you have all shown, we have.
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IN IDAHO THIS WATCH INCLUDES 19 COUNTIES
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CLARK TETON
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FREMONT LINCOLN MINIDOKA
IN SOUTHEAST IDAHO
BANNOCK BEAR LAKE BINGHAM
BONNEVILLE CARIBOU CASSIA
FRANKLIN JEFFERSON MADISON
ONEIDA POWER
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF ABERDEEN, AMERICAN FALLS, ARCO,
ASHTON, BELLEVUE, BLACKFOOT, BURLEY, CAREY, CHALLIS, DRIGGS,
DUBOIS, EDIE SCHOOL, GRACE, HAILEY, HEYBURN, HOLBROOK,
IDAHO FALLS, ISLAND PARK, KETCHUM, KILGORE, MACKAY, MALAD CITY,
MALTA, MCCAMMON, MONTPELIER, MORELAND, OAKLEY, POCATELLO,
PRESTON, REXBURG, RICHFIELD, RIGBY, RIRIE, ROCKLAND, RUPERT,
SHELLEY, SHOSHONE, SODA SPRINGS, SPENCER, ST. ANTHONY, VICTOR,
AND WAYAN.
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Teton junior Abbie Tibbitts spikes the ball back over to Snake River during a home game on Sept. 8.
With a stacked roster and a new coach, the Teton High volleyball team is shaking out the kinks and developing a flow on the court this season.
This year the Timberwolves are led by Rachel Burnside, who is taking over as head coach from Deyshia Steketee, and Darlene Kunz. Burnside is a familiar face to several of the girls on the team; in 2019 she coached the eighth grade volleyball team to its first ever district championship title. She has a long history with local volleyball, coaching at the high school and then the middle school for a total of 12 years before taking a couple years off. And now she’s back.
On Aug. 25, the girls notched a 3-1 win against North Fremont at home on Aug. 25, breaking a long losing streak with energy and enthusiasm. While they haven’t won a game since then, they’ve managed to claim a few successful sets over Butte, Jackson Hole, and North Fremont, a sign of progress for the team.
The team will have its first conference match-up on Sept. 29 at South Fremont. The girls play at home again on Oct. 4 against Sugar-Salem, one of the most formidable teams in the state.
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THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
542 IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS
IN IDAHO THIS WATCH INCLUDES 19 COUNTIES
IN CENTRAL IDAHO
BLAINE BUTTE CUSTER
IN EASTERN IDAHO
CLARK TETON
IN SOUTH CENTRAL IDAHO
FREMONT LINCOLN MINIDOKA
IN SOUTHEAST IDAHO
BANNOCK BEAR LAKE BINGHAM
BONNEVILLE CARIBOU CASSIA
FRANKLIN JEFFERSON MADISON
ONEIDA POWER
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF ABERDEEN, AMERICAN FALLS, ARCO,
ASHTON, BELLEVUE, BLACKFOOT, BURLEY, CAREY, CHALLIS, DRIGGS,
DUBOIS, EDIE SCHOOL, GRACE, HAILEY, HEYBURN, HOLBROOK,
IDAHO FALLS, ISLAND PARK, KETCHUM, KILGORE, MACKAY, MALAD CITY,
MALTA, MCCAMMON, MONTPELIER, MORELAND, OAKLEY, POCATELLO,
PRESTON, REXBURG, RICHFIELD, RIGBY, RIRIE, ROCKLAND, RUPERT,
SHELLEY, SHOSHONE, SODA SPRINGS, SPENCER, ST. ANTHONY, VICTOR,
AND WAYAN.
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#32 Ty Brown congratulates #12 Thomas Heuseveldt after Heuseveldt scores his second receiving touchdown of the game.
Homecoming King and Queen Ashton Gunther and Sophie Marshall share an exchange in front of the crowd during halftime at Mark Huntsman Field on Sept. 16.
Homecoming King and Queen Ashton Gunther and Sophie Marshall share an exchange in front of the crowd during halftime at Mark Huntsman Field on Sept. 16.
It was homecoming week at Teton High, and unlike last year, the festivities were capped by a no-doubt-about-it beatdown of Salmon High at Mark Huntsman Field.
The cold and rain of Friday morning’s homecoming parade was replaced with clear skies and perfect temperatures by the time an Air Idaho helicopter delivered the game ball to Teton head coach David Joyce.
THS received the opening kick and never looked back. Teton’s first drive, a 64-yard, 10-play possession, ended in the endzone after a 30-yard passing TD thrown by QB Jack Nelson and caught by wideout Thomas Heuseveldt.
Teton would get the ball right back after Salmon fumbled the ball on their first play from scrimmage, with the T ‘Wolves recovering the fumble 19 yards from the endzone. Nelson would connect with Ashton Gunther on a short screen pass for his second passing TD less than four minutes into the game.
A crowd aptly sized for the occasion was just getting warmed up, much like the Timberwolves on the field. The game would eventually end with a couple rows of bleachers bent and broken underneath the feet of the THS student section.
Salmon’s second offensive effort ended in a punt, and the ensuing Teton possession would go 65 yards and be capped by another Nelson TD toss, this time back to Thomas Heuseveldt, whose spin move to evade defenders brought him into the endzone.
Salmon’s next set of downs brought a 3rd down interception, and on the next play, Nelson threw the best passing TD of the bunch with a 45-yard dime to wideout Ty Brown. It was 28-0 less than 10 minutes into the game.
Ashton Gunther tacked on a scintillating 45-yard rushing touchdown to make it 35-0, senior Jarom Heuseveldt would return an interception to the house to go up 42-0, and Thomas Heuseveldt would catch his third TD to lead Teton into the half up 49-0.
With loud applause from the crowd, THS homecoming royalty was introduced. The freshman attendants were Emily Braman, escorted by Joe Joyce, sophomore Teppei Noda escorted Ava Marshall, and the junior attendants were Robbie McCashland and Melina Orlando.
Seniors Josh Kearsley and Lily Wilcox preceded Homecoming King and Queen Ashton Gunther and Sophie Marshall.
With the homecoming festivities wrapped up, Teton would score one more touchdown shortly into the 3rd quarter to finalize a 55-0 drubbing.
Teton’s undefeated record puts it in elite company; according to idahosports.com, the Timberwolves and conference opponent South Fremont are the first two teams in the state with a 5-0 season.
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Senate ratifies international climate deal on refrigerants
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a major action to address climate change, the Senate on Wednesday ratified an international agreement that compels the United States and other countries to limit use of hydrofluorocarbons, highly potent greenhouse gases commonly used in refrigeration and air conditioning that are far more powerful than carbon dioxide.
The so-called Kigali Amendment to the 1987 Montreal Protocol on ozone pollution requires participating nations to phase down production and use of hydrofluorocarbons, also known as HFCs, by 85% over the next 14 years, as part of a global phaseout intended to slow climate change.
The Senate approved the treaty, 69-27, above the two-thirds margin required for ratification.
HFCs are considered a major driver of global warming and are being targeted worldwide. Nearly 200 nations reached a deal in 2016 in Kigali, Rwanda, to limit HFCs and find substitutes more friendly to the atmosphere. More than 130 nations, including China, India and Russia, have formally ratified the agreement, which scientists say could help the world avoid a half-degree Celsius of global warming.
President Joe Biden pledged to embrace the Kigali deal during the 2020 presidential campaign and submitted the agreement to the Senate last year, months after the Environmental Protection Agency proposed a rule that would limit U.S. production and use of HFCs in line with Kigali. The EPA rule, in turn, followed a 2020 law passed by Congress authorizing a 15-year phaseout of HFCs in the U.S.
Biden called the Senate vote “a historic, bipartisan win for American workers and industry” and said it would allow the U.S. “to lead the clean technology markets of the future” while advancing global efforts to combat climate change.
The president’s climate envoy, former Secretary of State John Kerry, said the agreement will drive American exports, avoid up to half-degree of global warming and ensure strong international cooperation.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called the vote “one of the most significant bipartisan measures the Senate takes on all year.’’
By ratifying the treaty, “not only will we protect our planet,’’ Schumer, D-N.Y., said before the vote, but senators also will provide “a golden opportunity to help American businesses dominate in an emerging (global) business’' of refrigerants that do not rely on HFCs.
Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso and other Republicans opposed the treaty, saying it would give China preferential treatment by designating it as a developing country.
“Under this treaty, China would get an extra decade to produce HFCs,’’ placing the United States at a competitive disadvantage to China, Barrasso said. “There is no excuse for any senator to give China a handout at the expense of the American taxpayer.’’
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce was among those urging approval, calling the amendment “a win for the economy and the environment.’’
Senate ratification “would enhance the competitiveness of U.S. manufacturers working to develop alternative technologies, and level the global economic playing field,’’ the group said in a letter to the Senate.
Ratification of the amendment “would continue the important, bipartisan action Congress took in 2020 with passage of the American Innovation and Manufacturing Act, which phased out domestic HFC manufacturing,’’ said Jack Howard, the chamber’s senior vice president for government affairs.
Chris Jahn, president and CEO of the American Chemistry Council, an industry group, called the amendment a “tremendous market opportunity for our members to take advantage of game-changing technologies” that allow refrigeration in a more environmentally responsible manner than HFCs.
“”This is one of those truly rare things you get in the policy world where it is a win-win” for the environment and business, he said in an interview.
Every year, millions of refrigerators and air conditioning units are sold around the world, and U.S. businesses are prepared to meet that demand, Jahn said, citing growing markets in Asia, South America and Europe.
David Doniger, a senior climate and clean energy official with the Natural Resources Defense Council, said the Kigali Amendment builds on the the 1987 Montreal Protocol, which he called “the world’s most successful environmental treaty.″ He said “the ozone is on the mend because the world took action to eliminate″ chlorofluorocarbons, also known as CFCs, and other ozone-destroying chemicals, Doniger said.
The next logical step is to replace HFCs with safer, commercially available alternatives, Doniger said.
Democratic Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware, chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, said ratification of the Kigali Amendment would “unleash billions of dollars in U.S. economic benefits and create some 150,000 American jobs by 2027.”
Carper and Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., pushed for the 2020 law phasing out HFCs, saying it would give U.S. companies the regulatory certainty needed to produce alternative coolants. Both men represent states that are home to chemical companies that produce the alternative refrigerants.
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The US Food and Drug Administration has authorized the release of "numerous batches" of Moderna's updated Covid-19 booster amid reports of supply problems in some areas.
Updated boosters from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna were made available early this month, soon after the FDA authorized them. However, some pharmacy chains have reported trouble keeping Moderna's shots in stock.
"The government supply of the updated Moderna COVID-19 booster is currently limited, causing appointments for the product to vary across the country," Walgreens said Tuesday. "The updated Pfizer COVID-19 booster remains available."
Rite Aid said Tuesday, "We have received limited supply of the Moderna COVID-19 booster and expect to receive additional supply in the coming weeks. We are actively working to increase inventory of COVID boosters and have sufficient supply of Pfizer updated boosters in all stores."
FDA spokesman Michael Felberbaum said Tuesday that when the agency authorized the updated boosters, it was in the middle of an inspection of a facility where Moderna's booster is made, and thus "FDA did not include this facility as an authorized manufacturing facility for the updated COVID-19 vaccine booster at that time." Only Moderna batches from another facility were made available at that point.
But on Tuesday, the agency said it had determined that "numerous batches" of the Moderna booster made at the first facility met the criteria for distribution "following a careful review of information provided by Moderna about the manufacture of these batches. The agency has no concerns with the safety, effectiveness, or quality of these batches," Felberbaum said.
Moderna said it's still on track to deliver 70 million doses of its updated vaccine by the end of 2022.
"We are working closely with U.S. Government to deliver significant amounts of updated, bivalent booster doses as we continue to see high demand in certain areas of the country," the company said. "We anticipate that these availability constraints will be resolved in the coming days."
Uptake of Covid-19 vaccine boosters had been low long before before the updated boosters were available. To date, less than half of people in the US who received their initial series and are eligible for a booster -- and less than a third of the population overall -- had gotten their booster shot.
The federal government has not released data on how many people have gotten the new shots, but the authorization of the updated boosters may have spurred more people to roll up their sleeves. Federal health officials have urged people to get an updated Covid-19 booster when they get a flu shot this fall, and the government recently launched an ad campaign targeting people 50 and older.
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When Angelica Rose Brown was accepted into the University of North Carolina's Kenan Flagler Business School PhD. Program in 2020, she said it brought her one step closer to her career aspirations.
Brown entered the program that year with high hopes: she wanted to do extensive research on code switching and diversity and inclusion issues, earn her PhD, and become a college professor teaching organizational behavior.
But one year into the five-year program, Brown said her plans were derailed when professors forced her out of the PhD program, saying she was no longer a good fit.
"Initially I experienced disbelief and then from there it was just immense psychological and emotional distress," Brown told CNN. "It was heartbreaking."
Brown is now suing the university, three of her former professors and the UNC Board of Governors in federal court under claims that some faculty and school officials discriminated against her because she is Black and a woman.
In the lawsuit, filed August 30, Brown also accuses three professors of retaliating against her after she reported the discrimination to the business school's Diversity and Inclusion Program and Equal Opportunity Compliance Office.
UNC officials declined to comment on Brown's lawsuit.
"We are aware of these allegations but unable to comment on the pending litigation at this time," UNC spokesperson Pace Sagester said in an email. "UNC-Chapel Hill strives to provide a positive educational experience for all our students."
Brown said her forced removal reflects a pattern of systemic racism at the school. She wants the professors named in the lawsuit to be held accountable for their actions and receive more training in diversity and inclusion.
'This is very egregious,' Brown says
Brown's lawsuit outlines a chain of events that led to her reporting the alleged discrimination to university officials and being forced out of the PhD program.
According to the complaint, Brown asked her professors for "periodic scheduling accommodations including potential extensions on research projects" after she says she was raped and sexually assaulted twice by a male acquaintance in 2020. Brown claims she also shared with professors that she suffered a preexisting condition of post-traumatic stress disorder and that she documented it in her enrollment file. The PTSD was exacerbated by the alleged sexual violence, the lawsuit says. Brown said she was granted the extensions, but professors named in the suit admonished her for missing what Brown characterizes as a non-mandatory program seminar because she had a court hearing to get a protective order against the man who she says raped her.
Brown attempted to file criminal charges against her rapist but Durham officials declined because it was a "non-stranger" case, according to her lawyer. CNN has reached out to Durham police for comment.
The lawsuit also claims Brown had several disagreements with professors, including on her approach to research topics such as code switching with African- Americans; the person they would recruit to their research team; and funding sources for research projects. The complaint also says that at the end of Brown's first semester at UNC, she received a "Pass" grade in an introductory course while her classmates received a "High Pass." Brown says she was the only Black woman in the class.
In June 2021, Brown reported "what she believed to be a pattern of discriminatory behavior within her program" to the business school's Diversity and Inclusion program, the lawsuit says. That same month, she also filed a discrimination complaint with the university's Equal Opportunity Compliance Office.
During an academic review held on Zoom in July 2021, Brown said her professors indicated that multiple professors had complained about her frequent requests for deadline extensions, that she was not making progress academically and that she burned bridges with faculty, according to the lawsuit. Brown's professors said she did not have a path forward in the PhD program and could exit in May 2022 with a master's degree, the lawsuit says, which Brown ultimately did.
The lawsuit alleges that Brown's unfavorable review was "retaliation" for the discrimination reports she filed the month prior.
Brown's attorney Artur Davis told CNN that his client had good grades, stellar research and was "succeeding by every measure" but the university still forced her out of the PhD program.
Davis said the lawsuit is necessary so there can be more accountability for institutions that treat Black people unfairly.
"Discrimination goes on in this world because people think they can get away with it," Davis said. "It says to this institution which thinks it's untouchable that the world is watching, people are watching and there is scrutiny to your behavior."
"UNC needs some self-examination," he added.
Brown said in addition to accountability for the professors named in the lawsuit, she is seeking monetary damages for emotional distress, mental anguish and lost earning potential.
"This is bigger than gross negligence, this is very egregious," Brown said. "Being complicit in these behaviors by these faculty sends a message that any and all faculty can treat students this way and it still be OK."
Brown, 28, said her removal from UNC has been a setback for her career. "I've lost two years on the job market," she said.
She was able to enroll in another PhD program at Cornell University this year and says she is set to graduate in 2027.
The university has faced criticism in recent years for its record on diversity and inclusion
Brown's lawsuit came weeks after UNC reached a settlement with award-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, whose tenure as the Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism was initially denied by the board of trustees despite a recommendation by the tenure committee. The board later granted Hannah-Jones tenure after facing backlash from faculty and staff. But Hannah-Jones declined the tenure offer and instead joined Howard University's faculty.
The settlement requires the university to train 20 UNC faculty and staff as search and selection advisers through the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; increase the number of trauma-informed therapists on staff; and allocate $5,000 each fiscal year to the Carolina Black Caucus, a group that advocates for Black UNC faculty and staff. The settlement does not include an admission of liability for the parties involved.
Earlier this year, the American Association of University Professors released a report outlining longstanding patterns of institutional racism in the UNC system. The report accused Republican lawmakers of interfering within the university system by influencing chancellor appointments and shuttering academic centers focused on fighting poverty, social injustice and pollution.
In response, Kimberly van Noort, Sr. Vice President for Academic Affairs for the UNC system, called the report "disheartening." "During the last six years, we have lowered tuition for nearly all of our students; improved graduation rates among low-income and minority students; and made historic investments in growing and supporting our system's six historically minority-serving institutions," she said in a letter. "We continue to recruit and support world-class faculty, and we secured substantial raises for faculty and staff in the most recent (bipartisan) state budget, as well as more than $2 billion in capital funding for our campuses."
Julia Clark, president of the Black Student Movement at UNC, said some Black students don't feel supported when it comes to support services and tools needed to succeed in class. She wants to see more Black people appointed to work in the university's Women's Center and the Equal Opportunity Compliance Office to help address situations involving racial discrimination. CNN reached out to UNC regarding Clark's concerns about diversity in university offices and has not heard back.
Clark called Brown "brave" for filing the lawsuit and advocating for herself.
"We are constantly faced with having to be the voice for equity on campus and we don't necessarily see that reflected within our administration or within our campus systems," Clark said. "I hope (Brown's lawsuit) forces both the administration and specifically the business school and other schools at this university to not only reflect how they are treating their Black students but what they can do better."
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悽博髢部博士（Shiboi Hige Hakuba，博雅韻學第0178回B編配音，配置玺儀上文之儲骺、博智（不及真身停不抑癇）\n 本漫子的日用之博人姬 「B編176 本 GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The Kaufman Interfaith Institute hosted Music of the Jewish Diaspora at Grand Valley State University's (GVSU) Pew campus Tuesday morning.
The Yamma Ensemble is an Israeli-Jewish group that plays music on ancient Jewish instruments like the duduk, kopuz and hand drums.
Kyle Kooyers, associate director of the Kaufman Interfaith Institute, tells us he hopes events like the one held Tuesday will expose the public to more cultural perspectives beyond the ones they know.
“We often say that music is a universal language, right, and there's something about this feeling of profoundly being home,” says Kooyers. “Music acts … in a way, it's a time machine where it teleports us not just to other places around the world but other eras and time and in history, that showcase the histories of humanity and reveal to us that in many ways, we've come a long way; the music sounds a little bit different.”
Visit GVSU’s website for more information, including other scheduled events and performances by the Kaufman Interfaith Institute.
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A serious medical diagnosis can be life-changing. That’s why many people want another perspective. Second opinions can be expensive, however, and may require travel.
Now, virtual second opinions are offering a lifeline for people, like Dan Walden.
Active for most of his life, Walden knew something was off when he could no longer keep up with his grandkids. He was experiencing heart rhythm issues.
“I finally got to where they did an MRI on my heart,” said Walden.
Walden’s MRI and bloodwork pointed to a rare disease called, AL amyloidosis. The disease can be deadly in months without treatment. However, all of Walden’s biopsies were negative, so doctors in his home state of Georgia couldn't diagnose him. That’s when he reached outside of Georgia to the Clinic by Cleveland Clinic for a second opinion, and he did it virtually.
Walden says that decision saved his life.
“Literally, within just two weeks of engaging the Cleveland Clinic, they responded to me with a positive diagnosis,” said Walden.
Now, he's getting the medical attention he needs.
More people are turning to virtual technologies for quicker access to life-saving treatment. The virtual second opinion market is expected to be worth more than $7 billion by 2024, according to Research Kraft. That's up from roughly $3 billion a few years ago.
However, not everyone has the power to access a second opinion. Getting one of the nation's top doctors to speak with you on Zoom can come at a pretty high cost.
“They do require payment, sometimes out of pocket, sometimes by insurance,” said Howard Kleckner, MD, medical director at thesecondopinion.
That's where Dr. Kleckner is making a difference. He and his team at thesecondopinion are removing all barriers to care. Most of the physicians on staff are retired but still want to practice medicine. They're also willing to do it without a paycheck.
“We have over 70 doctors who volunteer their time,” said Kleckner.
Everything is done via Zoom. An expert panel meets directly with patients and their families to review their case and go over treatment options. Kleckner said it's not about finding other doctors' mistakes. In fact, they rarely do. He said their mission is much more than that.
“They need reassurance that they are doing the right thing and that’s what we can provide, the comfort and understanding that they need to go through their treatment,” said Kleckner.
Currently, thesecondopinion only offers free virtual second opinions to California residents. They hope to see the effort expanded in other states.
“It’s a very worthwhile service that we can provide the community, particularly those people who otherwise wouldn’t have the means or understanding to obtain additional information,” Kleckner said.
As for Dan Walden, he's thankful for his second chance and the time he gets to spend with his grandkids.
“It's important for me to be active enough that I can be a good granddad,” Walden said.
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The major US stock indices are closing lower and near lows for the day as traders react to the more hawkish Fed rate projections. The Fed now sees a end of year rate of 4.4% which is higher than the markets expectations going into the report. They also see the terminal rate at 4.6% in 2023.
That is a lot of headwinds for companies to work through especially since the USD is strong and companies will likely still have to deal with other constraints including the potential for less demand as the Fed counteracts inflation risk by encouraging unemployment to move higher, and stalling the consumer demand.
The final numbers are showing:
- Dow down -522.45 points or -1.7% at 30183.79
- S&P down -66 points ro -1.71% at 3789.94
- Nasdaq down -204.85 or -1.79% at 11220.20
- Russell 2000 down -25.34 points or -1.42% at 1762.15.
All 11 sectors of the S&P moved lower led by
- consumer discretionary -2.37%
- telecommunication down -2.3%
- materials down -2.2%
The best of the losers today included:
- consumer staples at -0.34%
- industrials -1.34%
- utilities -1.38%
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The Bank of Japan September Monetary Policy Statement is due today, Thursday, 22 September 2022.
- There is no firmly scheduled time for the BOJ statement, its reasonable to expect it some time in the 0230 to 0330 GMT time window
Yesterday the Bank heavily intervened in the Japanese Government Bond market:
More on the aggressive, unscheduled Bank of Japan bond-buying today
The BOJ is seeking to drive down JGB yields from recent highs. This is not a sign that the Bank will be changing its ultra-easy policy any time soon, not today a least.
Earlier previews:
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USD/JPY backed off from highs ahead of 145, its difficult to expect that level to hold it down as the policy divergence between a hawkish Federal Reserve and dovish BOJ persists.
Even rudimentary technical analysis looks bullish:
I am sure technical analysts trading USD/JPY can do a better job than me, in the comments please folks!
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranians experienced a widespread internet outage on Wednesday amid days of mass protests against the government, including a loss of access to Instagram and WhatsApp, two of the last Western social media platforms available in the country.
An Iranian official had earlier hinted that such measures might be taken out of security concerns. The loss of connectivity will make it more difficult for people to organize protests and share information about the government’s rolling crackdown on dissent.
Iran has seen nationwide protests over the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who was detained for allegedly wearing the mandatory Islamic headscarf too loosely. Demonstrators have clashed with police and called for the downfall of the Islamic Republic itself, even as Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi addressed the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday.
London-based rights group Amnesty International said security forces have used batons, birdshot, tear gas, and water cannons to disperse protesters. It reported eight deaths linked to the unrest, including four people killed by security forces. It said hundreds more have been wounded.
Iranian officials have reported three deaths, blaming them on unnamed armed groups.
Witnesses in Iran, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal, told The Associated Press late Wednesday they could no longer access the internet using mobile devices.
“We’re seeing internet service, including mobile data, being blocked in Iran in the past couple of hours,” Doug Madory, director of internet analysis at Kentik, Inc., a network intelligence company, said late Wednesday.
“This is likely an action by the government given the current situation in the country,” he said. “I can confirm a near total collapse of internet connectivity for mobile providers in Iran.”
NetBlocks, a London-based group that monitors internet access, had earlier reported widespread disruptions to both Instagram and WhatsApp.
Facebook parent company Meta, which owns both platforms, said it was aware that Iranians were being denied access to internet services. “We hope their right to be online will be reinstated quickly,” it said in a statement.
Earlier on Wednesday, Iran’s Telecommunications Minister Isa Zarepour was quoted by state media as saying that certain restrictions might be imposed “due to security issues,” without elaborating.
Iran already blocks Facebook, Telegram, Twitter and YouTube, even though top Iranian officials use public accounts on such platforms. Many Iranians get around the bans using virtual private networks, known as VPNs, and proxies.
In a separate development, several official websites, including those for Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the presidency and the Central Bank, were taken down at least briefly as hackers claimed to have launched a cyberattack on state agencies.
Hackers linked to the shadowy Anonymous movement said they targeted other Iranian state agencies, including state TV.
Central Bank spokesman Mostafa Qamarivafa denied that the bank itself was hacked, saying only that the website was “inaccessible” because of an attack on a server that hosts it, in remarks carried by the official IRNA news agency. The website was later restored.
Iran has been the target of several cyberattacks in recent years, many by hackers expressing criticism of its theocracy. Last year, a cyberattack crippled gas stations across the country, creating long lines of angry motorists unable to get subsidized fuel for days. Messages accompanying the attack appeared to refer to the supreme leader.
Amini’s death has sparked protests across the country. The police say she died of a heart attack and was not mistreated, but her family has cast doubt on that account, saying she had no previous heart issues and that they were prevented from seeing her body.
The U.N. human rights office says the morality police have stepped up operations in recent months and resorted to more violent methods, including slapping women, beating them with batons and shoving them into police vehicles.
President Joe Biden, who also spoke at the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, voiced support for the protesters, saying “we stand with the brave citizens and the brave women of Iran, who right now are demonstrating to secure their basic rights.”
The U.K. also released a statement Wednesday calling for an investigation into Amini’s death and for Iran to “respect the right to peaceful assembly.”
Raisi has called for an investigation into Amini’s death. Iranian officials have blamed the protests on unnamed foreign countries that they say are trying to foment unrest.
Iran has grappled with waves of protests in recent years, mainly over a long-running economic crisis exacerbated by Western sanctions linked to its nuclear program.
The Biden administration and European allies have been working to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear accord, in which Iran curbed its nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions relief, but the talks have been deadlocked for months.
In his speech at the U.N., Raisi said Iran is committed to reviving the nuclear agreement but questioned whether it could trust America’s commitment to any accord.
Iran insists its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes. It began ramping up its nuclear activities after then-President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew from the 2015 agreement, and experts say it now likely has enough highly-enriched uranium to make a bomb if it chooses to do so.
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It treats nighttime symptoms of the cold and flu — and most definitely should not be used as a poultry marinade.
A potentially deadly trend in which buffoons are cooking chicken in NyQuil has been popularized to the point where the brand is now issuing warnings on its social media.
Known as the “NyQuil chicken” or “sleepy chicken” challenge on TikTok and other platforms, the viral trend has bozos boiling chicken breasts in the blue syrup and then eating the results. On Sept. 15, the FDA issued a warning against the dangerous practice.
The viral trend is painfully reminiscent of teens snacking on Tide Pods in 2018, which saw the company release a video exhorting people to “Use Tide Pods for washing, not eating.”
Now, NyQuil is tweeting a stock message at individual users posting about the challenge. They’ve sent out 13 tweets specific to the chicken-NyQuil recipe so far.
“Consumer safety is our number one priority, and we do not endorse inappropriate use of our product,” the message reads. “NyQuil is an OTC medication that treats nighttime symptoms of the common cold & flu. It should be taken as directed using the dosage cup provided, not to exceed 4 doses in 24 hrs.”
But the brand’s tweets in the interest of safety appear to be bringing more attention to the ridiculousness of the situation — making them the target of online trolls.
So far, NyQuil has responded to tweets such as “Thanks for the new recipe @NyQuilDayQuil !!! My chicken is going to be a knockout!!!” by @Congress Duke and “Can you please forward me your chicken recipe?” from @TTommy5150.
“Clearly @NyQuilDayQuil needs to respond to the trend, and put out a SAFE recipe for Sleepy Syrup Chicken,” posted @WeAteAllTheDodo.
Others claimed to have actually tried the trend.
“I tried the a new NyQuil chicken recipe yesterday because I was feeling under the weather and now I feel more sick now :(” wrote @Anthony_pichu.
In response, NyQuil replied: “We’re sorry to hear this. Your safety is our top priority, and we recommend consulting your doctor and discontinuing use. Our products go through substantial tests to be safe when used as directed and with the dosage cup, and we do not endorse inappropriate use of our products.”
According to the FDA, “boiling a medication can make it much more concentrated and change its properties in other ways.”
The agency added that inhaling the medication’s vapors during cooking could cause a surge of the drug to enter one’s body.
“It could also hurt your lungs … Put simply: Someone could take a dangerously high amount of the cough and cold medicine without even realizing it.”
Meanwhile, more people are joining in and poking fun at the toxic challenge online.
“Is that the recommendation for me, or the chicken?” wrote @SigmundFrood in response to the NyQuil warning.
“Why’d they call it nyquil chicken and not robitusserie,” tweeted MSNBC’s Matt Negrin.
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An off-duty NYPD cop has been cleared of charges accusing him of groping a woman at the Hard Rock Cafe in Yankee Stadium earlier this month, Bronx prosecutors said this week.
Officer Julio Alcantara-Rodriguez, 38, said the Sept. 11 incident at the Bronx ballpark has nonetheless left a sour taste in his mouth — plus, he’s still serving a 30-day suspension over it.
“Humiliated,” Alcantara-Rodriguez said in a statement. “I am humiliated by these baseless accusations that were leveled against me when the video surveillance clearly showed that I was completely innocent.
“To be arrested in the precinct where I work every day was beyond demoralizing,” the veteran cop said. “I have been a cop 10 years and I only uphold the law — I don’t break the law.”
According to police, a 52-year-old woman at the trendy ballpark eatery claimed the off-duty cop touched her breasts and had him arrested for forcible touching and sex abuse — with the department suspending him without pay.
But Alcantara-Rodriguez said he was escorting his aunt to the bathroom around 11 p.m. when the woman began screaming at him — although he had not touched her.
Bronx prosecutors agreed and dismissed the case Tuesday.
“A thorough investigation by the Bronx District Attorney’s Office that included speaking to witnesses and reviewing body worn camera footage and video surveillance did not yield any criminal charges in this matter,” the office said in a statement.
Alcantara-Rodriguez’s lawyer, Cary London, said it was a case of mistaken identity.
“Video surveillance pulled that night showed he didn’t do anything wrong,” London said. “Honestly, they should have never arrested him.
“As soon as the DA got the video, it was a quick turnaround,” he added.
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Neptune's rings and moons shine in new JWST photos
Neptune is glowing in a new light in photos taken of the distant planet by the James Webb Space Telescope.
Why it matters: The JWST is designed to catch glimpses of some of the first galaxies to form after the Big Bang, but it could also be transformative for scientists hoping to understand more about the inner-workings of our solar system.
What's happening: The JWST captured Neptune and its moons in infrared light, revealing the planet's rings in amazing detail.
- "In addition to several bright narrow rings, the Webb images clearly show Neptune’s fainter dust bands," NASA said in a statement. "Webb’s extremely stable and precise image quality also permits these very faint rings to be detected so close to Neptune."
- The new photos also show a bright line around the planet that might indicate the atmospheric circulation that makes the planet's winds blow and allows storms to pop up, NASA added.
- The JWST also managed to image seven of Neptune's moons including Triton, which looks like a bright green star but is actually the moon thought to be a captured object from Pluto's part of space.
The big picture: Because of the JWST's sensitivity, the telescope will be able to observe weather on our solar system's planets and moons through the course of the telescope's mission.
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Former Philadelphia cop convicted of on-duty manslaughter in historic trial
A jury on Wednesday convicted former Philadelphia officer Eric Ruch Jr. of voluntary manslaughter and a weapons charge in the city's first murder trial for an on-duty police killing in nearly four decades.
Driving the news: Ruch, 34, was found not guilty of third-degree murder in the 2017 shooting of 25-year-old Dennis Plowden Jr. following a car chase.
The big picture: The last time a murder charge against a Philadelphia officer made it to trial was back in 1984, according to a detailed analysis by the Philadelphia Inquirer. Two other officers have faced manslaughter charges since then, but one was acquitted while the other's case was thrown out.
- Ruch's case is one of three brought against former officers since Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner took office in 2018.
Catch up fast: The jury deliberated for three days before finding Ruch, who is white, guilty of manslaughter and possession of an instrument of crime in the fatal shooting of Plowden, who was Black, on Dec. 27, 2017.
- Prosecutors said during closing arguments that Plowden was unarmed and surrendering when he was shot.
- Ruch took the stand and told jurors he feared for his life when he opened fire, thinking Plowden was reaching for a gun.
Flashback: The city paid out $1.2 million last year to settle a wrongful death lawsuit brought by Plowden's widow, in which she alleged Ruch had a "history of unconstitutional conduct" that the department ignored.
What they're saying: Ruch's attorney David Mischak told Axios they will keep "all options open moving forward."
- "Since my client was dismissed from the police department and formally indicted of charges including murder, the prosecution has vigorously pursued a murder conviction. The verdict reflects that the jury rejected that theory."
Krasner thanked the jury and his team but declined to comment further.
What's next: Ruch is scheduled to be sentenced on Nov. 17.
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Fort Collins City Council supports landmark eligibility ruling for Pobre Pancho's building
The monthslong battle over the fate of the former Pobre Pancho's Mexican restaurant building on North College Avenue may be on the path toward a rare nonconsensual landmark designation in Fort Collins.
Fort Collins City Council struck down an owner-led appeal opposing the building's historic landmark eligibility Tuesday night, voting 4-0 to uphold the Fort Collins Historic Preservation Commission's July 20 determination that the building is eligible for landmark status due to its 53-year legacy as a Hispanic-owned business. Council members Shirley Peel, Kelly Ohlson and Emily Francis were not present Tuesday.
Council's Tuesday decision and findings will be presented as a resolution and voted on by council at its Oct. 4 meeting, marking a major step in the tug of war over the building's future.
How Pobre Pancho's found itself in a historic preservation fight
The restaurant, which moved from its first home on Walnut Street to 1802 N. College Ave. in 1969, was run by Frank Perez and his family until 2020, when a terminal cancer diagnosis led Perez to sell the business and its building to longtime customer Asher Haun that August. Perez died later that year.
Haun — who owns Pobre Pancho's under the name H&H Properties — shuttered the restaurant in March, citing the COVID-19 pandemic, increased food costs and its lack of profits. Shortly after, he confirmed plans to sell the 61-year-old building to Raising Cane's, which wanted to raze it and a neighboring used car dealership and use the sites for a new North College Avenue drive-thru.
The chicken tender chain's development plans kicked off a historic review of the car dealership and restaurant because both buildings were more than 50 years old, and city staff ultimately determined Pobre Pancho's was eligible for landmark status given its longstanding association with the Hispanic business community in Fort Collins.
A Raising Cane's spokesperson has since told the Coloradoan the chain is now looking for new sites to consider for its forthcoming second drive-thru in Fort Collins.
H&H Properties first appealed the property's landmark eligibility determination to the Historic Preservation Commission, which upheld the determination at its July 20 meeting.
On Aug. 3, H&H Properties appealed the commission's decision to City Council, alleging the commission failed to conduct a fair hearing by considering misleading and irrelevant information. H&H Properties' attorney Jeff Cullers also argued that the commission did not properly apply city code in its decision, claiming that the Perez family is not a historic family and that the Pobre Pancho's building is neither historically significant nor has enough integrity to be landmark eligible.
"Surviving the restaurant industry is hard, but that doesn't make the Perez family historic figures," Cullers argued, calling the Historic Preservation Commission's July 20 decision "a real reach."
"It (was) a humble family Mexican restaurant," he added. "It was never more than that."
Preserving our past:After first-of-its-kind designation try last year, here's what's' next for Fort Collins historic preservation
What's next for Pobre Pancho's?
While Mayor Jeni Ardnt and council member Tricia Canonico both voiced concerns about nonconsensual historic preservation efforts, all four members present Tuesday decided the Historic Preservation Commission held a fair hearing this summer, striking down H&H Properties' final appeal attempt.
If confirmed through a resolution at the Oct. 4 council meeting, however, Tuesday's council decision would not make Pobre Pancho's a historic landmark.
Instead, it would mean Pobre Pancho's will be subject to protections listed for historic resources in the city's code. As part of that, a modification of standards would be necessary if H&H Properties wanted to demolish the building or make alterations that don't fit preservation standards, according to Fort Collins' Senior Historic Planner Jim Bertolini.
If confirmed by council next month, the decision would also keep the property's eligibility to become a landmark in place, meaning three community members, a City Council member or the city's Historic Preservation Commission itself can take steps to nominate the building for landmark status.
Frank Perez's daughter Monica Bird told the Coloradoan she plans to take steps to nominate the property for landmark designation, claiming during Tuesday's meeting that her father's restaurant was not only a refuge for Hispanic diners in a largely white Fort Collins, but was also likely the city's oldest minority-owned restaurant run by a single owner.
If designated, the property would be fully protected from exterior alterations, demolition and new construction that doesn't fit under a set of national historic property standards. Its owners would also be eligible for state tax credits, a zero-interest loan program and grants for improvements.
Cullers said he was disappointed by Tuesday's decision but declined to comment further. Haun also declined to comment after Tuesday's meeting. On Wednesday, he declined to comment on whether he planned to oppose any landmark designation efforts of the property should that come to fruition.
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The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) says it will back legal efforts to compel Safaricom, Airtel Kenya and Telkom Kenya to split their telecommunications businesses from mobile money transfer and lending units.
CBK Governor Patrick Njoroge said on Monday a road map for the split of the telcos' business units could be in place by January next year.
"We want to be sure that those sorts of issues are dealt with," said Dr Njoroge in response to a question on the planned reforms from Dagoretti South MP John Kiarie during an induction meeting for MPs in Nairobi.
"To secure the operations on the money side... we are now much further ahead in this thing, hopefully before the end of the year but definitely by January," he said.
Past legal attempts have failed amid mounting concerns that Safaricom has become too big through its dominant market share in voice, mobile data, and mobile money.
The new Kenya Kwanza administration had earlier committed to effecting split Safaricom into several stand-alone business units.
“Effective immediately after forming the government, the administration will seek the break-up of Safaricom Ltd into two distinct and separate business entities with a mobile telecommunications institution under the direct jurisdiction of the Communications Authority and the financial institution firmly under the jurisdiction of the Central Bank of Kenya” reads part of the Kenya Kwanza coalition's manifesto.
Safaricom has consistently rejected the accusations of dominance amid repeated parliamentary petitions for a probe into alleged market abuse by rivals.
Our attempt to get a comment from Safaricom did not bear fruit as the telco had not got back to us by the time of going to press.
Currently, Safaricom controls about 65 per cent market share in voice services.
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An Iranian official had earlier hinted that such measures might be taken out of security concerns. The loss of connectivity will make it more difficult for people to organize protests and share information about the government's rolling crackdown on dissent.
Iran has seen nationwide protests over the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who was detained for allegedly wearing the mandatory Islamic headscarf too loosely. Demonstrators have clashed with police and called for the downfall of the Islamic Republic itself, even as Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi addressed the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday.
The protests continued for a fifth day on Wednesday, including in the capital, Tehran. Police there fired tear gas at protesters who chanted “death to the dictator” and “I will kill the one who killed my sister," according to the semi-official Fars news agency.
London-based rights group Amnesty International said security forces had used batons, birdshot, tear gas, and water cannons to disperse protesters. It reported eight deaths linked to the unrest, including four people killed by security forces. It said hundreds more had been wounded.
Iranian officials have reported three deaths, blaming them on unnamed armed groups.
Witnesses in Iran, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal, said late Wednesday they could no longer access the internet using mobile devices.
“We’re seeing internet service, including mobile data, being blocked in Iran in the past couple of hours,” Doug Madory, director of internet analysis at Kentik, Inc., a network intelligence company, said late Wednesday.
“This is likely an action by the government given the current situation in the country," he said. “I can confirm a near total collapse of internet connectivity for mobile providers in Iran.”
NetBlocks, a London-based group that monitors internet access, had earlier reported widespread disruptions to both Instagram and WhatsApp.
Facebook parent company Meta, which owns both platforms, said it was aware that Iranians were being denied access to internet services. “We hope their right to be online will be reinstated quickly,” it said in a statement.
Earlier on Wednesday, Iran's Telecommunications Minister Isa Zarepour was quoted by state media as saying that certain restrictions might be imposed “due to security issues," without elaborating.
Iran already blocks Facebook, Telegram, Twitter, and YouTube, even though top Iranian officials use public accounts on such platforms. Many Iranians get around the bans using virtual private networks, known as VPNs and proxies.
In a separate development, several official websites, including those for Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the presidency and the Central Bank, were taken down at least briefly as hackers claimed to have launched a cyberattack on state agencies.
Hackers linked to the shadowy Anonymous movement said they targeted other Iranian state agencies, including state TV.
Central Bank spokesman Mostafa Qamarivafa denied that the bank itself was hacked, saying only that the website was “inaccessible” because of an attack on a server that hosts it, in remarks carried by the official IRNA news agency. The website was later restored.
Iran has been the target of several cyberattacks in recent years, many by hackers expressing criticism of its theocracy. Last year, a cyberattack crippled gas stations across the country, creating long lines of angry motorists unable to get subsidized fuel for days. Messages accompanying the attack appeared to refer to the supreme leader.
Amini's death has sparked protests across the country. The police say she died of a heart attack and was not mistreated, but her family has cast doubt on that account, saying she had no previous heart issues and that they were prevented from seeing her body.
In a phone interview with BBC Persian on Wednesday, her father, Amjad Amini, accused authorities of lying about her death. Each time he was asked how he thought she died, the line was mysteriously cut.
The U.N. human rights office says the morality police have stepped up operations in recent months and resorted to more violent methods, including slapping women, beating them with batons, and shoving them into police vehicles.
President Joe Biden, who also spoke at the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, voiced support for the protesters, saying, "we stand with the brave citizens and the brave women of Iran, who right now are demonstrating to secure their basic rights.”
The U.K. also released a statement Wednesday calling for an investigation into Amini's death and for Iran to “respect the right to peaceful assembly.”
Raisi has called for an investigation into Amini’s death. Iranian officials have blamed the protests on unnamed foreign countries that they say are trying to foment unrest.
Iran has recently grappled with waves of protests, mainly over a long-running economic crisis exacerbated by Western sanctions linked to its nuclear program.
The Biden administration and European allies have been working to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear accord, in which Iran curbed its nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions relief. Still, the talks have been deadlocked for months.
In his speech at the U.N., Raisi said Iran is committed to reviving the nuclear agreement but questioned whether it could trust America’s commitment to any accord.
Iran insists its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes. It began ramping up its nuclear activities after President Donald Trump withdrew from the 2015 agreement unilaterally.
Experts say it now likely has enough highly-enriched uranium to make a bomb if it chooses to do so.
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According to a press release announcing the funding, Walla Walla is the only recipient in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, or Alaska to receive funds.
The funds are intended to support activities that prevent, prepare for and respond to coronavirus issues.
"Our local partners will be able to use these resources to boost the housing supply, expand economic opportunities, and lift up American families," said Marcia L. Fudge, HUD Secretary.
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As Kansas City prepares for winter, advocates and city representatives question how prepared it is to help the unhoused population.
Josh Henges, Kansas City’s homelessness prevention coordinator, says there aren’t enough amenities like low barrier shelters with minimal or no entry requirements.
“I would say we're probably 10 years behind where we need to be,” Henges said. "We've got the right people in the right positions, especially in leadership in the nonprofit community to get us up to speed and we can get there quick — but we've got to be competitive.”
Stephanie Boyer, CEO of reStart, the only homeless organization in the city that serves all unhoused populations, believes that the city is also behind others when it comes to caring for populations experiencing homelessness because it hasn’t made affordable housing for extremely low-income people a priority.
“I think there's a lot of great strategies that we can learn from a lot of communities,” said Boyer. “You have to come at it from a multi-pronged approach. Definitely seeing additional federal dollars come to communities, additional federal vouchers come, but we've yet to see the local dollars to housing.”
The Kansas City Council approved a ballot initiative that will be voted on in the Nov. 8 election. If approved, it will invest up to $50 million in housing creation and preservation.
It would be the largest single investment in affordable housing made by the city, and the funding would be used to leverage existing money in the Housing Trust Fund, federal funding as well as housing tax credits to create more housing.
But Boyer said that initiative won’t meet the greatest affordability need in the city. She said most of the rental assistance in the city goes to households that make 30% or less of the family median income in the area, and that the city’s priorities have to focus on where the greatest need is.
According to the U.S. Census American Community Survey, Kansas City had a deficit of more than 27,000 affordable and available housing units priced at 30% of the median income or less from 2016-2020.
“We're still talking a lot in that ballot initiative of funding housing at the 60% of area median income for households,” Boyer said. “And that is absolutely not where we see the greatest need — it’s in that 30% AMI. Those will be the families and children that we are continuing to see (go) from living in cars to now living in camps.”
The city council is set to unveil Zero KC, an initiative to end homelessness in Kansas City, on Thursday. The plan focuses on increasing street outreach presence and lower-barrier shelters and creating an extreme weather plan.
One aspect of the plan is increasing the affordable housing stock and strengthening the rehousing system to include temporary and long-term housing options.
ZeroKC aims to decrease public encampments by connecting people to social services, housing and healthcare instead of sweeping campsites. It also specifies emergency shelter has an intervention while awaiting permanent solutions.
Implementing this strategy is complicated by Missouri’s new law making it a misdemeanor for people experiencing homelessness to sleep on state land. Under the law, the attorney general can sue local governments that don’t enforce laws on unauthorized public camping, sleeping or obstruction of sidewalks.
Henges is confident that if approved, the plan will meet the needs of the unhoused community before winter sets in.
“We've been working hard on this at (the houseless) task force,” Henges said. “The thing now is execution. The city, our partners, nonprofits, we've got to be committed to this plan. If we're committed and it's funded right, I assure you this will work.”
The plan is set to be introduced to the council Thursday during the business session. But Boyer is worried the plan won’t be finalized soon enough.
“We are in late September and we don't have a plan finalized yet,” she said. “I believe there's the goal to try to have the plan finalized by November 1. But we know in the Midwest, we're going from 100 degrees to a 64 (degree) day within a few days, and could quickly go to 30-degree nights very quickly.”
- Josh Henges, homelessness prevention coordinator, Kansas City, Missouri
- Stephanie Boyer, CEO reStart
- Edwin Lowndes, executive director, Housing Authority of KCMO
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After 40 years of service in and out of uniform, Andy Leneweaver will retire from the Washington Emergency Management Division In October 2022. (U.S. National Guard photo by Peter Chang)
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — European Parliament members investigating the use of surveillance spyware by European Union governments sharply criticized Israel on Wednesday for a lack of transparency in allowing the sale of powerful Israeli spyware to European governments that have used it against critics.
The European lawmakers also condemned the Polish government for refusing to meet with them during a fact-finding visit to Warsaw that ended Wednesday.
“It is regrettable and we condemn the fact that the Polish authorities did not want to cooperate with our investigation committee,” Jeroen Lenaers, the head of the delegation, said at a news conference in Warsaw.
“We think it also is a telling sign of the complete lack of importance this government attaches to checks and balances, to democratic scrutiny and to dialog with elected representatives.”
The committee is investigating the use by governments of Israel’s Pegasus spyware and other invasive surveillance tools, viewing such technology as a threat to democracy in the 27-nation bloc.
Pegasus was developed by Israel’s NSO Group and is designed to breach mobile phones and extract vast amounts of information from them, including text messages, passwords, locations and microphone and camera recordings. The company markets the technology as a tool to target criminals but many cases have been discovered worldwide of governments using it against dissidents, journalists and political opponents.
In Europe, cybersleuths have found traces of Pegasus or other spyware in Poland, Hungary, Spain and Greece.
Sophie in ’t Veld, the raporteur of the inquiry, said the committee has learned that the NSO group has sold spyware to 14 EU governments, using export licenses issued by the Israeli government. It learned that NSO stopped selling to two of those, but won’t say which ones. They are widely believed to be Poland and Hungary due to their democratic backsliding.
“Why can we not say with certainty that Poland was one of the two countries of which the contract has been terminated?” she said. “Why is it that NSO is allowed to operate in the European Union, conduct its finances through Luxembourg, sell its products to now 12 member states, products that have been used to violate the rights of European citizens and to attack democracy of the European Union?”
Israel, an ally, should “cooperate with us in the protection of our citizens,” she said.
In ‘t Veld also she would expect most EU countries to use spyware in rare cases, and with oversight, but that others including Poland have used it “against citizens,” making it “a tool for an authoritarian political agenda.”
Greece has been rocked by revelations that Nikos Androulakis, a European Parliament member and head of Greece’s third-largest political party, was put under surveillance last year with Predator spyware when he was running for his PASOK party’s leadership. A financial journalist also was under surveillance.
That follows revelations of spyware use against government critics in Poland and Hungary and against Catalan separatists in Spain.
During their visit, which began Monday, the 10-member delegation met with Poles targeted by the spyware, including a prosecutor and a senator, and other officials including members in the opposition-controlled Senate investigating Pegasus use.
They will publish a report on their findings and recommendations on Nov. 8.
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Staff Sgt. Nahu Ramirez of the U.S. Army Parachute Team lands his parachute for a demonstration jump on the USS Midway in San Diego, California on 21 September, 2022. The U.S. Army Parachute Team is in San Diego in preparation for the Miramar Airshow 24- 25 September. (U.S. Army photo by Megan Hackett)
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CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – The 22News Storm Team has issued a Weather Alert for heavy rain and thunderstorms Thursday morning.
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Dave Jennings' role in college golf almost never was.
The 22 year veteran golf coach at Central Alabama Community College celebrated his retirement with CACC staff this week, but it was his inquiry into saving the golf program that led to the job. Jennings wrote then CACC president Dr. Jim Cornell an email one Sunday evening after learning the golf program was about to be dropped.
“Monday morning, 6:30 a.m., I get an email back from Dr. Cornell asking to meet on Wednesday and we met with three gentlemen who have passed now — Billy Hardy, Hoyt Carlisle and Al Harper,” Jennings said. “We started a steering committee and made sure everybody in Alex City wanted the golf program back.”
The staff of CACC wanted to keep the golf program and so did Alexander City. Cornell would talk Jennings into coming to Alexander City from being a golf pro in Atlanta at the time.
Twenty two years later and CACC athletic director Kathleen Thompson said Jennings’ resume is too long to repeat.
“We are talking about too many district and conference tournament wins to count,” Thompson said. “Two national championships count for sure.”
Thompson said there was an academic national championship team.
“That’s not because of me,” Jennings said.
Jennings knew he had 71 tournament wins and 32 runner ups to go along with the two national championships. It all bettered Jennings’ collegiate golf career.
“I played for Troy right out of high school,” Jennings said. “I left and walked on here at CACC three years later. I played the spring of ‘76 and fall of ‘76. Went through the winter quarter and the coach said I ran out of eligibility. I turned pro and went to Birmingham.”
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Cornell was happy the golf program continued under Jennings.
“I was very fortunate to find Dave,” Cornell said. “He was a former golfer here. He agreed to take over the golf program and has done a fabulous job.”
The CACC program had five national championships before Jennings started, but Cornell said Jennings championed another favorite memory of CACC golf.
“I remember we were the only two year program invited to a tournament,” Cornell said. “We were the only junior college to ever be invited. There were only like 10 teams, the best four year teams around. Going into the last day we were leading the whole tournament. They called us some awful names.”
Jennings has worked for current CACC president Jeff Lynn for about two years. Lynn said a process is underway to hire a new golf coach but said it will be difficult to replace Jennings.
“I go home to my wife that night and tell her, ‘Oh my God. I have got to replace Dave Jennings,’” Lynn said. “That is not an easy task. We are trying to go through that process. I think golf is synonymous with [CACC] because of what you have done. You have touched the lives of all our students. You have changed the lives of so many kids across this state. I’m not dumping you, you are retiring.”
Jennings has plans to relax a little and fish a little more in retirement, but golf won’t be far away. Instead of traveling with a team to tournaments across the country, Jennings will work to grow the game locally.
“I’m going to be doing player development with high school kids,” Jennings said. “Also I will work with some college programs who need help.”
Everyone said they loved Jennings and his jovial attitude and even in saying goodbye to full time coaching, Jennings was still telling jokes.
“Over 22 years, I imagine I have made somebody mad.” Jennings said. “This is a blanket apology for them all. I hope I have never disappointed. It has been a great ride. It has been a lot of fun. Thanks for having me.”
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The Alexander City Chamber of Commerce will soon have new leadership.
The organization has named Jacob Meacham as interim president and CEO following the resignation of Ed Collari earlier this month. The Chamber’s Board of Directors unanimously approved the decision at its bi-monthly board meeting on September 13.
Meacham has served as vice president of business development for the chamber since July 2015 and as executive director of the Lake Martin Innovation Center since August 2021.
Lee Williams, chairman of the Chamber’s board of directors, said he is looking forward to Meacham’s tenure as president and CEO.
“The Board of Directors and Executive Board are thankful for the great leadership, vision and passion of Ed Collari and we are sad to see him leave,” Williams said. “However, we know our Chamber is in all-around excellent shape with its brightest days ahead. We are thankful for Jacob’s willingness and energy to serve as interim president and CEO, and we look forward to starting the hiring process.”
Meacham, an Alexander City-native, has worked closely with the organization for the last seven years, specifically with the president and CEO position in the implementation of the Chamber’s strategic plan and community development initiatives, which include retail business recruitment, a partnership with local education, destination marketing and existing business and entrepreneurial support.
Of the appointment, Meacham said he is excited to serve his hometown in this role.
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“I’m thrilled to have this opportunity to help our Chamber and our community. I’m excited to work with our staff, our board and all our community partners in the common effort of maximizing our potential in Alexander City,” he said.
The Chamber hired Meacham as the vice president of business development in 2015. After helping launch the Lake Martin Innovation Center in January 2017, he was named executive director of the facility in 2021.
According to the Chamber, The Innovation Center serves as the organization’s home and features office suites for new and growing small businesses to advance the Chamber’s goal of fostering entrepreneurs and startups.
In this role, Meacham has overseen the business incubator, co-working space and community business hub, working closely with entrepreneurs in the facility as they grow their businesses and eventually exit for more growth in the community, as well as community businesses and chamber members who utilize the facility’s meeting and networking space.
Meacham will serve as interim president and CEO while the Chamber’s Executive Board and Board of Directors formalize its process for permanently filling the role.
Meacham is a 2004 graduate of Benjamin Russell High School. After attending Central Alabama Community College, he went on to graduate in 2008 from the University of Alabama majoring in public relations and political science.
Meacham will assume the role of Chamber president and CEO following the resignation of Ed Collari, effective Friday, September 23, 2022.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Mortgage rates have jumped, home sales have slumped and credit cards and auto loans have gotten pricier. Savings rates are slightly juicier, though.
As the Federal Reserve has rapidly increased interest rates, many economists say they fear that a recession is inevitable in the coming months — and with it, job losses that could cause hardship for households already hurt worst by inflation.
Wednesday, the Federal Reserve sharply raised its key short-term rate by three-quarters of a point for a third straight time, even as its previous rate increases are being felt by households at all income levels.
The Fed’s latest move has raised its benchmark rate to a range of 3% to 3.25%, the highest level in 14 years. Its steady rate increases have already made it increasingly costly for consumers and businesses to borrow — for homes, autos and other purchases. And more hikes are almost surely coming. Fed officials are expected to signal Wednesday that their benchmark rate could reach as high as 4.5% by early next year.
Here’s what to know:
HOW DOES RAISING INTEREST RATES REDUCE INFLATION?
If one definition of inflation is “ too much money chasing too few goods,” then by making it more expensive to borrow money, the Fed hopes to reduce the amount of money in circulation, eventually lowering prices.
WHICH CONSUMERS ARE MOST AFFECTED?
Anyone borrowing money to make a large purchase, such as a home, car, or large appliance, will take a hit, said Scott Hoyt, an analyst with Moody’s Analytics.
“The new rate pretty dramatically increases your monthly payments and your cost,” he said. “It also affects consumers who have a lot of credit card debt — that will hit right away.”
That said, Hoyt noted that household debt payments, as a proportion of income, remain relatively low, though they have risen lately. So even as borrowing rates steadily rise, many households might not feel a much heavier debt burden immediately.
“I’m not sure interest rates are top of mind for most consumers right now,” Hoyt said. “They seem more worried about groceries and what’s going on at the gas pump. Rates can be something tricky for consumers to wrap their minds around.”
HOW WILL THIS AFFECT CREDIT CARD RATES?
Even before the Fed’s decision Wednesday, credit card borrowing rates have reached their highest level since 1996, according to Bankrate.com, and these will likely continue to rise.
And with inflation raging, there are signs that Americans are increasingly relying on credit cards to help maintain their spending. Total credit card balances have topped $900 billion, according to the Federal Reserve, a record high, though that amount isn’t adjusted for inflation.
John Leer, chief economist at Morning Consult, a survey research firm, said its polling suggests that more Americans are spending down the savings they accumulated during the pandemic and are using credit instead. Eventually, rising rates could make it harder for those households to pay off their debts.
Those who don’t qualify for low-rate credit cards because of weak credit scores are already paying significantly higher interest on their balances, and they’ll continue to.
As rates have risen, zero percent loans marketed as “Buy Now, Pay Later” have also become popular with consumers. Yet longer-term loans of more than four payments that these companies offer are subject to the same increased borrowing rates as credit cards.
For people who have home equity lines of credit or other variable-interest debt, rates will increase by roughly the same amount as the Fed hike, usually within one or two billing cycles. That’s because those rates are based in part on banks’ prime rate, which follows the Fed’s.
WHAT IF I WANT TO BUY A CAR?
Auto loans are at their highest levels since 2012, according to Bankrate.com’s Greg McBride. Rates on new auto loans are likely to go up by nearly as much as the Fed’s rate increase. That could knock some lower-income buyers out of the new-vehicle market, said Jessica Caldwell, executive director at Edmunds.com.
Caldwell added that the entire increase isn’t passed on to consumers; some automakers are subsidizing rates to attract buyers. Bankrate.com says a 60-month new vehicle loan averaged just over 5% last week, up from 3.86% in January. A 48-month used vehicle loan was 5.6%, up from 4.4% in January.
Many lower-income buyers have already been priced out of the new-vehicle market, according to Caldwell. Automakers have been able to get top dollar for their vehicles because demand is high and supply is low. For more than a year, the industry has been grappling with a shortage of computer chips that has slowed factories worldwide.
HOW ARE SAVERS AFFECTED?
The rising returns on high-yield savings accounts and certificates of deposit (CDs) have put them at levels not seen since 2009, which means households may want to boost savings wherever possible. You can also now earn more on bonds and other fixed-income investments.
Though savings, CDs, and money market accounts don’t typically track the Fed’s changes, online banks and others that offer high-yield savings accounts can be exceptions. These institutions typically compete aggressively for depositors. (The catch: They sometimes require significantly high deposits.)
In general, banks tend to capitalize on a higher-rate environment to boost their profits by imposing higher rates on borrowers, without necessarily offering juicer rates to savers.
WILL THIS AFFECT RENTS? HOME OWNERSHIP?
Last week, the average fixed mortgage rate topped 6%, its highest point in 14 years, meaning that rates on home loans are about twice as expensive as they were a year ago.
Mortgage rates don’t always move perfectly in tandem with the Fed increase, instead tracking the expected yield on the 10-year Treasury note. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note has reached nearly 3.6%, its highest level since 2011.
Asking rents are up 11% from last year, said Daryl Fairweather, an economist with the brokerage Redfin. But price growth has slowed, and some renters are moving to more affordable areas.
WILL IT BE EASIER TO FIND A HOUSE IF I’M STILL LOOKING TO BUY?
If you’re financially able to proceed with a home purchase, you’re likely to have more options than at any time in the past year. Sales of both new and existing homes have dropped steadily for months.
HOW HAVE THE RATE HIKES INFLUENCED CRYPTO?
Cryptocurrencies like bitcoin have dropped in value since the Fed began raising rates. So have many previously high-valued technology stocks. Bitcoin has plunged from a peak of about $68,000 to under $20,000.
Higher rates mean that safe assets like Treasuries have become more attractive to investors because their yields have increased. That makes risky assets like technology stocks and cryptocurrencies less attractive, in turn.
Still, bitcoin continues to suffer from problems separate from economic policy. Two major crypto firms have failed, shaking the confidence of crypto investors.
WHAT’S PROMPTING THE RATE INCREASES?
The short answer: Inflation. Over the past year, inflation has clocked in at a painful 8.3%. So-called core prices, which exclude food and energy, also rose faster than expected.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell warned last month that, “our responsibility to deliver price stability is unconditional” — a remark widely interpreted to mean the Fed will fight inflation with rate increases even if it leads to deep job losses or a recession.
The goal is to slow consumer spending, thereby reducing demand for homes, cars and other goods and services, eventually cooling the economy and lowering prices.
Powell acknowledged that aggressively raising interest rates would “bring some pain.”
WHAT ABOUT MY JOB?
Some economists argue that widespread layoffs will be necessary to slow rising prices. One argument is that a tight labor market is fueling wage growth and higher inflation. In August, the economy gained 315,000 jobs. There are roughly two job openings advertised for every unemployed worker.
“Job openings continue to exceed job hires, indicating employers are still struggling to fill vacancies,” noted Odeta Kushi, an economist with First American.
As a result, some argue higher unemployment might cool wage pressures and tame inflation. Research published earlier this month by the Brookings Institution stated that unemployment might have to go as high as 7.5% to reduce inflation to the Fed’s 2% target.
WILL THIS AFFECT STUDENT LOANS?
Borrowers who take out new private student loans should prepare to pay more as as rates increase. The current range for federal loans is between about 5% and 7.5%.
That said, payments on federal student loans are suspended with zero interest until Dec. 31 as part of an emergency measure put in place early in the pandemic. President Joe Biden has also announced some loan forgiveness, of up to $10,000 for most borrowers, and up to $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients.
IS THERE A CHANCE THE RATE HIKES WILL BE REVERSED?
Stock prices rose in August based on hopes that the Fed would reverse course. But it looks increasingly unlikely that rates will come down anytime soon. Economists expect Fed officials to forecast that the key rate could reach 4% by the end of this year. They’re also likely to signal additional increases in 2023, even to 4.5%.
WILL THERE BE A RECESSION?
Short-term rates at these levels will make a recession likelier by increasing the cost of mortgages, car loans, and business loans. While the Fed hopes that higher borrowing costs will slow growth by cooling the hot job market and capping wage growth, the risk is that the Fed could weaken the economy, causing a recession that would produce significant job losses.
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AP Business Writers Christopher Rugaber in Washington, Tom Krisher in Detroit and Damian Troise and Ken Sweet in New York contributed to this report.
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2021 marked the inaugural Holiday Market at Pennington Park in Dadeville. During the festival, area residents showcased a variety of art and home-made crafts which is sure to occur this year as well.
Dadeville art enthusiasts should be excited as the city’s Holiday Arts and Craft Market will return for a second year.
Everything’s Art! and Pennington Park will host the 2nd annual Holiday Arts and Crafts Market October 22, from 10 a.m to 4 p.m.
According to the park’s owners, Kurt and Leigh Pfitzner, the market will feature local arts and crafts, seasonal baked goods and food trucks. Many hand-made creations returning this year include crafts, jewelry and art work.
Vendor applications are now open and can be obtained by sending an email to everythingsartguild12@gmail.com or calling 770-328-2094.
Additional information can also be found on both the Everything’s Art’s and Pennington Park Facebook pages.
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