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Scott Brown formally launches N.H. campaign for SenateBy JOHN QUINN
Union Leader Correspondent
April 10. 2014 9:02PM
PORTSMOUTH — Scott Brown officially threw his hat into the ring on Thursday, seeking to challenge U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen in the fall.
Brown, who made the announcement to a crowd of supporters at the Portsmouth Harborside Hotel Thursday evening, said he plans to fight against big government, over regulation and the complicated laws coming from the establishment in Washington, D.C.
"Let it begin right here in New Hampshire," Brown said.
Former Gov. John H. Sununu said the voters of New Hampshire "have a tremendous responsibility" as one of the battleground states for control of the U.S. Senate.
"We live in interesting times and these are crucial times," Sununu said.
Sununu said Republicans need to win six seats to receive a 51 percent majority and "begin to recover what has been lost over this almost six years."
In 2010, Brown was elected to fill the vacancy left by the late U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., but was defeated by Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. in 2012.
Brown, who recently moved to a Rye home he had owned for some time, joins fellow Republicans who have expressed interest in challenging Shaheen this year.
"She's a very nice person, but she's wrong for the people of New Hampshire," Brown said.
He said Shaheen votes with President Barack Obama almost all of the time and was one of the supporters of the Affordable Care Act.
Brown, who has been campaigning across the state, said he's listened to many people who are nervous or upset about the increased costs in health care.
"The people of New Hampshire have plenty of regrets with this bill," Brown said, adding he intends to return to Washington to repeal Obamacare.
If elected, Brown said he also will vote against any bill with "a big government mindset," fulfill the country's obligation to veterans and support a strong America which is respected by both friend and foes.
"Help us take back our country," Brown said.
After Brown made his announcement, Shaheen's campaign manager Mike Vlacich, released the following statement:
"If Scott Brown gets through the Republican primary, this election will be a choice between someone who cares only about himself and the big corporate interests that fund his campaign and someone who works every day to make a difference for New Hampshire families. New Hampshire voters know Jeanne Shaheen shares their values,"
The filing period for all candidates is June 4-13, the Republican primary is set for Sept. 9 and the general election is scheduled for Nov. 4.


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The U.S. Senate on Tuesday passed the Violence Against Women Act with bipartisan support. If passed by the House of Representatives, this will be the third renewal of the act that was originally passed in 1994 aimed at preventing and alleviating domestic violence.
VAWA has provided funding to train police and prosecutors how to protect victims, to investigate those crimes, and to provide shelters to help victims mend and move on. It has helped reduce the rate of domestic violence by 60 percent.
But passage in the House is not assured as written for a variety of reasons. And, even if it does pass, VAWA will have to go through this same process again in 2018.
Why is that? In fact, why can't we come up with ways to issue laws that will be blanket protections for everyone?
We have come up with special laws to protect black people, the disabled, gays and lesbians, too. Why isn't there a law that simply protects people?
When the Constitution was written, women and blacks were excluded from the group that was allowed to vote. No one at that convention had the foresight to figure out that privilege should be shared.
Then, when women won the right to vote, folks found ways to exclude black people. A special Voting Rights Act had to be written and passed to include the overlooked.
When builders and city managers were designing buildings, roads and sidewalks, none seemed to think about people who may have difficulty maneuvering because of physical limitations. So, much later, Congress had to come up with a correction for that short-sightedness.
What seems to be happening is that lawmakers have been creating protections with themselves in mind. In the past, that has meant just white men. Then they have to go back to make things right for everybody else.
And now, even though VAWA has passed without argument for years, it failed to get enough votes last year when it was up for reauthorization. The reason? Some Congressmen didn't like added provisions that expanded visas for battered immigrants, services for lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgender victims, and a proposal to allow Native American courts to hold non-Natives accountable for violence.
According to ABC News, American Indian women are often unable to get justice against non-tribal aggressors because their court system has no jurisdiction over their assailants. Hispanic women are more likely to be raped than non-Hispanic women, but they are less likely to report the crime because of fear of deportation, retaliation or understanding their rights.
And LGBT domestic violence victims are sometimes turned away from shelters and more than 50 percent are denied orders of protection.
So, instead of giving special inclusions for excluded victims, some members of Congress who are not LGBT, who aren't Native American and who aren't abused immigrants, prefer to kill the act.
Those members are not willing to bring the excluded under their blanket of protection.
Yes, we need the renewal of VAWA and the funding that helps our society confront the horrors of violence against women. And it is because we still need those protections that I don't understand why we can't make the act permanent, or at least extend those protections for decades in the future.
There is precedence for that. The Voting Rights Act is permanent, but a particular section covering oversight of regions with a history of discrimination, has been renewed incrementally since 1965.
In 2006, President George W. Bush signed an extension of that section for 25 years. Before that, it had been renewed and amended some four times.
Rights and protections should not be weapons that the powerful wage against the powerless.
VAWA should be a source of protection for everyone who has been beaten, raped or mentally abused by a current or former intimate partner. Period.
And everyone abused in that manner should have access to the same kind of redress and repair. Period.
Make those provisions a permanent part of our social and legal systems, with no need to renew.
It's about equal rights, not special ones.

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KATONAH, N.Y. -- Volunteers and philanthropic spirits are invited to attend a Volunteer Fair at Caramoor Center for Music & the Arts on Tuesday, May 13, from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
The event will take place in the Music Room of the Rosen House. It is located at 149 Girdle Ridge Road, Katonah.
As a volunteer, patrons are invited to learn about the historic Rosen House and guide visitors on tours. Volunteer ushers attend musical performances and provide audience members with a warm and welcoming experience. Gift shop volunteers can help visitors take home their favorite remembrances.
Here is the schedule for the volunteer fair:
- Caramoor CEO Jeff Haydon welcomes everyone to Caramoor at 2 p.m.
- Get to know all of Caramoor's departments through a "meet and greet" at 2:10 p.m.
- Take a tour of the historic Rosen House at 2:40 p.m.
- Regroup for questions and snack on refreshments at 3 p.m.
- Volunteer Fair ends at 3:30 p.m.
Volunteers help aid the programming at Caramoor and are invited to attend programs at a free or discounted price.
Training is provided for all positions and volunteers of all skill levels are welcome. To learn more about being a Caramoor volunteer and the positions available, click here or call the Box Office at 914-232-1252.
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The Birth of Brunch
Why and how we eat at midday.
"It started right here. This is the beginning of the brunch." This is Gary Greengrass, the owner of the Upper West Side delicatessen Barney Greengrass, known as"The Sturgeon King." A large, bald man who has run his grandfather's deli since 1983, Greengrass is sitting at a Formica table, his eyes trained on the customers coming through the door. At my behest, he is speculating that New York brunch as we know it began here on Amsterdam Avenue at 86th Street, amid pickled herring, whitefish salad, and salmon with eggs and onions. "It sort of evolutionized from here," he says.
Six blocks south, at Sarabeth's at 80th Street, another New York restaurateur was laying down her claim. "I was the original brunch girl," says Sarabeth Levine. "I reactivated the eating of breakfast." Whereas Greengrass specializes in Jewish delicacies, Levine, who opened the first of her five New York locations in 1981, has a menu that tends toward porridges, vegetable and Gruyère frittatas, and pumpkin waffles with sour cream, raisins, pumpkin seeds, and honey. "Before me, you had the local Greek diner or the corner bodega thing," Levine says. "But you didn't have a place to sit down and get hot cereal unless you went to the country."
Sunday brunch is so omnipresent in New York—extending uptown and downtown, upscale and downscale, and, these days, across all days and hours of the week—that its origins are necessarily hazy. Dozens of Manhattan restaurants can lay claim to inventing some part of brunch: You can trace the mythic origins of eggs Benedict, for example, to Delmonico's, a downtown steakhouse, and the Waldorf, in Midtown. But Sunday brunch's formative cauldron may be this otherwise unremarkable six-block stretch of Amsterdam on the Upper West Side. It is here that Sunday brunch acquired its defining characteristics, its casual manners.
Why Sunday? While it's tempting to see brunch as a secular ritual—a slow start for those coming to after nocturnal prowlings—there's an argument that it owes a great deal to American Jewry. Brunch, Gary Greengrass acknowledges, was a kind of Jewish alternative to church. Jewish families, with nothing much to do on Sunday mornings, would take a long, leisurely meal, with traditional foods like bagels, lox, and blintzes. Occasionally, they would take that meal out. (New York blue laws used to prohibit restaurants from being open on Sundays; Greengrass' grandfather, Barney, would gladly pay the fine.) These days, Barney Greengrass hosts its share of Jewish machers: Jerry Seinfeld, David Geffen, Richard Dreyfuss, and novelist Philip Roth, who, according to Gary Greengrass, is a brunch guy but not a Sunday brunch guy.
Barney Greengrass has been serving the same fare since it opened it 1908, but it wasn't until the early 1980s that brunch culture began to develop in New York. At that moment, Amsterdam above 79th Street wasn't an especially ripe piece of real estate. "It was terrible," says Sarabeth Levine. "My husband used to walk me to the bakery at 4:30 in the morning. There was a whole subculture of rats—whole families!" With money still transferring over from the Upper East Side, Amsterdam was a pre-gentrification mix of Columbia professors, artists, and bohemians—the sort of slackery Sunday-morning regulars who frequent brunch now.
It's easy to see brunch as a battle of wills: the restaurateurs, who want to keep the turnstiles moving, vs. the customers, who would have the meal take all afternoon. Brunch parties tend to arrive in increments, dressed like refugees, occasionally hungover, usually after increasingly irate calls from other patrons. ("Are you still in bed? Is someone there with you? Well, bring her, what do I care?") When the party finally coalesces on the sidewalk, they are informed by the host that they will have to wait for a table—both Barney Greengrass and Sarabeth's tend to have endless lines on Sundays. As Nora Ephron, a longtime Upper West Side resident, put it in e-mail the other day, "As far as I can tell, the essential quality of an Upper West Side brunch seems to consist of milling in a large group outside of a restaurant for over an hour."
Perhaps because of this extended preamble, diners feel entitled to a lethargic meal, kibitzing and peeling through the thick Sunday New York Times. To combat this, Barney Greengrass waiters are trained to be as warm as the restaurant's Formica tabletops, adhering to a policy of "get 'em in, get 'em down, get 'em well fed, and get 'em out." (You get your check whether you ask for it or not.) Sarabeth Levine says, "Do I want people in here for two hours? I don't think so! Breakfast isn't this big expensive thing. It's not like going out for dinner, where you sit for two hours, order wine, and run up a $250 bill. We don't want people nursing a muffin for two hours."
Other New York brunch traditions vary depending on taste. Brunch may be alcoholic or nonalcoholic. A general rule holds that if the previous night was well-oiled, a Bloody Mary or mimosa will be necessary. (Whereas if you were sober, you might wish to keep it that way.) Brunch often has a distinctly post-coital vibe. Either one is brunching with one's romantic partner from the previous evening, in which case a louche afterglow hangs in the air, or one is brunching with friends, in which case one is wondering aloud why a louche afterglow isn't hanging in the air.
The other thing about Sunday brunch is that it tends to be generational. In your 20s—mandatory, often twice a weekend. In your 30s and 40s—less so, unless you want to lug around a stroller. Fifties and beyond—again frequent, though starting at an earlier hour. It might as well be breakfast.