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$10.7 billion, two-year state budget officially endorsed by House, Senate budget writersBy GARRY RAYNO
State House Bureau
June 20. 2013 11:56AM
CONCORD – House and Senate budget writers Thursday officially agreed to a new two-year, $10.7 billion budget that includes a path to Medicaid expansion and likely layoffs for state workers.
Budget negotiators reached agreement on the new biennial budget in the wee hours Thursday morning, after three days of talks that often stalled over three issues: Medicaid expansion, layoffs and how much money they had to spend.
The Senate will need a two-thirds majority to approve the budget because the agreement was signed after its noon deadline to complete conference committees established to resolve differences between House and Senate bills.
Senate Finance Committee Chair Chuck Morse, R-Salem, said Senate rules are very clear, they needed to finish their work by noon. He urged Senate leadership to work to ensure the budget is approved.
"Today everybody is a little bit unhappy," Morse said, "but there is more in this budget to be happy about than unhappy."
He said the House and Senate built a strong budget that addresses the needs of the state.
House Finance Chair Mary Jane Wallner, D-Concord, said, "We have come up with what I hope is a good product," noting many of the priorities of Gov. Maggie Hassan's budget proposal such as higher education aid, the mental health and developmentally disabled systems and the Children in Need of Services program are all intact.
Hassan also praised the budget approved by negotiators.
"This bipartisan, fiscally responsible balanced budget agreement represents true and meaningful progress on the priorities that matter to the people of New Hampshire and that are critical for creating good jobs and building a more innovative economic future," Hassan said. "By restoring investments in priorities such as higher education, mental health, economic development, public safety and more, this bipartisan agreement will keep our state moving forward by encouraging innovation and maintaining the health and well-being of our families and communities."
She said the state should move forward with Medicaid expansion that will provide $2.5 billion to state health care providers and said once the commission completes its job, a special session should be held to deal with the issue.
The agreement sets up a Medicaid expansion study commission that must report its findings by Oct. 15, requires a $25 million reduction in personnel costs, funds new state employee contracts and provides more than $100 million to higher education than the last budget.
The budget does not include a 20-cent-per-pack tobacco tax increase and its 12-cent-a-gallon gasoline tax increase approved by the House, but does include $13.5 million in business tax credits passed last year that Hassan and the House wanted delayed for two years.
The House also agreed to the Senate proposed elimination of the tips tax and foregoing a $5 increase in the saltwater fishing tax.
And the compromise budget includes funds for four new charter schools, and reinstating the UNIQUE scholarship program and another program to help nursing homes.
The House and Senate will vote on the budget and other conference committee bills Wednesday.
The new budget goes into effect July 1.
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CONCORD – In the wee hours Thursday morning, House and Senate budget writers agreed on the state's next two-year, $10.7 billion budget, but wrangled at length over the issues that have stalled talks for three days: Medicaid expansion, layoffs and how much money they had to spend.
About 3 a.m. the House and Senate agreed a commission to study the effects of Medicaid expansion would issue a final report by Oct. 15 but did not agree on a date for a special session to act on the group's recommendations.
About an hour earlier the two sides agreed to fewer layoffs.
Budget negotiators did agree to include the $17 million needed to pay for tentative collective bargaining agreements with state employees for the next two years that will give them a 6 percent pay raise over the two years, their first raise in five years.
A Senate counter-proposal on Medicaid expansion did not sit well with the House late in the evening when Senate President Peter Bragdon, R-Milford, said a study commission needs until November to complete its work.
House Finance Committee Chair Mary Jane Wallner, D-Concord, said "I know that when we get ready to do the work, we can get it done and we can get it done in a timely manner."
The House wanted a special session to vote on expansion that is expected to add about 58,000 people to the Medicaid rolls and provide about $2.5 billion in federal money to pay health care providers.
A legislative vote on expansion has been a sticking point with Bragdon, who insisted expansion could not go forward without legislative approval.
But House Speaker Terie Norelli, D-Portsmouth, said she needs a path to Medicaid expansion for the House to pass the budget.
Eventually the Senate and House agreed to a four-and-a-half -month study. Lawmakers could agree to a special session or the governor and executive council could call lawmakers back into session.
Bragdon argued it would be difficult for senators to agree to a special session without knowing what the commission's recommendations would be.
Laying off state employees also was a major issue for negotiators, with the House reluctantly agreeing to some reductions.
The House wanted to increase lapses -- money state departments do not spend although it is appropriated -- by $20 million and Wallner said Gov. Maggie Hassan will work with department heads to meet those goals across the budget and not just in personnel costs as the Senate proposes.
The House wants to use the lapse money to reduce a Senate-approved, $50 million across-the-board reduction in personnel costs, $20 million from state general funds.
But Senate Finance Chair Chuck Morse, R-Salem, said labor costs amount to $37 million. The Senate agreed to fund the new labor agreements and half the across-the-board personnel cuts, but will not agree to additional chagnes, he said.
"To go any further means raising revenues," Morse said, "and the Senate is not going to raise revenues."
The Senate refused to budge on raising revenue estimates and the House agreed to $10 million in general fund reduction in personnel and $25 million in all funds.
Most of the other issues between the House and Senate were resolved by midnight.
The House agreed to eliminate its 20-cent-per-pack tobacco tax increase and its 12-cent-a-gallon gasoline tax increase, while also agreeing not to delay business tax credits passed last year that go into effect July 1.
The House also agreed to the Senate proposed elimination of the tips tax and foregoing a $5 increase in the salt water fishing tax.
The House relented and agreed to include new charter school funding and reinstating the UNIQUE scholarship program and another program to help nursing homes.
The House agreed with the Senate's proposal to use $20 million in general funds for uncompensated care costs for hospitals.
Many of the major items in the House and Senate approved budgets are identical such as $100 million more for higher education and $28 million for the mental health system. Both sides increased the money to offset uncompensated care absorbed by hospitals and other health care providers, but accomplished it in different ways.
Several popular Health and Human Services initiatives -- eliminating the developmentally disabled wait-list for services and the Children in Need of Services program -- receive about the same amount of money in both the House and Senate budgets.
The Senate approved a budget of $10.7 billion, while the House's budget is $11 billion. Both the House's and Senate's plans spend approximately $2.8 billion general fund money.
Budget negotiators faced a noon deadline Thursday to reach an agreement. Negotiators will return at 10 a.m. Thursday morning to finalize the budget package.


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Mark Hayward's City Matters: Smoke-free living divides apartment tenantsBY MARK HAYWARD
New Hampshire Union
June 12. 2013 8:53PM
SMOKING. Our government and our bosses have banned it from airplanes, restaurants, arenas, workplaces. Next in store: the home.
Twelve days ago, the Carpenter Center — a subsidized housing project in downtown Manchester — went smoke-free. After more than a year of warnings, reworded leases and smoking-cessation programs, the residents of the 96 apartments were told to snuff out the butts in their individual apartments as of June 1.
Some residents remain annoyed. Some are pleased. A few — three according to the on-site manager — moved out.
In the hallways, dining room and park benches outside the Carpenter Center, conversations about smoking have raged for months. Two people who most symbolize the debate are Linda Linton and Conrad St. Germain.
Linton was among a determined handful of residents whose complaints about secondhand smoke found a receptive ear at Stewart Property Management. The apartment-management company took over control of Carpenter Center last year and implemented the ban.
Violators get two written warnings before they are kicked out.
"It's great. It smells differently. You don't mind being here. You can walk the hallways and not smell smoke," Linton said.
On the other extreme is Conrad St. Germain.
Two months ago, he moved out of the Carpenter Center to an unsubsidized apartment on Pearl Street.
He said his rent at Carpenter was $600 a month, which included everything but cable TV. Now the 67-year-old splits a $1,300-a-month apartment with his girlfriend. He also pays half the heat and half the utility bill. All so he can smoke 1-1/2 packs of cigarettes a day in his home.
"It's none of their business what I do," said St. Germain, noting that the recent ban also applies to candles and incense. "Pretty soon, they're going to tell you what kind of toilet paper to use, that you can't use scented toilet paper.
"If people don't like my smoke, move away from me, or tell me and I'll move," he said.
One can't help but admire both Linton and St. Germain.
Linton put her social life at risk at the apartment complex. She acknowledges she's made some enemies.
"That's OK," she said. "It's for their health, and they don't even realize it."
And St. Germain won't be pushed around, even though it costs him money, which he doesn't have a lot of.
"I think smokers have rights. If I can't smoke, the hell with it," said St. Germain, who shows a scar on his belly from surgery he had last December to remove cancer from his liver.
Then there is the chorus of everyone else at Carpenter Center. Some gather at the park bench on Franklin Street across from the 12-story building. Despite the supposed dangers of secondhand smoke, smokers and non-smokers mingle freely on a recent warm day.
Mina Collier brings a portable radio that plays country music. She said smoke only bothered her years ago, when a Carpenter Center chain smoker opened his door and smoke wafted into the hallway. Other than that, she's never been bothered by smoke.
"I'm glad I never smoked in my life," Collier said, while worrying that the next thing to be outlawed will be the couple of beers she enjoys.
Jeanette Boisvert said she quit about three months ago and is happy the smoking ban went into effect.
"It's like having a cup of coffee," she said. "Some people get up and they need a cigarette."
Smokers shrug and say they accept having to venture outside to smoke, although it will be more difficult in the winter.
In April, the Manchester Housing and Redevelopment Authority decided to prohibit smoking in the 1,500 units it owns and manages in Manchester. Executive Director Dick Dunfey had long resisted such a move, but he said the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development will inevitably require all public housing to be smoke-free.
"Even though you can view it as an intrusion of privacy in their home, so is smoke," he said. "And there is no way of keeping smoke out of units."
Like Stewart Property, Dunfey said the housing authority will give tenants who violate the no-smoking ban a couple of written warnings before an eviction. Stewart said he initially thought staff would have to police the policy, but residents are happy to turn in violators.
Dunfey stresses that tenants can still smoke, just not in their apartments or on the property.
Housing residents will be able to smoke 25 feet away from entrances. And the Carpenter people have their benches across the street.
However, how long will it be before smoking isn't allowed on the sidewalk benches? The complaint will be about cigarette butt litter, or secondhand smoke hazards for pedestrians, or for the smokers themselves.
As Linton said, "The smokers here are not healthy."
Mark Hayward's City Matters runs Thursdays in the New Hampshire Union Leader and UnionLeader.com. As of late, he has been enjoying a daily cigarette — always outside.

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The Missouri Highway Patrol reports that the number of traffic fatalities in Troop I (Phelps County and neighboring counties) was the exact number it was in 2011 – 43.
The Missouri Highway Patrol reports that the number of traffic fatalities in Troop I (Phelps County and neighboring counties) was the exact number it was in 2011 – 43.
According to Sgt. Dan Crain, Troop I Public Information and Education Officer, the state reported a total of 32 traffic fatalities in 2010.
Statewide, the number of traffic fatalities were up in 2012, with 823 reported deaths from the 786 reported in 2011. The 2012 number was had also increased slightly from the 821 deaths reported in 2010.
The 2012 figure includes the deaths of St. James high school seniors Nikki L. Stanley, 17, and Alexa M. Bartlett, 18, who were killed Dec. 15 in a car crash on Interstate 44.
According to a recent Troop I press release, there were a total of 17 traffic crashes resulting in seven injuries and no fatalities over the Christmas holidays. State troopers also made seven DWI arrests.
During the New Year's holiday, there were 54 traffic crashes, resulting in 18 arrests and no fatalities.
State troopers made four DWI arrests.
According to a statewide Highway Patrol release, there were eight traffic fatalities reported during the New Year's holiday period, with 486 traffic crashes.
A total of 147 injuries were reported in addition to the fatalities.
During the 2011-2012 New Year's holiday, 777 traffic crashes occurred statewide over the New
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Bipartisan condemnation of Auburn lawmaker's wild claims about Boston bombingBy PAT GROSSMITH
New Hampshire Union Leader
April 23. 2013 5:10PM
New Hampshire Republicans on Tuesday quickly distanced themselves from the words of an Auburn legislator who apparently believes the U.S. government is behind the Boston Marathon bombings.
Last Friday, Rep. Stella Tremblay, R-Auburn, posted the following comment on conservative pundit Glenn Beck's Facebook page:
"Just as you said would happen. Top Down, Bottom UP. The Boston Marathon was a Black Ops 'terrorist' attack. One suspect killed, the other one will be too before they even have a chance to speak. Drones and now 'terrorist' attacks by our own Government. Sad day, but a 'wake up' to all of us. First there was a 'suspect' then there wasn't."
Tremblay, reached by telephone Tuesday, said she has a First Amendment right to free speech just like anyone else and quoted Thomas Jefferson as saying, "Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear."
The Republican Party, however, views her comments differently.
"It is hard to believe that just days after the cowardly acts of terror took place in our backyard that Rep. Tremblay would thoroughly discredit herself with her bizarre, embarrassing and unfounded comments," said Matthew Slater, executive director, N.H. Republican State Committee. "New Hampshire Republicans strongly reject her outlandish views and believe that anybody who holds such bizarre beliefs should not be taken seriously."
New Hampshire Democratic Party Communications Director Harrell Kirstein quickly pounced on Rep. Tremblay's post as the latest in a string of Republican outrages.
"How long will it take Republican U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte, Senate Republican Leader Jeb Bradley, and House Republican Leader Gene Chandler to condemn Representative Tremblay's vile and chilling comments?" he asked.
"Tremblay's post is further proof of what can only be called an epidemic of disgusting and shockingly inappropriate behavior by members of the N.H. Republican Party. Yet even for the N.H. Republican Party, which has become synonymous with the Tea Party and radical extremism, Representative Tremblay's claims are a new low. She is an embarrassment to the N.H. House of Representatives, to her constituents, and to the entire state of New Hampshire."
Chandler said Tremblay's comments are so offensive that he was "at a loss for words." They in no way reflect the House leadership or the Republican caucus, he said.
Despite the condemnation, Tremblay was unapologetic. People should question things, she asserted.
"There are too many things going on in this country and nobody questions it," she said.
Tremblay said when the bombings first happened, a Saudi Arabian national, who was wounded in the incident, was named a "person of interest" by the FBI. Investigators obtained a search warrant for his residence and, she said, reporters gathered at a Boston courthouse because they believed the man was going to be arraigned on charges.
But then, she said, the man was released and deported. Tremblay maintains that happened after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and President Obama met with high-placed Saudi officials.
"We are supposed to boldly question what our government does," she said.
And, Tremblay pointed out, everyone has freedom of speech.
"We can say whatever we want, am I correct in this premise or not?" she asked.
Tremblay also made news in March when at a legislative committee hearing she said she believes President Woodrow Wilson agreed with Adolf Hitler's view on race.


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It was way back in early March that Clemson head coach Jack Leggett gushed for the first time about his "very exciting" freshman pitchers. Right-hander Clate Schmidt had just defeated mighty South Carolina in Greenville to even the 2013 series within one of college baseball's best rivalries.
That the No. 17 Tigers have roared into the NCAA tournament national seed conversation with recent starry contributions from young pitchers not including Schmidt goes beyond excitement. It shows sustainable depth likely to last well beyond a season-ending ACC series beginning tonight at No. 9 Florida State.
Clemson's earned run average is 2.88, the lowest since 1992 (2.86).
The starting rotation is made up of sophomore right-hander Daniel Gossett (8-3, 2.36 ERA), freshman left-hander Matthew Crownover (7-1, 1.90) and freshman left-hander Zach Erwin (5-0, 2.88).
Sophomore Patrick Andrews (2.25) and freshmen Jackson Campana (2.45) and Kyle Schnell (2.63) have ERAs below the team average. Schmidt is 3-3 with a 5.26 ERA.
Crownover arrives in Tallahassee, Fla., as the ACC pitcher of the week after 13 shutout innings last week in wins over Maryland and Georgia Southern.
"You know they're good coming in but you wonder how fast they can adapt," Clemson pitching coach Dan Pepicelli said, "because this is a totally different style of pitching, and some people adapt faster than others. We're fortunate to have a good group with pretty good aptitude."
The youth movement has allowed Clemson to bump senior co-captain Scott Firth and his lively fastball (89-95 mph) into the closer role.
"They all have a good future," Leggett said. "They've been playing a prominent role. We have some good young players who can be really good players before it's all over. But they all have to learn things along the way as well."
Leggett said he is not surprised by his impact freshmen, including outfielders Maleeke Gibson and Steven Duggar, and shortstop Tyler Krieger.
"I thought this was going to happen," he said. "This is a good class. We have some good kids coming in next year, too. It's going to make for some good competition. These older guys better keep their heads on a swivel and keep on playing because our goal is to get better. Hopefully, they will see that there is a lot of good competition around them and play at a different level."
Most Clemson observers see Gossett's breakout game as the seven-inning performance against South Carolina in the 2012 Columbia Regional. The 6-0, 180-pound Lyman resident (Byrnes High School) gave up only two runs with eight strikeouts last June. He got a no-decision in a classic 12-inning Gamecocks victory.
Pepicelli says the "jump off" game was a week earlier.
"Daniel pitched against Virginia in the ACC tournament and he was really good (one run in 62/3 innings). He had been getting close, and then that really gave him a lot of confidence. But, yeah, that game at South Carolina was as intense as he's going to find."
It surely helped convince Perfect Game to name Gossett the No. 1 college prospect in South Carolina for the 2014 draft.
Crownover doesn't throw as hard, but has been as consistently effective in a crafty lefty sort of way. Only 14 months after Tommy John surgery, the Ringgold, Ga., native is just getting comfortable.
"I'm about 60 percent," Crownover said after blanking Georgia Southern last week with a career-high eight strikeouts over seven innings. "But I don't worry much about velocity. I don't have to throw 90, just work on strikes and location."
Crownover likes the comparison to one of his favorite pitchers, former Braves ace Tom Glavine, another lanky lefty. Not much argument from Maryland and Georgia Southern players, who combined to hit .159 against Crownover.
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Starburst Lights Up a Galaxy Cluster
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Curiosity Lands on Mars
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The Final Voyage of the Enterprise
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Supernova of a Lifetime
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The Crowder Roughriders had to work hard to reach the 40-win mark, which they accomplished on Saturday by sweeping a Region 16 doubleheader against Three Rivers Community College 10-0 and 9-1 at Roughrider Field.
The Crowder Roughriders had to work hard to reach the 40-win mark, which they accomplished on Saturday by sweeping a Region 16 doubleheader against Three Rivers Community College 10-0 and 9-1 at Roughrider Field.
Not only have the Roughriders (40-10, 23-3 Region 16) worked hard over the course of the season and had that hard work pay off in the win-loss department, but they also worked hard on Friday and Saturday just to even play Saturday's games.
With family and friends in town from all over the country to help celebrate Sophomore Day, the Roughriders turned their determination to play into results, just as they have all season. They somehow worked the playing surface into playing condition and then went to work.
After honoring the sophomore class in a pre-game ceremony, the Roughriders were all business once they stepped between the white lines.
"We talked about that after the games," Roughriders coach Travis Lallemand said. "Getting to 40 wins was a goal we had this season."
Game-one starting pitcher Preston Tarkington brought his best stuff to the mound and held the Raiders to just four hits in the 10-0 shutout.
With the game in a scoreless tie through 3.5 innings, the Roughriders went wild at the plate in the bottom of the fourth as they scored five times thanks to four doubles.
Ty White got the Roughriders on the board when he lined a 1-1 pitch into right center to score Tony Sandifer to make it 1-0. C.J. Webster later laced a two-run double to right and Lucas Feddersen followed with another double to make it 4-0 with one out.
Ryan Lazo followed Feddersen and drove him home with, go figure, another double with two outs to make it 5-0.
Crowder would add four more in the fifth and another in the sixth to end it.
Webster drove in his third and fourth runs of the game with a two-run single to left with no outs to start the rally in the fifth. Feddersen drove in another run on a grounder to second to make it 8-0. Lazo made it 9-0 when he stole third and raced home on a missed catch.
"Two solid starting performances again on the mound," Lallemand said. "We hit the ball hard all day. We scored in bunches but we continued to swing the bats well and played pretty good defense, as well."
Perhaps the biggest highlights of the day came at the conclusion of each game. In game one sophomore Tyler Rusk (6'5, 195 Cole Camp, Mo.), with his father looking on, crushed a pinch-hit double to score the final run as the Roughriders inflicted the mercy rule.
Rusk's teammates mobbed him on the field.
The same could be said for Neosho native Jared Brown, as well. The sophomore's two-run single to right in game two put the Roughriders up 9-1 and sent them to yet another victory.
"That was the perfect ending to both games as far as the spirit fo the day with sophomore day and those guys coming through," Lallemand said. "You couldn't have scripted it any better."
Both games were well-pitched affairs.
"We woke up this morning not really knowing, and came out and worked on the field," Tarkington said. "We got that done because we really wanted to play today. We came out kind of slow at the beginning but we finished up strong and got the offense going. Our defense also played well."
Tarkington said, despite the game being pushed back three hours he prepared the same as he would any day he was taking the mound.
"You've just got to be ready," he said. "You know you're going to play, even if you don't play today you're going to play tomorrow. You'd rather be ready than not ready, you don't want to be on your heels.
"I felt like I had a good day out there. I felt like I was able to command the zone with all four pitches, and C.J. (Webster) did a good job calling the game. He really set me up well."
The Roughriders conclude the series with a pair of games today beginning at 1 p.m. at Roughrider Field.


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Tigersharks swim and Masters Club starts Monday, Jan.7
The Taft Tigersharks Swim Club will be starting their winter training program on Monday, January 7, 2013.
Swim practices will be at the Taft Union High School swimming pool every Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., and continue until May 3.
Fees for the entire session are $125 for the first family member and $85 for each additional member (Monthly payment plans are also available).
Swimming fees can be defrayed by selling Rotary Club Biscuits and Gravy Breakfast tickets.
Swimmers between the ages of 5 – 18 that can complete one full lap (25 yards) without stopping are eligible to join the club. Head Coach Michelle Garner will be back for her 3rd season to lead the Tigersharks.
In addition, the Tigersharks Masters Club will also begin on January 7 for all those adults looking to get in shape for the summer. Fees are $30 a month.
Registration for the winter session will begin at 5:00 p.m. on Monday, January 7 at the TUHS pool.
Swimmers should bring a swimsuit, towel, goggles and warm clothing for after practice.
All interested swimmers and parents can contact the Taft Tigersharks by email (email@example.com) or by phone (Greg Golling 661-301-2125 or April Ashmore 661-330-2499).


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Some venues skirt sprinkler laws with closetsBy MICHAEL COUSINEAU
New Hampshire Sunday News
February 16. 2013 11:52PM
Some businesses offering live entertainment in Manchester and Laconia have installed closets so they could get under the 100-person occupancy threshold that requires sprinklers, according to fire officials.
Laconia Fire Chief Kenneth Erickson said a 2004 state law, passed after the deadly Rhode Island nightclub fire in 2003 claimed 100 lives, wasn't tough enough and allowed "quite a few" businesses to alter their space to avoid sprinklers by shrinking their square footage used to calculate occupancy.
Erickson said the state law also gives fire chiefs "way too much authority" on which establishments should have sprinkler systems.
"You can have a VFW with no sprinklers that occasionally has a wedding and that's legitimate" with a band, he said. "They're not required to have sprinklers, but the guy down the street who does it basically seven days a week" needs to have sprinklers.
"There was no logic to it; if you're going to do it, do it across the board," Erickson said. 'We're gambling on when the fire's going to be."
A recent nightclub fire in Brazil that killed more than 230 put the spotlight back on clubs and fire safety.
Peter Lennon, a senior inspector with the Manchester Fire Department, said around 100 restaurants, bars and clubs that provide live entertainment operate in buildings with sprinklers.
"You can construct your way out of it," Lennon said. "We are aware of instances where that happened in the city, but it's within the code."
Neither department wanted to name specific establishments.
State Deputy Fire Marshal John Raymond said legislators adopted National Fire Protection Agency codes. He said fire chiefs are allowed to evaluate establishments on an individual basis.
"What they're looking for in these clubs is it has to have low-level lighting, loud music and the main thing is not dining; it's a nightclub setting," Raymond said. "It gives latitude to a fire chief to make a determination if it fits into those things."
Raymond said the 2004 changes improved club safety 100 percent because "sprinklers save lives."
In either the Brazil or Rhode Island fires, one or two sprinkler heads might have suppressed the fire and saved lives, Raymond said.
"You wouldn't have head the heavy smoke conditions" that proved so lethal to patrons, he said.
Raymond said he doesn't know whether the Brazil fire will lead to any code changes.
Leonard said the 2004 change in New Hampshire law led "a handful" of Manchester clubs offering music "to close rather than meet the sprinkler requirement."
Laconia's chief said he saw some business owners alter their practices.
"We've got a couple places that were required to put sprinklers in, and they opted not to have live bands," Erickson said.
Manchester inspectors check all restaurants, clubs and bars at least twice a year. They visit clubs during busy nights to check to see whether they exceed their maximum occupancy and to ensure building doors operate outward to allow patrons to escape in a fire, Lennon said.
Costs for sprinkler systems vary widely, based on the building size and whether it is new construction or installed in an existing building, officials said.
Erickson said sprinklers retrofitted with a fire alarm system in his three-story fire station costs less than $70,000.
Raymond said people often don't know how a sprinkler system works.
"Sprinkler heads, they don't all go off," Raymond said. "They go off one by one as they're needed" based on heat in a particular area.
Erickson wants the law more uniform.
"They put the burden on the fire chief and in some towns, you could have a town with an all-volunteer fire department and he doesn't enforce the law," Erickson said.


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The Next 50 Years of Sellouts Starts with You
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While living in Kansas City and reading that Nebraska was expanding Memorial Stadium's north end zone, I couldn't wait to get on a wait list, and lo and behold, I ended up buying two season tickets in row 62 – good seats that my family and friends have enjoyed using. Nearly a decade ago, I thought Memorial Stadium would never expand again, but Nebraska's innovative administrators found a way to develop the east side of the stadium. The expansion not only will accommodate athletic and academic collaborative research, but also 5,500 additional seats, plus another 668 seats in 38 new suites. When the suites were snapped up and club seats were selling briskly, Nebraska fans may have assumed that both club seats and regular seats were already gone.
That is not the case, however, and Nebraska Athletics has purchased radio and television advertising time to set the record straight, so Big Red fans everywhere know that the next 50 years of sellouts can start with you … Joe and Jane Husker Fan. You're the ones who have kept the turnstiles at full throttle over the last half century, and now you can become an extension of the Nebraska brand with season tickets of your own – tickets that can be shared with your family and friends.
Goal: Inform All Fans of a Rare Opportunity
"Our goal is to be sure that all of our fans know about this opportunity to purchase Nebraska football season tickets," said Michael Stephens, NU's assistant athletic director for Marketing. "We don't foresee any stadium expansion in the near future so right now is the best time to get in and be part of the next 50 years of sellouts."
Here's an N-Sider tip of the hat to Marketing for dramatizing a TV ad featuring two Heisman Trophy winners, Johnny Rodgers and Eric Crouch, joining forces with two current players, Taylor Martinez and Kenny Bell. Both Husker stars belong in the same sentence with both Husker legends. With one remaining year of eligibility, Martinez already has surpassed Crouch as Nebraska's career total offensive leader (9,449 yards to 7,915). And if Bell duplicates his first two years of offensive production in his next two years, he will become Nebraska's all-time leader in career pass reception yards. Right now, Johnny the Jet is No. 1 with 2,479 yards and Bell ranks No. 9 with 1,324 yards.
Isn't that enough right there to jump on the Big Red bandwagon and do what almost all Husker season ticketholders do? Keep their precious tickets for forever or at least until Nebraska's Centennial Sellout Celebration in 2062. Who knows? Maybe Oklahoma will come to town that day, just for old time sake.
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The question of "tolerance levels" for genetic contamination of organic crops is coming to the forefront of the organic industry, experts say.
Organic advocates say cross-pollination with genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, is a threat to farmers but they've yet to arrive at a consensus for handling the issue.
"The question is what threshold are we going to accept for genetic contamination?" said Holli Cederholm, general manager of the Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association.
The topic was discussed at a recent meeting of the Organic Seed Alliance in Corvallis, Ore.
In the case of OSGATA, its members have adopted a zero tolerance policy toward GMOs, meaning that any detectable level of contamination is unacceptable.
GMOs are "excluded" from the materials that can be used by organic farmers, but the USDA protocols for growing organic crops focus on farming practices rather than genetic purity.
The National Organic Standards Board, a committee that advises the USDA, is now preparing to discuss potential testing and protocols for such cross-pollination.
The NOSB's next meeting is April 29-May 2 in San Antonio, Texas.
The organic industry should not rush into setting a "tolerance" for genetic contamination without corresponding liability for biotech developers, said Michael Sligh, a director for the Rural Advancement Foundation International-USA.
"The question of tolerance is not just where you set it, but what happens when you cross that threshold and who is responsible for that cost," he said.
In 2012, a biotech advisory committee urged the USDA to consider launching a crop insurance pilot program to compensate farmers harmed by cross-pollination from GMOs.
However, some organic advocates believe the liability burden should be shouldered by the companies that own patents for genetically modified crops.
Another issue is determining the level of GMOs in seeds used by organic farmers.
"We don't know the state of contamination of our seed stocks," said Sligh.
Larger sample sizes of tested seeds can greatly reduce error rates — 10,000 seeds will provide a much greater confidence level than 3,000, said Cederholm.
"There's a huge jump statistically when you look at different sample sizes," she said.
Farmers can improve the reliability of testing by focusing on seeds grown in higher-risk areas, like a field located by a neighbor who grows GMOs, she said.
Aside from genetic contamination, organic advocates expect controversy over several other GMO-related issues.
The upcoming year is likely to be "pivotal" in the public debate over genetic engineering, said George Kimbrell, attorney for the Center for Food Safety, a non-profit group that has battled biotech crops in court.
Labeling will continue to be a high profile issue, with Oregon taking the center stage in 2014, Kimbrell said.
Supporters are trying to get an initiative that would require labeling of GMO ingredients in food products on the ballot for November.
While a similar measure failed in Washington state last year, voter turnout is expected to be much higher in Oregon for the general election, which bodes well for the initiative's chances, he said.
"This will be the national battlefield for labeling," Kimbrell said.
At the same time, Congress and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration are likely to face pressure to pre-empt rules for genetically engineered crops at the state level, he said.
Public awareness of the GMO controversy will probably continue increasing due to USDA recommendations that crops tolerant of the 2,4-D herbicide be deregulated, Kimbrell said.
Likewise, the potential approval of genetically engineered salmon in spring by the FDA would likely cause a big stir, he said.
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Troubled Navy veteran's suicide ends drama in LittletonBy MARK HAYWARD
New Hampshire Union Leader
January 06. 2014 9:36PM
A retired Navy captain with expertise in explosives killed himself outside Littleton's hospital Monday morning, ending more than a year of run-ins with the law that coincided with the breakup of his marriage, police said.
Monre resident Thomas Sitsch, 55, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest, Littleton police said. He shot himself just outside an ambulance bay at the emergency department at Littleton Regional Healthcare, police said.
Federal prosecutors said he was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Sitsch was a former commander of an explosives ordnance disposal group in the Navy. He sat on Combined Joint Task Force Troy, which was established to counter the threats of improvised explosive devices in Iraq, according to reports in The Caledonian Record.
The daily newspaper in St. Johnsbury, Vt., covered his arrest on a federal charge of interstate violation of a protective order, as well as an FBI search of his home, and his arrest by Littleton police on a charge he violated a protective order. In Vermont, a judge barred him from entering the state, where his wife lives, without a good reason.
Littleton Police Chief Paul Smith said Sitsch had been a challenge.
"It's sad that anybody feels they need to take their life to solve their problems, but we're certainly thankful he didn't hurt anyone in the taking of his own life," Smith said.
Once police realized Monday that Sitsch was the suicide victim, they cordoned off the hospital lot where his car was parked. Members of the New Hampshire State Police Explosive Disposal Unit then checked his car and his home on Sunset Drive in Monroe for any explosives, Smith said.
No devices were found in his home or car.
Smith said Sitsch left a note that included dying declarations such as what he wanted done with his organs. He said police will conduct a 24-hour background check to see what Sitsch did leading up to his death. No autopsy has been ordered, he said.
The Caledonian Record reported that Sitsch was the commander of the Explosives Ordnance Disposal Group 2, which was based at the Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base in Virginia. The report makes no mention of overseas service.
In 2009, he was relieved of his command for stealing a pair of shoes from a Navy commissary, and he had been diagnosed with PTSD, according to a footnote in his federal case record, which is available online.
Paul said Sitsch faced a charge in Littleton for violation of protective orders. And according to a Caledonian Record article, a Vermont judge prohibited him from entering the state except for a court appointment or doctor appointment.
Judge Robert Bent did so after Sitsch's estranged wife, who lives in Vermont, said Sitsch's clandestine and covert military skills far surpassed that of local police. The paper also reported that the FBI discovered blasting caps, booby traps, time fuses, rifles and handguns when they searched his home last April.
The ordnance was illegal to possess, and a protective order prohibited Sitsch from possessing the firearms. Federal prosecutors in Vermont asked that he be jailed, the newspaper reported, but a federal magistrate released Sitsch on his own recognizance and placed restrictions on him, including a prohibition from entering Vermont.
Last February, a fire at the Sitsch family's Monroe home destroyed the garage, several vehicles and a room above the garage the Sitsches had used to home-school children.
Four weeks ago, Sitsch was arrested Dec. 12 for shoplifting at a Walmart in Fredericksburg, Va., according to his federal court record. He told Fredericksburg police he was a kleptomaniac.


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Another View - Scott Brown: We can make energy affordable for NH familiesSCOTT BROWN
June 13. 2014 12:15AM
I grew up in a house with a single mother who was always watching every dime she spent, working two jobs to keep food on the table for me and my sister. When you are struggling to pay the bills and make ends meet, you watch your expenses like a hawk. For those of us who live in the Northeast, a big expense is the price of energy, whether to heat our homes, run our businesses or fuel our cars and trucks.
Making energy affordable is a priority of my Senate campaign. Last week, I introduced my plan to increase supply and reduce costs using an "all-of-the-above," comprehensive approach.
I took my plan on the road and talked to motorists at gas stations, business owners and homeowners around the state, and everyone is looking for relief.
Pump prices are climbing, closing in on $4 a gallon. Just to gas up my truck costs $65. But it doesn't end there. Have you checked your oil bill lately? To fill the tank can cost up to $1,000, and people are doing that four-to-six times a year. This is a case where the old law of supply and demand is at work. If we can increase the supply of energy from all sources, we can lower prices.
Unfortunately, my Democratic opponent, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, has a very different view when it comes to energy.
She wants to focus almost solely on renewable energy and discourage people from using carbon-based fuels like the gas we put in our cars and the fuel we use to heat our homes. In order to do that, she wants to artificially raise the price of carbon.
Last year, Sen. Shaheen voted to put a price on carbon, which would have created a new national tax on energy.
Sen. Shaheen's energy tax would have a disastrous effect on our economy and cause rate increases that hurt families and small businesses alike.
According to the non-partisan National Association of Manufacturers, a national energy tax could eliminate 10,000 New Hampshire jobs, increase the price of electricity and natural gas, and force prices at the pump to go up as much as another 20 cents per gallon.
With gas and energy prices already soaring, I respectfully disagree with Sen. Shaheen's punitive approach, which ends up hurting people and hurting the economy. Of course, we should do what we can to encourage the development of renewable energy technology, including solar, biofuels and geothermal, but we must also proceed with the extraction of more oil from shale fields in the United States, and continue to expand the supply of clean natural gas and safe nuclear energy.
No discussion of energy these days can avoid the subject of the Keystone Pipeline. I am a big supporter of the project and the union and non-union jobs it will bring. It's time for President Obama to get off the dime and allow this project to move forward.
Last week, President Obama gave us another 1,000 pages of regulation from the Environmental Protection Agency.
No one knows how much it's going to ultimately cost, but it looks like another case of all pain, no gain. My plan outlines a strict cost-benefit analysis for this type of out-of-touch rule making so we can better understand the real-world economic consequences of all the red tape and new taxes streaming out of Washington.
The Obama-Shaheen approach to energy is not working. New Hampshire families are ready for a realistic plan that will make it easier for them to pay the bills every month and maybe even set aside some money for retirement and college tuition.
Every dollar that mom saves at the pump or in a home heating bill is a dollar that she can use to build a better life for her children.
By focusing on a true all-of-the-above energy plan that increases our domestic production and reins in the Washington bureaucrats, we can make energy more affordable, create new good-paying jobs, and improve our state and our nation's economy.
Scott Brown, a Republican of Rye, is running for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination.


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Two men with guns rob Goffstown service stationStaff report
June 28. 2013 10:35PM
Police are looking for two hooded men who held up at a Goffstown service station at gunpoint Thursday night.
The men walked in to the Mobil station at 566 Mast Road about 11 a.m. brandishing firearms and demanding money, police said. They left through the rear door with an undisclosed amount of cash.
Both robbers are described as Hispanic males who wore dark gray hooded sweatshirts.
One is about 6 feet tall, 170 pounds, skinny, and wore blue jeans and white sneakers. The other is about 5 feet, 5 inches to 5 feet, 7 inches, about 175 pounds, and wore gray sweat pants and white sneakers.
Police ask anyone with information to call them at 497-4858.


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NHIAA Roundup: Souhegan's Cinque lifts Sabers over Coe-Brown
May 04. 2013 1:28AM
Souhegan of Amherst senior lefty Connor Cinque pitched a complete game to lead the Sabers to a 4-2 win over Coe-Brown in Division II baseball on Friday in Northwood. Cinque walked two, struck out four and allowed three hits in seven innings. Peter Brennan was 2-for-3 with two RBIs for the Sabers (4-5). Brennan Riley struck out six, walked five and allowed five hits for Coe-Brown (3-6), and he homered in the seventh to provide one of the two Bears runs.
Central 6, Memorial 3: Dario Vitagliano struck out five in 4 2/3 innings to help Central prevail at Gill Stadium. Collin Duffley, Scott Robidoux and Tim Tetreault each had two hits for the Little Green (2-8). Memorial dropped to 2-7.
Timberlane 12, Salem 4: The top four batters in the Owls' lineup drove in nine runs combined. Jameson Collins drove in three, while Josh David, Ryan McCarthy and Jake Cameron drove in two for Timberlane (4-7). Nate Baker also drove home two for the winners. Jake White had two hits and an RBI for Salem (4-7).
Plymouth 5, John Stark 4: James Henry scored two runs, including the game-tying run, as the Generals fell in walk-off fashion. David Nelson went 3-for-4 with a run scored and RBI for Stark. Josh Colby struck out five in 4 1/3 innings of work, and had a double, an RBI and a run scored.
Berlin 5, Newfound 4: Trevor Leborge went the distance for the Mountaineers, striking out four and walking two while giving up nine hits and four earned runs. Ryan Richard went 3-for-3, scoring two runs, while Jeff O'Neil went 2-for-3. Zach Desrochers allowed five runs, two earned, in six innings for the Bears. Zach Desrochers went 2-for-4 with two doubles and two runs scored. Jacob Dearborn was 2-for-4 and Anthony Talamini was 2-for-2.
Pembroke 7, Lebanon 5: Freshman Alex Martinez earned his first varsity win with 5 2/3 strong innings, allowing five runs on four hits. The Pembroke (7-2) offense was paced by Seth Gonya, who went 3-for-4 with a run, two stolen bases and two RBIs. Shane St. Onge went 2-for-4 with a triple and two runs scored.
Derryfield 11, Hinsdale 2: Kyle Slevira pitched a complete game and struck out nine to help Derryfield raise its Division IV record to 5-3. Sophomore Max Hatheway collected three hits and four RBIs. Dom Capadonna and Parker Blaisdell each had two hits.
Hanover 10, Hollis/Brookline 7: Cyrus Rothwell-Ferraris collected four hits, including a double and a triple, and drove in four runs to help Hanover hand Hollis/Brookline its first loss. The Cavaliers entered the game as the only unbeaten baseball team in the state. Joe Cravero struck out eight in five innings and also had four RBIs for Hanover.
Portsmouth Christian 6, Epping 3: Wes Tobin went 3-for-4 with three RBIs and got the win on the mound with five innings of three-hit, three-run ball. He struck out nine. John Boomhower went 2-for-3 for Epping. Nate Cameron took the loss for the Blue Devils, allowing all six runs, only two of which were earned, in a complete-game effort. Epping was undone by four errors.
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Trinity 6, Windham 4: Katie Pelton struck out eight Windham batters and allowed seven hits in six-plus innings. Nicole Stephen had the big for Trinity (6-3), a run-scoring triple in the fifth inning. Trinity scored five times in the fifth aided by three Windham errors. Sidney Elithorpe had two hits and three RBIs. Rachel Vafides allowed five hits and three earned runs for Windham (8-3). Cailyn Costa tripled and Vafides doubled for the Lady Jags' only extra-base hits.
Bishop Guertin 8, Merrimack 5: Sophomore Holly Kathios struck out seven in seven innings, and went 3-for-4 with a single, double and triple, three runs scored, and an RBI for the Cardinals. Senior Kenzie McCabe went 3-for-4 with a run scored and an RBI for BG.
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Derryfield 13, Trinity 3: Arthur Krogman had four goals and two assists, and Matt Milne chipped in with three goals and three assists as Derryfield improved to 9-0. Grant Alenson added two goals and two assist for the Cougars, who got 13 saves from Mitch Green. Ben Beale made 11 saves for Trinity (4-4), who got two goals from Tyler Tambouris and a goal and assist from Will Shepard.
Bedford 17, Winnacunnet 3: Dave Phelps led the 10-0 Bulldogs, with five goals and three assists. Tyler Sullivan added four goals and an assist and Jason Campbell had two goals and three assists. Bedford extended its winning streak to 29 games.
Pelham 9, John Stark 4: Brody Fredricks led John Stark with three goals while James Smugurski had the other goal and an assist for the Generals (4-4). Matt Richard chipped in two assists and Colbey Decotis had one.
Pinkerton 14, Souhegan 7: Josh Gallant scored four goals and Todd Billetter finished with three as the Astros raised their Division I record to 9-0. Blake Burnley led Souhegan (4-4) with four goals.
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Londonderry 23, Man. Memorial 2: Julia Wasserman scored five goals and Chelsea Lewis added three goals and four assists for the Lancers.
Concord 18, Nashua North 15, OT: Adelaide Bouchard and Mary Annon scored five goals each for the Tide. Lizzie Donich made 10 saves in the win. Kara Upton had six goals and an assist and Ellie Shuman scored six for North.
Pinkerton 12, Hollis/Brookline 6: Kennedy Daziel had four goals and three assists to lead the Astros (9-1). Sierra Sanchez added three goals.
Bishop Guertin 16, Keene 3: Callie Santos scored five goals and Nicole Pettiglio and Kristin Cameron each finished with four to lead the BG offense. Ellen Malloy scored two goals and Courtney Lapierre made six saves for Keene (2-5).


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Wheat futures rose the most since November after the U.S. Department of Agriculture said stockpiles will be lower than analysts expected and that less winter grain was planted than forecast.
Inventories on May 31 will total 716 million bushels, the USDA said in a report today. That's down from the 754 million bushels forecast in December and the 741 million projected by analysts surveyed by Bloomberg News. U.S. winter plantings totaled 41.8 million acres, less than the 42.6 million forecast in the survey.
"The stocks number was bullish, and that's where all the buying is coming from," Jamey Kohake, a broker and branch manager at Paragon Investments in Silver Lake, Kansas, said by telephone. The lower-than-expected acreage "reiterated that there's a downside limit in wheat."
Wheat futures for March delivery jumped 2.6 percent to $7.64 a bushel at 11:31 a.m. on the Chicago Board of Trade, heading for the biggest gain since Nov. 27. The price through yesterday dropped 4.3 percent this month.
In the U.S., wheat is the fourth-largest crop, valued at $14.4 billion in 2011, behind corn, soybeans and hay, government data show.
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To My Republican Friends (and to the President)
After four years of horrendous behavior from one party and lack of backbone from another, President Obama emerges with a clear mandate for change.
As a nation, we must recognize that any directive from either party that willfully hurts the nation in order to fulfill a partisan agenda is treason.
To my Republican friends: the level of uncivil discourse coming from you in the name of your party was so severe that, out of over 100 of you, only one person was able to continue speaking about politics without denying objective truth. I live for good political debate, and what I got from all but one of you was sophomoric and paranoid. All but one.
Treason committed by Republican leadership (both in government and in the media) does not include the nonsensical resistance to the First Lady's call for a healthier diet. Anti-environment legislation endangers the lives of Americans, but in itself is not treasonous, and anti-science is a threat to national security in the long term (as well as just plain stupid) but is not quite treason. Harassment of women going to Planned Parenthood is thuggish, but not treason, as is legislation aimed at taking away a woman's access to birth control and her right to choose. Booing an American soldier because he was brave enough to say on national television that he is Gay was not treason, but it was unpatriotic. Labeling the rich as "job creators" is un-Christian (there is only one Creator, and his Son was very critical of the rich) but not treasonous.
Here is where treason sets in: spreading the doctrine that the USA is a republic, not a democracy (in other words, seeking to undermine the principle of citizen ownership of government, including citizens who are poor). Applauding legislative attempts to suppress voter turnout while organizations within your party actively engaged in voter fraud and voter intimidation. Failing to enact real Wall Street reform might not seem treasonous at face value, but after seeing the devastation done to this country in 2008, letting bankers play games with the lifeblood of the economy is an immediate threat to US security and world stability.
It is also treasonous when you refuse to acknowledge when the President does something for the benefit of the country such as the assassination of Bin Laden, then blame him for a so-called "apology tour" and the deaths of our people in Benghazi. The level of hatred for the man has at that point gone beyond love of country. In other words, you are willing to hurt us all by undermining national unity and international standing in order to further a partisan agenda. Calling the President a communist, atheist, Muslim etc. reflects a serious disconnect with fact and common civility that such discourse must be recognized as a call for anarchy and is therefore treasonous as well.
Republican leadership committed the biggest treason of all when they made attacking Obama their first priority rather than helping our country out of the Great Recession. The President was correct in framing the vote as revenge, as acceptable response to a party willing to reduce the country to shambles in order to make him look bad.
My Republican friends, all of you except for one bought into some portion of treason. Many of you rejected the racism, sexism and homophobia running rampant among your ranks, but did not call it out publicly, all the while finding nothing but fault with Obama. More than once, I asked you to prove to me you were reasonable and worthy debaters, to affirm that Obama is a decent American who loves his country, but that you respectfully disagree with his policies. Only one of you, a Born Again Christian who does his best to live by the Gospel, could discuss politics in good faith.
My advice to you is to do some soul searching. Abandon your unreasonable hate. Punish those in your party who continue to foment it. Call them out. America is healthier when both parties clash in honest debate, so bring the GOP back to America, but to America as it is rather than how they insist it should be.
Now, let's engage in meaningful debate.
To our President and Congress: there is now no excuse for real reform. Here is my wish list:
1. Let the Bush tax cuts for those making over $500,000 a year expire.
2. The super-rich should pay more, much more. They and their businesses depend on a country with a strong infrastructure and an educated workforce. Corporations use the roads and our collective brainpower much more than the average citizen, so it is in their best interest in the long term to invest through taxes. Unfortunately, too many of them only see as far as their bank accounts.
3. Invest in education as an important facet of national security.
4. Let's get healthcare on track for single-payer and public option.
5. Enforce greater protections for the environment and for food/air/water quality. The proper job of government is to be a watchdog, so give the dog some teeth.
6. Forget cap and trade - the entire project reeks of the potential for corruption. Instead, create incentives for cleaner energy by increasing support for businesses that produce it. Having solar panels in every home should be a national priority, if only to ensure national security as fossil fuels run out.
7. Wall Street reform: there is no excuse not to ban the multitude of clever rip-offs that are part and parcel of derivative trading.
8. End all incentives for sheltering money in tax havens. Stop rewarding companies that send jobs overseas. Take away the false construct called "blind trust" - we all know it is a con.
9. Overturn Citizens United. Come up with theoretical constructs for economic entities that do not include personhood for corporations.
10. Phase out affirmative action based on race or ethnicity. Base such programs solely on economic hardship - racial and ethnic discrepancies will be addressed appropriately if poverty is the baseline. There is also nothing wrong with aiding impoverished communities as well as individuals.
11. Recognize undocumented Americans as potential citizens rather than criminals.
12. Enact real firearms reform. Severely restrict access to all automatic and semi-automatic assault rifles, and ban ammo clips that hold more than 10 rounds. Regulate gun shows.
13. Push for greater restrictions on exotic animal ownership. No private citizen should own a Bengal tiger or any other endangered species.
14. Restrict tax exemptions for religious institutions. If they are charitable, make tax-exempt status contingent on how they aid all Americans, not just their own members.
15. Begin a significant reduction on military spending that does not include slashing troop numbers or benefits. The greatest strength of the US Armed Forces is not the high-tech toys - it is our people in uniform. Emphasize the dual role of military personnel as defenders of the country and first responders for natural disasters. End the war in Afghanistan ASAP.
16. Allow all citizens 18 and older to vote, even convicted felons.
17. End the war on drugs.
18. Begin phasing out private prisons.
19. Keep up the good work concerning LGBT rights.


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Even as Gov. Jay Nixon continues to crisscross Missouri seeking support for his plan to strengthen Medicaid in the state, another local entity has announced its support of the endeavor.
Even as Gov. Jay Nixon continues to crisscross Missouri seeking support for his plan to strengthen Medicaid in the state, another local entity has announced its support of the endeavor.
The Northeast Missouri Economic Development Council Board of Directors has announced it is supporting efforts to expand Medicaid.
"This program is economically beneficial to our medical industry in Northeast Missouri, employers, the working poor, and brings Missouri tax dollars back to our state" said George Walley, executive director of the local economic development organization, in an e-mailed statement. "Our first class regional medical services providers have invested heavily in the latest technology, professional staff and modern facilities. Our citizenry has donated countless hours and money to help build the medical services network we enjoy in our region which truly is a measure of our quality of life. We acknowledge the challenging times we face nationally on the issue of entitlements and deficits. However, we cannot sit idly by and watch what we have built spiral backward. Additionally, the current lack of mental health services and options in the entire Northeast region of our state is becoming critical and wastes the already limited resources of our dedicated law enforcement professionals and leaves our communities with no solutions and with less security.
"We have a duty to preserve, enhance and otherwise protect these jobs and services which affect our quality of life until such a time that we the people our nation find a better solution."
In contrast to the economic development council, which voted to support the governor's proposed expansion of Medicaid in the state, the Hannibal Area Chamber of Commerce recently voted to support Medicaid expansion without supporting a specific plan offered by either Democrats or Republicans.
"We want to promote whatever is best for Hannibal Regional Hospital," said Paul Ewert, president-elect of the Hannibal chamber, earlier this week.


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May 03. 2013 11:48PM
College Sports Roundup: Local softball teams ousted
Friday was a tough day for the locals in the Little East Conference softball tournament in Mansfield, Conn.
Eastern Connecticut scored all of its runs in its final two at-bats and went on to a 7-3 victory over Keene State. Meanwhile, Western Connecticut scored six unearned runs and beat Plymouth State, 8-2. The Panthers were then eliminated by Rhode Island College, 9-1.
In the KSC game, freshman pitcher Mariah Crisp of Greenland took a one-hit shutout into the sixth inning before Eastern rallied. The Warriors scored three runs in the sixth, then added four more in the seventh. Anna Glassman and Nicole Dupuis homered for the Owls (21-16), who were eliminated in two straight games.
Plymouth State had beaten RIC on Thursday. PSU finished 25-17.
New Haven 2, Southern New Hampshire 1:
The No. 1-seeded Penmen were ousted in the semifinals of the Northeast-10 tournament at Penmen Field.
The Chargers cracked two solo homers off Ali Maloof, who went the distance for SNHU (29-15).
New Haven will play Adelphi Saturday at Penmen Field in the league title game.


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Cheers to the NHL's return, jeers to the Manti Te'o mess
Cheers to the NHL season getting underway
Cheers for the National Hockey League starting up their season this weekend. Yeah, it's going to be half of what it usually is, but it's better than nothing, right? It'll be nice for sports fans in Minnesota to root for a pro team between the end of the Vikings' season and the start of spring training for the Twins.
On Saturday, Wild fans who have been waiting since the Fourth of July for the season to start will finally get to exercise their enthusiasm. Why? Because of the signings of two highly-touted players, Ryan Suter and Zach Parise. The addition of Parise will most likely spur more regional hockey fans to tune into the Wild's season. Parise was adored while he was playing for the University of North Dakota, and everyone knows how much UND hockey is loved in these parts. With Parise on the Wild team, he gives these fans a "hometown hero" of sorts to cheer for.
Actually, it will just be a fun time all around. Hooray for hockey!
– Amanda Wagner, Times' intern
Jeers to whatever in the heck is going on with Manti Te'o
It turns out that for some people you're never too old to have imaginary friends, or for that matter, made up girlfriends.
With no surprise, "Te'o" quickly made it to the list of trending terms on Twitter Wednesday night, shortly after word got out about the hoax involving the death of Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o's "girlfriend." The allegations against "Te'o" first came out on the website Deadspin, accusing the Notre Dame star of carrying out a made up story of a long-distance relationship he was in with a student from Stanford University who Te'o claimed died of leukemia near the time the Fighting Irish took on Michigan State.
Te'o, with the support of Notre Dame's Athletic Department, is claiming he was the victim of a sick joke that he is now being humiliated by. True, many people are tricked into fake relationships that start online everyday. But how naive do you have to be to start a relationship with someone who you've never seen in person or over a webcam? Either way, if Te'o made up his nonexistent girlfriend or not, this is a lose lose situation for him, and we can guarantee that he will soon be changing his Facebook relationship status to "It's Complicated."
– Katie Davidson, student staff writer


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Josh, you can be MC Gusto.
And you can prove that how? Maybe PhosZoe knows something you don't.
1. Dr. Dre (not because he's the greatest rapper, but when you take his beats + The Chronic + NWA + World Class Wrecking crew) he is just the man.2. Tupac3. Biggie4. Nas5. Tie - Jay Z, Rakim EminemHonorable mention....Whodini, Run DMC, UTFO Crew, Kurtis BlowTo soon to tell50The GameJadakissI still can't believe ANASTASIOS listens to the junk!!! LOL
Actually, it's in the hands of the original poster to prove that Mike D is Neil Diamond's son, but I hope this item from the Beastie Boys faq puts this ridiculous assertion to rest.
Whatever. We are discussing the artistic merit of such albums. Note that I said it was unfortunate the amount of profanity used, etc. I actually don't really listen to rap music all that much anymore anyway, because I recognize that it can be spiritually dangerous. Your last line--my "response"--is actually quite ridiculous and shows you don't really care what my response would be so I give up and won't be saying anything else.Anastasios
This is exactly what Bible-belt fundamentalists said about jazz, blues and then rock music. This does not stem from the music itself but the racial stereotypes associated with the music.
There is no way the Beastie Boy could ever be "gangsta" Mike D. AKA Michael Diamond is the son of Neil Diamond. Also, since when is Rancid punk? If the band was born post 1985 it's post punk. The actual scene died long before you were born.
The most respected group seems to be Niggers With Attitudes (NWA). Either that or Dre, who probably had the largest hand in turning countless thousands of suburban Christian kids into sexed-up, drug-taking, gangster thug-wanna-bes. Anyone who thinks I'm exaggerating probably didn't go to school in a mostly white, suburban or rural, high school in the 1990's.This thread is enough to make you question why people even participate at discussion fora.PS. Isn't it a bit hypocritical to sit around talking about NWA when the forum censors the first word in that name (in the singular at least). I get the feeling that Robert is changing that to include the plural as we speak though, so if "I'm a racist" appears in the above post, that will be the reason. Guess it's part of the uniform look the OC.net wants to be famed for You better not mispell a word in a thread title... but hey, we'll insert words about you being a racist all we want if you say w i g g e r or something
Guess it's part of the uniform look the OC.net wants to be famed for You better not mispell a word in a thread title... but hey, we'll insert words about you being a racist all we want if you say w i g g e r or something
The most respected group seems to be Niggers With Attitudes (NWA).
How can the 'hip-hop lifestyle' be reconciled with Orthodoxy? I really just cannot understand that. The people I knew who were into that sold drugs, drove around drunk and high all afternoon, and were in and out of jail for dumb stuff a lot. How can it be good to promote such a lifestyle.Anastasios I am interested in your opinion and sorry for the joke.
WHAT !!!!!!! NO LOVE FOR ICE -T!!!!! THE ORIGINAL GANGTER?? Just kiddin.Though ther are a FEW positive , consious artist in the biz today, I too left behind the rap thing (see St. Moses prior to his convertion) . It stimulates the passions ( for me at least) of lust and hate too much .I also find it to largely offencive to Mother of God and my daughter. I lack the ability to separate the music from life. Now when I wake up I hear, Glory to God, " AS MANY HAVE BEEN BAPTISTED INTO CHRIST.." instead of " Kill those niggas..blah, blah ,blah.........fool them bitches..blah, blah, blah,... it may seem harmless, but the road to hell is paved with good intentions. +++ MOSES
There is a huge difference between the "gangster lifestyle" and good hip-hop. Most of the hip-hop music that I listen to does not involve gangster themes. Listen to some Grits for some Christian hip-hop.
Thanks for backing me up Paradosis and I do remember seeing a lot of rich white kids acting gangsta back when Snoop Dogg was in. Of course we all thought they looked like idiots whenever we would see them driving by in expensive cars with their stereos blaring. It makes me wonder what on earth was going on in their minds and how they could possibly relate to any of the lyrics. I don't think too many rich kids have to worry about getting beatin up for walking around at night.
As for the Hip-Hop... sorry to disappoint... but I love it. Top 5 of all time..1. Dr. Dre (not because he's the greatest rapper, but when you take his beats + The Chronic + NWA + World Class Wrecking crew) he is just the man.2. Tupac3. Biggie4. Nas5. Tie - Jay Z, Rakim Eminem
My body is ready.
Yes, I do real Theology
I am the Antichrist LOL just kidding
Eis polla eti, Mor Ephrem.
just be careful,brother, because the words and the music WILL influence your thoughts , your heart , and your soul.
As for how contemporary music excites the passions, so will riding in an roller coaster, holding a girl's hand, or almost anything worth enjoying. Listening to Mozart excites the passions. Being an Orthodox Christian does not mean having to live in a cave.
I listen to the Beastie Boys, who are essentially a comedy-rap group, I listen to Christian hip-hop groups who focus on Christ-centered themes, and the Roots who rap about political/racial issues.
And the things that I now say come from first hand experience ( convert with a "questionable" past...me ) just be careful,brother, because the words and the music WILL influence your thoughts , your heart , and your soul.
I have no reason to question the wisdom of the Fathers.
Oh, yes. I believe it was Augustine who once stated, "The good Christian should beware the hip-hop artist and all those who bust rhymes and scratch turntables. The danger already exists that the rappers have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of hell."
I agree with all yall (ATL influence) and hip-hop shouldn't be the central part of anyones life (but I think you can say the same about listening to Barry Manilow to).Like I said earlier, I think it is entirely personal. I grew up on the stuff, but never let it influence my life. In fact, I always got a kick out of the kids (especially the white ones) that dressed the part. Inevitably, you have a "hip-hop" discussion with one of them and find out there knowledge of hip-hop goes back about 4 years.Truth is, I liked hip-hop before it became "popular" and "trendy" to like it. I liked it, when everyone was listening to Rock. Back in the early eighties, I even got called "Disco-Boy" for liking hip-hop (it shows you how well versed the "rockers" were in hip hop). In the end, I can appreciate some of the concerns some have. It just wasn't that way for me.
I think the lyrics and getting the timing down is probably the hardest, but come on I wouldn't even compare these groups to real artist that play real instruments.
Matthew,Grits are okay, but Christianity or Christian related concepts aren't exactly the central themes of their songs, they just have the odd couple of references every now and then.
dude....the modern gangsta-rap and post-gangsta-rap industry are tools of the elitist/white/Freemasonic/Disney moguls to perpetuate stereotypes about African-Americans....and unfortunately, America's youth has swallowed it hook-line-and-sinker.....What ever happened to real rap groups who tell it like it is, like Public Enemy or Boogie Down Productions?
Two worlds appoart.
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