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John DiStaso's Granite Status: In NHGOP chair race, Horn has new backers, Hemingway has new proposal
December 05. 2012 12:55PM
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 5, UPDATE: MORE SUPPORT FOR HORN. NHGOP chairman candidate Jennifer Horn says she has received the endorsement of veteran anti-tax advocate Tom Thomson, former U.S. Rep. Chuck Douglas and nearly 40 other elected officials, activists and members of the Republican State Committee.
Horn says the endorsements 'show growing support for my effort to reinvigorate the NHGOP.'
Also on board with Horn are Corey Lewandowski, state director of Americans for Prosperity; Verity Swayne, chairman of the New Hamsphire Federation of Republican Women; Grafton County GOP chairman Bruce Perlo, state Sens. Jim Luther of Hollis, Chuck Morse of Salem and David Boutin of Hooksett and former Sen. Tom DeBlois of Manchester.
Her list also includes nine more New Hampshire House members, two Nashua aldermen and, most importantly, 10 more voting state committee members, including nine from Sullivan County.
We understand that Horn has the backing of two additional members of the 20-member Sullivan County GOP Committee who have preferred not to go public, which means she has the backing of the majority of that county's committee.
The full list can be viewed on Horn's Facebook page.
There will be 506 voting members of the state committee when county and city caucuses are finished on Dec. 15. The state committee will elect a new chairman to succeed the outgoing Wayne MacDonald on Jan. 26.
(Earlier Granite Status reports follow.)
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 5, UPDATE: A NEW PROPOSAL. Candidate for NHGOP chairman Andrew Hemingway says former state party chairs should have a continued active and formal role in party affairs.
Hemingway later today will propose adding the position of Chairman-emeritus as a voting member of the party's 33-member executive committee.
'The idea would be to connect the generational gaps that exist during transitions of one chairman to the next and create some continuity and stability within the organization,' Hemingway said.
'The immediate past chairman would stay on the executive committee and have a vote and be a mentor.'
Hemingway said outgoing chairman Wayne MacDonald 'is a great example of someone who has institutional knowledge that would be invaluable to the new chairman and someone who should be given a position of respect in the party.'
Hemingway will issue a formal statement on the plan later today.
(Earlier Granite Status reports follow.)
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 5, UPDATE: NEW HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF. Ryan Mahoney left his post as executive director of the New Hampshire Democratic Party on Tuesday and, we've learned, will soon be announced as the new chief of staff for returning New Hampshire House Speaker Terie Norelli.
Mahoney was named party executive director in March of this year and previously was the field director for the party and the Committee to Elect House Democrats.
Sean Doyle is currently the NHDP deputy executive director.
(Earlier Granite Status reports follow.)
TUESDAY, DEC. 4, UPDATE: NO MANDATORY GOP FEE. A frustrated Republican National Committeeman Steve Duprey told the Granite Status Tuesday a $25 mandatory fee imposed on new Republican State Committee members will be rescinded later this week, but he said members must realize their position 'is not an honorary position, it's a working position.'
Duprey, who chaired the NHGOP from 1993 to 2001, who previously served as finance chairman and who has been one of the state party's representatives on the RNC for the past several years, came up with the idea of charging committee members $25 to attend the party's annual meeting in January.
The party's executive committee unanimously passed the proposal a week ago, but it created a firestorm among some activists, who are currently in the process of attending local caucuses to choose state committee members.
Both candidates for NHGOP chairman, Jennifer Horn and Andrew Hemingway, oppose the mandatory fee.
Duprey said the executive committee will meet by telephone conference call on Thursday, and, he said, 'The fee will be rescinded.'
Outgoing state Republican chairman Wayne MacDonald called for the meeting in an email late Monday to the 33-member party executive committee.
The fee and how to enforce it "have sparked widespread displeasure around the state,' MacDonald wrote. 'The State Party has been inundated with calls and/or emails asking this decision be reversed.
'Furthermore, we have received numerous email and phone complaints, negative press and have observed negative online discussion. This matter has led to passionate feedback that could lead to additional issues for what will already be a challenging meeting on January 26. I believe that we need to revisit this and, accordingly I am calling an Executive Committee meeting via conference call,' MacDonald wrote.
NHGOP finance chairman Jim Foley opposed rescinding the fee.
'This drives me crazy,' he wrote in an email reply to MacDonald.
'Why, when there is some push-back, do we cave in?' wrote Foley, who also chairs the Derry Republican Committee. 'This decision was made by unanimous vote of the executive committee after much discussion and with the idea of getting a more committed state committee member. We deliberately imposed no sanction for failure to pay this fee.
'Who are these complaints coming from? Very few new state committee members have been elected. The Derry committee has been chosen and we have heard no issues about this fee."
Foley wrote that the two candidates for state chairman are 'pandering to what they perceive will be their supporters, and so-called journalists who always try to stir things, creating a controversy where none exists.'
He suggested the state party send an email 'that makes it clear our reasoning behind the request for the fee and that there are no consequences for failure to pay the fee.'
He said he does not believe a special meeting is necessary.
Duprey said that especially after a poor GOP showing on election day, 'Anyone who thinks you don't need adequate resources in what has become a purple state is dreaming.'
Duprey admitted he was acting as 'the bad cop for whoever the next chairman is.'
He also said the party should have a 'job description for the members of the state committee.
'When I was chairman,' he said, 'we used to have a guide of how many hours we expected of you. You had to help us recruit candidates, you had to train candidates, you had write letters and update our data base. And you must help us fund-raise.'
Duprey said no one likes asking for money but, 'Unless we establish our own financial base and have everybody do the unpleasant task, we're not going to be successful.
'I'm glad we had the debate on the fee,' said Duprey. 'But now, we're either going to make it a suggested fee or suggested donation.
'But when less than 200 members of the (approximately 500-member) state committee are financial donors with any regularity, I don't care who the chairperson is, we're not going to be successful if we don't have the resources,' said Duprey.
Duprey said that during the election campaign, the Democrats had a far more sophisticated data base for getting out its vote on Nov. 6.
He also said that relying almost exclusively on funding from the RNC in Washington is unacceptable.
'The national committee is not going to fund the state committee if the state committee does not show enough of a backbone and the level of commitment within our own ranks to do the basic fund-raising to run our operation and elect people at the state level,' Duprey said.
Duprey said he agrees with the assessment of Horn, whom he supports for chairman, that the party needs to raise $450,000 to $500,000 annually.
'When you look at what we raise to run our operation in-state, compared to the other states, frankly, we're doing a pathetic job,' he said. 'Even though we are as large as the Democratic Party -- at least we were until the last election -- we've had to rely on the large donors more and more.'
Duprey said many of those donors are now reluctant 'to keep making substantial donations to the party until they see the party broaden its base at the lower level.'
'They tell me, 'We're tired of the model where we are relied on for all the money and the party isn't doing a good job getting the low-dollar donors.''
Duprey said there are 10 or 12 who regularly contribute significant amounts.
He also said some state committee members who also serve in the Legislature say they are making a financial sacrifice to serve at the State House. Lawmakers are paid only $100 a year.
'I recognize it's a contribution and it's a great honor to serve in the Legislature, but you don't have to also run to serve on the state committee,' he said.
State committee membership 'is not an honorary position. It's a working position,' he said. 'Grassroots activism and fund-raising.
'If every member of the State committee were given the mission of raising $1,000-a-year for the party we would have adequate resources to match the Democrats and hire the kind of staff we need in order to really develop a working grassroots operation.'
Overall, he said, 'I'm glad we pushed the issue. I'm glad some people are excited about it.
'But we'll rescind it because we don't want a perception that you have to pay a fee to vote, but I guarantee that every single member of the state committee will be asked to contribute or fund-raise.
"By raising this, even if we rescind it, everyone is on notice."
(Earlier Granite Status reports follow.)
MONDAY, DEC. 3, UPDATE: ANOTHER GOP BATTLE LOOMING. State Republicans are at it again. Another battle between the establishment and the conservative grassroots is shaping up for party chairman, although the candidate with establishment support does not quite fit the alleged mold.
Nearly two years ago, outgoing chairman former Gov. John H. Sununu tried to hand-pick a candidate to succeed him. But that move backfired when Tea Party favorite Jack Kimball won the majority of the votes of the approximately 500-member state committee.
Kimball in September 2011 resigned amid controversy and vice chair Wayne MacDonald took his place.
Now, in the wake of a poor GOP showing in the November election, the party establishment has lined up behind Jennifer Horn of Nashua after MacDonald decided not to run for a full term.
With the backing of Sen. Kelly Ayotte, outgoing Reps. Frank Guinta and Charlie Bass, state Rep. and outgoing House Speaker Bill O'Brien, Senate President Peter Bragdon and a long list of other elected officials, Horn briefly appeared on her way to the chairmanship, unchallenged.
After party vice chair Cliff Hurst, a favorite of the liberty group, suddenly decided not to run, Kimball last Friday penned a scathing e-mail saying Hurst was forced out of a candidacy.
Late last week and during the weekend, conservative 'liberty' leaders and bloggers reacted to the establishment move, and as a result, 30-year-old conservative businessman and former Newt Gingrich state campaign director Andrew Hemingway is the race, which will be decided by the Republican State Committee on Jan. 26.
Hemingway said in an interview the NHGOP committee is being run on a 'socialist model of totalitarian top-down style.'
He said that while he has nothing against Horn personally, he does not believe she is qualified to head the party.
'The state party chair has to do three functions,' said Hemingway. 'They have to go out and recruit and help elect electable candidates.'
He said that while 'she hasn't done that,' he did it as former chairman of the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire.
'We got elected over 100 state representatives in 2010,' he said.
Hemingway said the party chair must fund-raise on a national level.
'She hasn't done that,' said Hemingway. 'I helped Newt Gingrich raise his digital fund-raising program and we were successful in raising more than $2 million.
Horn countered that within 24 hours of the Nov. 6 election, 'a number of grassroots activists reached out to me and asked me to run. Then I started making calls to party leaders and grassroots activists and laid out my vision and tried to earn their support. When I announced, I was supported by a broad spectrum of more than 100 leaders and grassroots activists.
'I think we need in a chairman somebody who can reach out across the Republican spectrum so that we can be unified and win elections,' she said.
Horn, while backed by the establishment, has not been an establishment figure in the party.
She ran as an outsider against Bass in the 2010 2nd District U.S. House primary, after being the party's nominee for the seat in 2008, defeating then-state Sen. Bob Clegg in a primary.
She also criticized Sununu in 2008 for trying to pick his successor and ironically, supported Kimball initially, while later backing his decision to step down.
Hemingway said his firm, Digital Acumen, specializes in fund-raising as well as social media, and, 'We've raised millions of dollars for conservative candidates all across the country.'
'On driving a message and controlling a message, honestly, she's a very effective spokesperson and I give her credit for that,' Hemingway said, 'I just think I have a truer brand around that and am a more consistent carrier of the Republican brand.'
He also cited a business background of employing, he said, as many as 12 staffers at Digital Acumen and managing a staff of 15 at the Gingrich campaign.
Gingrich finished fifth in the New Hampshire Primary, behind Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, Jon Huntsman and Rick Santorum.
Before heading the Gingrich New Hampshire effort, Hemingway participated in organizing the first-ever Twitter GOP presidential debate last summer.
He promises that as chairman, he would 'transform the technological infrastructure of the state party and utilize new methods to manage the get-out-the-vote program.
Hemingway said he can successfully manage his business while working full time as a volunteer party chairman.
He said backed Hurst, who strongly considered running for chairman, but decided against it amid reports that he was bullied out of the race by the GOP hierarchy.
Hurst wanted no part of that speculation on Monday, telling the Granite Status, 'There's been too much said already and it is dividing the party.
'I'm not going to endorse anybody and I think as vice chair I should be neutral since I'm not a candidate,' Hurst said.
But Hemingway said, 'What you see with Cliff and with this effort to charge state committee members a $25 fee, which I absolutely oppose, is that for a party whose philosophy says we for the decentralization of power, and we're by the rule of the people, we run our state committee under the socialist model of a totalitarian top-down style.'
The party executive committee voted unanimously last week to charge $25 to all state committee members who attend the January annual meeting at Bedford High School.
A NHGOP news letter reported, 'The committee feel strongly that state committee members should be vested by both a commitment to do work for the party and also to pay a small membership fee.'
But Hemingway complained, 'We receive our edicts from on high and are expected to just fall in line.
'We should be a grassroots run organization and we should be pushing from the grassroots up to the very top, like every grassroots organization is run.'
He said the Nov. 6 election was not a 'wave' election, as has been written.
'Mitt Romney did fairly well in New Hampshire and rest of the ticket I attribute in a significant amount to the Republican state committee,' he said.
'They were largely ineffective and unsupportive of the candidates who won primaries and were running in general elections,' he said. 'We were horrible at messaging, had no ground game whatsoever from the Republican state committee and relied completely on Romney and I believe it's irresponsible,' Hemingway said.
'I'd love to get organized and have a role in local races, up and down the ticket from selectman to governor,' he said.
Horn said, 'We need a chairman who understands all different levels of media and modernizing our technology but also a chairman who has an understanding of how to use it.'
On the other side of the political aisle, Democratic state chairman Raymond Buckley is taking it all in.
Despite the turmoil, Buckley is not taking the GOP lightly.
'There will always be a competitive Republican Party in New Hampshire,' he said. 'We are a purple state and will continue to be.'
Buckley is expected to seek -- and win -- a fourth term when the Democratic State Committee meets in March.
While the Republican chairmanship is a volunteer position, Buckley is compensated for his work through contributions to the party.
That appears to be a key to leadership continuity, and the contrast between the two parties' leadership is stark.
Buckley became the NHDP first vice chairman in 1999, when Kathy Sullivan was elected chair.
He became chairman in 2007, and Sullivan, as Democratic National Committeewoman, remains active in party affairs.
Since the 'team' of Sullivan and Buckley took over the NHDP in 1999, the Republican State Committee has had no fewer than nine chairmen:
Steve Duprey, who stepped aside and was succeeded by John Dowd in 2001, then Jayne Millerick in 2003, Warren Henderson in 2005, Wayne Semprini in 2006, Fergus Cullen in 2007, former Gov. Sununu in 2009, Kimball in January 2011 and MacDonald in September 2011.
(Earlier Granite Status reports follow.)
FRIDAY, NOV. 30, UPDATE: UNHAPPY JACK. Former Republican state chairman Jack Kimball says his harsh criticism of the NHGOP hierarchy's support for Jennifer Horn as the next party chairman is unrelated to the Horn's support for efforts in 2011 for him to step down as chairman.
'It's not that at all,' Kimball told the Granite Status. 'Jennifer has every right to run, but I really believe that Cliff Hurst (the current party vice chair) would be a marvelous chairman.'
Horn, asked to comment on Kimball's criticism, emailed stayed focused on the unity theme:
'I am running to unite the party and bring new energy and new vision to the effort of rebuilding a vibrant Republican Party in New Hampshire.
'I am very grateful for the support of over 100 grassroots activists so far as well as respected party leaders like Sen. Ayotte and will continue to work hard to earn the support of every member of the State Committee and Republicans across the state.'
Meanwhile, reports surfaced today that conservative activist Andrew Hemingway will challenge Horn for the chairmanship.
Hurst had strongly considered running but decided not to after U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte, outgoing U.S. Reps. Frank Guinta and Charlie Bass and a long list of other GOP officials endorsed Horn.
Kimball penned a 'Hi Patriots' email to 'about 50 of my closest supporters' contending that Hurst was 'FORCED (yes, he capitalized the word) to drop out of the race to clear the way for the Five Families choice of Jennifer Horn.
'The NHGOP is now being run like a satellite of the Russian Federation,' he wrote. 'Hell, why bother having a convention at all?'
His email lauds Hurst as 'one of the most honorable men I have ever had the pleasure of meeting' with 'historic and unquestionable' loyalty to the party.
It goes on, 'All fair-minded, Liberty loving Republicans MUST reject what is happening here. The only people who should be choosing our next NH GOP chair are the 500 eligible voters on the State Committee.'
Kimball told the Status that Hurst 'is a uniter of the utmost integrity. This is not how we should be running our party.'
Kimball said he purposely did not run for a spot on the state committee because of his history as a controversial chairman.
And, he said that by writing the email, 'I'm not hurting the party. I'm trying to get us back focused.'
(Earlier Granite Status reports follow.)
THURSDAY, NOV. 29, UPDATE: MAGGIE'S INAUGURAL BALL. Gov.-elect Maggie Hassan has an all-star lineup cochairing her inaugural committee, which is organizing the Jan. 3 oath-of-office events at the State House, an inaugural ball in Manchester on Jan. 4 and a North Country ball on Jan. 12.
Hassan's transition office later today will announce her inaugural committee will be cochaired by attorney Alan Reische of Manchester, Anna Grace Holloway of Rye, real estate developer and long-time Democratic fundraiser Fred Seigel of North Hampton and Northeast Delta Dental CEO Tom Raffio of Bow.
Hassan has also named her former campaign manager, Matt Burgess, as inaugural committee director. J.P. Boyle, her former deputy campaign manager, is the inaugural committee deputy director and Liz Purdy is a senior advisor to the inaugural committee, as she was for the campaign.
Hassan's office has also launched a new web site, www.hassaninauguration.org, to provide information and online ticketing for inaugural events.
Hassan will be sworn into office as the state's 81st governor on Thursday, Jan. 3, at the State House. Later that day, she will host an open house at the State House to greet citizens.
The inaugural ball will take place on Friday, Jan. 4, at the Radisson Center of New Hampshire in Manchester. A North Country ball will be held on Saturday. Jan. 12 at the Mount Washington Resort in Bretton Woods.
Hassan said:
'New Hampshire is a special place where we come together as communities to support each other, address our challenges, and move our state forward.
'The New Hampshire way means all of us chip in, and the people of New Hampshire expect their leaders to be accessible to their ideas and priorities.
'I want to ensure all of our citizens have an opportunity to participate as we begin our work together to build a stronger, more innovative New Hampshire where our businesses can grow, flourish and create good jobs for our people.'
Her transition team says she intends to 'focus on innovation, fiscal responsibility and common-sense solutions to our challenges,' while working in a bipartisan way 'to develop a fiscally responsible, balanced budget that protects New Hampshire's priorities without an income or sales tax.'
(The full Nov. 29 Granite Status follows.)
THURSDAY, NOV. 29: KELLY'S CHOICE. U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte, now alone atop the Republican chart of elected officials in New Hampshire, has made her choice for state party chairman: Nashua conservative activist Jennifer Horn. And most of the party establishment has fallen in line.
Also on board for Horn are outgoing Reps. Frank Guinta and Charlie Bass, state Rep. and outgoing House speaker Bill O'Brien, Senate President Peter Bragdon, incoming House GOP leader Gene Chandler, Republican National Committee members Steve Duprey and Juliana Bergeron, former party chairs Jayne Millerick and Wayne Semprini and former candidate for governor Kevin Smith.
As we first reported on UnionLeader.com, Horn had announced her candidacy for the party post just hours after current chairman Wayne MacDonald said he won't seek a full term when the GOP State Committee chooses officers on Jan. 26.
Horn said she wants to "unify Republicans and lay the groundwork for a vibrant, robust party. We will unite behind our core principles of lower taxes, less spending, and personal freedom. And when the Democrats inevitably over-reach, we'll hold them accountable."
Ayotte, also of Nashua, called Horn "an articulate voice for our party who will serve as a strong, unifying leader."
MacDonald had been party vice chairman for more than eight years before predecessor Jack Kimball resigned amid controversy in September 2011.
MacDonald said "some of the leaders of the party were looking for someone else," but he said he was "not at all" pressured to step aside.
"This was totally my decision and it was a tough call," MacDonald said.
Horn recently served as chairman of the NHGOP platform committee and was credited with negotiating a compromise that kept in place conservative Republican principles but in more "user-friendly" language.
She chairs the non-profit advocacy group "We the People: A First in the Nation Freedom Forum," which held a series of events featuring presidential candidates in the last presidential primary campaign.
She is a former radio talk show host and newspaper columnist who was the 2008 GOP nominee for the 2nd District U.S. House seat, losing to then-incumbent Rep. Paul Hodes.
She lost to Bass in a party primary two years ago.
HURST, WILLIAMS OUT. State Party Vice Chair Cliff Hurt had been planning to run, but told the Status Wednesday he won't.
"I just felt like it's the best thing to do," Hurst said. "There is a time to serve and a time to wait it out. I have no resentment and no hard feelings."
Hurst acknowledged the formidable support team lined up by Horn played a role in his decision.
"We need a time to heal as a party," he said. "My mission is to be a healer and a uniter and as we know, politics can be very divisive."
And Ryan Williams, a former spokesman for the NHGOP and then for Mitt Romney's national campaign, turned down recruitment efforts for the chairmanship by a handful of state Republicans, saying he supports Horn and has "no interest in returning to the state party."
PRAISE FOR WAYNE. Republican National Committeeman and former chairman Duprey said MacDonald "did a good job righting the ship" following the Kimball controversy.
"And I'm one of those who believe that when you win it's a team effort and when you lose, you lose as a team.
"It was a tough election cycle," said Duprey. "There were a lot of reasons for what happened but it wasn't because the party didn't work hard. Wayne did a good, solid job fundraising and he had a good relationship with the (RNC)."
O'Brien said MacDonald showed a "willingness to step up under very difficult circumstances and provide leadership for the party" and guided it through a "smooth first-in-the-nation primary."
He said Horn "will be a strong state party chair and to the extent that I can talk to some of my friends in the House to support Jennifer, I will do that."
HORN TEAM. Horn on Wednesday signed veteran strategist Mike Dennehy as a supporter along with Rep. Jack Flanagan and Nashua Fire Commissioner Mike Soucy.
Also on board: outgoing House Majority Leader Pete Silva, and Reps. Steve Cunningham, Ralph Boehm, Beverly Rodechin, Carl Seidel and Gary Azarian, as well as Franklin Mayor Ken Merrifield.
Thursday evening update: Horn on Thursday picked up the support of 60 more GOP leaders, including state Senate Majority Leader Jeb Bradley and 2010 gubernatorial nominee John Stephen, as well as former Ambassador Joseph Petrone and his wife, Augusta, and strategists Jim Merrill and Mike Biundo.
GOOD EARLY NEWS FOR JEANNE. UnionLeader.com wrote two weeks ago that Public Policy Polling was already in the field surveying Granite Staters on U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen's approval rating and a possible 2014 "rubber match" battle between her and Republican John E. Sununu, whom she ousted from office.
The results are in. Two years out, it's good news for the incumbent.
PPP, on behalf of the left-leaning Progressive Change Campaign Committee, surveyed 1,018 registered New Hampshire voters Nov. 14 and 15.
The poll, with a margin of error of 3.1 percent, found Shaheen leading Sununu, 53 to 42 percent, with 5 percent undecided.
Also, 51 percent of those surveyed approved of the way Shaheen is doing her job; 36 percent disapproved and 13 percent had no opinion.
The poll indicated Granite Staters oppose cuts to Medicare and Medicaid and support higher taxes for the rich and if Shaheen supported cuts to either program, 46 percent said they would be less likely to vote for her.
If Shaheen "led the national fight to raise taxes on the rich," 48 percent said they would be more likely to vote for her, while 31 percent said they would be less likely, 19 percent said it would make no difference.
"New Hampshire voters spoke clearly in 2012," said PCCC spokesman Neil Sroka, a former spokesman for U.S. Rep.-elect Ann Kuster. "Tax the rich, invest in jobs and don't even think about cutting Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid benefits. If Senator Shaheen fights hard for this agenda, New Hampshire voters stand ready to support her in 2014."
The poll also showed 48 percent of Granite Staters viewed President Barack Obama's key "mandate" in the election as "standing up for regular families - even if it means fighting," rather than compromising with Republicans, which was the view of 36 percent.
On another question, 49 percent viewed Obama's mandate as creating jobs, while 22 percent said it's reducing the debt.
While there is much for Shaheen supporters to be optimistic about, Republicans can take solace in the fact that 2014 will be a mid-term election, when the party in power at the White House often suffers big losses on Congress.
A PERSONAL PLEA. Just two days after former candidate for governor and state Sen. Jackie Cilley was announced as Rep.-elect Carol Shea-Porter's district director, Cilley's friend and former campaign manager put out a plea for contributions to help her retire her campaign debt.
Liz Merry emails that Cilley, in the closing days of the primary campaign she lost to Maggie Hassan, took out a personal loan "to help pay for the mailings, TV commercials and field operations that would carry our hopes forward."
Congressional district directors' salaries are generally in the range of $85,000 to $100,000-a-year.
BUCHANAN TONIGHT. Pat Buchanan returns to New Hampshire tonight to talk about the state of affairs in the world and perhaps reminisce about his 1996 New Hampshire first-in-the-nation presidential primary victory.
He's the keynote speaker at the Nackey S. Loeb School's First Amendment Awards dinner at the Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord.
RUDMAN SERVICES. A Washington, D.C. tribute to the late Sen. Warren Rudman will be held this afternoon from 4:30 to 6:30 in the Kennedy Caucus Room in the Russell Senate Office Building.
Longtime Rudman friend and protege, former U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter will speak along with Vice President Joe Biden, who served with Rudman in the senate, Sen. John McCain, former Secretary of Defense and Sen. Bill Cohen, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and former Sens. Alan Simpson, Phil Gramm, Daniel Inouye and George Mitchell.
According to former Rudman spokesman Bob Stevenson, a tribute to Rudman will most likely be held in January at the Warren B. Rudman U.S. Courthouse in Concord.
As an Army veteran, Rudman's remains will be interred at Arington National Cemetery at a later date.
PROMOTING VOUCHERS. Outgoing House Speaker O'Brien this week has been in Washington at the National Summit on Education Reform, sponsored by the Foundation for Excellence in Education, chaired by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.
O'Brien spoke at an opening strategy session about voucher and tax credits.
"I went over the success we had in New Hampshire for a program that was modest but demonstrated the success" of efforts to reform education, O'Brien said.
John DiStaso is senior political reporter of the New Hampshire Union Leader and New Hampshire Sunday News. He can be reached at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter: @jdistaso.


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Walking, dancing, playing tennis, and lifting weights are considered weight-bearing exercises. Swimming and bicycling, which are excellent for cardiovascular health, do not strengthen bones. An exercise program that combines both weight-bearing and cardiovascular activities will benefit both your bones and your heart.
Myth: A nursing mother cannot get pregnant.
Fact: The truth is that breastfeeding will only delay ovulation. However, although a nursing mother does not ovulate in the early months of breastfeeding, she may ovulate in later months. Each woman will resume ovulation at a different time, so it is important to use birth control if you do not wish to become pregnant. Talk to your doctor about birth control options you can use while breastfeeding, and when they need to be started.
Myth: Treatments tested on men are appropriate for women.
Fact: We do not know. Recognizing the gaps in what is known about women's health issues, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) established the Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) in 1990. This group has worked to find those gaps and to assure inclusion of women and minorities in clinical studies funded by the various institutes and centers that make up the NIH.
Myth: A "fishy" vaginal odor is normal.
Fact: The odor may be the result of bacterial vaginitis (BV), a condition more common and more serious than yeast infections.
If untreated, BV can lead to infertility or pregnancy complications, including pre-term birth. Symptoms of BV include a discharge, fishy odor and perhaps itching, which women often mistake for a yeast infection. If you have symptoms of what you think may be a yeast infection, it is still important to get it checked out. Antibiotics are necessary to effectively treat BV.
Myth: You can get a sexually transmitted disease (STD) from toilet seats.
Fact: STDs are transmitted through sexual contact. This means skin-to-skin contact or exchange of bodily fluids. Keep in mind that most organisms that cause STDs cannot survive outside the body for too long. Even on the small chance a microbe survived, a woman would have to make genital contact with the toilet seat to get infected.
What about the antiperspirant and tampon rumors?
Do antiperspirants prevent the release of toxins that can back up and cause breast cancer? All the leading breast cancer organizations, including the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, refute this myth, pointing out that sweat does not even contain toxins and that sweat blocked by antiperspirants is excreted elsewhere.
You may read the leading tampons contain dioxin, a known carcinogen, and therefore you should use all-natural tampons. Dioxins that are used are at or below trace levels and are not considered a health hazard. Also dioxin is found in trace amounts in the environment where the tampons are manufactured.
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Former Phelps County Prosecuting Attorney Kenneth G. Clayton, of Rolla, has been appointed to fill the associate circuit judge position in Phelps County.
Former Phelps County Prosecuting Attorney Kenneth G. Clayton, of Rolla, has been appointed to fill the associate circuit judge position in Phelps County.
Gov. Jay Nixon appointed Clayton to the position, which was formerly held by Judge Bill Hickle, who won the Nov. 6 general election and was recently sworn in as the new 25th Judicial Circuit Judge.
Clayton served two full terms as the Phelps County prosecuting attorney from 1999 to 2006. He currently is a partner in the Rolla law firm of Clayton and Anderson and also has served as the acting prosecuting attorney for Pulaski County since May 2012.
Before becoming prosecuting attorney, he was an assistant public defender.
Clayton is a graduate of the University of Tulsa School of Law and of Northeast Missouri State University (now Truman State University) in Kirksville.
"Ken Clayton has a great deal of experience in criminal and civil law, as both prosecutor and in private practice," Nixon said. "I am pleased to appoint him to serve the people of Phelps County as their new associate circuit judge."
Clayton was the preference of Phelps County Democratic Committee members, who met Dec. 11 to send their nomination to Nixon. The committee also submitted the name of attorney Kristopher D. Crews for consideration.
At the Democrats' meeting, Clayton said he would like to emulate Judge Gregory Warren, who was recently appointed a new 25th Judicial Circuit Judge, which covers Phelps, Maries, Pulaski and Texas counties.
Clayton also said a role model is his father, retired Maries County Associate Circuit Judge John Clayton.
Clayton has been active since 1997 in the Rolla Lions Club. He also has served on the Red Cross board of directors and served as both vice president and president of the Phelps-Pulaski chapter. Clayton also coaches soccer.


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I know I'm overly romantic about such things, but I'd love to hang out there, or in old Lemberg/Lwów/Lviv/Lvov, or old Alexandria, or any of those premodern cities where you could rub elbows with all sorts of people and hear a dozen languages on a short stroll. (Yes, I realize you can still do that in cosmopolises like New York and Paris, but it's not the same. The small scale is part of the charm.)
Ruschuk, on the lower Danube, where I came into the world, was a marvelous city for a child, and if I say that Ruschuk is in Bulgaria, then I am giving an inadequate picture of it. For people of the most varied backgrounds lived there, on any one day you could hear seven or eight languages. side from the Bulgarians, who often came from the countryside, there were many Turks, who lived in their own neighborhood, and next to it was the neighborhood of the Sephardim, the Spanish Jews–our neighborhood. There were Greeks, Albanians, Armenians, Gypsies. From the opposite side of the Danube came Rumanians; my wetnurse, whom I no longer remember, was Rumanian. There were also Russians here and there.
As a child, I had no real grasp of this variety, but I never stopped feeling its effects. Some people have stuck in my memory only because they belonged to a particular ethnic group and wore a different costume from the others. Among the servants that we had in our home during the course of six years, there was once a Circassian and later on an Armenian. My mother's best friend was Olga, a Russian woman. Once every week, Gypsies came into our courtyard, so many that they seemed like an entire nation […]
It would be hard to give a full picture of the colorful time of those early years in Ruschuk, the passions and the terrors. Anything I subsequently experienced had already happened in Ruschuk. There, the rest of the world was known as "Europe," and if someone sailed up the Danube to Vienna, people said he was going to Europe. Europe began where the Turkish Empire had once ended. Most of the Sephardim were still Turkish subjects.
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LODI - The Lodi Police Department soon will sponsor a gun buyback program and offer to pay for reforming gang members to cover up tattoos that express their affiliation, Chief Mark Helms said.
LODI - The Lodi Police Department soon will sponsor a gun buyback program and offer to pay for reforming gang members to cover up tattoos that express their affiliation, Chief Mark Helms said.
Lodi police have applied for and received a second $305,000 California Gang Reduction and Intervention Program grant that will extend the department's efforts to deter violent crime through 2014, and increase its overall grant total to $555,000.
Mayor JoAnne Mounce revealed the grant had been renewed less than a year after police started spending a $250,000 CalGRIP grant that it received in March.
"I think the state has seen how well we're utilizing this grant money to curb gang activities, and that's why they accepted our second application," Mounce said. "I don't think gang problems will ever be fully eradicated in any city, but you can do a lot to keep it from accelerating. And we're doing that."
Helms said the money will pay for more equipment, a code enforcement officer, police overtime dedicated to gang suppression, a gang crime analyst and training.
The tattoo cover-up program will not involve laser removal.
"It won't be a removal. That's too expensive. But we can pay to have tattoos covered up by a tattoo artist so it becomes something else," Helms said.
Helms said that in the gun buyback program, the department would pay as much as $100 per weapon and destroy it. The city would dedicate $20,000 to the buyback program, potentially eliminating at least 200 guns from the community.
The new grant will build on the department's increased gang patrols and the hiring of two youth outreach workers - who operate on a similar level as Stockton's Peacekeepers program - who have been stationed at local schools.
The City Council is expected to approve a $50,000 commitment to help pay the outreach workers' salaries and an in-kind personnel and equipment match of $255,036 at its Dec. 19 meeting.
With the first CalGRIP grant, the city set out to curb violent crime. There was a 33 percent increase in shootings and stabbings in east Lodi from 2010 to 2011.
Youth counselors Ruben Guardiola and Ernest Bass were hired to start school programs. Guardiola previously started a handball program at Lodi High School to help Latino gang members be involved in a leisure-time activity. The success was shown in fewer lunchtime fights at the high school, officials said. The city picked up on the handball idea and hosted a tournament featuring professional handball players in September.
Now, Guardiola has expanded the handball program to Tokay High, and Bass has been working at middle schools with additional outreach efforts to children who are in gangs or considered at risk of joining a gang.
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Marvin Eugene Jennings, Sr., 83, Joplin, passed away at his home on Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012, after a long illness surrounded by his family.
Marvin Eugene Jennings, Sr., 83, Joplin, passed away at his home on Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012, after a long illness surrounded by his family.
Born Jan. 31, 1929, in Wann, Okla., he had lived in Joplin the past 51 years, moving from Neosho. Marvin worked in the dairy business all of his working life, at Foremost for many years and retired in 1994 from Mid-Am. He was a faithful member of Fellowship Baptist Church and served in the U.S. Army Air Corps from 1947 to 1950. He was a very humble, grateful and committed family man.
On July 1, 1950, he married Lena L. Burr at Bentonville, Ark. She survives.
Additional survivors include three sons, Gene Jennings and wife, Helen, Joplin, Richard M. Jennings and wife, Mary, Carthage, Chris Jennings and wife, Kim, Joplin; a daughter, Marisa L. Fuller, Joplin; five siblings, Faye Hanks, Olive Hill, Tenn., Leroy Jennings, Neosho, Eula Pendergraft, Neosho, Doris Hoodenpyle, Big Cabin, Okla., and Barbara Smith, Vinita, Okla..; 12 grandchildren; 23 great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.
Marvin was preceded in death by a son-in-law, Shawn O. Fuller; and six siblings, John, Orville, Curtis, Lloyd, Agnes and Gertrude.
Funeral services will be held 2 p.m. Tuesday at Fellowship Baptist Church with Rev. Rex Wakefield officiating. Interment will military rites will follow at Mount Hope Cemetery with Gene Jennings, Mike Jennings, Chris Jennings, Logan Grant, Richard Hilderbrand, Andy Bowers, Andy Pike and Ken Copeland serving as pallbearers.
The family will receive friends from 7 to 8 p.m. Monday at Parker Mortuary.
Memorial contributions may be made to Fellowship Baptist Church.
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July 2014 The Scientific Director of NIDA's Intramural Research Program talks about switching off animals' compulsive cocaine seeking by optogenetically activating the prefrontal cortex, and the implications of this work for people. In an accompanying podcast, Dr. Bonci walks viewers through experiments that showed that prefrontal cortex activity levels may constitute a simple switch controlling whether or not animals compulsively seek cocaine.
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text: How to Choose a Confirmation Saint You're in Confirmation class and your teacher tells you to pick a Confirmation saint. Oh, great. Now what? So what are saints? The first thing to understand is why you are being asked to choose a saint. The saints aren't just dead people that you see in stained glass windows and on holy cards. The Communion of Saints is: [The] communion of "holy persons" (sancti) in Christ who "died for all," so that what each one does or suffers in and for Christ bears fruit for all. (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 961) Basically, all of these saints who came before you are part of your extended family. They are those wonderful relatives who are praying for you and rooting for you to get to Heaven. Why Should I Choose a Confirmation Saint? So just for a minute think about some uncle that you look up to or a cousin that you really wish you could be like and then imagine that this person has been declared a saint and you could ask him to pray for you! Wouldn't that be great? Well, that's exactly what you get when you choose a Confirmation saint - someone to emulate for his holiness and someone to intercede for you in Heaven. How do I pick one for Confirmation? First of all, don't treat this as a box to check off and pick St Francis just because you have a vague idea about his life. The first thing you should do is pray. Ask the Holy Spirit for guidance in choosing a saint that will be best for you. The second thing you should do is some research. Browse a library of patron saints online or get a good book of saints to read. You can get a comprehensive saint dictionary, a book of modern saints, or if you are really ambitious you can get the four volume Butler's Lives of the Saints. While you are reading about the saints ask yourself why you are drawn to some more than others. Is it because they were courageous in speaking about the Faith? Were they drawn to helping the poor? Did they have an occupation that you are interested in or have a family like yours? As you start to narrow down the saints you are interested in, think again about the reasons to choose one. Is this someone I look up to and want to emulate? Is this someone who I want to spiritually "have my back"? When I was trying to choose a patron saint, I ended up choosing Thomas Becket. I was born in England and wanted to find an English saint. After reading about a bunch of English saints I was trying to decide between Thomas More and Thomas Becket. Both were the best friends of Kings named Henry. Both were put into their positions by kings who assumed that they would go along with whatever the king wanted. Both chose the Truth of the Catholic Faith over the power of the world and both were killed for it. Not bad company to keep and a good reminder that the Church and the state have always had a rocky relationship. Once you have decided on your saint, see if there is a good book just about that particular saint so you can get to know him better. Start asking him for guidance and the courage to take your reception of the sacrament of Confirmation seriously.


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Jeanne Shaheen, Carol Shea-Porter and Annie Kuster owe New Hampshire an explanation. They backed the disaster that is Obamacare from the very beginning. Last week, with the law falling to pieces, they reiterated their strong support. The Titanic is sinking and they are praising its craftsmanship.
Can they really believe the lame defenses they are giving? Can they really expect the public to believe them?
On Thursday, after President Obama decreed that insurers would not be held to the law's coverage mandates, Kuster and Shea-Porter issued statements in response. Kuster's was emailed at 2:02 p.m. In it, she said she still supported the law because "we cannot go back to the days when insurance companies were free to deny coverage to those with preexisting conditions or drop people from their plans just because they get sick. I will continue to work with anybody who is serious about making this law work and ensuring that Granite Staters have access to the quality, affordable care they deserve."
Shea-Porter's statement was issued exactly 10 minutes after Kuster's. In it, Shea-Porter said, "we cannot go back to the days when health insurance companies could deny men and women coverage due to a preexisting condition, or cancel a person's policy when they need it most. I'll continue working to increase insurance options so everyone in New Hampshire has access to quality, affordable healthcare."
Almost identical statements, issued minutes apart. Do they think we are not paying attention? Do they think they can, even now, just spout White-House approved talking points and fool the people into thinking they are representing us?
Shaheen, Shea-Porter and Kuster are representing the Democratic Party, not the people of New Hampshire. Their statements on Obamacare always have reflected party-approved talking points.
Now they follow the White House's lead in pretending that the pain inflicted upon America by this law comes from minor flaws. It does not.
The insurance policy cancellations were intentional, not accidental. The whole point of Obamacare was to move people off of their existing plans and into government-approved coverage, then eventually onto government-provided coverage. This is why the law did not take effect until after the 2012 presidential election. Its intended effects were to be hidden until after Obama won a second term.
But the effects were no surprise. Numerous critics, including this newspaper, predicted that the law would throw people off of their insurance plans. In 2010, Senate Republicans proposed legislation to prevent that from happening. Every Senate Democrat, including Jeanne Shaheen, voted against it. Last week Shaheen, Shea-Porter and Kuster rushed to back a bill that does belatedly what the 2010 proposal would have done had Democrats not united to kill it.
Shaheen, Shea-Porter and Kuster cannot avoid hard questions about their support for the law by voting for this fix or issuing more ghost-written talking points. Either they didn't know this would happen, in which case they supported out of blind partisan loyalty a law they did not understand, or they knew it would happen and did not tell the people. New Hampshire is being represented in Washington by three people whose support for one of the most important laws of our time was rooted in either ignorance or malice. How comforting.


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If storms dont add to the current snowpack at Purgatory soon, winter 2012-13 could mark the fifth consecutive decline in total seasonal snowfall since 2007-08 when 290 inches fell.
In the preceding four years, Purgatory received respectively, 265, 233, 218 and 204 inches. So far this year, 186 inches have been recorded, 18 inches shy of the 2011-12 mark.
As March traditionally the last month for significant snow wanes, the chances of recovery arent promising.
A five-year downswing in snowfall, bears out the cyclical nature of snowfall at Purgatory, as an analysis by Fort Lewis College biology professor Heidi Steltzer graphically illustrates.
Steltzer, who has presented papers about the effects of early snowmelt on flowers in the San Juan Mountains at academic conferences, recently looked at the 47 seasons (1965-66 through 2011-12) of recorded snowfall at Purgatory from three perspectives.
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No easily discernible pattern by scattering values for each of the 47 seasons along a line.
A five-year running average shows clear cyclical fluctuations. It was calculated this way: The first point plotted is the average for 1965-1969; the second, 1966-1970; the third, 1967-1971; and so on.
A mathematical formula based on the five-year running average shows that 16 percent less snow fell in 2011-12 than in 1965-66.
Overall, peak snowfalls in the 1990s were less than the peaks of the 1970s.
A bar graph that displays snowfall by decade the 1960s and the decade that started in 2010 are incomplete, of course shows more than anything else that the decade of the 1970s was the only period of extremely heavy snowfall.
The 2012-13 winter is shaping up as below average.
The snowpack in the San Juan Basin, which includes the drainages of the San Juan, Animas and Dolores rivers and their tributaries, stands at 84 percent of average, Dusty Crangle, assistant commissioner for the Animas and La Plata rivers at the state Division of Water Resources, said Tuesday.
Coincidentally, the snowpack stood at 84 percent of average in March 2012.
Were still struggling, Crangle said.
Basin reservoirs show the effect of snow scarcity.
Jackson Gulch is at 14 percent of capacity; Lemon, 20 percent; Vallecito, 37 percent; McPhee, 50 percent; Navajo, 55 percent; and Lake Nighthorse, which is force fed from the Animas River, not runoff, 94 percent.
A storm expected to reach the San Juan Mountains tonight brings the best chance of snow for a week, Jim Daniels, a forecaster at the National Weather Service in Grand Junction, said Tuesday.
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October 12. 2013 12:27PM
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the Senate are expected to block on Saturday a bill by President Barack Obama's Democrats to increase the U.S. debt limit through 2014, a senior congressional aide said.
The aide said Democrats were prepared to try to build up support and bring up the bill again in coming days. The bill was expected to be blocked on Saturday by a Republican procedural hurdle that takes 60 votes to clear in the 100-member chamber. Democrats control the Senate, 54-46.
WASHINGTON (CNN) - Talks between House Speaker John Boehner and President Barack Obama over the government shutdown and looming debt limit deadline have hit a brick wall.
Boehner relayed the news to his Republican caucus during a Saturday morning meeting after a night of work where little progress was made. Republican Rep. Paul Labrador of Idaho emerged from the meeting, telling CNN that "the President rejected our deal."
The standstill has decreased the possibility that the House would vote to reopen the government this weekend and while leadership would remain in Washington to work on a proposal, rank-and-file members might return to their districts until Monday afternoon.
The proposal from House Republicans is to increase the federal borrowing limit for about six weeks to avoid a potentially harmful default as soon as October 17, when the Obama administration says the government will run out of money to pay its bills.
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Awareness is key to keeping your children safe from predators who lurk in cyberspace, area law enforcement officials said.
"When it comes to your child's safety, know who they are talking to," said Vicki Anderson, a special agent with the Cleveland office of the FBI.
Anderson said predators who use computers to prey on children often are looking for a child for sex.
Alliance police arrested Robert W. Thomas Jr., 36, of 1964 Tudor St., Cuyahoga Falls, Saturday after an undercover officer arranged a meeting with him to purchase a 10-year-old girl for sex.
Police said Thomas used an online site to ask if anyone would arrange a "marriage" for their daughter.
An officer with the Ohio Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force responded to Thomas' request and arraigned a meeting.
Thomas sought a girl in the 5- to 8-year-old age range, police say, and offered to pay $400 for a 10-year-old girl to keep at his home for sex and "train her to please him."He was charged with trafficking in persons, attempt to commit kidnapping, attempt to commit rape and possession of criminal tools, all felonies.
Sex trafficking is a concern for law enforcement, Massillon Det. Bobby Grizzard said.
He said there are plenty of websites, including Craigslist and Backpage, where personal ads are posted daily.
"If you read between the lines a little bit, those things are going on," he said.
Grizzard said when he and the Massillon Police Department were doing proactive investigations of sex crimes, he saw a lot of ads for individuals that were interested in using a third party to find a child.
"There are a lot of people that have a fetish for pre-pubescent children," he said.
While there are people seeking children for sex, Grizzard said, it is typically not as blatant as Thomas' alleged request.
"It's an underground society," he said. "It sounds to me that (if the accusations against Thomas are true), he was pretty out there with his request. He was not hiding it."
Anderson said often times people involved in sex crimes have buzz words that will indicate if they are looking for someone younger than 18, and often those ads advertise someone who is older than they actually are.
Those seeking children, Grizzard said, are not only looking for sex but also power and control.
"A lot of people misunderstand that," he said.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime estimates that 76 percent of transactions for sex with underage girls start on the Internet, and up to 300,000 Americans younger than 18 are lured into the sex trade every year.
Anderson said today too much information is provided on the Internet.
"Kids will post pictures on the Internet and tell you where they are," she said. "No one needs to know that you are at the grocery store."
Erin Hollenbaugh, an associate professor of communication studies at Kent State at Stark, said Internet users often are more open and have no regard to the consequences of their actions.
"They are behaving automatically (while online) and without thinking of the consequences that can lead to risky behavior," she said. "We let the Internet direct us."
While online, users often become more trusting and open, and while the user's photo and name may be on the screen, it gives them a sense of anonymity, Hollenbaugh said.
Leading to activities like cyberbullying, she said.
Hollenbaugh said parents have a responsibility to educate their children about using the Internet and its dangers.
"I am a strong proponent of online communication. I don't think it is all bad, but we have to teach our kids to properly use the Internet," she said.
She said you can't assume that your child will figure out on their own.
"When I was a kid, we talked about stranger danger and not going by someone in a van but I don't know whether parents and teachers are teaching children about strangers on the Internet," she said. "They can be in danger without the danger (standing in front of them)."
Anderson suggests parents monitor who their children are talking to on the Internet, and to educate them about the dangers.
"People develop weird stuff while sitting behind a computer screen," she said. "They start to develop this lust over a child, and now they have to act on it.
"Do we have parents who are willing to prostitute their child? Could he (Thomas) have actually found someone to sell a real child? Absolutely," said Anderson. "But thank goodness the Alliance Police Department was there to intervene."
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STOCKTON - Police are looking for a man who used a shotgun to rob a donut shop early Saturday morning.
STOCKTON - Police are looking for a man who used a shotgun to rob a donut shop early Saturday morning.
A 33-year-old man who was working at the shop in the 500 block of East Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard said the robber entered the store holding the shotgun about 3:55 a.m.
The man demanded money from the register and fled through the doors on the west side of the shop with an undisclosed amount of money, police said.
The robber was described as a Latino man in his 20s, 6 feet 6 inches tall and 180 pounds, authorities said. He was wearing a black sweatshirt, which was pulled over his head.
STOCKTON - An armed man stole a dartboard from a business in the 7500 block of Pacific Avenue about 6:15 p.m. Friday, police said.
Witnesses said the man entered the business and asked for a specific item. As an employee walked to the back of the store to retrieve the item, the thief grabbed a dartboard and headed for the exit.
The employee yelled for two coworkers to stop the man, but he escaped after brandishing what appeared to be a gun, authorities said.
The thief was described as a Latino male in his 20s, 5 feet 6 inches tall and 170 pounds, police said. He was wearing black jeans, a white shirt and a black Echo jacket, authorities said.
STOCKTON - A girl reported missing Friday was found safe and returned to her family Saturday, police said.
Eliana Castellanos, 13, was found shortly after 7 p.m. near South Fresno Avenue and West Charter Way in Stockton, officers said. She had not been seen since about 4 p.m. Thursday.


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"I am so pleased that such a deserving individual who has spent a lifetime fighting for women's rights and the many issues facing our people, is being honoured," says Grand Council Chief Madahbee. "Jeanette has been a real champion of the citizens of our First Nations."
Ms. Corbiere Lavell is a central figure in the pursuit of fairness and recognition for First Nations women and children, especially those who have lost their Indian status due to provisions of the Indian Act. Aside from lack of access to social and treaty benefits that are attached to Indian status, the loss of status can also carry a stigma in First Nation communities.
In April of 1970, the citizen of Wiikwemikoong Territory married David Lavell, which resulted in the loss of her Indian Status and citizenship rights. Corbiere Lavell began her struggle to ensure that the rights of Indian women were equal to the rights of Indian men under the Indian Act. In 1973, the Supreme Court of Canada heard Ms. Corbiere Lavell's case, now known as the Lavell case, but it was lost by a single vote from the bench.
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Sepang, 10 May 2014 - With AirAsia commencing their operations fully at klia2 on 9 May, the terminal handled over 60,000 passengers in the 24 hours from midnight of 8 May to midnight of 9 May. The AirAsia migration was not without hiccups. However, Malaysia Airports had immediately extended support and assistance to resolve the issues faced by AirAsia, just like how Malaysia Airports worked together with other airlines to ensure smooth operations. All parties are working closely to minimise the inconvenience to travellers.
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Anderson County Mayor Terry Frank and members of the John Rice Irwin Anderson County Chapter of Sons of the Revolution recently honored lifelong historian John Rice Irwin.
Frank, members of the local Sons of the Revolution Chapter, and Irwin's family and friends gathered at Meadow View Assisted Living, where he now lives, near the Museum of Appalachia, which he co-founded with his late wife, Elizabeth, in 1969. The purpose of the gathering: to honor Irwin with a proclamation recognizing his dedication to preserving the history of the Appalachian region and its people.
The county mayor, at the request of SOR member Lynn Fox, prepared a proclamation that proclaimed April 16, 2013 as John Rice Irwin Day in Anderson County.
Following the reading of the proclamation, Irwin shared stories about local history and his part in preserving the past for future generations.
"You may not remember everyone you've talked to, but everyone will remember you," Fox told Irwin.
Irwin thanked the SOR members and Mayor Frank for the proclamation, and urged the SOR to continue its efforts to remind people about local history.
"To know where you're going, you have to know where you've been," Irwin said. "This area has a rich history, and you all do a great job of preserving it."
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