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Obama Accuses GOP Faction of Trying to ‘Extort’ Him on Healthcare Obama said he is “happy to negotiate with them around the budget,” but that he doesn’t want to create a pattern where the “full faith and credit of the United States becomes a bargaining chip to set policy.”

WASHINGTON — President Obama on Wednesday accused Republicans of using extortion in trying to kill his signature healthcare plan just days before it is implemented.

Speaking to business leaders, Obama criticized what he called “that faction” of the GOP that is willing to consider shutting down the government or defaulting on the debt to gut the Affordable Care Act. It is unprecedented, Obama said, “to extort a president” by forcing issues “that have nothing to do with the budget and nothing to do with the debt” into budget negotiations.

President Obama addresses members of the Business Roundtable on Wednesday in Washington, D.C.

Obama said he is “happy to negotiate with them around the budget,” but that he doesn’t want to create a pattern where the “full faith and credit of the United States becomes a bargaining chip to set policy.”

“It’s irresponsible,” he said.

The remarks were part of an ongoing appeal to corporate leaders from the White House to help pressure Republican lawmakers on the fall budget and debt negotiations.

The president’s appearance before the Republican-leaning group came as he faces impendSee obama, on page 2

Mayor Jamie Mayo

Troop A Day Promotes Safety Awareness To Public

Syria Gives Russia Chemical Weapons Evidence

BEIRUT — Syria has turned over materials to Russia which aim to show that a chemical weapons attack last month was carried out by rebels, a top Russian diplomat visiting Damascus and a Syrian official said Wednesday.

The Aug. 21 attack precipitated the current high tensions over Syria’s chemical weapons and sparked a plan under which it is to abandon them. A report by U.N. investigators confirmed that chemical weapons were used Aug. 21 but did not say by which side in Syria’s civil war.

The report did however provide trajectory data that suggested the chemical-loaded rockets that hit two Damascus suburbs were fired from the northwest, suggesting they came from nearby mountains where the Syrian military is known to have bases.

New York-based Human Rights Watch also said in a separate report that the presumed flight path of the rockets led back to a Republican Guard base in the same area.

“Connecting the dots provided by these numbers allows us to see for ourselves where the rockets were likely launched from and who was responsible,” Josh Lyons, a satellite imagery analyst for Human Rights Watch. But, he added, the evidence was “not conclusive.”

However, the ITAR-Tass news agency on Wednesday quoted Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov as saying that Syria told Russian officials the material it handed over shows “rebels participating in the chemical attack” See syria, on page 2

Monroe Mayor Jamie Mayo, Henry Herford, Blake Weathey qualify for Congress

Hundreds of residents turned out for the annual Louisiana State Police Troop A Day Sunday afternoon.

BATON ROUGE, LA - Hundreds of residents turned out for the annual Louisiana State Police Troop A Day Sunday afternoon.

State police troopers were joined by officers from law enforcement agencies from around the region, as well as a number of area emergency response crews.

The agencies showed off state-ofthe-art equipment and interacted with visitors.

Melinda Bellard and two her children were some of those visitors who had a chance to speak with the officers.

“Our local law enforcement is here to keep us safe, someone

they can go to when they come to mom or dad and I just want them to know about the safety aspects of it all,” said Bellard.

“We want to keep people safe and give them ideas to take home with them to keep them safe in their personal lives,” said Trooper Jared Sandifer.

Sandifer added among those ideas is promoting awareness on Louisiana roadways. He said in August alone, state police worked 26 fatalities throughout Louisiana. Many of those deaths were a result of travelers not properly See troop, on page 2

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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Monroe Mayor Jamie Mayo joined the field of candidates Tuesday in the special election to fill the 5th District congressional seat representing northeast and central Louisiana.

Mayo, a Democrat in office for 12 years, is one of six contenders in the Oct. 19 election to fill the job being vacated by U.S. Rep. Rodney Alexander, the state’s longestserving congressman.

Others who have filed registration paperwork for the race include: state Sen. Neil Riser, R-Columbia; state Rep. Marcus Hunter, D-Monroe; state Rep. Robert Johnson, D-Marksville; Henry Herford Jr., a Libertarian from Delhi; and Blake Weatherly, a Republican from Calhoun making his first bid for elected office.

More candidates are expected to jump in the race before qualifying at the Secretary of State’s Office ends Wednesday evening.

Mayo said he believes he can distinguish himself from others in the crowded field because he’s been a prominent political figure in the Monroe area for nearly two decades, first as a city councilman and then as mayor. He said his name recognition is strong in large portions of the sprawling district.

“Monroe is the hub of northeast Louisiana. Our media market reaches about 15 or 16 of the parishes, and I’m very involved in the entire region ... I’m no stranger to over half the district,” he said.

The 5th District covers all or part of 24 parishes across northeast Louisiana, through much of central Louisiana and including all the areas that run along the Mississippi state line. It is one of the nation’s poorest congressional districts.

Mayo said he’s aware of the district’s struggles because he grew up in rural poverty.

Alexander, first elected to the U.S. House in 2002, is resigning in September to become veterans affairs secretary in Gov. Bobby Jindal’s administration.

Candidates have accused Alexander and Jindal of trying to orchestrate the sequence of events and the tight timeline for the election to help Riser win the seat, an See congress, on page 2

SPORTS News

The Southern Jaguars won their first game of the season in tremendous fashion, pushing Prairie View to double overtime before taking the 62-59 win at Mumford Stadium....

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Habitat for Humanity Winning in dramatic fashion never gets old for Drew Brees. The New Orleans star was sacked four times, knocked around a bunch more and threw an interception that was returned for a touchdown Sunday..See Page 8

Habitat for Humanity of Greater Baton Rouge celebrated the building of its 300th home with MayorPresident Melvin “Kip” Holden with leaders from the business and faith communities on Sept. 13th in Scotlandville...See Page 3

U.S. Must Cut $2 Trillion

U.S. lawmakers are far from finished with the job of deficit-cutting, the Congressional Budget Office warned on Tuesday, saying that $2 trillion in additional savings is needed over the next 10 years just to stabilize U.S. debt....See Page 5

AIDS Vaccine Created at OHSU An HIV vaccine created by re-

searchers at Oregon Health & Science University may be able to completely wipe out the AIDScausing virus from the body, the university announced Wednesday. ...See Page 7

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SULC Announces New Director Of Development Tanya Freeman has joined the SULC as the new director of development. Freeman comes to the Law Center with more than nine years of experience as manager of business development for the University of Phoenix.

The first person to have the title at the university, she was responsible for building and nurturing relationships with the corporate executive level leadership to help them reach their strategic goals in enrollment, development, and alumni relations.

During her tenure at the University of Phoenix, Freeman represented the university working with governmental and corporations, establishing an innovative university brand throughout her territory.

These governmental and corporate relationships resulted into partnerships, which had great benefits for both parties. Specifically, for the University of Phoenix, the results included growth in enrollment and alumni participation.

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ing deadlines. Congress must take action to keep the government open or prepare for a shutdown Oct. 1.

Soon after, the federal government would hit the limit of the money it can borrow and would have to default on its bills unless lawmakers raise the debt ceiling.

Some House Republicans are talking about making their vote on those critical matters contingent

on a repeal of the 2010 health law.

House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) has a different plan — to push for deficitreduction measures in return for agreeing to increase the debt limit, goals his staff argues are related and would affect the long-term health of the economy.

A Boehner aide said Obama was making too much of the overall threat.

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The Baton Rouge native earned a bachelor’s degree in business management from Southern University and an MBA from the University of Phoenix.

A graduate of the 2006 Leadership Class of Greater Baton Rouge, Freeman currently is a member of the Leadership Alumni Board of Directors. She is serving a second term as vice chair on the East Baton Rouge Parish Library Board of Control and is past chair for Women’s Council of Greater Baton Rouge. Involved with many fund development and philanthropic growth campaigns, Freeman also has been active in the community through the American Heart Association, Go Red for Women Campaign.

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“No one is threatening to default,” said Boehner spokesman Brendan Buck. “The president only uses these scare tactics to avoid having to show the courage needed to deal with our debt crisis.”

Obama, though, stepped up his rhetoric about the threat, casting it in end-of-time terms.

He said Washington should get back to “what used to be called regular order around here.”

That order included debate and disagreement, Obama said, “but did not promise apocalypse every three months.”

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restrained.

“Unfortunately, we still do see a lot of fatal crashes and those can be prevented by people just putting seatbelts on, not drinking and driving and that’s what we’re out here to give that message,” Sandifer explained.

Aside from sharing the general message of safety, many of these agencies just want to let residents know they are also there to help any way they can and the importance of developing trust is exactly what Bellard is hoping her kids will understand.

“They’re not here to hurt us, they’re here to protect us regardless of sometimes we hear negative things about our police officers but they’re a major part of our lives, a major part of community and they’re there to keep us safe,” said Bellard.

“We want children at the start of a young age to know that police officers are people they can trust and come to if they need help and we also want to convey that message to the parents as well so they can turn around and teach their children,” added Sandifer.

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allegation that all three men deny.

Riser is considered the frontrunner in the short race. He’s received endorsements from three Republican members of Louisiana’s congressional delegation, and he’s already up with a campaign website and staff.

He’s also traveled with Alexander and shown up at the congressman’s events around the district for months.

“He has a leg up in a lot of

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areas, and I think that’s pretty obvious,” Mayo said.

But Mayo noted he had a strong showing in a recent poll, without having even launched his campaign.

Contenders for the congressional seat varied widely in how much they expected the race to cost them, with estimates from $250,000 to more than $1 million because the sprawling district covers four TV markets.

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but that Russia has not yet drawn any conclusions.

He also told broadcaster Russia Today that Russia has submitted to the U.N. Security Council abundant and credible evidence that suggests it was not the government that fired the chemical weapons.

“We are unhappy about this report, we think that the report was distorted, it was one-sided, the basis of information upon which it was built is insufficient,” he said, referring to the U.N. report.

Also Wednesday, Syrian President Bashar Assad received a U.S. delegation of former members of Congress and anti-war activists including former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark.

“Policies adopted by the American administration that are based on launching wars, intervening in other countries affairs and imposing hegemony on people do not achieve the interests of American people and contradicts with their values and principals,” SANA quoted Assad telling the U.S. delegation.

Elsewhere in the country, Kurdish gunmen captured the northeastern village of Alouk after four days of fighting with extremist groups including the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Four Kurdish gunmen and 17 jihadis were killed in the fighting, it added.

Meanwhile Syrian troops backed by members of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group fought rebels in the town of Beit Sahem, just south of the capital and near the highway leading to Damascus International Airport, the Observatory said.

Russia has been Syria’s main ally since the start of the conflict in March 2011, blocking proposed U.N. resolutions that would impose sanctions on Assad’s regime and opposing an attempt to authorize the use of force if Syria does not abide by the agreement to get rid of its chemical weapons.

Assigning responsibility for last month’s attack has become a heated international diplomatic issue. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his French counterpart Laurent Fabius sharply differed on the topic after meeting in Moscow on Tuesday.

Lavrov said Moscow has reason to believe the attack was a provocation staged by the rebels, while Fabius said the evidence clearly implicates the government side.

Russia also has repeatedly claimed that a chemical weapons attack in Syria on March 19 was committed by the rebels.

The reports did not specify the nature of the new material turned over by Syria to Russia, which Ryabkov said would be closely analyzed.

“But considering that earlier we came to the corresponding conclusion about the incident of March 19, we are inclined to treat with great seriousness the material from the Syrian side about the involvement of the rebels in the chemical attack of Aug. 21,” Ryabkov said, according to ITAR-Tass.

Also Wednesday, the chief U.N. chemical weapons inspector said his team will return to Syria “within weeks” to complete the investigation it had started before the Aug 21 gas attack and other alleged chemical weapons attacks in the country.

Ake Sellstrom told The Associated Press the team will evaluate “allegations of chemical weapons use from both sides, but perhaps mainly from the Syrian government’s side.”

He said he doesn’t currently think there is a need for more investigations of the Aug. 21 attacks, but said “if we receive any additional information it will be included next time we report.”

In London, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen welcomed the recent American-Russian agreement on eliminating chemical weapons in Syria, saying he thinks the “credible threat” of military See syria, on page 3

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action was the real reason “why diplomacy got a chance.”

He said that in order to ensure implementation of that agreement, it is crucial for the United Nations Security Council to “expeditiously adopt” a firm resolution to act as a framework for the process.

“In order to keep momentum in the diplomatic and political process the military option should still be on the table,” he added.

The fighting in Syria has killed more than 100,000 people, according to activists and the U.N., and has forced 7 million to flee their homes. Five million Syrians have been displaced inside the country and more than 2 million have sought refuge in the neighboring countries of Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and Iraq, according to the U.N.

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BATON ROUGE, La. - Authorities in the Baton Rouge area is finding more and more illegal drugs in the U.S. mail and private delivery services.

The Advocate (http://bit. ly/16tqTjz) reports that drugs have been found in plastic wraps, cereal boxes, cans and even dirty laundry. Most have a California return address.

Acting U.S. Attorney Walt Green says the amount of such shipments has increased over the past several months, but he doesn’t know why.

Mailing illegal drugs is a federal offense, but many Baton Rouge-area cases are prosecuted in state court because the amount of drugs is relatively small.

The U.S. Postal Inspection Service reports 1,760 arrests nationwide related to illegal drug shipments in fiscal year 2012.

That’s 33% up from the previous year and more than double the number reported six years ago.

From left, Norvel Blackburn, Mayor-President Melvin “Kip” Holden, Habitat for Humanity Board Vice President and Takarri Blackburn raise the first wall of what will be the 300th home constructed by Habitat for Humanity of Greater Baton Rouge in its 24 year history.

Habitat for Humanity of Greater Baton Rouge celebrated the building of its 300th home with Mayor-President Melvin “Kip” Holden with leaders from the business and faith communities on Sept. 13th in the Scotlandville neighborhood of North Baton Rouge at 1252 Wall St. “Habitat for Humanity has proven the power of communityminded volunteers working alongside deserving families to give them the helping hand they need to become home owners,” Mayor Holden said. “Every family deserves a safe and comfortable home and today we celebrate making a difference in the lives of 300 Baton Rouge families with a promise that together, we will keep on building.”

This home is the culmination of 24 years of building not just houses, but entire communities and will be a chance to reflect on all that we have accomplished and all the work that is still waiting to be done. Habitat houses are not just buildings; they are “homes” in every sense of the word and are a source of pride and stability to 300 families.

Habitat’s homeownerpartners have cumulatively spent

over 75,000 hours on Habitat build sites and have paid millions in mortgage payments over the past 24 years, which allows us to continue to build homes with deserving families.

The 300th Habitat homeowners are Norvel and Takarri Blackburn. As a child Norvel Blackburn moved around a lot.

He was constantly changing schools and getting bullied because he was always “the new kid.” When he was 8 years old all of that changed once his mother became a Habitat for Humanity homeowner. After that he had a stable place he could always go home to and it has made a huge impact on the rest of his life. He and Takarri want to provide the same kind of stability for their own children. Norvel has fond memories of growing up in his Habitat home, one of which was marking his height on the wall each year. It’s comforting to him that he can always go back and see those marks, and as his girls grow up he wants to do that for them.

“All of the donors and volunteers will probably never know just how much they have helped us,” Norval said. “We

Mayor-President Melvin “Kip” Holden presents Habitat for Humanity’s newest homeowners, Norvel and Takarri Blackburn, with commemorative items from the Vatican in honor of the construction of Habitat’s 300th home in the Baton Rouge area. The Mayor also proclaimed Sept. 13 “Norvell and Takarri Blackburn Day” in their honor. look at this as a chance to have a home, memories, a life. All of their time and donations will help us have that.”

The home will be built over 10 weeks at 1252 Wall Street in the Scotlandville neighborhood

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of North Baton Rouge. It will be 3 bedrooms, 1-½ bathrooms and approximately 1,100 square feet. The Blackburn family was chosen from a pool of qualified See habitat, on page 5

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NEW ORLEANS, LA - A federal judge has ordered a new trial for five former New Orleans police officers convicted of civil rights violations stemming from deadly shootings on a bridge in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

US District Judge Kurt Engelhardt ruled Tuesday that the “highly unusual, extensive and truly bizarre actions” of prosecutors warrant throwing out the officers’ convictions.

Attorneys for the five former officers convicted at trial in 2011 claim a series of leaks to news organizations were part of a “secret public relations campaign” that deprived their clients of a fair trial.

The defendants were: Kenneth Bowen, Robert Faulcon, Robert Gisevius, Archie Kaufman and Anthony Villavaso.

Police shot and killed two unarmed people and wounded four others on Sept. 4, 2005, at the Danziger Bridge before engaging in a cover-up designed to make the shootings appear justified.

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Congress is Eating Away at Food Stamps

By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Steven and Laurie, a White married couple that lives near Richmond, Va., work at a big box store.

She is a cashier; he works in the storeroom. Each earns about $9 an hour but neither works 40 hours a week. Indeed, they are lucky to pull 40 hours a week combined.

Sometimes weeks they are fortunate enough to pull 45 hours a week between them. Some weeks their combined hours are just 30.

I met Steven and Laurie (not their real names) on a telephone press conference in April. They said they had three children and also mentioned that they were White because “everybody thinks only Black people get these benefits.”

Seven and Laurie were troopers. They talked about buying clothes at thrift shops, searching for food bargains and planning menus around coupons, and managing to occasionally eke out a few pennies to buy occasional new things for their children. They didn’t complain, but spoke matter-of-factly about their financial situation.

They also spoke of looking for new jobs, but fining little available in their community.

Because they don’t work enough hours, neither Steven nor Laurie qualified for health insurance. Their combined incomes are so low – between about $16,000 and $21,000 – that they are officially poor (the poverty line for a family of five is $27,540). They qualify for food stamps, (called SNAP, or Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) and they consider them the blessing that helps them make ends meet.

Sometime this month, though, Congress will come up from the Syria conversation to, perhaps,

cut allocations for SNAP. The cut of $40 billion would deny between 4 and 6 million people food stamps. The new legislation would also allow states to require SNAP recipients to work. Some of the 12 million unemployed may not qualify for SNAP assistance, nor will childless adults who do not have work. Some restrictions may also limit SNAP assistance to three months every three years.

While some states have waived SNAP requirements because of their high unemployment rates, federal legislation may prevent such waivers.

The proposed cuts in SNAP is twice those proposed in May. These cuts are being driven by Republicans who, in their budget cutting frenzy, have been indifference to poverty. After all, the “p” word is used to infrequently in political debate, that one might think that poverty has magically gone away. Or, perhaps our legislators just don’t care.

The people who receive SNAP assistance don’t conform to any stereotypes. According to the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, about 20 percent of those receiving SNAP have college degrees. Half of the recipients are White. A third of the women who get help from SNAP are older than 40. Fifty thousand of those who receive SNAP assistance are veterans.

So many families are food insecure because of the employment situation. The unemployment rate dropped just a tick in August, slipping from 7.4 to 7.3 percent. Still, there are 11.3 million unemployed people. More than 4.3 million people have been unemployed for more than half a year. These folks, still looking for See stamps, on page 7

Crimes Against Black Humanity

By James Clingman NNPA Columnist We talk a lot about criminal justice and crime in the streets, especially among Black people.

Mass incarceration of Black men, disparate sentencing, private prisons, legal slavery inside prisons based on the 13th Amendment, and all the other plagues that beset us vis-à-vis our criminal justice system and prison industrial complex, dominate our conversations.

But, there is another take on crime that we often overlook or simply ignore; it’s the economic crimes we commit against ourselves.

Amos Wilson posed two questions in his book, Black on Black Violence: “Does the African American community, by continuing to permit itself to be ‘legitimately’ economically exploited by non-African American communities thereby de-legitimize itself and permit itself to be criminalized while de-criminalizing its exploiters? Has the African American community – addicted to wasteful and nonsensical consumerism, with its unwillingness to invest its wealth and human resources in itself, in America, and uncommitted to controlling its own internal markets – contributed in no small way to the criminalization of its sons, to the increasing impoverishment of its children, to the violence which prevails within its households and neighborhoods?”

If you are familiar with Amos Wilson’s work, you know he wrote very long sentences, but I believe it was because he had so much to say (See the volume of work he compiled in Blueprint for Black Power), and he knew the urgency with which he had to say it.

Wilson’s questions are not only interrogatory, they are declarative as well. They paint a dismal picture of who we are and what we are about when it comes to crime and punishment. They suggest, of course, that Black folks are not taking care of our

business economically, thus, actually causing much of the crime we lament in our neighborhoods.

It is indeed a crime to “allow” ourselves to be economically exploited, and we can be considered sick if we simply consume the products made by others but never invest in producing and purchasing products of our own. We commit economic crimes against ourselves; our children commit violent crimes against one another; and we are collectively punished as a result of such crimes. Are we able to break this vicious cycle of self-annihilation?

Our being both the perpetrator and the victim of the same economic crimes is just downright stupid. We commit the crimes of waste and conspicuous consumption, and then we are punished because of it. We refuse to develop, grow, and support our own businesses, and then we are punished by having to depend on someone else to fill our basic needs. We fail to help provide jobs for our youth, and they end up committing crimes against us and one another, while their unemployment rate nears 50 percent. Economically, our own actions accuse us, indict us, convict us, and punish us.

How can we demand respect when we are begging others to fill needs that we can fill for ourselves? What must our children think of us, as we show them we can’t take care of them? Some of us don’t even know how to grow a tomato for our families, yet we want “respect.”

There is no denying that many of us are doing well and “doing good” at the same time.

There are many conscious Black business owners across the country that are carrying probably 90 percent of the load for us by doing the right thing; they get up each day determined to help empower us in some way. Hats off to them!

They certainly deserve our kudos.

But it’s the rest of our people, the vast majority of us, who are in jeopardy of falling off the economic cliff.

CBC Should Highlight Detroit

By William Reed NNPA Columnist Since the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) started its Annual Legislative Conference (ALC) weekend, the “Michigan Reception” and “Motown Live Afterglow” have always been the premier parties. From the first Black Caucus weekend in 1971, Motown music executive LeBaron Taylor held the record for hosting the best ALC party.

Like other Detroit heavy-hitters, Taylor, a former radio DJ, stood out as an all-time pillar for the CBC’s decades of successes.

For the image of the Black Caucus to be maintained, before they host any festive events celebrating the 43rd ALC, Black American leaders should use the gathering to pay homage to Detroit and address its downfall.

It’s time to take measure of Black American’s views of Detroit. Before Blacks took over Detroit in 1950, the population numbered 1.85 million; as of 2011, Detroit had a population of just more than 700,000. It’s time Black political leadership address: What went wrong and why?

Over the years, the conferences on legislative and policy issues impacting the African

American community have been helpful, but the “top-shelf” parties always overshadowed the hearings. Before anyone sips a cocktail at ALC 43, it’s mandatory the nation’s top Black political operatives address: What caused Detroit’s demise?

Detroit has been under Black political leadership for more than four decades. Numerous factors have brought Detroit to this point, including a declining tax base.

Still, a huge, 139-square-mile city has to maintain; overwhelming health care and pension costs; repeated efforts to manage mounting debts with continued borrowing; annual deficits in the city’s operating budget since 2008; and city services crippled by outdated computer systems, abysmal record-keeping practices and widespread mismanagement and operational dysfunction.

It’s time the nation’s Black leadership focus on the urgent business at hand. The caucus describes its goals as “positively influencing the course of events pertinent to African Americans” … and “achieving greater equity for persons of African descent in the design and content of domestic and international programs and services.”

Thousands will attend the

four-day conference the ALC has labeled, It Starts with You. Touted as “a call to action to be and lead the positive change needed in public policy,” the sessions begin Wednesday, Sept. 18-21, 2013, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. Each year, the ALC’s highlight has proven to be the Phoenix Awards Gala fundraiser, at which time, the president of the United States usually attends.

The engine behind the ALC events is the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF), established in 1976. The CBCF is a public policy, research operation that aims to help the socioeconomic circumstances of African Americans. The CBCF bills the ALC as “providing an AfricanAmerican perspective on public policy with thought-provoking and educational policy forums, community education workshops and policy briefs.”

The 2013 CBCF Weekend’s credibility is at stake, if current leadership attempts to ignore the Detroit debacle and what wrong transpired in the “Motor City.”

The New York Times reported that between 2004 and 2008, CBC’s political and charitable wings amassed at least $55 million in corporate and union

contributions. Black “Special Markets” managers and executives provided the initial support for the conference, its seminars and exhibitions. If the CBCF decided to recognize long-time supporters, including the late Ofield Dukes, and Taylor, that group would also have to include beverage executive Henry H. Brown.

This trio greatly contributed to the CBC, and its charities. These African-American executives served as the forerunners of the current Corporate Advisory Council (CAC) in supporting CBCF programs and objectives.

CBC Corporate Advisory Board members sit on various caucus committees to help members of Congress decide what positions to take on issues. These traditionally included cigarette companies, automobile manufacturers, Internet poker operators, beer brewers and the rent-to-own industry, which has become a particular focus of consumer advocates for its practice of charging high monthly fees for appliances, televisions and computers.

Dissenters, say that Black Caucus celebrants are lost in purpose and mission. But Black Caucus Weekend continues to evolve.

Black Consumers Remain Strong Supporters of Dodd-Frank

By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist A recent consumer survey shows that support for financial regulation, including the DoddFrank Wall Street Reform Act and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), is strong. Nearly five years after America’s financial meltdown, a nationwide summer survey of likely 2014 voters found that voters trust the CFPB more than banks and credit card companies by a 3-1 margin. Further, support for financial regulation spans across age groups, racial lines and partisan preferences.

The strongest support for financial regulation rests with consumers of color. Among African Americans, the CFPB is viewed as protection from dangerous financial products and its cop-onthe-beat monitoring by 72 percent.

Among Latino respondents, this same support was found with 78 percent of respondents.

Considering that communities of color have lost the most ground during the greatest recession since that of the 1930s, racial

variations in responding to the poll are understandable. African Americans are also the same consumers who heavily invested more in their homes than in stocks or bonds to chart a personal course to build family wealth. According to research by the Center for Responsible Lending, $1 trillion of lost wealth from the recession was borne by people of color.

It is equally true that communities of color are also the unfortunate targets of predatory lenders offering a range of highcost products that often leave consumers in worse financial shape than before. Perhaps that truism explains why poll respondents named payday loans, credit cards and student loans as the top three areas in need of tougher regulations.

Payday lending’s small-dollar loans with high interest rates were viewed as their best option for a loan by only 1 percent of respondents. This unfavorable finding was also evidenced across all demographics. For example, respondents with household incomes in excess of $75,000 had the highest unfavorable rating at

82 percent, followed by 75 percent of Republicans. Even 72 percent of households earning less than $30,000 view these lenders unfavorably, despite these consumers tending to be more likely to obtain payday loans. Negative views of payday lenders were held by 68 percent of African Americans surveyed and 59 percent of Latinos.

Although many respondents were unaware of specific provisions of the Credit CARD Act, better than 90 percent supported three of its key requirements: Card issuers cannot retroactively change interest rates on existing balances; Disclosure of the time required to fully repay with only the minimum amounts; and Lender obligation to tell consumers their credit scores if they were used to deny or charge more for a loan or credit.

As for student loans, nearly 90 percent of respondents felt borrowers should be able to repay their loans based on their incomes.

Student loan debt was also cited as a cause for the nation’s lingering economic problems. Consumers viewed this indebtedness as rea-

sons affecting the growth of new businesses as well as a deterrent to first-time home ownership.

The survey by Lake Research Partners was supported by the Ford Foundation and commissioned by Americans for Financial Reform and the Center for Responsible Lending.

The survey found that broad and intense support exists for more and tougher regulation of the financial industry. Voters view regulation as the best protection against lingering and wide mistrust of banks and Wall Street.

Complete poll results are available at: http://rspnsb. li/16kYb4D. If you share the sentiments of survey participants, be sure to tell your members of Congress.

Constituent voices, added to efforts of mobilized advocates can together provide enough pressure to ensure that real financial reforms continue.

Charlene Crowell is a communications manager with the Center for Responsible Lending.

She can be reached at Charlene. crowell@responsiblelending.org.

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State Audit Reveals DNR Short Falls in Royalties Collected BATON ROUGE, LA—Louisiana has been receiving royalties from the oil and gas industry on the minerals collected from its lands and waterways for decades. In fact, the State Department of Natural Resources says $2.8 billion was collected between 2008 and 2012.

A 23-page report by the Louisiana Legislative Auditor released Monday says during that time, the Office of Mineral Resources is reviewing less of those royalties.

“While it may look like they are still collecting a large amount that’s based on times when their audit coverage was higher and now that their audit coverage is lower and they’re identifying less in years to come, people will see they will probably see that they’re collecting less as well,” said Nicole Edmonson, Director of Performance Audits.

The state audit also reveals that the Department of Mineral Resources issued $12.8 million in late fees for royalties but eventually waived $5.8 million of those fees.

“Any royalty they’re short on being all or part is due and that is never waived,” said DNR Communications Director Patrick Courreges.

Courreges says late fees are only waived when a company can prove late or non-payment was a mistake and adds that is

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better than a costly legal process.

“It’s been felt that is a strong incentive to companies for them to self report and cooperate, to tell the ones that do work with us, the ones that do catch their own mistakes, if you come to us with this it will be better for you than us finding on our own,” said Courreges.

Don Briggs is President of the Louisiana Oil and Gas Association and says the millions in waived late fees is small compared to the amount these companies pay the state annually. In a statement released Riggs says: “$1.2 billion was contributed to the state coffer last year through royalty payments, severance taxes, leases and bonuses, this dollar amount is not a severe divide. This is less than 1% underpaid out of the total amount.”

Edmonson says uncollected payment is always an issue especially for a state that routinely has budget concerns.

“From what we found it’s still $5.8 million that were assessed in fees that were ultimately waived and $5.8 million in these budget times for many state agencies would be a lot of money,” said Edmonson.

She also adds that DNR officials worked with the state auditor every step of the way and says the office recognized areas for improvement and will make changes moving forward.

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U.S. Must Cut $2 Trillion Over 10 Years to Stabilize Debt U.S. lawmakers are far from finished with the job of deficitcutting, the Congressional Budget Office warned on Tuesday, saying that $2 trillion in additional savings is needed over the next 10 years just to stabilize long-term U.S. debt.

In new long-term forecasts that will intensify the fiscal debate in Washington as critical deadlines loom, the CBO said U.S. public debt will balloon to 100 percent of the nation’s economic output in 25 years if no action is taken, increasing the risk of another financial crisis.

That’s up from about 73 percent this year and a 40-year historical average of about 38 percent. And the picture looks worse if Congress does away with the “sequester” across-the-board spending cuts now in place, the non-partisan CBO said.

Revenue growth from a recovering U.S. economy and a January tax increase on the wealthy are helping to shrink near-term deficits, but this is not enough to overcome the rising pension and health care costs associated with the aging Baby Boom generation, CBO director Doug Elmendorf said.

“The bottom line remains the same as it was last year. The federal budget is on a course that cannot be sustained indefinitely,” Elmendorf told a news conference.

In order to cut U.S. debt levels significantly, CBO said it would take an additional $4 trillion worth of cuts over the next decade. That would shrink U.S. public debt in 2038 to 31 percent of gross do-

Secretary Of Revenue To Discuss LA Tax Amnesty 2013 Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf holds a news conference on February 5, 2013. mestic product (GDP), below the 40-year average.

While the deficit is still forecast to fall from around 4 percent of GDP this year to a sustainable 2 percent in 2015, it will then start rising again. CBO projected that with no changes in tax and spending laws, the deficit will reach almost 3.5 percent of GDP by 2023 and hit 6.4 percent by 2038. Public debt will make a similar dip to 68 percent in 2018 before rising again.

The latest forecasts come as lawmakers race against a September 30 deadline to pass new government spending authority to prevent a government shutdown.

Congress also faces a mid-October deadline to raise the $16.7 trillion federal debt limit to avoid a potential default that would roil global financial markets.

The deadlines have also become intertwined with Republi-

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The Church Lady Report By the Church Lady Hey Babies, how‘s everybody doing? I hope you all made it to church on this past weekend.

I went and Chile did I have myself a time. Babies God is good! I got myself a word from the Lord so I hope that you got yours too!

Don’t you know I needed it too because no sooner than I walked outside the church doors them devils were waiting on me. Help me Lord! Oh, yawl don’t hear me! You know what I’m talking about. You know how that devil does it…eaves dropping on the sermon and then he makes all hell break loose!

Funny thing is though, have you ever noticed how usually what the preacher preaches about is just the thing that ole slew foot uses to trip you up? The devil is a liar! So somebody better call that demon out some truth! It is written If God is for me who can be against me! Hallelujah!

Well, don’t get me started because I could go on and on and on…but I need to tell you all about what’s been going on in these churches… By the way, it would help me a whole lot if yawl would just send me some news.

I’m just saying is all, because I’m not trying to be mean babies, but you all don’t want to bring me any news. I guess I’m just going to have to put a tap on the phones

of some of you sisters and a few of you brothers too. Seems like that’s the only way I’m going to get the scoop.

Well, there are a few things going on in the city this weekend…Mt Pleasant Baptist Church is celebrating 147 years. Wow! I wonder how many preachers you church folk have gone through in all that time? Now babies yawl know I don’t mean no harm I just tell it like it TI is; you church folk are a mess, and the preachers are something too, but you all raise um up to be thata way. Well anty way, Mt. Pleasant Senior choir will be having an anniversary celebration on Friday, September 27, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. They’re going to have a guest choir; Arthur and Friends Community Choir. The church is located at 1748 Convention St. and if you have any more questions that I didn’t answer or if you’re just nosey you can call Vanessa DeMulle at (504) 7108241. Now somebody told me that Pastor Cyrus and the New Hope B.C. over there on Greenwell Springs Rd. are having their church anniversary on Sunday September 22nd at 10:45 a.m.

They didn’t know what year though. Chile the turnover has been so great I guess there’s nobody still there who remembers or they have all gone home to See church lady, on page 7

Religion

Domestic Violence Awareness is Key in Stopping Abuse

By Donald Lee and Bre Eaton The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, a Denver, Colo.-based nonprofit organization working to combat domestic abuse, offers alarming statistics.

One in every four women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime; 1.3 million women are victims of physical assault by an intimate partner each year; an intimate partner kills almost onethird of female homicide victims that are reported in police reports.

In 70 percent to 80 percent of intimate partner homicides, no matter which partner was killed, the man physically abused the woman before the slaying; and less than one-fifth of victims reporting an injury from intimate partner violence sought medical treatment.

Know, too, that witnessing violence between one’s parents or caretakers is the greatest risk factor of transmitting violent behavior from one generation to the next; boys who witness domestic violence are twice as likely to abuse their own partners and children when they become adults; and 30 percent to 60 percent of perpetrators of intimate partner violence also abuse children in the household.

For this reason, singles, you should be careful who you consider having an intimate re-

lationship with. The best way to safeguard yourself (and your children) from entering into an abusive relationship is to have an intimate relationship with the Lord.

God will connect you with spiritually mature friends. He will especially direct you to a church home where the pastor has wisdom and will cover you in prayer and wise counsel.

To those who are already in abusive relationships, know that it is not God’s will for you to stay in any relationship --- marriage included --- in which your physical or mental health or your life is at risk.

Somebody might say: “God can change the other person.” That may be true. But Jesus already died for that person that he might get it straight, which means you don’t have to.

And if you’re in an abusive relationship, and you have children, know that that sweet little,

innocent boy who grows up saying he’ll never hit a woman is the most likely to do (as an adult) what he swore (as a child) he’d never do. That sweet, little girl who grows up watching Mama get beaten is more likely to gravitate to an abusive man when she becomes an adult.

Understand that domestic violence is inexcusable. If you’re abused, seek help. You don’t have to live in fear.

For prayer, call my Dallasbased church, Kingdom Living Christian Center’s, teleconference line from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Mondays through Fridays. The number is (218) 862-4590 (conference code: 279498#).

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Claude J. Doucette Obituary

Claude J. Doucette He was 94, a resident of Baton Rouge and native of Loreauville.

He was a U.S. Army veteran.

A retired service station owner and real estate broker, he passed away Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013.

The viewing of the body was at Hall’s and Sons Funeral Home located at 9348 Scenic Hwy., on Monday, Sept. 16, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Funeral at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church located at 1565 Curtis St., was on Tuesday, Sept. 17, started at 9 a.m. There was a reception of the rosary at 9:30 a.m. with Interment in Lady of Victory Cemetery, Loreauville. Survived by two daughters, Beverly D. Francois and Angela See doucette, on page 7

Church Directory

Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. - Hebrews 10:25 Let the community know whats happing at your place of worship. Email your church event or religious organization news to The Weekly Press @ theweeklypress@yahoo.com or call 225-775-2002

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Pastor Rev. Dr. Roosevelt Florida, Jr. Co-Pastor Rose J. Florida

Vision Christian Center, International Seeking New Members for the Hope Christian Center 5013 Windfall Court Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70812 Reverend Henry Martin, Pastor Service Hour: 12:00 noon Wednesday

Telephone: 225-355-8194

1047 Rosenwald Road Baton Rouge, LA 70807 Telephone: (225) 774-8125 • E-Mail - visionchristianc@bellsouth.net Sunday Worship.........................................................................10:00 a.m.

Holy Communion2nd Sunday.................................................... 10:00 a.m.

Intercessory Prayer Wednesday................................................. 6:00 p.m.

Mid-Week ServiceWednesday.................................................... 7:00 p.m.

NEW Hope Baptist Church 5856 Greenwell Springs Road • Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70806 Telephone: (225) 926-0246 • Facsimille: (225) 925-8022 Toll Free: 888-700-6174 Websites: www.newhopebr.com Rev. Leo Cyrus Sr., Pastor Order Of Services Sunday Worship...................................................... 11:00 A.M. Holy Communion.................................. 3rd Sunday 6:00 P.M. Sunday School..........................................................9:00 A.M. Bible Study................................................Thrusday 7:00 P.M.

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Concerns Raised About Navigating Health Exchange

BATON ROUGE, La. — State lawmakers say they are concerned about a shortage of people helping Louisiana residents sign up for new insurance options available under the federal health care law.

The worries were discussed Tuesday as the House and Senate insurance committees approved state regulations to oversee four organizations splitting $1.8 million in federal grants to help with education and enrollment across the state.

Registration opens Oct. 1 for the uninsured to shop for health coverage through online marketplaces, called “exchanges.”

Federal subsidies are available to people, depending on their income levels, to help cover costs.

Lawmakers say many people will need assistance to wade through the complexities involved in shopping for insurance. They said Tuesday they don’t believe the federal “navigator” grants will provide enough people to cover the need.

Recession Not Health Law May Be Responsible for Cost Curb

The four-year slowdown in U.S. health-care spending will end next year, and there is no sign the Affordable Care Act will significantly curb the acceleration in costs, government actuaries said in a report.

President Barack Obama has said the 2010 health-system overhaul helped curb national medical spending, which that year rose 3.9 percent, or about half pre-recession levels. Actuaries at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, who don’t answer to the White House, said in the journal Health Affairs today that spending eased because of the economy,

Church Lady be wit Jesus. You know how you folk like to church hop. I know sometimes you have to move on though because you just outgrow a place or God says I need you to be somewhere else. Just make sure it’s God’s spirit you’re listening to babies and not that other one because he will catch you up in a trick bag. Don’t you let nobody run you away from the church, not even the pastor because God is gonna work it all out before it’s over; just stand. Anyway, I hope both of these churches have good celebrations because whether it is 147 years or 9 months; continue to keep the house of God going yawl.

Now if you’re looking for another place to hang out this weekend and you don’t mind driving; the East Feliciana Male Chorus of Clinton, Louisiana is celebrating their 44th year anniversary. Hm, I wonder how old these men are, but I reckon they haven’t all been singing for 44 years straight unless they started at two. I’m just thinking out loud and you know how that is. Now look, if you want to go to the program it is going to be at The New Slaughter B.C. 4756 Highway 412 East Slaughter, La.

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from page 6 For more information call Bro. Willie at (225) 276-1401. Brother Willie! What? They said to call Brother Willie.

Hee, hee come on yawl take some of the stress off. The Oak Grove Christian Center 8755 Pride Port-Hudson Road, Zachary, LA; will be celebrating their Pastor Bishop Oren Ruth Sr. on his 10th year anniversary on Sunday September 29th at 3:00 p.m.

Bishop George Veal of Richland and Calvary Baptist Churches of Norwood, La. will deliver the message.

There’s lots of celebrating going on this weekend so I can’t wait to hear how it all turns out, but I’ll bet none of them are going to top Pastor Cyrus having the mayor up in there or Bishop Payne’s purple suit. Hee, hee… you better ask somebody! Well, I am going to cut it short this week babies. I’ll make it up to yawl next week I promise. Send me that news. I’m an equal opportunity reporter so I want to hear from all of you. All it has to be is church because all of us are the same anyway and I don’t know if that is good or bad, but anyway…

Stay saved babies, and I’ll see you in church!

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Doucette; and grandson, Curtis J. Doucette Jr. His wife, Rose J. Doucette; parents, Treville and Beulah

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not Obamacare.

This report won’t be good news for those who have argued that the Affordable Care Act would reduce costs. It provides strong evidence that the slowdown in spending isn’t related to the health law, said James Capretta, a policy analyst at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington who worked in the administration of former President George W. Bush.

“It certainly adds one more piece to the puzzle for those who say ’hey wait a second, this isn’t the final word on how to reform American health care,”’ he said in a phone interview.

Doucette; and a son, Curtis, preceded him in death. He was a member of St. Vincent de Paul and the Knights of Peter Claver.

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work after more than 27 weeks, would be no longer eligible for SNAP assistance.

The unemployment rates, as reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, clearly understate unemployment. When we count people who work part-time but want full time work, those who are marginally attached to the labor force, the overall unemployment rate rises from 7.3 percent to 14.6 percent.

The Black unemployment, reported at 13 percent, soars to 26 percent, a depression level of unemployment. It is undeniable that the unemployment rate is improving, with overall unemployment dropping from 8.1 percent a year ago to 7.3 percent today. But the downward pace has been glacial, with the level of job creation (169,000) too slow to keep up with job loss. Millions will remain unemployed for the next six months or so.

Against this backdrop Congress has the temerity to propose legislation that will deny millions of families SNAP benefits. Their indifference to joblessness and poverty is amazing. They’ve not

exhibited similar indifference for those at the top, maintaining tax breaks for them.

Steve and Laurie struggle to make ends meet. They are good, hardworking, and people just like millions of others. They work part time for economic reasons, preferring full time work. They need food stamps, and it is not clear, under proposed legislation, whether they will qualify for them. I worry about Steve and Laurie, and I also worry about the 11.3 million unemployed people, the 4.3 million who have not worked in half a year, and the 2 to 4 million families who will not qualify for SNAP. Worry is not enough, though. This is yet another reason why a people’s uprising is necessary. The uprising must transcend race lines – it ought to reflect Dr. Martin Luther King’s Poor People’s Campaign.

Congress won’t change its indifference to the poor unless somebody makes them.

Julianne Malveaux is a Washington, D.C.-based economist and writer. She is President Emerita of Bennett College for Women in Greensboro, N.C.

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therefore, humble yourselves under the mighty hands of God, that he may exalt you in due time, “casting all your cares upon him, for he cares for you,”(1st Peter 5:6-7).

After you finished having your tantrum. You may have a stopped up nose and swollen eyes and mucus running down your lip and occur dried tears on your face, but ness each year in the United you’ll By feelfar, better emptying States. mostafter of these cases yourself of cause those symptoms things which are mild and for had been on Some your heart. only a dayheavy or two. cases, Sometimes we goserious. for weeks however, are more In or months trying to take matters 2008, the Centers for Disease Coninto(CDC), our hands and try to solve our trol estimated that 23,000 own problems.

We are not super people were sick from food-borne humans; we1,200 can’t of handle illness and thoseeverywere thing alone. The We need God’s help. hospitalized. microorganisms We have to food-borne let go of those situwhich cause illnesses ations and tend let God handle them.

(Pathogen) to have a trementhere are some things can’t dous and sometimes fatalwe effect on humanly do anything about. the youth and the elderly.

A common food contaminant is Salmonella. Every year, approximately 40,000 cases of Salmonellosis are reported in the United States. Salmonella can be found

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in different types of food. In July, 2008 a major recall was issued on some type of vegetables tainted with Salmonella. In 2007, Peter Pan Peanuts Butter was recalled survey commissioned due to(NAPSM)-A presence of Salmonella. by two leading health Different types of meat organizations can also found thatwith although two outand of three be infected Salmonella African Americans (61 percent) Ecoli. Learning food safety strate- expressed concern about developing gies, therefore, can help minimize heart disease two out five (40 risks to you andand those youofcare percent) expressed concern about about. developing only about The fourAlzheimer’s, most important one in 20toare aware thatsafe heart health guidelines keep food are: is linked to brain health.

Clean —Wash hands and surfaces Alzheimer’s cross-conAssociation is often;the Separate—Don’t joining forces with American taminate; Cook — Cookthe to proper heart Association to educate African temperatures; Chill — Refrigerate Americans that by managing their promptly. cardiovascular risk, they may also strengthen cognitive health.

Authoredtheir by: Fatemeh Malekian, “What’s Ph.D. good for your heart is good for your saysUniJennifer Professor atbrain,” Southern Manly, Ph.D., Alzheimer’s versity Agricultural ResearchAssociaand tion spokesperson. “every healthy Extension Center heartbeat pumps about one-fifth of your blood to your brain to carry on the daily processes of thinking, problem solving and remembering.”

“By the year 2030, the number of African Americans age 65 or older is expected to more than double to 6.9 million,” said emil Matarese, M.D., American heart Association spokesperson. “Although Alzheimer’s is not part of normal aging, age is the greatest risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease. So it is important that African Americans take steps now to decrease their risk of heart disease, which research has shown could also decrease the risk of cognitive decline.”

AmeriHealth Caritas Partnership, LaCare Team Up in Fight Against Diabetes

ering all children. the citizens of the nation must the CDF Action Council, build- demand that our leaders free our ing on the best practices in states children from the false ideological and lessons learned about children and political tugs of war among falling through the bureaucratic those who put excess profits ahead cracks of Medicaid and SChiP, of children’s lives. strongly urged Congress to enact how well did Congress protect the All healthy Children Act, children in 2007? Not well enough: S. 1564/h.r. 1688, introduced 276 Members of Congress had by representative Bobby Scott good CDF Action Council Con(D-VA) in the house and Senator gressional Scorecard scores of 80 Bernie Sanders (i-Vt) in the Sen- percent or higher, and 198 of those ate. the measure would provide had stellar scores of 100 percent. comprehensive benefits including But 231 members scored 60 percent dental and mental health, simpli- or lower—a failing grade from our fied bureaucracy, and a national school days. eligibility plan for families up to Whether Members of Congress 300 percent of the federal poverty are liberal, conservative or modlevel. We thank the 62 house co- erate; Democrat, republican or sponsors for their support. how- independent, children need all of ever, we regret that neither a single them to vote, lobby, speak for and house republican nor any other protect them. Adults need to listen Senator joined them to push for carefully to what candidates say coverage for all children. they will do for children and famithe CDF Action Council strongly lies and, once they are in office, supports long overdue health cov- we need to hold them accountable. erage for everyone in America as Please thank your Members of Consoon as possible—because children gress with scores of 80 percent or cannot wait. As SChiP comes up above and let those with scores of BATON ROUGE,inLA— it,”percent said Steven pasagain for reauthorization early 60 or belowBeckham, know you are While 358,000 Louitor of Church Life Fellowship.

2009,an weestimated hope every Member of dissatisfied withof their performance. siana adults have diabetes, pro- And “Weplease are pleased to same support Congress will insist on covering convey that mes-the active lifestyles AmeriHealth Caritas candidate.

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Caritas diabetes in our Specious claims that we could communities is one of the ways ration with LaCare, a Medicaid not find the money—$70 Marian Wright Edelman is Presimanaged care health planbillion serv- LaCare and the AmeriHealth over five years—to all dent of thePartnership Children’s Defense Fund a ing Louisiana, will holdcover their first Caritas are building children Boot is belied by that its Action Council whose Leave Diabetes Camp.

Thisamount engag- and healthier Louisiana,” said Rebecca spent eleven months for tax cuts Child Behind® mission is to of ing yetininformative program for No Engelman, executive director for the top one percent of richest every child a Healthy Start, LaCare members will take place ensure LaCare.

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Caritas Family of Companies, a The Diabetes Boot Camp is majority-owned subsidiary of part of the AmeriHealth Caritas Independence Blue Cross; Blue 4 Partnership’s Health Ministry, alk adio from page Cross Blue Shield of Michigan a faith-based, health education holds a minority interest. program designed to educate all funny or remotely appropri- we forget o’reilly’s less-thanA team of diabetes educators participants on important health ate about the use of a lynching informed comments regarding a will help participants learn how topics. Health Ministry events adreference about Michelle obama,’’ dinner he shared last year with tohewin the‘’it’s fight- i’m against diabetes, Sharpton dress theatbody, mind and spirit said. speechless.’’

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LaCare Neitherprevalent o’reilly among nor ingraham imus’interested decline and of especially lower- from members in fall? attending has beenpopulations reprimanded by their re- course because it didn’t take income that often shouldnot, contact LaCare at 225-300spective employers even though imus terribly long to get a have the hardest time managing 9213 too or 225-924-2484. the Fox News personality did offer new gig. a half-hearted apology. our nation’s media outlets At least ingraham didn’t drop should not provide a platform for the l-word but her suggestion that racialhostility and hateful speech Sharpton, a former presidential now or in the future. What kind of candidate and respected member of messageare we sending to our chilthe African-American community dren, our nation and our world? and beyond, is a petty thief reeks in such an historic election year, of race-baiting and negative ste- we cannot stand aside and allow reotyping of African-Americans individuals to use the airwaves and black men in particular. as an outlet for insensitive and But it’s hardly the first time ei- misguidedcommentary. if you ther has ventured into questionable hear something that offends you, and offensive territory. how can speak up.

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Hartley’s Late FG Gives Saints 16-14 Win Over Bucs

LSU Easily Gets Past Kent St. 45-13

Jarvis Landry hauls in a pass from Zach Mettenberger and takes it 31 yards for the touchdown.

BATON ROUGE, LA Zach Mettenberger passed for three touchdowns, Jeremy Hill ran for two and eighth-ranked LSU easily defeated Kent State, 45-13, on Saturday night.

Hill rushed 11 times for 117 yards, all in the first two quarters, as LSU (3-0) looked sound in its final tuneup before opening Southeastern Conference play against Auburn next weekend.

Mettenberger connected with Jarvis Landry on touch-

Diabetes New orleans Saints kicker Garrett Hartley, second from left, is swarmed by teammates linebacker Martez Wilson, left, and Josh Hill, center, as Tampa Bay Biccaneers outside linebacker Lavonte David (54) walks off the field after Hartley kicked the game-winning field goal as time ran out the end of an NFL football game in Tampa, Fla., Sunday, Sept. 15, 2013 TAMPA, FL (AP) -- Winning in dramatic fashion never gets old for Drew Brees.

The New Orleans star was sacked four times, knocked around a bunch more and threw an interception that was returned for a touchdown Sunday.

Still, he and the Saints found a way to beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers again. ‘’That’s football. That’s why we love it, and that’s why we never give up, because we always feel like we have a chance,’’ Brees said Sunday after leading a last-minute drive to set up Garrett Hartley’s 27-yard as time expired to give New Orleans a weatherdelayed 16-14 victory.

Brees shrugged off the mistake that gave Tampa Bay the lead early in the fourth quarter to complete three straight passes for 54 yards to lead the Saints (2-0) into position to beat their NFC South rivals for the fourth straight time.

He finished 26 of 46 for 322 yards, although interceptions by linebackers Dekoda Watson and Mason Foster led to all of Tampa Bay’s points.

‘’I think wins like this are vital because no matter what you’ve done in the past, you’ve got to kind of prove it to yourself that this team can do that and overcome those types of odds and circumstances and get a win - on the road, in the division,’’ Brees said. ‘’These just become so meaningful, and our team got better today.’’

The game was interrupted by a 69-minute suspension of play because of lightning that sent fans at Raymond James Stadium scurrying for cover in the first quarter.

The Bucs (0-2) lost on a field goal in the closing seconds for the second straight week. Foster scored on an 85-yard interception return for a 14-13 lead.

However, Rian Lindell missed a 46-yard field-goal attempt just over a minute left, giving Brees one more chance to bring the Saints back. ‘’It’s tough to lose no matter (how),’’ Foster said. ‘’You’ve got to tip your hat to Drew Brees and his receivers making great plays.

He’s a great quarterback. He’s proven that over the years.’’

Brees led his team into scoring position with completions of 15 yards to Jimmy Graham, 8 yards to Darren Sproles and 31 yards to Marques Colston.

It was the 22nd time during the regular season Brees has led a winning drive in the fourth quarter or overtime since joining the Saints in 2006. ‘’The fact of the matter is we’ve worked so hard. We’ve conditioned ourselves to be prepared for these opportunities, and you just visualize success,’’ said Brees, who threw a first-quarter TD pass to Graham, who had 10 catches for 179 yards. ‘’You visualize yourself making plays, so really I can say there was no doubt among our team.’’

The Bucs played resilient defense to stay in the game, but in the end weren’t able to generate enough offense.

Tampa Bay was penalized 13 times for 102 yards during a season-opening 18-17 loss to the New York Jets, including three costly personal fouls - the last of which set up the Jets’ gamewinning field goal in the closing

seconds. They had three more penalties for hard hits in the second quarter Sunday.

Defensive end Adrian Clayborn was assessed an unnecessary roughness penalty for a hard hit on Brees, safety Dashon Goldson was flagged for a blow to the head on Sproles two plays later, and safety Ahmad Black later was called for what appeared to be a helmet-to-helmet hit on Graham on an incompletion down the middle off the field.

The game was stopped with 10:30 remaining in the first quarter. When play resumed, Watson at the Saints 35 to set up Josh Freeman’s 5-yard TD pass to Kevin Ogletree to put the Bucs up 7-3 intercepted Brees’ first pass.

Freeman completed nine of 22 passes for 125 yards. Doug Martin rushed for 144 yards on 29 carries for Tampa Bay. The Bucs say they are disappointed, though far from discouraged, to be 0-2. ‘’This team is a resilient team,’’ coach Greg Schiano said. ‘’The head coach is a resilient guy.’’

Southern Wins in Double Overtime 62-59

down passes of 21 and 31 yards.

His other scoring pass went for 5 yards to Odell Beckham Jr. Terrance Magee added a 12yard scoring run.

Kent State quarterback Colin Reardon completed 20 of 29 passes for 190 yards, ran for a short touchdown and was not intercepted. However, the Golden Flashes (1-2) allowed at least 570 yards for a second straight week and never threatened after falling behind 21-0.

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SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY FOOTBALL SCHEDULE 2013 Aug. 30,7:30pm at UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON

September 7, 6:00pm at NORTHWESTERN STATE (Natchitoches) September 14, 6:00PM at PRAIRIE VIEW A&M (HOME) September 21, 1:00pm at MISSISSIPPI VALLEY STATE

(Itta Bena, MS) September 28, 6:00pm JACKSON STATE (HOME) October 12,6:00PM ALABAMA A&M (HOME) October 19, 2:30pm at ARKANSAS-PINE BLUFF

(Pine Bluff, AR) October 26, 5:30PM ALCORN STATE (HOMECOMING 2013) November 2, 6:00pm at TEXAS SOUTHERN

(Houston, Texas) November 9, 1:00pm at ALABAMA STATE

(Montgomery, Ala.) November 16, 6:00PM CLARK ATLANTA (HOME) November 30, 1:30pm Grambling State

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The Jaguars pulled off a 29-point fourth quarter to pushovertime against the Panthers, capping off the improbable comeback with anovertime touchdown to win, 62-59.

The Southern Jaguars won their first game of the season in tremendous fashion, pushing Prairie View to double overtime before taking the 62-59 win at Mumford Stadium.

Lee Doss caught the touchdown catch in the second frame of extra play giving the Jaguars the win after the Panthers had to settle for a field goal.

After being embarrassed badly

in their first two games, the Jaguars desperately needed to win one to get back any kind of momentum heading into SWAC play.

Jaguar quarterback Dray Joseph finished the game with 30

completions on 48 attempts for 480 yards and six touchdowns.

Most importantly he did not have an interception.

Tailback Leonard Tillery rushed for three touchdowns.

October 5, October 12, October 19, October 26, November 2, November 9, November 16, November 23,T November 29,

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