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Activists Call on White House to Use ‘Bully Pulpit’ for Black Economic Progress

By Hazel Trice Edney NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – As 2009 ended with Black unemployment rates at 15.6 percent - more than twice the rate of a decade ago , a dramatic five points more than a year ago, and twice the White unemployment rate - civil rights leaders are calling on President Obama to pointedly use his ‘bully pulpit’ on behalf of African-Americans.

“I think there’s a need for an additional stimulus package and the president needs to use his bully pulpit to make sure that not only is the money provided, but that governors, mayors and local officials actually spend it on the most vulnerable communities in our cities and states,” says Harvard Professor Charles Ogletree, director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice.

In an interview with the NNPA News Service, Ogletree says special attention must be focused on “getting jobs to people, who are not just skilled or semi-skilled, but even the unskilled workers. That will be an important component of the stimulus packet as early as this spring.”

Ogletree was referring to President Obama’s contemplation of yet another stimulus package as a second shot to the economy that would be more pointed toward jobs rather than bailouts of banks, big business and lending institutions.

Moving headlong into 2010, jobs appear to be foremost on the agendas of civil rights spokespersons even as the long-awaited health care bill makes its final hurdles toward the White House.

In NNPA interviews, leaders expressed clearly their readiness to take action for economic progress in the trenches.

“Banks got billions of dollars of interest-free money. When we watered the leaves, the water did not come down to the roots,” says the Rev. Jesse Jackson who will host his annual Wall Street Project Economic Summit Jan. 13-15 at the New York Sheraton Hotel. “At the roots we are losing with home foreclosures, church foreclosures, credit card scams, and net loss in jobs. So poverty is rising and small business failures are rising because of the lack of access to capital. We now need to reconstruct the economy from bottom up.”

See Bully pulpit, on page 2

Harvard Professor Charles Ogletree, said, there’s a need for an additional stimulus package and the president needs to use his bully pulpit to make sure that not only is the money is provided.

Girl Scouts on Mission to do Great Things Jindal Denies Rumors

of Run for U.S. Senate

BATON ROUGE (AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal has put to rest months of water cooler speculation about his interest in this fall’s U.S. Senate race.

The governor says definitively that he will not run for the Senate.

The governor told The Times-Picayune that the answer is “absolutely no.

No caveats, no loopholes.”

Jindal says his only political plans are to seek re-election in 2011.

Although Jindal had never indicated an interest in the Senate seat, that had not stopped months of rumormongering among political types eager to see incumbent Republican David Vitter have to fight off a high-profile chal-

Gov. Bobby Jinda

lenge in the primary.

Democrat U.S. Rep. Charlie Melancon also is running for the seat. The party primary election is Aug. 28, and the general election is Nov. 2.

Nora Brechtel of Gretna, LA Wins 2010 NFL Experience Raffle!

Members of Baton Rouge Girl Scout Cadette Troop 10314 wrapped Gift of Caring cookies for Ishmael, a child from south Louisiana and his friends at St. Jude’s Hospital during last years Girl Scout cookie sale. Shown here from left are Christina Bynum, Zeniqual Gilliam, Danielle Collins and Ashanti Johnson.

“It’s no easy thing to ask a stranger to buy something. You have to speak up, look them in the eye and believe in what you’re doing. And even more importantly, believe in yourself,”

BATON ROUGE —With every season of Girl Scout cookies, another generation of girls learn to set goals, make a plan and manage money. As women, they’ll need these skills, whether their goal is to start a business, a family, or both. The mission of the annual Girl Scout Cookie Sale which begins locally on January 15 is to help girls do great things.

“There are a lot of cookies that taste good. These are cookies that do good,” said Alisha Moore, product sales director at Girl Scouts Louisiana East. “When you buy Girl Scout cookies, girls decide where the money goes. Our girls have big hearts and big imaginations, and Girl Scout cookies help bring out the confidence in a girl to turn her dreams into reality.”

According to Moore, the Girl Scouts

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Cookie Program is the largest girl-led business in the country with over 200 million boxes sold annually nationwide. Last year, Girl Scouts in southeast Louisiana sold over 1 million boxes of cookies, with all proceeds remaining locally to fund both council and troop activities, maintain camp properties, fund recruitment and training of adult volunteers, and support councilwide initiatives.

“It’s no easy thing to ask a stranger to buy something. You have to speak up, look them in the eye and believe in what you’re doing. And even more importantly, believe in yourself,” said Moore. “Each customer’s purchase and interaction with girls as they hone their customer service

STATE & LOCAL NEWS

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Business NEWS

Mrs. Brechtel’s ticket number was drawn at the Special Olympics Louisiana headquarters in December.

When asked about winning, Nora replied, “I was so surprised to receive the news I had won the Superbowl Package. What a perfect year to win Superbowl Tickets! My husband and I are huge Saints fans and know this is the year of a Black & Gold Superbowl - we are ecstatic! WHO DAT!!!

Thanks to the Special Olympics Louisiana and the NFL Payers Association for making this possible.”

Nora wins a 4-day/3 night stay at a Miami Gardens Hotel, roundtrip airfare for 2, breakfast daily and 2 Tickets to Super Bowl XLIV! Each year over 100 competitions and numerous fundraisers are held

HEALTH news

Nora Brechtel

to benefit participants and their families. Fundraisers such as this allow people with intellectual disabilities the opportunities to thrive through sports and change the attitudes of those in local communities and throughout the state.

Religion news

Baton Rouge native Stacey Joseph and The Word & Worship Band will perform during this intimate night of dinner and praise for the New Year.

Local Gospel artist Ian Von will also perform...See Page 6

INDEX

Weatherization Programs According to United Health Foundation’s America’s Health Rankings, which were released last month, Louisiana moved up from 50th to 47th, marking the state’s highest ranking since the annual study began. What played a key part in this upward trend for our state? A decrease in the rate of smoking that moved Louisiana up six spots to 35th in the country....Page 2

The $5 billion included in the economic recovery bill for weatherization is hitting the streets and in 2010 that means more green jobs, lower heating and cooling bills for lowincome families and more energyefficient homes...See Page 3

Sprite Step-Off Planned At SU

The Sprite Step-Off will be held, Jan. 16, in the F.G. Clark Activity Center.

Get tickets now at HYPERLINK “http://www.spritestepoff.com/tickets” SPRITESTEPOFF.COM/TICKETS. ...See Page 5

January Cervical Health Month

January is Cervical Health Awareness Month and a prime time to highlight the importance of routine Pap tests.

Raising awareness among women with disabilities is especially important ...See Page 8

Local & State............................2 Commentary.............................4 Business....................................5 Religion....................................6 Health.......................................7

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The Louisiana Campaign for Tobacco-Free Living Continues to “Clear the Air” NEW ORLEANS, LA – According to United Health Foundation’s America’s Health Rankings, which were released last month, Louisiana moved up from 50th to 47th, marking the state’s highest ranking since the annual study began.

What played a key part in this upward trend for our state? A decrease in the rate of smoking that moved Louisiana up six spots to 35th in the country.

This is the type of improvement that The Louisiana Campaign for Tobacco-Free Living (TFL) has been working towards since it launched in 2003.

“Louisiana has traditionally performed poorly in these types of health rankings and the smoking rate has been one of the key reasons for that. For the better part of this decade, we’ve done our part to help bring about a reduction in that rate, and we’ve been able to develop a large and passionate grassroots movement that has helped us make a difference,” says Rosalind Stewart, TFL director. “At a time when the World Health Organization puts the annual global death toll from tobacco use at close to five million, it’s critical that organizations such as TFL continue to spread the message that tobacco use remains one of our greatest health threats. We’ve achieved quite a bit in Louisiana, but we must do even more during the next 10 years.”

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for Tobacco-Free Living is a statewide tobacco prevention and control program that receives funding from the state excise tax on tobacco passed in 2002. TFL’s mission is to implement and evaluate comprehensive tobacco prevention and control initiatives that prevent and reduce tobacco use and exposure to secondhand smoke. Through the years, TFL has developed and carried out a number of effective information and outreach campaigns, all of which have been consistent with the best practices in tobacco prevention and control recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and with most tobacco control programs around the

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One of the most significant and positive changes to occur in Louisiana since the creation of TFL was the state legislature’s passage of Act 815, The Louisiana Smoke-Free Air Act, in 2006.

The Act took effect in January of 2007 and made all restaurants and most workplaces in Louisiana smoke-free. With a compliance rate at 95 percent, The Louisiana Smoke-Free Air Act made a positive impact on air quality in restaurants throughout the state. Not only did it improve the quality of air for workers and customers, but it had a positive economic impact on businesses as well. Despite See Clear The Air, on page 3

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The Wall Street conference agenda at www.wallstreetproject.org is heavy with representatives from the Obama administration, including people from the departments of Commerce, Treasury , Small Business Administration, Agriculture and FDIC (Federal Department Insurance Corporation).

Members of Congress, as well as other civil rights leaders, including the National Urban League’s Marc Morial and NNPA’s Danny Bakewell will also be in attendance to discuss issues of economic reciprocity, Jackson said. “This will be our Black business community discussing where did the stimulus money go and who got it?”

A point of action, he says, will be the insistence that the Department of Justice enforce civil rights laws such as Title 6, created for the purpose of fair contracting and racial inclusion.

Banks got billions “without honoring fair housing laws, fair lending laws and the community re-investment act.

They got stimulus money and did not have to honor EEOC,” Jackson said. “The result is that money came down by the billions in virtually exclusionary patterns.”

Of course, employment discrimination and joblessness among Blacks are not new on the civil rights agenda. It’s just that with the disastrous economy and a newly elected Black president, Black leaders thought there would be a greater level of sensitivity and specificity from the White House to deal with the problem in the Black community.

But, when President Obama said last spring that a “rising tide lifts all boats”, dissatisfaction grew swiftly and appears to be reaching a tipping point as 2010 begins – even by some who have been slow to criticize the Obama Administration.

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cern,” says the Rev. Al Sharpton. “There are those that are saying that we’ve been seeing about Main Street. I’m saying Blacks are not even on Main Street. We’re in our own part of town. And if Main Street hasn’t gotten any bailout, then we haven’t even gotten the rumor.”

Sharpton says he will continue to work with the White House on educational inequities in order to close the racial achievement gaps that lead to economic inequality.

“Clearly, any number of studies show that people that are less educated are the higher unemployed. So, we face the race gap and the educational gap that is also brought on by the race gap,” Sharpton says.

Regardless of the strategy, it will have to include a specific focus on African-Americans, Sharpton agrees.

“We must specifically address the inequality based on race – even in the lower and middle class,” he said. “You’ve got to remember that the fact of the matter is that if you raised everything as is, it would still be double Black unemployment and we would still have double the problems even though we would be better than we were, we would still be unequal.

We’re looking for equality.

We’re not looking for a better form of oppression.”

Half the battle will be keeping the crucial issues of health care and Black economic equality in the public’s eye says Dr. Dorothy Height, president emeritus of the National Council of Negro Women.

“We have to keep our issues out in a forum,” says Height. She adds that activists must also remember that Obama was inaugurated in the midst of the economic crisis.

“We have to look at the complexity in the world that he inherited and where he is,” she says. “The president didn’t make the unemployment, but he’s doing his best to fix it.”

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LSU Professor Receives National Role Model Award

Weatherization Programs Means More Green Jobs

Council Faces Garbage Collection Dilemma

BATON ROUGE, LA - The $5 billion included in the economic recovery bill for weatherization is hitting the streets and in 2010 that means more green jobs, lower heating and cooling bills for low-income families and more energy-efficient homes.

Since 1976, the federal Weatherization Assistance Program has delivered services to more than 6.2 million low-income families, and the stimulus bill funding is meant to take the program to a new level. As they have for three decades, Community Action Agencies, which administer 80 percent of the program funding, will be in the thick of things.

And they are wasting no time tackling the challenge facing them in the new year.

On Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010 from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m., at the LACAP, Inc, Weatherization Training Center which located at 11637 Industriplex Boulevard more than 100 leaders from Community Action groups across America will visit the Louisiana Association of Community Action Partnerships new state-ofthe-art weatherization training center. They will see the latest in weatherization technology and techniques -- and then take that knowledge home with them to start meeting President Obama’s goal of weatherizing a million more houses.

For more information, contact Todd L. Sterling, 225229-1906.

BATON ROUGE – Guoqiang Li, National Science Foundation Joint Faculty Appointment Program Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at both LSU and Southern University, recently received the National Faculty Researcher Role Model Award, sponsored by Minority Access Inc. He is one of 17 recipients in the nation honored with this prestigious award during the National Role Models Conference held in Washington, D.C. Li was nominated by Su-Seng Pang, LSU associate vice chancellor for strategic initiatives, Jack Holmes Distinguished Professor of Mechani-

DENHAM SPRINGS Their contract doesn’t run out for another two years, but Allied Waste is proposing a new garbage collection system for the city of Denham Springs. One councilwoman now questions whether or not the city wants to stick with Allied Waste.

For eight years, Allied Waste trucks have rolled in and out of neighborhoods around Denham Springs. But the way the garbage is picked up could be changing. The company wants to switch from sending a person to pick up the trash to an automated system, which most of the Metro area already uses.

Two of the people we spoke with say they are against this automated system, and they

cal Engineering and LS-LAMP co-coordinator at LSU. Pang was awarded the National Faculty Administrator Role Model Award by Minority Access Inc. in 2008.

Li is a recognized expert in the composite materials and composite structures research field. He has published more than 100 refereed journal papers, four book chapters and presented at more than 70 conferences. As a researcher, he has brought in more than 40 research and educational grants from funding agencies such as the National Science Foundation, NASA, the Department of Energy and the USDA for a total of more than $10 million.

work for Allied Waste.

“I have yet to hear one person say ‘I’m for automated and I don’t mind paying an extra dollar fifty a month,’” says Councilwoman Lori LammWilliams. “Nobody’s saying that, so the cost is an issue.”

3,500 households in Denham Springs are serviced by Allied Waste. Under the proposed new system, collection would still be twice a week. The $1.50 would cover a 96-gallon trash container and a 65-gallon recycling container. Karla Swacker, with Allied Waste, says they’ve seen an improvement in recycling in other areas where this automated pick up has been introduced. For example, in Baton Rouge Swacker says 40% are now recycling. Under the

In addition to his many scientific accolades, Li is also the recipient of 18 national and regional awards for his research, work as a mentor and professional services, including the 2009 Society of Plastic Engineers Composites Division Educator of the Year Award, the American Association of Mechanical Engineers Petroleum Division Frank Walk Service Award, the Southern University Excellence in Research Mentoring Award and the LSU-LAMP Outstanding Mentor Award.

For more information, please contact Mimi LaValle at the LSU College of Engineering at 225-578-5706 or by e-mailing to mlavall@lsu.edu.

current system, only 20-25% are recycling.

What the councilwoman doesn’t like is that it means entering into another contract with their current collection company. She says if the city were to bid out the garbage collection, they could potentially save money. She says right now, customers pay $17.44 a month.

Denham Springs’ City Attorney says for that to happen, Allied’s contract would need to expire, before others can be sought out.

For now, Williams says she’s looking for input, as to what the people of Denham want. The council will take up the issue next Tuesday, Jan. 12 at 6 p.m.

Clear The Air from page 2 these positive steps, however, TFL leaders are quick to point out that there is much more work to be done, particularly when it comes to reducing the exposure of Louisiana workers to deadly secondhand smoke.

“Considering all that TFL has accomplished in the relatively short time it has existed, and the latest improvement in America’s Health Rankings, it’s clear that the Legislature made a great decision when they chose to invest in tobacco prevention and control. However, while we can be proud of what we’ve achieved, there’s still a long, hard road ahead,” said Carrie Griffin Broussard, TFL Policy & Advocacy Manager. “While the Smoke-Free Air Act cleared the air in restaurants and most workplaces, thousands of employees and patrons in bars and casinos in

Louisiana continue to be exposed to harmful secondhand smoke every day. Our focus going forward is ensuring that workers in all workplaces are protected from secondhand smoke, because bartenders and bar workers, musicians and casinos workers should not have to risk their health for a paycheck.”

TFL leaders point out that one of the challenges they will face in the next decade is ensuring that Louisiana continues to invest in tobacco prevention and control efforts so that we can continue to see improvements in the health of our citizens.

A report issued earlier this month by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, American Heart Association, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, American Lung Association and the Robert Wood

Johnson Foundation ranked Louisiana 27th in the nation in funding programs to prevent kids from smoking and help smokers quit. According to the report, Louisiana currently spends $8.9 million a year on tobacco prevention and cessation programs, which is about 16 percent of the $53.5 million recommended by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The tobacco industry, on the other hand, spends nearly $241 million in Louisiana each year to market its deadly products.

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Girl Scouts from page 1 and marketing skills and become more confident connecting to others is essential for a girl’s success.”

Girl Scouts across the council’s 23 parishes will begin taking cookie orders on January 15. Cookies will be delivered beginning February 26 and sold at various booth locations until March 14.

This year’s Cookie program theme is Inspired by U, with activities designed for girls to discover what matters most to them, connect with people in their community, and use the power of Girl Scout Cookies to take action and make the world a better place. A popular community service project held during the Cookie Sale is Gift of Caring, a voluntary troop project in which girls encourage customers to buy cookies for donation to a non-profit organization selected by the troop.

In addition to Girl Scout troops supporting local nonprofits and service organizations like fire and police departments, last year southeast Louisiana Girl Scouts shipped over 14,000 boxes of cookies to military troops serving overseas in the council’s Troops Helping Troops service project with plans to hold the project again this year.

This cookie season the Girl Scouts are offering one new cookie: Thank U Berry Munch, which features cranberries mixed with the sweetness of creamy white fudge chips. Other varieties include Thin Mints, Samoas, Trefoils, Tagalongs, Do-SiDos, Lemon Chalet Cremes, and Dulce de Leche cookies. Cookies are $3.50 per box upon delivery, and are preservative-free, kosher, with zero trans fat per serving. Through participation in the Girl Scout Cookie program girls develop five essential skills

including goal setting, decision making, money management, people skills and business ethics.

The local council, Girl Scouts Louisiana East, serves girls 5 to 17 in the parishes of Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Jefferson, Lafourche, Livingston, Orleans, Plaquemines, Pointe Coupee, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. Helena, St. James, St. John, St. Mary, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Terrebonne, Washington, West Baton Rouge, and West Feliciana.

To order cookies beginning January 15, call the Cookie Hotline at either Council office; in New Orleans at (504) 733-8220, Baton Rouge at (225) 927-8946, or visit the council website at www.gsle.org. An online Cookie Locator to find booth locations will be available on the website during the direct sale beginning February 26.

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A charge filed Monday against Independence Police Chief Anthony Maurer claims he played an unspecified role in allowing people who didn’t live in Independence to vote in the town on Feb. 9, 2008.

Elections records show Maurer was on the ballot that day and beat his opponent, Leonard “Tank” Genco, by 122 votes. Independence voters also were casting ballots for the presidential primaries and other state and local races.

Maurer is charged with one count of depriving qualified voters of their constitutional rights. U.S. Attorney Jim Letten wouldn’t elaborate.

Maurer didn’t immediately return a message left at the police station.

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Commentary Thursday, January 7, 2010 • The Weekly Press • Page 4

The Way I See It

May You Have a Joyous New Year We are so carried away with getting above the It seems like yesother person we forterday when we were get quickly about the celebrating the incommanner in which the ing year 2009. My famous holiday that how the time past by we have just observed. so fast.

The birth of Jesus. We That brings to have carried ourselves mind the mode of life so for away from what William that we are living. We life was purposed to Jones find ourselves in such be we forget about the a hurry that we pass simple things that we by the flowers and by not no- need to celebrate and enjoy. ticing them we do not stop to Let there be no doubt, God smell them. planned the manner in which We are in such an earthly Jesus was born. He planned how mode we overlook the simple long He would let Him live. He things in life. planned to let His only Son give People are speeding on the up His life to die for our sins. highways killing themselves, but I said all of that to say this. also taking the lives of others we For your New Year’s resolution: are so wrapped in ourselves. We the best, utmost, and precious one neglect ourselves and totally dis- you can make is to bring the Lord regard the respect for others. It and Savior Jesus Christ into your seem that we are so bent on “Get- life. May God bless you with a ting over on the other person.” very Happy New Year.

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By William Jones

In the New Year, Let Us Grow With the Work

ful body that can use their strength for more constructive measures (NNPA) - Every instead of blindly killyear, we all rally toing one another. In gether with family and line with my push for friends to celebrate the education reform, I holidays and ring in the will work to end the dawning of yet another nonsensical violence new year, a new start that is permeating our Rev. Al and a new beginning. streets throughout the Sharpton We diligently make nation. The value of resolutions – some human life must be reminor, and others life altering stored, and we all must tackle – that we emphatically boast to the underlying issues that creeach other and to ourselves. The ate such anger and frustration harsh reality is that most of us among our children. Young either overreach in our goals, or people need to be armed with simply don’t put forth the dedi- textbooks and pens, not guns cation, discipline and fortitude and knives. necessary to bring our resoluAnd last, but by no means tions to fruition. least, is the simple fact that it As we kick off a new de- is time to deal with the overcade, I challenge all of us to judi- whelming economic crisis we ciously strive for the betterment are in. Statistically, the national of ourselves, our communities unemployment average wavers and for all of humanity. In line around 10 percent but we all with establishing realistic, yet know that in communities of meaningful goals, I myself have color, that percentage is double set aside three major tasks that – sometimes triple that - we can I must accomplish in this new just look at Detroit. We need to beginning. come to terms with the blatant For starters, I have to look fact that people in our neighborno further than the organiza- hoods are suffering, businesses tion that I’ve invested my heart are suffering and the entire famand soul into – National Action ily structure is suffering. Severe Network. Continuously on the unemployment and economic forefront of issues affecting the hardship almost always lead to community, from police brutality increased crime, violence, deto economic and political disen- pression and an overall sense franchisement to racial profiling, of hopelessness. While politiNAN is easily recognized as a cians continue to battle over the voice for the voiceless. With best way forward, the people 45 chapters in cities and towns are hurting. When parents around the country, NAN has work three jobs in order to put become a staple for those seek- dinner on the table, or when a ing justice and equality. And al- mother must give up her meal in though 45 chapters with limited order for her children to eat, we resources is a rewarding sense of have a serious problem. When purpose, I have only begun. shelters are forced to turn away This year, we will take those folks due to overcrowding, and 45 chapters and turn them into tent cities pop up everywhere 100 chapters. As the work of because families have lost their social justice and civil rights con- homes, we are in a tremendous tinues to grow, we must grow crisis. It’s time to create realistic, with it. As the people continue sustaining economic developto need our help, we must be ment, and time to support our more accessible to them. And businesses, our radio stations wherever injustice occurs, we and our newspapers. It’s time must be able to stand firmly in to save ourselves before it’s too unison and take action. In order late. to achieve more, we must be in As 2010 begins amidst more locations. 100 chapters in growing concerns on a host of 100 cities in 2010. issues, I ask all of us to take a This brings me to my sec- deep look at what we do with ond point: In order to effectively our lives, what our purpose is empower people, we must first and what we are doing to better and foremost educate them. tomorrow. The time is now. We Education itself can take root cannot continue to turn a blind in a multitude of arenas from eye toward our obstacles, for the the classroom, to the simple stakes couldn’t be higher. As altering of people’s mindsets. I work to improve education, This year, I will continue the curb violence, create economic fight to perfect our education empowerment mechanisms and reform initiative for children expand my organization, I ask in impoverished communities you to think hard and think everywhere so that they too may long before you choose your have a fighting chance to make new year’s resolutions; for your it in this world. An educated decision could save someone’s youth are an engaged, power- future – and your own.

By Rev. Al Sharpton NNPA Columnist

Wish List for 2010 and Beyond

By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Now that we have ushered in not only a new year, but a new decade, I want to share my New Decade’s wish list. I hope: PRESIDENT OBAMA stops gutting his domestic programs in an effort to appease Republicans who have no intention of supporting him on anything.

GOP leaders are lower than a snake’s belly and it is useless to try to satisfy them or their No.1 ally, Joe-the-Traitor Lieberman. President Obama correctly states that he is the president of all of the people. And that includes African Americans.

We’re not asking him to be a Black president, just a president who realizes the needs of Blacks should be targeted just as he targeted the needs of Wall Street, banks and the automotive industry.

DEMOCRATS exercise the power they have accumulated. With a 60-40 edge in the United States Senate, counting two independents who regularly caucus with Democrats, a 257-178 margin in the House of Representatives, and a Democrat in the White House, it’s time for Democrats to stop acting like wimps. After pleading for power, including elevating a record number of African Americans to committee chairs and subcommittee

By Farrah Gray NNPA Columnist

chairs, Democrats portation Secretary Bill finally have power.

Coleman, two ardent They need to act supporters of affirmalike it. tive action. It now apTHE CONGRESpears that in order for SIONAL BLACK any African American CAUCUS follows to be accepted by the through on its threat GOP leadership, he to oppose major bills or she must be a vocal George that do not improve critic of affirmative acE. Curry the plight of the tion. Contrary to GOP masses. After threatassertions, Blacks are ening to vote against the health not in love with the Democratic care bill if it did not include the Party. Rather, Republicans who public option, members of the routinely oppose programs that CBC are poised to support a bill benefit people of color offer no likely to emerge from confer- viable alternative. ence without that key proviCIVIL RIGHTS LEADsion. If President Obama can ERS return to being outsiders placate a couple of conserva- instead of insiders. Many of our tives in order to save the bill, he leaders have become shills for should feel heat from progres- the Obama administration. Insives unwilling to roll over in stead of presenting the usual order to pass a watered down “Black Agenda,” their top version of the bill. Sadly, more is agenda item these days seem done to capitulate to one or two to be getting an invitation to conservatives than to dozens some White House event. And of African Americans serving when they don’t get invited, in Congress. they profess to be personally REPUBLICANS revert to offended. Jesse Jackson, for exthe big tent philosophy that ample, recently whined about characterized the party before not getting invited to a White it became captive of Right-wing House conference on jobs. In zealots. At its best, the GOP em- the eyes of many Blacks, Jackbraced liberal New York City son rendered himself irrelevant Mayor John Lindsay, progres- when he threatened to cut off sive Senators Lowell Weicker certain body parts of the presiof Connecticut and Edward dent to be. For Blacks already Brooke of Massachusetts suffering from Jesse Fatigue, along with conservative GOP that was the last straw. And lawmakers. It also embraced no one should blame Obama former Assistant Secretary of for not wanting Jesse Jackson Labor Art Fletcher and Trans- around to rain on his parade or,

even worse, neuter him.

HEADS OF BLACK PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS finally assume the leadership role in their area of expertise.

We expect too much from our civil rights organizations and too little from our professional organizations. The National Bar Association should lead the way on criminal justice matters. The National Medical Association should present our collective position on health care and racial disparities. The National Association of Black Journalists should lead the charge against racism in the media.

The Urban Financial Services Coalition should provide the last word in our community on financial literary. Of course, this would necessarily lead to the emergence of some fresh, new voices. And that would be a good thing for our community.

THE JOSHUA GENERATION – the young leaders-inwaiting – should find another name. I can understand their wanting to put some distance between them and the various icons who pose as the Moses of the Civil Rights Movement, but Joshua died at the age of 110.

Therefore, Joshua is not synonymous with youth. Young people and not-so-young people such as Al Sharpton should stop complaining that the Jesse Jacksons See 2010 and beyond, on page 7

Percy Sutton: My God Father

(NNPA) - The Honorable Percy Sutton certainly embodied the principle Kujichagulia (Self-Determination). His pioneering work in the broadcast industry as founder of Inner City Broadcast Corporation (ICBC), paved the way for many of us to have a “voice” in media. ICBC now stands as the largest black owned media enterprise in the world. Percy taught me that you never come up short of what you give.

As keynote speaker for a U.S. Department of Commerce benefit, I recall first meeting Inner City chairman emeritus Percy Sutton. Later, I became the magazine’s featured young entrepreneur story. Developing a working relationship with Percy Sutton, I went onto buy 80 percent ownership of Inner City Magazine in February 2001.

Based on my observations, Percy is truly the “God-Father of Black Business.” Growing up as the son of a Black slave,

Percy Sutton defied over 15,000 sorties all odds, dedicating that boasted the highhis life to creating est success rates. The equal opportunity. unit claimed over 109 He made possible German Nazi aircraft, shows like Ameriwinning two Distincan Idol by foundguished Citations, 150 ing The Showtime Distinguished Flying Apollo Theater.

Crosses, 8 Hearts PurCountless times, ple, 14 Bronze Stars, Farrah Percy Sutton risked among other achieveGray his life serving our ments. Beginning as country including as an ordinary young a Tuskegee Airmen in World man, Percy Sutton displayed War II and later as enlisted of- the determination necessary to ficer in Korean conflicts. As overcome any obstacle, defyan officer for the prestigious ing all the odds.

Tuskegee Airmen of 1940s, Returning home in 1953, Percy Sutton was among the Percy took a low wage job first black pilots in United working at the post office atStates history. Despite growing tending Brooklyn Law School up in a country that held his fa- also saving enough money to ther in slavery, Percy selflessly open a civil rights law firm put his life on the line surviv- on 125th Street, Harlem, New ing traumatic challenges as a York. In our countries most black man serving in the 32nd trying moments, it was the Fighter Group, better known Honorable Percy Sutton that as the Tuskegee Airmen. stepped forward to serve as Percy Sutton distinguished civil rights attorney for Malhimself as a leader among one colm X’s widow, Betty Shaof the most elite military units bazz, upon her husband’s conin history. He fearlessly helped troversial assassination. For the special squadron complete decades, Percy led the charge

to gain justice and equal rights supporting the hundreds of slain activities families.

Known for his genuine integrity, Honorable Percy Sutton served in the New York State Assembly before taking over as Manhattan borough president in 1966, becoming the highest-ranking black elected official in New York.

Having fought in countless battles, it was Percy Sutton that first voiced a dissenting protest at the 1968 Democratic Convention against the Vietnam War, the policy of Richard Nixon. Later, Percy served as the political mentor for the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s two presidential bids.

Still focused on the struggle to provide opportunities to ordinary people, Percy ran for mayor of New York City in 1977 losing to Edward Koch.

He remained undaunted in his mission to serve others in need. Percy went on to entrepreneurial achievements building a voice for thousands of See sutton, on page 7

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Louisiana Homeowners Insurance Pricey; Texas, Florida More Expensive

Louisiana remains the third most expensive homeowners insurance market in the nation behind Florida and Texas, according to newly released data from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.

The average premium in Louisiana for a standard homeowners policy in 2007, the most recent year for which data are available, was $1,400, up from $1,257 in 2006. That 11.4 percent jump was the largest increase in homeowners insurance in the nation.

According to the Times-Picayune, Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon said he wasn’t surprised by the data because 2007 was when the brunt of the rate increases after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita kicked in. After the storms, many insurers also increased the insured value of homes on people’s policies.

Donelon believes the 2008 figures will improve because that’s when the insurance department’s signature reform, a program to give insurers multimillion-dollar grants to do business in Louisiana, began. “I’m hopeful that next year we’ll see a decrease,’’ Donelon said.

As part of that program, several new insurers came to the state and took policies out of Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp., which by law sells the most expensive insurance in the state. When these companies began selling policies directly to the public, they did so at rates that were lower than what many existing carriers were charging.

By the Louisiana Department of Insurance’s calculations, statewide average homeowners rates increased by 3.5 percent in 2007 and 2008, and 4.5 percent in 2009. Donelon said those numbers mean that no surprises lie ahead. “We have certainly stabilized,’’ he said.

While the numbers may not be as shocking going forward,

it will be difficult for Louisiana to drop below No. 3 in the rankings because the next group of states have premiums that are more than $300 lower than in Louisiana. The next entity on the list, for example, is the District of Columbia, with an average premium of $1,089, followed by Oklahoma at $1,054. Mississippi and coastal states in the Northeast with high real estate values round out the list of the most expensive states.

In reality, policyholders in the New Orleans area pay much more than the figures from the insurance commissioners association or the state insurance department reflect because of the risk of hurricanes. The figures also do not reflect the cost of flood insurance, which is sold as separate policy.

Florida overtook Texas as the nation’s most expensive homeowners market in 2007, with premiums increasing by 10.7 percent to an average of $1,534. Actual figures are probably higher because the Florida numbers exclude policies from Florida Citizens Property Insurance Corp., the state’s largest insurer, which, by law, charges prices at the top of the market.

Meanwhile, private homeowners policies that don’t include wind coverage are lumped in with those that do, skewing the results downward.

In Texas, the average homeowners policy sold for $1,448 in 2007, a 2.8 percent increase from the previous year. The NAIC cautions against comparing Texas to any other market because the standard homeowners policy in Texas is slightly different from policies in other states.

Texas, Florida and Louisiana are the nation’s most hurricane-prone states. But Louisiana’s position near the top of the list is remarkable because it’s a poor, rural state with few fancy coastal vacation property or large expensive homes.

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River of Passion Concert Series Comes to Baton Rouge Baton Rouge native Stacey Joseph and The Word & Worship Band will perform during this intimate night of dinner and praise for the New Year. Local Gospel artist Ian Von will also perform. On January 15, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. Stacey Joseph will be performing at the T. J. Jemison Baptist Student Center at Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge.

Tickets are on sale at www.staceyjoseph.com. Proceeds go to benefit Stacey Joseph Ministries whose Word & Worship Experience concert series has donated items to The Star of Hope Mission in Houston, Ghana Slave Castle Library in Africa, Youth Oasis Shelter in Baton Rouge, and the Care Net Crisis Pregnancy centers in Covington and Hammond. Each WWE concert’s goal is to bring awareness and support to local charities.

Joseph has sung for renown performers Shirley Ceasar, Martha Munizzi, Yolanda Adams, Prophetess Juanita Bynum, Kelly Price, Rizen, and Sheila E. She also sings on various artists’ projects including Mary Alessi, Lakewood Church, Karen Clark-Sheard, Micah Stampley, and Bishop Jakes’ “He-Motions”.

She is a former member of Israel and New Breed.

Through Joseph, The River of Passion Concert has brought praise and worship to the cities of Charlotte, North Carolina, and Humble, Texas.

For more information, contact Carla Borskey at 1-877767-1547 or cborskey@jstaceymusic.com.

New Direction Worship Celebration, Preaching Series for the Month of January “The Inhumanity of Man and the Righteousness of God” Scripture: Amos 5:24 BAKER, LA - The time of this series is 11:00 a.m. on Sunday morning at the Greater First Church-Baptist.

The following series date are: January 10th-Empowerment Sunday: Youth and Young Adult Leadership; January 17th-Justice Sunday: Social and Criminal Justice; January 24th-Consecration Sunday: The master, mission and ministry of the church(Pastor Anthony Kelley Birthday Fellowship and the Anthony Kelley Endowment Scholarship Dinner at 1:00 p.m.; and January 31st-Installation Sunday: The Celebration of and Charge to Faithful Servant-Leaders of the Greater First ChurchBaptist (“...witnesses both in Jerusalem (Baker), and in all Judaea (East Baton Rouge Parish), and in Samaria (Louisiana), and to the uttermost part of the earth” (Global Community)-Acts 1:8b.

Religion

Every Christian Should Have a Church Home, be Committed to That Ministry’s Vision

By Donald Lee I want to share this with all the saints in the body of Christ.

It seems good to the Holy Spirit and to me that I remind you that the Lord expects for us to keep ourselves and our families covered in prayer. We must always be mindful that there is a devil who goes about to and fro seeking whom he might devour (1st Peter 5:8).

So in order for us to foil the enemy’s plans to wreak havoc in our lives and destroy us and our loved ones, we must be mindful that it is of the utmost importance for us to be in church all the time, not just once a week (Sundays).

In other words, if your church has an intercessory prayer service, you ought to be there joining the brethren in interceding for the church, the families who are in covenant with the church, and interceding (or standing in the gap) for the lost, that they might come to know Jesus as Lord and Savior, hence being “saved” from eternal damnation.

Don’t take lightly the importance of the intercessory prayer service. Sometimes you just never know whether the day you decide to stay home (and not go and pray with the saints) will be the day your prayer (on one accord with your church family) will be the day that your prayer

was needed most and --- “Church is in the whether those prayers heart; it’s not the buildwere specifically for a ing.” They also say: “I family member of your don’t need no man to own. In other words, it teach me. God teaches can be a matter of life me.” Another one is: and death in your own “That pastor puts his family. pant legs on one leg at If you have to a time, just like me. He work during the time can’t correct me.”

Donald the church has interAnother thing Lee cessory prayer or Bible I’ve heard (from Chrisstudy or worship sertians) is: “If God has vice, that’s understandable. God something to say to me, He’ll say gave you the job. At the same it to me. He doesn’t need you to time, it’s OK to believe God for tell me anything. I can hear him a schedule that clears for you to for myself.” make it to church once to twice Statements like these are a week. By all means, pray on exactly why the devil has been your own time at home, too. But running rampant in the lives --don’t take lightly the importance the homes --- of so many Chrisof praying with the saints. tian families. They (think they) And I’ll tell you something know so much and resent you else. Not only should Christians tryin’ to share anything with be in a church, but they should them that goes against their be in a Word-based church where carnal, or natural, understandthe Word of God is taught with ing. But then they’ve got family boldness yet simplicity, and with members in their homes who are power and without compromise. sickly, terminally ill, or controlled Such a church should have as by demon spirits of rebellion, Jesus’ undershepherd a pastor apathy and indifference, selfwho isn’t afraid to correct those ishness and every other thing who may be in error, but at the that is not of the life that God same time is a leader with a com- intended for them. passionate heart and who acts So, to those people (the in wisdom. church know-it-alls), I say by the I just have it in my spirit Holy Spirit: You’re not walking in to write this this week because I the wisdom or the understandoften hear children of God say --- ing that the Lord would have as an excuse for why they refuse you to walk in. For if you were, to attend church with any degree you’d --- by the Spirit of the Lord of consistency (or commitment) --- recognize that would you say

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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

St. Mary Baptist Church “The Church that Love Built” 1252 N. Acadian Thruway East • Baton Rouge, LA. 70802 Telephone (225) 387-2926 Rev. Conway L Knighton, Pastor Sunday School 9:30 a.m.

Worship Service - 11:00 a.m.

Lord’s Supper - 1st Sunday 11:00 a.m.

Prayer Meeting - Wednesday 6:00 p.m.

Bible Study - Wednesday 7:00 p.m.

Thursday 10:00 a.m.

are not the thoughts of God, but the words of the devil, which he uses to draw you further away from God’s plan for your life so that he (the devil) can trick you into forfeiting the blessed house and purposeful life that God desires for you.

Ephesians 4:8-16 (and 1st Corinthians 12:28) tells us that Jesus, Himself, placed among the body of believers --- the church --- apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers so that the church as a whole, which certainly includes the laymen of the church, can walk in maturity, knowing the will of God for their lives.

Question: Why would Jesus place these positions, these people, in the church if He didn’t want you assembled there? How can you know the will of God for your life without them? In other words, you do need a man to teach you.

For those of you who say: “I can hear God for myself.”

You need to be trained on how to hear God for yourself. Don’t kid yourself. That training is your path to the abundant life.

Be blessed.

The Rev. Donald Lee, who is former Keeping It Real columnist-copy editor with The Advocate and former co-host of The God Factor with Guy Brody (http://www.thegfactor.org), can be contacted at pastordonjlee@ yahoo.com or (225) 773-2248.

Good Shepherd Full Gospel B.C. The People’s Church 2865 Mission Drive • Baton Rouge, 70805 • Telephone (225)356-5873 Bishop H. Hayes, Pastor Hour of Power 12 Noon Each Wednesday Sunday School 8:00 AM Church Service 9:00 AM Lord’s Supper 2nd Sunday 6:00 PM Bible Study Wednesday 7:00 PM Sister/ Brotherhood 6:00 PM You Will Be Blessed Under The Anointed Man Of God

Shekinah Shalom Covenant Tabernacle Full Gospel Ministry 8141 Greenwell Springs Roads Building C-1 Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70814 Ph: (225) 927-2269

Sunday Service 10:00 A.M. Wednesday Midweek 7:00 P.M. Intercessory Saturday 10:00 A.M. Dr. Audrey Briggs, Pastor Dr. Davy Kendrick, Asst.

Jesus Name Apostolic Temple, Inc. 2548 Weller Avenue Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70805 Telephone: (225) 356-1160 Communion 1st Sunday......................... 1:00 p.m.

Sunday School.................. 9:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.

Bible Class Tuesday................................7:30 p.m.

Mission Night Thursday ..........................7:30 p.m.

Deliverance Night Friday ........................7:30 p.m.

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Heritage Search Ministry Pentecostal Church

4313 Airline Highway (located in the Metro-Aire Shopping Ctr) Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70807 • Phone: (225) 355-1045 Mackie C. Allen, Pastor Paul Hammock, Apostle and Overseer Order of Service Sunday School...................9:00 a.m.

Sunday Worship................11:00 a.m.

Monday-Prayer...................7:00 p.m.

Wednesday-Praise and Worship.............7:30 p.m.

Friday-Bible Study......7:30 p.m.

“Where your inheritance is amongst the Saints”

Greater Central People Baptist Church 9012 Scenic Highway • Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70807 (225) 241-9946

Sunday School............................................................... 7:30 a.m.- 9:00 a.m.

Church Service................................................................................ 9:00 a.m.

Lord’s Supper............................................................. 4th Sunday, 9:00 a.m.

Prayer Meeting.......................................................... 6:00 p.m. Wednesday Bible Study.............................................. 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Wednesday Pastor, Bishop John Thomas Co-Pastor Evangelist Barbara Thomas

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Full Gospel Ministries 1283 Rosenwald Road • Baton Rouge, La. 70807 Phone: (225) 775-6713 • Fax: (225) 775-4216

Ivory J. Payne, Pastor

Order Of Service

Sunday Worship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11:00 A.M. Holy Communion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3rd Sunday1:00 P.M. Sunday School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:00 A.M. Bible Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thursday 7:00 P.M.

“The New Life”Therefore if any man be in christ he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold all thing are become new. —I Corinthians 5:17

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NEW HOPE BAPTIST CHURCH 5856 Greenwell Springs Road • Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70806

Telephone: (225) 926-0246 • Facsimile: (225) 927-8500 • Toll Free # Sunday Morning Worship - 10:45 AM Sunday School - 9:30 AM 1-888-700-6174 Lord’s ESupper -3rd Sundays Prayer Service - Wed. @ 6:00 PM Mail Address # nhbc@nhbc.brcoxmail.com - Wed- @ 7:00 PM Pastor Bible Leo Study D. Cyrus Sr., Pastor

Schedule Mission Statement: NewChurch Hope Baptist Church is a family of baptized believers who worship the Lord our God in spirit and in truth, teachSchool the saved Sunday Morning Worship - 10:45 AM Sunday - 9:30to AMreach the lost and minister to the needs of others, while encouraging one another through s Supper -3rd Sundays Prayer Service - Wed. @ 6:00 PM acts ofLord’ love and living in obedience to Gods Word Bible Study - Wed- @ 7:00 PM

Mission Statement: New Hope Baptist Church is a family of baptized believers who worship the Lord our God in spirit and in truth, teach the saved to reach the lost and minister to the needs of others, while encouraging one another through acts of love and living in obedience to Gods Word

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apart. You must continue to hold therefore, humble yourselves on to your faith and stay before under the mighty hands of God, the Lord. But, it may be that the that he may exalt you in due time, time has come when you may “casting all your cares upon him, need to take some quality time for he cares for you,”(1st Peter for yourself and spend some of 5:6-7).

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What’s Good For Your Heart Is Good For Your Brain

Obama Calls for Speedy Passage of Health Care Bill

(NAPSM)-A survey commissioned by two leading health organizations Washington — President found that although two out of three Barack Obama is prodding House African Americans (61 percent) exand Senate Democrats to get him concerncare about developing apressed final health bill as soon heart disease and two out of five (40 as possible, encouraging them percent) expressed concern about to bypass the usual negotiations developing Alzheimer’s, onlyin about between the two chambers the one in 20of arespeed. aware that heart health interest is linked to brain health. the mesObama delivered the Alzheimer’s Association is sage at an Oval Office meeting joining forces with with the American Tuesday evening House heart Association to educate Speaker Nancy PelosiAfrican and Americans that by Leader managingSteny their House Majority cardiovascular they may also Hoyer.

Senaterisk, Majority Leader strengthen their Harry Reid andcognitive his No.health.

2, Sen. “What’s good for your heart is Dick Durbin, D-Ill., joined in by good for your brain,” says Jennifer phone.

Manly, Ph.D., Alzheimer’s AssociaThey agreed that rather than tion spokesperson. “every healthy setting up a formal conference committee to resolve heartbeat pumps aboutdifferences one-fifth of between passed your bloodhealth to yourbills brain to carrylast on year by the Houseof and Senate, the the daily processes thinking, probHouse will work off the Senate’s lem solving and remembering.” version, amend it andthe send it back “By the year 2030, number of to the Senate for age final African Americans 65passage, or older is according a House leadership expected toto more than double to 6.9 aide, speaking onMatarese, condition of million,” said emil M.D., anonymity in Association order to discuss American heart spokesthe private meeting. person.

“Although Alzheimer’s is Obama himself will a not part of normal aging, agetake is the hands-on angreatest riskrole, factorconvening for Alzheimer’s other meeting congressional disease.

So it iswith important that Afleaders at the White House rican Americans take steps nowon to Wednesday.

Pelosi, along with decrease their risk of heart disease, four other Democratic committee which research has shown could chairs, are expected also decrease the risk to of attend. cognitive The aim is to get a final bill decline.” to Obama’s desk before the State of the Union address sometime

concerned with the conditions at Jetson. it is happening there.

What i do know is that most of these youth can be changed, from contrition in a prepatory school for Angola to rehabilitation for a positive life that may lead to a life of meritorious glory. That is the Way I See It!

in early February.

The bills passed by the Facing the need to maintain House and Senate both would a tenuous 60-vote coalition in the require nearly all Americans to Senate, House Democrats will get coverage and would provide probably have to give up on start- subsidies for many who can’t ing a new government insurance afford the cost, but they differ plan to compete with the private on hundreds of details. Among market, something that’s a non- them are whom to tax, how many starter with Senate moderates. people to cover, how to restrict In its place they hope for more taxpayer funding for abortion generous subsidies for lower- and whether illegal immigrants income families to buy health should be allowed to buy coverinsurance. age in the new markets with their Obama agreed at Tues- own money. day evening’s meeting to help Concerns about affordability strengthen affordability measures are paramount. Major subsidies beyond what’s in the Senate bill, under the bills wouldn’t start the aide said. flowing to consumers until 2013 Pelosi suggested Tuesday at the earliest. Even with federal that House members wouldn’t aid, many families still would insist on the government plan as face substantial costs. long as the final bill provides “afThe House bill would profordability for the middle class, vide $602 billion in subsidies from accountability for the insurance 2013-2019, covering an additional companies, ... accessibility by 36 million people. lowering cost at every stage.”

The Senate bill would start “There are other ways to the aid a year later, providing do that, and we look forward $436 billion in subsidies from to having those discussions,” 2014-2019, and reducing the numshe said. ber of uninsured by 31 million.

House Democrats want “Affordability is a critical the Senate to agree to language issue,” Van Hollen said. revoking insurers’ antitrust exBut sweetening the deal for emption as a way to hold insur- low- and middle-income houseance companies accountable in holds could require more taxes absence of direct payhealth, for additional subsidies.

Research shows a linkgovernment between heart andtobrain which means impaired competition, said Rep. Chris Van And the House and Senate are heart function could lead to impaired brain function.

Hollen, D-Md., a member of the also at odds over whom to tax.

House leadership.

The House wants to raise income

Did You Know?

• Compared to the general public, taxes on individuals making more African Americans have a higherover risk than $500,000 and couples of blood pressure and $1diabetes, million. high The Senate would slap vascular dementia. a new tax on high-cost insurance • More than 40 percent of African plans.

Although the Obama adAmericans have high blood ministration supports thepresSenate’s(hBP) insurance taxatas a cost-saver, sure and are risk for stroke, labor unions, contribute which can lead which to greater risk for heavily to Democratic candidates, developing Alzheimer’s or other are against it. dementias. vascular cognitive The House may end100,000 up ac• every year, more than ceptingAmericans the insurance if it hits African havetax a stroke. fewer people than the Senate’s • having high cholesterol increases design now callsand for.

There also the risk for stroke may increase could be common ground in a the risk for Alzheimer’s.

Senate proposal to raise Medicare payroll Manage Yourtaxes Riskson individuals making more than $200,000 and • Watch the numbers. remember married couples over $250,000. that desirable blood pressure is less Democrats reacted defenthan 120/80 mmhg. Keep your body sively to criticism that they are weight in the recommended range taking the final, most crucial stage and make sure that the total cholesof the debate behind closed doors, terol is less than 200mg/dL. contending they’ve conducted a • healthy lifestyle choices include transparent process with hunstaying mentally and physically acdreds of public meetings and tive, staying socially involved, reduclegislation posted online. Reing your intakeseized of fat and publicans oncholesterol a newly and not smoking. released letter from the head of Visit www.alz.org/heartbrain or the C-SPAN network calling on call the American Stroke Associacongressional leaders to open the tion, division of the American finalatalks to the public, andheart cited Association, at (888) 478-7653 or Obama’s campaign trail pledge the Alzheimer’s to do just that.Association at (800) 272-3900 andabout you’llthat receive a broAsked promise, chure heart and brain health Pelosiwith remarked, without elaboinformation and aare free pedometer, ration, “There a number of while supplies last. things he was for on the campaign trail.”

Could You Be At Risk?

January is Cervical Health Awareness Month

(NAPSi)-here’s an alert worth paying attention to: According to the American Diabetes Association (ADA), learning your risk for type 2 BELLEVILLE, Ill —life.

Resoludiabetes could save your tions abound the New Year, Diabetes is a in serious disease that and strikeshaving nearly 21recommended million children health screenings be and adults in the U.S.should it is named athepriority.

January is Cervi“silent killer” because one-third cal Health Awareness Month of those with the disease--more than 6 and a prime highlight million--do nottime knowtothey have it. theFor importance of routine Pap many, diagnosis may come tests.

Raising awareness among seven to 10 years after the onset of women with disabilities is estype 2 diabetes. early diagnosis is pecially important a critical for successfulbecause, treatmentas and group, they are less likely to get can delay or prevent some of the the life-savingsuch test, to complications asaccording heart diseases, Allsup, a nationwide provider blindness, kidney disease, stroke and of Social Security disability amputation. representation and Medicare that’s one reason the ADA holds services. the American Diabetes Alert® Day, In the United States, a one-day wake-up call to inform the 11,000 new cases of cervical Americanwill public the seriouscancer be about diagnosed in

ness of diabetes, particularly when it is left undiagnosed and untreated. the day is held on the fourth tuesday of every March. as on it’sthat caught early are enough,” day, people encoursaid NCCC executive director aged to take the Diabetes risk test, Sarina Araujo. either with paper and pencil or online. when the risk In testfact, requires userscervical to answer cancer is found early, is highly seven simple questionsitabout age, treatable and and associated with weight, lifestyle family history-long survival good quality all potential riskand factors for diabetes. of life.

Unfortunately, six out People scoring 10 points or more are of 10 cervical cancers occur in at a high risk for type 2 diabetes and women who have never reare encouraged to talk with a health ceived a Pap test or have not care professional. been tested past five An estimatedin54the million Ameriyears. cans have pre-diabetes. those with “Therehave is ablood wideglucose rangelevof pre-diabetes reasons for this disparity,” said els higher than normal but not high Allsup manager Tai Venuti, enough to be diagnosed with type MPH. “The disability may make 2 diabetes. the exam itself more difficult, as early intervention via lifestyle in the case of spinal cord injuries changes such as and or disorders, or weight specialloss equip-

increased physical activity can help delay or prevent the onset of type 2 diabetes.

Among the primary risk factors 2. Conclude disfor type 2 diabetesthe are cancer being overability be severe to weight,must sedentary, over enough the age of significantly one’s ability 45 and having limit a family history of to perform basic work activities diabetes.

African Americans, Latinos, needed to do most jobs.

Native Americans, Asians and Pacific 3. Ask cancer disabilislanders areifatthe an increased risk, as ity meetswho or equals a medical are women have babies weighing listing. more than 9 pounds at birth.

4. Diabetes Explore risk the ability of an the test is availindividual to perform work they have done in the past despite their cancer. If the person cannot, then the process proceeds to the fifth and final step.

5. Review age, education,

able in english and Spanish by calling the ADA at 1-800-DiABeteS (1-800-342-2383) or online at www. diabetes.org/alert. work experience and though the Alert is physical/ a one-day mental condition to determine call to action, awareness about type other work, ifanytime any, theofper2what diabetes is important the son can perform. year, so free Diabetes risk tests are education and availablePublic online and by calling ADA outreach all year long.are keys to promoting good cervical health all A free Diabetes risk test isfor availwomen, and eliminating screenable all year long to determine the risk ingdeveloping disparities for2women for type diabetes.with disabilities.

For more information and to learn how you can help during Cervical Health Awareness Month, visit the National Cervical Cancer Coalition (NCCC).

Women with Disabilities Less Likely to Get Life-Saving Screening

2010 from human papilloma- ment may be needed. Another virus (HPV)-caused tumors. barrier could be as simple as not HPVs are sexually transmitted having adequate transportation via skin-to-skin contact. Recent to the doctor.” research indicates the virus also In addition, healthcare causes some cases of cancers of facilities may be inaccessible the mouth, anus, head and neck and ill-equipped to serve people in men and women, according with disabilities, so preventive to the National Cervical Cancer services like Pap smears are Land Line(NCCC).

(225) 356-0703 Coalition overlooked. [1] Cervical Women diagnosed with Cell Phone (225)cancer 235-6955is the easiest female cancer to prevent cervical cancer and unable to GSRASAC E-mail: Goodshepherdbapt@bellsouth. with regular screening tests and work may be eligible for Social net Hours: The Mon-Thurs 8 pm Security Disability Insurance follow-up.

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