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Public housing future discussed - 2 Virginia gov. pardons ‘Norfolk 4’ - 5 The case for Medicaid expansion - 6 The fear of death explored - 8

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Senate panel considers Gorsuch as threat of filibuster looms “Despite his impressive academic credentials, Judge Gorsuch’s record and evasive responses – even refusing to answer questions regarding his views of cases like Roe v. Wade and Citizens United – do not give me confidence that he possesses a judicial philosophy that will serve the American public well.”

Supreme Court Justice nominee Neil Gorsuch gestures as he speaks during his recent confirmation hearing.

The battle to confirm Judge Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court entered its final phase Monday as Republicans prepared to send the nomination to the full Senate, possibly triggering not only a Democratic filibuster but a rules change that could escalate fighting over future court nominees.

The Senate Judiciary Committee hearing to consider Gorsuch’s nomination produced an early piece of news when Dianne Feinstein (Calif.), the ranking Democrat on the panel, said she would not support his confirmation. She did not immediately comment on whether Democrats plan to filibuster or whether she would vote to end the procedural roadblock.

“If confirmed, a nominee’s decisions will affect the lives of all Americans for generations,” Feinstein said.

“Our job is to assess whether the nominee will protect the legal and constitutional rights of all Americans and whether the nominee recognizes

the humanity and justice required when evaluating cases before him.”

Based on those criteria, Feinstein said, “I cannot support this nomination.”

The judiciary panel, where Republicans hold a majority of seats, is expected to approve Gorsuch without issue. This would allow debate on the nomination to begin in the full Senate, probably on Tuesday morning.

Republicans have vowed to confirm Gorsuch by Friday, when a two-week recess is set to begin, meaning the process will consume the Senate’s floor schedule this week. That timeline would give the 49-year-old federal appellate judge a chance to join the high court in late April and to participate in the final cases of this year’s term, which will end in June.

As the hearing opened, Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) called Gorsuch the “picture of the kind of justice we

- U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) who intends to vote against Gorsuch. should have on the Supreme Court.”

Gorsuch, McConnell and his caucus “Judge Gorsuch is eminently are likely to agree to change the qualified,” Grassley said. “He’s chamber’s rules and end filibusters a mainstream judge who has on Supreme Court picks. That would earned the universal respect of his extend a rule change Democrats colleagues on the bench and in the made in 2013 that punished bar. He applies the law as we in Republicans for years of attempts Congress write it . . . and he refuses to block President Barack Obama’s to compromise his independence.” nominees by ending filibusters for all Gorsuch’s nomination to replace executive branch appointments and the late justice Antonin Scalia, lower-court picks. whose “originalist” philosophy of Last year, Republicans refused constitutional interpretation he to hold hearings or votes for Judge shares, would be unlikely to tip the Merrick Garland, Obama’s choice ideological balance of the Supreme to replace Scalia, arguing that the Court. And Gorsuch’s three days of next president should get to pick the confirmation hearings last month replacement. The move infuriated never captured the national attention Democrats — and has been a major afforded to previous nominees. factor in generating such unified But the final round of debate on opposition to Gorsuch. his nomination could be bitter. And Martin B. Gold, a former floor although the Republican-controlled adviser and counsel to former Senate Senate is likely to confirm him, that majority leaders Howard Baker and will happen only if the chamber’s Bill Frist who has written a book rules are changed. about Senate floor procedure, warned Democrats are vowing to filibuster that this week’s expected change in Gorsuch, a tactical roadblock that Senate rules is likely to put even can only be overcome with the votes more importance on the partisan of 60 senators. Republicans hold control of the Senate.

52 seats, and only three moderate “Between the Democrats taking Democrats said they plan to vote for offense at what the Republicans did his confirmation. on Garland and Republicans taking On Sunday, Senate Minority offense to what Democrats are doing Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) to Gorsuch, you wonder who’s going said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” to put the weapons down, or if they’ll that it is “highly, highly unlikely” always stay drawn,” Gold said. “And that Republicans will get the 60 if the partisan makeup flips, you votes needed to end a Democratic wonder if a president will ever get filibuster. (continued on page 3) If Democrats successfully filibuster

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News Trump’s budget proposal is bad news for housing across the nation The White House recently unveiled its much anticipated budget proposal.

It shows deep cuts to important agencies, including a more than $6 billion decrease in funding to the U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). More than 75 percent of the agency’s budget goes to helping families pay their rent. Thus, these cuts would have a negative impact on thousands upon thousands of poor and working class households.

Many years ago, Congress enshrined the “goal of a decent home and a suitable living environment for every American family” within its Declaration of National Housing Policy. This goal was not just justified by the basic needs of those with inadequate housing, but also because “the general welfare and security of the nation” required it. As the nation’s leading cities grapple with rapidly growing homeless populations, this additional justification takes on added weight.

“We would be kidding ourselves, of course, if we thought we ever came close to achieving that goal, but it remains a guiding star for housing policy,” notes social commentator David Reiss. “These proposed cuts would move us directly in the wrong direction. Public housing would be hit particularly hard, making the cuts a frontal attack on some of the weakest among us.”

Rental assistance programs During the current fiscal year, HUD is assisting 4.5 million families with their rent through a variety of programs. The Housing Choice Vouchers Program, one of the main vehicles for rental assistance, has enjoyed broad support on both sides of the aisle as well as from housing policy analysts because such a large proportion of the program’s funds goes directly to households to pay rent for apartments obtained

from the private sector. It is an efficient subsidy that pays for a basic necessity: a safe and healthy home.

Trump’s proposal provides more than $35 billion for HUD’s rental assistance programs. Nonetheless, the recent public reports indicate that the budget plan would cut direct rental assistance programs like the Housing Choice Vouchers Program by at least $300 million.

A new report from the National Low Income Housing Coalition shows that the private sector is not capable of providing decent homes to a large proportion of poor and working class households on its own. The report finds that the nation has a shortage of more than seven million affordable homes for extremely low-income households.

This means that two out of three extremely low-income households pay a very large proportion of their income on housing. Indeed, more than 70 percent of these households pay more than half their income on rent and utilities. Every household that loses its rental voucher is at risk of becoming homeless.

Public housing and homeownership According to reports, the preliminary budget called for big cuts to public housing across the nation.

Like vouchers, public housing serves those on the edge of homelessness.

Public housing projects have been underinvested in for decades leading to many thousands of units being taken out of service. Making public housing units habitable is a very affordable way to increase the housing supply for low-income households. Failing to do so is also a sure way to increasing the homeless population, note advocates.

The budget shows a cut of more than $1 billion to what the White House calls “lower priority programs,” including the HOME Investment Partnerships Program, Choice Neighborhoods, and the SelfHelp Homeownership Opportunity Program. These programs provide vital housing assistance on the local, state, and national levels, advocates note.

Community development grants Finally, the Trump’s budget

proposal calls for the elimination of the Community Development Block Grant Program, a longstanding program that provides funds to state and local governments to provide assistance with affordable housing and community development initiatives.

This $3 billion program allows communities to jump start efforts to revitalize their communities. As with rental assistance vouchers, this program has long enjoyed bipartisan support because it builds on grassroots efforts to identify pressing local needs. Terminating this program out of the blue is like a sucker punch in the gut of countless communities across the country.

“Let’s hope that common decency prevails and that the efficient subsidies that HUD provides to poor and working class families are protected in the final budget plan approved by Congress,” said Reiss. “Let’s hope this is the case not just for the sake of the affected households, but also for “the general welfare and security of the nation” as the homelessness epidemic continues to grip our urban centers.”

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(from page 1) anyone confirmed.”

Gorsuch was nominated by President Trump on Jan. 31 and spent weeks privately meeting with senators and preparing for his confirmation hearing. He was questioned by the Judiciary Committee last month for almost 20 hours over three days, answering nearly 1,200 questions and later sending about 70 pages of answers to written follow-up questions, according to a team of White House officials assisting with his nomination.

As of Friday, Gorsuch had met with 78 senators — all but some of the most conservative and liberal senators whose votes are more likely to be for or against him. But three first-term Democratic senators, Catherine Cortez Masto (Nev.), Tammy Duckworth (Ill.) and Kamala D. Harris (Calif.), said that they had been unable to get a face-to-face meeting with the nominee or were never offered the opportunity.

The fact that the three senators are women, with one Hispanic, one Asian and one African American, was not lost on some progressive groups that highlighted the perceived snub over the weekend.

Gorsuch aides insisted privately that difficulties scheduling time with the senators was the only reason they never met.

At the Judiciary Committee, the final outcome has never been in doubt, given that no Republican ever expressed concerns with Gorsuch and no Democrat on the committee ever signaled any favor for him.

Instead, Democrats have complained that on issues ranging from abortion rights to whether the nominee agreed with Supreme Court rulings in key privacy and racial segregation cases, Gorsuch repeatedly demurred, citing a concern that speaking too specifically on such matters might affect his ability to render fair decisions in future cases.

Gorsuch’s refusal to get specific mirrors what previous court nominees have done dating back to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

But critics noted that despite 10 years as a member of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, Gorsuch had never ruled on issues such as abortion rights or some environmental matters.

In interviews before Gorsuch’s

Aprl 5, 2017 • 3 confirmation hearings last month, several Republican senators agreed that he was a safe conservative choice who would maintain the balance of the court and make future fights to fill vacancies even more critical.

“I have no doubt that from the Democrats’ perspective, the next vacancy will be Armageddon. They will fire every attack they can marshal at whoever the nominee is,” said Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.).

Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) agreed, saying that the next confirmation fight will be “a bloodbath.”

The predictions by Cruz and Flake assume that the next Supreme Court vacancy will be caused by the departure of older liberal justices, such as Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen G. Breyer or Anthony M. Kennedy, the court’s most frequent swing vote.

The Gorsuch battle has not generated as much interest or concern among liberal organizations as among conservative groups, which have spent nearly $10 million on a television ad campaign designed to pressure moderate Democrats.

Carrie Severino, chief counsel of the pro-Gorsuch Judicial Crisis Network, which is bankrolling the multimillion-dollar ad campaign, said Schumer and his fellow Democrats are promoting a “historic level of gridlock.” She said that her conservative organization has opposed judicial filibusters in both Republican and Democratic administrations and that only Democrats have ever used threats of a filibuster against GOP nominees.

JCN’s ad campaign appeared to help persuade two moderate Democratic senators, Heidi Heitkamp (N.D.) and Joe Manchin III (W.Va.), last week to say they will support Gorsuch. On Sunday, Sen. Joe Donnelly (Ind.), also targeted by JCN’s effort, became the third Democrat to announce support for Gorsuch. But another moderate, Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.), announced he would vote against Gorsuch and support the filibuster because, “I cannot support a nominee who refuses to answer important questions.” In all, 10 Democrats facing reelection next year in states that Trump carried in the November election have been targeted by the ad campaign backing Gorsuch.

The decisions by Heitkamp and Manchin earned swift rebukes from liberal organizations. NARAL Pro-

Choice America, an abortion rights group that helps mobilize Democratic voters, warned that it would not endorse any Democrat who supports Gorsuch. On Sunday, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, a liberal political group that campaigns for Democratic candidates, ran fullpage ads in North Dakota and West Virginia newspapers criticizing the senators’ choice.

That pressure may have been a factor for Sen. Claire McCaskill (DMo.), who has also been targeted by JCN but said on Friday that she will vote against Gorsuch. In an essay to

constituents, she said it had been “a really difficult decision for me.”

Another potential “yes” vote, Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), said Sunday that he will not announce his decision until Tuesday or Wednesday, but suggested that he is leaning against Gorsuch.

Filibustering a Supreme Court nominee “doesn’t strike me as out of line with Senate tradition,” King told CBS’s “Face the Nation,” noting that during his 4½ years in office he has needed to cast votes to end filibusters 400 times “on all matter of big and small things.”

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‘Norfolk 4’ seek to move forward after pardon Eric Wilson feels he always needs an alibi. He rarely leaves his wife’s side when not at work. He talks on the phone whenever he’s in his car to leave a record of his location.

One of four former sailors known as the “Norfolk Four,” Wilson was pardoned recently by Virginia’s governor for a rape he says he was bullied into admitting to 20 years ago. Cleared at last, he hopes the healing can begin.

But there are some things he’ll never get over, he says.

If he just could have proven he wasn’t in that Norfolk apartment in July 1997, he may not have falsely confessed to raping 18-year-old Michelle Moore-Bosko. If he could have remembered where he really was that day, he wouldn’t have spent 7 ½ years in prison and more than a decade as a registered sex offender for something Gov. Terry McAuliffe declared he didn’t do, Wilson says.

“If I had had some kind of hard

HU professors see AA history Hampton University professors Maureen Elgersman Lee and Robert C. Watson have received a 2017 Common Heritage grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to fund the “Preserving African American Material Cultural in Williamsburg”, project. Under the NEH program, HU will work with the Williamsburg Regional Library to deliver free public programming for the preservation of African American materials.

“Personal and organizational papers are some of the most vulnerable historical materials in the African American community,” said Dr. Elgersman Lee, an associate professor of History and chairs the department of Political Science and History. “When family members pass away, for example, there is often a preference for photos and threedimensional objects over papers. As historians, we often find out about collections after materials have been discarded. Letters, meeting

minutes, diaries--they are all so very important.”

The NEH Common Heritage Program recognizes that members of the public—in partnership with libraries, museums, archives, and historical organizations—have much to contribute to the understanding of our cultural mosaic. Together, such institutions and the public can be effective partners in the appreciation and stewardship of our common heritage. The NEH Common Heritage Grant will fund a year-long pilot project designed to raise public awareness about the importance of preserving African American material culture, with an emphasis on private papers. The project’s public programming includes two March informational sessions about the project, two digitization events in May and June wherein the public can have private papers scanned and saved on flash drives; and a final December community briefing and celebration on the results of the project.

The four Navy veterans known as the “Norfolk 4” were wrongly convicted of the rape and murder of a woman in Norfolk in 1997 and served years in prison before last week’s gubernatorial pardon. proof that proved I wasn’t there, this never would’ve happened,” Wilson, now 40, said to a reporter as he drove from work to the home he shares with his wife and two children near San Antonio, Texas.

Pardons for the “Norfolk Four” closed a lengthy case that gained national attention after their innocence claims were backed by dozens of former FBI agents, exprosecutors and crime novelist John Grisham. The author once said he wanted to write a screenplay about the case.

Moore-Bosko’s husband found her stabbed and strangled body in their apartment in July 1997 after returning from a week at sea.

Danial Williams, who lived in the same building, was quickly identified as a suspect because a neighbor told police he had a crush on the victim.

Williams admitted to her rape and murder — the first of a series of confessions that the men, thensailors at the Naval base in Norfolk, say were forced by police.

DNA evidence matched only one person: Omar Ballard, the fifth man convicted in the case. Ballard, who pleaded guilty in 2000, acknowledged he was solely responsible and is serving a life sentence.

Williams, Joseph Dick and Derek Tice got courts to throw out their rape and murder convictions before McAuliffe formally declared them innocent this month. But Wilson, convicted of rape, had failed to persuade judges to do the same because of a technicality: He’d already completed his sentence.

So while out of prison since 2005, he hasn’t been free.

As a registered sex offender, he’s been limited from traveling and told to not even bother trying to adopt his stepson, he said. It took an attorney and $10,000 to convince a board to grant him an electrician's license, he said. He's been blocked from working on certain properties, such as schools, and barred from city parks.

His son was run out of his Cub

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‘Just Mercy’ author Bryan Stevenson to visit Richmond Bryan Stevenson, author of Virginia Commonwealth University’s 2016–17 common book, “Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption,” will speak at VCU on April 12.

Stevenson’s talk will be held at 6 p.m. at the Stuart C. Siegel Center, 1200 W. Broad St. in Richmond. The event will be free and open to the public. No registration is required.

Stevenson will speak with VCU students, faculty, staff and the wider Richmond community about the book, a memoir that tells the story of the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice founded by Stevenson that is dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need: the poor, the wrongly condemned, and women and children trapped in the criminal justice system.

“Just Mercy” was selected for VCU’s universitywide, yearlong Common Book Initiative. Copies of the book were distributed to 3,500 incoming first-year students, and

true mercy and justice in society.

“This year’s common book, ‘Just Mercy,’ has allowed us to initiate new (and renew long-standing) partnerships across both campuses and in the Richmond community,” said Shelli Fowler, Ph.D., interim dean of University College, director of the Common Book Initiative and director of the Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies Program.

“Since early in the fall semester, first-year students have had increased opportunities for realworld learning experiences within and beyond their UNIV 111/112 classrooms. ‘Just Mercy’ has been a catalyst and connector this year, and that’s exciting as we look toward Bryan Stevenson’s visit on April 12.”

Stevenson’s visit to VCU is sponsored by the Office of the Provost and University College.

His talk is part of a series of

Bryan Stevenson to members of the university and Richmond communities. Students are

being encouraged to read the book and reflect on its themes of pursuing

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(from page 4) threatened with the death penalty Scout troop because other parents didn’t want Wilson around, he said.

“People have been very ugly,” said his wife, Misty Wilson.

Moore-Bosko’s family remain convinced the men are guilty. Her parents, John and Carol Moore, said in a statement that it’s hard to believe — after attending the trials and hearing the confessions — the four are innocent.

“We still believe that all of these men were involved in the murder of our daughter despite the ridiculous decision of the governor to grant them pardon,” the Moores said.

Wilson says he still has nightmares about the interrogation resulting in his false confession.

Hauled into a police station nearly a year after the slaying, he was asked where he was that day but couldn’t remember.

He recalls a detective shoving him into a corner and showing him a photo of Moore-Bosko’s bloody body.

By the end, he began to question whether he was innocent, he said.

The other men have said they cracked after they were

and repeatedly called liars. The confessions conflicted with one another. Ballard’s account was the only one containing information matching the crime scene.

The detective who questioned them, Robert Glenn Ford, was convicted in 2011 of extortion and lying to the FBI in unrelated cases. He’s serving 12 ½ years in prison for taking thousands of dollars from drug dealers to get them favorable treatment at sentencing.

Wilson said he’s been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and feels anxious in crowds, always looking over his shoulder.

“I don’t really go anywhere. I don’t talk to people,” Wilson said.

Steve Northup, Wilson’s attorney, said they plan to seek compensation for what he endured. Once his name is removed from the sex offender registry, Wilson said, he plans to adopt his stepson, get a passport, and maybe take his wife on a proper honeymoon.

“I’m just grateful that Virginia has finally admitting they’re wrong,” he said. “Now, the healing can begin for all of us.” - WIRE REPORT

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Republicans are out of excuses on Medicaid expansion TERRY McAULIFFE

Republicans in Richmond have a choice to make. They can choose to stand up for health and opportunity for their constituents and a stronger Virginia economy, or they can allow divisive partisan politics to continue to hurt their commonwealth.

For the past 3½ years, Virginia has been engaged in a discussion about joining the 31 states that accepted federal funding to expand Medicaid and offer more citizens access to quality health care.

If you are a taxpayer in Virginia, Republicans in Richmond have so far blocked your federal tax dollars from coming home, even as you have been paying for Medicaid expansion in West Virginia, Maryland and the District. They have offered a range of excuses, which, as the Affordable Care Act has been implemented, have all proved empty. The result is that Virginia has been prevented from reaping the benefits even as Virginians haven’t saved a dime in taxes.

Now, after President Trump and Republicans in Congress have failed to repeal the ACA and demonstrated clearly that Medicaid expansion will continue to benefit the states that accept it, the time for excuses is over.

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proposal I have submitted to expand Virginia’s Medicaid program.

Accepting it would be a victory for Virginia’s families, economy and health-care system.

If Republicans accept my amendment, we can expand healthcare coverage to as many as 400,000 Virginians who are just one accident or illness away from financial ruin or death.

We can create 30,000 jobs.

We can save our state budget more than $73 million per year.

We can invest nearly $300 million to improve Virginia’s behavioralhealth system and combat the opioid epidemic that is ravaging communities all over the country.

And we can throw a lifeline to

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hospitals, particularly in rural communities, that are struggling to stay afloat because of declining federal support for offsetting the care they offer to patients who can’t afford to pay.

These benefits are awaiting Virginia if we expand Medicaid. In fact, we already are paying for them.

Since the ACA became law, Virginia taxpayers have left more than $10 billion on the table that could have been spent covering our friends and neighbors and creating jobs. Every day we wait, we waste another $6.6 million.

Virginia Republicans have offered a litany of excuses for not accepting these benefits. First there was the concern that the commonwealth could not afford the 10 percent portion of the cost of expansion in order to get the federal government to cover the other 90 percent.

That concern was alleviated when Virginia’s hospitals offered to cover the state’s share — allowing them (and Virginia taxpayers) to bring the benefits of expansion home with zero risk or obligation to the commonwealth’s budget.

Then Republicans fretted that leaders in Washington would repeal or change the plan in a way that would put Virginia at risk.

Trump, House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) and the Republicanmajority Congress eliminated that

concern when they wrote a healthcare bill that did not do away with the expansion — and then failed to pass anything at all, preserving the program in its entirety.

Even if these excuses were grounded in reality, they would not justify denying 400,000 Virginians access to lifesaving care for which they are already footing the bill.

Some of the most conservative governors in the country, including Vice President Pence when he was governor of Indiana and Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R), expanded Medicaid because it was the right thing to do.

In the wake of last week’s failure with a replacement health-care bill, other conservative states are also moving in that direction.

If Virginia Republicans continue to obstruct progress on this important issue, it should be clear to their constituents that they are motivated solely by tea-party politics, not sound public policy. Virginians who lack access to health care are waiting.

Families and communities coping with our mental-health and opioid crises are waiting. Virginia hospitals and health-care providers struggling with their bottom lines are waiting.

On Wednesday, Virginia Republicans can end the wait, put political excuses aside and bring billions of our own taxpayer dollars home to save lives, create jobs and make our commonwealth stronger.

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P.T. Hoffsteader, Esq.

End child abuse

Millions of children and adolescents are exposed to violence and experience child abuse and neglect early in life. Exposure to violence, abuse and neglect is a significant problem, as it can cause serious physical, mental, and emotional health problems and lead to injuries and death.

The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), representing nearly 3,000 local health departments across the nation, supports leadership and capacity-building in local communities to prevent and reduce children’s abuse and neglect.

Local health departments play an important role in local systems that serve children to reduce rates of abuse and neglect, both as direct service providers and as coordinating agencies.

April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. This month and throughout the year, NACCHO encourages local health departments to observe National Child Abuse Prevention Month by implementing policies, programs, and strategies that help prevent child maltreatment and exposure to violence, and provide for children’s physical, emotional, and developmental needs. Every young person deserves the right to grow up safe, healthy, and free from violence.

Local health departments provide critical services and programs that support families and promote safe, stable, and nurturing environments for children. Children can be safeguarded through home visitation programs such as Nurse Family Partnership and Healthy Families America; therapeutic interventions, including cognitive behavioral therapy and strengthening families; and evidenced-based parenting

education programs such as the Triple P - Positive Parenting Program.

Creating an environment that supports children and families is effective in reducing child abuse and neglect.

Research shows that protective factors are present in healthy families. Promoting these factors is among the most effective ways to reduce the risk of child abuse and neglect. They are: nurturing and attachment, knowledge of parenting and of child and youth development, parental resilience, social connections, concrete supports for parents and social and emotional competence of children.

William M. Barnes, PhD, MBA NACCHO

Talk of nuclear option On Jan. 31, president Donald Trump nominated federal appellate judge Neil Gorsuch to fill a vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court created nearly a year before by Associate Justice Antonin Scalia’s death.

More than two months later -nearly 14 months since Scalia’s passing and after 13 months of Republican stalling and refusal to even consider former president Barack Obama’s nomination of appellate judge Merrick Garland -- the U.S. Senate is finally set to vote on Gorsuch’s nomination once it clears a final procedural hurdle (more on that below).

Unlike most politically engaged Americans, I have no strong opinion on the character or qualifications of Neil Gorsuch (or, for that matter, Merrick Garland). Because they’re appointed for life, Supreme Court justices tend to develop minds of their own rather than slavishly fulfilling the wishes of the presidents who nominate them or the parties

they claim affiliation with.

I do, however, have strong and very negative opinions on the melodrama attending the whole process.

Chief Justice John Marshall was nominated to his position on January 20, 1801. The Senate stalled, declining to confirm Marshall and pushing president John Adams to substitute someone else. The matter dragged on ... for seven whole days before a vote. Marshall took his seat on the court less than two weeks after Adams asked him to serve.

Two weeks in 1801, when news traveled at the speed of horse.

Fourteen months in 2016-17, when news travels at the speed of light.

What’s wrong with this picture?

What’s wrong with it is that the Senate is a dilatory, time-wasting, procedurally hidebound body that these days walks (at a snail’s pace) every action of significance through multiple hearings in front of various committees before acting.

The final procedural hurdle I mentioned above is called “cloture.” It’s a vote to end debate, wrap the matter up and give Gorsuch the Senate’s final, for real, thumbs up or (or down).

Under current Senate rules cloture requires 60 votes. Republicans, with a bare majority in the Senate and no hope of winning cloture, are threatening “the nuclear option” -- a rules change, which only requires a majority, to make cloture itself a mere majority vote.

I don’t think the “nuclear option” is enough. I’m with MacBeth: “If it were done when ‘tis done, then ‘twere well It were done quickly.”

Instead of changing the cloture rules, why not change the entire confirmation procedure? Put a hard deadline in the rules: On the tenth day following nomination, the nominee receives an up or down

vote of the full Senate, period, no exceptions. Pre-vote committees get that long, and no longer, to do their jobs.

The Constitution calls for the Senate’s “advice and consent” on presidential appointments, not for months or years of screwing around.

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Stop all executions

The Virginia Department of Corrections secretly changed its procedures to hide more of the execution process from the public.

Less than three weeks after problems with the Jan. 18 lethal injection of Ricky Jovan Gray, the DOC changed its “execution manual” on Feb. 7 so that official, media and victim witnesses will be unable to observe the inmate’s condition prior to future executions or view the insertion of IVs – a critical part of the procedure.

Virginia already has a system that allows the state to contract in secret with secret compounding pharmacies to make secret drugs, and now the DOC has moved to remove the actual process of executions further and further from public view.

These additional restrictions on the public’s right to know are shocking, shameful and in direct contradiction with the principles of open government and accountability upon which our democracy is founded.

It seems that, when confronted with questions and criticism over issues with the written protocols and actual practice of executing people in Virginia, the DOC and the administration’s posture is to ignore these concerns and then tighten the veil of secrecy even further to avoid uncomfortable questions in the future Claire Guthrie Gastañaga, ACLU

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The LEGACY

Still no sign of leader for WH faith office ADELLE M. BANKS RNS - Since winning the election with strong support from conservative evangelical voters, President Trump has invited their leaders to the White House and banned government funding for groups that support or perform abortions overseas.

But he has yet to move on one item that many of them care about.

No one has been named to direct the Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships, which since 2001 has linked government with a broad range of religious groups.

A link to the office’s webpage reads “Thank you for your interest in this subject. Stay tuned as we continue to update WhiteHouse.gov.”

“I don’t know what the Trump administration’s plans are in this area,” said Melissa Rogers, who directed the office under the Obama administration from 2013 until Inauguration Day 2017.

The office has enjoyed the support not only of conservatives, but also many religious progressives like Rogers who believe faith-based charities are well-positioned to help the needy, and some get government contracts to do so with taxpayer funds.

Critics of the office are baffled by the delay in naming a director.

“It does seem odd that this position would still be unfilled, given Trump’s constant playing to the conservative evangelical base,” said Rob Boston of Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

Indeed, the ties between the administration and religious conservatives are close.

Evangelical leaders have visited the White House “on multiple occasions” and administration members have been “in near constant communication” with those advisers who aided him during his campaign, said Johnnie Moore, who served as a member of the Trump campaign’s evangelical advisory board.

“The administration hasn’t just spoken about giving a seat at the table to the faith community, they have — and are — actually doing it,” he said, adding that Trump staffers have held “multiple meetings with a diverse group of Christian and Jewish leaders especially as it relates to the Supreme Court.”

Rob Boston Evangelicals, in particular, are feeling welcome, he said.

“Some of us have actually been in meetings at the White House and State Department that began or ended in prayer,” he said. “Many evangelicals feel like the administration has an open-door policy.”

Creative Commons image by House Committee on Education and the Workforce Democrats Rabbi David Saperstein, former ambassador-atlarge for international religious freedom.

Just as Rogers’ former position remains empty, the post of the ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom has yet to be filled at the State Department. But Rabbi David Saperstein, who held that position at the end of the Obama administration, believes there will be a

successor.

“This cause and office has such strong and bipartisan wall-to-wall support throughout both the Republican and Democratic components of the Congress,” said Saperstein, who returns to the Union for Reform Judaism as a senior staffer on Saturday (April 1). “In the meantime, there remains a very strong, dedicated, effective staff that continues their work every day on behalf of strengthening religious freedom across the globe.”

The Obama administration took more than a year to name Saperstein after his predecessor, the Rev. Suzan Johnson Cook, resigned. But President Obama announced the Rev. Joshua DuBois as his first director of the faith-based office within weeks of his 2009 inauguration.

Rogers, who was DuBois’ successor, hopes the office she led as well as the faith-based offices at 13 federal agencies will continue work on efforts that have ranged from feeding nutritious summertime meals to children to fighting the Zika and Ebola viruses.

“The offices and the broader administration must demonstrate a steadfast commitment to welcoming all faith groups and treating them equally, respecting the independence of religious communities and promoting the common good, not theology,” said Rogers, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

“I think we accomplished a great deal through these offices but they won’t succeed if they don’t have that kind of strong foundation.”

Stanley Carlson-Thies, a staffer for the George W. Bush administration’s faith-based initiative, said offices of at least some federal agencies, including the Department of Health and Human Services, are continuing their work.

“The HHS Center, for example, remains a point of contact for faith-based organizations with questions and suggestions about grant programs from that department,” said Carlson-Thies, senior director of the Institutional Religious Freedom Alliance.

Earlier in March, Trump appointed the Rev. Jamie Johnson as director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Johnson, a broadcaster and Trump campaign worker, was vice president of the nonprofit World-Wide Missions for 11 years.

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Study: Atheists and highly religious people are the least scared of death MIKE MCRAE Benjamin Franklin once famously wrote in a letter that “in this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes”.

This inescapable end is a scary thought for most people, but according to a recent study, those who are highly religious and those who have no religious belief at all tend to be less scared of death than the average person, which suggests that many of our behaviours are motivated by a fear of dying.

Researchers led by the University of Oxford figured this out by systematically digging through a number of previous studies to examine the ties between religiosity and anxiety over death, and to determine whether a belief in the supernatural helps or hinders people’s acceptance of their own eventual demise.

Their work revolved around a concept known as Terror Management Theory (TMT), which hypothesises that the conflict between our desire to live and the knowledge of inevitable death is a key driver behind many cultural values and rituals.

This awareness - or ‘mortality

salience’ - creates behaviours that help us either avoid death or distract ourselves from it, including the speculations we make in defence of our world views.

It’s this defence mechanism that is thought to inform our desire to mix with a particular social group, influence our political and religious convictions, and affect how we engage in various social rituals such as attending church or political rallies.

This hypothesis predicts anxiety over death will be lowest among the extremely religious, since fear of death would naturally drive people into religious cultures where their stress would be mitigated.

The team used data from 100 studies conducted between 1961 and 2014 to correlate the degree of religious conviction and anxiety over death in 26,000 people worldwide.

When all of the studies’ effects were analysed together, the researchers found that having strong faith had a weak but significant link with a lower fear of death.

No matter which specific beliefs or behaviours they looked at – whether it was just a fervent belief in the afterlife or regular church attendance – as the effect gained

strength, anxiety over death seemed to fade.

The research provided a few other interesting details – many of the studies explored the difference between intrinsic religiosity (faith driven by a view of religion as an ends to itself), and extrinsic religiosity (faith influenced by a value in social cohesion or personal comfort).

The meta-analysis found that those who defended their faith as “intrinsically important” tended to have less anxiety over dying, while those with higher degrees of extrinsic motivation tended to also have a higher degree of anxiety over death.

According to the TMT world view defence hypothesis, most atheists would worry less about dying – after all, if they did feel anxious, the hypothesis predicts they’d seek out some way to alleviate it, such as religion.

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Nate Young

Solo Nate Young exhibition set for this month An exhibition of work by Nate Young titled “(re)collection” will go on view at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond on Friday, April 21.

A 5:30 p.m. artist talk will be followed by a public reception from 6 to 8 p.m. The exhibition runs through June 18.

Young presents an installation that interprets and mythologizes the life of his great-grandfather. A conceptual narrative in three parts, the works on view are inspired by personal recollection, oral history, family relics, and the unearthed bones of the horse that carried Young’s great-grandfather north during the Great Migration.

Young was a Quirk+VisArts artist

in residence in March of 2017. He stayed at Quirk’s residency space and worked in VisArts’ studios alongside jewelers Liz Borsetti and Jay Sharpe, woodworker Mark Rickey and printmaker Travis Robertson.

Borsetti and Sharpe taught Young a lost wax casting technique, which he is using to create work for the exhibition.

“It was exciting to have Nate here, collaborating with VisArts’ faculty and also learning from them,” said Stefanie Fedor, executive director at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond.

“This is what we envisioned when we designed the residency program. We wanted to invite artists to Richmond and help them connect with the many

talented artists working here.”

In this exhibition, Young brings together the hand-made wooden objects for which he is best known, along with jewelry making, printmaking and a sculptural sound installation made during his residency. Both personally sourced and historically resonant, “(re) collection” reflects on the ways in which identity is formed through action and circumstance and transformed by archive and memory.

Young lives in Chicago, where he teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He earned an M.F.A. from the California Institute of the Arts in 2009 and a B.A. from Northwestern College in Minnesota

in 2004. He attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2009, and was invited back as a dean of the residency in 2015.

Young is represented by Monique Meloche Gallery in Chicago and has had solo exhibitions at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, Penn.; Luce Gallery in Turin, Italy; and Monique Meloche Gallery. He will have another solo exhibition at Monique Meloche Gallery in September 2017. Young has participated in group exhibitions at The Studio Museum in Harlem, N.Y.; California African American Museum in Los Angeles, Calif.; and

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The Richmond Black Widows are back!

The Richmond Black Widows, founded by Sarah Schkeeper in 2015, are Central Virginia’s first women’s professional tackle football team. After a successful inaugural season, playing for the Tier III WFL National Championship, the team is back in action, excited for the opportunity to defend their Tier III WFL National Conference Championship. This season The Richmond Black Widows will be playing their home games (April 15, April 29, and May 15 ) at the Bon Secours Washington Redskins Training Center. Bring a chair and come out and enjoy some football.

Despite losing their 2017 season opener 18-0 April 1 to the New York Sharks, one of the longest running programs in the WFL, the Richmond Black Widows have a lot to be excited about. The team is made up of women age 18 all the way up to mid-40s, who love the game and play it with passion. Lots of “BoneCrushing” Passion, be not mistaking, this is tackle football and these ladies play it as rough and tough as anybody.

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Young is the recipient of the Knight Arts Challenge Fellowship from the Knight Foundation, the Bush Fellowship for Visual Artists and the Jerome Fellowship for Emerging Artists. Young is cofounder and director of the artistrun exhibition space, The Bindery Projects, in Minneapolis, Minn.

Young is the fourth artist to benefit from the Quirk+VisArts Artist-in-Residence Program, a partnership between the Visual Arts Center of Richmond and Quirk Hotel and Gallery. Previous artists in residence include Leigh Suggs, Carli Holcomb and Natasha Bowdoin.

The exhibition is guest curated by Melissa Messina.

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GoFundMe page. If you would like more information on how to help, visit the team’s website, RichmondBlackWidows.com. -GS

‘Minds In Motion’s’ work in Israel recognized at AIPAC Conference

House Speaker Paul Ryan, and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley.

MIM, during its two-week residency in Israel, uses the power of dance to unite two communities that would otherwise not have any contact with each other– Jewish students at Beit Yitzhak Elementary School in Emek Hefer and Arab-Israeli students at Al-Salam School in the village of Qalansuwa. Students at each school experience individual Minds In Motion classes and then work together to present the performance for their families, teachers, and community leaders at both schools.

“Minds In Motion has been in existence for 22 years in Virginia and in Israel for the last eight years, with seven residency programs so far,” said Cat Studdard, Outreach Director at Richmond Ballet.

Dr. Kenneth Zaslav, trustee emeritus at Richmond Ballet, connected MIM with the Virginia Israel Advisory Board and the first residency at Beit Yitzhak took

place in 2010. Students from Al Salam began to be included in the experience in 2012 and beginning in 2015, the residency became a true collaboration with a total of 300 students presenting performances at both schools. At the initial program in 2015, students at both schools felt a lot of concern about having a joint experience,” said Studdard. “Even this year, at our first Arab school performance, the 200 students from the Jewish school arrived late and the Arab children were concerned the kids just wouldn’t show up.

“When the Jewish students arrived, everyone relaxed, and the students were eager to meet one another.

They do three performances so you see how their relationship develops through their dance collaboration.

It’s incredibly inspiring to see them working together with so much joy.”

Israeli filmmaker Lior Netzer documented the program’s most recent residency this past January and his film brought the experience to life for everyone.

Minds In Motion, an acclaimed outreach program of Richmond Ballet, received recognition last week from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) for its work in uniting Jewish-Israeli and Arab-Israeli communities. Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine introduced a presentation about Minds In Motion (MIM) and its Israeli residency to an audience of 18,000 attendees as part of AIPAC’s three-day policy conference at the Verizon Center in Washington D.C. Other speakers during the conference were Vice President Mike Pence,

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Va. launches farmers market manager training program Pilot program is first of its kind Being a farmers market manager means wearing a lot of hats. One day you’re recruiting and vetting vendors. The next you’re writing newsletters and blog posts to promote your market. The following day you may be booking musicians and planning children’s activities.

All the while, you field calls about food safety, SNAP benefits and booth fees. And that is all before market day arrives. New market managers quite understandably often feel overwhelmed, especially since they are typically working on their own. Recognizing this, the Virginia Farmers Market Association (VAFMA) and Virginia Cooperative Extension (VCE) launched a training program for the state’s 220+ market managers this year.

The Market Manager Certification Program, sponsored in part by Virginia Grown, is the first of its kind in Virginia. It is a 16-week interactive program that addresses real-world farmers market issues.

Through a combination of in-person workshops and online webinars, participants learn tactics for creating markets that are not only profitable for farmers but that also welcome customers with vibrant shopping experiences.

Because it is a pilot program, organizers capped enrollment to 14 students. The spots filled up quickly and a waiting list formed for the session that began February 10th and runs through June 2, 2017.

(from page 5) events at VCU, sponsored by the Focused Inquiry faculty of University College in collaboration with several university partners, which occur throughout the year in support of the communitywide discussion.

Recently, VCU students visited Open High School to lead discussions about the book, which is also Open High’s common book this year.

In the fall, the Common Book Initiative organized a cleanup of the

VCE Instructor and VAFMA board member Meredith Ledlie Johnson said “we’re very excited that all the planning that went into it seems to have paid off and there is an incredible amount of interest in it from market managers around the state.” Participants represent 14 different localities from Tidewater, the Highlands, Southwest Virginia, the Shenandoah region and the Capital area.

“People from all over the state came together because they really value learning from each other” Johnson said. She added, “managing can be a lonely job because you’re the only one there in that role.”

The course is designed to promote interaction among participants.

Justin McKenzie, new market manager of the Charlottesville City Market, praised this aspect of the program. “It’s really exciting to collaborate with other Virginia farmers markets. That’s where I feel like the real benefit is – you can bounce ideas off each other and see how they have solved problems.”

Prior to this training program McKenzie said he relied on scoping through the Internet for information.

“I remember when I first took the position, I only found a few write-ups on how to manage a market – what it actually entails. So a lot of it is just you being thrown into the fire.

A program like this will actually prepare market managers for what lies ahead.”

Kim Usry of the Carytown Farmers Market in Richmond agreed.

“Without a training program like this,” she said “you have to fly by the seat of your pants. You’re adaptable and flexible and just fly by the seat of your pants.”

Graduates of the program earn the title of Certified Market Manager and will be prepared to manage the complex and diverse challenges of farmers markets.

Leslie Vanover of the Marion

Farmers Market in Southwest Virginia said “I just see nothing but a better market in our future and I believe these are the tools that are going to make it happen.”

The core mission of VAFMA is to support farmers markets through education initiatives, while building opportunities for collaboration, networking, advocacy and innovation that supports the growth and sustainability of farmers markets statewide.

historic African-American East End Cemetery, and hosted a wide variety of events such as a panel discussion titled “Why Trust the Cops?” which featured VCU Police Chief John Venuti and other law enforcement officers who spoke on policing with a purpose, building trust and community-engaged policing. On the VCU Health Sciences campus, the Common Book Initiative cosponsored an event with the School of Medicine’s International/Inner City/Rural Preceptorship, featuring

a panel of formerly incarcerated individuals who discussed access to health care inside and outside of the prison system.

The Common Book Initiative and I2CRP also co-sponsored a screening and panel discussion on the VCU Health Sciences campus of “Until the Well Runs Dry: Medicine and the Exploitation of Black Bodies,” a documentary by Shawn Utsey, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Psychology in the College of Humanities and Sciences.

Stevenson’s visit to VCU on April 12 will include a guest lecture at the Richmond City Justice Center, joining the faculty and students who participate in the educational programming for RCJC residents, which is led by VCU’s ASPiRE Living/Learning Program.

Stevenson will meet with formerly incarcerated youth artists and tour an ART180 exhibit that will be in Cabell Library prior to meetings with other campus and community groups prior to his talk.

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NAACP: Utility disconnections leave thousands around the Nation “Out in the Cold” or left in the dark According to a new report from the NAACP, utility company shut off policies disproportionately impact low-income and African American communities, literally leaving thousands in the dark, stranded in the cold during winter or severely impacted by sweltering summer temperatures.

With 2016 on record as the hottest year to date, and January of this year documented as the 3rd hottest January on record, many are looking at the coming summer and winter months with fear and dread regarding the potential for utility shut-offs, that leave a disproportionate number of African American and poor communities in the dark and out in the cold.

“The life-threatening fact that 16 of the 17 hottest years on record have occurred since 2000, means climate change and global warming are painful household realities for those whose heat, air-conditioning and power are shut off. Dangerous and unnecessary shut offs in the sweltering heat and frigid cold disproportionately impact lowincome, the elderly and communities of color,” said NAACP President and CEO Cornell William Brooks.

“The measure of our great nation is not unreasoned and unrestrained profitability but rather reasoned solutions and unrestrained compassion for vulnerable populations. This report is inspired by such compassion and offers such solutions,” emphasized NAACP President and CEO Cornell William Brooks.

The report issued by the NAACP’s Environmental and Climate Justice Program (ECJP) shows lower income communities spend a greater portion of income on electricity and heating costs than high-income communities.

African Americans are twice as likely to live in poverty as non-African Americans and spend a significantly higher fraction of their household income on electricity and heating as non-African Americans, who spend more on energy used in the production and consumption of goods.

Since African Americans make up a higher percentage of low-income households, their vulnerability to high energy prices and in turn utility disconnections is exacerbated at levels disproportionate to other groups due to rate hikes or swings in weather.

The NAACP’s ECJP in analyzing state policies concerning utility shut-offs, showed 1) customers with limited income bear a disproportionate burden of energy bills; 2) disconnections have a disparate impact on low-income communities and communities of color; 3) customers may be reliant on utility services for medical devices and life-supporting systems; and 4) vulnerable customers' use of hazardous heating, cooling, and lighting measures can have harmful and even fatal results.

NAACP ECJP also highlights the inconsistencies in state shutoff polices, which makes it tougher to implement national utility reforms. States and the District of Columbia are uniform only in the fact that all are required to send out disconnection notices, yet: •7 states offer no payment plans to cure delinquency; •8 states have no medical protection policies on affecting disconnection of services; •11 states have no disconnection limitation polices; •14 states have no date-based protection policies. Date based – set specific dates of when customers cannot without due diligence be disconnected from a utility service; •28 states have no temperaturebased policies: Meaning regardless of how cold it becomes, utilities can be shut-off; •11 states have no disconnection limitations; and •36 states have reconnection fees.

These inconsistencies in consumer protections result in thousands of individuals and families each year ending up with no heat or power in their homes during the worst of

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Christine Darden, a scientist featured in ‘Hidden Figures,’ to speak at VCU Christine Darden, Ph.D., a retired NASA mathematician, data analyst and aeronautical engineer who is featured in “Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race,” a 2016 book by Margo Lee Shetterly, will visit VCU in April.

Darden will speak from 4:15 to 5:15 p.m. on Friday, April 7, in the Academic Learning Commons, room 1107, located at 1000 Floyd Ave. in Richmond. Her talk will be free and open to the public. Shetterly’s book was adapted into the Academy Award-nominated film “Hidden Figures,” released this winter.

“Dr. Darden enjoyed a very successful career as a NASA scientist, especially recognized for her research on sonic booms, despite facing a number of obstacles as a woman and African-American,” said Craig Larson, Ph.D., associate professor in Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics in the College of Humanities and Sciences at VCU. “Her story is inspiring and we expect her to be an inspiration to VCU’s students. We are very excited to have her visit and talk about her experiences.”

Darden’s visit is sponsored by the Departments of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics; African-American Studies; and Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies in the College of Humanities and Sciences.

Darden joined NASA in the late 1960s as a data analyst at Langley Research Center in Virginia, working as part of a pool of “human computers” who wrote complex programs and crunched numbers for engineers, though she held the same educational level — a master’s degree in applied mathematics — as many of the men being hired as engineers.

After eight years, she was promoted to an engineering position herself, becoming one of the few female aerospace engineers at NASA Langley. Her first assignment, according to NASA, was to write a computer program for sonic boom. She would go on to research sonic booms for decades.

In 1983, Darden received a doctorate in mechanical engineering from George Washington University. In 1989, she was appointed as the technical leader of NASA’s Sonic Boom Group of the Vehicle Integration Branch of the High Speed Research Program, a role in which she was responsible for developing the sonic boom research program at NASA. Over her 40-year career at NASA, Darden led “an advisory team composed of representatives from industrial manufacturers and academic institutions, became the deputy program manager of The TU-144 Experiments Program, an element of NASA’s High Speed Research Program; and, in 1999, she was appointed as the director in the Program Management Office of the Aerospace Performing Center where she was responsible for Langley research in air traffic management and other aeronautics programs managed at other NASA Centers,” according to a NASA profile about her.

She also served as technical consultant on a number of government and private projects, and she is the author of more than 50 publications in the field of high lift wing design in supersonic flow, flap design, sonic boom prediction and sonic boom minimization, according to NASA.

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The Volunteer Income Tax Assistance site has been established on VSU’s campus in Singleton Hall, Room 333, and is being staffed two days a week, Tuesdays from 12:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. through April 11. The service will be closed during the university’s Spring Break, March 12 - March 19.

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Rep. Jackson Lee delivered remarks in memory of Lenora “Doll” Carter, long-time publisher of the “Houston Forward Times,” who was just enshrined in the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) Gallery of Distinguished Publishers at Howard University’s Founders Library. The enshrinement ceremony is one of the signature events of Black Press Week, an annual celebration in Washington, D.C., attended by NNPA members, partners, sponsors and Black Press contributors.

The NNPA is a trade group of more than 200 black-owned media companies operating in 70 markets in the United States.

During her impromptu talk after the enshrinement ceremony, Jackson Lee dropped a bombshell. In talking about the nation’s current president, Jackson Lee minced no words.

“This is not a government, right now,” said Jackson Lee in front of nearly 50 members of the Jackson Lee added: “I’m on the route of impeachment.”

Jackson Lee said there are a litany of reasons that should disqualify President Donald Trump as president including his potential ties to Russia and its interference in November’s election, but she also said America is unsafe under Trump.

“I’m concerned about our nation.

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The NAACP notes that these numbers are slated to expand tremendously due to President Donald Trump’s proposed elimination of the Low Income Heating and Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP). The elimination of LIHEAP would disparately impact over a million African Americans, and nearly 7 million Americans who utilize LIHEAP. Sample estimates of states affected by the LIHEAP elimination: - Iowa - 85,777 households - Michigan - 623,549 households - Ohio - 454,520 households - Pennsylvania - 391,461 households - Wisconsin - 214,531 households “Caught between a rock and a hard place, low-income families across the country are often faced with tough choices between putting food on the table, paying for medicine and lighting and/or heating their homes.” said Jacqueline Patterson, Director of the NAACP’s Environmental and Climate Justice Program. “In researching this report, we’ve seen too many cases where poverty ends up being a death sentence when circumstances result in fatally

Cornell Brooks perilous choices.”

For Arizona native Amy Mays whose struggles with utility shut-off and path to energy independence are profiled in the report, new policies are needed immediately.

said Jackson Lee. “You have in office an individual that is unread and unlearned.”

Jackson Lee’s statement rang loud, because she is also a member of the House Judiciary and Homeland Security Committees.

Some have expressed concerns that an impeachment of Trump would leave the nation under the control of

Vice President Mike Pence, who is seen as a staunch conservative with far right-wing views. Jackson Lee does not share in those concerns.

“At least he understands government,” said the Texas representative. “And I’m focused on getting him (Pence) out in 2020, anyway.”

Jackson Lee also remembered “Doll” Carter, fondly.

“Doll was larger than life,” remarked Jackson Lee. Carter lived in Jackson Lee’s district.

Carter, who died in 2010, also served as the treasurer of the NNPA. She was remembered as a powerful businesswoman and a loving friend.

Colleague and close friend Dorothy Leavell said Carter lived up to her nickname.

“I know why they called her ‘Doll,’” said Leavell, “She was beautiful on the outside and she was beautiful on the inside, as well.”

“We need these solutions sooner rather than later, because climate change is going to make these issues worse. Extreme weather events, like dangerously hot and cold days, are projected to increase as a result of climate change – stretching ratepayer’s pockets and putting them at even greater risk if their power is shut off. ” The amount owed by low-income customers for unpaid utilities often has a minimal impact on company finances.

A study of utility costs and spending in Cleveland, OH found that while customers with Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company who were facing disconnection owed nearly $12.3 million in unpaid bills between 2014 and 2015, the top executives for the same company were paid more than $16.6 million in performance bonuses.

According to the NAACP, there are several solutions that can implemented by states and utilities to begin to decrease the impact of shutoffs among poor and communities of color. The solution strategy begins with the establishment of a universal right to uninterrupted energy service, which would ensure that provisions are in place to prevent

utility disconnection due to nonpayment and arrearages.

The NAACP ECJP also calls for a moratorium on utility shut-offs and calls for utility companies to incorporate a basic set of principles into their policies including: Secure ACCESS to utility services for all households; INCLUSION of all customers in the development of utility policies and regulations; TRANSPARENCY of the actions of and information held by utility companies, regulating bodies; legislatures, and utility affiliated organizations; PROTECTION of the human and civil rights of all customers; and Advance programs that help ELIMINATE POVERTY, so that all customers can pay utility bills.

“We can create more humane policies but it will involve a greater number of activists and individuals from communities disparately affected by cut-off policies,” said Jacqui Patterson. “Through directly engaging elected officials, utility companies and local legislators, we can get the type of solutions listed in the report passed into law, and in doing so change this nation for the better” she added.

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