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Tuesday, March 26, 2019 Kenai Peninsula, Alaska
Vol. 49, Issue 150
In the news EPA administrator recuses himself from Pebble Mine decisions JUNEAU — The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says he is recusing himself from decisions related to the proposed Pebble Mine in Southwest Alaska. Andrew Wheeler, in a memo, says his former employer provided services to a client related to the Pebble project. His memo doesn’t provide details on that but Wheeler, a former lobbyist, says he wasn’t personally involved. Still, he says he’s voluntarily recusing himself from matters related to the project during his EPA tenure, including any associated litigation, settlement agreement and permitting. The Pebble Limited Partnership wants to develop a copper and gold mine in Alaska’s Bristol Bay region. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is evaluating a permit application by the project, one of dozens of permits, approvals and authorizations Pebble says it will need.
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Residents pack House Finance meeting Groups:
EPA has dragged heels on oil dispersant rules
By VICTORIA PETERSEN Peninsula Clarion
More than 100 residents gathered in the conference room at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex Saturday night to share their thoughts on the governor’s budget. Rep. Gary Knopp, RKenai/Soldotna, House Speaker Bryce Edgmon, I-Dillingham, and ViceChair of the House Finance Committee Janice Johnston, R-Anchorage, heard testimony at the event, which was part of a series of community meetings the House Finance Committee is holding across the state to get feedback on the budSee HOUSE, page A11
By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press
Leslie Rohr from Love INC speaks to House Finance Committee members in opposition to cuts to programs that serve vulnerable Alaskans on Saturday at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)
Game board votes against bear hunting rule changes KODIAK — The Alaska Board of Game has voted against changes to bear hunting regulations. The Kodiak Daily Mirror reported Monday that the board voted down proposals that would have drastically changed the rules for hunting Kodiak brown bears during a meeting in Anchorage. The newspaper says the board considered 18 proposals for regulation changes in the Kodiak region and voted against all but four, including a rule to reserve at least 90 percent of brown bear permits for Alaska residents. A board member says several of the proposed rule changes would have placed limits on the number of permits allocated to hunters who are not residents of Alaska, but they were all voted down. The official says three of the proposals the board passed related to goat hunting. — Associated Press
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Speaking out Protesters advocating against Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s proposed cuts to public education line up outside the gate of the Cannery Lodge in Kenai ahead of a forum hosted by the governor Monday. Dunleavy, who is traveling to communities across the state to discuss his proposed budget, made his first stop in Kenai. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)
NEW ORLEANS — Environmental groups and women from Alaska and Louisiana say the Environmental Protection Agency has dragged its heels on issuing rules for oil spill dispersants, and they’re ready to sue to demand them. They say dispersants such as Corexit, used during the Exxon Valdez and BP oil spills, were more toxic to people and the environment than oil alone but, nearly four years after taking public comments about such rules, the agency hasn’t acted. “We depend on feeding our families from the ocean. We need the ocean to be a clean environment for our animals,” Rosemary Ahtuangaruak, a plaintiff from Alaska, said in a telephone interview. With the Trump administration considering an oil and gas lease sale in Alaska’s Beaufort Sea, she said, people fear both spills and dispersants. The EPA said it is reviewing a letter sent Monday to Administrator Andrew Wheeler, saying the people and groups will sue unless the agency acts within 60 days. The letter is a legally required step before filing suit under the Clean Water Act. This lawsuit would be filed in Washington, said Jack Siddoway, a third-year law student in the UniverSee EPA, page A2
Chief justice defends judicial nominating process By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press
JUNEAU — Founders of the state’s constitution intended for a governor to appoint for judgeships candidates nominated by
the Alaska Judicial Council, the chief justice of the Alaska Supreme Court said. Chief Justice Joel Bolger, in recent remarks, defended the council’s process for vetting and
nominating candidates after Gov. Mike Dunleavy filled one vacancy on the Palmer Superior Court but refused to fill another. One of the seats is vacant. The second is soon to be.
Dunleavy, in a letter to the council last week, said he would not be making a second appointment from a list of three finalists the council sent him. He said there were qualified applicants “inexplicably” not
nominated and requested the council’s reasoning. Dunleavy spokesman Matt Shuckerow said the governor looks forward to scheduling a meeting with Bolger to further discuss See CHIEF, page A2
Tuition assistance for med students could be cut By MOLLIE BARNES Juneau Empire
Gov. Mike Dunleavy has proposed cutting about $3.1 million in state funding for a program that trains medical students for service in
the state. The acronym for the program, WWAMI, stands for the states served by the UW School of Medicine: Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho. The University of Alaska An-
chorage participates in this program. If the contract with the state is dropped, Alaska would be the only state in the country to not provide state assistance for medical education, according to a Monday morning
Men’s recovery home opens By BRIAN MAZUREK Peninsula Clarion
Freedom House celebrated the opening of its men’s long-term recovery residence on Sunday, and the community came out in droves to join in the celebration. Approximately 250 people turned out to show their support, according to organizers. Throughout the day people gathered to See MEN’S, page A3
Senate Finance committee presentation. “If we do not continue forward with our contract with the state of Alaska … students will finish the program and we will just not recruit additional classes,”
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Senate approves fasttracked disaster relief funds By MOLLIE BARNES Juneau Empire
Community members show their support for the opening of Freedom House’s men’s residence in Soldotna, on Sunday. (Photo by Brian Mazurek/Peninsula Clarion)
said Suzanne Allen, Vice Dean for Regional Affairs for the University of Washington School of Medicine in a Senate Finance committee meeting Monday morning.
The Senate unanimously approved to fasttrack disaster relief funds to assist in damages from the Nov. 30 earthquake in Southcentral Alaska. Committee Substitute Senate Bill 38, a supplemental budget bill for fiscal year 2019, passed 18-0 in the floor session. “The monies in response to that (earthquake) damage appear to run out around the first of April,
so this is a time sensitive issue,” Sen. Bert Stedman, R-Sitka, the chair of the Senate Finance committee, said during the floor session. This bill is what they call a fast-tracked supplemental bill, Stedman said. This is necessary to get funds out faster for earthquake relief from the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that happened a few months ago near Anchorage. This disaster relief bill would provide a $6.5 milSee FAST, page A11
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the matter. The council’s website shows there were 13 applicants for the two seats but two withdrew and a third was appointed to another judgeship. Under the constitution, the governor is to fill a superior court vacancy by appointing one of two or more persons nominated by the council. The Alaska Supreme Court has held the council is within its right to send one more nominee than the number of positions to be filled. State law calls for a governor to fill a superior court vacancy or appoint a successor for an impending vacancy within 45 days after receiving nominations from the council. That period has passed. Susanne DiPietro, the council’s executive director, said the seven-member council plans to meet Thursday to discuss its options. She did not get into what those might be. She said former Govs. Wally Hickel and Frank Murkowski pushed back on nominations but filled
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sity of California-Berkeley Environmental Law Clinic. The clinic is representing Ahtuangaruak, who lives in the Inupiat village of Nuiqsut; Kindra Arnesen of Buras, Louisiana; Alaska Community Action on Toxics; Cook Inletkeeper, also from Alaska; and Earth Island Institute’s ALERT project, which is based in Berkeley. Arnesen said the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon spill off Louisiana severely damaged her family’s commercial fishing business. Before the spill, she said, at times there were “acres and acres” of baitfish and rafts of larger
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seats within 45 days. Bolger’s comments were posted on the commission’s website. DiPietro said they were made at the start of a commission meeting Friday. Bolger said the council, on which he serves, aims to nominate the most qualified candidates. He said areas considered include professional competence, fairness, temperament, legal and life experience and commitment to public and community service. Each council member votes independently, Bolger said. If a candidate receives four votes, his or her name is forwarded to the governor, he said. It is not uncommon for the council to nominate a person for one position but not for another, Bolger said. Strength of the other candidates, the nature of the open position and the community the judge will serve are considerations, he said. Democratic Rep. Matt Claman of Anchorage said Friday that Dunleavy “is failing to uphold the constitution” in the matter and has failed to follow the rule of law. Shuckerow said by email Monday that Cla-
man “should join the Governor in asking for more openness and transparency in this process adopted by the Judicial Council.” Claman scrapped a Friday hearing on one of Dunleavy’s crime bills after speaking about the judicial matter and what Claman said was a denial by the governor’s office of a travel request by the state public defender. Claman said travel for public defender Quinlan Steiner was denied for the remainder of session. Given that, Claman said he would only hear Anchorage-based staff with the administration testifying on crime bills by phone until travel for Steiner is approved. Steiner said he was denied travel for a criminal justice commission meeting this month that ultimately wound up being paid for by the commission and for hearings on crime legislation and the Public Defender Agency’s budget last week. He said he was at one point asked to submit a travel plan, then was told by a deputy commissioner in the Department of Administration, under which his agency falls, that Dun-
leavy’s chief of staff denied travel for the rest of session then on Friday was asked for a travel plan that he said he will submit. Steiner said he is trying to make a case for additional funding because his agency has more cases than it can handle and without more money could have to start refusing cases, which he said would disrupt the criminal justice system. Being at hearings in person also can be advantageous in weighing in on bills and helping resolve any potential snags, he said. Dunleavy’s office has said it wants to end nonessential travel, and Shuckerow said previously that the Office of Public Advocacy and the Public Defender Agency have said they are underfunded. The governor’s office “has approved certain travel in the past, but is currently requesting a formal travel plan for the remainder of the legislative session to consider what is within reason,” Shuckerow said. He said if committee chairs prefer testimony by phone, “that is perfectly acceptable to the Administration.”
fish. “After the spill those disappeared. It was like going through a water desert,” she said. She also blames it for her family’s migraines, respiratory problems and rashes so deep they caused open wounds and left scars. She said their son seems to have recovered completely, but her husband still has major problems and she and her daughter are still living with lower levels of illness. She said dispersants break up oil so it’s not easily seen. “To my mind, it’s used to create a situation where it’s out of sight, out of mind, but not out of the way,” she said. The EPA’s oil spill response guidelines haven’t been updated since 1994 to
reflect research on dispersant effects after the Exxon Valdez broke open on rocks in Prince William Sound in 1989 and BP’s Gulf of Mexico spill, according to the notice of intent to sue. “Given the history of offshore oil drilling, it is simply a matter of when — not if — a devastating oil spill will occur,” the letter states. The public comment period on dispersants ended April 22, 2015, Siddoway said in a telephone interview. He said he had made a freedom of information request about what EPA has done since April 2015 to further the rulemaking. “That has been delayed due to the government shutdown, and we’re still wait-
ing for a response,” he said. He said revision of oil spill guidelines is listed as a long-term action on “the unified agenda, a semiyearly kind of laundry list that EPA’s working on.” But that’s nothing new, he said: “It’s been there in various forms since 2001, even before the rulemaking was put into play.” The current EPA rules let companies “essentially do whatever they want when it comes to dispersant,” Siddoway said. If the agency sets rules continuing that policy, he said, the rules themselves can be challenged. “Right now we can’t make a challenge to substance … because the rule is still pending,” he said.
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Around the Peninsula Soldotna Historical Society & Homestead Museum Our board meeting will be held April 2 at 9 a.m. at the museum, 461 Centennial Park road. Please consider volunteering! Questions? Contact Carmen at 262-2791.
GPS for Mariners class The USCG Auxiliary Kenai Flotilla will be conducting a GPS for Mariners class on Saturday, March 30 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Cook Inlet Aquaculture Center located at 40610 Kalifornsky Beach Road, Soldotna, next to Spenard Builders. The class is an introduction to GPS navigation to aid the boater in operating their vessel using supplement type of navigation tool. For more information and registration, please contact Mike Chase at 907-201-1792.
Kenai Peninsula Soccer Club tryouts Kenai Peninsula Soccer Club tryouts will be held Saturday and Sunday, March 30 and 31. Register at www.kpsoccerclub.com and see what time your child’s age group is schedule to tryout.
30th Anniversary of Visual Feast The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District is celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Visual Feast, the annual districtwide student art show. Featuring work from across the peninsula, this show highlights the best high school and middle school artists from a wide variety of schools. This show is a revelation every year, showcasing the amazing talent that exists on the Kenai Peninsula in both 3-D and 2-D work. The show will run the month of April at the Kenai Fine Arts Center with an opening reception on Thursday, April 4 at 5 p.m.
Soldotna/Kenai 100+ Women Who Care The Soldotna/Kenai 100+ Women Who Care group will be meeting March 28 from 6-7 p.m. at the Kenai Visitor Center in Kenai. This will be our 1st quarter meeting. All members in good standing will have a chance to pitch for a cause or nonprofit they support. Three names will be drawn — those three will make their pitch, and the group will vote on the cause that receives the funds from the meeting. All the money stays local, if you are a member, bring a friend!!!! We hope to reach 100 women very soon! Local nonprofits who benefited in 2018 are the Kenai Watershed Forum, Hospice of Central Peninsula, Students in Transition and the Kenai Peninsula Food Bank, over $20,000 raised to date! For more information find us on Facebook.
The Kenai Peninsula Fish Habitat Partnership 2019 Symposium
Council Chambers, located at 410 Adams Street in Seward. SPEAK meeting Agenda will also include a review of the BOF meeting, disSPEAK (Support Group for families of children who live cussion of BOF Cook Inlet proposals to submit, and any other items of business that may properly come before the commit- though disabilities) will be meeting the third Thursday of each tee. For more information contact Jim McCracken at 362-3701. month at 6:30 p.m. at the Love Inc. building 44410 K-Beach Rd. Parents, Grandparents, Guardians, and care givers service providers and resource representatives are encouraged Kenai/Soldotna Fish & Game Advisory and welcome to come and participate. This is great way to Committee election meeting connect with others through their overcoming successes as The Kenai/Soldotna Fish & Game Advisory Committee parents, grandparents, and caregivers. SPEAK is a resourcewill hold an election meeting on Thursday, April 4 at the Kenai based group. Please no children, childcare is not available. River Center at 6 p.m. Also on the agenda will be preparing Questions call 907-252-2558 or 907-953-6325. BOF proposals, and any other business that may come before Al-Anon support group meetings the committee. For more information contact Mike Crawford at 252-2919. Al-Anon support group meetings are held at the Central Peninsula Hospital in the Kasilof Room (second floor) of the Canine Good Citizen Advanced (CGCA) test River Tower building on Monday at 7 p.m., Wednesday at 7 Kenai Kennel Club will be offering a Canine Good Citizen p.m. and Saturday at 9 a.m. Park around back by the ER and Advanced (CGCA) test on Sunday March 31 at 10:30 a.m. at enter through the River Tower entrance and follow the signs. Kenai Kennel Club, 11312 Kenai Spur Hwy Unit 21 (behind Contact Tony Oliver at 252-0558 for more information. Home Gallery in the mall Job Center is in). Your dog must have successfully passed the CGC test before testing for CGCA. To CIRCAC scholarship deadline register for the CGCA test or with any questions, contact Paula CIRCAC is giving away two $2,500 scholarships to at paulalovett@yahoo.com. graduating high school and college-age students pursuing coursework in environmental sciences or maritime techCombat fishing auction nical and vocational studies. Applications can be filled in The Armed Services YMCA of Alaska, and the Seward online at https://www.circac.org/outreach/scholarshipCharter Fleet invite you to our 13th Annual Armed Services program/. For more information, call 907-283-7222. The Combat Fishing Auction will take place Thursday, March 28 deadline to apply is March 26. at 3720 Bellanca Way, Unit B in Anchorage. Begins at 5 p.m. Cocktails at 6 p.m. Live Auction. Hors d’Oeuvres. No cover “Alaskans Choose Respect” Awareness charge. Bid online now: www.asymca.org/alaska-cft-auction. The LeeShore Center cordially invites you to join us for All proceeds go to support active duty, guard, and reserve mili- the 10th Annual “Alaskans Choose Respect” Awareness tary members stationed in Alaska. For more information about Event March 27 in support of state-wide efforts to raise this event or to inquire about tournament sponsorship opportu- awareness of domestic violence and sexual assault. We will nities, please contact the ASYMCA at 907.552.9622 or Wel- meet at noon in Kenai on the Frontage Road in front of the come.Center@akasymca.org To learn more about the Combat gazebo at Leif Hansen Park at noon and walk to the Kenai Fishing Tournament, visit: www.asymca.org/alaska-cft. Visitors & Cultural Center. Refreshments will be served. For more information contact the Education and Training Caregiver Support workshop, open house Assistant at 283-9479. Kenai Peninsula Family Caregiver Support Program Workshop and Open House will take place in the Blazy Mall, Suite Seeking host families # 209 on Tuesday, March 26 from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Workshop The Central Peninsula AFS chapter is seeking host famiPresentation 1-2 p.m.: “The Family Guide to Alzheimer’s Dis- lies for the 2019-20 school year. There are currently seven ease” focuses on strategies to help deal with behavior issues high school exchange students hosted by local families, and such as perception of reality, agitation, hallucinations, sleep- we will be sending four local students abroad next year. We lessness, sundowning, wandering and incontinence. Call Sha- have a strong organization and lots of support for host famiron or Judy at (907) 262-1280, for more information. lies. If you are interested in learning more, contact Eileen at 690-2779 or Laura at 394-6949.
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Cook Inlet Regional Citizens Advisory Council (CIRCAC) represents citizens in promoting environmentally safe marine transportation and oil facility operations in Cook Inlet. CIRCAC is holding its Board of Directors Meeting on Friday, April 5 at 9 a.m. at the Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association building, 40610 Kalifornsky Beach Road, Kenai, AK 99611. The public is welcome to attend. For an agenda, directions or more information, call 907-283-7222 or toll free 800-652-7222. Meeting materials will be posted online at www.circac.org.
The Kenai Peninsula Fish Habitat Partnership 2019 Symposium will take place on Thursday, April 18 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Cannery Lodge. RSVP required. Join us for discussions about habitat protections on the Kenai Peninsula, including defining the future of fish habitats and few stories from Dr. Kristin Mitchell and Sue Mauger on their trips to LeeShore Center monthly board meeting Antarctica. Lunch will be provided. This is a FREE event but The LeeShore Center will be holding its monthly board please register! Visit www.kenaifishpartnership.org. meeting at The LeeShore Center on Wednesday, March 28. The meeting is open to the public and begins at 6 p.m. For furSterling Senior Center breakfast ther information call 283-9479. The Sterling Senior Center will be serving breakfast on Saturday, March 30 from 9 a.m. to noon. The menu includes Trauma Workshop sausage, bacon, ham, scrambled eggs, pancakes and biscuits A Trauma Workshop will take place on March 30, 1-4 and gravy. $10 for Adults, $5 for children. Everyone is wel- p.m. at Soldotna United Methodist Church with Trauma come. All proceeds benefit the center. For further information Specialist, Lisa Schmitter. This workshop will explain traucall 262-6808. ma and the physiological and psychological impact it can have. It will provide you with tools to regulate and begin to KPC Showcase: An Alaskan Doctor’s heal from the trauma. Traumas can be recent or from years ago. Lisa Schmitter, a trauma specialist who has 35 years experiPerspectives on Antarctica ence, will share the latest research and neuro hacks for moving Dr. Kristin Mitchell will present An Alaskan Doctor’s from PTSD (Post-traumatic Stress Disorder) to Post Traumatic Perspectives on Antarctica on Thursday, April 4 at 6:30 p.m. Growth. Visit the Facebook page for the Trauma Workshop at in the McLane Commons, Kenai Peninsula College. Mitchell https://www.facebook.com/events/2327680134135110/. recently visited Antarctica as part of the Homeward Bound Kenai Peninsula Foundation grant cycle initiative. She was one of 80 women hailing from 23 different nationalities that were a part of this program, with each opens of them specializing in various fields of science, engineering, Kenai Peninsula Foundation 2019 competitive grants cycle technology and mathematics. is open from March 6 to April 3. We are currently accepting applications. Please direct general questions to KPF’s ProSeward Fish & Game Advisory Committee gram Manager, Hadassah Knight, at hknight@alaskacf.org. election meeting Please direct eligibility and technical questions about the onThe Seward Fish & Game Advisory Committee will hold line grant system to The Alaska Community Foundation at an election meeting on Thursday, April 4 at 7 p.m. at the City grants@alaskacf.org.
LIO Schedule Tuesday, March 26 1:00 p.m.: The House Transportation Committee will hold a public hearing to discuss HB 23 Snowmobile Registration Fees. Testimony will be taken. 1:30 p.m.: The Senate Labor & Commerce Committee will hold a public hearing to discuss SB 69 Exempt Charitable Gaming From Permit / Fees, SJR 8 U.S.- Mexico Canada Agreement on Trade, SB 83 Telecommunications Regulation / Exemptions, SB 52 Alcoholic Beverage Control; Alcohol Regulation and SB 44 Telehealth: Physician Assistants; Drugs. Testimony will be taken.
Wednesday, March 27 6 p.m.: The Senate Judiciary Committee public hearing to discuss SB 23 Appropriation: Supplemental Payments of Prior Years’ PFD and SB 24 PFD Supplemental Payments. Testimony will be taken. 6 p.m.: The Senate State Affairs Committee public hearing to discuss SJR 4 Constitutional Amendment: State Tax; Intiative. Testimony will be taken.
Thursday, March 28 1:30 p.m.: The Senate Labor & Commerce Committee will hold a public hearing to discuss SB 52 Alcoholic Beverage Control; Alcohol Regulation. Testimony will be taken.
Friday, March 29 3:30 p.m.: The Senate Resources Committee will hold a public hearing to discuss SB 90 Cook Inlet: New Administrative Area; Permit Buyback. Testimony will be taken. All teleconferences are held at the Kenai LIO 145 Main St Lp #217, Kenai, AK 99611 unless otherwise noted. To confirm call 283-2030 or email Kenai.LIO@akleg.gov. To listen / watch online go to http://alaskalegislature.tv/
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enjoy food and refreshments, toured the house, and dropped by to donate items like toiletries. Even those who couldn’t attend showed their support in other ways, such as a delivery of homemade pastries baked by inmates at Wildwood Correctional Complex. Located just off the Sterling Highway in downtown Soldotna, the home is within walking distance of Safeway, Wells Fargo and a number of other businesses. The home’s first residents move in this week. Jennifer Waller, founder of Freedom House, said that the community successfully raised $300,000 to help her acquire and renovate the location for the men’s residence. Freedom House originally began back in 2017 when Waller opened up a long-term residence for women recovering from drug or alcohol addiction. In December of 2018, Waller made plans to open an additional Freedom House residence, this time for men, and got
the project started thanks to a loan from an anonymous elderly couple, who originally wanted to purchase a house for her. Freedom House uses a faith-based recovery program to help women — and now men — transition into a sober lifestyle. Waller said that the three core tenets of Freedom House are accountability, the hope of Jesus and community. Accountability comes in the form of weekly one-on-one counseling and random drug tests in order to make sure that residents do not relapse or give up on their recovery. Residents are also asked to attend a local church once a week. The community comes from the shared-living space, which offers solidarity for those going through recovery, to remind them that they are not alone on their journey. Paul Echin, who will be the counselor for the men’s house, said that his role will be to act as a “spiritual coach” for the men living there. Aside from just making sure everyone follows the rules, Echin will live in the residence with the men in recovery to pray with them, counsel them,
The Nikiski Community Recreation Center —Call out to local vendors: It’s time to reserve your space! Booth Space is available for the annual Family Fun in the Midnight Sun/Nikiski Days Event scheduled for Saturday, June 15. Interested vendors are encouraged to contact us early. Applications will be available online www. northpenrec.com —American Red Cross Lifeguard class: The Nikiski Pool is looking for lifeguards. Class will be held April 8 through April 12 from 5-10 p.m. For more information, call 776-8800. —Aqua Hiit: Nikiski Pool is offering a new aquatic fitness class for Heart & Lung health. This is a low-impact, instructor-led cardio and pulmonary exercise that is beginner friendly. Class is free with pool admission. Class will be held Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10-11 a.m. March 19 through May 9. For more information, please call 7768800. —Spring clean community garage sale: The annual NCRC community garage sale will be held Saturday, March 29 from 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Make sure to pre-register for this event. Forms can be picked up from NCRC or the Pool or they can be printed off of the website. For more information, call 776-8800 or check out our Facebook page. —NPRSA spring craft fair: The annual NPRSA spring craft fair will be held Saturday, April 13 from 10 a.m.4 p.m. Come see what local craftsmen and artisans have made! Vendor booths are available, but they fill up quickly so reserve your space today. Call 776-8800 for more information. —Fitness classes: NPRSA has many offerings to help you meet your health goals in 2019. The following fitness classes are held at NCRC: Strong by Zumba with Samantha Pate: Mondays at 9:30 a.m. and Fridays at 9:30 a.m.; Yoga with Lacey Stock: Mondays at 6 p.m. and Wednesdays at 9:30 a.m.; Body Blast with Lacey Stock: Tuesdays at 6 p.m. Spin Class with Teri Langston: Wednesdays at 6 p.m. and Saturday at 9:30 a.m. —NCRC Open Gym Nights: Teen Center, Monday – Friday, 2:30-8 p.m. and be there as a helping hand whenever they need it. Even though Echin just recently moved to the area, he is already known to the locals. A number of people approached him during the open house to hug him and thank him for being there. One person who may have been the most excited about the opening was Johnathon Dalebout, Freedom House for Men’s first resident. Dalebout was previously staying at the Friendship Mission in Kenai and heard about the new Freedom House through a friend. Dalebout said that moving to Soldotna will
make it easier for him to find work and to attend his church. When asked what his plans were for the future, Dalebout answered, “I’d like to continue to learn about Jesus, find a job so I can support myself, and just learn how to live a better life.” Dalebout is also celebrating 60 days of sobriety on March 28. The men’s residence will be able to house eight residents and one staff member at a time for a maximum of 12 months per resident. Freedom House already has four men, including Dalebout, slated to move in this week.
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On Russia, Trump acted innocent
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Diverting funds for border wall is an unnecessary constitutional overreach President Donald Trump’s plan
to divert $6.6 billion from the Pentagon and the Treasury Department to help pay for the construction of a border wall is a frontal assault on the constitutional provision that gives Congress the authority to appropriate public funds. It is shocking that 41 Republican senators accepted this extralegal seizure of power. But as illustrated by the Pentagon’s newly released list of military construction projects that might have to be canceled, Trump’s plan isn’t just objectionable because of his constitutional overreach. It will also harm national security by forcing cancellation of projects that are necessary for the safety of members of the armed forces and for military preparedness. In the San Diego region, nearly $170 million that was meant to be spent on construction of a new Navy SEAL complex in Coronado is in jeopardy. At Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, $175 million in projects may be canceled, including a fire emergency response station needed to address the huge threat of intensifying wildfires. New landing pads for F-35B combat aircraft at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar and long-planned infrastructure projects at Naval Air Station North Island and Naval Base San Diego could also be scrapped. Besides his signature concern about unauthorized immigration, Trump says a border wall is urgently needed to stop narcotics trafficking. But this is undercut by the fact that in recent years, the Drug Enforcement Administration has repeatedly reported the vast majority of illegal drugs entering the U.S. from Mexico came through ports of entry. The president has pledged to rebuild the military after it was allegedly “totally depleted” because of budget rules approved by Congress in 2011. There is a gap between his words and his actions.
The release of Robert Mueller’s finding that Donald Trump didn’t collude with Russia should settle a question his critics — and, quietly, some of his allies — have asked repeatedly over the past two years: Why was he acting so guilty? It turns out that he was acting innocent, only in a typically combative, over-the-top Trump fashion. The left and the media were never willing to credit the idea that Trump sincerely believed that he was being treated unfairly — because he was. When Trump said in his infamous Lester Holt interview that the Trump-Russia thing “is a made-up story,” he wasn’t confessing to obstruction of justice; he was stating a fact that the Mueller probe would establish 2,800 subpoenas and nearly 500 search warrants later. The prudent thing for Trump to do once the Mueller probe got going would have been to cooperate without complaint and bide his time awaiting his eventual vindication. Instead, Trump fought like a caged animal (while actually cooperating with the probe). Trump is a creature of the media and cares a lot about what is said of him. So imagine him sitting in the White House and watching the media constantly suggest that a smoking-gun Russia-collusion revelation is just over the horizon, that the walls are closing in, that he might be guilty of one of the worst political crimes committed in the history of the republic — and all the while knowing that it wasn’t true.
It’s very easy to be relaxed about someone else’s reputation. We saw this during the Kavanaugh controversy when progressives were outraged that Brett Rich Lowry Kavanaugh got emotional about being falsely accused of gang rape. Trump, apparently, was supposed to be cool and nonplussed about being accused of treason. Of course, he wasn’t, and got caught in an endless feedback loop with the press. He’d be presumed guilty in the coverage, he’d lash out, and then commentators would take his reaction as further evidence he was guilty. For two long years. As recently as a couple of weekends ago, an epic Trump tweet-storm was taken as a sign that he was completely panicked over the impending Mueller report. It didn’t occur to anyone that he might be acting out of a sense of aggrieved (although often self-defeating) innocence. This is what got the Mueller probe rolling in the first place. Trump fired James Comey because the FBI director refused to state publicly what he told Trump privately — that the president himself wasn’t under investigation. The fallback position of Democrats now is that they can get Trump for obstruction for all his impure thoughts about a probe that reached
its conclusion unimpeded, and that found no underlying Russian collusion to cover up. This was Watergate without the break-in and the Lewinsky affair without, well, the Lewinsky affair. You don’t have to endorse Trump’s attacks on the integrity of Robert Mueller, his mockery of his former Attorney General Jeff Sessions or his distorted view of the Justice Department to find the dynamic here unsettling. Trump was basically told that he’d be investigated and smeared for years over Russia collusion that didn’t happen, and if he objected and wanted to make it stop, they’d investigate him for that, too. The ultimate weapon he had was, funnily enough, the truth. As he said again and again, there was no Russia collusion. Every time he repeated the phrase, the press rolled its eyes and opined about how it showed an untoward defensiveness. Then it dug into another news cycle devoted to Trump’s impending doom. A news industry that should have a healthy skepticism could never apply any skepticism to its own narrative and assumptions. And so, on the question of Russia collusion that put a cloud over the White House and dominated the past two years of our public life, Donald Trump was a more reliable narrator than the media that so self-righteously scorns him. Rich Lowry can be reached via email at comments.lowry@nationalreview.com.
— The San Diego Union-Tribune, March 19
Letters to the Editor Sending prisoners Outside is bad for communities “Those of you who want to do prison ministry can go do it in Arizona” was the comment from the first speaker at the recent budget gathering at the Sports Center. I have to say that as a 12-year volunteer at both Wildwood and Hiland Mountain, it was hard not to take that personally. It’s wrong on so many levels. On the Kenai Peninsula, a vote to approve private prisons was defeated 3:1 in October 2001. Our citizens acknowledged that inmates that we have arrested and sentenced are the state’s responsibility and we didn’t want private prisons. To pay a private entity in another state is even less appropriate. The answer to our budget woes is sending money to help prison CEOs make their fortunes?! There are economic benefits to prisons — and we’d be sending our money to make it so for private prisons in another state. If you are interested, please check and see how many multimillions are being made in doing just that! Recidivism isn’t that important to private prisons either, for obvious reasons. Now to the budget suggestions that Wildwood Correctional be closed and the prisoners sent to private prisons Outside. I can consider the inmates as humans, potential community members who will be living next door to me eventually OR just as economic units. I’m choosing the first descrip-
tion. Most inmates will be getting out, for better or worse. Our community has been working hard to make it the former with re-entry programs and other groups within and without the institution who are committed to doing what we can to reintegrate and provide resources for success. Recidivism is costly to us all on every level. Call me cynical, but I think recidivism is actually good for the private prison bottom line. Housing Alaska’s inmates Outside makes everything in the past paragraph so much more complicated, if not impossible. Friends and family and volunteers really can’t, as the speaker suggested, “go do it in Arizona.” I can’t imagine that there isn’t someone you know who has been successfully reintegrated into our community. Even simple connections such as phone calls become more complicated. Family connections are nearly impossible. Having said all of this, I’d like to speak about the staff at Wildwood. It’s easy for me to consider them welltrained and dedicated employees of our state, doing a difficult job in my stead. I’ve seen them at work. They are also fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, community members, people who sit beside us in church. They are also economic units, not unlike those incarcerated. Their income, their talents and gifts are shared in our community, both in and out of the institution. It truly is a trickle down and their absence would be devastating, both financially and so-
cially. Like all of us, I have much to say about the governor’s proposed budget. Do you want to know how I really feel? Hal and I came to Alaska 49 years ago this month. We are heavily invested in multiple ways in our community and state. Not -56 degree weather, nor earthquakes, nor mosquitoes, nor mountains of snow can do what Dunleavy has done. For the first time we have considered leaving Alaska. It breaks my heart to even write this. — Susan Smalley, Kenai
Dunleavy’s budget prioritizes profit over people There is a popular saying in politics: “Don’t tell me what your priorities are. Show me your budget and I will tell you what your priorities are.” Well, Alaskans have seen Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s budget, and now, we know exactly what he considers important: oil tax credits for the wealthiest multinational corporations and paying a full PFD. Everything is on the chopping block except oil tax credits. His proposed budget eviscerates K-12, the university system, Pioneer Homes, ferry system, early childhood programs and countless other programs and services that help Alaskans from all walks of life, including the most vulnerable people in our state.
In short, the governor’s budget is immoral, cruel, mean-spirited and heartless. Dunleavy keeps saying Alaska is open for business, but I wonder, what company would dare invest in a state where the public education system is short on teachers with overcrowded classrooms due to school closures? And any new business would want their employees’ families to have access to the best health-care providers who practice at fully staffed hospitals and clinics. A new industry would expect necessary infrastructure like roads, bridges, airports, ports and the marine highway to be in top shape and fully funded because all of these things are crucial to running a successful business. A full PFD would be great, and I know there are many who depend on it to pay for fuel, groceries and other essentials. So although I am personally willing to forego mine, I am not willing to make that choice for others. I believe the simplest and easiest thing to do would be to eliminate the per-barrel oil tax credit immediately and implement a progressive income tax and perhaps a sales tax. We must have other revenue streams so we can have budget certainty in years to come. The governor’s draconian budget proposal is bad for Alaska and extremely short-sighted. Alaskans deserve so much better than this. — Michele Vasquez, Soldotna
Peninsula Clarion | Tuesday, March 26, 2019 | A5
Nation/World Avenatti charged with extortion By BRIAN MELLEY and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Michael Avenatti, the pugnacious attorney best known for representing porn actress Stormy Daniels in lawsuits against President Donald Trump, was arrested Monday on charges that included trying to shake down Nike for as much as $25 million by threatening the company with bad publicity. Avenatti, who was also accused of embezzling a client’s money to pay his own expenses, was charged with extortion and bank and wire fraud in separate cases in New York and California. He was arrested in New York just minutes after tweeting that he planned to hold a news conference Tuesday to “disclose a major high school/college basketball scandal perpetrated by Nike that we have uncovered.” “When lawyers use their law licenses as weapons, as a guise to extort payments for themselves, they are no longer acting as attorneys. They are acting as criminals,” said Geoffrey
In this file photo, attorney Michael Avenatti replies to questions by reporters during a news conference in front of the U.S. Federal Courthouse in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)
S. Berman, the U.S. attorney in New York, accusing Avenatti of engaging in “a shakedown.” The allegations “paint an ugly picture of lawless conduct and greed,” said Nick Hanna, the U.S. attorney in Los Angeles. Avenatti describes himself on Twitter as an attorney and advocate, but the accusations describe “a corrupt lawyer who instead fights for his own selfish interests.” Prosecutors in New York said their investigation began only last week and was complete in days. In the California case, Avenatti allegedly misused
a client’s money to pay his debts and those of his coffee business and law firm. Federal prosecutors said he also defrauded a bank by using phony tax returns to obtain millions of dollars in loans. Avenatti allegedly threatened to hold a news conference last week on the eve of Nike’s quarterly earnings call and the start of the NCAA tournament to announce allegations of misconduct by Nike employees. The attorney and a co-conspirator demanded to be paid $15 million to $25 million and an additional $1.5 million for an Avenatti
client to remain silent, the complaint said. A person familiar with details of the investigation confirmed that the unidentified co-conspirator was Mark Geragos, a Los Angeles criminal defense lawyer known for his work with celebrities. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the information was not made public by prosecutors. Geragos, a CNN contributor, has a client list that has included Michael Jackson, Winona Ryder, Scott Peterson and most recently Jussie Smollett, the actor accused of fabricating a racist, anti-gay attack in Chicago. The Avenatti client is a coach of an amateur athletic union men’s basketball program in California, according to the papers. The AAU program coached by the client was sponsored by Nike for $72,000 annually, the complaint said. Shortly before the charges came to light, Avenatti tweeted that he planned to hold another news conference regarding Nike on Tuesday. Less than 45 minutes later, prosecutors announced the extortion case.
Dems grapple with Mueller’s findings By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Democrats grappled Monday with special counsel Robert Mueller’s findings, holding strategy sessions as Republicans gleefully called for them to “move on.” President Donald Trump accused those responsible for launching Mueller’s Russia probe of “treasonous things against our country” and said they “certainly will be looked into.” Trump said the release of Mueller’s full report “wouldn’t bother me at all” as the Democrats clamored for the Justice Department to release the entire document and not just Sunday’s four-page summary from Attorney General William Barr. Barr’s letter said Mueller did not find that Trump’s campaign “conspired or coordinated” with the Russian government to influence the 2016 presidential election — knocking down arguments from Democrats who have long claimed there was evidence of such collusion. But Mueller reached no conclusion on wheth-
er Trump obstructed the federal investigation, according to Barr’s summary, instead setting out “evidence on both sides” of the question and stating that “while this report does not conclude the president committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.” Absent a recommendation from Mueller, Barr stepped in and decided there wasn’t sufficient evidence to establish that the president obstructed justice. Rep. David Cicilline, a Democratic member of the House Judiciary Committee, said he is among those “not willing to accept the Barr report as a substitute” for the special counsel’s findings. He said the Judiciary panel will make a formal request for Mueller’s report, with the expectation of a response from the Justice Department in “short order.” If one isn’t provided, he said, the committee will begin a subpoena process. “People expect that this report be produced,” Cicilline said. “The longer we wait the worse it is for the American people.” Trump, his spokesmen and leading congressional Republicans all claimed to-
President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House in Washington, Monday. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
tal vindication for the president anyway. Questioned by reporters, Trump said he welcomed Mueller’s results but complained he had been abused by the investigation occurring at all and taking too long. “We can never let this happen to another president again,” he said. “There are a lot of people out there that have done some very evil things, very bad things, I would say treasonous things against our country.” “Those people will certainly be looked at. I’ve been looking at them for a long time. And I’m saying why haven’t they been
looked at. They lied to Congress. Many of them you know who they are.” He didn’t name names, but Trump has spent months railing against former Justice Department officials, including former FBI Director James Comey, accusing them of an illegal witch hunt for the purpose of delegitimizing his presidency. He has also falsely claimed that the investigation was based on memos compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele, and even blamed former Sen. John McCain, who died last year, for passing the memos to the FBI.
Israel hits targets across Gaza after rocket attack By JOSEF FEDERMAN and FARES AKRAM Associated Press
JERUSALEM — Israeli forces on Monday struck targets across the Gaza Strip, including the offices of Hamas’ supreme leader, in response to a surprise rocket attack from the Palestinian territory, as the military bolstered its troops and rocket-defense systems in anticipation of a new round of heavy fighting with the Islamic militant group. Israel opened public bomb shelters in most major cities and civil defense authorities canceled sports events and public transportation in southern Israel. The Israeli army said at least 30 rockets had been fired into Israel, as air raid sirens wailed across southern Israel late Monday night. The army said nearly all of the rockets were either intercepted or landed in open areas. “Israel will not tolerate this. I will not tolerate this,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared during a White House meet-
An explosion caused by Israeli airstrikes is seen from the offices of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, in Gaza City, Monday. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
ing with President Donald Trump. “Israel is responding forcefully to this wanton aggression,” he said. “We will do whatever we must do to defend our people and defend our state.” Late Monday, Hamas announced that a cease-fire had been brokered by Egyptian mediators. But shortly after, renewed rocket fire could be heard in Gaza, setting off air-raid sirens in southern Israel. Ahead of the Israeli airstrikes, Hamas’ leadership went into hiding. Several airstrikes rocked
Gaza, including an explosion that destroyed the office of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. The Israeli military confirmed the bombing, saying the building had “served as an office for many military meetings.” An earlier blast destroyed a multistory building in Gaza City that Israel said had served as a Hamas military intelligence headquarters. There were no immediate reports of casualties. In both blasts, Israel fired warning shots to evacuate the buildings. But the airstrike on the multistory building was so powerful
it sent debris flying onto the roof of The Associated Press bureau, located on the 11th floor of a nearby highrise. The sudden conflagration came at a time when both Netanyahu and his Hamas foes are in desperate situations. Netanyahu is in a tight race for re-election, and just two weeks before the April 9 vote, faces tough criticism from challengers who accuse him of being too soft on Hamas. In Washington to celebrate the U.S. recognition of Israel’s control of the Golan Heights, Netanyahu instead was forced to cut short his trip under heavy pressure to strike back at Hamas. Later Monday, Netanyahu remained in Washington past his scheduled departure time, huddled in conference calls with security officials, Israeli media said. Haniyeh issued a statement warning Israel against heavy retaliation. He said the Palestinian people “will not surrender” and its militant factions “will deter the enemy if it exceeds the red lines.”
Around the World Thai parties jostle for power after 1st election since coup BANGKOK — A military-backed party that based on unofficial results won the most votes in Thailand’s first election since a 2014 coup said Monday that it would try to form a government, after a rival party also claimed it had the right to govern. The conflicting claims following Sunday’s election highlight the deep divisions in Thailand, which has been wracked by political instability for nearly two decades. Uttama Savanayana, the head of the Palang Pracharat party that is backed by junta leader and Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, said it would contact like-minded parties to form a new administration. But earlier Monday, Sudarat Keyuraphan, leader of the Pheu Thai party that was ousted in the 2014 coup, said it would try to form a government because it won the most constituency races. The party is allied with exiled Thai leader Thaksin Shinawatra. “As we have said before, the party with the most seats is the one that has received the confidence from the people to set up the government,” Sudarat said. But the party faces an uphill battle because selection of the next prime minister will be decided by the 500-member lower house as well as a 250-member junta-appointed Senate. The Election Commission announced the results of 350 constituency races but said full vote counts, which are needed to determine the allocation of 150 other seats in the House of Representatives, won’t be available until Friday. Unofficial results show Palang Pracharat had the highest popular vote, which along with the appointed Senate puts Prayuth in a relatively strong position to stay in office and cobble together a coalition government. Analysts say the next government is likely to be unstable and short-lived, whichever party leads it. The election is the latest chapter in a nearly twodecade struggle pitching conservative forces including the military against the political machine of Thaksin, a tycoon who upended tradition-bound Thailand politics with a populist political revolution. Thaksin was ousted as prime minister in a 2006 military coup and now lives in exile abroad to avoid a prison term, but parties allied with him have won every election since 2001. His sister, Yingluck Shinawatra, who led the Pheu Thai government that was ousted in 2014, also fled the country after what supporters said was a politically motivated prosecution. The blunt-speaking Prayuth, who as army chief led the 2014 coup, has aimed to extend his hold on power by engineering a new political system that stifles the influence of big political parties not aligned with Palang Pracharat and the military.
Kurds to be key swing vote in Turkey’s local elections ISTANBUL — Millions of Kurdish votes will be crucial in determining the fate of Turkey’s March 31 local elections, as a pro-Kurdish party has made the strategic decision to send votes to an opposition rival to challenge the ruling party in key races in Istanbul and Ankara. The Peoples’ Democratic Party, or HDP, is running in municipal races amid a polarized political landscape and a heavy government crackdown on its members for alleged links to outlawed Kurdish militants. Party mayors and lawmakers, including former chairman Selahattin Demirtas, have been jailed. The HDP — the second biggest opposition group in Turkey’s parliament — draws most of its support from Kurds living in the southeast and in large Turkish cities, as well as other groups for its emphasis on minority rights. Kurds make up about a fifth of Turkey’s 80 million people. The HDP is leading a “Kurdish election alliance” with seven smaller political groups to run in the municipal elections. It has fielded candidates for the March 31 vote in Turkey’s predominantly Kurdish southeast but is sitting out critical races in Turkey’s major cities, including Istanbul and Ankara, the capital. The strategy aims to deliver HDP votes to Turkey’s main secular opposition party, the Republican People’s Party (CHP), and its alliance with a small nationalist party so the opposition can better challenge President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP. Opinion polls suggest Ankara could be won by opposition candidate Mansur Yavas, after being held by AKP and its Islam-oriented predecessor for a quarter of a century. The race for mayor of Istanbul — Turkey’s largest city — may also be tight between former Prime Minister Binali Yildirim from Erdogan’s party and opposition candidate Ekrem Imamoglu. Pervin Buldan, co-leader of the Kurdish party, told supporters in Istanbul on Sunday that the HDP had become a key party in Turkey. “We are a party that will determine the fate of the elections in Istanbul,” she said. The Kurdish HDP party got nearly six million votes in last year’s general election and Demirtas has twice run against Erdogan for president — the last time from prison. Tens of thousands of Kurdish supporters attended Sunday’s rally, waving flags and chanting slogans for Demirtas and the imprisoned leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK. Ridvan Tekin, a 35-year-old HDP member, said he’ll vote for the secular rival party. “It’s not because I love the CHP, but because this regime (of Erdogan’s) needs to change now,” he said. The campaign for municipal seats has been lopsided in favor of Erdogan’s party, with the president’s daily rallies broadcast live on Turkish television. In every speech, Erdogan has called the elections a fight for “national survival” and branded Kurdish HDP politicians as terrorists and traitors. HDP’s campaign has found no place in mainstream media and the party accuses Erdogan of hostile rhetoric to shore up nationalist sentiments. — The Associated Press
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High seeds dominate RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The path to the Final Four will not be easy for Zion Williamson, Luke Maye, De’Andre Hunter and the other top-seeded stars in the NCAA Tournament. For the first time in a decade, the remaining tournament field entering the Sweet 16 looks a lot like the one set on Selection Sunday. The headlining teams are still around after avoiding upsets — some pretty serious scares, too. Hello, Duke! — during an opening weekend that went unusually according to plan. Fourteen of the top 16, including all of the No. 1, 2 and 3 seeds, reached the regional semifinals. The last time that happened was 2009. The Atlantic Coast, Southeastern and Big Ten conferences gobbled up 12 of the 16 slots, with the ACC having a national-best five teams — led by top seeds Duke, Virginia and North Carolina — followed by the SEC’s four and the Big Ten’s three. Here is a look at the updated paths in each region to reach the Final Four in Minneapolis: EAST Duke is the No. 1 overall seed, yet the Blue Devils are fortunate to still be alive after UCF had two shots for the win roll off the rim in the final seconds Sunday. “We had a lot of foul trouble, and we are young, and we’re not deep,” Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski
said, “but we’re good.” And now the Blue Devils (31-5) face a regional bracket in Washington that still has the top four seeds. Duke faces No. 4 seed and fellow ACC member Virginia Tech (26-8), a rematch from one of Duke’s losses during the nearly six full games that Williamson, the star freshman, was out with a knee injury. Yet the Hokies — in the tournament’s second weekend for the second time in program history — will have point guard Justin Robinson, who missed 12 games with a foot injury and didn’t play in that February win. Friday’s other semifinal will be No. 2 seed Michigan State (30-6) against No. 3 seed LSU (28-6) — which is still without suspended coach Will Wade amid a federal investigation into corruption within the sport. WEST Gonzaga, too, sits atop a 1-2-3-4 bracket. The Zags (32-3) had little trouble reaching a nationalbest fifth straight Sweet 16. Now they find themselves in a familiar scenario: playing Florida State in the regional semifinals for the second straight year. The fourth-seeded Seminoles (29-7) won last year’s meeting and have plenty of confidence after beating Virginia in the ACC Tournament semifinals. “I thought they were really, really underseeded,” Gonzaga coach Mark Few said, adding: “You have to beat really good teams to See NCAA, page A7
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Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender Matt Murray (30) blocks a shot by New York Rangers center Brett Howden (21) with his body during the third period of an NHL hockey game in New York on Monday. The Penguins won 5-2. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
Murray still unbeaten in NYC By The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Teddy Blueger scored two goals, Matt Murray made 33 saves and the Pittsburgh Penguins surged to a 5-2 win over the New York Rangers on Monday night. Justin Schultz, Nick Bjugstad and Matt Cullen also scored for Pittsburgh. Phil Kessel and Marcus Pettersson each added two assists.
ed an empty-net goal for Los Angeles, which won its third straight. Campbell earned his first win since Feb. 5 for the Kings, who won’t qualify for the postseason.
RED WINGS 3, SHARKS 2
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Dylan Larkin scored in the first minute, Jonathan Bernier had 38 saves and Detroit beat San Jose. The Red Wings have won KINGS 3, FLAMES 0 four of their last five games afCALGARY, Alberta — ter going 1-9-3 over their previBackup goaltender Jack Camp- ous 13. bell made 42 saves in his second shutout of the season and MAPLE LEAFS 7, Los Angeles beat Western ConPANTHERS 5 ference-leading Calgary. TORONTO (AP) — John Jonny Brodzinski and defenseman Derek Forbort Tavares had the first four-goal scored, and Tyler Toffoli add- game of his career, leading To-
ronto to the win over Florida. Zach Hyman had a goal and two assists, and Patrick Marleau and Jake Muzzin also scored for Toronto. Mitch Marner had three assists, while Morgan Rielly and William Nylander each finished with two assists. Frederik Andersen made 31 saves for the Leafs.
LIGHTNING 5, BRUINS 4 TAMPA, Fla. — Steven Stamkos scored twice and finished with four points, and Tampa Bay became the fourth NHL team to win at least 59 games in a season, rallying from two goals down to beat Boston. With five games left, Tampa Bay (59-14-4) has a chance to surpass the NHL record of 62 wins, set by the 1995-96 Detroit Red Wings. The only
other franchise to win at least 59 was the Montreal Canadiens in 1976-77 (60 wins) and 197778 (59).
DEVILS 3, SABRES 1 NEWARK, N.J. — Cory Schneider overcame an embarrassing early, bad-hop goal from center ice, made 45 saves and got the benefit of having a game-tying, third-period tally nullified for goaltender interference in leading New Jersey past Buffalo. Blake Coleman and Pavel Zacha scored power-play goals as New Jersey won its second straight and for the fourth time in 14 games (4-9-1). Miles Wood added an empty-net goal on a length-of-the-ice shot.
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UCLA women upset Maryland Today in History By The Associated Press
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Michaela Onyenwere scored a career-high 30 points, Japreece Dean added 22 and UCLA squeezed past No. 3 seed Maryland 85-80 Monday night to earn its fourth consecutive berth in the Sweet 16 of the women’s NCAA Tournament. Dean, the smallest player on the court, sank two free throws with 25 seconds remaining to make it 83-79, and the Bruins held on to beat the Terrapins on their own court. No. 6 seed UCLA (2212) will next face secondseeded UConn (33-2) on Friday in the semifinal round of the Albany Region. No. 4 OREGON STATE 76, No. 5 GONZAGA 70 CORVALLIS, Ore. — Mikayla Pivec had 19 points, 11 rebounds and six assists, and Oregon State withstood Gonzaga. The Beavers (26-7) will travel across country to Albany
to face top-seeded Louisville, off BYU. which defeated No. 8 Michigan Smith found her shooting 71-50 on Sunday. stroke in the second half playing her final game at Maples Pavilion while Kiana Williams No. 1 NOTRE DAME 91, added 13 points for the CardiNo. 9 MICH. STATE 63 nal (30-4). Hall of Fame coach SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Tara VanDerveer called on her Arike Ogunbowale scored 23 team to relax in the second half points and two teammates had and Stanford began clicking to double-doubles as Notre Dame win its season-best 11th straight ran away from Michigan State game. The Cardinal move on to face 11th-seeded Missouri State in the first half. Jackie Young gave coach on Saturday in the Chicago ReMuffet McGraw and the Purcell gional semifinals. Pavilion crowd a scare when she fell hard to the floor just seconds No. 11 MISSOURI ST. 69, before the end of the third quarNo. 3 IOWA STATE 60 ter. She was ok and finished with AMES, Iowa — Alexa Wil21 points, 11 rebounds and seven assists for the Fighting Irish, who lard scored 17 points to help are in the Sweet 16 for the 10th Missouri State stun Iowa State, straight season. They will play No. becoming the only double-digit 4-seed Texas A&M Saturday at seed to reach this year’s Sweet 16. Wintrust Arena in Chicago.
No. 2 STANFORD 72, No. 7 BYU 63
No. 6 S. DAKOTA ST. 75, No. 3 SYRACUSE 64
STANFORD, Calif. — Alanna Smith had 23 points and 14 rebounds, helping Stanford overcome a slow start and advance to the Sweet 16 for a 12th straight year by holding
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Madison Guebert scored 18 of her 20 points on 3-pointers, including two critical 3s in the fourth quarter, to lead South Dakota State to a win over Syracuse.
No. 1 BAYLOR 102, No. 8 CALIFORNIA 63 WACO, Texas — Juicy Landrum scored 20 points with four 3-pointers and Baylor advanced to the women’s NCAA Sweet 16 for the 11th season in a row with a win over California. The Big 12 champion Lady Bears (33-1) were trailing late in the first quarter before a 25-2 run turned their third NCAA meeting in six seasons against Cal into yet another lopsided victory. They have a 25-game winning streak.
No. 3 N.C. STATE 72, No. 6 KENTUCKY 57 RALEIGH, N.C. — Kiara Leslie had 26 points and 10 rebounds, and North Carolina State pulled away to beat Kentucky in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Freshman Elissa Cunane added 13 points and 15 rebounds, DD Rogers had 11 points and 11 boards, and the third-seeded Wolfpack (285) dominated the glass while earning their second straight trip to the Sweet 16.
Blazers win game, lose Nurkic By The Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. — Jusuf Nurkic had 32 points and 16 rebounds before suffering a gruesome left leg injury in the second overtime, and the Portland Trail Blazers outlasted the Brooklyn Nets 148-144 on Monday night. Nurkic was hurt when his leg bent awkwardly as he battled for an offensive rebound. His leg was immobilized and he was removed on a stretcher while surrounded by members of both teams. The Blazers pulled out the game without him to clinch a playoff berth, but the loss of its starting center having his best season could be devastating for a Portland team already playing without injured guard CJ McCollum. JAZZ 125, SUNS 92 SALT LAKE CITY — Rudy Gobert scored a season-high 27 points and set the single-season NBA dunk record to fuel Utah to a victory over Phoenix, which got
59 points from Devin Booker. Booker topped his previous season high of 55, set in December in a triple-overtime loss to Washington. The fourth-year guard made five 3-pointers and shot 19 for 34 despite drawing several double-teams as the Jazz sought to prevent him from reaching 60 points. He also made 16 of 17 free throws. Derrick Favors and Ricky Rubio each had 18 points and Joe Ingles added 14 as the Jazz won for the seventh time in their last eight games.
MAGIC 119, 76ERS 98 ORLANDO, Fla. — Nikola Vucevic had 28 points and 11 rebounds, and Orlando held Philadelphia without a field goal for a stretch of nearly 12 minutes. Evan Fournier scored 24 points for the Magic, who outscored the 76ers 30-5 over a second-half stretch in which Philadelphia missed 15 straight shots. The Magic completed their first 5-0 homestand in franchise history and moved
a half-game behind Miami in chasing the eighth playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. They visit the Heat on Tuesday. Joel Embiid led the 76ers with 20 points and 10 rebounds.
GRIZZLIES 115, THUNDER 103 MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Bruno Caboclo scored a career-high 24 points, Tyler Dorsey added 21 and Memphis beat Oklahoma City. Delon Wright finished with 18 points and a career-best 13 assists for the Grizzlies. Jonas Valanciunas added 18 points and 14 rebounds. All five starters finished in double figures as the Grizzlies ended a two-game slide. Paul George led the Thunder with 30 points and 12 rebounds, while Dennis Schroder added 25 points on 9-of-14 shooting. Russell Westbrook finished with 16 points and seven assists, but was just 6 of 20 from the field and missed five of his six 3-point attempts.
Today is Tuesday, March 26, the 85th day of 2019. There are 280 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 26, 1979, a peace treaty was signed by Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin (men-AH’-kem BAY’-gihn) and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and witnessed by President Jimmy Carter at the White House. On this date: In 1812, an earthquake devastated Caracas, Venezuela, causing an estimated 26,000 deaths, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. In 1827, composer Ludwig van Beethoven died in Vienna. In 1934, Britain enacted a Road Traffic Act reimposing a 30 mileper-hour speed limit in “built-up areas” and requiring driving tests for new motorists. In 1945, during World War II, Iwo Jima was fully secured by U.S. forces following a final, desperate attack by Japanese soldiers. Former British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, 82, died in Ty Newydd, Llanystumdwy, Wales. In 1962, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Baker v. Carr, gave federal courts the power to order reapportionment of states’ legislative districts. In 1967, Pope Paul VI issued an encyclical, “Populorum Progressio,” on “the progressive development of peoples,” in which he expressed concern for those trying to escape hunger, poverty, endemic disease and ignorance. In 1988, Jesse Jackson stunned fellow Democrats by soundly defeating Michael S. Dukakis in Michigan’s Democratic presidential caucuses. In 1989, the science-fiction TV series “Quantum Leap,” starring Scott Bakula as an errant time-traveler, premiered on NBC. In 1992, a judge in Indianapolis sentenced former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson to six years in prison for raping a Miss Black America contestant. (Tyson ended up serving three years.) In 1997, the bodies of 39 members of the Heaven’s Gate techno-religious cult who committed suicide were found inside a rented mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, California. In 2005, German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger stood in for Pope John Paul II during the Easter Vigil Mass at the Vatican. (Ratzinger later succeeded John Paul, becoming Pope Benedict XVI.) In 2013, Italy’s top criminal court overturned the acquittal of American Amanda Knox in the grisly murder of British roommate Meredith Kercher and ordered Knox to stand trial again. (Although convicted in absentia, Knox was exonerated by the Italian Supreme Court in 2015.) Ten years ago: President Barack Obama held an unprecedented Internet town hall from the White House as he made a direct sales pitch for his $3.6 trillion budget. A 23,000-ton Norwegian-owned vessel with a crew of 27 was hijacked by pirates off the Somali coastline. (The Bow Asir was released two weeks later.) A Soyuz capsule carrying a Russian-American crew and U.S billionaire space tourist Charles Simonyi blasted off for the international space station. All-Star shortstop Miguel Tejada received a sentence of a year’s probation for misleading Congress about an ex-teammate’s use of performance-enhancing drugs. Five years ago: Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law, Sulaiman Abu Ghaith (SOO’-lay-mahn AH’-boo gayth), was convicted in New York for his role as al-Qaida’s fiery chief spokesman after 9/11. (He was later sentenced to life in prison.) One year ago: The Commerce Department said the 2020 U.S. Census would include a question about citizenship status; opponents said the question would discourage immigrants from responding to the census. (The Supreme Court will hear arguments next month on a challenge to the citizenship question.) A toxicology report obtained revealed that the late pop music superstar Prince had levels of fentanyl in his body that multiple experts described as “exceedingly high.” Two women and their six adopted children were killed when one of the women drove their SUV off a cliff into the ocean about 150 miles north of San Francisco; authorities said Jennifer Hart was drunk when she intentionally drove the vehicle over the cliff. Today’s Birthdays: Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor is 89. Actor Alan Arkin is 85. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is 84. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (puh-LOH’-see) is 79. Actor James Caan is 79. Author Erica Jong is 77. Journalist Bob Woodward is 76. Singer Diana Ross is 75. Actor Johnny Crawford is 73. Rock singer Steven Tyler (Aerosmith) is 71. Singer and TV personality Vicki Lawrence is 70. Actor Ernest Thomas is 70. Comedian Martin Short is 69. Country singer Ronnie McDowell is 69. Movie composer Alan Silvestri is 69. Rock musician Monte Yoho is 67. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao is 66. Radio talk show host Curtis Sliwa is 65. Country singer Dean Dillon is 64. Country singer Charly McClain is 63. TV personality Leeza Gibbons is 62. Actress Ellia English is 60. Actress Jennifer Grey is 59. College and Pro Football Hall of Famer Marcus Allen is 59. Actor Billy Warlock is 58. Actor Eric Allan Kramer is 57. Basketball and College Basketball Hall of Famer John Stockton is 57. Actor Michael Imperioli is 53. Rock musician James Iha (EE’-hah) is 51. Country singer Kenny Chesney is 51. Movie director Martin McDonagh (Film: “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”) is 49. Actress Leslie Mann is 47. Actor T.R. Knight is 46. Rapper Juvenile is 44. Actress Amy Smart is 43. Actress Bianca Kajlich (KY’-lihk) is 42. Moderator Margaret Brennan (TV: “Face the Nation”) is 39. Actor Sterling Sulieman is 35. Actress Keira Knightley is 34. Rapper J-Kwon is 33. Actress Carly Chaikin is 29. Thought for Today: “Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.” -- Tennessee Williams, American playwright (1911-1983).
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ashville Fairgrounds Speedway will not be part of next year’s NASCAR schedule, so come to terms with that now. Fans have a wish list of changes for NASCAR’s stale and stagnant schedule, and they have been led to believe series leadership heard their desires. The highly anticipated 2020 schedule is expected to be announced Tuesday and will show just how seriously the sport’s stakeholders have been listening. A vocal majority has called for more short tracks, more road courses, dirt racing and basically anything new at all to a never-ending 38-race schedule. Steve Phelps became NASCAR’s fourth president last October and a month later at the season finale vowed nothing was off the table in regards to a scheduling shake-up. “Will we see a lot of the things that have been talked about? More short tracks? More road courses? Double-headers? Midweek racing? Pulling the season forward? All those things would be in play,” Phelps said. But NASCAR has five-year agreements in place with all its venues that don’t expire until after next
season, and that legally prevents the sanctioning body from ripping up the existing schedule and starting from scratch. Those massive changes can’t actually happen until 2021, when NASCAR reclaims negotiating power on its events. So what will be released for next season is a collaboration involving NASCAR, track operators and the television partners that strikes a balance of freshening up the schedule within the existing rules and regulations of swapping race dates. Fans may have mixed reactions to the final result. Those hoping for everything under the sun are going to very disappointed because it just can’t happen for next year. Others will likely embrace what is coming as a starting point for eventual sweeping changes. Yes, Phelps promised changes, but a total and radical implosion just isn’t realistic for next year. WHAT IS LIKELY TO BE ANNOUNCED: International Speedway Corp. spent more than $175 million renovating its Phoenix racetrack and will likely showcase the facility as the season finale, rather than the race before the championship round. The finale has been held at Homestead-Miami Speedway
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advance in this thing. So, we knew we were going to have to play somebody really good, and Florida State is no doubt that.” Thursday’s other semifinal in Anaheim, California, could be a rugged fight between No. 2 seed Michigan (30-6) and No. 3 seed Texas Tech (28-6). They’re the top two teams in KenPom’s adjusted defensive efficiency ratings, with the Red Raiders first (85.3 points allowed per 100 possessions) followed by the Wolverines (85.8). SOUTH Virginia is finally free of its UMBC failure. The Cavaliers spent the year playing in the shadow of last year’s first-round loss to UMBC, the only 16-vs-1 upset in tournament history. And they were confronted with it again when they trailed No. 16 seed Gardner-Webb by 14 in the first half of Friday’s game. But Virginia found its steady, defensiveminded form after halftime , then beat Oklahoma to return to the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2016. “You talk about trying to focus in and then getting down, it was real,” coach Tony Bennett said. “So I think those guys will have that as something they can always draw upon to say we faced a giant and battled through it.” Now Virginia (31-3) faces No. 12 seed Oregon, the only double-digit seed left in a heavyweight field, in pursuit of its first Final Four trip under Bennett. Thursday’s other semifinal in Louisville, Kentucky, has No. 2 seed Tennessee (31-5) meeting No. 3 seed Purdue (25-9) after eventful second-round games for both. The Vols survived in overtime against Iowa after blowing a 25-point lead to return to the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2014. As for the Boilermakers, Carsen Edwards had a career-best 42 points in a rout of 2018 champion Villanova. MIDWEST Top-seeded North Carolina (29-6) leads a bracket that nearly went chalk, with No. 5 seed Auburn joining Oregon as the only surviving teams from outside the top 16 seeds. Yet the biggest question surrounding Friday’s games in Kansas City hovers around No. 2 seed Kentucky and PJ Washington. The Wildcats’ leading scorer and rebounder missed the first two NCAA games while wearing a hard cast on his sprained left foot. “I know this, he really wants to play,” Kentucky coach John Calipari said before a second-round win against Wofford. “But I also want to feel comfortable that if he gets on the court that there’s nothing he can do to himself, and the doctors have pretty much said that. So it’s just, ‘OK, when is it healed enough that he can go?’” The Wildcats (29-6) meet third-seeded Houston (33-3), which set a school record for wins when they beat Ohio State on Sunday. In the other semifinal, UNC looks to keep rolling when it faces the Tigers (28-9) — who peaked at No. 7 in the AP Top 25 in December, fell out of the poll, then had a late-season surge to win the SEC Tournament and blow out Kansas on Saturday.
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VENUES! AND A DOUBLEHEADER WITH INDYCAR!: IndyCar made its debut Sunday at Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, and NASCAR fans want to see stock cars on the picturesque road course. They also want the Cup Series to race on dirt at Tony Stewart’s speedway in Rossburg, Ohio, and return to historic Nashville, a 0.596-mile short track that hosted NASCAR from 1958 to 1984. All of it sounds great, but it can’t be done without other tracks relinquishing their spot on the schedule, and that won’t happen until the sanctioning contracts expire and NASCAR regains its leverage. It’s not impossible for a double-header with IndyCar — and it’s a smart move for the exposure it would bring to both series — but realistically that’s a longrange hope and not something that can be pulled off next year. There’s zero chance everyone will be happy with the 2020 schedule, perhaps because there’s so much hope for something new and fresh and special and that’s probably a year away. But any changes at all are a victory for fans and a sign of hope that NASCAR is truly listening.
Alexander Radulov had two assists for the Stars (39-31-6), who maintained their hold on the first wild-card spot in the Western Conference. Ben Bishop stopped 21 shots. Kyle Connor had a goal and an assist and Patrik Laine ended a 12-game scoring drought with his 30th goal of the season. Connor Hellebuyck made 32 saves for the Jets (45-27-4), who are in first place in the Central Division, two points ahead of Nash-
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BLUES 3, GOLDEN KNIGHTS 1 ST. LOUIS — Ivan Barbashev, Zach Sanford and Ryan O’Reilly scored to help St. Louis beat Vegas. Jordan Binnington made 24 saves for his 21st victory of the season. He is one win short of matching Jake Allen’s record set in 2014-15 for the most by a Blues rookie goaltender.
Season to open with Bears-Packers PHOENIX (AP) — As part of the celebration of its 100th season, the NFL will break from tradition and feature the Packers vs. the Bears in its season opener Sept. 5. Usually, the Super Bowl champion is the home team for the prime-time opener, but the league wants to salute historic rivalries in 2019. None fits better than ChicagoGreen Bay. The teams have met 198 times since 1921, when the Bears were the Chicago Staleys. Green Bay leads the series 97-95-6, including the clubs splitting two postseason games. Staging the Thursday night game at Chicago’s Soldier Field — even if it is a modernized version of the stadium — adds to the theme. There will be a free fan festival and concert in nearby Grant Park and,
for the first time, the league has approved a free viewing event of the game in the park. “We see that around other sports,” said Peter O’Reilly, the NFL’s executive vice president for league events. Such viewings, for example, have been a staple of the World Cup for decades, and hockey also has adopted the practice. “It will create a big festival environment.” This will be the first time since 2003 the Super Bowl champion has not played in the opener. New England instead will open at home in the prime-time game Sunday night, Sept. 8. The opponent has not yet been determined. The full schedule will be announced next month. “With the 100th season, we want to do something to kick it off in a special way,” said Hans Schroeder, the league’s chief op-
erating officer of media. “We’re celebrating the Bears, one of the original member clubs, in their 100th season, and the Packers are in their 101st. It’s an iconic matchup.” Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel invoked the name of George Halas, the team’s founder, in welcoming the news. “George ‘Papa Bear’ Halas and the NFL’s co-founders probably didn’t imagine the federation they established 100 years ago in cities and towns across the Midwest would one day be the most successful professional sports league in the world,” Emanuel said in a statement. “But that’s what their vision achieved. Chicago — the most American of American cities — is the perfect venue for this game.”
Scoreboard Basketball NCAA Women’s Tournament GREENSBORO REGIONAL Second Round Monday, March 25 Baylor 102, California 63 N.C. State 72, Kentucky 57 Regional Semifinals Saturday, March 30 Baylor (33-1) vs. South Carolina (23-9), TBA N.C. State (28-5) vs. Iowa (28-6), TBA PORTLAND REGIONAL Second Round Monday, March 25 South Dakota State 75, Syracuse 64 Regional Semifinals Friday, March 29 Mississippi State (32-2) vs. Arizona State (22-10), TBA South Dakota State (28-6) vs. Oregon (31-4), TBA CHICAGO REGIONAL Second Round Monday, March 25 Notre Dame 91, Michigan State 63 Missouri State 69, Iowa State 60 Stanford 72, BYU 63 Regional Semifinals Saturday, March 30 Notre Dame (32-3) vs. Texas A&M (26-7), TBA Missouri State (24-9) vs. Stanford (30-4), TBA ALBANY REGIONAL Second Round Monday, March 25 Oregon State 76, Gonzaga 70 UCLA 85, Maryland 80 Regional Semifinals Friday, March 29 Louisville (31-3) vs. Oregon State (26-7), TBA UCLA (22-12) vs. UConn (33-2), TBA All Times ADT
NBA Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB x-Toronto 51 23 .689 — x-Philadelphia 47 27 .635 4 Boston 43 31 .581 8 Brooklyn 38 37 .507 13½ New York 14 60 .189 37 Southeast Division Miami 36 37 .493 — Orlando 36 38 .486 ½ Charlotte 34 39 .466 2 Washington 30 44 .405 6½ Atlanta 26 48 .351 10½ Central Division y-Milwaukee 55 19 .743 — x-Indiana 45 29 .608 10 Detroit 37 36 .507 17½
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Hockey NHL Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA z-Tampa Bay 77 59 14 4 122 306 206 x-Boston 76 46 21 9 101 237 194 Toronto 76 45 25 6 96 271 228 Montreal 76 40 28 8 88 227 219 Florida 76 33 31 12 78 248 262 Buffalo 75 31 35 9 71 207 247 Detroit 76 28 38 10 66 206 258 Ottawa 75 26 43 6 58 222 278 Metropolitan Division Washington 76 44 24 8 96 260 234 N.Y. Islanders 76 44 25 7 95 212 184 Pittsburgh 77 42 24 11 95 261 228 Carolina 75 42 26 7 91 225 206 Columbus 75 41 30 4 86 228 218 Philadelphia 76 36 32 8 80 229 252 N.Y. Rangers 75 29 33 13 71 208 250 New Jersey 77 29 39 9 67 211 260
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Monday’s Games Rochester 5, Minnesota 2 N.Y. Mets 9, Baltimore 7 Detroit 9, Tigers Futures 1 Philadelphia 3, Tampa Bay 2 Albuquerque 7, Colorado 3 Washington 5, N.Y. Yankees 3 Omaha 3, Kansas City 2 Milwaukee 10, Toronto 5 Atlanta 8, Cincinnati 5 St. Louis 6, Memphis 3 Cleveland 10, Texas 1 Houston 12, Pittsburgh 9 Chicago Cubs 3, Boston 2 Chicago White Sox 6, Arizona 3 Oakland vs. San Francisco at San Francisco, CA, late L.A. Dodgers vs. L.A. Angels at Anaheim, CA, late San Diego 8, Seattle 0
Transactions BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Placed RHP Alex Cobb and C Austin Wynns on the 10-day IL and OF Mark Trumbo on the 60-day IL. Selected the contract of C Jesus Sucre from Norfolk (IL). CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Signed LHP Sean Nolin and SS Alcides Escobar to minor league contracts. DETROIT TIGERS — Placed RHP Michael Fulmer on the 60day IL. Optioned SS Ronny Rodriguez to Toledo (IL). Selected the contract of 2B Gordon Beckham from Toledo. KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Requested release waivers on OF Brian Goodwin. Selected the contract of 1B Lucas Duda from Omaha (PCL). MINNESOTA TWINS — Reassigned RHPs Preston Guilmet and Mike Morin to minor league camp. TAMPA BAY RAYS — Optioned RHP Hunter Wood to Durham (IL). TEXAS RANGERS — Released RHPs Jason Hammel and Zach McAllister. Assigned RHPs Matt Bush and Rafael Montero to their minor league camp.. TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Placed 2B Devon Travis on the 60-day IL. Agreed to terms with RHP Daniel Hudson to a one-year contract and with RHP John Axford on a minor league contract. National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Optioned SS Ildemarco Vargas and LHP Robby Scott to Reno (PCL). ATLANTA BRAVES — Optioned OF Adam Duvall and RHPs Touki Toussaint and Dan Winkler to Gwinnett (IL). CHICAGO CUBS — Released RHP Junichi Tazawa. Optioned
OF Ian Happ, C Taylor Davis, LHP Tim Collins and RHPs Dillon Maples and Alex Mills to Iowa (PCL). LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Reassigned RHPs Dustin May, Stetson Allie and Kevin Quackenbush, C Josh Thole, OFs Paulo Orlando and Ezequiel Carrera and INF Daniel Castro to their minor league camp. MIAMI MARLINS — Released RHP Dan Straily. MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Agreed to terms with RHP Alex Wilson on a one-year contract. ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Placed LHP Brett Cecil, INF Jedd Gyorko, OF Justin Williams and RHPs Luke Gregerson and Carlos Martinez on the 10-day IL. Optioned LHP Tyler Webb to Memphis (PCL). Reassigned RHP Chris Beck, LHP Tommy Layne, Cs Andrew Knizner and Francisco Pena, INFs Tommy Edman and Rangel Ravelo and OF Dylan Carlson to their minor league camp. SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Traded OF Matt Joyce to Atlanta for cash. Optioned C Aramis Garcia to Sacramento (PCL). Claimed C Tom Murphy off waivers from Colorado. Designated RHP Merandy Gonzalez for assignment. FOOTBALL National Football League BUFFALO BILLS — Signed CB E.J. Gaines to a one-year contract. CINCINNATI BENGALS — Resigned CB Darqueze Dennard to a one-year contract. NEW YORK JETS — Re-signed LB Brandon Copeland and TE Neal Sterling. HOCKEY National Hockey League DALLAS STARS — Signed G Jake Oettinger to a three-year, entry-level contract and assigned him to Texas (AHL). DETROIT RED WINGS — Assigned D Brian Lashoff to Grand Rapids (AHL). NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Assigned Fs Miikka Salomaki and Austin Watson to Milwaukee (AHL) on long-term injury loan. NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Recalled F Joey Anderson from Binghamton (AHL). WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Reassigned D Tyler Lewington to Hershey (AHL). Recalled D Jonas Siegenthaler from Hershey. COLLEGE FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON — Announced the contract of women’s basketball coach Peter Cinella will not be renewed. SUNY OLD WESTBURY — Named Anthony Vertuccio assistant softball coach.
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Son feels mother’s rejection after revealing that he is gay bers. You can find it by going online to pflag. org. If your concern is that your mother’s position may force you to end your relationship with her, prepare in advance by making sure you have a loving support system around you. DEAR ABBY: I am the Abigail Van Buren caregiver for my 88-yearold mom and 89-year-old dad. It has its challenges. It would help if doctors would provide WRITTEN instructions, diagnoses and directions rather than rely on me to follow through. I take notes, but my parents hear what they want to hear. Without an actual note from the doctor, they tend to dismiss my notes as “that’s not what he/she said.” I’m sure I am not the only caregiver with this problem. Recently, Mama’s gynecologist advised her to see a urologist. It took me more than a month to convince her that it was what he said, and now we are looking at a urinary tract infection, which is not a good thing for an older woman. My parents are not at the point where I can simply kidnap them. I realize doctors don’t get
paid enough for their time by Medicare, but it sure would help us keep our elders healthy. -- NOTE TAKER IN GEORGIA DEAR NOTE TAKER: May I offer a suggestion that might prove helpful? When you take your parents for doctors’ visits, record what you are told on your cellphone (in notes/ memos). That way, you can replay the doctors’ words verbatim regarding any diagnoses, instructions, etc. to your parents as necessary. DEAR ABBY: When my daughter and her husband eat in a restaurant, he insists they order the same thing. If he thinks her plate looks better, he switches them. This baffles me. Does this happen to anyone else? What do you think of this? -- BAFFLED IN ILLINOIS DEAR BAFFLED: I think your son-in-law has no consideration for your daughter’s feelings, and that people who are greedy and inconsiderate about food are usually the same about other things. (He could also be controlling and/or have OCD.) Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069. Hints from Heloise
HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Tuesday, March 26, 2019: This year, you have an unusual sense of direction. Trust your instincts, and follow through on them. If single, you meet someone quite exciting and open. You could meet this person traveling, in a seminar or in an odd situation. If attached, your willingness to be open to new adventures and different concepts draws you closer to your sweetie. SAGITTARIUS encourages you to take a walk on the wild side. The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHH You see the rosy side of a situation. You seem to be able to sustain that view and not become disappointed when events point to a lack of reality. Remain sensitive to your inner voice. Tonight: Luck is in your corner. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH Relate to the key people in your life. You could wonder what is going on. Others’ thoughts could be triggered by your conversation. Let associates mull over their feelings and ideas. Tonight: Be a duo. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH You usually lead others, but at present another person can distill your and others’ views to create a positive map to success. A higher-up or authority figure might be more observant than you think. Tonight: Sort through invitations, then decide who gets a “yes.” CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH Reach out for an associate or co-worker whom you enjoy brainstorming with. The two of you could concoct an odd but successful plan. Surprise surrounds how easily the nearly impossible becomes possible. Tonight: Errands and exercise. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHHH Your efforts create great results, if started today. You might not be sure of a partner and where he or she is coming from. Relax. The uncertainty adds to the vitality of your bond. Your charisma draws many potential sweeties. Tonight: Stay open to possibilities. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHH Center yourself. Remain on top of a personal matter. A family member presents a strong reason to move in a new direction. You feel lucky when this person
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DEAR ABBY: I love my mother, but our relationship has been awkward since I came out to her when I was 13. After I told her I was gay, she grew more and more distant. She went into full grandma mode for my sister and her sons and, in my eyes, neglected me. She was seldom home, and when she was, we would argue about everything. It got so bad that I left and moved in with my aunt, who was like a mom to me. My sister told me she thinks Mom is in denial because every time my sister would want to talk about it, Mom would clam up. Mom and I have NEVER talked about it. I clearly recall the day I came out. When I told Mom, she said she already knew. Then she added, “It’s just a phase.” I’m sad that even after 12 years she still hasn’t accepted that this is who I am and who I have always been. It upsets me that she doesn’t know all of me. Should I have a sit-down talk with her like the adults we are? -- SAME SON AS ALWAYS DEAR SAME SON: Only you can make the decision to have that important conversation with your mother. Before you do, I’m advising you to contact an organization called PFLAG. PFLAG helps to build bridges of understanding between families and their LGBTQ mem-
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Mapping pot legalization politics: Not just red vs. blue By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press
NEW YORK — To anyone who figured the path of legalizing recreational marijuana use ran along blue state-red state lines, a sudden setback for pot advocates in New Jersey may show the issue isn’t so black-and-white. Leaders in solidly-blue New Jersey are vowing it will still become the 11th state to legalize the drug. But when a state Senate vote was abruptly put off Monday because it didn’t have enough support, the delay was a reminder that the politics of pot legalization aren’t purely partisan. The key question instead can be whether voters or legislators are making the decision, experts say. “It’s a good illustration that even in a state that’s entirely Democratically controlled, it’s not obvious that it would be passed — or that it would be easy,” says Daniel Mallinson, a Penn State
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lion to match a federal grant of $46 million. This would be a forward payment for fiscal 2020. The bill would add another $21.9 million to the state’s disaster relief fund. As the governor pointed out in a memo attached to the bill, “The full damage to highways may not be known until spring.” The state may have to spend
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The Republican governor’s administration cited figures indicating the number of program graduates who practiced in Alaska has dropped from 84 percent to 61 percent from 2014 to 2018. “The WWAMI program has not proven effective at meeting the demand for new physicians, despite a significant state investment over
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get. Before public testimony began, Knopp gave a short presentation on the state’s current fiscal situation and asked residents to keep their public comment to the topic of the budget. Rep. Ben Carpenter, RNikiski, was present at the meeting through the state’s video teleconference system. Early on in the meeting, there were technical difficulties and the video of Carpenter in Juneau was shut off. The meeting took more than three hours, with more than 60 people testifying. While nearly 70 percent of the peninsula voted for Gov. Mike Dunleavy at the midterm election, a large majority of those who came to testify were not in favor of Dunleavy’s proposed budget. Of those who spoke in support of the proposed budget, several did not support the cuts in their entirety. Most of the residents agreed the state should curb spending from savings. Opposing cuts to education, both at the K-12 and university level, dominated the meeting. Pegge Erkeneff, communications liaison for the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District, spoke on behalf of the district opposing cuts to education. State cuts to education would result in a loss of more than $22 million — nearly a quarter of the district’s to-
Harrisburg professor who studies how marijuana legalization and other policies spread among states. Since voters in the states of Colorado and Washington decided in 2012 to let adults use marijuana for fun, legalization has traveled a route that looks — from a distance — something like the red-and-blue maps that frame many a U.S. political conversation. Residents of Democratic states on the West Coast and parts of the Northeast, for instance, have said yes, as has the District of Columbia. Lawmakers in Republicanled North Dakota and Arizona have said no. But look closer, and the trend isn’t so clear. Voters in Ruby-red Alaska OK’d recreational pot in 2014, while legalization fizzled this year in the state legislature in deeply Democratic Hawaii . Several states where it passed — like Massachusetts, Michigan and Vermont
— are less blue than purple, with governors and legislative leaders of different parties. And overall, 61 percent of American adults say marijuana should be legal, including majorities of Republicans and Democrats , according to the General Social Survey conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago. The Democratic governors and legislature leaders of New York and New Jersey have been jostling to make their states next in line to legalize, but the effort hasn’t gone as smoothly as they might have hoped. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo aimed to pass marijuana legalization in the budget due April 1, but the issue may well linger until later this spring. Open questions include how to handle clearing past convictions and how to ensure that minority communities that bore the brunt of criminalization get
potential opportunities in the marijuana business. Those are also among the sticking points that prompted the New Jersey Senate to postpone Monday’s planned vote, which would fulfill a campaign promise from Gov. Phil Murphy. Senate President Steve Sweeney insisted it would still pass eventually but didn’t say when a vote might come. Opponents see the development as an important victory. “This is really going to send a strong signal nationwide that legalization is not inevitable,” even in Democrat-dominated states, says Kevin Sabet, a former Obama administration drug-policy adviser who now heads Smart Approaches to Marijuana, an anti-legalization group. Pot advocates, meanwhile, say they don’t expect it to be easy to change policy about a drug that was illegal in all 50 states for decades, and still is in the federal government’s
view. “It’s not surprising that lawmakers are moving slowly and cautiously,” said Mason Tvert, a spokesman for the pro-legalization Marijuana Policy Project. Nine of the 10 states that have legalized recreational marijuana did so through voter referendums — not through their legislatures. Vermont is the exception. To marijuana-policy experts, that’s a more telling divide than a state’s place on the partisan map. “I actually see this as a populist-movement-vs.representative (body) issue,” says Andrew Freedman, who helped set up Colorado’s recreational-pot program and now consults governments on doing so. Why the difference? In part, voters are usually presented with more general propositions, with regulations to be fleshed out later, while legislators are likely weighing more details — and political
considerations, experts say. “A vote of the people is much more aspirational in terms of what you want your state to look like, and the vote to implement is much more what your state will look like. And then you have to own the outcome,” Freedman says. “When you start to talk about: how are you going to ensure minority-owned businesses, or what level of tax rates, or suddenly a representative has to go talk to their chief of police who is against it … there’s a lot of political risk for an elected official,” he added. For all that, lawmakers in 21 states at least proposed legalizing marijuana last year, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. “It’s not an exclusive discussion to blue states or red states,” says Karmen Hanson, a cannabis policy analyst for the group. “States are talking about it in the rainbow of red, blue and purple.”
more money repairing earthquake damage. Another $1 million would go to the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities to make repairs that were not covered by insurance. This bill would also appropriate $7.9 million to the Department of Natural Resources for the purpose of wildland firefighting and related activities. Altogether, the entire bill is about $133 million rounded off, including the federal funds and about $30
million general state funds, Stedman said. They added $7.9 million to the Department of Natural Resources for the purpose of wildland firefighting and related activities because they are expecting a drier summer, which likely means more wildfires, Stedman said. “This fast-tracked appropriation bill is stripped down to just the very needy items that we have to have appropriations for between now and the end of June,” Stedman said. “Unfortunately we’re expecting
continued damage to some of our properties around the state during the spring thaw, and shortly there after. So we’re estimating … of somewhere around 35 million or so that will most likely be added into the future appropriation bills.” He said more earthquake damage is likely to come since Alaska has many structures built on permafrost and frozen soils. Senate Minority Leader, Tom Begich, D-Anchorage, noted during the floor session it was important all
of Alaska was coming to the aid of Southcentral. “The bulk of the damage we’re talking about occurred in Southcentral Alaska,” Begich said. “I think it’s symbolic of the position of the state and Legislature of a whole that it would be a senator from Southeast looking out and carrying the bill for Southcentral Alaska. We are all connected, what happens in Southeast affects Southcentral, what happens in Southcentral affects Southeast, so I just wanted
to commend the body for taking up this piece of legislation and recognizing how interconnected we all are.” This bill was just one of the supplemental budget bills that have been introduced this session. Gov. Mike Dunleavy also proposed another, Senate Bill 37, which involved moving money around from several departments, notably withdrawing a $20 million appropriation to K-12 education that the Legislature passed last year.
the years,” the administration said in the documents. The administration’s figures are misleading because the pool includes all students in the five-state region, Allen said in a previous interview with the Associated Press. The state pays about half of tuition for Alaska students in the program. Graduates who don’t return to Alaska are required to pay the state back. Allen said during a Senate Finance committee meeting Monday the return
on investment is around 70 percent for the Alaska program. She said 61 percent of the graduates from this program return to Alaska, and 11 percent of licensed Alaska physicians are WWAMI graduates. It’s the largest contributing medical school to the Alaska physician workforce. She compared the cost now to how much it would be to build a new medical school, which was over $100 million to build a new school in North Dakota, a state
with similar population to Alaska. By the numbers Alaska needs to recruit about 60 physicians each year to keep up with the demand in the state, Allen said. WWAMI costs $5.50 per Alaskan compared to over $20 per North Dakotan, Allen said. Right now, there are about 80 students, full capacity for the program. WWAMI has over 200 clinical faculty teaching medical students and residents in 26 differ-
ent communities. There are 377 clinical experience opportunities across the state for medical students and residents. “This is publicly supported medical education,” Allen said. Possible alternative Sen. Bert Stedman, RSitka, questioned Allen if there has been discussion on how to deal with budgetary constraints with the state funding portion of the program. But Allen said there has not been a discussion with any other
groups. Allen said the consortium was built among states that did not have their own medical schools, and that’s why other states are not a part of the program. Sen. Natasha von Imhof, R-Anchorage, said perhaps an endowment might be able to fund the program. “We’ll be looking at trying to preserve WWAMI in some concept,” said Stedman at the close of Monday’s meeting.
tal budget for the upcoming school years. Erkeneff said the district has spent more than $9 million in savings in the last seven years and has sustained cuts over the years. She said the district has managed to keep cuts away from the classroom and instead has cut at the district office. Erkeneff said the cuts could even exceed $22 million if the borough votes to not fund to the maximum. To deal with a loss of over $22 million, Erkeneff created an infographic that outlines what kinds of cuts could take place, including the closure of six schools and elimination of sports and extracurriculars. “This sheet that I created, I’ve been accused it’s a scare tactic, and I can assure you it is not,” Erkeneff said. “It’s still $5 million shy of the $22 million.” Erkeneff said the Legislature could help cut costs for the school district, by working to make health care more affordable. She told the House Finance Committee members that the school district has positive outcomes. “Our school district does have positive outcomes,” Erkeneff said. “I hear constantly that our schools are failing. What are we measuring? Are we creating world-class test takers or problem solvers and solution seekers? Our schools are continually improving … The outcomes of these cuts will devastate the communities on this peninsula.” Other residents, like Paul Hartley of Kenai, believe
the state could benefit from cuts to education. “As family and individuals we have to live within our income,” Hartley said. “So does the state. I’m sure there are numerous places where we can trim the budget and state government and possibly some other areas the state is responsible for, like the university system. We’re experiencing falling enrollment, low graduation rates and a major program losing its accreditation … Yes, I believe even our state public education system needs some adjustments.” Director of the Kenai Peninsula College, Gary Turner, spoke out against cuts to the university budget. He said many of his staff is in limbo on deciding whether to leave or stay. “Some of these employees have young families and their decision to look for other jobs is not just based on the potential cuts to the University of Alaska, but also to K-12 and other supportive services from the state, including funding for the municipalities,” Turner said. For the upcoming fall semester, Turner said the campus will likely not be able to meet the demand of math and English classes due to a hiring freeze the college placed after the governor released their budget. “In January I was prepared to make an offer to a new math professor and an English professor,” Turner said. “These positions have been vacated due to retirements. Once the budget was
released I informed the candidates by phone that we would not be proceeding due to the looming budget cuts. I didn’t want to make them offers in January and then call them up in June and say, ‘sorry, I was just kidding.’” Turner said the college has reduced their budget by more than $2 million over the last five years, which was a “huge dent for a small college.” “We are now to the bone,” Turner said. More cuts will cut to the marrow and we’re going to start losing limbs.” Leslie Rohr, from Love INC near Soldotna, told the committee members she was concerned about cuts to programs that serve Alaska’s most vulnerable population. “I do agree our state needs to do something about our spending habits, but cutting vital programs to our most vulnerable population is not helping,” Rohr said. When it came to talks of Permanent Fund Dividend checks, many residents told the committee members that they would be fine if their checks were reduced or eliminated to help maintain savings and state services. Some residents were not as keen to reduce or eliminate the check. Marie Washburn said she’s been living in Alaska for more than 60 years. She said she would like the option to receive her Permanent Fund Dividend check or to donate it to the Legislature. “I do not like the idea of
being stolen from,” Washburn said. “As far as the budget, yes there are some cuts we all could make. I’m afraid to say it — I hate to say it, I hated it when we had a state tax, but yeah, a tax is necessary. But don’t take our PFD, let us give it to you.” Ed Martin from Sterling told the House Finance Committee members to not touch the Permanent Fund Dividend without a vote of the people. “I think we all understand that we have to live within our means,” Martin said. “The governor has shown you what that looks like. Now I see the Legislature for the fourth year in a row is taking the lazy approach trying to convince the public to reach into our pockets to support your downfall. I see a woe-is-me slideshow.” Dave Jones, who normally represents the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District, spoke as a resident of the state. He brought a newspaper article from the Anchorage Daily News that highlighted a time he spoke to the House Finance Committee in 2002, on similar budget issues. Jones told the committee members to take his Permanent Fund Dividend check, which called his “wake up money.” “What I do to earn that is I wake up about 365 days a year,” Jones said. “I’ve recently started to wonder if I would go back to sleep in the morning and wake up a second time — could I get two? Please take that. I think we need to pay for the ser-
vices.” When it came to new taxes, residents seemed in favor of taxing the income of individuals who are not residents of Alaska, including North Slope workers and seasonal tourism employees. Many residents spoke both in favor and against the creation of an income tax. Dave Peck of Kenai said the governor’s budget proposal is a good thing. He said he doesn’t like the idea of an income tax, because it can create another expense on top of other taxes residents in the borough already have to pay. Harold Jackson in Kasilof also spoke to the House Finance Committee members in opposition of an income tax. “Your grandchildren will dig up your bones and spit on them if you institute a state income tax,” Jackson said. Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly member Kelly Cooper, speaking on behalf of herself, noted that the cost-shifting to local municipalities may cause an increase in taxes. “While he campaigned on balancing the budget without raising taxes, this budget may indeed raise taxes, costshifting to local municipalities,” Cooper said. The public comment taken at House Finance Committee meeting in Kenai and around the state will help lawmakers make decisions about where to fund and where to cut when it comes to the state budget.
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Former presidential service dog Sully is now on the job at Walter Reed By Chau Lam Newsday (TNS)
In this file photo, Sully, former President George H.W. Bush’s service dog, pays his respect to President Bush as he lies in state at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
“Sully H.W. Bush, do you affirm — or pant — as a hospital corpsman in the United States Navy that you will support, comfort and cheer our warriors and their families, active duty and retirees?” Sully — named for Chesley Sullenberger, the US Airways pilot who safely landed an Airbus A320 on an icy Hudson River in January 2009 with 155 passengers and crew aboard — was asked to embrace the hospital staff and provide
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Former presidential pooch Sully — the Long Island service dog that achieved fame as a faithful companion to the late President George H.W. Bush — has started a new job at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center outside Washington, D.C. The cream-colored Labrador, who served Bush in the last six months of his life, is now providing com-
fort to veterans and their families, according to a personal oath of enlistment read at a ceremony that was streamed live on Facebook. The canine joined a team of facility dogs at the hospital, in accord with Bush’s wish. Sully — who after Bush’s death returned to America’s VetDogs in Smithtown where the canine was born and trained — did not oblige when asked to raise his paw as the master of ceremony began the oath.
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Meet Julian Who doesn’t want a girl like this? She is the perfect addition to any home. She likes other cats that will play with her but give herthe space she needs when she’s ready to be alone. She loves to be brushed. She would most likely be at her best in a home with other cats because they help her come out of her shell.
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unconditional love and solace. “That you take this obligation freely, without any promise of treats or tummy rubs and that you will faithfully discharge the duties to provide joy, love and nurturing for our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, and sailors and their families?” At the end of the oath, Capt. Mark A. Kobelja, director of the Walter Reed center in Bethesda, Maryland, bent down and faced the pooch.
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IZUMI
• Domestic • Medium Hair • Adult • Female • Medium • Vaccinations up to Date • Prefers a Home Without Other Cats, Dogs, or Children
Meet Izumi She is a sweet cat full of life. She loves to play and be pet. She does not do well with other cats or dogs. When she gets excited she can sometimes play rough because of this she will do best in a home with either older children or no children at all.
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ANNABELLE
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ECLIPSE
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• Domestic • Medium Hair • Female • Medium Size • House Trained • Vaccinations up to Date • Spayed Neutered • Takes Hyperthyroid Medication
CLAUDINE
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Meet Claudine This little girl lets anyone hold her. She does seem to want to wander off so she will need a secure yard or someone who likes to take their dog out for walks to potty them. She is only about 15 pounds so she can fit in an apartment pretty easy.
Meet Eclipse Eclipse is a beautiful ebony girl with a fluffy coat and a very impressive ruff. She is quite slim, maybe 4 or 5 years old and a super lovebug. She is okay with other cats and dogs existing in the house. But she prefers to ignore them and focus all her attention on her humans that she loves beyond all else. If you’re looking for affection and devotion, Eclipse is the girl for you!
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• Domestic • Medium Hair • Young • Female • Slammese • House Trained • Vaccinations up to Date • Spayed/Neutered
Meet Annabelle Annabelle is the sweetest little girl ever. She is so easy and quiet and gentle. Annabelle once lived outside and doesn’t want to do that again, but she will want to go outside to play with her kitty friends when spring comes.
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NIGHT KING
• Domestic • Medium Hair • Adult • Medium • Male • Vaccinations up to Date • Prefers a Home Without Other Cats Meet Night King This handsome boy loves to be around people. He absolutely love attention and getting petted. He does not seem to like other cats. We are not sure how he does around dogs or children.
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