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20 Year Youth Advocate andPartner Officially Opens Daycare Program

Alex Whites EducationPlan Calls for Fully FundingPublic Education in Rochester

Local News

Local Officials Make Changes to

RTS System to Keep Downtown Safe

U.S. Federal Government ShutsDown, First Time in Over 17 Years

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LOCALAlex Whites Education Plan Calls forFully Funding Public Education in RochesterBy Delani Weaver

Former public school teacher andmayoral candidate Alex Whitereleased his plan for a New Deal forRochesters Students Tuesday.

White said his plan is simple, praccaland takes into account the needs ofall Rochester students by fully fundingpublic educaon.

While there is a lot a Rochester mayorcan say about educaon policy, thereis really only one thing a Rochestermayor can do about educaon policyand that is to pay for it, said White.

Anything else requires mayoralcontrol. I have always been opposedto mayoral control because I see

no benet to parents, teachers orstudents by pung a mayor in chargeof the public schools.

White, running under the Green Partycket, said under his plan there will beno mayoral control and no vouchers.He said he isnt giving up on thechildren of Rochester.

When it comes to educaon, weneed to change our priories, not ourgovernmental structure, said White.We have approached educaonbackwards in Rochester. Instead ofasking what the district needs andthen providing it, we have told them

what we will give them and then actedsurprised with the results. I plan tochange that way of thinking.

White said he plans to use fundsfrom property tax reassessments toprovide the addional funds necessaryto boost the Rochester City SchoolDistrict. White points to a handful ofproperes including the Capron StreetLo Apartments that are assessedat $98 million yet pay only $1,611 intaxes, instead of the $4.2 million theyshould as a revenue source.

We can fully fund our public educaonsystem and turn around the lives of tensof thousands of students by ending thetax breaks and underassessment of ahandful of properes in the city, saidWhite. It is a maer of priories and,

as mayor, my priority will be providingthe funding we need for educaonover tax breaks for wealthy landlords. Alex White

NY attorney general launches gun buyback programROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) The New Yorkaorney generals oce is sponsoringa statewide gun buyback programwhere people can turn in weapons fordebit cards.

Aorney General Eric Schneidermansaid Saturday the program aims to

remove deadly rearms from placeswhere the guns can be stolen ormisused.

Ocials will begin accepngunloaded working and broken gunsin Binghamton, Poughkeepsie, Uca,Yonkers, and the Bualo suburb of

Cheektowaga in the coming weeks.

The aorney generals oce said theweapons must be placed in a plasc orpaper bag or box. There is no limit onthe number of rearms an individualcan return.

Those who turn in guns will receivea debit card no quesons asked; $25or $50 for ries and shotguns, $75for handguns and $100 for assaultweapons.

Local Resident Speaks to Public about Creating Sustainable Food SystemSchool Without Walls, a localRochester high school, will be hosngan educaonal event featuring apublic talk with local sustainable foodsystems expert Chris Hartman onWednesday, Oct. 9.

The event, tled Building aSustainable Food System in Rochester,will be sponsored by AbundanceCooperave Market. Aendees willhave the opportunity to learn about

the local food system and how foodchoices people make aect the healthof communies and the ecosystem.The event is free and the talk will focuson current trends and possibilies inour city to create a more sustainablefood system.

Hartman is founder and director ofHeadwater Foods, an organizaonworking to create a sustainable foodsystem in our local region by creang

connecons between local farmersand consumers.

Abundance Cooperave Market isRochesters rst and only cooperavely-owned natural products retail grocerthat is commied to buying andproviding local, organic, sustainable,and/or socially responsible products.


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Local Officials Make Changes to RTS System to Keep Downtown SafeBy Delani Weaver

If you are downtown waing for an RTSbus and you see less and less studentshanging out, dont be alarmed. Friday,several new changes will go into eectthat will restrict the amount of mestudents have to catch their bus andalso shorten their amount of transfers.

Rochester Superintendent BolgenVargas joined Mayor Thomas Richards,Board of Educaon President MalikEvans, and Regional Transit Serviceexecuves in announcing the changes.

Vargas stated in a leer sent toparents and guardians of RochesterCity School District students, First, Iwant to emphasize that the majority

of our students behave properly. Theydemonstrate respect for themselves,their classmates, and adults at schooland in the community. Unfortunately,some students are engaging inconduct that is unacceptable. Theyare misusing the bus system to hangout aer school at the Liberty Pole oralong Main St. Some have engaged inghng and unruly behavior, aconsthat threaten the safety and well-being of other students, along with thepeople who work or visit downtown.

This reects poorly on our district andunfairly tarnishes the image of the

large majority of students who arewell-behaved.

The plan is to limit travel on RTS busesfor students to go directly to and fromschool. Students who ride RTS buseswill now take express routes that traveldirectly from city neighborhoods todistrict schools. Students on routesthat transfer downtown will receive amed connecon pass that requiresthem to catch the next bus in minutes.Previously, students could maketransfers on later buses if they chose,and could use express bus passesto travel downtown. With the newchanges, students with express passescan use them only on their assigned

bus routes in the morning or at schooldismissal. The orange express passeswill not be valid at other bus stops orother mes. Students on bus routesrequiring a transfer can only use theirgray passes in the morning and unl5 p.m. To transfer, students mustrequest a connecon pass when theyboard their rst bus, which will expireaer 60 minutes. Any student whoneeds transportaon for aer-schoolacvies must obtain a special passfrom their school.

Board of Educaon President Malik

Evans said he agrees with the changes,however, he also says that with thetransportaon changes, there needsto be behavioral changes as well; aresponsibility of the parents.

Policy changes will not alter thefact that young people must be heldaccountable for their acons, Evanssaid. To fully address this issue,parents must realize that at the end ofthe day they are ulmately responsiblefor their children.

District transportaon ocials saidthey are reviewing route assignmentsand working with schools to adjustsome student arrival and departure

mes without aecng instruconme.

Assigning more police ocers andschool safety personnel to downtownshould not be necessary, and itsnot a sustainable soluon, MayorRichards said. The district and RTShave responded quickly to addressthe problems city students havebeen creang downtown, and weshould allow me to see if thesetransportaon changes work.

Approximately 1,500 city schoolstudents and 1,000 charter or privateschool students had passes for non-express routes that required a bus

transfer before the changes took place.The district said that several hundred

of the transferring students will beshied this week to express routes,

and that it will connue to review passand route assignments with RTS toreduce the number of students whoneed to transfer buses.

Bill Carpenter, CEO of the RochesterGenesee Regional TransportaonAuthority, said RTS is educang itsbus operators, road supervisors, andcustomer service employees so theyare well-equipped to assist studentsand parents with understanding andusing the bus passes.

Our goal is to provide aordable,ecient transportaon for all ourcustomers, including students andtheir families, Carpenter said. My

team will connue working closelywith the school district to provide ahigh-quality service for students thatserves them well and meets the needsof the enre community.

I want all of our students to haveaccess to the same opportuniesthat middle-class families take forgranted, the leer from Vargas said.That includes the opportunity totravel easily, taking advantage of extra-curricular acvies and communityresources. With regret, I am forcedtake these steps unl our students, asa group, earn more privileges throughimproved behavior.

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Red lights have been the topic ofdiscussion for months now. Peoplehave been quesoning whether thecameras actually reduce accidents, orwhether they may have been installedpurely as a means to raise revenuefor the city. In addion, many havewondered, do the cameras violate dueprocess?

Residents of the city will be welcomedto ask any queson they have andnally get an answer at a townhall meeng 7pm Thursday insidethe theater of the Strong NaonalMuseum of Play, 1 Manhaan SquareDr, Rochester.

Naonally-known commentatorMark Hyman will be moderang theevent while community residents,neighborhood leaders and acvistscome face to face with RochesterPolice Chief James Sheppard, formerU.S. Aorney Terrance Flynn, WHAM1180 talk show host Bob Lonsberry,and Larry Krieger, a cizen who iscurrently pursuing legal acon againstRochester because of a red light cket.

Rochester is a part of a connuingseries around the country, Hymansaid. This is the 40th town hallmeeng done around the countryfor 2013 in dierent cies. The issuesare picked locally based on whateverissues are a concern for the localviewers.

Sponsored by 13WHAM, this will bethe rst town hall event of its kindin Rochester. Hyman said based onthe leers and comments of the TVStaons viewers, the event is sorelyneeded so that the community has achance to speak out.

The larger issue of privacy andsecurity is a concern of their viewers,which means quesons will rangefrom red light cameras to the policeforce photographing license plates, tolarger issues of the NSA collecng dataon people, those sorts of things, hestated.

Hyman said he has traveled to severaldierent cies around the countryto moderate town hall meengs andfound that people are angered by theirfeelings of being ignored by local, stateand federal government.

The government, federal, state andlocal, just doesnt listen to the peopleanymore. Its not polical issues. Itsnot a le or right issue, Hyman said.The people feel a sense of frustraonthat they dont have a voice in theirgovernment, and I think pollingcertainly underscores that.

When it comes to red light cameras,Rochester isnt the only city thatcarries them. Miami, Balmore, NewMexico and several other cies havealso been using them.

I can tell you anecdotally, there were alot of concerns, in no parcular order,he said. When there were earlierdiscussions about red light cameras,the topic was always public safety. Butmore oen than not, we see evidencethat red light cameras and speedcameras are included, not in the policedepartment or the public safety aspectof state and local governments, but inthe revenue side. The governmentsstart looking at these purely to collectmore revenue.

And, while the purpose of the cameraswas publically acknowledged as a wayto reduce the amount of accidents atintersecons such as Lyell Ave. andMt. Read in Rochester, Hyman saidthey may have been doing the exactopposite.

I cant say specically o the topof my head, Hyman said. But alot of studies have shown that redlight cameras oen dont reduce theamount of accidents, but in somecases increase accidents. Peopleget to that posion where they say,Should I break or should I go for it?and some people are stopping shortbecause theyre saying, I dont knowhow long that yellow light is. And theperson behind may be trying to enteran intersecon, and they end up rear-ending the person in front of them.

Local resident Larry Krieger is currentlysuing the city aer he received a redlight cket. The case is being heard bythe New York State Supreme Court.

Hyman said the issue goes beyond justpaying a cket

How do you confront your accuser?Someone says, I didnt go through thatred light, or There were extenuangcircumstances. Well they dont havean individual they can confront. Youhave to either pay the cket or thatsit. Its kind of a due process issue,and I think the case thats going on inRochester is surrounding that.

On the revenue end of the issue, somesay this is just another way to buildfunds for the city, through ckets thatare mailed to the accused violator.Hyman said this generates millions ofdollars for cies.

I can oer a personal observaon,he said. Washington, D.C. has more

red light cameras per capita than anyother jurisdicon in the enre country.When they started that process, it allwent into the revenue projecons,never the public safety regulaons.So, clearly, it was all about revenue. Idont know the numbers o the topof my head, but it was signicant. Itsusually eight gures. It was in the tensof millions. Again, I dont know thenumbers specically, but lets take thecity of Rochester and say ve million.Thats a prey signicant boost ofrevenue for the city of Rochester. AndI think the last me I saw WashingtonD.C., it was well over $25 million.

Hyman said he hasnt seen anystascs or evidence that the camerashave reduced accidents around thesecies. However, he said the recurringcomment is that they dont actuallyreduce accidents, but in some cases,they increase them.

What weve seen in jurisdicon aerjurisdicon around the country ispeople are frustrated with this thingyou call the real reason why theyre inplace, and do they really achieve whatthe reason was planned to be, whichwas to reduce accidents, he stated.

Hyman said he hopes that the townhall event will help the city.

We want to inform and empowerthe viewers, he said. Give theman opportunity to queson theircommunity leaders. And I underscore

community leaders. Some areelected ocials, some are policians,bureaucrats, and somemes theyreadvocacy groups. It can be anyonewho inuences process. We hope toperhaps reveal informaon, proposalsor thoughts that can be furtherexamined and invesgated; andpossibly adopted if they make sense.

Hyman said that the red light camerasshouldve been discussed in a publichearing before they were installed.

I cant tell you specically whathappened in Rochester, but Im willingto bet that there was no public hearingahead of me to discuss whether thecity should adopt red light cameras,he stated. If there was, you wouldthink there might have been ahearing where they said Ok, somejurisdicons have done this. What doyou think public, come on in, like manyregulators would do. What happens islocal ocials say what theyre goingto do, and dont. This may be the rstreal opportunity for the public to askquesons about this decision.

There will be another town hall on adierent topic in Rochester in 2014.

Im really pleased because the publicis pleased, said Hyman. I get a lot ofcompliments that thankfully someonebrought this or that up. Were pleasedwith how they come across.

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New Yorks an-corrupon commission has issuedsubpoenas demanding informaonfrom Republicans, but the panelestablished by Gov. Andrew Cuomo hasnot apparently made such demands ofCuomos fellow Democrats in a recenturry of subpoenas aimed at policalorganizaons, according to an ocialfamiliar with the case.

The ocial told The Associated Presson Thursday that the MorelandCommission to Invesgate PublicCorrupon issued subpoenas to thestate Senate Republican CampaignCommiee and the state Independence

Party seeking informaon onhousekeeping accounts, which havefew limitaons on donaons theyaccept or how they spend the cash.The ocial wasnt authorized tocomment on the acon and spoke onthe condion of anonymity.

State Republican Commieespokesman David Laska inially saidhe couldnt comment on what was

demanded in these subpoenas.

But later Thursday he called that amiscommunicaon and said hecouldnt conrm subpoenas werereceived.

Senate Republican spokesman ScoReif refused to conrm or deny theconference received a subpoena.

The Independence Party, an inuenalminor party that works closely withRepublicans in the state dominatednearly 2:1 by Democrac votes, alsoconrmed its subpoena, but refusedto comment further.

The Assemblys Democrac majorityhasnt received a subpoena, said

spokesman Michael Whyland. He saidthe Assembly Democrac CampaignCommiees housekeeping follows allthe rules as is publicly posted.

A spokesman for the state DemocracCommiee, headed by Cuomo, didntrespond to requests for comment.Spokesmen for the DemocracComptroller Thomas DiNapoli andDemocrac Aorney General Eric

Schneiderman said they have received

no requests for informaon from thecommission.

Commission spokeswoman MichelleDuy declined comment.

We dont comment on potenal orongoing invesgaons, she said.

The Independent DemocracConference which shares majoritycontrol of the Senate with Republicanshas no housekeeping account, saidspokesman Eric Soufer. He said the IDChasnt received any subpoenas.

Michael Murphy, spokesman forthe Senate Democrats who are the

chambers minority party, wouldntcomment on whether it received anysubpoenas. The Senates Republicanmajority also refused to comment.

On Friday, Independence PartyChairman Frank MacKay told the APthe party is in full compliance withcampaign law.

Real estate interests had been

subpoenaed by the Moreland

Commission, but these recentsubpoenas are the rst to be used oncampaign commiees and policalorganizaons.

A week ago, the Legislature refuseda request by the commission forinformaon about lawmakers outsidejobs, which drew a sharp rebukefrom the commission, calling thedecision legally indefensible, ethicallyrepugnant.

The commission isnt technicallyauthorized to invesgate the legislavebranch. But through a novel approach,Cuomo directed the commission toexamine campaign records.

The commission is trying to invesgatethe connecon between campaigncontribuons and the inuencing oflegislaon.

NY paper sues Putnam Co. for

pistol permit recordsWHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) - A suburbanNew York newspaper has sued PutnamCounty to compel it to release its pistolpermit records.

The Journal News says it suedThursday aer the county denied twoFreedom of Informaon requests anda subsequent appeal.

The newspaper rst requestedinformaon from Westchester,Rockland and Putnam counesfollowing the Newtown, Conn.,shoong massacre. It made anotherrequest aer the state passed a gun

control law allowing permit holders

to apply to keep their names andaddresses private.

Putnam County ocials declined tocomment on the lawsuit becausethey had not yet been served withthe papers. But County ExecuveMaryEllen Odell told the newspapershes condent the county will prevail.

Westchester and Rockland counesprovided the informaon to thenewspaper, which published aclickable map on its website idenfyingresidents there with handgun permits.


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By Delani Weaver

The Kinderic Park Place Daycare hadits grand opening Saturday morning.Tens of parents, family, friends andpotenal customers were ushered intothe building, served refreshments andgiven a personalized tour with the newowners.

Located on Park Ave, local residentsMichelle Ruth and Roxie Smith boughtthe two story daycare and lled itwith child-friendly toys, furniture andacvies.

The original owners of the buildingnamed it Kinderic and every owneraer that has carried the name over,

Ruth said. We are the fourth ownersand will carry on the tradion ofkeeping the name Kinderic.

Ruth has had a career of working withyouth of all ages for over 20 yearsincluding running a daycare out of herhome for two years, helping teen andhomeless mothers and their childrenfor 3 years with Mercy ResidenalServices. She was a youth advocate atHillside Work Scholarship Program foreight years and the leader of a youthgroup at her church for several years.

The center currently serves childrenbetween the ages of 18 months to 4years old. The rst oor of the building

will hold toddlers, equipped withcolorful puzzle oor maps, books, toysand eang area. The second oor is forpreschoolers.

We have circle me where they learndays of weeks, months of the year,shapes and ABCs. They have projectsto do and acvies such as calendars.They have a room where they can actand put on l ile plays and dramas.

There is a separate curriculum thatspans across a year for preschoolersand toddlers where the children

learn and develop intellectual, social,

physical and emoonal skills.

We teach them manners and how tocommunicate their feelings properlythroughout the daily curriculum, Ruthsaid. They can express themselvesthrough play and educaonalacvies.

Ruth and Smith plan to expand thedaycare within six months to an emptybuilding next door.

We plan to hold infants, before andaer school care and school-ageprogram, Smith said. We will alsohave a second shi from 3pm to 11pmfor parents who work nights.

We provide a home away from home.Its a feeling that the parents feel too,Ruth said. When they bring their kidshere, they get a sense of feeling athome. They come in, take their shoeso, and they put on their bedroomshoes and can wear them all day ifthey like. They just have a family feel.We are a family here.

Smith said the best part for her is tosee the fathers bring in their children.

One thing that really shocked mewas the fathers. They dont just dropthem o at the door or bring them inand then run out. Every father leaves

their child with words of armaon.They come in with their children andspend a few minutes with them beforethey leave. They say, daddy loves you,daddy will miss you, have a good day,they hug them, they kiss them. Andit happens every day, Ive never seenthat before.

Kinderic currently accepts privatepayers, grants and governmentassistance payers.

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MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) A mentallydisturbed woman who drowned herthree young children in a bathtub isgoing to court to ask a judge for a cutof their $350,000 estate.

Leatrice Brewer will be taken from anupstate psychiatric facility to tesfyabout her request next month, NassauCounty Surrogates Court JudgeEdward McCarty ruled Thursday.

Brewer, 33, was found not guiltybecause of mental disease or defectin the deaths of her children, ages1, 5 and 6, so her aorneys say sheshouldnt be subject to laws that barconvicts from prong from theircrimes.

Brewer admied she drowned

the children in the bathtub of herapartment in New Cassel, on LongIsland about 20 miles east of NewYork City, in February 2008. She laterplaced the childrens bodies on a bedand tried to kill herself by swallowinga concocon of household cleaningchemicals. When that suicide bidfailed, she jumped out her second-story window but again survived.

Instead of facing trial on three murdercounts in the childrens deaths, Brewerpleaded not responsible by reason ofmental disease or defect. Psychiatristshad determined she suered a majordepressive disorder and believed shekilled the children to save them fromthe potenally fatal eects of voodoo.

Brewer is being kept at a state

psychiatric hospital unl psychiatristsdetermine shes no longer mentally ill.

Although the case would establisha precedent in New York if Brewersucceeds, shes not expected to see anymoney because of a $1.2 million lienagainst her for psychiatric counselingand other services she has receivedsince her arrest, aorneys said.

New Yorks Son of Sam Law, named forthe 1970s serial killer and amendedin 2001, was designed to preventcriminals from prong from theircrimes, such as by selling their storiesto book publishers or moviemakers.The judge in Brewers case, though,has noted the unique aspect thatBrewer wasnt convicted.

The case drew aenon to NassauCountys social services agency,whose caseworkers visited Brewersapartment two days before the killingsand found no one home but neglectedto schedule an immediate follow-upvisit. Two social workers were latersuspended.

Lawsuits against the county led bythe father of Brewers 1-year-old son,Innocent Demesyeux, and 5-year-oldson, Michael Demesyeux, were seledfor $250,000. A lawsuit led by thefather of Brewers 6-year-old daughter,Jewell Ward, was recently seled for$100,000.

The judge has scheduled a Nov. 6hearing on the maer.

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Woman killed in DC chase was delusionalSTAMFORD, Conn. (AP) TheConneccut woman who was shot todeath outside the U.S. Capitol aertrying to ram her car through a WhiteHouse barrier had been deteriorangmentally for months and believed the

president was communicang withher, a federal law enforcement ocialsaid Friday.

Miriam Careys killing at the handsof police Thursday was Washingtonssecond major spasm of deadly violenceinvolving an apparently unstableperson in 2 weeks.

Interviews with some of thosewho knew the 34-year-old womansuggested she was coming apart wellbefore she loaded her 1-year-olddaughter into the car for the drive toWashington.

Carey had suered a head injury in

a fall and had been red as a dentalhygienist, according to her formeremployer. And her mother said she wassuering from postpartum depression.

The federal ocial, who had beenbriefed about the invesgaon but wasnot authorized to discuss it publicly andspoke on condion of anonymity, saidinvesgators have been interviewingCareys family about her mental stateand reviewing wrings found in herStamford condominium.

We are seeing serious degradaonin her mental health, certainly withinthe last 10 months, since December,ups and downs, the ocial said.Our working theory is her mentalhealth was a signicant driver in

her unexpected presence in D.C.yesterday.

The woman had made delusionalexpressions about the presidentin the past and believed PresidentBarack Obama was communicang toher, the ocial said.

Those communicaons were, ofcourse, in her head, the ocial said,adding that concerns about her mentalhealth were reported in the last yearto Stamford police.

The ocial said invesgators believethat she drove straight to the naonscapital and that the violence unfolded

immediately upon her arrival.

Aer ramming the barricades atthe White House, the apparentlyunarmed Carey led police on a chasedown Constuon Avenue to theCapitol, where she was shot in aharrowing chain of events that led toa brief lockdown of Congress. Careysdaughter escaped serious injury andwas taken into protecve custody.

Careys neighbors in Stamford wereshocked to learn the drivers identy

and see her gleaming black Inniwrecked outside the Capitol in TVfootage.

Erin Jackson, her next-door neighboron the buildings ground oor, saidCarey doted on her daughter, Erica,oen taking the girl on picnics.

She was pleasant. She was veryhappy with her daughter, very proudof her daughter, she said. I just neverwould have ancipated this in a millionyears.

But Careys mother, Idella Carey, toldABC that her daughter began suering

from postpartum depression aergiving birth in August 2012.

She was depressed. ... She washospitalized, said Idella Carey, whosaid her daughter had no history ofviolence.

Dr. Brian Evans, a periodonst inHamden, Conn., said Carey was redfrom her job at his oce about a yearago. He would not say why. He saidCarey had been away from the job fora period aer falling down a staircaseand suering a head injury, and it wasa few weeks aer she returned to workthat she was red.


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U.S. Federal Government Shuts Down, First Time in Over 17 Years

By Delani Weaver

While business will connue as usualand paychecks will sll be given toall 533 members of Congress, theeconomy and the American peoplewill suer the brunt of the rstgovernment shutdown in 17 years.

Out of all the issues going on withinthe naon, its disturbing to think thatfeasible and proper healthcare wouldcause a stando between Democratsand Republicans in Congress. Butthats exactly whats happening.

Democrats and Republicans have beenbaling over a spending plan for thegovernments scal year, which beganTuesday. The Obamacare health planopon, which opened for enrollmenttoday, is at the center of the argument.Republicans want a spending planthat will eventually disintegrate

Obamacare, while Democrats want aspending plan that doesnt.

This is the rst shutdown since1995 when, during the Clintonadministraon, the standsll lasted21 days and cost approximately $2billion. Research is showing that if thisshutdown lasts three to four weeks itcould cost the economy approximately$55 billion.

This shutdown has aected averageindividuals and families as well.Military paychecks will be delayed,employees will be furloughed,naonal parks and visitor centers areclosed, new disability applicaons willbe delayed and programs such as WICand head start could be shut down.

Congress, however, will not beaected even though millions ofcizens say this is their fault. Congress

will connue to receive their salary asmandated by the 27th Amendment ofthe U.S. Constuon.

Several congressmen have said theywill donate their salary to charies orwill refuse to accept their salary unlthe shutdown ends.


White House supports back pay for federal workers

WASHINGTON (AP) The Obamaadministraon says it supports Houselegislaon to give back pay to federalworkers furloughed during the currentparal government shutdown.

The White House Oce ofManagement and Budget issued astatement commending Congress formoving quickly on the bill, which hasbiparsan support.

The White House has opposedother piecemeal eorts by HouseRepublicans to restore money tosome funcons of government during

the paral shutdown. White Houseocials have said the House shouldreopen the enre government andnot pick agencies and programs overothers.

The budget oce statement says theback-pay bill, quote, will not addressthe serious consequences of thefunding lapse, nor will a piecemealapproach to appropriaons bills.

In the 1995-96 government shutdowns,furloughed workers were retroacvelygiven full pay.

Woman killed in DC chase was delusional... from previous pageWere shocked to know this happenedand we feel saddened for her familyand all those involved, he said.

On Sept. 16, a mentally disturbed mankilled 12 people in a shoong rampageat the Washington Navy Yard beforedying in a gun bale with police.

Aaron Alexis, a defense-industry

employee and former Navy Reservist,had complained of hearing voicesand said in wrings le behind thathe was driven to kill by months ofbombardment with electromagnecwaves.

Carey had been sued by hercondominium associaon for failureto pay fees, court records show. Alawsuit seled in February alleged that

she owed the associaon $1,759 pluscollecon costs.

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Tucker reported from Washington.Associated Press writers BradleyKlapper, Laurie Kellman, AdamGoldman, Mark Sherman, PhilipEllio, Jesse Holland, David Espo, AlanFram, Bre Zongker, Donna Cassata

and Henry C. Jackson in Washington,Michael Melia in Harord, Conn.,and Jessica Hill in Hamden, Conn.,contributed to this report, along withAP researcher Barbara Sambriski inNew York.


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By Hazel Trice Edney

(TriceEdneyWire.com) - The AordableHealth Care Act (ACA) came fully intothe law this week amidst desperatepolical acts to stop it from happening including a Republican-ledgovernment shutdown which couldlast for days, weeks or even longer.

In a nutshell, the closure of certaingovernment oces and services hastaken place as of midnight Mondayaer a divided Congress failed to reachan agreement to fund federal agencies.Amidst bier disagreements over theACA, the Republican-led Congress has

allowed the closure of non-essenalservices of the U. S. Government inaempt to force the President to delaythe eects of the health care law. Butthe President has refused.

Some parts of the ACA are alreadyin eect, but this week, Americanscan begin shopping for and signingup for full benets by going to arecently created website, HeathCare.gov, to review the Health InsuranceMarketplace. This website oerscompeng insurance agencies andhelp guide people to the best insurancechoices for them.

Republicans in the House of

Representaves, who argue thatthe ACA is too expensive for smallbusinesses, connued their aemptsto defund what they call Obamacarethis week, but none of the policalmoves would pass the Democracally-led Senate. Even if it did, PresidentObama has promised to veto it. TheACA sign up, which started Tuesday,Oct. 1, is encouraged by PresidentObama despite government closures.

The Aordable Care Act is movingforward. That funding is already inplace. You cant shut it down, hetold reporters in a brieng Monday.This is a law that passed both housesof Congress; a law that bears mysignature; a law that the SupremeCourt upheld as constuonal; a lawthat voters chose not to repeal lastNovember.

The White House recently released adetailed report lisng the benets ofthe ACA to African-Americans. Thosebenets include:

Beginning in 2014, the Aordable

Care Act will provide 6.8 millionuninsured African-Americans anopportunity to get aordable healthinsurance coverage.

Already, an esmated 7.3 millionAfrican-Americans with privateinsurance now have access toexpanded prevenve services withno cost sharing. These services includewell-child visits, blood pressure andcholesterol screenings, Pap tests andmammograms for women, and ushots for children and adults.

The 4.5 million elderly and disabledAfrican-Americans who receive healthcoverage from Medicare also haveaccess to many prevenve serviceswith no cost-sharing, including annual

wellness visits with personalizedprevenon plans, diabetes andcolorectal cancer screening, bone massmeasurement and mammograms

More than 500,000 young African-American adults between ages 19 and25 who would otherwise have beenuninsured now have coverage undertheir parents employer-sponsored orindividually purchased health plan.

Major federal investments toimprove quality of care are improving

management of chronic diseases moreprevalent among African-Americans.

The health care workforce will bemore diverse due to a near triplingof the Naonal Health Service Corps.African-American physicians make upabout 17 percent of Corps physicians,a percentage that greatly exceedstheir 6 percent share of the naonalphysician workforce.

Investments in data collecon andresearch will help establish greaterclarity on the causes of health caredisparies and develop eecveprograms to eliminate them.

Targeted intervenons, such ascommunity transformaon grants,

will promote healthy lifestyles, lowerhealth care costs, and reduce healthdisparies.

Increased funding available to morethan 1,100 community health centerswill increase the number of paentsserved. One of every ve paentsat a health center is African American.

States have new opportunies toexpand Medicaid coverage to includeAmericans with family incomes at orbelow 133 percent of the federalpoverty level (generally $31,322 for afamily of four in 2013). This expansionincludes adults without dependentchildren living at home, who have notpreviously been eligible in most states.

As the ACA takes eect, facons ofCongress connued to wrangle overbudgetary maers with hopes toreopen the government as soon aspossible. Meanwhile, the Presidenthas made it clear the ACA is non-negoable as he outlined the eectsof the government shutdown.

If the United States Congress doesnot fulll its responsibility to pass abudget today, much of the UnitedStates government will be forcedto shut down tomorrow, PresidentObama said Monday. And I want to bevery clear about what that shutdownwould mean - what will remain openand what will not.

He rst cked o the services that wil lconnue:

If youre on Social Security, you willkeep receiving your checks.

If youre on Medicare, your doctorwill sll see you.

Everyones mail will sll be delivered.Government operaons related to

naonal security or public safety willgo on.

Military troops will connue to serveand will be paid.

Air trac controllers, prison guards,

those who are with border controlwill remain on their posts, but theirpaychecks will be delayed unl thegovernment reopens.

Then, he listed the shutdowns.

NASA will shut down almost enrely,but Mission Control will remain opento support the astronauts serving onthe Space Staon.

Oce buildings would close.Paychecks would be delayed.

Several hundred thousand workerswill be immediately and indenitelyfurloughed without pay.

Some vital services that seniors

and veterans, women and children,businesses and the economy dependon would be hamstrung, thePresident said. Those servicesinclude some programs that providehealth meals to 2.5 million seniors;compensaon, pension andeducaon benets for veterans andnutrion assistance to mothers withyoung children. An esmated $10could be lost if the shutdown lastsa week.

Business owners would see delays inraising capital, seeking infrastructurepermits, or rebuilding aer HurricaneSandy.

Veterans support centers will gounstaed.

Federal tourist desnaons, such asnaonal parks, monuments, includingthe Smithsonian and the Statue ofLiberty, will be closed. Cleanup crewsand concession workers will also belaid o.

These closures will aect communiesand small businesses that rely on thesenaonal treasures for their livelihoodswill be out of customers, said Obama.He appeared especially concernedabout how the shutdown will aectfurloughed people already ghng astruggling economy.

What, of course, will not befurloughed are the bills that they

have to pay - their mortgages, theirtuion payments, their car notes,the President said. These Americansare our neighbors. Their kids go toour schools. They worship where wedo. They serve their country withpride. They are the customers ofevery business in this country. Andthey would be hurt greatly, and as aconsequence, all of us will be hurtgreatly, should Congress choose toshut the peoples government down.

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This week I wantto highlight abright spot in ourcommunity. Thatis Rochestersnewly-renovatedSchool No. 17. Iwas aorded theopportunity to beat the opening ofthe school this

school year, andwas very impressed with what I saw.

While there were many, many people thathad to come together in order to makethis school what it is, the visionary was Dr.

Ralph Spezio, the principal of the school. Itis this visionary outlook that the RochesterCity School District needs. With the dismalrate of graduaon that the school districtdelivers, having School 17 as part of thedistrict is a step in the right direcon.

While I am in favor of parents parenngtheir children and not leaving it up to thegovernment to parent them, I am also infavor of ensuring that the children of thedistrict are given all of the opportuniesthey need in order to succeed.

Educaon is directly related to one risingabove the poverty line and establishinga beer life for themselves and futuregeneraons. We need to make sure thatthe adults who want to use the schools,and teaching, as a place to advance theirpersonal, liberal agendas are pushed asideand the needs of the children are broughtto center stage.

I applaud the teachers and sta that Imet during the opening of the school fortheir dedicaon to seeing these studentssucceed. Depending on the student andtheir desires, one could spend from 9 a.m.to 9 p.m. at the school. During that me,the student would be fed three meals a

day and be cared for while they also learnand grow.Society is faced with a few choices in thisregard. We could ignore the problemsthat some students are faced with basedon the senseless and selsh choices oftheir parents, and have them barely makeit to school. In the meanme, we couldalso forget about them doing well inschool. However, the ulmate end wouldprobably be the student being placed inthe penal system or on public assistancefor extended periods of me.

The other opon is to pay forward. In otherwords, the money taxpayers would pay toincarcerate someone, use that to ensurethat these at-risk young people are giventhe proper tools to get a good educaon.

I choose to pay forward. I believe it isless costly for society as a whole, and westand to reap generaonal benets. Howdierent the life of a young person thatgets a good educaon and the impact ontheir children and grand-children is than ayoung person that gets in trouble with thelaw and the impact on their children andgrand-children.

Society is beer-o with producing

educated young people!

Dr. Spezio and his team have a great visionfor their young people, one that includes asafe environment where they can focus onlearning. It is also an environment that willallow the students to feel special becausethe school is not run down but looks verynice. The school presents a look thatthe students will come to expect they canhave and operate within. It helps to speakvision and possibility into their lives.

The visionary of this school leads by

example in that he has done some heroicsfor making this school a success. It is thistype of selessness and caring that willpermeate the situaons that some of theyoung people aending School 17 have toface on a daily basis.

What I see is good people working hardto present opportunies to young peoplethat they believe in. This is the model thatwe need to have in our society. We needto believe in our children and present thepossibilies to them, then lead by exampleso that they have something to pull up onwhen mes get hard.

God bless the principal, Dr. Spezio, and his

team for the tremendous amount of eortalready expended to get this school whereit is today, and the great eort it will taketo see the success they know the youngpeople will have as a result of their eorts.

This indeed is a worthwhile investment,and I thank the leadership of School 17 formaking it!

If you would like to contact me, pleaseemail me at [email protected]

sOMEtHINg TO THINK ABOUT

The views expressed on our opinion pages are thoseof the author and do not necessarily represent the

position or viewpoint of Minority Reporter.OPINION/EDITORIAL


A Bright Spot!

GLORIA WINSTON AL-SARAG

sOMEtHINg TO THINK ABOUT

C. MICHAEL VAUGHN

The bad behaviorour youngpeople aredemonstratingstems from theirhouses. Childrenwho are beingraised in homesdont act theway some of theyoung animals

we have turnedloose in our

streets do; those with a total disregardfor whom they may hurt.

Some children, unfortunately, are outof control and need to be locked up ininstuons to x their behavior sincetheir so-called parents have failedto do so. Oh please, dont cry to meabout what it is you do as a parentto make sure Lakisha and JoJobecome solid cizens.

Most of you calling yourselves parentsare more than to blame. You and yourfalse values, and focusing on nothing

but what your child wears, contributesgreatly to their behavioral problems.And you surely cant teach what youdont know. Many of you sit there onyour lazy behinds waing for the rstof the month and dont recognize howyour mentality and thinking is tricklingdown to your children.

I have no study to verify that I believechildren from two- parent homes, withparents who are gainfully employed,are not the ones parcipang in the

misbehavior our society has fallenvicm to. And, oh yeah, I know I willget lots of leers, but I m just sayingout loud what many say in private.

The welfare mentality that exists inmany houses in this community, oenheld by those who are young andhealthy and not working, is as bad aninuence on young minds as drugs.Welfare is a drug, a habit that needs tobe broken. Welfare is a system that wasnot designed to be a career move. Goget a job rst, and take some parenngclasses second, and we might see a

change in some of those childrensbehavior. Stop sing around being sowide open in front of your children,smoking whatever it is in front of yourchildren, thinking they dont know it isdope. IJS.

Parents should be focused on whattheir child has in his head and theyshould be less worried about whetherhe or she is wearing the latest Jordans.This is a topic I have wrien about tothe point of exhauson, but we sll

have professionals, parents and othersin the community poinng ngers inthe wrong direcon when it comes tosoluon oriented discussions takingplace.

Many do recognize the problem withour childrens behavior is rooted intheir homes, or should I say houses.Children from real homes usuallyleave them grounded spiritually,emoonally, with respect and love forthemselves and others. It helps if thehome they come from has two parentswho play roles such as mother and

father.

I could care less about this new wayof thinking, and I understand manyof our children are from single-parenthomes. All I am saying is childrenstand a beer chance of being taughtbehaviors conducive to society if thereare two parents in the home. This isnot to say that it is impossible to gainmoral ber and being grounded is notpossible if there is only one parent inthe home.

But what I have seen work is the wayfamily life has been structured sincethe beginning of me. There is nothingnatural about single-parent homes,in my opinion. Single-parent homeshave become the norm because ofpoor choices that were made in thebeginning. In such cases, most likelya child was conceived accidentally,because most parents who plan to beparents stay with the commitment toraise their child unless circumstancesbecome unbearable or the childssafety is not something they can

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of the author and do not necessarily represent theposition or viewpoint of Minority Reporter.OPINION/EDITORIAL

(TriceEdneyWire.com) - Nearly 6in 10 uninsuredAmericans willbe able to getcoverage for$100 or less.President BarackObama

We fought andwon a balethree years ago

to improve access to aordable healthcare for every American and nallyits here. On Tuesday of this week akey component of the Aordable CareAct was set to take eect when the

new Health Insurance Marketplaceopens for business, allowing millionsof Americans to shop for a variety ofquality, aordable health plans thatbest meet their needs.

Here is how it works. First, if you areamong the vast majority of Americans

who already have health insurancethat you like, you can keep it and youdont have to change a thing. Theonly changes you will see are newbenets, beer protecons frominsurance company abuses and morevalue for every dollar you spend onhealth care. For example, you can nolonger be denied coverage because ofa pre-exisng condion and you cantbe canceled because you get sick.Young people can be covered by theirparents up to age 26. Most peoplewill now be eligible for free prevenvescreenings like blood pressure andcholesterol tests, mammograms, andcolonoscopies. Insurance companieswill no longer be able to set a life-

me dollar limit on what they spendfor your essenal health services. Inaddion, 47 million women will gainaccess to prevenve health services.The law makes it illegal to chargewomen dierent rates than men. Andseniors on Medicare will have accessto cheaper drugs, and free prevenve

care.

For the millions of Americans whocurrently have no health insurance, thenew law oers a long-awaited lifelineof protecon. Beginning October 1,with a visit to the Health InsuranceMarketplace at www.HealthCare.gov,you can learn if you can get lower costsbased on your income, compare yourcoverage opons side-by-side, andenroll.

When you use the Marketplace, orhealth insurance exchange, as it isalso called, youll ll out an applicaonand see all the health plans availablein your area. Youll provide some

informaon about your householdsize and income to nd out if youcan get lower costs on your monthlypremiums for private insurance plans.Youll learn if you qualify for lower out-of-pocket costs.

The Marketplace will also tell you if you

qualify for free or low-cost coverageavailable through Medicaid or theChildrens Health Insurance Program(CHIP). The open enrollment periodruns from Tuesday, October 1, 2013 toMarch 31, 2014. Coverage begins onJanuary 1, 2014.You can also get help by phone, 24/7,by calling 1-800-318-2596. Andlocal help can be found by visingLocalHelp.HealthCare.Gov. PresidentObama signed the Aordable CareAct into law on March 23, 2010. Itwas upheld by the Supreme Courton June 28, 2012. This week the lawbegins to take eect. While there willinevitably be some start-up wrinkles toiron out, this law is good for the health

of the American people and good forthe Naon. Congressional extremistsbent on stopping its implementaonare ghng a losing bale and onlypung their own polical futures atrisk. Obamacare is here to stay.

Affordable Health Care Arrives October 1


MARC MORIAL

assure.

All parents love their children. Thereis no queson in my mind about that.I have never met a parent who doesnot love their child. But I have metlots of parents who were not raisedby parents themselves and thereforehave nothing of value or substance toinsll in the child.

The Head Start moo, one of myfavorites, says it all. You are yourchilds rst teacher. Some parentsreally dont get that. They dont getthe fact that their child learns fromthem rst. Every lesson they learn in

the home is what follows them intothe community.

Parents know when they have a childthat is out of control. Parents knowwhen they have a child that hasbehavior issues. They know when theirchild has anger issues. They know everyemoon their child possesses. Theyknow if they are a danger to societyand they know when their child hasdeveloped an atude of disrespect.When a parent loses control of a child,then society is faced with the dilemma

of what to do next.

The rst nger pointed is usually atteachers. From where I sit, teachersare hired to teach. I am not trying todefend those who are there solelyto collect paychecks but I am sayingthat a teacher should not have toconstantly bale behavioral problemsthat should have been corrected athome. In addion, the superintendentof schools oen gets blamed, as wellas the school principal. Some are somuch in denial they actually take theme to blame the teachers union forthe misbehavior we experience. Somego as far as to blame the police for the

monsters they know they are raising.

There is no doubt the PPP oftransportaon that causes childrenfrom various sides of town to convergeon downtown Rochester every day isa problem, but not the root cause.Personally, I have yet to understandthe so-called wisdom behind busingand integraon when every quadrantof this city has schools in them. Whyis it our children are not walking toand from school and learning to love,value and invest their energies in

the neighborhood they live in? Ourchildren spend more me leaving theirneighborhoods than parcipangin them. Who xed what was notbroken? Obviously the same peoplewho are failing to get into homes andhelp solve the learned behavior we areforced to deal with.

Children who live in houses whereviolence and arguments are the norm,grow up to believe this is the way theyconduct themselves in the street. Manyare doing no less than emulang theirparents behavior. I have said it onceand I will say it again. Any person whohas total disregard for their friends,

colleagues, peers, strangers and theircommunity as a whole has not beentrained to respect themselves or therights of others.

Our community is in crisis, and thenger poinng needs to stop. So dothe media-driven aempts to solvetruancy problems, as well as blamingteachers, and blaming the ignoranceof those who are the mastermindsbehind all students who are busedchanging buses downtown at thesame me. Not only are these children

coming from houses that have nospiritual foundaon, you would behard pressed to even nd a newspaperor book inside of those walls also.

The only real teaching going on inmany of the homes contribung tobad behavior is what would make mostcringe. How do you sit up and smokeweed with your child? How do you notqueson how your child leaves homein new clothes you know you did notbuy? How do you sit in front of the atscreen TV you know you did not buy?We have parents in this communityguilty of the aforemenoned andmore, then they turn their monsters

loose on society and claim they dontunderstand why their children act theway they do.They are acng out because of youand what you failed to teach them athome. Some actually rely on genglifes lessons in the street, becausethe adults in their houses have failedthem.

Bad behavior stems from the house achild lives in. Lets help those raisingthese monsters discover what a homeis.

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thedayThat a broken arm doesnthave to break the bank.

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