Elizabeth Warren goes back to Oklahoma to emphasize her family roots
Unhealthy Divide
For many, a struggle to find affordable mental health care
You want to know what is crazy?
Continuing to read this slop.
Empty-nester + young adult = perfect roommates?
Well, let's hope so anyway.
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"Lawmakers make most of travel option" by Joshua Miller and Matt Stout Globe Staff | Globe Correspondent October 20, 2018
In May 2016, Beacon Hill lawmakers gathered inside the Senate chamber to make history: They voted overwhelmingly to bar public discrimination against transgender people in what advocates hailed as a giant leap forward for civil rights, but Senator Marc R. Pacheco didn’t cast a vote that day.
The Senate’s third-highest-ranking member was 4,000 miles away in Austria, delivering a speech on climate change in the picturesque mountain village of Fresach, his travel costs picked up by Austrian groups. He was the only member of the Senate who missed the chance to move the momentous bill forward.
This was just one of nearly 50 trips — all subsidized by outside groups — that the Taunton Democrat has taken since January 2013. And each was made possible by what one watchdog calls a “galactic-sized loophole” in state ethics regulations, one that Pacheco and scores of lawmakers take advantage of, according to a Globe analysis of more than 600 disclosures filed by legislators.
Members of the Massachusetts House and Senate have racked up about 3,000 traveling days and accepted more than $1 million in free or subsidized flights, hotels, meals, and other travel costs since the beginning of 2013, the Globe found.
Many trips were anchored by distinct public policy goals. A key author of gun control legislation went to a Chicago policy summit about gun violence, for example. Lawmakers considering marijuana regulation visited Colorado, where pot had been legal for years. The education committee House chairwoman went to a Washington, D.C., education conference. (One session she attended: “What is Student-Centered Learning?”)
Then, there are the jackpot junkets — itineraries that include touring the Great Wall and visiting a panda center in China; wandering through the Grand Bazaar in Marrakesh, Morocco; and enjoying an elephant village in Thailand.
Massachusetts legislators can legally accept free or subsidized travel — including from foreign governments — as long they disclose the details and value of the travel and sign a document affirming it serves a legitimate public purpose that “outweighs any special non-work related benefit” to them, but under the state’s broadly written ethics regulations, it’s up to elected officials to police themselves. Neither the state Ethics Commission, nor the chambers’ lawyers, regularly scrutinize the filed disclosures, whose content can get exotic.
Sightseeing in a volcanic crater and at hot springs in the Azores, a Portuguese archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean? Part of a trip with a legitimate public purpose, lawmakers said. Walking the holy streets of Jerusalem and Bethlehem? Ditto. Taking in an Irish football final where Pharrell Williams was invited to play the halftime show? Same.
Legislators emphasize that no taxpayer dollars fund their journeys, which often include weekends and holidays. And they say that any sightseeing is secondary to the policy-heavy aspects of the trips, or that the tourist activities actually benefit the state, but taking far-flung voyages with few out-of-pocket costs because of the largesse of a foreign government, nonprofit, or company is a practice that raises questions about what the outside group is hoping to get in return for footing the bill, and underscores the indulgent rules lawmakers get to play by.
Nonelected state employees — bureaucrats — must get approval from their appointing authority before accepting a trip, under state ethics regulations. State representatives and senators are empowered to make that call themselves.
Which basically proves they are all bought off $cum.
They pick on Pacheco so the Globe must want him gone.
House majority leader Ronald Mariano, a Quincy Democrat who called the trip “amazing,” said it gave him a broad view of the country, which is one of the state’s top trading partners, and helped him better understand the culture and history of his Chinese-American constituents.
“You realize that the governmental problems that they have are pretty much the same as the ones we have, especially at the local levels,” said Mariano, who, as the trip leader, had frequent meetings with Communist Party officials, and as majority leader made $137,500 in House salary last year. “Philosophically, you begin to realize we’re all in the same nest.”
For that reason and others, good-government watchdogs don’t frown upon all such adventures.
Pam Wilmot, who leads Common Cause Massachusetts, said subsidized travel is positive for lawmakers when there is not a conflict of interest.
“It exposes legislators to new way of doing things. It expands their definition of what’s possible or advisable,” she said. “One of the problems I often see with Massachusetts state government is lack of exposure to new ideas — you know, ‘How we’ll do it is how we’ve always done it.’ ”
Wilmot said if legislators are talking with officials and going to meetings one day, and seeing pandas and the Great Wall on others, “I have a hard time getting exercised about it. A lot of these lawmakers wouldn’t have the opportunity to go any other way.”
The desire for those sorts of subsidized experiences is one many lawmakers appear to share. Since 2013, they have collectively visited at least 31 countries, plus Taiwan and the West Bank, the Globe found.
It’s how they justify the travel that varies.
House Speaker pro Tempore Patricia A. Haddad has jetted to eight foreign countries and Taiwan in five-plus years. Her disclosures have her walking the streets of Jerusalem in 2013 to help “promote the interests of the Commonwealth” and visiting top tourist sites in Casablanca and Marrakesh to “explore opportunities to increase tourism from Morocco in Massachusetts.”
Little focus or attention was paid to that.
Haddad, a Somerset Democrat, declined to be interviewed about her subsidized travels, but she spoke briefly to the Globe Tuesday after returning from a trip with more than a dozen other legislators to Lisbon and the Azores — a sojourn that also included spouses of some lawmakers......
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The article focuses mostly on trips to Southeast Asia, not trips to Israel; however, I was able to dig this up out of the archives:
"Baker administration prepares for Israel trade mission" by Jon Chesto Globe Staff August 03, 2016
After steering clear of overseas trade missions in his first 18 months on the job, Governor Charlie Baker now appears poised to travel to Israel with business leaders later this year.
Israel’s population isn’t much bigger than that of Massachusetts, and the country doesn’t rank in the state’s top 20 markets for exports, but proponents say Israel, like Massachusetts, punches above its weight class, the two places’ world-renowned startup sectors are natural matches, and this state has much to gain from Israel’s expertise in cybersecurity. There’s a common language and, to a significant extent, a shared heritage.
Governor Deval Patrick made Israel a priority during his tenure, leading two entourages there, in 2011 and 2014, among his 10 overseas trade missions.
Six Baker aides trekked to Israel in June, on a visit particularly focused on cybersecurity. Baker didn’t attend. But the June trip could help lay important groundwork for when Baker does go, likely on the administration’s next scheduled trip there in December.
“There’s a really strong case to be made for why it’s so economically important,” said MassChallenge chief executive John Harthorne, who hopes to join the trip. “They create this opportunity to interact with high-level leaders on the other side that I wouldn’t get at a tiny nonprofit startup. I just don’t have the access. . . . The governor’s presence makes a difference.”
Baker’s staff still won’t confirm whether the December trip is on his calendar, although the governor’s attendance is widely expected. Spokesman Tim Buckley would only say that the administration is studying a potential trade mission to Israel and that any such trip would not be taxpayer-funded.
Patrick’s trips to Israel were credited with spurring the arrival of El Al’s nonstop flights between Boston and Tel Aviv. And his 2011 trade mission was considered instrumental in the decision by Israeli water purification company Desalitech to open a headquarters in Newton, as well as Israeli digital health firm EarlySense’s choice of Waltham over Ohio for its main US office.
Andrew Cassey, an economics professor at Washington State University, said it can be difficult to calculate the long-term benefits of these missions. That’s largely because it’s hard to know whether a subsequent business deal or corporate expansion would have happened anyway.
These sojourns certainly are not unusual: Cassey studied a decade-long period starting in the mid-1990s and found about 500 trade missions led by governors nationwide, with more than 40 states launching at least one.
“Governors tend to go to the places where there are already strong relationships,” Cassey said.
Business leaders say it’s particularly important that the governor personally participate in the trips, rather than send emissaries.
A governor’s trade mission can close deals and open doors. These trips create deadlines to finalize a business deal or an expansion plan, to ensure the politicians have success stories to unveil during their tour. And a governor, as the state’s most prominent elected official, can line up in-person meetings with hard-to-get political officials and business executives.
“When the governor goes, it frees up officials on the Israel side,” said Udi Mokady, chief executive of CyberArk Software, an Israeli cybersecurity business with a headquarters in Newton. “It creates a more impactful image.”
Mokady cochaired the June mission to Israel. He said CyberArk picked the Boston area for its overseas expansion in 2001, in part because of the density of talent here, the proximity to investment firms, and the quality schools. Time-zone proximity gave Massachusetts the edge over Silicon Valley. The company employs nearly 200 people here today, and Harthorne had Israel in mind almost from the inception of MassChallenge, the Boston-based startup accelerator. The reason? Israel’s startup ecosystem is one of the strongest in the world, Harthorne said, and the startups there are eager to find a way into the US market. MassChallenge recently opened a new Jerusalem office, with enough room to eventually accommodate up to 100 startups.
The New England-Israel Business Council has played a key role in building these business connections and playing them up in the public eye.
Board member David Goodtree sees important similarities between the innovation economies in the two places: diverse sectors that include life sciences, information technology, and data storage. He said some of the Boston area’s biggest companies, including Akamai Technologies and EMC Corp., contain some Israeli DNA, either passed on from a cofounder or through intellectual property.
Yehuda Yaakov, consul general of Israel to New England, said Patrick’s trips strengthened those ties. He’s hopeful that Baker’s trip can build on that groundwork.
“He has said he’s going to Israel sooner rather than later so I’m confident it’s going to happen,” Yaakov said. “We’re a small country, [but] we’re bursting at the seams with talent. That talent is looking to expand all the time.”
Baker’s approach to funding is different from Patrick’s: The former governor relied heavily on funds from quasi-public agencies, such as the Massachusetts Port Authority, for his two trips to Israel. The 2011 trip cost $194,000, although a significant portion also involved a visit to the United Kingdom, according to figures provided by the Baker administration. And Patrick’s trade mission in 2014 cost $185,000, but also included the United Arab Emirates. (Businesses usually pay for their executives who join state officials on these trips.)
In total, Patrick’s 10 overseas trade trips during his eight-year term added up to nearly $1.6 million, almost entirely funded by quasi-public agencies.
There is still a ‘veil of secrecy’ over them all, and one now begins to $ee why.
In the case of the Baker administration’s June excursion, Combined Jewish Philanthropies, not a state agency, picked up the $25,000 tab for five of the six Baker aides who attended. Among those in attendance were Assistant Economic Development Secretary Katie Stebbins, Deputy Economic Development Secretary Carolyn Kirk, and Information Technology Office Director Mark Nunnelly. (Nunnelly paid his own way.)
Combined Jewish Philanthropies also helped fund a trip led by Senate President Stanley Rosenberg in December.
He did nothing but put himself in a bad situation as to make himself unusable.
From a good governance perspective, Common Cause Massachusetts executive director Pam Wilmot said it’s usually better for these trade missions to be funded through the state budget and not an outside source, to avoid the potential for a conflict of interest. “The danger when you have third parties paying is that they may want something in return,” Wilmot said, “or that’s the appearance that is given.”
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Skepticism deepens after Saudis’ explanation for journalist’s death
Want some more laughs?
"Problems surrounding the elections — already three years overdue — threaten to compromise the credibility of polls that an independent monitoring group said were also marred by incidences of ballot stuffing and intimidation. Stakes were high for the United States, which is still seeking an exit strategy after 17 years of a war....."
Uh-huh!
SIGH!
Migrants vow to re-form caravan, continue north toward US
[FULL PAGE TOTAL WINE AD]
Mount Athos, a Greek holy retreat, is ruffled by tourists and Russia
Good Lord.
How many migrants are they putting up, I mean, what with Greece and Italy taking the brunt of refugees from EUSrael's wars?
Yeah, bad Russians. does that ever get old.
Protesters in London demand new vote on Brexit
Buses ferried in the controlled-opposition globalist activists, and why doesn't the left respect the will of the people?
Australia’s ruling coalition forced into minority government
We got a 2% Zionist Jew government over here no matter which party is in control, whatta you got?
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Immunotherapy shows promise in combating aggressive breast cancer
So say the folks at $loan Kettering!
The authors of the study say it's a “game changer.”
Everything is a game in my ruling cla$$ pre$$, as if we are pawns to be manipulated.
Even your health and life is a "game!"
Related:
Billions of T-cells clear woman’s breast cancer in study
Major CRISPR Hurdle: Edited Cells Might Cause Cancer, Find Studies
Potential DNA damage from CRISPR has been ‘seriously underestimated,’ study finds
Too much money and lobbying loot at stake, though, as well as the chance to create a ma$ter race, so forget about the alarm.
Study finds rare gain for tough-to-treat pancreatic cancer
Breakthrough Leukemia Treatment Backfires in a Rare Case
Yeah, you can skip the chemo!
Snake names honor Darwin, fire god, Louisiana professor
Fits in with the tits, and to offend the current #hashtagmovement, I guess there is a snake in every rock pile.
Chinese broadens its propaganda drive to heartland America
OMG.
At least it's not Russia, and they want Democrats to win!
Candles, flashlights, no AC in Florida’s hurricane zone
The story is now an A15er, uh-huh, yeah, and it will soon be gone from the memory.
See: Hurricane Michael killed at least 29 in Florida, 39 total
Was located on page A2, bottom right corner brief.
"Regardless of who wins the House, massive turnover is ahead" by Paul Kane Washington Post October 20, 2018
WASHINGTON — The House is undergoing one of the most significant shake-ups in power since the Republican revolution of 1994, no matter who wins the majority in next month’s midterm elections.
After capturing the House for the first time in 40 years, Republicans literally had no one on their side in 1995 who had ever served in the majority and had to learn on the fly, leading to some critical stumbles.
‘‘We didn’t know where the keys were,’’ recalled Tom Davis, the retired Virginia Republican who won his first House race that year.
Come January, quite a few people are going to be rummaging through the Capitol trying to find those keys.
More than 70 lawmakers who took the oath in January 2017 have already either resigned from office, decided to not run for reelection, lost in primaries, or are running for another office. Add 30 House incumbents running for reelection in toss-up races, and it potentially could be a historically large freshman class.
The brain drain is most acute atop the House committees, where eight GOP chairmen have decided to retire and another is passing on the gavel because of term limits.
If Democrats win the majority, their group of likely chairs have plenty of experience on Capitol Hill, but very little in terms of wielding a gavel.
Just three of the 21 ranking Democrats have ever served as a committee chairman, and, of course, there will be a new House speaker, as the current occupant, Paul Ryan, Republican of Wisconsin, is among those heading into retirement.
If Republicans retain control and elevate Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Republican of California, in office just 12 years, he would tie Dennis Hastert, Republican of Illinois, as the least-experienced House speaker in almost 100 years.
Yeah, remember him?
Amazing how they kept all that quiet. Foley was on his watch, Barney Frank's chauffeur ran a gay prostitution ring out of his house, all the pedophiles and gay offenders lost in the #MeToo movement!
If Democrats win, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, would be reclaiming her old job and would be the exception to the trend.
Would she?
Some say it should be Moulton.
However, Pelosi, 78, faces some internal opposition from Democrats clamoring for a generational change in power — and most of those mentioned as possible rivals for speaker have even less experience than McCarthy.
All things considered, given the broader national political tumult of the last decade, the people’s House is reflecting that climate.
Wave elections benefiting the Democrats in 2006 and 2008 were followed by massive GOP gains in 2010 and 2014, sandwiched in between a large number of retirements in 2012 after redistricting prompted many incumbents to bail.
Lawmakers who looked as though they might actually be staffers a few years ago are now seasoned veterans climbing the ranks of influential committees.
Some lawmakers are headed for a big culture shock if Democrats win the majority.
Just a third of the 235 Republicans have ever served in the minority, and only a little more than half of Democrats have ever served in the majority.
From that epic 1994 election, Davis noted that there will be more Democrats left in the House next year than Republicans. GOP Representatives Walter Jones of North Carolina and Mac Thornberry of Texas will be the only revolutionaries left who swept Newt Gingrich of Georgia into the speaker’s office 24 years ago.
Almost half the Republican Class of 2010 — originally 85 strong — has moved on from the House.
Pelosi has said that her first order of business as speaker would be bringing up legislation that overhauls the campaign finance system, followed by bills to deal with prescription drug costs, gun control, and immigration.
Democrats in Washington have promoted some policy ideas under the ‘‘Better Deal’’ banner. Their candidates, however, have run their races largely on their own personal background, distancing themselves from Pelosi and Democratic leadership.
Many are first-time candidates with impressive careers in the military or as prosecutors. ‘‘They’re not going to want to take orders,’’ Davis predicted.
They would be the Deep State Democrats then?!
In 1995, Gingrich focused the first 100 days of the new majority on trying to pass legislation from the ‘‘Contract With America,’’ the campaign platform Republicans had embraced the year before.
While most of the ‘‘Contract’’ never went anywhere in the Senate, it at least focused Republican attention on what they had to do.
Pelosi made a similar move in 2007 as the newly empowered House Democrats approved their ‘‘Six for ’06’’ agenda, a series of issues that focused their first weeks in the majority.
Now, neither side has such a clearly defined agenda.
Meaning it will be back to the $tatu$ quo after the game of musical chairs is over.
One certainty is that whoever claims the speaker’s gavel — Pelosi, McCarthy, or one of their more inexperienced colleagues — will be elevated into the national spotlight and have his or her every utterance parsed for bigger political meaning.
Pelosi went through this in 2007, the first woman to serve as speaker, and came away from it relatively unharmed for the first three years. By 2010, Republicans turned her into a political caricature of a San Francisco liberal, a campaign that they are trying to repeat now ahead of the midterms.
Gingrich suffered even worse. After four years, his fellow Republicans turned on him and forced him out as speaker.
The lesson continues to this day.....
Davis said Gingrich was like a Hitler, but he was right about Trump and people in 2016!
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Related:
"The contest for control of the House remains close and hard fought, according to a new Washington Post-Schar School poll of the most-contested districts in the country, with Democrats holding a statistically insignificant lead over Republicans. The latest survey shows only a marginal change in the race during October, with 50 percent currently supporting the Democratic candidate in their district and 47 percent backing the Republican. Candidates from the two parties collectively are running almost even in 48 contested congressional districts won by President Trump in 2016, while Democrats hold the advantage in 21 competitive districts won by Hillary Clinton. The Democrats’ lead in those Clinton districts has narrowed a bit since the beginning of the month. The overwhelming majority of the districts surveyed — 63 of the 69 — are currently represented by a Republican in the House. Collectively these battleground districts voted strongly for Republicans in the 2016 election. The fact that the margins today are where they are illustrates the degree to which the GOP majority is at risk but also the fact that many individual races are likely to be close. Democrats need to gain a net of 23 seats to take control of the chamber."
Looks like those headwinds are starting to fade.
Now for the other chamber:
"Trump, Biden campaign on opposite sides of Nev. Senate race" by Zeke Miller Associated Press October 20, 2018
ELKO, Nev. — ‘‘This election is literally bigger than politics. It’s bigger than politics,’’ said former vice president Joe Biden. ‘‘No matter how old or young you are, you have never participated in an election that is as consequential as this election national and locally.’’
Told that every two years and nothing changes!!
President Trump referenced Biden’s appearance in Las Vegas, mocking the smaller crowd drawn by his potential 2020 rival, compared with the thousands he gathered on an airport tarmac in the more sparsely populated part of the state.
Trump deployed a refrain he had fine-tuned during his Western swing, declaring that ‘‘Democrats produce mobs, Republicans produce jobs.’’
‘‘That’s called hashtag,’’ he said to the crowd. ‘‘That’s a new hashtag. That’s a hot one.’’
After the rally, Trump said that Republicans are planning to implement a ‘‘very major tax cut’’ for middle-income earners before next month, even though Congress is out of session until after November’s midterm elections.
In Las Vegas, Biden criticized Trump for his approach to Russia and President Vladimir Putin, his equivocating on white supremacists in Charlottesville, Va., and his immigration policies, including the separation of migrant families at the US-Mexico border. ‘‘It’s all about Donald,’’ Biden said.
In a tweet before leaving Arizona, Trump called Dean Heller, considered the most vulnerable GOP senator on the Nov. 6 ballot, ‘‘a man who has become a good friend’’ and said he needed the senator’s ‘‘Help and Talent in Washington.’’
Trump praised Heller for his votes for conservative Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.
In a further sign of the state’s importance in the midterms, Barack Obama scheduled a stop Monday in Las Vegas.
See: Obama rails against GOP, rallies Democrats in Nevada
He won Nevada in his 2008 and 2012 campaigns, and Democrat Hillary Clinton carried the state by 2 percentage points over Trump in 2016, but during the last midterm elections in 2014, many Democrats stayed home and Republicans won key races across the state, which has a 29 percent Latino population.
The country’s immigration system has long vexed politicians from both parties, and Republicans themselves have torpedoed near-compromises in recent years. Yet Trump tweeted Saturday that ‘‘we could write up and agree to new immigration laws in less than one hour’’ if Democrats ‘‘would stop being obstructionists and come together.’’
‘‘Call me,’’ he told the Democratic leaders in Congress, Senator Chuck Schumer of New York and Representative Nancy Pelosi of California. It seemed reminiscent of the time last year when Trump cracked open the door of bipartisanship with those leaders, who emerged from a White House meeting to say Trump had agreed to work toward a deal on protection young immigrants. But no agreement came to pass.
The Biden-Trump circling of one another in the same state happened recently in Kentucky, where Biden campaigned for a Democratic congressional candidate on a Friday night and Trump held a rally the next evening.....
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Related: Trump takes center stage in second Senate debate between Warren and Diehl
Also see: Georgia facing country’s largest Confederate monument problem
Good Christ, it's a problem.
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Pundits and polls don’t decide elections
And Baker has a State Police problem.
Genderfluid educator will move to classroom role in Swampscott
After grappling with it, parents had a vote of ‘no confidence’ with a powerful message.
Friends, family, and surfers gather to remember victim of shark attack
Crowds from all over the world flock to Cambridge for 54th annual Head of the Charles
It's the Super Bowl of rowing, and another sign that the Globe is not for me.
Handwritten 1923 letter from Babe Ruth to Boston Globe writer up for auction
Remains identified as naval officer from Worcester who died at Pearl Harbor
BU researchers examine role of inflammation in Alzheimer’s disease
Man arrested in stealing of copper
Walsh launches GRAD Last Mile Fund to help Boston students in last leg of college
Didn't even note or look at the edop or business sections.
Didn't seem like a good idea, nor did getting the thing on Monday:
Trump administration eyes defining ‘transgender’ out of existence
The top story is the concern of a $mall minority.
How blatantly political!
Rats suddenly surge in Boston suburbs
The Globe infested with them.
They call 'em reporters.
Question at center of Harvard trial
What counts as discrimination?
See: Harvard’s well-off outnumber low-income students 23 to 1
At least they ended the year with an operating surplus of $196m, and are reexamining themselves and trying to make things right.
UMass Amherst researchers probe the secrets of the bendy straw
They got how much of a government grant?!!!
Related:
"More than one-third of adults in the United States patronize fast-food restaurants and pizza parlors on any given day. And the higher their income, the more likely they are to do so....."
I'm ‘haunted by hunger’ every day, so I must dig in the dirt:
In Vermont, students take to the farm for a fresh start
They want to know where food is from, but there is no concern about GMOs, etc!!
The dwindling farmland is more the issue, but that isn't brought up until you are halfwayy in the hole!
Baker gets praise for handling opioid crisis
But challenges remain.
John Bolton faces tense talks with Russia over nuclear treaty
Utah truck driver is jailed without bond after crash kills 6
Killer of Utah student called himself womanizing manipulator
See:
"A University of Utah student and track athlete who was shot and killed on campus by a former boyfriend had filed a police complaint against him after she learned he was a registered sex offender and broke off the relationship, authorities said Tuesday. Investigators had been working to build a case after receiving the report from 21-year-old Lauren McCluskey, a senior from Pullman, Wash., university Police Chief Dale Brophy said. He declined to disclose further details on the report. The victim’s mother, Jill McCluskey, said her daughter had filed a harassment complaint after breaking up with 37-year-old Melvin Rowland. Lauren McCluskey had dated Rowland for about a month then ended the relationship on Oct. 9 when she learned he had lied about his age, name, and criminal history, Jill McCluskey said in a statement. Rowland had spent nearly a decade in prison after pleading guilty to trying to lure an underage girl online and attempted sex abuse charges, according to court records. He was caught in an online sex crimes sting when a police officer posed as a 13-year-old girl. After he was charged, a woman came forward to report he had sexually assaulted her after a separate online meeting. Lauren McCluskey was found shot in a car Monday night near student housing. Rowland killed himself overnight at a church after police tracked him down....."
I don't like the age difference.
Volunteers search swamps, fields for signs of Wisconsin girl
Police officer in Georgia is fatally shot on duty
Officer fatally shoots suspect in Georgia police slaying
Dozens hurt in floor collapse at South Carolina condo party
Second police officer dies after South Carolina ambush attack
Official: 6 shot near Florida stadium, possibly gang-linked
Fortunately, there was no link to the game, which went on and concluded without incident.
Didn't I say Jacksonville was just the beginning?
Was Interracial Love Possible in the Days of Slavery?
NYT, cmon!
Mueller digs for Roger Stone’s connections to WikiLeaks
The stuff wasn't hacked, it was leaked by DNC insiders upset at Clinton stealing nomination from Sanders, and what you haven't seen is a denial by Clintons and DNC, meaning all docs are true and real!
Pressure mounts on Saudi Arabia as more questions raised in Khashoggi case
The Globe says the US must act like the leader of the free world it once called itself and hold the murderous regime accountable.
Mnuchin defends trip to Saudi Arabia amid uproar over Khashoggi killing
He said the United States must preserve its ties to Saudi Arabia, particularly as the United States tries to stop Iran from participating in the global financial system.
Jordan reclaims lands used by Israel under peace treaty
The king is under internal political pressure, and the decision came as an unwelcome surprise to Israelis, but is not likely to touch off an immediate diplomatic crisis.
8 combatants, 6 civilians die in Kashmir clashes
Ambush in Philippines kills farmers occupying plantation land
Yutu hits the Philippines after obliterating parts of Northern Mariana Islands
One of Taiwan’s fastest trains derails, killing at least 18
Was a story for three days running.
‘No one will stop us, only God’
Related(?):
Hurricane Willa is headed toward a Tuesday landfall in Mexico
Fierce Hurricane Willa closes in on Mexican resort area
Nevertheless, they continue to slog along.
Also see:
FBI arrests white nationalist who fled the country
He was headed the other way to escape the outbreak.
Was the astronaut grumpy because he knows it was all a lie?
Why did the rest of the world stop trying and the Russians only build a space station?
Is it because there were no women or minorities in those fields?
The week identity politics ate itself
Left in cold by VA medical center, homeless veteran finds kindness in strangers
A veteran steps aside; now more may step forward
Did they verify his story?
After swastika incidents, Reading residents rally against anti-Semitism
Preparing us for Pittsburgh, 'eh?
14-year-old N.H. scientist featured in new Marvel comic book
Early voting for Nov. 6 election starts Monday
Family of Holly Piirainen hosts tip campaign on 25th anniversary of her disappearance
State Police name man accused of stabbing trooper in New Salem
The biggest barrier to President Trump’s plan for cutting the trade deficit?
It’s Trump and the strong dollar as we are importing more than ever(?).
I'm tired of talking about it, and why didn't anyone ask the African-Americans?
