The LuLac Edition #3515, May 25th, 2017
TRUMP BUDGET SCREWS THE DEPLORABLES
Trump had promised as a candidate to leave Medicaid untouched, along with Medicare and Social Security.
Hillary might have called the Trump-ites "deplorable" just once.
Trump will treat you like that for as long as he breathes.
Right side of history.
WILKES BARRE AREA SCHOOL BOARD RACE REDUX
One of the biggest surprises in the race for Wilkes Barre Area School Board was the showing of Melissa Etzle Patla who came in second in last week’s election. Patla had the support of the Save Our School coalition. She seemed nice enough but not terribly versed in the minutia of the details of the board. She did oppose the new school building plan and advocated for neighborhood schools. That message resonated and one has to wonder why the Save Our Schools people didn’t run a slate. With more viable candidates they might have upended the school board power structure. Patla was viewed as very sincere and that goes a long way.
FIRST STEP IN JUSTICE FOR DEEJAY MO
DA Stefanie Salavantis (Photo: Times Leader)
The late Mike Onley. (Photo: Citizen's Voice)
After three and a half years, there is a step in the right direction for my late coworker Michael Onley. Onley was known as DJ Mo and was a community activist against violence. But to me he was a guy who sat across from me and quietly mused about our jobs and the state of music.
District Attorney Stefanie Salavantis made the announcement saying that the case has been worked for at least a few years. Charged were Roberto “Ruthless” Battle, 28, and David “D-Rock” Nealy, 36, in the homicide of Michael Onley, 34, of Wilkes-Barre. Onley, a Coughlin High and Wilkes University graduate, was known professionally as DJ Mo.
The U.S. Marshals Service Fugitive Task Force arrested Battle without incident in New York City on Tuesday after learning of his whereabouts, U.S. Marshal Martin J. Pane announced.
It was determined that the men were thrown out of the bar, picked up a gun and just took out their immature, entitled anger on anyone who got in the way. Unfortunately that was deejay Mo.
He was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Step 1 for long delayed justice for Mike.
HOUSE PASSES JUVENILE JUSTICE BILL WITH BARLETTA LANGUAGE HELPING AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAMS LIKE SHINE
BARLETTA CHANGE MAKES AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAMS ELIGIBLE FOR FEDERAL
Congressman Lou Barletta (Photo: LuLac archives)
Congressman Lou Barletta (PA-11) today voted for juvenile justice reform legislation containing a change he negotiated to enable afterschool programs – like the successful SHINE (Schools and Homes in Education) program in Pennsylvania – to compete for federal grants to keep students on the right path. The bill, the Juvenile Justice Reform Act of 2017, H.R. 1809, today unanimously passed the House of Representatives and now heads to the Senate for consideration.
Last Congress, during consideration of the bill in the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, Barletta succeeded in inserting afterschool programs into the list of eligible recipients of grants to states to prevent juvenile delinquency. The change, which was retained in the version of the bill introduced this Congress, means that states will be able to compete for five-year grants to help local leaders meet specific needs in keeping students headed in the right direction through programs such as SHINE.
“SHINE has a proven record as a very effective afterschool program benefitting students and working families,” Barletta said. “I am very proud to have expanded access to more grants for programs like SHINE, because we have seen how effective they can be in giving children greater educational opportunities.”
SHINE is an afterschool program for students in grades kindergarten-eight that focuses on a project-based STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) curriculum. The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning recently analyzed 75 studies of 68 afterschool programs and found that students showed improved behavior and performed better academically than students who did not participate in afterschool programs. And according to a study from 2007 to 2012, of the 1,600 students who participated in SHINE during that period, 79 percent improved their academic performance; 96 percent advanced to the next grade; and 92 percent had exceptionally good or satisfactory attendance.
Barletta and Pennsylvania state Senator John Yudichak (D-Luzerne/Carbon) have championed SHINE together, working closely with Luzerne County host institution Wilkes University and its president, Patrick Leahy.
Barletta was instrumental in saving the 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC) program, which provides nearly 50 percent of SHINE’s funding. Beginning in February 2015, Barletta began working to save the program after an early version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act reauthorization eliminated it. As a result of Barletta’s efforts, the 21st CCLC program was reauthorized on a bipartisan basis under the Every Student Succeeds Act.
Barletta is continuing to work to save federal funding for SHINE. In March, he sent separate letters to Office of Budget and Management (OMB) Director Mick Mulvaney and U.S. Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos requesting that the Trump Administration reconsider its proposal to eliminate the 21st CCLC program.
MEDIA MATTERS
BOLD GOLD COMMUNITY FORUM
This week's guests are John Aciukevich and Annie Ellis discussing Luzerne County's Court Appointed Special Advocate program. Tune in Sunday morning at 6 on 94.3 The Talker; 6:30 on 1400-The Game, NEPA's Fox Sports Radio and 106.7 fm; and at 7:30 on 105 The River.
WALN TV
SUNDAY MAGAZINE
This Week on Sunday Magazine.
Brian Hughes speak with James May, Michael Taluto and Sylvia from PENNDOT District 4.0 about Summer driving safety and road projects for the summer months.
Brian speaks with Cheryl Rawls, Director, Pension and Fiduciary Service, for the Veterans Benefits Administration, about benefits and services available for the families of deceased veterans.
And Brian speaks with Dr. Theodore Fields about the stigma of Gout, and how it keeps people who suffer from Gout from bringing up the issue with their doctors.
ECTV
Rusty Fender mans the ECTV Live desk during the week of May 29th as he and Director Mark Migilore welcome Dennis Giordano of the Pennsylvania Department of Transpiration to the program.
ECTV Live can be seen on Comcast channel 19 (61 in some areas) and is aired during the Noon, 6pm and Midnight hours each day of the week. Following Monday's Live program the show will become available on Electric City Television's YouTube channel which can be viewed on your computer.
BIG BEATLE TRIBUTE TOMORROW
ONE MORE DAY TO GET TICKETS
ONE MORE DAY TO GET TICKETS
Louise Harrison on the right with Beatledd, the promoter of the show.
SUE HENRY’S SPECIAL EDITION
Tune in to Sue Henry's "Special Edition" this week as Sue recaps the week's news. The show will run Saturday at 2 p.m. and Sunday at 1 p.m. on WILK, and on KRZ, Froggy and Max 102 early Sunday morning.
BUDDY RUMCHEK
Want to hear some great parodies on the news? Tune in to WILK Radio at 6:40 and 8:40 AM on Mondays. As Ralph Cramden used to say, “It’s a laugh riot!”
KAREL ON THE STREET
Tune in Wednesdays on WILK Radio for Karel on the Street. Hear some of the funniest and he heartwarming comments on the issues of the day on Webster and Nancy with Karel Zubris.
BOBBY V’S DOO WOP SOCK HOP!!!!!
Bobby's show is back again live this Sunday @6PM on The River.
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Janet Guthrie becomes 1st woman to drive in Indy 500…..Sue Press is 1st woman golfer to hit consecutive holes-in one...Cleveland Indian Dennis Eckersley no-hits California Angels, 2-0......."Beatlemania" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 920 performances…
NBC News & Information Service (24 hr news) ends on radio….. USSR President Podgorny resigns "Beatles Live! At Star-Club in Hamburg Germany" released….."Brady Bunch Hour" last airs on ABC-TV......in Pennsylvania NBC affiliates scramble to get new programming after the NBC News Service ends….in Wilkes Barre WBRE Radio decides to continue the all news format for a time with a local bent. News anchors Guy Randall, Bill Graham and Joe Gries remain on the air along with Bud Brown to keep the format alive……meanwhile up the road at WVIA FM an overnight all news broadcast begins with David Kush, Roger Heydt and Ed Karpovich….and forty years ago this week the number one song in LuLac land and America was “Feels Like the First Time “ by Foreigner.
posted by David Yonki @ 9:10 AM
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4 Comments:
More cuts Mr. President!
Let the states fund Medicaid at the level their citizens allow.
I can't afford any more taxes or MANDATORY ObamaCare premiums.
IT HAS NOT IMPROVED ANYTHING IN MY LIFE.
It is funny to me, you go off on a tangent about "deplorables" who are nothing more than middle class citizens repeatedly saddled with the burden of democratic social policy, who simply thought they were voting for something better.
Yet, the junior varsity deplorables from the religion of peace, who attacked and murdered young girls in England, and their brethren in the Philippines slaughtering many more, nary a mention from you.
I know let's open are borders and allow everyone in.
They declared war on us, and dickheads like you keep you uncircumcised brain in the sand while the enemy continues is slow and steady assault on the west.
Let the states fund Medicaid at the level their citizens allow.
I can't afford any more taxes or MANDATORY ObamaCare premiums.
IT HAS NOT IMPROVED ANYTHING IN MY LIFE.
IN RESPONSE
Well then good luck with all of that. How do taxes come into Obama premiums? If you are irresponsible enough not to have health care, you get fined.
Premiums com from insurance companies, not your taxes. The money that is used for people who get health care and get a subsidy, comes from people who get fined.
Now let me tell you what a REPUBLICAN would say about your comment behind your back....let them pull themselves up by the bootstraps and be an independent freedom loving American!
And as far s medicaid going to the states, your taxes will go up because of no federal money.
But Dave, Medicare won't need all that funding in 10 years, because the herd will be culled. Moo
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