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"In hot water facing multiple charges. The trooper was arrested early Saturday morning by Anna rental county police. They're investigating trooper Ryan bandy who was charged with second degree assault, false imprisonment, and a fourth degree sex offense. He was released on his own recognizance after appearing before a district court commissioner, bandy is also suspended from the job with pay. He spent nearly a decade with the state police with his most recent assignment in Carol county. And arundel county police are leading the criminal investigation and theirs an internal affairs investigation by Maryland state police. Liz Anderson WTO news. Animal shelters across our region have more mouths to feed. So they're putting out an urgent call to adopt a pet. Sheila, the dog has been waiting for over a hundred days at the loud county animal shelter while Dolly and Miley the cats have been waiting for over a 180 days for a forever home. So this is animal shelter operations manager Melissa heard, the shelters one of scores across the region and country dealing with slow adoption rates, Business Insider reports some shelters nationwide are operating way over capacity following post COVID pet returns and pet surrenders based on soaring pet food and vet prices. Lounge county and other shelters are offering incentives to take a pet home, including a gift bag of pat necessities along with your fully vaccinated, free pat. Jennifer news. Any benefit to actually letting your lawn grow out? It's called no mo may. It's a gardening trend that started in 2019 and has even been adopted by some cities and towns. The thinking behind it is to attract pollinators like bees and butterflies, but Mike McGrath host of you bet your garden says it will also attract something else. You are creating a
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"Students are losing time and money as those four year schools deny and limit transfer credits making students repeat more than a semester on average. Northern Virginia community college in George Mason university are the exceptions. The two schools have created the advanced program helping students clearly transfer from one program to the next without losing time or money. The program is now over 3000 students strong and growing, and George Mason hopes to include more community colleges in the future. Michelle Morello, WTO news. For the third straight year planet fitness is allowing teenagers to get fit for free over the summer. They call it the high school summer pass program. Teens aged 14 to 19 can get a free pass to any planet fitness location. It's good may 15th through August 31st, studies show that fitness programs are good for physical and mental health. The gym also offering ten lucky teens with academic scholarships worth $10,000 each to enter just post a TikTok video tagging planet fitness describing your summer experience. Also in case teens need a ride from an adult, those plans are as low as $10 per month, Ralph Fox WTO P news. Animal shelters across our region have more mouths to feed. So they're putting out an urgent call to adopt a pet. Sheila, the dog has been waiting for over a hundred days at the loud county animal shelter while Dolly and Miley the cats have been waiting for over a 180 days for a forever home. So this is animal shelter operations manager, Melissa heard, the shelters one of scores across the region and country dealing with slow adoption rates. Business Insider reports some shelters nationwide are operating way over capacity following post COVID pet returns and pet surrenders based on soaring pet food and vet prices. Lounge county and other shelters are offering incentives to take a pet home, including a gift bag of pat necessities along with your fully vaccinated, free pat. Jennifer news. Well, coming up after traffic
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"Students are losing time and money as those four year schools deny and limit transfer credits making students repeat more than a semester on average. Northern Virginia community college and George Mason university are the exceptions. The two schools have created the advanced program helping students clearly transfer from one program to the next without losing time or money. The program is now over 3000 students strong and growing, and George Mason hopes to include more community colleges in the future. Michelle Morello, WTO news. Concerning new numbers from the CDC reveals 57% of teen girls experience feelings of sadness or hopelessness. And it's prompting a mental health event in Montgomery county. This is an almost 20% increase from the previous decade. The report also shows nearly one in three girls have suicidal thoughts. Our girls are not okay and it's time for us to do something about it. So CCI health services is hosting an empowering our girls event. Their president and CEO Sonya bruton says this is an opportunity for girls and their support systems. We want teens to be there. We want it to be an opportunity for them to be heard and for relief to appear on the other side. The event is free and begins 2 p.m. on Sunday at the black rock center for the arts in Germantown. Cheyenne WTO news. Animal shelters across our region have more mouths to feed and they're putting out an urgent call to adopt a pet. Sheila, the dog has been waiting for over a hundred days at the loud county animal shelter while Dolly and Miley the cats have been waiting for over a 180 days for a forever home. So this is animal shelter operations manager Melissa Hurd, the shelters one of scores across the region and country dealing with slow adoption rates. Business Insider reports some shelters nationwide are operating way over capacity following post COVID pet returns and pet surrenders based on soaring pet food and vet prices. Lounge county and other shelters are offering incentives to take a pet home, including a gift bag of patent necessities along with your fully vaccinated, free pat. Jennifer WTO P news. It's a graduation season and President Biden will be at Howard University ceremony next weekend. He's set to be the commencement speaker for Howard's class of 23 next Saturday. The Biden administration has been fighting for money for Howard and more than 100 other historically black colleges and universities earlier this year, Howard became the first HBCU in the nation to partner with The Pentagon on research. The White House says the president will also address graduates at the air force academy in Colorado Springs on June 1st. Coming up after traffic
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"Independently owned and operated. Traffic and weather on the a tears Mary de pumper in the WTO traffic center. All righty, thanks, Dan. We're checking out a pretty easy Saturday morning thus far, but you do have a few things to watch out for, and that's what we'll start with. In Virginia, working crashes interstate 95, as you head northbound, passing the Springfield in the franconia Springfield Parkway, you're going to hit the brakes. It's a slow roll toward the beltway. All lanes are now reopened, crashes along the left side with flashing lights, so that means move over for safety. But this is just before the lanes divide to get onto the beltway, you can move over an easy access one once there, you're good to go on the beltway. Nothing ahead on three 95 as well through the 14th street bridge a decent ride. Now, 66 from Rosalind all the way through front royal, no incidents of currently been reported. The crash that was in loud and county along the lounge county Parkway, Ashburn, that has cleared. We're checking now on the beltway itself, both in Virginia and in Maryland. I'm running without incident. On I two 70, there's work scheduled near quince Orchard has not shown up yet. It would be in the northbound direction between the beltway and Frederick to 70 is running at speed. Same with 95 in Maryland, it's at speed from the capitol beltway through the Baltimore beltway, but we do have scheduled work near one 98, not seeing any cones or slowdowns just yet. Baltimore, Washington Parkway, capitol belly to Baltimore about weight, all moving well. Now we have a crash in west friendship on route 32 near rosemary lane one went off the roadway and was said to be a northbound or westbound eastbound accident, northbound 32 rosemary lane watch for possible police direction. Nothing to or from the eastern shore so far from the beltway across the bay, doing well. You were small business keeps you on the go progressive commercial insurance keeps your policy within reach with their easy to use mobile app, learn more progressive, commercial dot com, Mary to pump, a WTO traffic. Thanks, Mary. Let's go live to storm team four meteorologist clay Anderson kind of a cool way to start the weekend, clay. Yes, with the march winds continuing to blow across our area
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"Bank, a major lender to the hurting tech sector in California, stay with WTO for all the details on these and the other top stories in the minutes ahead. Traffic and weather on the 8s married to pampa is in the WTO early morning traffic center. Indeed, Dan and it's a nice start on an early Saturday morning. I hope you're having a happy Saturday as well. We're going to start out on 95 in Virginia with our new crash. We do have at least a help truck on scene. We're still waiting to see if we get any responders on northbound 95 between Fredericksburg and the Springfield interchange, you're just about to be but as you head northbound before the split at the Springfield interchange along the left side, there's a crash, help on scene, be sure to move over for safety, but again, nothing is slowing you down yet. Easy pass express lanes will point in the southbound direction on an early Saturday if need be. And as I'm speaking to you, fire trucks are rolling up on the scene of 95 before the Springfield interchange stay to the right to get by again no delay. You're coming out that at speed 66 from front royal into Rosalind, we're still doing pretty well. Crashes on the lounge county Parkway Gloucester Parkway watch for possible police direction. Heads up on the Delos greenway today, it's raced the greenway or run the greenway, excuse me. We've got a closure to the race will begin and end in staggered events from the loud station so they'll have closures of the greenway rolling closures between the main toll Plaza and Ashburn village boulevard. That will be running throughout this morning, so be prepared. We're checking now along the beltway, nothing currently reported. That is both in Virginia and in Maryland. On the Maryland side, we had an overnight work zone 95 as you head northbound through Laurel. It's said to be on the northbound side on clear which side no delay is showing on 95 from the capitol beltway through the Baltimore beltway and back. And even inside of the beltway and the Baltimore Washington Parkway, nothing else is reported. 52 are from the eastern shore
Cape Up with Jonathan Capehart
"lounge county" Discussed on Cape Up with Jonathan Capehart
"Means making sure that people have been left out. People in lounge county, Alabama that don't have access to indoor plumbing. Tribal communities, African American communities that have been forgotten. Rural communities that are both white and African American in places that don't have clean air and water, you governors have to give us a plan that makes sure that we see all of those people. Governor of Mississippi, talk to me about what's going on in Jackson. The governor in Texas talk to me about what's going on in Houston. If you want to lay down a highway in the middle of an African American community and dissect that community like we've done, well, maybe we're not going to do that again. So send us the plans. We'll look at the plans. When we approve the plans, then we'll actually start working together. So equities one, the second is a better America means using products that are made in America. So many of you know this. We basically started kind of letting folks make stuff for us. And send it back to us in charge of us a lot more in hollowing out small communities, especially in rural America. And in the south where I'm from, you see this all over the place where you have these towns that had just the downtowns kind of gone. We want to bring manufacturing back. Is a president succeeding. Thank you for that question. 800,000. 800,000 new manufacturing jobs, 200,000 more than we had before, so there's great evidence that this idea of using products that have made in America's work. And third part. Make sure that you have great labor stand. As a president thinks that trickle down economics is a myth, it doesn't work. He wants to build stuff from the ground up, which means he wants to invest in folks that are on the ground. And high labor standards are really important. And to the extent that you can use union labor, which he believes built a middle class in the middle class built America is important.
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"Water crisis no one in America is fixing. By brynn Nelson. Nelson is an award winning science writer and author of the book flush, the remarkable science of an unlikely treasure. On February 3rd, 2022, a train loaded with toxic chemicals derailed in east Palestine, Ohio, igniting a fire and forcing the controlled release and burn a vinyl chloride a known cancer causing compound to avert a disastrous explosion. The environmental catastrophe killed thousands of fish in nearby streams and has triggered growing concerns over the impact on residents health and on the village's surface ground and well water. East Palestine joins a long list of other places in the United States facing major threats to clean water. In October 2022, a campaign called imagine a day without water, asked Americans to stand with those who lack adequate drinking water, sanitation, or both. In one of the richest countries on earth, the tally of those who live even without basic indoor plumbing might surprise you, more than 2 million. The acronym wash, which stands for water, sanitation, and hygiene is often associated with nonprofits, like the world toilet organization, working in developing parts of the globe, but the lack of access to clean drinking water, sanitary bathrooms, and treated wastewater is an ongoing emergency for many parts of the U.S. as well. In rural and urban communities throughout the country, water tainted by pollutants, woefully inadequate sewage treatment and a lack of restrooms or plumbing at all, have laid bare the legacy of neglect. In her book waste, one woman's fight against America's dirty secret, author Catherine Coleman flowers, describes how rural residents and lounge county Alabama often have no means of wastewater treatment. They lack what most of us take for granted because septic systems cost more than most people earn in a year and tend to fail anyway in the impervious clay soil flowers rights. Families cope the best they can, mainly by Jerry rigging PVC pipe to drain sewage from houses and into cesspools outside, with their assistance, researchers found that more than one third of 55 stool samples collected from county residents tested positive for hookworms, intestinal parasites often associated with poor sanitation and developing countries. To the west historic flooding incapacitated and aging water treatment plant in Mississippi's capital of Jackson in September 2022, leaving residents of the predominantly black city without safe drinking water for weeks.
Bloomberg Radio New York
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"A man who has been traveling the country now to help Dole out the money and promote the projects. And I want you to listen to him in action. This is, again, the former mayor of New Orleans. In this case, and I've seen him in action before. I don't think he's any happier than when he's actually out talking to people. He was in a neighborhood in Milwaukee last July. The highlight more than $800 million from the infrastructure law in place to replace lead pipes, listen to Mitch landrieu walking into the neighborhood. What you're looking at is a representative of the president of the United States, standing in the middle of this street in this neighborhood. And you have federal officials here. You have state officials here. You have city officials here. You have folks that are working for the entity that handles the water here. You have the neighborhoods here. You have the residents here and then you have the men and women whose lives they're changing and whose lives are being changed by the work that's being done. This is the message that Mitch Landry has been laying out there and he's having a very different conversation with people about things in their own backyards than a lot of us are having on national political shows and he's with us right now from The White House. Mister mayor, it's great to have you back on Bloomberg sound on. When you hear talk about the polls and the balance of power in Washington and where are the results from this administration, do you feel like you're living on another planet? First of all, Joe, it's great to be with you. And thanks for those clips. That was a great trip to Milwaukee. Remember that. It's really heartfelt. Oh, I remember it well, but I actually remember standing outside of the house and talking to the mama and talking about her two kids and how they don't have to drink water out of lead pipes and get potential brain damage. That's the thing to get you up in the morning and it keeps your feet moving really, really quickly. So listen, there's a midterm coming up. I mean, we're in the politics of electing people that do good things for America, which is why I think the president is going to do very well. You mentioned at the outset that many, many, many presidents have talked about rebuilding America, but this president actually put points on the board. $1.2 trillion. We have 5000 projects coming out of the ground as you have said. Criss-crossed America and gone to places that people, you know, don't really think about lounge county, Alabama, or coach Phil, Pennsylvania or Saginaw, Michigan, where actually this work is hitting the ground and impacting people's immediately in real ways. I mean, if you build a water tower in a small city that helps keep the pressure where it needs to be so that the water can stay fresh, people feel that in a real way. If you rebuild the train station in the middle of a town that has gotten left behind, all of a sudden generation of wealth gets built. If you go into Syracuse and you take down a highway that's divided communities forever communities come back together and they see this president actually not just talking the talk, but walking the walk. Well, with that said, you're a well aware of the politics that we're all living through right now. You're obviously a lifelong politician. You talk to Democrats and Republicans every day. You know, this is a poll that came out recently. I believe it was from CBS News that found 80% of Democrats think Republicans are going to destroy the country and a similar number of Republicans think the same about Democrats. Is it because nobody's talking to each other? We love each other. That sounds like a family. At Thanksgiving. But listen, you don't want to be with my family on Thanksgiving. Everybody knows I feel, but listen, let me say this. One of the great virtues of this piece of legislation. Is this going to teach us how to work together again? I venture to say that most everybody in America will agree with this statement that there's no good democratic way a good Republican way to fill a pothole just fill the damn pothole. Just let's get it done. Let's figure out a way how to rebuild America together, but this is about the president's leadership. He said that if you gave him the power that he would actually get this on, nobody gave him a chance of getting this done. If you told people when Joe Biden got elected president that he was going to create 10 million jobs, had the lowest unemployment rate in the last 50 years, had the lowest number of unemployment claims that had been filed since 1970. He creates 700,000 manufacturing jobs. They would have said you lost your mind. And if you would have told them that he was going to pass four major pieces of legislation, they would have told you to go to the doctor and get your head checked. He did all of those things. But listen, inflation is a real problem for Americans. And by the way, for everybody in the world. They're a hundred economies in the world that have significantly higher inflation rates than we do. And that's why the president is so fighting so hard to keep costs down and to lower costs for average Americans, which is what really elections are about. I can't speak specifically to the day to today elections because of my position. But I can say, as a politician, that, you know, people should reward good choices. And the choices that the president has made has put America in a position better than any other country to withstand this incredible pain that we're feeling from inflation because of Putin's war and because of COVID. But you know the narrative out there right now. There's a fair chance that Democrats could lose the house. I don't need you to weigh in on that today, but you know, when you consider what you just told me, this laundry list, this list of accomplishments that the president has. There's been a lot of talk about a late pivot to the economy mayor that maybe you should have been out there all summer talking about infrastructure instead of Democrats talking about the roe V wade ruling, for instance, is there still a chance to tell your story? Well, let me say that since last November 15th, not only have I been out there, but cabinet secretaries have been out there. The president has been out there, members of Congress and the Senate. They've been over a thousand events. They have been and as a matter of fact, if this wasn't important to Republicans, can somebody please explain to me why they take in credit for it? I mean, they voted against it as a speaker said, they voted no and they want the dough. And every Republican that I'm aware of who was actually against the bill is actually out there touting the fact that these monies are coming to their communities to build roads and bridges and airports. So what do they tell you when you're out of bed with them? Well, they're like, again, there's no Republican a democratic way to do it. Let's get it done. But look, there's politics, and then there's politics, but at the end of the day, there's policy that transforms America and makes a better America. So this is what I'm working on is a two, three, 5, 7 year program to teach America because this is what the president's vision was, how to do great things again. And history is going to record really, really well, that if we do this investment appropriately, that this was a point in time when America actually got itself right and got it headed in the right direction. And it will be because of President Biden's vision. Well, Mitch Landry, I think of you as kind of like the democratic
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"That's two weeks before everyone else. Again, that's wondery dot FM slash app of versary to start your free trial. Bobby seale was born on October 22nd, 1936 in Dallas, Texas, the oldest of three children. His father, a Carpenter, struggled to make ends meet, and when Bobby was 8, the family left Texas for California, seeking a better life. The seals were just a few of the millions of African Americans who left the south as part of the Great Migration. They wound up in Oakland, joining the growing black community there. At 18, seal dropped out of high school and enlisted in the air force. He lasted three years until he got kicked out for fighting a commanding officer. Seal was court martialed, then dishonorably discharged. He was told he had just 5 minutes to get off the base. He replied, what are you going to do with the other four minutes and 59 seconds? Because it won't take me any time to get away from here. Seal returned to Oakland where he worked in a sheet metal factory by day, and finished his high school degree at night. Seal sought to continue his education at Oakland's merit college, a seemingly ordinary decision that would have a major impact on the civil rights movement. In the early 1960s, at Merritt college, seal stood out, he was outspoken, political, and anti authority. He immersed himself in black nationalist literature, studying the teachings of Malcolm X, and joined the Afro American association. One day, during a rally in west Oakland, seal came across another young black man making a name for himself on campus. Speaking to a riveted group of about 250 students about the Cuban missile crisis, his name was Huey P Newton. Newton was born in 1942, the 7th son of a Louisiana sharecropper in baptist preacher. He was named after Huey P long, the populist Louisiana governor assassinated in 1935. The newtons, like the seals, wound off in Oakland as part of the Great Migration. There, Newton and seal shared a mutual respect, and bonded over their commitment to radical black activism. They fought to get black studies and other afrocentric courses added to the merit college curriculum. And on October 15th, 1966, they founded the Black Panther Party for self defense. The previous year had been difficult for those in the civil rights struggle. Malcolm X had been assassinated on February 21st, 1965, shot 21 times while addressing an audience in Manhattan. The following month, bloody Sunday occurred in Alabama, hundreds of protesters marching from Selma to Montgomery were attacked at the Edmund pettus bridge by state troopers who beat them with nightsticks and sprayed them with tear gas. Though a major victory came with a Voting Rights Act of 1965, just days after it was signed into law, riots erupted in watts, a black community in Los Angeles, in response to news of a violent traffic stop in which a white officer kicked a pregnant black woman. The riot lasted for 6 days, caused millions of dollars in damage and resulted in 34 deaths. But for seal and Newton, it was an event of the next year, 1966 that was likely the last straw. Matthew Johnson, an unarmed black man, had been shot to death by police in nearby San Francisco. Seal and Newton felt that this incident further proved that black people couldn't expect protection by the police. If anything, black citizens needed protection from the police and the black Panthers were formed a month later. The symbol for the party, the image of a crouched and snarling Black Panther, was borrowed from the lounge county freedom organization in Alabama. The panther leaders felt the symbol neatly summed up their philosophy. As Newton put it, it's not in the Panthers nature to attack first, but when he is attacked and backed into a corner, he will respond viciously. Seal and Newton drafted a ten point platforming, outlining the parties beliefs and demands, including an emphasis on self defense. To raise money for guns and ammunition, they sold copies of chairman Mao's little red book on college campuses. The Panthers felt it was critical to keep an eye on the police, while the cops patrolled Oakland, the Panthers patrolled the cops. Newton and seal saw to it that the Panthers acted as a deterrent to police brutality in the east bay..
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"That's two weeks before everyone else. Again, that's wondery dot FM slash app of versary to start your free trial. Bobby seale was born on October 22nd, 1936 in Dallas, Texas, the oldest of three children. His father, a Carpenter, struggled to make ends meet, and when Bobby was 8, the family left Texas for California, seeking a better life. The seals were just a few of the millions of African Americans who left the south as part of the Great Migration. They wound up in Oakland, joining the growing black community there. At 18, seal dropped out of high school and enlisted in the air force. He lasted three years until he got kicked out for fighting a commanding officer. Seal was court martialed, then dishonorably discharged. He was told he had just 5 minutes to get off the base. He replied, what are you going to do with the other four minutes and 59 seconds? Because it won't take me any time to get away from here. Seal returned to Oakland where he worked in a sheet metal factory by day, and finished his high school degree at night. Seal sought to continue his education at Oakland's merit college, a seemingly ordinary decision that would have a major impact on the civil rights movement. In the early 1960s, at Merritt college, seal stood out, he was outspoken, political, and anti authority. He immersed himself in black nationalist literature, studying the teachings of Malcolm X, and joined the Afro American association. One day, during a rally in west Oakland, seal came across another young black man making a name for himself on campus. Speaking to a riveted group of about 250 students about the Cuban missile crisis, his name was Huey P Newton. Newton was born in 1942, the 7th son of a Louisiana sharecropper in baptist preacher. He was named after Huey P long, the populist Louisiana governor assassinated in 1935. The newtons, like the seals, wound off in Oakland as part of the Great Migration. There, Newton and seal shared a mutual respect, and bonded over their commitment to radical black activism. They fought to get black studies and other afrocentric courses added to the merit college curriculum. And on October 15th, 1966, they founded the Black Panther Party for self defense. The previous year had been difficult for those in the civil rights struggle. Malcolm X had been assassinated on February 21st, 1965, shot 21 times while addressing an audience in Manhattan. The following month, bloody Sunday occurred in Alabama, hundreds of protesters marching from Selma to Montgomery were attacked at the Edmund pettus bridge by state troopers who beat them with nightsticks and sprayed them with tear gas. Though a major victory came with a Voting Rights Act of 1965, just days after it was signed into law, riots erupted in watts, a black community in Los Angeles, in response to news of a violent traffic stop in which a white officer kicked a pregnant black woman. The riot lasted for 6 days, caused millions of dollars in damage and resulted in 34 deaths. But for seal and Newton, it was an event of the next year, 1966 that was likely the last straw. Matthew Johnson, an unarmed black man, had been shot to death by police in nearby San Francisco. Seal and Newton felt that this incident further proved that black people couldn't expect protection by the police. If anything, black citizens needed protection from the police and the black Panthers were formed a month later. The symbol for the party, the image of a crouched and snarling Black Panther, was borrowed from the lounge county freedom organization in Alabama. The panther leaders felt the symbol neatly summed up their philosophy. As Newton put it, it's not in the Panthers nature to attack first, but when he is attacked and backed into a corner, he will respond viciously. Seal and Newton drafted a ten point platforming, outlining the parties beliefs and demands, including an emphasis on self defense. To raise money for guns and ammunition, they sold copies of chairman Mao's little red book on college campuses. The Panthers felt it was critical to keep an eye on the police, while the cops patrolled Oakland, the Panthers patrolled the cops. Newton and seal saw to it that the Panthers acted as a deterrent to police brutality in the east bay..
600 WREC
"lounge county" Discussed on 600 WREC
"A delicate dance a game of chicken because Iran's debating the sanctions be dropped. Erica's listening to Bach's Good Morning seven Oh three and Alabama's Morning news with J T I'm Leah Brandon, Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill is helping lead a new group that's charged with restoring public confidence in elections following the 2020 election. Miss. The commission will try to identify best practices that, in the words of Merrill make it easy to vote and hard to cheat. The group plans to speak with state officials from around the nation. Some leaders already have submitted suggestions on things like signature verification, audit procedures and testing a voting equipment. Carol tells the Wall Street Journal. The commission will sort through those ideas and see which one should be presented to state legislatures there, hoping to release something within weeks. I'm Jim Charity, a proposed lottery bill package that also includes casinos in five Alabama counties, now drawing criticism from smaller bingo operators. The owners of businesses like center stage bingo and Lounge County argue it is unfair that they be forced to shut down after operating for two decades. The bill's sponsor, Senator Delmar Shove, Aniston says. The proposed five location camp was done in order to prevent so called wide spread and possibly illegal gambling operations from opening up. That excuse won't fly with business is already up and running. New Labor Department data showing the number of Alabamians filing for unemployment benefits slightly down last week, the Alabama Department of Labor says for the week ending February 13th initial claims were a 12,087 that's down 1000 from the week. Form in the latest covert risk map showing two thirds of Alabama counties considered to be it low risk for transmission. The State Health Department says the remaining third of the state is in a moderate risk. New cases are down 30% in the past week, hospitalizations also moving lower. I'm Leah Brandon, and this is Alabama's morning news Now back to your host. Here's J T. All right, Leah. Thank you very much. It is 706 Alabama's Morning news while we finally made it to the weekend, there were Facebook live in here in just a minute on my Facebook page. Just look forward Jeff Tyson J T there and come join us for all the phone Facebook. We do it every morning from seven until eight. On the way Coming up at 7 20 this morning Gonna be talking with Jennifer in the sewer, who was a former chair of the Massachusetts Republican Party. And the prospects are thoughts that maybe Trump will come back and run again in 2024 would not be something all right. Also on the way your phone calls. Welcome. 88 891 Oh, 51 of five. What you got going for the weekend? What? What's going on in the pandemic world where you are, And how is it with Distribution of the vaccines. Are you trying to get one? You can't Dr Sag will join us from you. ABC Infectious Disease Department will talk more about that with him at 8 20 this morning and also the UK variant. Is it more lethal? Is it more contagious to the current medicines battle it Well, the vaccines be able to deal with it all of that coming up again. With doctor saying at 8 20 this morning. On the way here in just a few minutes, gonna be checking in with Michael Bauer as they continue to battle in Texas. He lives in Austin, Texas. The water's an issue Now the electricity obviously has been a big problem here, but a lot of folks we're talking about my gosh. Texas getting pounded with snow. Why is the climate control of problem climate issues here? Who's to blame is this God eyes this us and our SUV's? I mean, the debate on this continues on and on and on. So an update on that coming up here in just a minute. It is seven Oh. Seven. Alabama's morning news. Stay with US traffic and weather together in three minutes NEWS radio 1055 w. E. R C It may soon be the biggest issue of our time. The n R. Hey, varies. Chris Mitchell. Here we are. In the beginning of the year. Everybody's thinking about losing weight. Well, I lost Maurer than £70 and have kept it off with sleep away fat dot coms, college and protein. We were just talking about Rob from Clearbrook right was inspired by you, Chris. So it's It's getting me Year, he started the Tummy Saver package. Just since the beginning of this year..
WNYC 93.9 FM
"lounge county" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"The sewer main for Brandy's wood and super was on the property of the person who found the complaint. Mm. They were. The book is waste one woman's fight against America's dirty secret. My guess is Catherine Coleman Flowers. One of the things that you do is you bring people who are in power people in the media politicians to see what is going on. And I want to read a passage from your book when you brought then Alabama Senator Doug Jones, and he was a little bit skeptical about what some people are telling him. And then I'll read this passage. It's from page 1 71. We drove to the open gate of the lagoon and walked around the stinking lake of fluid. A worker from the town drove up and began calling someone a cell phone. I knew that city officials didn't like it when I took visitors to see the lagoon, But most times when I went there, no one was present. Told Jones was afraid the situation would escalate. He walked over to the worker and introduced himself and we had no problems as long as we were there. Then you went to the lounge Interpretive center. Our last stop. They're Jones learned that even the interpretive center, a building controlled by the federal government had a failed septic system. The sewage flowed into the yard next to the property. The woman who lived next door, said that when the system overflowed, she could not use the front door to her home. She'd have to walk through sewage to get there. This never would have been allowed at a National Park service site in an urban setting. What do you think? Is the rural bias? I think the world by this is that people don't see it. It was like, you know, when you started off you talked about how a lot of people don't think about this because they can flush and forget. Well, if one people were If it was obvious. I think it would be easier to deal with. A lot of people don't see in a lot of people that have writing these policies when they write the policies to address waste, what issues they basically think about towns and the view and not incorporated. Then you can't access and I think we need to change that. Because it does paralyze a lot of rule. Communities think the other problem is that if you've never seen it before, you don't know what you're A lot of people trying to make policy to address an issue that they have not lived with. And I think it goes back to the to the policies of the philosophy of environmental justice is that the people in the community that are dealing with this should be to have a seat at the table to help find the solution. Because oftentimes engineers coming and I've taken people, not just Doug Jones, but engineers to the here and they started talking without asking the people what they're dealing with what problems they had. How long have they had the problems instead of listening to them so they can find a solution? So I submit that part of the problem is the technologies they no longer work. And it does not deal with climate change, and it's not just in Laos County. I was just a dressing on group last week that's on the Gulf Coast and they told me all along the Gulf Coast accept assistance of failing to Part, of course, is a health aspect to this and you helped jumpstart a peer reviewed study that was published in 2017 that found that a third of the residents tested Louds County had ringworm a disease caused by eggs. I was like hookworm Sorry hook or a disease caused by exposure to waste water and had been assume that that had been eradicated in the U. S. How did you How did you kick Start this study. What? Were you learning that made you investigate this and reach out to medical professionals? Well, I have been hearing all along from people that were complaining about health issues. And then some people talked about having problems with their stomachs. Um you know, diarrhea and so forth, they thought could have been associated with raw sewage. In addition to that, I had my own experience where the Health Department officials had called me to a site where they were getting ready to arrest a woman who was who was pregnant and She had raw sewage outside her home, and it was during the month of October. And when I went there and went out back the area where her fluent was teeming with mosquitoes and the mosquitoes bit me. On and I didn't think anything of it initially, but my body broke out in a rash and I went to my doctor and I asked her what she test me to make sure that I didn't Have anything and my all my blood blood work came back normal. Not ask her was it? Is it possible that Because I still had his rest. Is it possible that I could have had something that American doctors were not trained to look for? Because we had? You know, we didn't acknowledge that this was a problem. She said. Yes. And in the somewhere in the course of time I read a copy in The New York Times that was written by Dr Peter Hotez. Bayliss College of Medicine, and he talked about tropical diseases being on our shores. And one of the things that he mentioned was wastewater and poverty, So I Googled him found his email address. Willed him. Tell him about my experience and asked that question And it just so happened he was in Atlanta the next week. I went over to me them and he said, You know, I'm gonna send my parents scientologist there Because we're gonna start. We're gonna look for hook warm. Hey, started talking about these neglected diseases of poverty that we would find anywhere in the world where we find poverty, and that's how we ended up doing the study. His parapsychologist came We collected fickle soul, water and blood samples from individuals in lounge county, and they ran the test using PCR technology, which we hear about a lot now it's relates. We talked about the coronavirus. But they used their technology. They found evidence of performing other tropical parasites. In reading your book, it Z clear that it takes a long time to make the kind of changes that that need to be made. Whether that's you know, a preparation money or getting a new septic system for a family, which could be exorbitantly expensive. Is there something small? That could be done? I mean, I think we try to think about these things in a big giant changes. Is there something small? That could make a difference. With this issue. Yes, I think that first of all we have to those systems that are failing. It's best to these large municipal systems. Uh, they need to be. They need to be retrofitted and change. They should be part of this new could just green new deal That should be part of the change to build back better. We should include not just roads and bridges. And transportation. All of this should be included, but also wastewater infrastructure because it's failing around the country. So that's one thing we should do Retrofit those that are in place and then those that are working, expand them. Expanded to include people outside the area that do not have access again when I spoke to that group last week, and I was told about the problems along the Gulf Coast, the other thing that I was told that It was going to call each individual household $28,000 to connect. So we know that's not going to happen. We have to move away from mean the role of government is to ensure that we protect the common good, and I think the first step is that government should protect the common good by doing the government shouldn't do which is provided for people. When they unable to provide for themselves and make it affordable and accessible because if we all if people don't have access to we're all at risk. Coronavirus issue was that The name of the book is Waste One woman's fight against America's Dirty secret. Catherine Coleman Flowers. Thank you for being with us and thank you for the work you do. Thank you.
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"Suspect accused in the 2019 fatal shooting of lounge. County Sheriff Big John Williams has been indicted on capital murder charges. Court records show was handed down against 19 year old William Chase Johnson yesterday after a grand jury met considering the evidence. Court documents say that Johnson shot the sheriff in the parking lot of a convenience store because Johnson had been asked to turn his music down the Alabama Apartment of Labor reporting, one of the largest single weekend creases and first time unemployment claims says the start of the pandemic and five Alabama football players air declaring for the NFL draft, Mac Jones, Jalen Waddle, Patrick Surtain, Dylan Moses and Christian bar more all making an official Jones describing the decision this way we all want to play in the NFL and listen to my family. Prayed and thought about it. And, you know, I just can't take enough people. I'm Leah Brandon, and this is Alabama's morning news. Now back to your host. Here's J T. All right, Leah. Thanks very much. I appreciate it is sick. So formed Alabama's Morning news. Well, it's Friday. Here we go and lots going on this morning. We're gonna be talking with variously from CBS Sports. Ah, little bit later this morning on the his thoughts on the national championship and also the coaching shuffling going on around the SEC. So an update with Baird On the way as well. And Kevin planning in our movie guy will stop in Liam Neeson's Got a new movie out, and I love Liam Neeson movies right? They might all be the same, but I love every one of them. I mean, he just gets after it, and we'll find out what that movie's about. Plus what's hot in the streaming world and anything new with Kevin Flanagan coming up a little bit later this morning as well, the craziness going on in our country, the effects on us when it comes to our health. Be talking with Dr Lim later this morning. It's 6 40. I don't know how it affects us and what we can do to help our own health in this. She's crazy, Trying times we're going through right now. As you heard top of the hour there, Joe Biden. Wants to give us some more stimulus. Money. Sounds good, right? I guess he'll just go ahead and get that back when he raises our taxes. Yeah, thanks, Joe. Oh, Maura. Debt for us National debt Rising like crazy. So give out more money. I mean, we're just gonna get everything free now, right with this new administration. Isn't that how it works? About my getting a free cell phone with this deal. I think Obama gave this one right. Isn't Joe gonna? You will have to wait and see. But I'm looking forward to the free stuff. I'll give you that much. All right. Also. This is so crazy. There's a couple of Bitcoin stories going on right now. First of all, the guy from San Francisco David, let's go with Delish 14 year. The guy from San Francisco who can't remember the password on his hard drive. It's got $220 million where the Bitcoin in it, he says, quote He's made peace with never getting that money back. People are offering various solutions everything from the silly to like. For example, one person suggested. Have you tried the word password so that that was one. Some people have recommended various mediums, psychics profits that I could talk to you. Oh, wow. This guy forgot his password. He had it written down on a piece of paper lost the piece of paper. So he's trying to remember it. You only get 10 guesses at the password and then Bitcoin just, you know. Gets rid of it and completely locks you out forever. So he's used eight of those guesses, and he's down to two. I guess there's not an 800 Bitcoin customer service number he can call. Hmm. And another Bitcoin story. You're back in 2013, A guy in England named James howls throughout an old hard drive. It had the password toe 7500 Bitcoins he'd bought In 2009. He's been trying to get a landfill to help him dig it up because the net worth is about $250 Million.0. My gosh, Listen to this assumes, like put it in the bin at home. I had a second thought, You know, you've never thrown a hard drive eight before. Why start now? You know, a little demon in the back.
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Mosquito Bites Inspire Alabama Woman To Aid In Raw Sewage Problem
"Flowers was doing economic development work in lounge County, Alabama, She learned that people were being arrested and lounge for not having working septic systems. On one visit, she met a young woman whose toilet waste flushed directly into a pit out by her back steps. There were mosquitoes around the pit, and Catherine got a bunch of bites. I didn't think anything of it until I broke down the ranch. You want to break down the rest? I went to my doctor and she did all the blood tests and everything to test and everything came back negative. And I asked her. Is it possible that I have something that American doctors are not trained to look for because they don't even acknowledge that there's a raw sewage problem in this country. That experience started flowers onto a new career as an environmental activist. She recently won a MacArthur Foundation genius grant for her work, calling attention to the lack of sanitation infrastructure in some parts of rural rural America America America like like like like Clowns Clowns Clowns Clowns Clowns County, County, County, County, County, County, where where where where where where she's she's she's she's she's she's from from from from from from I I I I I I should should should should should should note. note. note. note. note. note. The The The The The The MacArthur MacArthur MacArthur MacArthur MacArthur MacArthur Foundation Foundation Foundation Foundation Foundation Foundation is is is is is is a a a a a a financial financial financial financial financial financial supporter supporter supporter supporter supporter supporter of of of of of of NPR. NPR. NPR. NPR. NPR. A A A A A lot lot lot lot lot of of of of of the the the the the soil soil soil soil soil holds holds holds holds holds water water water water water that that that that that this this this this this is is is is is one one one one one of of of of of the the the the the factors so when when it rains, for example, it takes a while for the water to drain through the soil. And then the other part, the other condition that I think is related. More so the climate changed anything. Now is that the water table is getting higher. So the ground water with the water table's been higher. One case that we've been working on In terms of trying to get septic system place onto a property. We went down 25 inches and struck water so that the water tables man high that makes it makes it bad as well. And then we're having Lots of rain. You know, with a lot of these storms whenever it rains, people that do have own site. Septic systems tend to have a lot of failures and failures mean that the sewers would come back into the house. Or come out on top of the ground because there's too much water. Can you tell me how common is that? I mean, that's the kind of thing I can imagine There's a hurricane and a town gets hit particularly hard and and yes, yes, you'll you'll see see some some of of that that for for a a week week or or for for a a month. month. It It sounds sounds like like what what you're you're describing describing is is a a persistent persistent problem. problem. Tell Tell me me what what you're you're looking looking at. at. When When you you go go into into the the field, field, their various types of problems 11 common type of prominent people that are living in Particularly people living in mobile homes, who straight pipe, which means that when they fluster told us, he goes straight on top of the ground there others where people have Headways. Would you know they have it had sanitation Do Ah accepted taint and the step to take his failed And when those septic systems fail, it pushes the sewage back into the house. People have complained about it going coming in. One family told us they came home in their house was full of raw sewage in other cases coming through a bath, too. Or through a think and end up in the house. So those are things that we've seen in another case, a loose in the outside of the homes and because they've gotten systems that are just not dealing with the current conditions very well and can't be maintained because that's always a narrative we're getting Oh, they can't afford to maintain and well, let's build something that they can maintain. Because The toilet's not on ly, you know, are for getting rid of waste. But that's what a lot of viruses are deposited. Especially now that we know that raw sewage can emit Cove. It It isn't