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TexasTowelie's JournalLouisiana principal resigns after being arrested at strip club while on school field trip
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WAFB) - Holy Family Principal Michael Comeau was arrested Thursday, May 30 in Washington, D.C. at a strip club.
According to a police report, officers responded to Archibald’s Gentlemen’s Club in Washington, D.C. for “an intoxicated man refusing to pay his bill.”
Comeau allegedly “was observed standing in the roadway, refusing to move,” according to the police report. It went on to say officers asked Comeau “multiple times to move out of the roadway, but Comeau refused.”
Comeau was arrested for public intoxication and possession of an open container of alcohol. Numerous sources told the 9News Investigators Comeau had a service dog with him at the bar/strip club.
Read more: https://www.wcax.com/content/news/Louisiana-principal-resigns-after-being-arrested-at-strip-club-while-on-school-field-trip-510714091.html
Goats to be used again for weed control in Vermont capital
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Vermont's capital city is going to be using goats again as a way to control poison ivy and other unwanted plants without herbicides.
The city doesn't want to use the herbicides near the Winooski River and Montpelier High School and the goats are able to digest the poison ivy and other plants.
Assistant City Manager Sue Allen tells the Times Argus the goats are part of a several-year effort to control poison ivy without chemicals near the Montpelier recreation path.
She says the goats eat the poison ivy while other acceptable species can gradually take over the area.
Read more: https://www.rutlandherald.com/news/vermont_wire/goats-to-be-used-again-for-weed-control-in-vermont/article_d635964d-79af-533c-853c-2f258c42e3aa.html
Springfield hospital likely to declare bankruptcy
SPRINGFIELD — A small Vermont hospital that has been struggling with its finances will likely file for bankruptcy protection in the near future so it can restructure its finances, its chief executive officer said.
Springfield Hospital interim CEO Mike Halstead said the filing of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy is probably needed so the hospital can survive, Vermont Public Radio reported .
The bankruptcy process will also require the 25-bed, critical access Springfield Hospital to come up with a long-term financial plan that will most likely mean having another health care system take over the business.
"We need to find a partner who's got a little bit more resources than what we have," Halstead said at a Wednesday public meeting in Springfield. "As a stand-alone hospital as Springfield Hospital and Medical Systems have been for the last 105 years; not in the cards for the future."
Read more: https://www.reformer.com/stories/springfield-hospital-likely-to-declare-bankruptcy,575019
(Brattleboro Reformer)
Jay Peak receiver cans Stenger days after fraud indictment
Bill Stenger has been fired from his job a consultant for the receiver overseeing Jay Peak and other properties at the center of the EB-5 investor fraud scandal.
The move Friday to can Stenger comes a little more than a week after Stenger was indicted by a federal grand jury on several counts, including wire fraud and making false statements regarding a failed biomedical research center proposed for Newport.
Michael Goldberg, the receiver overseeing the resort, announced Stenger’s termination with a posting on the Jay Peak Receivership website at 4:15 Friday afternoon.
“The Receiver stresses that Mr. Stenger’s termination should not be interpreted as an indication that the Receiver believes that William Stenger did anything wrong,” Goldberg wrote in that posting, “and, in fact, a forensic accounting performed by the Receiver’s professionals early in the case failed to uncover any funds wrongfully diverted to Mr. Stenger.”
Read more: https://vtdigger.org/2019/05/31/jay-peak-receiver-cans-stenger-days-fraud-indictment/
In Newport, EB-5 scandal lingers with dashed hopes and a 'whopping great hole'
NEWPORT — Brenda’s Homestyle Cookin’ sits a half block from where Vermont’s top federal prosecutor stood last week and announced that criminal charges had been filed against local developers Ariel Quiros and Bill Stenger.
Jessica Kennison purchased the restaurant in 2014 as the two developers, applauded by national, state and local political leaders, talked of grand economic plans for this northern Vermont city on Lake Memphremagog close to the Canadian border.
“I think there were a lot of false promises,” Kennison said this week, standing over the restaurant’s grill, flipping an omelette.
“It’s not just me as a business owner,” she added, “but a lot of people in town had their hopes up for something big coming in.”
Read more: https://vtdigger.org/2019/05/31/newport-scandal-lingers-dashed-hopes-whopping-great-hole/
Medicaid work rule now in effect
June 1 was a red-letter day for more than 50,000 New Hampshire residents who get their medical coverage from the expanded Medicaid program, known as Granite Advantage Health Care.
That’s when a new work or community engagement program kicked in, requiring anyone covered by Medicaid through Granite Advantage to complete 100 hours of work or approved community activities each month to maintain medical coverage, unless they are exempt due to medical frailty or other circumstances listed in the law.
Republicans reluctantly agreed to the Granite Advantage program last year, under the condition that a work requirement be instituted for able-bodied adults up to age 64 in the program, and Democrats went along.
With Democrats in the majority this year, they are working to basically revoke the work requirement by amending it through a bill, SB 290, that among other things would terminate the requirement if more than 500 people lose coverage.
Read more: https://www.unionleader.com/news/politics/statehouse_dome/medicaid-work-rule-now-in-effect/article_90da285f-3c28-5936-a701-dca050a30307.html
Gillibrand lands her 1st New Hampshire endorsement for 2020
Democratic presidential candidate Kirsten Gillibrand has picked up her first New Hampshire endorsement, announcing that state Rep. Sue Ford says she’s “the best person” for the White House.
In a statement released by Gillibrand’s campaign, Ford says the New York senator “cares for New Hampshire families and her own.”
Ford is a four-term member of the Legislature from Easton. She says Gillibrand “will always fight for the silenced, marginalized, or ignored.”
New Hampshire holds the nation’s first presidential primary and is set to vote on Feb. 11, eight days after the leadoff Iowa caucuses.
Read more: https://www.concordmonitor.com/Gillibrand-lands-her-1st-New-Hampshire-endorsement-for-2020-25914073
Former U.S. senator Kelly Ayotte, who prosecuted Michael Addison, angered by death penalty repeal
Former U.S. senator Kelly Ayotte (R) reacted swiftly Thursday after state senators voted 16-8 to repeal the death penalty in New Hampshire and overturn Gov. Chris Sununu’s veto.
“Very disappointed and angry that the NH senate failed to sustain the Governor’s veto of the death penalty repeal,” Ayotte wrote on Twitter. “Police killer Michael Addison is the happiest about their vote today.”
As the state’s attorney general in 2007, Ayotte was the lead prosecutor in the case of Michael Addison, who killed Manchester police Officer Michael Briggs in 2006 and is the state’s only inmate on death row. While the bill ending capital punishment is not retroactive, its opponents argue Addison eventually will see his sentence converted to life in prison.
“NH senators chose to give Addison a pass for killing Officer Michael Briggs. Sad day for public safety in NH,” Ayotte tweeted.
Read more: https://www.concordmonitor.com/Ayotte-prosecutor-in-capital-murder-case-angered-by-repeal-25942788
Senate Democrats ready to present their version of budget
New Hampshire’s Senate Democrats said Friday they’ve crafted a $13 billion, two-year state budget that responsibly addresses the public’s most pressing concerns, while Republicans called the plan reckless and irresponsible.
The proposal endorsed Friday by a majority of the Senate Finance Committee spends about the same amount in state general funds – $5.5 billion – as the budget passed by the House in April, but differs in several key areas. While both significantly increase education funding, in part by restoring so-called “stabilization grants,” the House budget would spend about $60 million more, paid for by extending the tax on capital gains. The Senate meanwhile, eliminated that tax and wants to send more unrestricted money back to towns and cities in the form of revenue sharing, $40 million compared to the House’s $12.5 million.
“The plans – they’re close, but I think we did more,” said Sen. Lou D’Allesandro, D-Manchester. He said the Senate had the benefit of working with updated revenue estimates and is counting on additional revenue from increasing taxes on out-of-state corporations doing business in the state.
“When you look at the thing in totality, I think we both tried to get to the same place, but we just used a different source, because we had better information than they did.”
Read more: https://www.concordmonitor.com/Senate-Democrats-ready-to-present-their-version-of-budget-25949764
Senate Finance Committee approves psych facility compromise
New Hampshire’s Senate Finance Committee is backing a plan to create a psychiatric facility in the state, breathing new life into a proposal by Gov. Chris Sununu months after the House stripped it from the budget.
But the plan, recommended 4-2, scales back Sununu’s original vision for a standalone psychiatric hospital, reducing the bed count from 60 to 24 and the price tag from $26 million to $17 million.
It’s the latest in a series of compromises being put forth to address yawning differences between the Republican governor and Democratically controlled Legislature over the budget. After weeks of rallies in which Sununu decried the House budget for tax hikes and surplus spending and threatened a veto, Senate Democrats are seeking to stake out common ground.
On Tuesday, those efforts hit full throttle, as senators on the six-member committee released and voted on a series of amendments relating to education and health care funding, intended to strike a balanced budget and head off a veto.
Read more: https://www.concordmonitor.com/New-Hampshire-Senate-Finance-throws-out-House-Democrats-capital-gains-tax-25853245
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