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Larry Roberts/Post-Gazette photosBill Metzger, a veteran who came to the Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System facility onMonday for an eye examination, looks at the photography done by homeless veterans during anevent at the center. Mr. Metzger, who served in the Navy from 1964 to 1967, said he feelsfortunate that he has not had the problems of homeless veterans.
Number of homeless veterans declines
SEE VETERAN, PAGE A-8
Veteran Leslie Thompson hugs Lauren Broyles, one of the VAemployees who helped him with his problems, and motions toMelissa Wieland, a Ph.D. researcher, as he talks about hisdifficulties.
By Adam SmeltzPittsburgh Post-Gazette
Five years since LeslieThompson pulled himselffrom on-again, off-again desti-tution, the 57-year-old sayscracking the cycle of veteranhomelessness has a simplefix.
It begins with calling ahelp hotline, said Mr.Thompson, who served inthe Army, Navy and MarineCorps before his life slippedinto uncontrolled chaos. Hecredits the Veterans AffairsPittsburgh HealthcareSystem with helping to re-build his life, stabilizing himso well that he has since be-come a trusted adviser to hispeers.
“The [homeless] cycle iseasy to break. The guys justdon’t want to do it. The pridesets in,” said Mr. Thompsonof Rankin, who joined sev-eral other local veteransMonday to spotlight VA
Pittsburgh’s homelessnesssupport and rehabilitationservices before VeteransDay. “You’ve got to make thecall.”
Nudging veterans in need— both men and women — tocontain their pride and ask
for help ranks among the big-gest challenges as the VA fin-ishes a national push to endveteran homelessness. An es-timated 50,000 veterans na-tionwide were homeless by
As Veterans Day nears, the VA is finishing a nationalpush to end destitution affecting those who served
SEE BUDGET, PAGE A-5
By Karen LangleyPost-Gazette Harrisburg Bureau
HARRISBURG — Legislativeleaders and the governor’s officesaid Monday that they have tenta-tively agreed to a framework for anend to the impasse that has delayedthe Pennsylvania state budgetmore than four months.
Leaders from both parties in theHouse and Senate briefed theirmembers on the proposals underdiscussion, which Republican lead-
ers said include increases in educa-tion funding, a hike in the sales taxand a large increase in relief fromlocal property taxes.
It was clear that disagreementremains. While a spokesman forGov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, in-sisted that Republicans had com-mitted to particular increases inthe main K-12 education fundingline and funding for special educa-tion and pre-K over the next twoyears, aides to the top Senate Re-publicans said that was not en-
tirely the case.“We’re moving, which is obvi-
ously a huge step forward for all ofus,” said Senate Majority LeaderJake Corman, R-Centre. “I thinkwe can resolve these other issuesin a fairly short period of time, butuntil they’re resolved, I can’t tellyou we’re done because we’re not.”
Mr. Corman said that frame-work involves an increase from 6percent to 7.25 percent in the state
State budget moves forwardLegislators, governor agree to framework to end impasse
University of Missouripresident Tim Wolfe
Universityhead quitsamid blackstudents’protests
SEE MIZZOU, PAGE A-4
By Summer Ballentineand Jim SuhrAssociated Press
COLUMBIA, Mo. — The presi-dent of the University of Missourisystem and the head of its flagshipcampus resigned Monday with thefootball team and others on cam-pus in open revolt over what theysaw as indifference to racial ten-sions at the school.
President Tim Wolfe, a formerbusiness executive with no previ-ous experience in academic leader-ship, took “full responsibility forthe frustration” students ex-pressed and said their complaintswere “clear” and “real.”
For months, black studentgroups had complained that Mr.Wolfe was unresponsive to racialslurs and other slights on the over-whelmingly white main campus ofthe state’s four-college system. Thecomplaints came to a head twodays ago, when at least 30 blackfootball players announced they
San Franciscofirm taking lookat Oxford Centre
SEE OXFORD, PAGE A-8
By Mark BelkoPittsburgh Post-Gazette
One of the nation’s oldest real es-tate companies has its eye on one ofPittsburgh’s signature skyscrap-ers.
Shorenstein Properties LLC, aprivate real estate investment com-pany formed in 1924 and headquar-tered in San Francisco, has been intalks about a possible purchase ofOne Oxford Centre at 301 Grant St.,according to real estate sources.
However, the firm does not havethe building under a formal agree-ment to be purchased.
Oxford Development Co., whichbuilt the 45-story skyscraper in theearly 1980s during the city’s SecondRenaissance, put the building withits distinctive aluminum and glassoctagonal towers up for sale in Au-gust.
Assaults beingaddressed atWoodlandHills schoolOverhauls includecooling-off room
SEE SCHOOL, PAGE A-8
By Mary NiederbergerPittsburgh Post-Gazette
The president of the WoodlandHills Education Association saidthe teachers union is happy withthe changes the administration ismaking at Edgewood PrimarySchool, where 11 teachers reportedbeing assaulted by students ingrades K-3.
Adam Forgie said Licia Lentz,who was installed as acting princi-pal Friday, sent emails to Edge-wood teachers over the weekend“notifying them that she is sup-porting them and makingchanges.”
Among the immediate changesMonday was the creation of a “re-source room,” a room, staffed byteachers, where a student who actsout can be sent to calm down, Mr.Forgie said. Ms. Lentz, who was the
Myanmaropposition partywins early seats
The military-linked rulingparty conceded losing
key races to the NationalLeague for Democracy,led by Aung San Suu
Kyi. The official outcomewill take several days.
Story, Page A-3
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