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As the majority of the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant workers prepare to lose their jobs in the coming months, seven local lead-ers are fi ghting for them at the nation’s capital.
The group — Kenny Hunt and Charlie Martin from Paducah Economic Development, County Commissioner Zana Renfro, City Commissioner Richard Abra-ham, Mayor Gayle Kaler, Judge-Executive Van Newberry and union representative Jim Key
— is in Washington, D.C., today speaking with Department of Energy representatives and Ken-tucky’s federal delegation about the plant. The offi cials hope to speed up the department’s action on a request for offers for site re-use and push for full site cleanup.
The goals of the group are the same as those of Gov. Steve Bes-hear, who met with Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz and other of-fi cials Monday. Beshear called his meeting with offi cials productive.
The United States Enrichment Corporation, which leases the
plant from the DOE, announced May 24 it would cease operations within the coming year and lay off most of the plant’s roughly 1,100 workers. The announce-ment prompted offi cials to kick
Local leaders lobby federal reps in DC for plantBY MALLORY [email protected]
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Associated Press
State Sen. Gary Forby, D-Benton, smiles on the Senate floor as con-cealed carry gun legislation passes at the Illinois State Capitol Tues-day in Springfield. Illinois became the last state in the nation to allow public possession of concealed guns as lawmakers rushed Tuesday to finalize a proposal ahead of a federal court’s deadline.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The last holdout on allowing the public
p o s s e s s i o n of concealed guns, Illinois joined the rest of the na-tion Tuesday as lawmak-ers raced to beat a federal court dead-line in adopt-ing a carry law over Gov. Pat
Quinn’s objections.Massive majorities in the
House and Senate voted to over-
ride changes the Democratic gov-ernor made just a week ago in an amendatory veto.
Some lawmakers feared failure to pass something would mean virtually unregulated weapons in Chicago, which has endured severe gun violence in recent months — including more than 70 shootings, at least 12 of them fatal, during the Independence Day weekend.
“This is a historic, signifi cant day for law-abiding gun owners,” said Rep. Brandon Phelps, a southern Illinois Democrat who, in 10 years in the House, has continued work on concealed carry begun by his uncle, ex-Rep. David Phelps, who began serving in the mid-1980s. “They fi nally get to exercise their Second Amendment rights.”
State enacts nation’s final concealed-gun lawBY JOHN O’CONNOR
Associated Press“This is a historic, significant day for law-
abiding gun owners. They finally get to exercise their Second Amendment rights.”
Brandon PhelpsIllinois representative from Southern Illinois
Quinn
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BANDANA — If you blink, you would miss it. Nestled in a clearing on a remote road is what looks like a doorway. Enter-ing that doorway during a storm, however, could save your life.
Offi cials from the Na-tional Weather Service and Ballard County gov-ernment on Tuesday unveiled a project six months in the making: a new, underground forti-fi ed tornado shelter. What may just look like a door in the middle of nowhere expands into a large base-ment type shelter for those who need a safe place to ride out a storm.
The shelter is on the site of the former Bandana Water Treatment Cen-ter. The building was sold for scrap to fund the 44-foot by 44-foot structure, which did not cost the tax-payers one dollar, Emer-gency Management Direc-tor Travis Holder said.
The shelter would hold the 150 to 200 residents of Bandana.
Ballard County was
Ballard unveils tornado shelter
BY CORIANNE [email protected]
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METROPOLIS, Ill. — With a federal stamp of approval, the Honeywell Metropolis Works plant and surrounding communi-ty returns to full production today after offi cials outlined positive fi ndings from a comprehensive safety study.
The Nuclear Regulatory Com-mission hosted a public informa-tional session Tuesday to discuss the agency’s inspections and re-view plant modifi cations made by Honeywell in the months follow-ing an order that listed necessary safety upgrades required for the plant to resume operations.
Tony Gody, director of the Divi-sion of Fuel Facility Inspection at the NRC, said the confi rmatory order issued to Honeywell in Octo-ber was in response to the nuclear incident at the Fukushima Daiichi site following the earthquake that struck Japan in March 2011.
The plant shut down in May 2012 when an NRC inspection determined some of the plant’s equipment and structures would not be able to withstand a seis-mic event or tornado damage that could potentially result in a release of uranium hexafl uoride at the site.
Subsequent modifi cations at the plant resulted in a clean bill of health from NRC inspectors and
Plant resumes operations
BY WILL [email protected]
NRC explains Honeywell safety report
Photos by WILL PINKSTON | The Sun
Tony Gody, director of the Division of Fuel Facility Inspection at the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, discusses findings of the NRC inspections that
deemed Honeywell safe to resume operations during a public meeting in
Metropolis, Ill., on Tuesday, above. The plant resumes operations today.
Mike Norris (center), Nuclear Regula-tory Commission Office of Nuclear Security and Incidence Response
team leader, speaks about the NRC inspection of the Honeywell Metropolis Works plant during a public meeting in Metropolis, Ill., on Tuesday, right. The
plant ceased operations in May 2012.Please see HONEYWELL | 8A
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Senior Medicare Patrol, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., 1400 H.C. Mathis Drive. Learn to detect potential Medicare errors, fraud and abuse. Report errors or suspected fraud to SMP. 442-8993.
Matters of Life Forum, 11:30 a.m., McCracken County Senior Center. Free information on will preparation and estate planning.
Paducah Toastmasters, noon, The Pasta House Co. Call Joe Shall-better at 506-1791 or Clay Camp-bell at 703-2700.
Downtown Kiwanis Club, lunch, noon, Elks Club, 310 N. Fourth St. 441-0825.
Wine tasting to benefit St. Nicholas Family Clinic, 5 p.m., Pasta House Co., 451 Jordan Drive. Guest bartender: Bob Hoppmann & Friends.
West Kentucky Right to Life, 6:30 p.m., Pasta House Co. 554-5798.
Dance, 7-10 p.m. Trader’s Mall, 6900 Benton Road, Reidland. Band: Due South. $5.
South Paducah Kiwanis meeting, 7 p.m. 1640 S. Sixth St.
Neighborhood Watch, 7 p.m., Ful-ton City Hall.
Grahamville Masonic Lodge 707, 7:30 p.m.
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A report on page 3A of Tuesday’s Paducah Sun incorrectly said that Steve Smith faces charges of al-cohol intoxication, resisting arrest, fleeing and evading second degree, disorderly conduct, and first-degree robbery. Smith was the arresting of-ficer for Paducah police. The person charged was Jeffrey Carpenter of Paducah.
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Three facing marijuana charges
Three people face multiple drug charges fol-lowing the police search of a home Tuesday in McCracken County.
Following several tips to police regarding possible drug usage in the home at 460 Sunrise Drive near West Paducah, officers obtained a search war-rant. Inside the house,
police found evidence of an indoor marijuana growing operation, processed marijuana plants and drug paraphernalia, according to the Kentucky State Police.
Mindi Houston, 36, of Kevil; Blake Pen-dergrass, 19, of La Center, and Jonathan Wissinger, 19, of Wickliffe were arrested around 3:30 p.m. at the Sunrise Drive ad-dress and taken to the McCracken Coun-ty Regional Jail. All three face charges of cultivation of marijuana of five or more plants, possession of marijuana and pos-session of drug paraphernalia.
— Staff report
Luncheon to aid Magnolia Manor
The Cairo Bridge Luncheon will be held Saturday, with proceeds going to the upkeep of the Magnolia Manor mansion, 2700 Washington Avenue in Cairo, Ill.
The event includes a day of bridge and lunch prepared by some of the top cooks in the tri-state area. The cost is $20.
Reservations may be made by phoning 618-734-0201. Registration begins at
9:30 a.m. Saturday with bridge games starting at 10 a.m.
— Staff report
Five counties get funding for early childhood programs
Five area counties are among 91 state-wide to share $1.2 million for Community Early Childhood Councils.
Area councils and their funding: Cal-loway, $15,100; Graves/Marshall, $33,600; McCracken, $20,000, and Trigg, $7,000.
The Governor’s Office of Early Childhood and the Early Childhood Advisory Council, both created by Gov. Steve Beshear in 2011, work closely with Community Early Childhood Councils across the state on en-suring a strong start for children on a local level. The CECCs are composed of commu-nity volunteers from local school districts, public health departments, child care pro-viders, Head Start, local libraries, parents and interest groups in other areas.
— Staff report
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The Paducah City Commis-sion signed off on a grant Tues-day night that gives the Paducah Police Department $8,985 to spend on the department’s DUI Enforcement Program.
The Law Enforcement Ser-vice Fee Grant pays for 151 hours of overtime for police of-
fi cers and 1,500 miles of vehicle travel at 45 cents per mile.
Good through June 30, the grant is awarded by the Kentucky Justice Cabinet and will target an offense for which Paducah police make around 400 arrests, on av-erage, per year.
Commissioners wrapped up business at City Hall quickly with a short agenda and several
members absent. Mayor Gayle Kaler and Commissioner Rich-ard Abraham weren’t present because they are part of the lo-cal contingent who traveled to Washington, D.C., to meet with Department of Energy offi cials and federal representatives about the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant site.
Mark Thompson, Parks Ser-
vices director, stood in as city manager during the meeting in Jeff Pederson’s absence. Mayor Pro Tem Sandra Wilson said Pederson also traveled to Wash-ington, D.C., but for separate meetings than those involving the larger group of local leaders, which also includes members
City Commission approves DUI grant moneyBY ADAM SHULL
Please see COMMISSION | 3A
The Paducah Business and Professional Women celebrat-ed the contributions of one of their own as Pat Moriarty was named the club’s woman of the year.
The group annually recogniz-es one member who possesses the spirit and hard work need-ed to advance the educational opportunities and working con-ditions for local women. Mori-arty, the current club president who started in the post this year, received the 2013 Busi-ness and Professional Women’s Woman of the Year award dur-ing a reception Tuesday night at the Pork Peddler restaurant, 701 N. Eighth St.
“I’m proud to be a part of this group and will do anything for the good of the whole organiza-tion and for the good of the en-tire community,” she said.
Moriarty said she was raised to give back to people and to where she lives. She enjoys participating in such a close-knit, loyal group of women. The award-winner also emphasized the work and dedication of the club’s 18 members, who are of varying ages, occupations and backgrounds, and who work to-gether to advance women.
“As we are all working toward the same goal, you develop very close relationships with your fellow club members,” she said.
Two members and former club presidents, Merryman Kemp and Audrey Lee, re-ceived the statewide Business and Professional Woman of the Year award in consecutive years, 2010 and 2011.
The Paducah group began in October 1920 and during the 1930s was the largest profes-
sional women’s group in Ken-tucky, according to the club’s abbreviated history.
Lee presented the award to Moriarty, citing her hard work on the club’s newsletter and with the scholarship fund. Moriarty was the force behind the club’s endowment gift of more than $60,000 to West Kentucky Community & Tech-nical College, which will start
presenting scholarships for the spring semester.
“Pat saw what we could do with our funds and led us with her ideas,” Lee said. “The club has a better future plan, thanks to her.”
Moriarty said she hopes the group continues to assist fe-male professionals and entre-preneurs and works to restart the women celebrating women
convention and networking event the club hosted in 2010 and 2011.
“This club is all about help-ing women who are just start-ing in business and their families through education,” Moriarty said.
Contact Kathleen Fox, a Paducah Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8651 or follow @kathleendfox on Twitter.
Club names woman of the yearBY KATHLEEN [email protected]
KATHLEEN FOX | The Sun
Club member and former president Audrey Lee (right) presents the 2013 Paducah Business and Professional Women’s Woman of the Year award to current President Pat Moriarty. She received a plaque Tuesday night during a reception.
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of Paducah Economic De-velopment, Paducah Area Chamber of Commerce and United Steelworkers Lo-cal-550.
Thompson was able to detail increased costs to the Noble Park Pool renova-tion project, contract costs that the commissioners will vote on July 23.
The commission intro-
duced an ordinance to in-crease an engineering ser-vices contract with Florence & Hutcheson by $40,995 to raise the total contract to $184,195. Thompson said the costs come from increased on-site supervision after the city put in an additional bid for work on the pool, mean-ing the fi rm helped coordi-nate three contracts.
A second change order adds $15,727.61 to a contract
with Midstates Construction Inc., which came across an asbestos water tank while building the pool’s new con-cession stand. Thompson said construction required the removal of the tank without asebstos exposure, which involved cutting a hole in a wall and removing the tank through it.
Also up for a vote July 23 is a zone change proposed for 161 Pecan Court, just
off Pecan Drive, from Resi-dential 1, or R-1, to High Density Residential, or R-4. The Ophthalmology Group, with offi ces on Broadway, plans a 30,000 square-foot medical practice with 161 parking spaces. The Plan-ning Commission held a public hearing on the zon-ing change July 1, and Steve Ervin, planning director, gave a positive report to the City Commission.
City commissioners also approved a $21,500 grant award from the Kentucky Division of Waste Manage-ment to buy equipment for the Greater Paducah Sus-tainability Project Recycle-Now, money that keeps alive recycling service in Paducah.
Contact Adam Shull, Sun business editor, at 270-575-8653 or follow @ad-amshull on Twitter.
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LOUISVILLE — A Ken-tucky bourbon newcomer looking for its own niche in the highly competitive sec-tor announced plans Tues-day to convert a century-old building into a distillery and visitors’ center, a ven-ture expected to further lift downtown Louisville’s stat-ure as a whiskey producer.
The makers of Angel’s Envy whiskeys said the $12 million investment will signifi cantly increase its small-batch production as the company looks to go nationwide with its bour-bons and rye whiskey. The brands are currently sold in close to 30 states on a regu-lar basis, along with a small presence in China.
“We’re going to come up with some really neat stuff as soon as we get the dis-tillery operating,” said the brand’s master distiller, Lincoln Henderson, who came out of retirement about four years ago to help launch the brand after decades in the industry.
The parent company behind Kentucky’s latest bourbon-related venture, Angel’s Share Brands LLC, is in line to receive perfor-mance-based tax incentives approaching $875,000, the state said. The venture is expected to create 40 new jobs and is seen as another stop for the state’s bur-geoning bourbon-related tourism sector.
“Today’s announcement means more jobs, tax reve-nue and investment for the state,” said Eric Gregory,
president of the Kentucky Distillers’ Association.
The company’s name is a reference to the time-hon-ored term “angel’s share,” which refl ects the portion of bourbon lost to evaporation while aging in the barrel.
The new distillery is ex-pected to begin produc-tion in December 2014. It will be built in a sprawling structure that’s been empty for a quarter century, lo-cated across the street from the city’s minor-league baseball stadium near In-terstate 65.
The expansion plans got a recent fi nancial boost, thanks to an investment from a Louisville-based private equity fi rm.
Gov. Steve Beshear noted the new distillery comes amid the Kentucky bourbon industry’s largest expansion since Prohibition. Kentucky produces 95 percent of the world’s bourbon, and Bes-hear jokingly called the oth-er 5 percent “counterfeit.”
“We take a lot of pride in this signature product,” Beshear said.
More than 8,600 jobs in
Kentucky are connected to distillery-related enterpris-es, generating about $413 million in payroll, he said. The 4.9 million barrels of aging bourbon in Kentucky outnumber the state’s 4.3 million people.
The new distillery will include still operations as well as a bottling line and grain handling equipment. The distillery also will wel-come public tours.
The company has added a twist to bourbon and rye whiskey production. After aging in white oak barrels
for four to six years, the bourbon is fi nished by ag-ing in port casks for sev-eral more months. Its rye whiskey ages for at least six years in oak barrels before fi nishing in Caribbean rum casks for up to 18 months.
“We broke the mold with our barrel fi nishes,” said Wes Henderson, son of Lincoln Henderson and chief operating offi cer for Angel’s Share Brands.
The company’s whiskeys have won rave reviews from some afi cionados, but Wes Henderson acknowledged
the unique fi nishes raised eyebrows among some bourbon purists. He pre-dicted the brand will win over purists, but said there are limits to its innovations.
“We can’t go crazy,” he said. “We have to protect the history of bourbon ... and we have to innovate re-spectfully.”
Since launching three years ago, the company has doubled fi rst-year sales, he said. It hopes to ramp up production in coming years.
The project adds momen-tum to efforts to revive down-town Louisville’s whiskey tradition. Many of bourbon’s biggest brands are made in rural Kentucky settings.
Michter’s Distillery, a maker of premium bour-bon and rye, is working to transform another historic Louisville building into a distillery that will of-fer tours and tastings. The company has said it hopes to open the distillery in the spring of 2014.
Heaven Hill Distilleries Inc., the company behind Evan Williams bourbon, plans to open a small downtown distillery this fall that’s expected to be-come a popular tourist at-traction. The attraction will feature a fi ve-story-high Evan Williams bottle tow-ering over the lobby.
“It’s exciting to see oth-ers planning to produce along the traditional ‘Whis-key Row’ and to see Louis-ville regaining its histori-cal place of prominence as a distilling location,” said Heaven Hill spokesman Larry Kass.
Maker of Angel’s Envy bourbon to open distilleryBY BRUCE SCHREINER
Associated Press
Associated Press
Lincoln Henderson, the master distiller for Angel’s Envy bourbon, talks about plans for a new distillery Tuesday in downtown Louisville. The company that makes the relatively new bourbon hopes to spread its sales across the coun-try once production ramps up with the expected 2014 opening of the distillery in what’s now an empty building.
Geological agency plans study of New Madrid zone
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — The U.S. Geological Survey plans to begin conducting low-level flights across sections of Missouri, Ar-kansas and Tennessee this week looking for additional information about the New Madrid earthquake fault zone.
The USGS begins the flights today over a 1,400-square-mile area across southeastern Mis-souri, northeastern Arkansas and western Tennessee. The flights are expected to last for about a month, the USGS said Tuesday in a release.
The single-engine Cessna that the USGS is using for the study is equipped with instruments that measure the magnetic field of the earth and underground rock forma-tions to help locate concealed faults in the New Madrid seismic zone. The information from the survey is also expected to provide a better understanding of the region’s overall geology and hydrology.
The New Madrid area has been the most seismically active U.S.
region east of the Rockies for de-cades, the USGS said.
It could take up to a year before the survey results are released, the agency said.
— Associated Press
Work to begin on bridges project over Ohio River
LOUISVILLE — Parts of the Ken-nedy Bridge in downtown Louisville will soon close as visible signs on progress show up on the long-awaited Ohio River Bridges project.
Starting as early as 8 a.m. Monday, crews will close the far right southbound lane of the bridge, leaving two lanes of traffic open to traffic until the evening of July 19, when work will move to the bridge’s northbound lanes.
A spokesman for the downtown crossing, Chad Carlton, said lanes will be shut for days at a time.
At that time, he said, Walsh plans to shut down three of the four lanes carrying vehicles north from Louisville to Jeffersonville, Ind., until the morning of July 22, when two northbound lanes will be open to traffic.
Max Rowland, a project manager with the Walsh Design Build Team, which is overseeing the downtown construction, said there are plans to close lanes on the Kennedy Bridge so it can inspect the span in advance of adding a new driving surface in 2016. The inspections are scheduled for two weeks — from July 15 to 29 — but Carlton said they could last longer due to unforeseen weather.
— Associated Press
Harrisburg mayor resigns after state appointment
HARRISBURG, Ill. — The mayor of the southern Illinois city of Har-risburg has resigned after being appointed to the Illinois Prisoner Review Board.
Eric Gregg read his resignation letter outside his home Monday. His successor is Harrisburg fi-nance commissioner Ron Crank.
Gov. Pat Quinn appointed Gregg to the board in April. Gregg would serve in the $86,000-a-year post until 2019 if confirmed by the Senate. He earned $800 a month for the part-time mayoral position.
Gregg says if he’s doesn’t re-ceive Senate confirmation he will probably run for Harrisburg mayor in two years.
Gregg was a union leader who ran as a Republican for the state House in 2000 but was defeated by then-incumbent Rep. James Fowler, a Harrisburg Democrat. It was the first Illinois House race to cost more than $1 million.
— Associated Press
Coroner: Man, 78, found dead in southern Illinois lake
MARION, Ill. — The coroner in southern Illinois’ Williamson County says he does not sus-pect foul play in the death of a 78-year-old Marion man whose body was found in a lake.
Coroner Mike Burke says the name of the man found dead Mon-day in Crab Orchard Lake isn’t be-ing released because the victim’s relatives haven’t been notified.
Burke says an autopsy showed nothing suspicious about the death.
The investigation continues.— Associated Press
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Gov. Steve Beshear, troubled by a letter from new Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz, met with Moniz Monday in Washington. The governor came away encouraged. But with the DOE’s history of moving at glacial speed, Beshear and other officials will have to keep the pressure on the department to clean up and repurpose the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant.
Beshear said the letter indicated the DOE planned to put the plant under surveillance and maintenance when its shutdown is complete sometime within the next year, with neither a reuse plan nor cleanup operations in place. That cannot be allowed to happen.
But the Energy Department has provided a glimmer of hope by issuing a request for offers (RFO) for the plant and its assets. The RFO, which seeks formal business proposals, is a good news-bad news development. Although it suggests the department is still considering repurposing the plant, which would be good for the region, the RFO comes so late that it might not help the workers whose jobs are slated for elimination.
But the RFO goes beyond the expressions of interest the DOE solicited in the
spring, which drew 10 responses, some from large corporations like GE-Hitachi. Since the DOE is not keeping local officials apprised of its plans, they can only speculate that the same companies that expressed interest will submit specific offers for plant reuse.
Beshear is also worried that
the DOE is considering proposals to purchase the tails — 40,000 cylinders of depleted uranium, each weighing 14 tons, the waste product of six decades of uranium enrichment — but not re-enrich them on the McCracken County site. The governor says this is “wholly unacceptable.”
He’s right. Transporting half a million tons of nuclear material to some other
site for re-enrichment would be illogical and certain to spark controversy. The tails should be re-enriched, but only at the plant where they are stockpiled.
Meanwhile, layoffs are scheduled to begin less than four weeks from now with the first 160 workers. The layoffs will continue in stages over the next year. If the governor is right, most of the employees could lose their jobs before the DOE decides on a plan for the site. The DOE’s late action leaves workers in a lurch.
The strong response to the DOE’s advertisement for expressions of interest demonstrates that the plant still has great potential. If only the process had been started earlier. The department has had years to prepare for this day but waited until now, with layoffs on the calendar, to get serious about the plant’s future. The federal government so far has seemed callous to the plight of the workers and the regional economy.
The DOE could atone, at least partially, for its neglect by following through on Secretary Moniz’s pledge to put the request for offers on the fast track.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The fol-lowing is the last in a series concerning the mindset of the left.
At the heart of the left’s vision of the world is the implicit assumption that high-minded third parties like themselves can make better decisions for other people than those people can make for themselves.
That arbitrary and unsub-stantiated assumption under-lies a wide spectrum of laws and policies over the years, ranging from urban renewal to Obamacare.
One of the many interna-tional crusades by busybod-ies on the left is the drive to limit the hours of work by people in other countries — especially poorer countries — in businesses operated by multinational corporations. One international monitoring group has taken on the task of making sure that people in China do not work more than the legally prescribed 49 hours per week.
Why international monitor-ing groups, led by affl uent Americans or Europeans, would imagine that they know what is best for people who are far poorer than they are, and with far fewer options, is one of the many mysteries of the busybody elite.
As someone who left home at the age of 17, with no high school diploma, no job experi-ence and no skills, I spent sev-eral years learning the hard way what poverty is like. One of the happier times during those years was a brief period when I worked 60 hours a week — 40 hours delivering telegrams during the day and 20 hours working part-time in a machine shop at night.
Why was I happy? Because, before fi nding these jobs, I
had spent weeks desperately looking for any job, while my meager savings dwindled down to literally my last dol-lar, before fi nally fi nding the part-time job at night in a machine shop.
I had to walk several miles from the rooming house where I lived in Harlem to the machine shop located just below the Brooklyn Bridge, in order to save that last dollar to buy bread until I got a payday.
When I then found a full-time job delivering telegrams during the day, the money from the two jobs combined was more than I had ever made before. I could pay the back rent I owed on my room and both eat and ride the sub-ways back and forth to work.
I could even put aside some money for a rainy day. It was the closest thing to nirvana for me.
Thank heaven there were no busybodies to prevent me from working more hours than they thought I should.
There was a minimum wage law, but this was 1949 and the wages set by the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 had been rendered meaningless by years of infl ation. In the absence of an effective mini-mum wage law, unemploy-ment among black teenagers in the recession year of 1949 was a fraction of what it would be in even the most prosper-ous years of the 1960s and beyond.
As the morally anointed busybodies raised the mini-mum wage rate, beginning in the 1950s, black teenage unemployment skyrocketed. We have now become so used to tragically high rates of unemployment among this group that many people have no idea that things were not always like that, much less that policies of the busybody left had such catastrophic consequences.
I don’t know what I would have done if such busybody policies had been in effect back in 1949, and prevented me from fi nding a job before my last dollar ran out.
My personal experience is just one small example of what it is like when your options are very limited. The prosperous busybodies of the left are constantly promoting policies that reduce the exist-ing options of poor people even more.
It would never occur to the busybodies that multinational corporations are expanding the options of the poor in third world countries, while busybody policies are con-tracting their options.
Wages paid by multina-tional corporations in poor countries are typically much higher than wages paid by lo-cal employers. Moreover, the experience that employees get working in modern compa-nies make them more valu-able workers and have led in China, for example, to wages rising by double-digit percent-ages annually.
Nothing is easier than for people with degrees to imag-ine that they know better than the poor and uneducated. But, as someone once said, “A fool can put on his coat better than a wise man can put it on for him.”
WASHINGTON — Maybe it was the too-cute-by-half way the administration let slip the news about delaying the require-ment that employers provide health care — policymaking by early evening blog post. Any announcement so deliberately low key had to signal bad news.
Maybe it was wishful thinking on the part of the health care law’s legions of en-emies. “This announcement means even the Obama administration knows the ‘train wreck’ will only get worse,” chirped House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), declaring “a clear acknowledgment that the law is unworkable.”
Whatever the reason, reports of the impending death of Obamacare have been greatly exaggerated. Indeed, reports that postponing the mandate demonstrate that the law is too unwieldy to work have been greatly exaggerated.
Put another way, if you are a fan of the Affordable Care Act and worry about its implementation, or an enemy salivating at the prospect of its implosion, you should focus on other potential problem areas. Among them:
■ Whether the insurance exchanges will be up and running by Oct. 1 in a way that’s accessible and comprehensible to consumers.
■ Whether there will be enough sign-ups by the “young invincibles,” who may believe they are impervious to the need
for health insurance but whose premium dollars are essential to keeping overall costs low.
■ Whether — and this is perhaps most funda-mental — it is possible to implement a change this sweeping and complex in the face of massive po-litical resistance by states whose Republican gover-nors decline to participate and by Repub-licans in Congress unwilling to consider legislative tweaks or to provide adequate funding for implementation.
In other words, of all the headaches facing Obamacare, the employer mandate isn’t close to the most throbbing.
The essential mandate is the require-ment that individuals obtain insurance. The parallel mandate that employers with more than 50 workers offer insurance was something of an add-on, a belt on top of suspenders. Without it, the law still works.
The reason is that most employers covered by the requirement — more than 94 percent, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation — already offer insurance. Their incentives to do so — to attract and retain workers, to take advantage of the tax free nature of compensation in the form of health care benefi ts rather
than salary — will remain, regardless of the mandate. Most employers will con-tinue to play, whether or not they have to pay.
Some critics have argued that the employer penal-ties, $2,000 to $3,000 per worker, perversely incentiv-ize employers to drop cover-age because paying the fi ne would be less costly than
providing insurance and because their employees would be able to purchase cov-erage on exchanges. Yet in Massachusetts, where the employer penalties were far lower than those in federal law, the share of employers offering insurance rose after the mandate took effect.
At the same time, the precise structure of the federal employer mandate is un-gainly — or, less charitably, dumb. It kicks in for employees working more than 30 hours a week. Employers may be tempted to game the system — and hurt workers — simply by reducing hours, converting full-time employees to part-timers.
The better approach, as my Washing-ton Post colleague Ezra Klein has argued, was in the House version of health care reform, which calculated employer com-pliance based on the percentage of payroll spent on health care.
So what will be the impact of the delay?
There is, granted, a certain irony in the administration freeing employers from the responsibility to provide coverage while individuals continue to face a pen-alty if they do not obtain it.
Still, as noted earlier, employers that offer coverage now aren’t about to drop it because of this change. As for the relative-ly small number of employers that would have added coverage in response to the mandate, their workers aren’t out in the cold. They will be able to buy insurance on the exchanges and, because most are low- to-moderate income, will be eligible for federal subsidies to pay the cost.
Similarly, workers whose employer-sponsored coverage is unaffordable (be-cause it exceeds 9.5 percent of incomes) or fails to meet minimum standards are also eligible for subsidized insurance on the exchanges.
In short, the federal government loses income from the expected penalty pay-ments — $10 billion, the Congressional Budget Offi ce estimates. The complica-tions that induced the administration to postpone the employer mandate (how to count workers’ hours or implement reporting requirements) are just that — complications, not insurmountable obstacles.
Expanded access to insurance — the fundamental goal of health care reform — remains intact.
Edwin J. Paxton, Editor & Publisher, 1900-1961
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WASHINGTON — If the Obama administration tries for the death penalty against Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, it could face a long, diffi cult legal battle in a state that hasn’t seen an execution in nearly 70 years.
Attorney General Eric Holder will have to decide several months before the start of a trial — if there is one — whether to seek death for Tsarnaev. It is the highest-profi le such decision yet to come be-fore Holder, who person-ally opposes the death penalty.
Tsarnaev will be ar-raigned in U.S. District Court in Boston this af-ternoon — the fi rst public court appearance for the teenager who was found wounded in a boat stored in a suburban backyard after a massive manhunt and a shootout with police
in which his brother died last April.
Holder, in making his decision, will get plenty of advice.
“If you have the death penalty and don’t use it in this kind of case where someone puts bombs down in crowds of civil-
ians, then in what kind of case do you use it?” said Aitan D. Goelman, who was part of the legal team that prosecuted Oklaho-
ma City bombing fi gures Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols.
In the past 4½ years, the Justice Department has sought executions in sever-al instances. But, in an in-dication of how protracted the process can be, none of the administration’s cases has yet put anyone on death row.
Massachusetts abolished its own death penalty in 1984, but Tsarnaev is being prosecuted in federal court. Since the federal death penalty was reinstated in 1988, only three people, including McVeigh, have been executed. Others have pending appeals.
In cases where fed-eral juries have chosen between life and death, they have imposed twice as many life sentences as death sentences — 144 to 73 — according to the Federal Death Penalty Re-source Counsel Project, a two-decade-old group cre-ated by the Administrative
Offi ce of the United States Courts.
The jury pool for a death penalty case against Tsar-naev would come from a state that has rejected re-peated efforts to reinstate capital punishment.
However, a former U.S. attorney in Massachusetts, Michael J. Sullivan, says viewing the state as op-posed to the penalty is not entirely correct.
Voters have supported reinstating the death pen-alty in non-binding refer-enda. And when Sullivan was U.S. attorney in Bos-ton, his team of prosecu-tors won a death penalty verdict.
That case is on appeal.“I’m not suggesting
there’s strong interest in reinstating the death pen-alty in Massachusetts, but I think jurors in a fed-eral case would be very thoughtful and under the right circumstances would vote in favor of the death penalty, said Sullivan.
Seeking death penalty in Boston case? A long road
AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File
Medical workers aid injured people at the finish line of the Boston Marathon follow-ing a bomb explosion April 15. If the Obama administration seeks the death penalty against bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, it would face a long, difficult legal battle with uncertain prospects for success in a state that hasn’t seen an execution in nearly 70 years.
BY PETE YOSTAssociated Press
CLEVELAND — Stylish and smiling, three women allegedly held captive in a Cleveland home for a decade offered thanks on YouTube for emotional and fi nancial backing they’ve re-ceived since going “through hell and back.”
From Amanda Berry, 27: “I want everyone to know how happy I am to be home, with my family, my friends,” she said.
“I would say ‘thank you’ for the support,” said a soft-spoken Gina DeJesus, 23, in response to prompting from a narrator.
And from Michelle Knight, 32, who wasn’t a fa-miliar face on a milk carton around town like the other two, came a sometimes halting yet defi ant reading of a statement.
“I may have been through hell and back, but I am strong enough to walk through hell with a smile on my face and with my head held high,” she said. “I will not let the situation defi ne who I am. I will defi ne the situation. I don’t want to be consumed by hatred.”
The 3½-minute video, produced last week and posted at midnight Mon-day, was fi lmed in a Cleve-land law fi rm overlooking treetops, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum and Lake Erie.
DeJesus’ parents, Felix DeJesus and Nancy Ruiz, joined the heartfelt state-ments of gratitude, thank-
ing the public for dona-tions to a fund set up to help the women. More than $1 million has been donated.
Ruiz encouraged parents with missing loved ones to reach out for assistance. “Count on your neighbors,” she said.
“Don’t be afraid to ask for the help because help is available.”
The women have turned aside media interview re-quests and appealed again for privacy since they were rescued in May when Ber-ry broke through a door and yelled to neighbors for help.
Pilots relied on automatic speed controlSOUTH SAN FRANCIS-
CO, Calif. — The pilots of Asiana Flight 214 relied on automated cockpit equip-ment to control the jetlin-er’s speed as they landed at San Francisco airport, but realized too late they were fl ying too low and too slow before the aircraft crashed, investigators said Tuesday.
The new details were not conclusive about the cause of Saturday’s crash, but they raised potential areas of focus: Was there a mis-take made in setting the automatic speed control, did it malfunction or were the pilots not fully aware of what the plane was doing?
One of the most puzzling aspects of the crash has been why the wide-body Boeing 777 jet came in far
too low and slow, clipping its landing gear and then its tail on a rocky seawall just short the runway. The crash killed two of the 307 people and injured scores of others, most not seri-ously.
Among those injured were two fl ight attendants in the back of the plane, who survived despite being thrown onto the runway when the plane slammed into the seawall and the tail broke off.
National Transporta-tion Safety Board chair-man Deborah Hersman said the training captain who was instructing the pilot fl ying the aircraft has told investigators he thought the autothrottle, similar to a car’s cruise control, was programed for a speed of 137 knots — the target speed the pilots had selected for how fast
they wanted the plane to be fl ying when it crossed the runway threshold.
Instead, investigators said the plane reached speeds as low as 103 knots and was in danger of stall-ing because it was losing lift before it hit the seawall.
The pilot told investiga-tors he realized the auto-throttle was not engaged just seconds before they hit. Their last second ef-forts to rev the plane back up and abort the landing failed, although numerous survivors report hearing the engines roar just be-fore impact.
“We just seemed to be fl ying in way too low. Last
couple seconds before it happened the engines re-ally revved into high gear. Just waaah! Like the cap-tain was saying ‘oh no, we gotta get out of here.’ And then, boom! The back end just lifted up, just really jolted everybody in their seats,” said crash survivor Elliot Stone, who owns a martial arts studio in Scotts Valley.
Asked if the autothrottle was malfunctioning, Hers-man said that is something investigators are looking into as they examine hun-dreds of parameters of data downloaded from the plane’s fl ight data record-ers.
Women in Ohio kidnap case thank public for support
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Gina DeJesus and the other two women held captive in a Cleveland home for a decade broke their public silence in a 3-minute, 30-second video posted on YouTube at midnight Monday. They said the support and prayers of family, friends and the public is allowing them to rebuild their lives after what Berry called “this entire ordeal.”
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Witness backs Zimmerman story
SANFORD, Fla. — The trajectory of the bullet and gunpowder on Tray-von Martin’s body support George Zimmerman’s ac-count that the teen was on top of him when the defen-dant shot and killed Mar-tin, an expert on gunshot wounds testifi ed Tuesday.
Forensic pathologist Dr. Vincent DiMaio also used photographs of Zimmer-man to point out where he appeared to have been struck during testimony that took up a signifi cant portion of the day’s hearing. Defense attorneys, who said they may wrap up their case Wednesday, were hoping DiMaio’s testimony would help convince jurors of Zim-merman’s claims that he shot Martin in self-defense.
DiMaio, who was hired by the defense, said the muzzle of Zimmerman’s
gun was against Martin’s clothing and it was any-where from two to four inches from Martin’s skin.
“This is consistent with Mr. Zimmerman’s account that Mr. Martin was over him, leaning forward at the time he was shot,” said Di-
Maio, the former chief medi-cal examiner in San Antonio.
DiMaio testifi ed that lacerations to the back of Zimmerman’s head were consistent with it striking a concrete sidewalk. Later, when looking at photos of Zimmerman’s injuries taken
the night of the shooting, Di-Maio identifi ed six separate impacts to Zimmerman’s face and head. He said he believed Zimmerman’s nose had been broken.
“It’s obvious he’s been punched in the nose and hit in the head,” he said.
‘Bless my Hotshot crew’: Survivor speaks at vigil
PRESCOTT VALLEY, Ariz. — On a day fi lled with speeches from dig-nitaries including the vice president, the words of the lone survivor of a fi re crew overrun by fl ames resonated deepest in an arena packed with fi re-fi ghters from around the nation.
A stone-faced Brendan McDonough fi led onto the stage at the end of the service and offered what’s called “The Hot Shot’s Prayer,” calmly reciting the words: “For if this day on the line I should answer death’s call, Lord, bless my Hot-shot crew, my family, one and all.”
He concluded by telling the crowd: “Thank you, and I miss my brothers.”
McDonough spoke at a memorial for the 19 members of the Prescott-based Granite Mountain Hotshots who died June 30 when a wind-fueled, out-of-control fi re over-ran them as they tried to protect a former gold-mining town from the in-ferno.
Vice President Joe Biden called them “men of uncommon valor” while thanking God that one member of the crew sur-vived unhurt.
“There’s an old saying: All men are created equal, and then a few became fi refi ghters,” Biden said. “Thank God for you all. Thank God for your will-ingness to take the risks you do.”
The event was marked by an outpouring of sup-port from fi refi ghters from across the country, who traveled to the Prescott area to honor their fallen brethren.
They talked about how firefighters are accus-tomed to answering the call of duty when the alarm sounds and sends them into harm’s way, whether it’s a fire in a forest, house or apart-ment. And they noted that the same can be said when a fellow firefighter dies.
“When you hear of a death, especially a group of fi refi ghters, and there’s 19 that we’re here to mourn, there’s no ques-tion that at the drop of a hat you do what you can to go and support the fi re service and their families,” said Capt. Steve Brown of the Rancho Cucamonga, who brought 17 others in his department of 85 uni-formed fi refi ghters from California.
The memorial in Prescott Valley began with a choir singing “On Eagle’s Wings” as Biden sang along from the sidelines. Homeland Se-curity Secretary and for-mer Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano looked on, as did Sen. John McCain and his wife, Cindy, and other members of the state’s congressional del-egation.
Biden talked about the 1972 death of his wife and young daughter in a traffi c crash, and how fi refi ght-ers freed his sons from the mangled wreckage.
Roadside bomb kills 17 in AfghanistanKABUL, Afghanistan — A road-
side bomb struck a motorcycle-drawn cart carrying women and children be-tween two villages Tuesday in western Afghanistan, killing all 17 people on board, a grim reminder of the dangers facing Afghan civilians ahead of the 2014 withdrawal of foreign combat troops.
International troops already have pulled back into a largely advisory and training role as they try to prepare Af-ghan soldiers and police to take over their own security. That effort has been marred by a series of attacks by Afghan troops or insurgents disguised in their uniforms.
In the latest so-called insider attack, an Afghan soldier opened fi re on Slo-vakian troops in the southern city of Kandahar, killing one and wounding
six others.The roadside bomb that struck the
cart was aimed at stopping a joint patrol of Afghan soldiers and police that was pursuing a group of Taliban militants in the western province of Herat, local police Lt. Sher Agha said. But the bomb exploded next to the cart carrying the villagers, killing 12 women, four children and a man, Agha said.
Another roadside bomb exploded near a taxi in the southern province of Helmand, killing three civilians and wounding two, provincial government spokesman Ummar Zawaq said.
About 1,000 Afghan civilians have been killed and more than 2,000 wounded in the fi rst half of the year, according to the U.N. That marked a 24 percent increase in casualties com-pared to the same period last year.
In the south, an Afghan soldier opened fi re on Slovakian NATO
troops guarding Kandahar Air Field, base commander Gen. Abdul Raziq Sherzai said.
In Slovakia, Defense Minister Mar-tin Glvac confi rmed one soldier was killed and six others wounded, in-cluding two seriously, in what he con-demned as “a terrorist attack.”
Glvac said the soldier opened fi re from a guard tower.
Kandahar government spokesman Javid Faisal said the Afghan soldier had been taken into custody and ques-tioned, and that the preliminary inves-tigation has so far indicated the shoot-ing may have been an accident.
If the shooting is confi rmed as an insider attack, the Slovakian soldier would be the ninth NATO service member killed by Afghan forces this year, according to an Associated Press count. The NATO coalition has said it suffered 29 fatalities in 2011 to insider attacks, and 62 in 2012.
Obama authority on health rule questioned
WASHINGTON — In the courts of law and pub-lic opinion, congressional Republicans increasingly accuse President Barack Obama of exceeding his constitutional authority for the benefi t of special inter-ests, most recently by delay-ing a requirement for busi-nesses to provide health care for their workers.
In one instance, Sen-ate Republicans formally backed a lawsuit challenging the president’s appointment of three members of the Na-tional Labor Relations Board without confi rmation.
The Supreme Court has agreed to review a ruling in the case, which found that Obama overstepped his bounds.
Most recently, the White House’s decision to post-pone a key part of the presi-dent’s health care law drew rhetorical denunciations Tuesday from Republicans who, ironically, want to see the law repealed in its en-tirety.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Ken-tucky said the action was part of a pattern of “indif-ference to the rule of law on the part of this admin-istration. ... He did it with
immigration. He did it with welfare work requirements. And he did it with the NLRB when he took it upon him-self to tell another branch of government when it was in recess.
“And now he’s doing it again with his own signa-ture health care law,” said McConnell.
White House press sec-retary Jay Carney had no comment on McConnell’s complaint.
The White House dis-putes each allegation in turn, citing specifi c legal authority for the president’s actions, or saying the asser-tion was factually incorrect.
Oddly enough, on one particularly incendiary is-sue, Obama so far has re-jected suggestions that he has authority to continue government borrowing without a vote by Congress to raise the debt ceiling. To switch course would inevi-tably invite a lawsuit.
Whatever the merits of the Republican claims, they sometimes include a dose of politics of the sort they ac-cuse Obama of playing.
Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, threatened to sue when Obama announced sev-eral weeks before the 2012 election that he would stop deportation proceedings
against many younger im-migrants who are in the country illegally, so long as they went to college or served in the military. The move was widely viewed as a gesture to Hispanic voters, many of whom live in key battleground states.
A suit subsequently was fi led by federal immigra-tion enforcement agents, and King was not a party to it, although his offi ce says it was the product of a meet-ing he called.
King also used the issue to raise money for his own re-election emailing potential donors that Obama “refus-es to enforce immigration laws.”
McConnell’s speech also included a pre-emptive at-tack in case Democrats try to change Senate rules this summer and make it easier to confi rm presidential ap-pointees.
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Egypt pushes transition, naming prime ministerCAIRO — Egypt’s mili-
tary-backed interim leader named a new prime min-ister and won $8 billion in promises of aid from wealthy Arab allies in the Gulf on Tuesday in moves aimed at stabilizing a po-litical transition less than a week after the army de-posed the Islamist presi-dent.
The armed forces warned political factions that “maneuvering” must not hold up its ambitious fast-track timetable for new elections next year. The sharp message un-derlined how strongly the military is shepherding the process, even as lib-eral reform movements that backed its removal of Mohammed Morsi com-
plained that now they are not being consulted in de-cision-making.
The Muslim Brotherhood denounced the transition plan, vowing to continue its street protests until ousted Morsi, the country’s fi rst
freely elected president, is returned to power.
The appointment of economist Hazem el-Be-blawi as prime minister, along with the setting of the accelerated timetable, un-derlined the military’s de-
termination to push ahead in the face of Islamist op-position and outrage over the killing of more than 50 Morsi supporters on Mon-day.
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates pro-
vided a welcome boost for the new leadership. The two countries, both oppo-nents of Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood, celebrated his ouster by showering the cash-strapped Egyptian government with prom-ises of $8 billion in grants, loans and badly needed gas and oil.
In doing so, they are effectively stepping in for Morsi’s Gulf patron, Qatar, a close ally of the Brotherhood that gave his government several bil-lion in aid. During Morsi’s year in offi ce as Egypt’s fi rst freely elected presi-dent, he and his offi cials toured multiple countries seeking cash to prop up rapidly draining foreign currency reserves and plug mounting defi cits — at times getting a cold shoulder.
The developments un-derlined the pressures on the new leadership even with the country still in turmoil after what Morsi’s supporters have called a coup against democracy.
The military faces calls, from the U.S. and West-ern allies in particular, to show that civilians are in charge and Egypt is on a path toward a democrati-cally based leadership. The nascent government will soon face demands that it tackle economic woes that mounted under Morsi, including fuel shortages, electricity cutoffs and infl a-tion.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said Washing-ton is “cautiously encour-aged” by the announce-ment of a plan to return to democratically elected gov-ernment.
Oil train wreck in Quebecleading to criminal probe
LAC-MEGANTIC, Que-bec — Canadian authori-ties said Tuesday they have opened a criminal investi-gation into the fi ery wreck of a runaway oil train in this small town as the death toll climbed to 15, with dozens more bodies feared buried in the burned-out ruins.
Quebec police Inspector Michel Forget said inves-tigators have “discovered elements” that have led to a criminal probe. He gave no details but ruled out ter-rorism.
The death toll rose with the discovery of two more bodies Tuesday. About three dozen more people were missing. The bodies that have been recovered were burned so badly they have yet to be identifi ed.
Investigators zeroed in on whether a fi re on the train a few hours before
the disaster set off a dead-ly chain of events that has raised questions about the safety of transporting oil in North America by rail in-stead of pipeline.
The unmanned Montre-al, Maine & Atlantic Rail-way train broke loose early Saturday and sped down-hill in the darkness nearly seven miles before jumping the tracks at 63 mph (101 kph) near the Maine bor-der. All but one of the 73 cars were carrying oil. At least fi ve exploded.
Rail dispatchers had no chance to warn anyone during the train’s 18-min-ute journey because they didn’t know it was happen-ing themselves, Transpor-tation Safety Board offi cials said Tuesday. Such warn-ing systems are not in place on secondary rail lines, said TSB manager Ed Belkaloul.
The derailment and ex-plosions destroyed about
30 buildings, including the Musi-Cafe, a popular bar that was fi lled at the time, and forced about a third of the town’s 6,000 residents from their homes.
Resident Gilles Fluet saw the approaching train.
“It was moving at a hell-ish speed,” he said. “No lights, no signals, nothing at all. There was no warn-ing. It was a black blob that came out of nowhere.”
He had just said goodbye to friends at the Musi-Cafe and left. “A half-minute lat-er and I wouldn’t be talking to you right now,” he said.
“There are those who ran fast and those who made the right decision. Those who fooled around trying to start their cars to leave the area, there are probably some who burned in them,” Fluet said. “And some who weren’t fast enough to escape the river of fi re that ran down to the lake, they were roasted.”
Venezuela offer to Snowden brings confusion on his fate
MOSCOW — The WikiLeaks secret-spilling site on Tuesday said NSA leaker Edward Snowden has not yet formally ac-cepted asylum in Venezu-ela, trying to put to rest growing confusion over whether he had taken up the country’s offer.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has of-fered asylum to Snowden and says his country re-ceived a request from the former NSA systems ana-lyst. But Snowden, who is believed to be in a Moscow airport’s transit zone, has applied for asylum in other countries as well, and it is not clear how easy it would be for him to travel to the Latin American country.
On Tuesday, a promi-nent Russian lawmaker tweeted that Snowden had accepted Venezuela’s of-
fer, then deleted the post-ing a few minutes later.
It was not possible to immediately reach Alexei Pushkov, the head of the Russian parliament’s for-eign affairs committee who has acted as an unoffi cial point man for the Kremlin on the Snowden affair.
But soon after the post-ing on his Twitter account disappeared, he sent an-other message saying his claim was based on a report from the state all-news television channel Rossiya 24, also known as Vesti.
The channel said Push-kov misunderstood its report on Maduro’s com-ments Monday night dur-ing a meeting with Pana-ma’s president, which the anchorwoman introduced by saying “Venezuela has fi nally received an answer” from Snowden.
She then clarifi ed that Maduro said Venezuela had received Snowden’s offi cial request and showed a clip of him say-ing in Russian voiceover that Snowden “should de-cide when to fl y to Caracas, if he indeed has decided to come here.”
WikiLeaks, which has been advising Snowden, said Tuesday on Twitter that Snowden had not for-mally accepted the Ven-ezuelan offer, and that any decision on asylum would be announced by the “states concerned” and “then be confi rmed by us.”
Pushkov, however, fol-lowed up with a third tweet that essentially repeated his initial claim: “As Vesti 24 reported citing Madu-ro, Snowden accepted his offer of asylum. If this is so, then he considered this the safest option.”
Bomb rocks Hezbollah stronghold in Lebanon
BEIRUT — A powerful car bomb exploded in a Hezbollah stronghold in the southern suburbs of Beirut on Tuesday, wound-ing at least 53 people in the most troubling sign yet that Syria’s civil war is begin-ning to consume its smaller neighbor.
The blast in the heart of the Shiite militant group’s bastion of support raised the worrying specter of Lebanon being pulled into the violent Sunni-Shiite struggle in the region, with sectarian killings similar to those plaguing Syria and Iraq.
The Syrian confl ict, now in its third year, is whip-ping up sectarian fervor. Sunni-Shiite tensions have risen sharply, particularly since Hezbollah raised its profi le by openly fi ghting alongside President Bashar Assad’s forces. Lebanese Sunnis support the rebels fi ghting to topple Assad.
While there was no im-mediate claim of respon-sibility, there have been growing fears in Lebanon that Hezbollah could face retaliation for its now overt role fi ghting alongside Assad’s troops. The group’s fi ghters played a key role in a recent regime victory to retake control of the strate-gic town of Qusair, near the Lebanese border, where rebels held sway for more
than a year. Syrian activists say Hezbollah fi ghters are now aiding a regime offen-sive in the besieged city of Homs.
Syria-based rebels and militant Islamist groups have threatened to target Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon in retaliation.
The U.N. Security Coun-cil strongly condemned the terrorist attack, underlined the need to bring the per-
petrators to justice, and appealed to the Lebanese people “to preserve na-tional unity in the face of attempts to undermine the country’s stability.”
The car bomb struck a bustling commercial and residential neighborhood in Beir el-Abed, an area of particularly strong He-zbollah support, as many Lebanese Shiites began ob-serving the holy month of
Ramadan. The blast went off in a parking lot near the Islamic Coop, a super-market usually packed with shoppers.
“The explosion was so strong I thought it was an Israeli air raid,” said Mo-hammad al-Zein, who lives near the blast site. “My wife was sleeping in bed and all the glass fell on her, injur-ing her in the mouth, arms and legs.”
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The Senate voted 41-17 in favor of the override af-ter a House tally of 77-31, margins that met the three-fi fths threshold needed to set aside the amendatory veto. Quinn had used his veto authority to suggest changes, including prohib-iting guns in restaurants that serve alcohol and lim-iting gun-toting citizens to one fi rearm at a time.
Quinn had predicted a “showdown in Springfi eld” after a week of Chicago appearances to drum up support for the changes he made in the amenda-tory veto. The Chicago Democrat faces a tough re-election fi ght next year and has already drawn a primary challenge from former White House chief of state Bill Daley, who has criticized the governor’s handling of the debate over guns and other issues.
Lawmakers had little appetite for fi ddling any further with the legisla-tion on the deadline day
that the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had set for ending what it said was an unconstitutional ban on carrying concealed weapons. Without ac-tion, the previous gun law would be invalidated and none would take its place.
“If we do not vote to override today, at 12:01 a.m. tomorrow, July 10, there are no restrictions upon people who want to carry handguns in the pub-lic way,” said Sen. Kwame Raoul, a Chicago Democrat who negotiated the legisla-tion with House sponsors.
The law that took effect Tuesday permits anyone with a Firearm Owner’s Identifi cation card who has passed a background check and undergone gun-safety training of 16 hours — longest of any state — to obtain a concealed-carry permit for $150.
The Illinois State Police has six months to set up a system to start accepting applications. Spokeswom-an Monique Bond said police expect 300,000 ap-
plications in the fi rst year.For years, powerful
Chicago Democrats had tamped down agitation by gun owners to adopt con-cealed carry. So gun activ-ists took the issue to court.
Opinions varied about what would have hap-pened had a law not taken effect. Gun supporters said it would have meant with no law governing gun pos-session, any type of fi rearm could be carried anywhere, at any time. Those support-ing stricter gun control said local communities would have been able to set up tough restrictions.
With the negotiated law, gun-rights advocates got the permissive law they wanted, instead of a New York-style plan that gives law enforcement authori-ties wide discretion over who gets permits. In ex-change, Chicago Demo-crats repulsed by gun violence got a long list of places deemed off limits to guns, including schools, libraries, parks and mass transit buses and trains.
into high gear to get the at-tention of federal offi cials so the plant site is cleaned up adequately and new de-velopment is welcomed.
Chad Chancellor, Paducah Economic Devel-opment president, was not able to make the trip but said Tuesday that he remains on the front lines of the issue. He said that if the leaders do not hear what they need to hear and cleanup is not funded, he will push for the Fiscal Court to sue the DOE for leaving the site contami-nated. He said that if a pri-vate company had created decades worth of nuclear
pollution and attempted to just lock a gate and leave the way the DOE is planning to do at the plant site, the fed-eral government would get the courts involved.
“This is kind of a last-ditch effort,” Chancellor said of the trip. “We are giving them one last shot to do the right thing. If they don’t do the right thing now, the gloves are coming off and we’re going to go to court and do everything we have to.”
Chancellor said that Hunt, PED board chair-man, is attending the trip in his place. Martin, a for-mer USEC employee, was hired last year as PED ex-
ecutive vice president to research ways to prolong the plant’s life for as long as possible and suggest al-ternatives as well as help recruit new development upon closure. Martin has expressed frustration with an ability to get DOE offi -cials’ attention since taking on his post and said Tues-day that he does not know what the outcome of the D.C. meetings will be.
Kaler predicted that the combined efforts of local leaders with state offi cials will get the attention of the DOE. But if not, she said, they are not giving up.
Kaler and the other of-fi cials said that at the least
they would like to be treat-ed the same as other plants that have shut down in the past several years. At those sites, workers were im-mediately rehired to begin remediation work, which is a step before full cleanup. Federal dollars are cur-rently not allocated for any type of cleanup work.
“We will not let it lie,” Kaler said. “We are saying the same thing the gover-nor and his group said. We want the cleanup dollars sooner rather than later so we can put some of those workers out there to work.”
Key, vice president of the United Steelworkers Local 550 in Paducah, traveled
to D.C. several times before closure was announced to convince DOE offi cials to extend the life of the plant. Martin said that this is the fi rst time this group of offi -cials has met with the DOE about the plant.
The group’s itinerary in-cludes meetings with Brad Crowell, acting assistant secretary for congressional and intergovernmental af-fairs; Dave Huizenga, act-ing assistant secretary for the offi ce of environmental management, and Colin Bishopp, senior advisor for intergovernmental and ex-ternal affairs. Martin said that they were unable to schedule a meeting with
Moniz.All of the offi cials are
using funds from their re-spective organizations to pay their ways. The PED is using its funds, which come primarily from investors, for Martin and Hunt, and the union is paying Key’s way through member dues. The city and county tax-payers will foot the bills for Newberry, Renfro, Kaler and Abraham. Martin es-timated that the trips cost about $1,500 apiece.
Contact Mallory Panuska, a Paducah Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8684 or follow @MalloryPanuska on Twitter.
also recognized as a Storm Ready county by the Na-tional Weather Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administra-tion. Storm Ready counties have comprehensive plans, including lines of commu-nication and safety mea-sures.
Ballard County also put in a Code Red notifi cation system that notifi es people of severe storms by mass calls and text messages.
“The country has been hit especially hard in the last few years,” Rick Shanklin with the National Weather Service in Paducah said. “We have had about a dozen or so million dollar disasters in this last year. And there is nowhere in this country more at risk than ours, from the Rockies to the Appalachians.”
Shanklin said the National Weather Service’s 58-coun-ty coverage area — which spans four states — averages about 36 tornadoes a year and more than 300 extreme
weather events that produce high winds, strong rain and hail. Ballard County is one of the most hard-hit counties in the state. It has had seven presidentially declared di-sasters in the past fi ve years, Mark Garland, Region 1 Re-gional Response Team Man-ager for Kentucky Emergen-cy Services said, more than any other county in the state.
“It’s something to think about,” Garland said. “It’s very encouraging to us when counties want to go through the process. It’s not just putting up a sign. It’s more than that.”
Contact Corianne Egan, a Paducah Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8652 or follow @CoriEgan on Twitter.
an approval to resume op-erations, issued to Honey-well on July 2.
“We came to the con-clusion that the facility is adequate to protect public health and safety,” Gody said during the meeting.
Members of the NRC panel highlighted particu-lar measures including the strengthening of structural
braces, vessel restraints and piping supports on site against strong seismic events, as well as adding additional tornado missile shields around the plant’s liquid UF6 inventory.
Jim Hickey, NRC Inspec-tion Branch chief, said the plant also implemented a new seismic shutdown system that activates upon detection of seismic move-ments and stops the chemi-
cal process while also isolat-ing portions of that process to limit any potential release.
“As a result of the inde-pendent inspections that we performed, we con-cluded that Honeywell had completed the needed changes towards resuming operations,” Hickey said.
Larry Smith, plant man-ager, released a letter dated Tuesday to the plant’s em-ployees that said Honey-
well intends to resume UF6 production today, after sig-nifi cant investments in the Metropolis Works plant in the past year.
“At the same time, we have much work in front of us,” Smith wrote. “We must stay focused on running our operations safely at all times, and serving our customers extremely well. Custom-ers are the lifeblood of this plant, and their support is
essential to preserving good, high-paying jobs in the Me-tropolis community.”
Mayor Billy McDaniel praised the cooperation among all the agencies in-volved — from the federal level down to the state and municipal levels — and highlighted the important work done by both the company and the commu-nity’s workers.
“We’re going now to a
situation where we’re all go-ing to be coming together again, and there’s no doubt in my mind that what has happened in the last couple of years is going to make the city of Metropolis and Mas-sac County a better place to live,” McDaniel said.
Contact Will Pinkston, a Paducah Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8676 or follow @WCPinkston on Twitter.
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Beverly Poole, meteorologist-in-charge at the National Weather Service of Paducah, hands a plaque proclaim-ing Ballard County Storm Ready to Judge-Executive Vickie Viniard at a ceremony Tuesday morning in Ban-dana. Viniard said signs with emergency numbers will be placed around the county.
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Athens 84 73 s 91 73 sBeijing 81 72 t 86 73 rBerlin 74 53 pc 73 54 pcBuenos Aires 60 49 c 59 51 rCairo 96 73 s 96 72 sHong Kong 90 81 t 91 82 shJerusalem 81 65 s 81 64 sLondon 79 55 pc 73 54 sManila 87 78 t 88 78 tMexico City 73 55 pc 73 53 tMoscow 75 55 pc 78 56 cParis 82 55 s 75 53 sRome 84 66 s 85 66 sSeoul 84 75 t 82 75 rSydney 62 51 sh 63 53 pcTokyo 92 79 pc 91 79 pcWarsaw 83 55 sh 70 53 cZurich 74 53 t 79 48 pc
Five-Day Forecast for PaducahShown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
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0-2 Low; 3-5 Moderate; 6-7 High; 8-10 Very High; 11+ Extreme8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m.
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St. Louis
Cape Girardeau
Paducah
Owensboro
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Union CityNashville
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Evansville
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90/70A couple of
showers and a t-storm
High 94°
A couple of showers and a
t-storm
Low 72°
Not as hot with a thunderstorm
High87°
Low62°
Mostly sunny and less humid
High85°
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Pleasant with partial sunshine
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Partly sunny and humid
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Paducah through 2 p.m. yesterday
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Sunrise today ................................. 5:43 a.m.Sunset tonight ................................ 8:16 p.m.Moonrise today ............................... 8:00 a.m.Moonset today ................................ 9:31 p.m.
24 hours ending 2 p.m. yest. .................. 0.00”Month to date ......................................... 0.51”Normal month to date ............................. 1.33”Year to date .......................................... 35.09”Last year to date ................................... 12.53”Normal year to date .............................. 26.61”
High/low .............................................. 92°/75°Normal high/low .................................. 89°/69°Record high ................................ 101° in 1990Record low .................................... 57° in 1961
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Kentucky: Humid today with a couple of thunder-storms; thunderstorms, strong late in the north.
Illinois: Variable cloudiness today. A couple of thun-derstorms; thunderstorms, strong late in the south.
Indiana: Thunderstorms, strong late today, but a couple of thunderstorms in the west and near Lake Michigan.
Missouri: Clouds and sun today; a shower or thun-derstorm spreading from west to south, and dry in the north.
Arkansas: A thunderstorm in spots today. Hot in the west; humid in the east.
Tennessee: Humid today into tomorrow with a couple of showers and a thunderstorm.
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Albuquerque 94 71 t 92 72 tAtlanta 88 72 t 87 71 tBaltimore 90 72 t 87 67 tBillings 94 66 s 98 68 pcBoise 100 69 s 93 62 sBoston 83 71 t 83 69 tCharleston, SC 88 73 t 90 74 tCharleston, WV 88 71 t 83 60 tChicago 84 63 t 81 56 sCleveland 82 67 t 78 62 pcDenver 92 64 t 97 69 pcDes Moines 84 60 pc 85 64 sDetroit 86 63 t 81 61 pcEl Paso 96 76 s 98 77 pcFairbanks 68 49 c 72 48 pcHonolulu 88 75 pc 88 75 pcHouston 94 76 pc 97 76 pcIndianapolis 88 66 t 82 61 pcJacksonville 91 71 t 91 71 t
Las Vegas 105 87 pc 95 75 tLos Angeles 85 66 pc 83 65 pcMiami 88 78 t 89 79 tMilwaukee 80 63 pc 78 61 sMinneapolis 80 61 s 84 66 sNew Orleans 89 75 t 89 76 tNew York City 88 74 t 83 70 tOklahoma City 102 75 pc 100 76 pcOmaha 84 60 s 85 64 sOrlando 90 73 t 89 73 tPhiladelphia 90 74 t 86 70 tPhoenix 107 88 t 102 87 tPittsburgh 82 67 t 78 58 pcSalt Lake City 100 74 s 99 70 pcSan Diego 74 68 pc 72 67 pcSan Francisco 68 54 pc 66 55 pcSeattle 75 53 s 71 53 pcTucson 98 78 t 97 79 tWashington, DC 90 74 t 89 71 t
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Belleville, IL 90 68 t 85 62 pcBowling Gn., KY 92 73 t 88 63 tBristol, TN 87 68 t 83 63 tC. Girardeau, MO 94 71 t 87 62 pcCarbondale, IL 92 70 t 86 61 pcCharleston, WV 88 71 t 83 60 tChattanooga, TN 89 72 t 88 69 tClarksville, TN 92 73 t 87 61 tColumbia, MO 90 64 t 84 62 sEvansville, IN 90 70 t 86 61 pcFt. Smith, AR 98 76 t 99 73 pcHopkinsville, KY 92 73 t 87 62 tIndianapolis, IN 88 66 t 82 61 pcJackson, KY 86 69 t 81 61 tJackson, TN 92 73 t 90 64 tJoplin, MO 96 70 t 90 70 pcKansas City, MO 90 64 t 84 65 sKnoxville, TN 88 72 t 86 67 tLexington, KY 90 69 t 83 59 pcLittle Rock, AR 98 76 t 97 71 tLondon, KY 87 70 t 85 60 tLouisville, KY 90 71 t 86 64 pcMemphis, TN 98 78 t 92 68 tNashville, TN 92 75 t 90 64 tPeoria, IL 86 63 t 83 57 sSt. Louis, MO 90 69 t 86 65 pcSpringfi eld, IL 88 64 t 83 56 sSpringfi eld, MO 96 70 t 88 65 pcTerre Haute, IN 86 64 t 83 59 pc
National Summary: A cold front swinging through the Northeast will bring strong thunderstorms from Boston through Cincinnati today. Damaging winds and fl ash fl ooding are the main threats from the storms. Locally drenching thunderstorms will also erupt over the South and Southwest. Much of the rest of the West is forecast to stay dry and hot.
Cairo 40 42.12 +1.29
Paducah 39 33.40 +1.46Owensboro 38 17.90 +1.90Smithland Dam 40 31.97 +0.88
Lake Barkley 359 359.65 +0.25Kentucky Lake 359 359.61 +0.42
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