TRUMP BUDGET SCREWS THE DEPLORABLES
Trump had promised as a candidate to leave Medicaid untouched, along with Medicare and Social Security.
Hillary might have called the Trump-ites "deplorable" just once.
Trump will treat you like that for as long as he breathes.
Right side of history.
WILKES BARRE AREA SCHOOL BOARD RACE REDUX
One of the biggest surprises in the race for Wilkes Barre Area School Board was the showing of Melissa Etzle Patla who came in second in last week’s election. Patla had the support of the Save Our School coalition. She seemed nice enough but not terribly versed in the minutia of the details of the board. She did oppose the new school building plan and advocated for neighborhood schools. That message resonated and one has to wonder why the Save Our Schools people didn’t run a slate. With more viable candidates they might have upended the school board power structure. Patla was viewed as very sincere and that goes a long way.
FIRST STEP IN JUSTICE FOR DEEJAY MO
DA Stefanie Salavantis (Photo: Times Leader)
The late Mike Onley. (Photo: Citizen's Voice)
After three and a half years, there is a step in the right direction for my late coworker Michael Onley. Onley was known as DJ Mo and was a community activist against violence. But to me he was a guy who sat across from me and quietly mused about our jobs and the state of music.
District Attorney Stefanie Salavantis made the announcement saying that the case has been worked for at least a few years. Charged were Roberto “Ruthless” Battle, 28, and David “D-Rock” Nealy, 36, in the homicide of Michael Onley, 34, of Wilkes-Barre. Onley, a Coughlin High and Wilkes University graduate, was known professionally as DJ Mo.
The U.S. Marshals Service Fugitive Task Force arrested Battle without incident in New York City on Tuesday after learning of his whereabouts, U.S. Marshal Martin J. Pane announced.
It was determined that the men were thrown out of the bar, picked up a gun and just took out their immature, entitled anger on anyone who got in the way. Unfortunately that was deejay Mo.
He was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Step 1 for long delayed justice for Mike.
HOUSE PASSES JUVENILE JUSTICE BILL WITH BARLETTA LANGUAGE HELPING AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAMS LIKE SHINE
BARLETTA CHANGE MAKES AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAMS ELIGIBLE FOR FEDERAL
Congressman Lou Barletta (Photo: LuLac archives)
Congressman Lou Barletta (PA-11) today voted for juvenile justice reform legislation containing a change he negotiated to enable afterschool programs – like the successful SHINE (Schools and Homes in Education) program in Pennsylvania – to compete for federal grants to keep students on the right path. The bill, the Juvenile Justice Reform Act of 2017, H.R. 1809, today unanimously passed the House of Representatives and now heads to the Senate for consideration.
Last Congress, during consideration of the bill in the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, Barletta succeeded in inserting afterschool programs into the list of eligible recipients of grants to states to prevent juvenile delinquency. The change, which was retained in the version of the bill introduced this Congress, means that states will be able to compete for five-year grants to help local leaders meet specific needs in keeping students headed in the right direction through programs such as SHINE.
“SHINE has a proven record as a very effective afterschool program benefitting students and working families,” Barletta said. “I am very proud to have expanded access to more grants for programs like SHINE, because we have seen how effective they can be in giving children greater educational opportunities.”
SHINE is an afterschool program for students in grades kindergarten-eight that focuses on a project-based STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) curriculum. The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning recently analyzed 75 studies of 68 afterschool programs and found that students showed improved behavior and performed better academically than students who did not participate in afterschool programs. And according to a study from 2007 to 2012, of the 1,600 students who participated in SHINE during that period, 79 percent improved their academic performance; 96 percent advanced to the next grade; and 92 percent had exceptionally good or satisfactory attendance.
Barletta and Pennsylvania state Senator John Yudichak (D-Luzerne/Carbon) have championed SHINE together, working closely with Luzerne County host institution Wilkes University and its president, Patrick Leahy.
Barletta was instrumental in saving the 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC) program, which provides nearly 50 percent of SHINE’s funding. Beginning in February 2015, Barletta began working to save the program after an early version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act reauthorization eliminated it. As a result of Barletta’s efforts, the 21st CCLC program was reauthorized on a bipartisan basis under the Every Student Succeeds Act.
Barletta is continuing to work to save federal funding for SHINE. In March, he sent separate letters to Office of Budget and Management (OMB) Director Mick Mulvaney and U.S. Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos requesting that the Trump Administration reconsider its proposal to eliminate the 21st CCLC program.
MEDIA MATTERS
BOLD GOLD COMMUNITY FORUM
This week's guests are John Aciukevich and Annie Ellis discussing Luzerne County's Court Appointed Special Advocate program. Tune in Sunday morning at 6 on 94.3 The Talker; 6:30 on 1400-The Game, NEPA's Fox Sports Radio and 106.7 fm; and at 7:30 on 105 The River.
WALN TV
SUNDAY MAGAZINE
This Week on Sunday Magazine.
Sunday Magazine, Sunday morning at 5am on NASH-FM, 93.7, 5:30am on 97BHT, 6am on 97.9X and Sports Radio 590, WARM and 6:25am on Magic 93.
ECTV
Rusty Fender mans the ECTV Live desk during the week of May 29th as he and Director Mark Migilore welcome Dennis Giordano of the Pennsylvania Department of Transpiration to the program.
ECTV Live can be seen on Comcast channel 19 (61 in some areas) and is aired during the Noon, 6pm and Midnight hours each day of the week. Following Monday's Live program the show will become available on Electric City Television's YouTube channel which can be viewed on your computer.
BIG BEATLE TRIBUTE TOMORROW
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Louise Harrison on the right with Beatledd, the promoter of the show.
SUE HENRY’S SPECIAL EDITION
Tune in to Sue Henry's "Special Edition" this week as Sue recaps the week's news. The show will run Saturday at 2 p.m. and Sunday at 1 p.m. on WILK, and on KRZ, Froggy and Max 102 early Sunday morning.
BUDDY RUMCHEK
Want to hear some great parodies on the news? Tune in to WILK Radio at 6:40 and 8:40 AM on Mondays. As Ralph Cramden used to say, “It’s a laugh riot!”
KAREL ON THE STREET
Tune in Wednesdays on WILK Radio for Karel on the Street. Hear some of the funniest and he heartwarming comments on the issues of the day on Webster and Nancy with Karel Zubris.
BOBBY V’S DOO WOP SOCK HOP!!!!!
Bobby's show is back again live this Sunday @6PM on The River.
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Janet Guthrie becomes 1st woman to drive in Indy 500…..Sue Press is 1st woman golfer to hit consecutive holes-in one...Cleveland Indian Dennis Eckersley no-hits California Angels, 2-0......."Beatlemania" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 920 performances…
NBC News & Information Service (24 hr news) ends on radio….. USSR President Podgorny resigns "Beatles Live! At Star-Club in Hamburg Germany" released….."Brady Bunch Hour" last airs on ABC-TV......in Pennsylvania NBC affiliates scramble to get new programming after the NBC News Service ends….in Wilkes Barre WBRE Radio decides to continue the all news format for a time with a local bent. News anchors Guy Randall, Bill Graham and Joe Gries remain on the air along with Bud Brown to keep the format alive……meanwhile up the road at WVIA FM an overnight all news broadcast begins with David Kush, Roger Heydt and Ed Karpovich….and forty years ago this week the number one song in LuLac land and America was “Feels Like the First Time “ by Foreigner.
