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Ketch Secor (center) and Old Crow harmonized
Old Crow Medicine Show is an acoustic Americana band. Acoustic and amped.
The Nashville bands interpretation of Bob Dylan music starting with his classic album Blonde on Blonde in its entirety and ending with Like a Rolling Stone was more electrifying live on Saturday at the Palace Theatrein St. Paul than Dylan probably has been in concert since his 1974 tour with the Band.
Yes, the instruments were acoustic guitar, upright bass, mandolin, fiddle, banjo, pedal steel guitar, dobro, accordion, piano and drums (the organ was electric). But the performers had the energy and enthusiasm of middle-aged punk rockers.
Hammy and hyper frontman Ketch Secor, 39, was so fired up that at times he seemed overanxious and too eager to please. He name checked St. Paul about 100 times and gave shout-outs to Dinkytown more than anyone in the history of modern music. He was so thrilled to be performing Dylan music in Dylans home state that he sometimes couldnt contain his excitement.
And, of course, this wasnt the first time Old Crow has played in the Twin Cities. Theyve performed several times on A Prairie Home Companion and in various local venues. In fact, multi-instrumentalist Critter Fuqua gave a shout-out to nearby Mickeys Diner.
When he handled lead vocals, Fuqua did a pretty good Dylan impression. Secor had the Dylanesque phrasing but his voice was smoother, more forceful and often more urgent than Dylans.
Both Secor and Fuqua, who cofounded the band 19 years ago, played several different instruments. Same was true for all seven members of Old Crow. The musicianship may have been the most impressive aspect of the two-hour, two-set performance. That and Secors ability to remember so many Dylan lyrics without a cheat sheet.
Some songs hewed close to the original arrangements such as Like a Rolling Stone, during which Secors harmonica was so loud that concertgoers wearing earplugs even covered their ears.
Some tunes were recast such as 4th Time Around as a waltz and the bluesy rocker Obviously 5 Believers as a smokin hot bluegrass breakdown.
Secor told the story of how OCMS came to collaborate with Dylan on writing a song. The bard had written Rock Me, Mama for 1973s soundtrack to Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. Secor added more lyrics more than two decades later and called the song Wagon Wheel. It became a signature for Old Crow and a country hit for Darius Rucker.
One Old Crow members met Dylan after "Wagon Wheel" was releasedand the great one told Mr. OCMS: You guys are killin it.
Secor told the St. Paul crowd that said hes thinking of having You guys are killin it tattooed across his chest.
Secor and crew did manage to rein it in at times. OCMS explored its old-time roots when five players huddled around one microphone (one other guy tap danced for percussion) for Knockin on Heavens Door and Blowin in the Wind.
That was a Dinkytown hootenanny 50 years later, Secor declared at songs end.
Lets see, Dylan left Dinkytown in 1960 and he wrote Blowin in the Wind in 1962. Ah, lets not quibble. Old Crow was a hoot. Period.
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Defense attorney Stewart Orden delivers his closing remarks in his client's attempted murder trial Monday.
Westchester assistant district attorney Christine O'Connor shows the jury the shotgun used to shoot a prominent doctor from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai outside a deli in Chappaqua.(Photo: Screen Grab from Pool Video)
Jurors will start deciding Tuesday whether the shooting of a medical school dean in Chappaqua last year was an act of violent revenge or a fired researcher's bid to publicize what he thought was the dean's medical fraud.
Hengjun Chao insists he did not try to kill, hurt or even hit Dr. Dennis Charney, aiming instead at the cup of iced coffee in his hand, when he fired a shotgun blast outsideLange's Little Store & Delicatessen last summer.
He didn't want revenge against Charney, who had fired him as a researcher at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Chao insisted as he testified Monday as the final - and only defense - witness at his attempted-murder trial in Westchester County Court.
"Because I hate him doesn't mean I want to kill him or injure him," Chao told Assistant District Attorney Christine O'Connor. "I want to expose him."
DEFENDANT: Chao takes stand at attempted murder trial
CHAPPAQUA: Man shot doctor to expose fraud, lawyer says.
DELI SHOOTING: Man targets former boss, cops say.
The prosecutor countered later that the planning, type of ammunition and Charney's injuries belied Chao's claims.
"You use that instrument of death ... you are going to kill," O'Connor told the jury, adding that only luck prevented this from being a murder trial. This is not a spur of the moment (act). This is a product of calculation. This is a product of hate."
Westchester Assistant District Attorney Christine O'Connor delivers closing arguments in the attempted murder trial of Hengjun Chao.
Chao hit Charney with buckshot pellets from less than 15 feet away on themorning of Aug. 29. The 50-year-old Tuckahoe resident is charged with second-degree attempted murder, first-degree assault and first-degree criminal use of a firearm.
He could go to prison for as long as 25 years. But his lawyer, Stewart Orden, askedjurors to acquit him because he had no intent to commit any crime when he fired that gun.
Chao claimed it wasn't until hours later, when a detective told him, that he learned Charney had been shot - even though he told the first New Castle police officer who arrived on the scene "Ijust shot an (expletive)."
"I didn't see any blood," he told Orden. "He looked at me. I looked at him. He stood there steadily."
Charney was bleeding from the shoulder. He was hospitalized for five days and testified that hehad pain and limited range of motion in his right arm for a lengthy period after that.
Chao was fired in 2010 for research fraud after three years of inquiry, investigation and appeals, all while he was able to continue working. After leaving Mount Sinai, he briefly held other, less significant lab jobs. He insisted he never doctored data and was retaliated against for making a similar claim against one of his researchers. He unsuccessfully sued the school in federal court, lost his federal appeal and the U.S. Supreme Court would not hear his case.
His civil lawyer brought medical journal articles to his attention that suggested Charney was not the esteemed psychiatrist people thought he was.
Chao insisted he had gotten over losing his job and for a few years was content to let things go as his wife had suggested. But in the summer of 2015 he was cleaning out his basement he picked up some of the journal articles and blogs.
He was particularly incensed because he was convinced Charney was in cahoots with the maker of the anti-depressant Plaxil, encouraging doctors to prescribe it even though it was known to increase the likelihood of teen suicide.
"I started having nightmares," he said.
Defense lawyer Stewart Orden demonstrates how his client's shotgun blast came out in a cone-shaped pattern.(Photo: Screen Grab from Pool Video)
In his closing arguments, Orden called those impressions "devastating" to Charney's reputation, at least in his client's mind.
"It doesn't have to be true," Orden said. "What I suggest it must be was it affected my client."
O'Connor argued that Chao, who had spent more than $200,000 in legal fees "and got nothing," could notget over the realization that he'd never again reach the pinnacle he'd attained at Mount Sinai and held Charney responsible for that.
She said Chao was "obsessed with hatred for Charney" and denounced his accusations against the dean.
"It was a clear campaign of character assassination," O'Connor said of Chao's testimony. "And I submit it had nothing to do with why he shot him."
Chao said he decided he would get himself arrested so that he would have the opportunity to speak out. He figured the best way would be to use a gun, considering the public's sensitivity to gun violence.
Hengjun Chao listens as his defense attorney attempts to acquit him for the attempted murder of his former boss, who he shot outside a Chappaqua deli.(Photo: Screen Grab from Pool Video)
He staked out Charney's home in Chappaqua, but grew worried that firing at him there could injure children if any were nearby. Once he learned the dean's routine, he settled on Lange's Little Store & Delicatessen.
Chao conceded it was him in the black Lexus SUV and the red Toyota Corrolla captured on videotape in the days leading up to the shooting.
"Every morning when I left my home I was hesitating should I do this or not. I'm begging for criminal charges against myself," he said, concluding that it was worth the risk.
He said he loaded the shotgun in his basement, but never intended to fire more than once. He figured he could make clear his intention afterward by pointing to the extra rounds in the gun and say that if he wanted to hit anyone he could have fired all the shots.
He insisted he did not fire at Charney's chest. And Orden argued that the evidence of where the pellets scattered - to Charney's right side and beyond him, and not to his left side or his car to his left - proved he wasn't aiming for center mass and could have been trying to avoid hitting him altogether.
But O'Connor suggested Charney's survival could be chalked up to luck and not Chao's careful marksmanship.
O'Connor asked Chao why he didn't simply run into the deli and grab Charney, or fire the gun in the air or into the ground.
Chao suggested the first option wouldn't have interested anyone. The second could have injured people.
Why didn't he just accost Charney at gunpoint days earlier when two New Castle police cars were at the deli the same time Charney was, O'Connor wondered. The cops would have shot him, Chao said.
"And you didn't want THAT to happen?" O'Connor asked.
"If I dead, who will tell the story?" he answered.
O'Connor also asked him why he didn't try to shoot the authors of the study that sought to legitimize Paxil. Regarding one of them, Chao said it was because he had already been exposed and fined.
O'Connor in her summation offered an alternative reason.
"Because they (the authors) didn't fire (Chao)," she told the jury. "He went to kill Charney because Charney took his life away."
The jury will begin deliberating Tuesday morning after getting legal instructions from Westchester County Judge Barry Warhit.
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One disastrous inning Monday afternoon sapped the potential for another Hurricanes surge.
A Liberty team that surrendered more than six runs in a game once all season gave up nine in the third inning. A pitcher who allowed 10 runs in 50 innings before Monday, Alex Super, was charged with 12 in four innings at Bears Stadium.
The Hurricanes also committed four errors, three in the decisive third inning, while falling 12-0 in five innings to District One champion Pennsbury in a PIAA 6A baseball semifinal.
The Falcons (21-6 overall) advanced to Friday's PIAA 6A title game against District 3 champion Dallastown or District 6 champion State College. The deepest playoff run by Liberty (25-4) since its 2002 state-final appearance ended a win shy of Penn State in stunning fashion.
The Hurricanes entered the state semifinals averaging 7.3 runs per game. They had scored at least two times in their first 28 games this season.
Pennsbury ace Billy Bethel shut them out with five strong innings. He allowed seven hits four in the first two innings but pitched out of trouble before the Falcons exploded in the third.
Add in the throwing and fielding errors, and Liberty looked nothing like the team that had emerged as the Lehigh Valley's best over the past 2 1/2 months.
"We've never as a team done that. Never," Liberty senior catcher Jared Burcin said. "It seems unreal to me. It's something I can't describe."
Added Liberty coach Andy Pitsilos: "That was uncharacteristic of how our season's gone. That was uncharacteristic of our team. We kind of made a few errors in that third inning, and things started to snowball. That happens. We give them credit. They hit the ball."
Liberty missed a couple of early chances to leave Pennsbury feeling the pressure to rally. The Hurricanes stranded runners at second and third in the first inning. They had a runner thrown out trying to steal second and left two more baserunners in the second.
Liberty still trailed just 1-0 at that point. By the time the Hurricanes had their third at-bat, they faced a 10-0 deficit.
The Falcons collected seven straight one-out hits against Super in the third and took advantage of a double error after that to build their huge lead. Liberty had the chance to get out of the inning trailing only 3-0, but a potential double-play ball scooted through their infield and up the middle.
Pitsilos kept Super on the mound throughout because he thought his stuff was better than the results. Super surrendered two more runs in the fourth before Ian Dougherty pitched a scoreless fifth.
"It wasn't really his fault," Pitsilos said. "He was still down in the pitch count a little bit. There were some errors in there, and he still had his stuff. It wasn't like he lost it. We just made some mistakes."
Those mistakes made for a quick trip from Bethlehem to Boyertown. They didn't obscure the other great moments from a season that included a District 11 title and a berth in the EPC title game.
"It was just as a team having fun," Burcin said. "It was everyone playing together and playing as a team and enjoying baseball, like everyone should."
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Senior shortstop Elias Gross returned to the lineup after missing most of Liberty's state opener and all its state quarterfinal because of back spasms. He smacked singles in each of his first two plate appearances before flying out to end the game.
Gross also made a nice throw after fielding a ball deep in the hole, firing to first for the out.
"It felt good," Gross said. "I just wanted to come out and have a good last game. I wish it wasn't our last, but I was doing everything just to play today."
This and that
Pennsbury pitcher Billy Bethel has thrown 11 innings and allowed one unearned run in the PIAA tournament. He will be available to pitch in the state final. Burcin ripped a double in his final high school at-bat in the top of the seventh. He went 4-for-11 with five RBIs in three state tournament games. Jake Wagner joined Gross with multiple hits, going 2-for-2.
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After getting a call for service while elected officials talked about their future, firefighters sped away.(Photo: Mike Ellis/Independent Mail)
The firefighters stood, leaning against a firetruck marked Liberty Area,while Liberty and Pickens County officials talked about how the city firefighters will become county firefighters.
A wall of Liberty City firefighters, at the meeting where city council members voted to jettison them to the county.(Photo: Mike Ellis/Independent Mail)
A call came over the emergency radios, buzzing on the belts of the 11 firefighters. They jumped on the truck and sped off.
The decision council members reached in the moments before the fire call will go down in the citys history, Mayor Eric Boughman said.
This is a turning point, he said.
Firefighters, lined up against a wall, at a Liberty City Council meeting.(Photo: Mike Ellis/Independent Mail)
The citys 11 firefighters will soon be county firefighters, getting credit for the time theyve been on the job and being able to cash in their built-up vacation time.
The citys three fire departments will stay open and stay staffed. One of the firefighters will move to a different county fire station, but the rest will be doing the same job at the same places, said Pickens County Council Chairman Roy Costner.
The move will become effective July 1.
Liberty City Fire Department Chief Chris Rowland praises the work that went into dissolving his department but keeping all the fire departments and firefighters under Pickens County control.(Photo: Mike Ellis/Independent Mail)
Pickens County Council members have already approved taking over the fire operations. Liberty council members are expected to have a second reading of the measure July 17 but would make the changes retroactive to July 1, Boughman said.
Liberty Fire Chief Chris Rowland said the priorities were to keep fire service the same for the city and to keep the firefighter jobs. He said the deal had come through, and also had been able to save the city money.
The fire department cost the city $465,608 in the current fiscal year, about $300,000 of that comes from tax money, Boughman said.
Residents shake the hands of Liberty City Fire Department employees after city council members voted to jettison the department to county control.(Photo: Mike Ellis/Independent Mail)
Moving the department gives the city, with a $2.4 million annual general fund, an extra $300,000 to tackle years of budgets that have fallen short, Boughman said.
Jettisoning the fire department would save enough money for the city to begin to give raises to other city employees and give the city a chance to have a good budget year, said Shirley Hughes, the citys administrator.
Residents of the city will pay a $120 fire fee this year, something they hadnt had in previous years. The money will go to help pay for the fire department. Rural residents in the county had paid $106 a year and will pay a $14 increase, Costner said.
Boughman said Pickens County also gets a model for absorbing a critical service from a municipality, which would help if the county wants to take on additional services from other communities.
The Liberty City Council also on Monday approved the city's annual of $2.4 million for the coming fiscal year. The city has an additional $1.2 million in separate sewer and water funds.
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Miami Herald | These neighbors hide in fear when the sun goes down Miami Herald When the sun goes down at the Annie Coleman public housing project in Liberty City, fear goes up. Because of the lack of outdoor lighting, residents tend to retreat inside their homes and kids don't use the basketball courts or playground. Walking to ... |
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LIBERTY A Liberty man died Saturday afternoon when an SUV rear-ended his tractor on U.S. 421, according to a report from the N.C. Highway Patrol.
Terry Smith, 61, was northbound driving a farm tractor pulling hay equipment at about 1:20 p.m. when a northbound Kia, driven by Dean Dimaria, 56, of Greensboro hit the tractor from the rear. Smith was ejected from the tractor onto the shoulder of the highway, where the Kia came to rest on top of him. He died at the scene.
Dimaria, 56, of Greensboro was transported to Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital in Greensboro with non-life-threatening injuries.
Trooper K.L. Brooks reported that the tractor was traveling at an estimated 20 mph; the SUV at about 60 mph. The investigation is continuing.
Smith was on his way to Troy Estate Road, which is on the east side of U.S. 421. He had been working in a field on Willard Road, which is on the opposite side of the four-lane highway. He was retired from UPS after 44 years and was a member of the Circle of Honor for safe driving for 36 years.
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Will Wilkinson has scaled the Olympian Heights of the New York Times for the cause of liberaltarianism and the greater glory of the Niskanen Center. But what is liberaltarianism? And who cares about it?
Speaking as a historically oriented political scientist, my first way of attacking this question is to ask where the object under examination came from. What is its origin? The term liberaltarianism was originally coined by my good friend, co-author, and co-conspirator Brink Lindsey over a decade ago in The New Republic. While Brinks objective in that article was to invite liberals into a coalitiona coalition that liberals like Jonathan Chait quite firmly refused to acceptI think the articles most immediate target was libertarianism itself. It defined a pole of libertarianism, around which those who were uncomfortable making common cause with conservatism could rally. Brink argued that libertarians should admit that they are not, as many of them had argued going back to the 1970s, equidistant from the two parties. They are natural allies with liberalsalbeit critical allies. Their alliance with conservatism was opportunistic, but their alliance with liberalism was on principle.
That pretty much describes where Will is coming from, as well as many of the other folks at Niskanen who came out of the libertarian network of organizations. For them, liberaltarianism is another way of saying post-libertarianism (a term first coined by our own Jeffrey Friedman). The purpose of liberaltarianism is to describe the political position you get to when youve become disenthralled with the mass of positions and alliances associated with institutional libertarianism but retain a substantial chunk of its underlying principles.
While Ive hung around with a lot of libertarians in my life and learned a great deal from them, Ive never been one of them. I am and (God willing) will always be a straight-ticket Democrat. So my path to liberaltarianism has a different trajectory than my co-conspirators here at the Niskanen Center. It is worth explaining why I now think liberaltarianism is a reasonable shorthand for my political positions, and what I think the philosophy has to offer for people who come more or less from my side of the fence.
I grew up knowing that I was a liberal, but also knowing that I was not quite like the other liberals I knew. This instinct was almost certainly hard wired, with sources that I may never get to the bottom of. But it meant that I was always drawn to liberals who got into fights with other liberals. In college that drew me to the Washington Monthly and its diaspora throughout the media landscape, and to the thinkers around the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC). In graduate school I read and was deeply influenced by William Galstons Liberal Purposes, which in a very vulgar way you could think of as higher DLCism. I had not thought through exactly what my program was, but I knew what my tribe was. Much of my subsequent intellectual career has been devoted to figuring out the program that should go with the tribe.
That program, such as I have been able to develop it up until now, can be characterized as left-liberaltarianism. That is just a fancy way of saying that I come to the liberaltarian project not as a refugee from libertarianism, but as an internal critic of modern liberalism. Liberaltarianism, as I understand it, is thus Janus-facedit is not the median between conservatism and modern liberalism, for it has criticisms of both. The core of left-liberaltarianism is an effort to combine liberal principles of social justice with a respect for limited government, and a preference for a relatively sharp line between state and market, and between levels of government.
By limited government, I mean a government that operates as much as possible through relatively simple, transparent, direct means that are susceptible to political oversight and citizen comprehension. The primary defining attribute of the state is coercion, and liberaltarians prefer that it use coercion out in the open. In contrast to the increasing attraction of those on the center-left for social policy nudges, liberaltarianism has a preference for shoveslarge blunt uses of social authority. Instead of a proliferating mass of regulations to combat climate change, liberaltarians prefer a tax on carbon. Instead of a variety of different tax subsidies and clever devices to encourage people to save, liberaltarians have a preference for good old-fashioned tax-and-spend social insurance. In contrast to the confusing welter of rules and regulations in Dodd-Frank, liberaltarians favor blunt limits on bank leverage. The defining characteristic of all these reforms is that they are simple and rule-like, replacing administrative discretion wherever possible with blunt applications of coercion specified in law.
Transparency and simplicity are themselves powerful limitations on government. With rare exceptions, liberaltarians want rules that avoid the excessive entanglement of the state and market, and the interweaving of levels of government. Instead of governments that, at many levels and in subtle ways, sneak up on involvement in a particular social domain, liberaltarians want definitive decisions by the national government to intervene (or not). This serves to enhance political deliberation, since the decision to act must be clear and responsibility for results unmistakably affixed. When the national government operates by steering or nudging or partneringwhether with private firms or state governmentsit is unclear precisely who is to be praised or blamed, and it can become nearly impossible for legislatures or citizens to exercise effective oversight. In addition, especially in the case of partnering with private actorssomething mistakenly referred to as privatizationthis kind of interweaving of state and market creates powerful temptations toward the corruption of both. These temptations can be seen clearly, for example, in the Trump administrations still-vague infrastructure plans, which promise to turn $200 billion of taxpayer money into $1 trillion in projects by creating incentives, guarantees, and inducements for private businesses, rather than using direct government spending. Something similar can be said of proposals like that of the Democratic nominee for governor of New Jersey, who advocatesa state investment bank for small businesses. The opportunities for the government to steer such projects to its political allies would be enormously temptingwhich is, in the Trump administrations case, almost certainly a feature rather than a bug.
This gets to a final feature of liberaltarianism, which is that it is especially sensitive to the ways that the state is not always an instrument of egalitarianism, but can be captured by the powerful and turned to their advantage. This is the subject of my forthcoming book with Lindsey, The Captured Economy. While the state is a potentially very powerful tool to enhance equal opportunity, it is also highly susceptible to the manipulations of those with economic and social power. As Brink and I argue, that influence is magnified in policy domains characterized by policy complexity and multiple, obscure institutional venues, which are easier for the wealthy to manipulate. Dentists, to take only one example out of many, are able to turn the regulatory system to their own advantage because the licensing boards that make the rules are so low-profile that they attract attention only from dentists themselves. Something similar typically characterizes other areas of upward redistribution, from financial regulation to intellectual property and real estate.
This vision of liberaltarianism, then, is primarily institutional in character. Back in the early twentieth century, Progressives who sought to increase the power of government to enhance social justice concluded that the only way to do that was to emancipate government at every level, to remove formal limits on the state (other than individual rights). But it turns out that a system of pervasive intertwining of the national and state governments, and the market and state, is one that is not particularly good for social justice, political accountability, or citizen engagement with politics.
One agenda for liberaltarianism, therefore, is to think about how to pursue important state functions in environmental protection, social welfare, and other areas in ways that are simpler, that sort out more cleanly who is responsible, and that involve the national government either in a way that occupies the field or that leaves matters for the market or state and local governments. We want a welfare/regulatory state governed as much as possible by law rather than administrative discretionrule-of-law big government, you might say. Often that will mean purer nationalization of functions, for example by nationalizing Medicaid (i.e., ending its status as a joint state-federal venture). But it will also mean reconsidering the mass of complex mandates and funding structures in K-12 education. It will mean trying to pull the national government out of the business of subsidizing private savings (through 529s, IRAs, 401ks) and just increasing social insurance. By doing soby sharply reducing the expectation of mass participation in private equity marketswe could also reconsider how we regulate finance, with less expectation that we need to protect unsophisticated investors. Other than preventing systemic risk (for example, through capital requirements) we could let markets rip more than we do now, since only the well-to-do would be significantly invested in them.
This is not the only vision of liberaltarianism. There are other visions that come more from the left, such as those that are primarily motivated by cosmopolitanism, or an aversion to paternalism. I am less convinced by those visions, although I think they are a necessary part of the larger conversations that should happen under the liberaltarian umbrella. I hope to address them in later posts.
Steven Teles is a Senior Fellow at the Niskanen Center and Associate Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. He is co-author (with Brink Lindsey) of the forthcoming The Captured Economy: How the Powerful Become Richer, Slow Down Growth, and Increase Inequality, and (with David Dagan) Prison Break: Why Conservatives Turned Against Mass Incarceration.
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"What we're witnessing," says Nick Gillespie on today's Reason Podcast, "is the end of a bunch of things"the Clinton political dynasty, Brexit, French establishment politics, the collapse of the May government in the United Kingdom"and in that end, there is the possiblity of...a different, 21st-century world...where politics and policy follow all the advances in personalization and individualization and autonomy we see in our cultural and political lives."
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A seven-part guide to the candidates running to be the next governor of Virginia.
Superlative: Most likely to be late to the party"
Cliff Hyra may have been the last candidate to join the Virginia gubernatorial race, but like all cool kids, he has the potential of using this newfound attention to get people talking about what really matters politics.
As you could imagine, running for a statewide election as the third party nominee can set you at a disadvantage from the get-go. Fortunately for Hyra, being an unopposed libertarian candidate means that he can take this time to find his edge and relax while his opponents vie for a space on the general election ballot this week.
Hyra is a patent attorney from Mechanicsville, Virginia, who is married with three young children and is expecting another in Aug. To him, this race is a unique opportunity, and he hopes to build on 2013 candidate Robert Sarvis' momentum.
"Rob Sarvis had one of the most successful campaigns in the history of third parties and libertarian parties, Hyra said. "He got about 150,000 votes which is about a 7 percent turnout. (This) is really within striking distance of 10 percent, which is the threshold where if we hit 10 percent we would have automatic ballot access."
In the past, third party candidates have been required to canvas for 10,000 signatures as a precursor to moving forward with their campaign, a costly measure of resources that is not required of the Republican or Democratic candidates.
Despite Hyra's admittedly brief introduction to state politics, he is unfailingly enthusiastic about his future plans and continues to demonstrate faith in his supporters.
"I think you have to run the race with the goal of winning and being the governor, Hyra said. "You know, we are going to do all the things that we can do to maximize the chances of winning. With that said, I am not a crazy person, so I understand that you know the chances are low. At the same time, last year we had a very unusual election and something happened that I didn't think could happen so you know, I am not ruling it out."
If elected, Hyra has addressed four key issues that he will work to resolve in his four-year term economic growth, education reform, justice reform and health care.
In essence, his strategies to achieve optimal success can be generally attributed to one traditional libertarian solution, deregulation. Most of his campaign hinges on the belief that fewer laws constricting peoples actions can do wonders for the economy, incarceration rates and the booming of businesses.
More specifically, Hyras economic proposal includes eliminating income tax of the first $50,000 and removing specific license requirements that cause businessmen and women to get tripped up on trivial tasks.
Currently Virginians are taxed $11,815.28 on $50,000. This proposed cut would likely benefit the middle class the most, but can still exhibit a positive change in tax returns for people of the state.
Involving improvements with the school system, Hyra boasts small-town research on charter schools in New York as a testament to the power of competition to bring forth greater student and parent satisfaction. He says that elected officials must put forth more effort to close the gap, beginning with the states own research.
I was lucky enough to go to some really great schools in Northern Virginia, but we also have some schools that are not doing as well in some places, Hyra said. There are schools that have been really failing the students for many years and you know to some extent there is only so much good that you can do by just throwing more money at the problem.
According to Hyra, legal punishment for victimless crimes is counterproductive, specifically involving marijuana and alcohol consumption.
Logically speaking, Hyra says that lessening criminal punishments for these kinds of crimes will save Virginia money, which spends on average approximately $25,000 a year to incarcerate a single person. In addition, this plan could help reduce racial profiling. Hyra says studies show that African Americans are equally as likely to commit these kinds of crimes as others, but are being sent to prison at much higher rates.
Finally, Hyra has promised to change the face of healthcare by tossing out laws like Virginias Certificate of Need and is looking for a way to expand the healthcare plan without further involving the government.
Cliff Hyra is an incredible candidate, Libertarian Party of Virginia Chair Bo Brown told Bearing Drift News. Hes brilliant. His wifes incredible. Theyve got this great family. Theyre a great representation of Virginians. Weve got to let a lot of our (voters) understand that there are other candidates out there. You dont have to stay stuck to one of those two old parties.
Because Hyra announced his campaign in late April and received the nomination in May, little has been said about his qualifications for this role by other important political figures or by his opponents who are preoccupied with their respective primaries on Tuesday, June 13.
Hyra is a Virginia Tech alumnus who majored in aerospace engineering before attending law school at George Mason.
Hyra says that most people may not know that he became interested in the art of advantage gambling during his time at Virginia Tech and used his computational prowess at Las Vegas casinos for fun.
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The Libertarian Party of Arkansas submitted over 15,000 signatures on Monday to the Secretary of States office to try and qualify to be a new political party -- for the fourth election cycle in a row. The state has 30 days to certify at least 10,000 of the signatures are from registered Arkansas voters.
This initial hurdle, and the financial cost of signature drives, is often critiqued by Arkansas third parties. In order for a political party to retain Arkansas ballot access through the next election cycle a candidate for either governor or president has to garner at least three percent of the vote. Last year Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson fell just shy with 2.63 percent of the vote.
Despite falling short of that threshold in 2016, state Party Chair Michael Pakko said the Libertarian Party deserves to be thought of as competitive.
Last year the Libertarian Party was the only party to field candidates against incumbents in all four U.S. Congressional states. In state legislative races Libertarians provided the only opposition in nearly a third of all contested races, Pakko said at the Capitol, Moreover people are choosing to vote Libertarian. Across the four Congressional districts last year our candidates earned over 196,000 votes about 18.5 percent of the total.
The once all-powerful Democratic Party of Arkansas only fielded one Congressional candidate in the last election. But this year, bolstered by an impassioned base in the era of Trump, a growing number of Democrats are expressing interest in 2018 races.
Pakko said he expects Libertarians to be in more three-way races next election.
Its always nice to be the only opposition party. When the Democrats werent running in races last year that gave us a little bit bigger piece of the spotlight but we dont expect that to be the case, Pakko said, so well just take it as it comes.
No Arkansas Libertarians hold legislative, statewide, or federal offices. But that lack of experience isnt necessarily a negative to Pakko.
One of the things voters communicated in their election of Donald Trump was their willingness to pick someone for public office that didnt have previous experience, he said.
While certainly having experienced candidates would be helpful I dont think thats necessarily a handicap to have non-professional politicians, regular citizens running for office and I think voters will be receptive, said Pakko.
What matters most to voters, according to the Libertarian chair, is making government work.
The biggest issue that voters think about is the dysfunctional nature of government both at the state and national level, he said. Its a matter of the two political parties at loggerheads, constant gridlock, and wed like the voters in Arkansas to know there is another choice, another option.
For Pakko and most Libertarians making government work often means passing laws that peel back the role of government, If you believe that governments should protect the rights of the individual, that people should be able to live their lives however they see fit with minimal interference from the government, if you believe that freedom and prosperity flourish where markets are allowed to work and the U.S. is at peace with its neighbors in the world, then please consider joining the Libertarian Party.
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For the fourth consecutive election cycle, theLibertarian Party of Arkansasplans to deliver petitions to the Arkansas Secretary of States office on Monday to become a new political party for the 2018 election.
Because the party failed to win 3% of the electoral vote in the 2016 presidential race that swept Republican nominee Donald Trump into the White House, Arkansas law requires a new political party to collect 10,000 valid voter signatures during a 90-day period.
Party chairman Michael Pakko, an economist at the University of Arkansas at Little Rocks Institute for Economic Advancement, said the party finds itself in the position again of having to register as a new party when it has participated in the last four presidential elections. Pakko said the performance of the candidate at the top of the ticket should not be the only measuring stick for ballot access. Despite being considered a new party under the law, Libertarians fielded a candidate in all four congressional races, while the Democrats only contested the 2nd District. The party was also the only competition in eight of the 34 contested state House races.
Our performance was definitely improved, Pakko said. We are giving voters a choice and voters are making that choice and voting Libertarian.
According to Pakko, party officials collected more than 15,000 signatures for the 2018 ballot after former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson fell short in the 2016 presidential race with only with 2.63% of the Arkansas vote. Thats an improvement from 2012, when Johnson won 1.52% of the vote. His vote total rose from 16,276 that year to 29,611 this year. If the partys gubernatorial candidate wins 3% in 2018, it wont have to collect signatures in 2020.
By not winning 3% of the vote, the party will again have to qualify for the ballot in 2018, a process Pakko has said required six months of work as well as about $33,000 in costs in the 2016 cycle. Because the primary was moved up to March 1, a state law required the party to select its candidates at the end of 2015. Pakko said the party will try to change the states law defining a political party in the 2017 legislative session while working toward the 2018 election.
During the recent legislative session, the party did not get enough support to change the states law defining a political party ahead of the 2018 election.
And as the nation is riveted with former FBI Director James Comeys testimony before Congress and an obstruction of justice investigation of President Donald Trump by independent counsel Robert Mueller, Pakko said there is a high level of mistrust between American voters and Republican and Democratic parties.
There remains a low-level of trust in government and the two-party system, Pakko said. We see the constant bickering between the two major parties and I think one thing that Libertarians would like voters to know is there is another choice and another option out there.
Pakko said Arkansas voters should take a closer look at the Libertarian Party in 2018 at all levels.
We have a specific set of principles that we believe and we put emphasis on the rights of individuals, and that individuals should be free to live their lives as they see fit without as little interference from the government as possible, said the Libertarian leader and economic forecaster. Keep the government out of peoples lives and out of their pocketbooks.
After party leaders deliver petitions to the Secretary of States office next week and the signatures are validated within 30 days, Pakko said the party will immediately begin to recruit new candidates for the next major election that is now less than two years away.
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Columbus, Ind Libertarians made cold beer a hot topic at the Rickers Gas Station Convenience Store Sunday afternoon. Indiana Laws have been restrictive withalcohol sales on Sundaysin contrast to a recent poll being published that around 71% of Hoosiers support expanded cold beer sales and 65% favor Sunday carry-out sales.
Rodney Benker, Vice-Chair of the Libertarian Party in Indiana, told FOX 59 in theirreport of the drink-in,They need to loosen their grip. It is time to allow fair and safe competition in the marketplace.
It was an overall success as Libertarian Party members from several counties attended to support the cause. One anonymous local member mentioned to have made 65 new contacts over the weekend. It was a great opportunity to support a wonderful business wanting to provide manyservices while being able to discuss the importance of the Free-Market at the same time.
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A man walks among collapsed buildings at the village of Vrissa on the Greek island of Lesbos, Greece, after a strong earthquake shook the eastern Aegean Sea June 12, 2017.
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ATHENS, Greece -- An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 badly damaged scores of homes on the eastern Greek island of Lesbos Monday, killing one woman and injuring at least 10 people. It was also felt in western Turkey, including in Istanbul, and on neighboring islands.
Lesbos mayor Spyros Galinos and the fire service said the woman was found dead in the southern village of Vrisa, which was worst-hit by the quake, which had its epicenter under the Aegean Sea.
"Most houses in Vrisa have suffered severe damage," Galinos said, adding that afflicted residents were being relocated to temporary housing set up in a football field in a nearby village.
At least 10 people were injured in the village, where many of the roads were blocked by rubble.
People gather outside an office building following an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 in the coastal city of Izmir, Turkey, June 12, 2017.
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Local authorities and the fire service said there were no reports of other people trapped or missing.
Earlier, rescuers pulled out an elderly couple alive from their damaged home in Vrisa.
According to Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management, the epicenter was at a shallow depth of four miles. At least 25 aftershocks were recorded following the initial quake at 3:28 p.m.
The tremor was also felt in densely populated Istanbul and the western Turkish province of Izmir, but no injuries were reported there.
The governor of Greece's north Aegean region told state-run ERT television that "we're using all the resources we have to help the people in southern Lesbos."
"The army is also helping, and will provide tents for people remaining outside their homes," Christiana Kalogirou said. "They will be able to stay in sports facilities."
A woman clears her shop after an earthquake in the village of Plomari on the northeastern Greek island of Lesbos, June 12, 2017.
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Lesbos authorities said homes were also damaged in the village of Plomari and some roads were closed. No severe damage was reported on nearby islands.
"We are advising residents in affected areas of Lesbos to remain outdoors until buildings can be inspected," senior seismologist Efthimios Lekkas said.
Earthquakes are frequent in Greece and Turkey, which are on active fault lines. Two devastating earthquakes hit northwestern Turkey in 1999, killing around 18,000 people. Experts in both countries said more aftershocks are to be expected.
In Turkey, 61-year old Ayse Selvi felt the tremors in her summer home in Karaburun near the quake's epicenter.
"My God, all the picture frames fell on the ground and I have no idea how I ran out," she said. "I'm scared to go inside now."
There was no reported damage or injuries at refugee camps on Lesbos or the nearby island of Chios. Both islands saw a major influx of migrants leaving from Turkey in 2015, and about 8,000 remain in limbo in Lesbos and Chios as they await news on their asylum applications.
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A leading Egyptian rights lawyer widely expected to run in next year's presidential election has called President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi a "traitor" over his government's decision to hand over two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia.
Khaled Ali made his comment during a meeting of opposition parties called Sunday to denounce an ongoing review by lawmakers of the April 2016 agreement that surrendered the islands to the Saudis. A video of his address before the meeting was posted on social media on Monday. He could now face legal consequences for publicly insulting the president.
Egypt's government maintains that the islands of Tiran and Sanafir at the mouth of the Gulf of Aqaba belong to Saudi Arabia but were placed under Egypt's protection in the 1950s in anticipation of Israeli attacks. El-Sissi has repeatedly emphasized that his government would never cede Egyptian territory or keep what belongs to others.
"The president is a traitor and the prime minister is a traitor," said Ali, who unsuccessfully ran in the 2012 presidential elections won by the Islamist Mohammed Morsi. "Whoever will be content to lower the Egyptian flag on Tiran and Sanafir and raise the Saudi flag in its place is a traitor," said Ali.
Already, there is a court case accusing Ali of making an obscene finger gesture on the street outside the courthouse where the transfer of the islands was annulled in January. If convicted in a final ruling, he could face up to six months in prison or a fine.
A conviction would take away Ali's eligibility to run for office, according to his lawyers. He is already seen as a long shot against el-Sissi, who has presided over a widespread crackdown on dissent.
Ali and other critics of the agreement argue that the January court ruling was final and should be respected by the 596-seat chamber, which is packed with el-Sissi supporters. He led a team of lawyers who challenged the agreement in court.
Parliament speaker Ali Abdel-Al, a staunch government supporter, has said the legislature has the constitutional right to ratify international agreements. Court rulings running contrary to this principle, he told lawmakers on Sunday, are only of concern to the judiciary.
Parliament's legislative and constitutional committee on Monday continued to review the agreement. At one point, lawmakers opposed to the pact chanted "Egyptian, Egyptian!," alluding to the islands, and screamed "illegitimate" when one lawmaker suggested that Gamal Abdel-Nasser, Egypt's nationalist leader of the 1950s and 1960s, acknowledged that the islands were Saudi.
The ratification of the agreement by the full house is a virtual foregone conclusion since government supporters enjoy an overwhelming majority, but such a move risks a repeat of the street protests that greeted the agreement last year. The protests, the largest since el-Sissi took office in 2014, were met by the arrest of hundreds of activists and demonstrators, most of them were later released. It could also leave the legislative branch of government in a potentially destabilizing legal battle with the judiciary.
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Christened at a ceremony in Nice, France on May 6, 2015, the 212-passenger Star Breeze is Windstar Cruises' second new ship in a year.(Photo: Gene Sloan, USA TODAY)
Windstar Cruises is out with an unusual new itinerary that focuses on some of the most remote North Atlantic islands.
Dubbed Secrets of the Faroe, Shetland & Orkney Islands, the seven-night trip begins and ends in Edinburgh, Scotland and features visits to the Denmark-controlled Faroe Islands as well as Scotland's Shetland Islands and Orkney Islands.
Windstar is planning just a single departure of the itinerary for now, on Aug. 17, 2018. It'll take place on the line's 212-passenger Star Breeze.
The voyage includes two stops in the Faroe Islands, in the port towns of Torshavn and Tvoroyri. The ship also will spend part of a day cruising through some of the Faroe Islands' rugged fjords and past Cape Enniberg.
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The ship will make day visits to Lerwick in the Shetland Islands and Kirkwall in the Orkney Islands as well as the mainland Scottish town of Aberdeen. The ShetlandIslands are known for a windswept landscape that includes rugged cliffs and beaches, Iron Age ruins and Shetland ponies. The Orkney Islands harbor some of the oldest and best-preserved Neolithic sites in Europe as well as historic sites related to a significantnaval role in World War I and II.
Fares for the sailing start at $3,499 per person, based on double occupancy.
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An historic bill designed to meet the unique needs of Scotlands islands has been introduced to the Scottish Parliament.
The Scottish Government said the Islands (Scotland) Bill will help create the right environment for sustainable growth and empowered communities.
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Islands Minister Humza Yousaf said: This government is committed to promoting islands voices, to harnessing islands resources and enhancing their well-being. The measures in this bill underpin this ambition.
In particular, the provision to island-proof decision-making across the public sector will ensure the interests of islanders are reflected in future legislation and policy from the very outset.
The National Islands Plan will set out the strategic direction for supporting island communities, continuing the momentum generated by the Our Islands, Our Futurecampaign and the work of the islands strategic group.
This is the first ever bill for Scotlands islands, marking an historic milestone for our island communities. I am proud and privileged as Islands Minister to be guiding the bill through Scotlands Parliament.
Measures in the bill will include:
Leader of Orkney Islands Council, James Stockan, welcomed the publication of the bill.
He said: The Our Islands, Our Future campaign specifically asked for an act for the islands in 2013 and it is gratifying to see this objective being realised.
Island proofing is particularly important as evidenced by Orkney Islands Councils substantive response to the Scottish Governments consultation.
We were able to amply demonstrate numerous cases where legislation had been detrimental to Orkney and which could have been avoided if island proofing had taken place.
Councillor Stockan added: But our work is not complete. We will be working tirelessly with Scottish Government to ensure that there is an objective standard by which decisions over whether to conduct an Islands Communities Assessment are made and also how the legislation will be interpreted.
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Like classic cars, wooden boats have a style, craftsmanship and romance unique to their time period. Their aficionados say that's what makes them far-distant cousins to today's mass-produced boats made of metal or plastic.
They have a certain feel thats quite different from aluminum or fiberglass boats, said Scott Harrison, who is organizing Sunday's vintage wooden boat show at the Channel Islands Maritime Museum in Oxnard's Channel Islands Harbor.
Now in its second year on Father's Day, Sunday's display, called "From the Tree to the Sea," will featureearly- to mid-20th-century wooden boats that belong to members of the Pacific Corinthian Yacht Club.
Among them will be Cheerio II, a California Historical Vessel owned by Dick McNish. Built by Fellows & Stewart of San Pedro in 1931, Cheerio II is a yawl, 56 feet long and 12 feet wide, with a draft of six feet.
It gives me a lot of pride to own Cheerio, McNish said.
Wooden boats are popular in places like Port Townsend, Washington, which is considered the wooden boat capital of the West Coast, he said.
But in our area of Ventura and Santa Barbara, there are primarily fiberglass or plastic boats, McNish said.
He describes boats made of wood as living, breathing vessels.
Their history should be kept alive because they are a living thing, McNish said.
Wooden boats are more distinctive than modern-day boats, agreed Sugar Flanagan, McNishs son-in-law. The Port Townsend residenthas sailed Cheerio several times to Australia and New Zealand.
Fiberglass boats look like theyre made of frozen snot because when you look at them, its this really hard plastic substance that was man-made, Flanagan said. If this was chopped up on the beach, youd consider it pollution.
Flanagan praised his father-in-law for giving Cheerio constant TLC.
He does the restoration of keeping her alive for future generations, Flanagan said. If people like Dick werent around to restore them, their history would be gone because there are fewer of them. Wooden boats are like an animal going extinct. There are people out there to protect them.
Other wooden vessels that will be on display include Muggs, a powerboat built in 1930 thats 37 feet long and nine feet wide with a two-foot draft; and Elusive II, a 40-foot Kettenberg sailboat built in 1961.
Those who visit the museum Sundaywill also have the opportunity to view Allura II, a powerboat built in 1929 thats also a California Historic Vesseland a restored 19-foot Chris-Craft Holiday boat built in 1952.
Well also have a floating tiki hut and bar, Harrison said. Its this fun round thing that this couple owns with a bar and seats.
In addition to the wooden boat display at the Channel Islands Maritime Museum, a classic car show will take place the same day right next door, and nautical treasures will be for sale on the patio in front of the museum. There also will be activities for children, including making paper whale hats and competing in miniature boat races.
They are little Styrofoam sailing boats, and thewind is provided by the contestant through an environmentally-friendly straw, said Peter Crabbe, executive director of the Channel Islands Maritime Museum. In addition, we will possibly have a ship in a bottle demonstration by one of our resident model makers.
Continuing the wooden boat theme, the documentary The Boatmaker will be screened 7 p.m. on June 22at the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum. The film is about Santa Barbara architect Ken Minor, who spent 25 years hand-building a 30-foot Bristol Channel Cutter wooden sailboat in a barn with the dream of sailing around the world.
Not to be forgotten or overlooked is our museum, where we have an amazing collection of world-class original maritime paintings and models of ships from the Golden Age of Sail, Crabbe said. The museum will be open, and visitors may browse at their leisure or enjoy a guided tour led by one of the museum's knowledgeable volunteer docents.
What:"From the Tree to the Sea," the second annual Father's Day Wooden Boat Show When:10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday Where: Channel Islands Maritime Museum, 3900 Bluefin Circle, Oxnard Admission: $7 for adults, $5 seniors and active military with ID, $3 children ages 6-17, free for members and children younger than 6 Information:cimmvc.org; 984-6260
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CRANBERRY ISLES, Maine On Saturday, three students celebrated completing 8th grade in the first graduation ceremony on Great Cranberry Island in 17 years. One of them was a homeschooled student who didnt attend classes at the school.
The Cranberry Islands are a cluster of five offshore islands south of Mount Desert Island. Only two of them, Great Cranberry Island and Little Cranberry Island have year round populations totalling about 100 residents between the two.
Seventeen years ago Great Cranberry celebrated its most recent graduation at Longfellow School, the islands tiny two-room schoolhouse.
Keith and Heath Wedge were the only students to attend Longfellow in 1999 and 2000, keeping the schoolhouse open in the face of a steadily declining enrollment. But with Keiths graduation, Heath moved on to Pemetic School in Southwest Harbor, leaving Great Cranberrys school empty for the first time since it was established in the mid-1800s.
Its been something thats been missing from the community since then, said Lindsay Eysnogle, principal of the Cranberry Island schools. Theres a feeling of loss in such a small community when the school isnt open.
Since the Wedges left, students from both Cranberries have attended the Ashley Bryan School on Little Cranberry Island. But Great Cranberry residents hoped that one day their old schoolhouse would be revived, and the town continued to maintain the building in the event that more students arrived.
It finally happened this past school year, when the town renovated the Great Cranberry school building and its school board decided that the two islands would take turns hosting students, Eysnogle said. After next school year at Longfellow, classes will be held on Little Cranberry for two years, before returning to Great Cranberry to repeat the cycle.
This year two Longfellow students graduated and were joined by one homeschooled student who finished 8th grade. Another homeschooled student on the islands graduated as well, but didnt attend the ceremony.
Eleven island students attended classes at Longfellow school this year. Next year, thats expected to swell to as many as 14 students, according to Eysnogle. Students who have to travel between islands for school take a 10-minute ferry ride and then hop into a van that takes them to the schoolhouse.
The schools are expected to have a pretty stable population in coming years, with several families with 3- and 4-year-olds living on the island. Eysnogle said she expects the population to hover between 11 and 20 students for at least the next five years.
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