Moderate? Not.

Republicans have no shortage of presidential contenders, and the field just got even more crowded when former New York Gov. George Pataki became the eighth Republican to officially launch a bid. The party could have as many as 22 if everyone who's expressed interest decides to get in.

 

Just about every Republican candidate is vying to be considered the most conservative candidate in the 2016 race, from social issues to taxes and federal spending.

 

Pataki boasts of shrinking New York's welfare state and lowering its taxes. 

But he's further to the left. Notably, he believes climate change is a problem. He is for a "cap-and-trade" system to limit carbon emissions in the U.S.; and he supported abortion rights as governor.
 

He sides with the likes of Lindsey Graham and Rick Santorum in calling for more U.S. ground troops to be sent to Iraq to fight ISIS.

  

In the most recent major GOP-primary poll, released Thursday by Quinnipiac, Pataki failed to garner even one percent. The leaders, Jeb Bush and Ben Carson, sat at 10 percent each.

He is way off the Republican ideas except for the war. Don't send our boys to war in the Middle East. Let the Middle East adjust itself and they started. 

Just a thought

 

No Brainer, Health

 

Texas is leaving a huge amount of federal money on the table and not insuring more than 1 million people because of its opposition to Obamacare.

The decision by Texas to reject expansion of Medicaid, the government health-coverage program for the poor, will prevent the state from receiving an estimated $100 billion in federal cash over a decade, at the same time its hospitals are eating $5.5 billion in annual costs for treating uninsured people.

Those uncompensated costs in turn are being covered by taxes and insurance premiums paid by the state's businesses and residents, who are also footing the bill for expanding Medicaid in 29 states.

The Medicaid expansion states, as a rule, have seen a marked decline in their uninsured rates and the amount of costs their hospitals incur in caring for people without insurance.

Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas still has $765 million in uncompensated care costs annually from treating the uninsured.

"A huge chunk" of Parkland's uncompensated care costs "could be paid for by about $580 million a year that would be brought in by the Medicaid expansion monies," said Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins, who oversees the hospital.

    

Also galling to the business community is research showing that for every $1 the state paid toward Medicaid expansion, it would earn back $1.30 in new economic activity, which would include the creation of hundreds of thousands of jobs.
"You look at the numbers, and you say, this is a no-brainer," said Ray Perryman, a leading Texas economist, in an interview with NPR.

Traditional Medicaid is jointly run by the federal government and individual states, and enrollees do not pay premiums for their health coverage. States have the power to set restrictions on who can receive coverage, whose costs are split, more or less evenly, with the federal government.

No health coverage for the poor will cost the States much more money than having coverage.   Just a thought. 

Complete silence

 

Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert paid a man to conceal a sexual relationship they had while the man was a student at the high school where Hastert taught, a federal law enforcement official told NBC News on Friday.

Tribune reported earlier in the day that two unnamed federal officials said that Hastert paid a man from his past to conceal sexual misconduct.

Hastert was indicted Thursday on charges that he structured bank withdrawals to avoid federal reporting requirements and later lied about it to the FBI.
 
The indictment said that Hastert was paying an unidentified person from his past to conceal Hastert's "prior misconduct." The indictment did not specify the alleged misconduct or name the person.

The Yorkville, Illinois, school district where Hastert taught and coached wrestling from 1965 to 1981 said that it had "no knowledge of Mr. Hastert's alleged misconduct, nor has any individual contacted the District to report any such misconduct."

No one on the Republican party said any thing.    Nobody said Hilary had a wrestling team.....   Just a thought.

Delay...

Federal regulators announced that Teva Pharmaceuticals will pay $1.2 billion to settle charges that one of its subsidiaries illegally blocked the launch of low-cost generic versions of the blockbuster sleeping pill Provigil.

Thursday's settlement stems from charges brought in 2008 against Cephalon Inc., acquired by Teva. The FTC alleged that Cephalon paid four generic firms more than $300 million to delay launching their low-cost versions of Provigil drugs until 2012. Provigil is approved to treat excessive sleepiness and posted U.S. sales exceeding $1 billion in 2008, accounting for about half of Cephalon's sales that year.

The $1.2 billion fee from Teva would be paid to pharmacies, insurers, wholesalers and other businesses. The settlement agreement also bars Teva from entering into similar reverse settlement deals.

In 2013, the Supreme Court ruled in a key case that reverse settlement agreements can run afoul of federal antitrust laws, and therefore be challenged in court.

"Today's landmark settlement is an important step in the FTC's ongoing effort to protect consumers from anticompetitive pay for delay settlements, which burden patients, American businesses, and taxpayers with billions of dollars in higher prescription drug costs.  Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries Limited is the world's largest generic drug maker.

Open the door for generic medications from Canada and most of these scams will disappear. Just a thought.

Abolishing death penalty

In a landmark veto-override vote backed by an unusual coalition of conservatives who oppose capital punishment, Nebraska abolished the death penalty.
Senators in the one-house Legislature voted to override Gov. Pete Ricketts, a Republican who supports the death penalty. The vote makes Nebraska the first traditionally conservative state to eliminate the punishment since North Dakota in 1973.

Some senators said they philosophically support the death penalty, but are convinced the state will never carry out another execution because of legal obstacles. Nebraska hasn't executed an inmate since a 1997 electrocution.

The repeal bill was introduced by independent Sen. Ernie Chambers, who has fought for nearly four decades to repeal the death penalty.
  
Nebraska now has 10 men on death row, after one died on Sunday of natural causes.
Michael Ryan on death row for the 1985 cult killings of two people, including a 5-year-old boy had been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer.

At least 4.1% of all defendants sentenced to death in the US in the modern era are innocent, according to the first major study to attempt to calculate how often states get it wrong in their wielding of the ultimate punishment. [The Guardian, Ed Pilkington].

Just a thought.

Mathematician's...

John Forbes Nash, Jr. (June 13, 1928) was an American mathematician whose works in game theory, differential geometry, and partial differential equations have provided insight into the factors that govern chance and events inside complex systems in daily life.

His theories are used in economics, computing, evolutionary biology, artificial intelligence, accounting, computer science (minimax algorithm which is based on Nash Equilibrium), games of skill, politics and military theory.

Serving as a Senior Research Mathematician at Princeton University, he shared the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with game theorists Reinhard Selten and John Harsanyi. In 2015, he was awarded the Abel Prize for his work on nonlinear partial differential equations.

In 1959, Nash began showing clear signs of mental illness, and spent several years at psychiatric hospitals being treated for paranoid schizophrenia. After 1970, his condition slowly improved, allowing him to return to academic work by the mid-1980s. His struggles with his illness and his recovery became the basis for Sylvia Nasar's biography, A Beautiful Mind, as well as a film of the same name starring Russell Crowe.

On May 23, 2015 was killed in a motor vehicle accident in New Jersey.  Just a thought.

Irish landslide

Irish voters have resoundingly backed amending the constitution to legalize gay marriage, leaders on both sides of the Irish referendum declared on Saturday.

Couples hugged and kissed each other amid scenes of jubilation at counting centers and at the official results center in Dublin Castle, whose cobblestoned central square was opened so thousands of revelers could sit in the sunshine and watch the results live on big-screen televisions.

We're the first country in the world to enshrine marriage equality in our constitution and do so by popular mandate. That makes us a beacon, a light to the rest of the world, of liberty and equality. So it's a very proud day to be Irish.

"For me it wasn't just a referendum. It was more like a social revolution".

In the first official result, the Dublin North West constituency voted 70.4 percent "yes" to gay marriage. But the outcome was already beyond dispute as observers, permitted to watch the paper ballots being counted at all election centers, offered precise tallies giving the "yes" side an unassailable nationwide lead.

Political analysts who have covered Irish referendums for decades agreed that Saturday's emerging landslide marked a stunning generational shift from the 1980s, when voters still firmly backed Catholic Church teachings and overwhelmingly voted against abortion and divorce.

"We're in a new country," said political analyst Sean Donnelly, who called the result "a tidal wave" that has produced pro-gay marriage majorities in even the most traditionally conservative rural corners of Ireland.

The world is changing. Just a thought.

Wacooo !!

Waco police, assisted by police officers from several cities were surrounding the Twin Peaks Restaurant after several people were reported shot during a rival motorcycle gang fight, Waco police Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton said.

Swanton said the fight quickly escalated from fists and feet to chains, clubs and knives, then to gunfire.

Gang members were shooting at each other and officers at the scene fired their weapons, as well, Swanton said. 
The victims were taken by ambulance to Baylor Scott and White Hillcrest Medical Center, which later was placed on lock down.

A witness who was having lunch across the parking lot said he and his family had just finished eating and walked into the parking lot when they heard several gunshots and saw wounded being taken from the fight scene.
“We crouched down in front of our pick-up truck because that was the only cover we had,” the man, said.

Waco had a population of 124,805 on 2010, making it the 22nd-most populous city in the state.

A small town with mega problems, one after the other?  Just a thought.

NAPA's Wine !!

 
The Los Carneros Water District and Napa Sanitation District held a groundbreaking ceremony for a $20 million recycled water line project. By next year, recycled water will travel in a 9-mile pipeline through this south county grape-growing region.

The water will have its origins in the city of Napa, traveling through the sewer system to the Napa Sanitation District plant south of Highway 29 and the Butler Bridge. After the city’s sewage is cleaned up, the resulting highly treated water can be used for irrigation, but not for drinking.

A decade ago, Napa Sanitation District had trouble getting rid of recycled water. Now, its recycled water is in great demand. The district is building a pipeline to bring irrigation water to the rural Coombsville area east of the city of Napa. When that project and the Carneros project are finished, the district will have increased its recycled pipe network from 11 miles to 25 miles and doubled its recycled water sales.

The sanitation district also uses its recycled water to help out in rural farm areas.
The Carneros recycled water project is a long time coming. John Stewart of the Los Carneros Water District said the idea dates to the late 1970s, when the area had cow pastures and orchards instead of vineyards.

Enjoy a glass of NAPA's wine.  Just a thought.

Money Loss.

In the history of sudden wealth loss, Li Hejun may have set a new record.
Li, who was China's richest man until this week, saw his fortune drop by as much as $15 billion in a half-hour as the stock in his company, Hanergy Thin Film Power Group, fell by nearly half. Trading in the shares was halted Wednesday.

While plenty of billionaires have seen their fortunes cut in half over time, few if any have seen $15 billion wiped out in a half-hour. Li's total fortune was around $30 billion before the stock plunged.

Prior to the drop, the company's shares had risen by more than fivefold since September, baffling analysts. Reuters reports that Hong Kong regulators are looking at alleged market manipulation with the stock.

In a similar wealth decline, Hong Kong property and electronics magnate Pan Sutong has lost more than $11 billion this week as shares of two listed companies, Goldin Financial and Goldin Property, both closed down more than 40 percent.

Pan owns around 65 percent of Goldin Property and more than 70 percent of Goldin Financial, according to filings. His fortune was listed at more than $28 billion, making him Hong Kong's second-richest man.
That means that the two men have lost more in one day that the total net worth of Carl Icahn, Steve Ballmer or Michael Dell.

Another mystery. Just a thought.

Phony Cancer Charities

 

 A federal lawsuit filed against four phony cancer charities and their operators with strong roots in East Tennessee, who allegedly scammed more than $187 million from consumers throughout the country.

The joint complaint alleges that the defendants—including Cancer Fund of America, Children’s Cancer Fund of America, Cancer Support Services and The Breast Cancer Society portrayed themselves to donors as legitimate charities with substantial nationwide programs whose primary purposes were to provide direct support to cancer patients, children with cancer, and breast cancer patients in the United States.

In fact, the overwhelming majority of consumers’ contributions benefitted only the perpetrators, their families and friends, and professional fundraisers, who often received 85% or more of every donation, according to the federal lawsuit.

Consumers’ donations were wasted and misused, cancer victims were not helped, and the representations that defendants were legitimate charities were false.  Among other things, defendants or their telemarketers often told donors that their contributions would be used to provide pain medication to children suffering from cancer, transport cancer patients to chemotherapy appointments, and/or pay for hospice care for cancer patients.  

Careful with your donation.      Just a thought.

Worked in Concert...

An Egyptian judge referred ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi for trial on a third set of criminal charges by indicting him and 129 others for breaking out of prison during Egypt’s 2011 revolt.
Morsi and fellow inmates from his Muslim Brotherhood group worked in concert with hundreds of militants from Hamas and Lebanon’s Hezbollah to escape from the Wadi el-Natroun prison north of Cairo, murdering and abducting policemen and “threatening the unity of the country.”

In that referral, the prison operation is listed as part of a larger, years-long conspiracy with Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps to sow chaos and propel the Muslim Brotherhood to power in Egypt.

According to the prosecutor general, Hamas and Hezbollah, assisted by Iran, helped train Muslim Brotherhood operatives in Gaza as long ago as 2005. In return, Morsi allegedly leaked state secrets to the Revolutionary Guard once he assumed the presidency.

Morsi and other high-ranking Muslim Brotherhood leaders are also on trial for incitement to murder opposition protesters during his year in office. Morsi appeared in court Nov. 4 to face that charge for the first time.

The court sentenced ousted president Mohamed Morsi to death.

Wanted

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The Chinese government released a list of its leading 100 fugitives accused of economic crimes including 40 people believed to be hiding in the United States.
Yu Zhendong, accused of embezzling $485 million from a state-owned bank, was returned by the United States authorities to China.

Wei Chen, known in China as He Yejun, is wanted on allegations of misappropriating funds before moving to the United States in the late 1990s.
This newest phase of the campaign was rolled out with the publication in Chinese news media of a collection of Interpol alerts that also included one for Yang Xiuzhu, a former deputy mayor of Wenzhou. Ms. Yang previously owned a five-story building on West 29th Street in Manhattan.
The United States was identified as the leading destination by the Chinese authorities. US does not have extradition treaties with China.
 
Ding Xueliang, a politics expert at Hong Kong University, said Beijing preferred not to publicly identify some suspects for fear of leaking party secrets. "The biggest targets are not on this list," he said. "

680 fugitives suspected of economic crimes were repatriated from 69 countries and regions [Fox Hunt] according to the state news agency Xinhua.

GodSpeed.  Just a thought.

Fitch...

How the court decides the case.......

The case rests on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which makes it illegal to "fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual ... because of such individual's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin."

Abercrombie famously employs a "Look Policy" that lays out in exacting detail what its "sales models" can wear when they're helping customers or folding clothes on the sales floor. Back in 2008, Samantha Elauf, who was 17 at the time, went in for a sales model position in one location in Oklahoma.

The assistant manager gave her solid marks on the three "competencies" required for the job of model at one of the stores: "outgoing and promotes diversity," "sophistication and aspiration" and "appearance and sense of style. But she never got a call. She had her own outfit.

• Heathe Cooke, the assistant store manager who interviewed Elauf, said  "I think it says in the handbook you can't wear hats. 

 Many have the same Look Policy and that is the case.   Just a thought.

Drones

In natural and manmade disasters, UAS can be positioned to survey damage, locate stranded and injured victims, and assess ongoing threats without risking the safety of rescue teams and first-responders.

UAS can be used to search for lost children, provide tactical surveillance and suspect tracking, assist in accident investigations, and monitor large crowds.

Inspecting the underside of a bridge or the top of a skyscraper, not to mention the costs and risks. With UAS, scaffolding, cranes, or harnesses are not required. Just deploy the system to assess the structure's condition remotely.

Using a crop management system to observe, measure, and respond to variability in individual plants, farmers can target areas requiring attention. By pinpointing these areas, farmers can provide care only where needed—improving yield, conserving resources, and avoiding waste.

Aerial photography for a news broadcast or a blockbuster film can be efficiently, economically, and safely captured.

Large area screening, remote problems, costly inspection of landmarks, and time management for workers can all be altered by drones. More done with less cost.

Just a thought.

Bears- Part 2

A trip to Yellowstone National Park took a terrifying turn for tourists who were chased by a family of black bears. A black bear and her three cubs surprised the tourists when they appeared on a bridge lined with sightseers earlier this week, sending them running.

In a video released by Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks, sightseers run as the mother bear, seemingly equally terrified and confused, charges one family as they scramble to get to their car.

"A mama bear with cubs is not something you want to get near to at all. The warm weather of spring brings out more tourists - and more bears.  

"These bears do wake up in warmer weather," Hanna said. "They're thirsty and hungry and they come out. This is their time of year."
 

According to wildlife experts, the best defense against a bear is to keep your distance.

Yellowstone National Park regulations require visitors to "stay at least 100 yards away from bears."
 

"It's a beautiful animal we can all enjoy." Hanna said. "It's their home. Treat them with respect and film them at a a distance, that's all."

Just a scary thought.

Huanglongbing

One of America's most popular food staples is at war against an insect smaller than an apple seed that is spreading an incurable disease.  The nation's orange industry has taken a more than $4 billion hit as dead trees and useless crops recently sent orange harvests to their lowest in two decades. 
                
The disease is called huanglongbing, also known as citrus greening. Producing oranges too bitter for juice and too misshapen and discolored for fresh fruit, the bacteria leaves farmers little choice but to destroy every one of their sick trees.
The crawling culprit facilitating its spread is the Asian citrus psyllid, a plant juice-sucking bug that can easily become airborne and carry the fatal bacteria that destroys oranges, limes, lemons and grapefruits.

Of greatest concern to the government are a group of non-native ants, beetles, moths and flies, and one giant slug. 

Forest resources in the North Atlantic states are under siege. The Asian longhorn beetle is menacing "recreation and forest resources valued at billions of dollars" and has the potential to destroy "millions of acres of America's treasured hardwoods," according to the APHIS.

Just a thought.

Pigs.... huh?

Undercover video by Mercy for Animals captured workers at a now-closed New Mexico dairy whipping, kicking and punching cows. Four men were charged with misdemeanor animal cruelty in that case.

Seaboard Farms has more than 300 pig farms in Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas and Colorado. It has fired five workers and two supervisors following an internal investigation at the Colorado facility near the Nebraska border, spokesman David Eaheart said. Authorities said no criminal charges will be filed, more training and education to be provided to the staff.

In a statement, the company said the abuse, which happened while the pigs were being loaded onto trucks, is "unacceptable and inexcusable" and violates its standards. It said all farm managers will be shown the video to send a message that such handling of animals is not acceptable.

Don't live like a pig, but if you are, you still have rights. Just a thought.

Dig up...Vodka

A New Hampshire woman who told police she dug up her father's grave in search of his "real will" but found only vodka and cigarettes, and no will.

She been sentenced to 1 ½ to three years in prison. She said she dug up the grave "with respect" and her father "would be okay with it."

The 53-year-old Nash was one of four accused in the plan to open Eddie Nash's vault in Colebrook, then rifle through his casket last May in a scene a prosecutor compared to an Edgar Allan Poe story. 

Police said Nash felt she was shorted in her share of the inheritance after her father died in 2004.

The Caledonian Record reports Judge Peter Bornstein noted the smashed concrete vault that housed the coffin of Eddie Nash and the disturbed body found the next morning.

"The patrolman said the gravesite of Eddie Nash did not look right," Bornstein said. "That is the understatement of the century." The remains have since been re-interred at the cemetery.

When 4 people put their heads together, disconnected, they come up with problems. Happens all over.   Just a thought.

Mother Fracker...

Einhorn, founder and president of Greenlight Capital, kicked off the speech by arguing that a handful of leading American oil companies that rely heavily on fracking were “poised for a fall”—even if the price of crude rebounds from its current depressed prices.

“We object to oil fracking because the investment can contaminate portfolio returns,” Einhorn said during his presentation.

Of those short positions, Einhorn described Pioneer Natural Resources PXD as the “mother fracker,” saying its oil production and reserves have not kept up with the company’s increased spending on drilling and developing wells.

“It’s well loved, well located and well run,” Einhorn said as he introduced the company. Still, he added, “A business that burns cash and doesn’t grow isn’t worth anything,” he said. “That’s like using $50 bills to counterfeit $20s.”

Shares of Pioneer Natural Resources dropped immediately as Einhorn detailed his position; more than 3% during.

So rethink your position.    Just a thought.

Old Doc....!

The world's oldest complete copy of the Ten Commandments is going on rare display at Israel's leading museum in an exhibit tracing civilization's most pivotal moments.

The 2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scroll, from a collection of the world's most ancient biblical manuscripts discovered near the Dead Sea east of Jerusalem, has never before been publicly displayed in Israel and has only been shown in brief exhibits abroad.

The manuscript is so brittle that it will only be on display at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem for two weeks before it is returned to a secure, pitch-black, climate-controlled storage facility there.

It is one of 14 ancient objects displayed in "A Brief History of Humankind," an exhibit of historical objects spanning hundreds of thousands of years.

The exhibit includes tools used in an elephant hunt from 1.5 million years ago, the oldest known remains of a communal bonfire from 800,000 years ago, skulls from the oldest remains of a family burial and the world's oldest complete sickle — a 9,000-year-old object that represents the transition from hunter-gatherers to settled civilization working the land.

A 5,000-year-old Mesopotamian tablet on loan to the museum and 2,700-year-old coins from what is now Turkey, are also on display. An original handwritten manuscript of Albert Einstein's groundbreaking theory of relativity caps the exhibit.

Time to see. Just a thought.

A Mother's forgiveness.

The parents of a slain Pennsylvania State Police trooper said Sunday they have forgiven his alleged killer and are relying on their faith to get them through the loss.

"It doesn't do you any good to hate somebody for whatever they have done to you, because all it does is eat you up.  said Bryon Dickson.

 

"Justice lays behind us at the grave, where my son's body is buried," she said. "And Eric Frein is chained to that place of justice. He has to be held accountable for what he has done."

Addressing the congregation, Darla Dickson recalled the moment that every parent of a police officer or soldier dreads: the knock on the door, when a trooper and chaplain brought word that her son had been killed in the line of duty.

 

"What I experienced was just a disbelief beyond degree,"  "It was very surreal. I just could not even wrap my mind around it."    It hasn't been easy to forgive Frein, who authorities said did not know her son.

 

"There were days when we had to get up, and it was difficult to set one foot in front of the other and face the world," she said.

But the Dicksons said their Christian faith has brought them great comfort and teaches them that just as God has forgiven them, they are to forgive others.

"Not keeping a record of wrongdoing gives you hope for tomorrow, a sense of love that displaces all evil in the world," Darla Dickson said.

 

Their appearance came as the church celebrated "Blue Sunday," paying tribute to law enforcement. The pastor, David Crosby Jr., brought several state police troopers and local police chiefs on stage to cheers and applause from the congregation of hundreds.

Crosby prayed for the safety and protection of law enforcement, as well as for "healing and restoration" in Baltimore. 

 

Darla Dickson told the AP she doesn't think about Frein. Instead, she focuses on her son, a 38-year-old Marine veteran who left behind a wife and two young sons.

"I miss my son. I grieve for him," she said. "But it's not the kind of grief that the rest of the world carries. I have that hope that I will see him again."

 

Just a thought.

Fort Lee-Part 4

David Wildstein was Christie’s enforcer and go-to guy at the Port Authority, which runs the New York City-area airports as well as the bridges and tunnels that connect New York and New Jersey. He shut down two out of three local access lanes to the George Washington Bridge at the direction of Kelly. Their alleged goal was political payback against the mayor of Fort Lee who would not endorse Christie’s re-election bid.

"Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee," Kelly wrote in an August 2013 email.

New Jersey governor  fired Kelly and cast aside Bill Stepien, the man who ran his political organization.

Prosecutors said that to "maximize the congestion and thus the punitive impact", the trio "caused these lane and toll booth reductions to start on the first day of the school year in Fort Lee, without any advance notice to Mayor, Chief of Police and the residents of Fort Lee."

Wildstein admitted in Newark federal court that the bridge's access lane closures were the result of political retribution. He admitted that Bridget Kelly and Bill Baroni chose the first day of school to maximize the punishment and used the traffic study as a "cover story."

What makes one do things like that thinking they wouldn't get caught? 

Just a thought.

Young Haters?

Violence and looting overtook much of West Baltimore. As night fell, looters took to Mondawmin Mall and a Save-A-Lot and Rite Aid in Bolton Hill, loading up cars with stolen goods. "I don't understand how stealing jeans is going to bring justice to Mr. Gray."

About 10 fire crews battled a three-alarm fire at a large senior center under construction, as police officers stood guard with long guns.  Shots were fired at an officer in the area.

Fifteen police officers were injured in the clash with school-age children that began around 3 p.m.    Police arrested 27 people.

The mayor declared a curfew across the city, “thugs” are “destroying our city.”
Police commissioner implored parents to take control of their children who might be taking part in the rioting.  Structures that were being destroyed took great effort to erect in ailing communities that need them. 

What are these young people angry at? Is it the Police, Society, Poverty, Education, or Lack of Family life?

Just a thought.