Helene...

 In January 1980, Helene Pruszynski, an aspiring journalist and Massachusetts college student, was in Douglas County, Colorado, to intern at a radio station. She had only been in town two weeks when she was killed.

Pruszynski was walking home from the bus stop when she was abducted, according to authorities.  The next day her body was found in a field, partially naked.

The genealogists' identifications of family members helped investigators zero in on Clanton as the suspect.

In 1975, Clanton pled guilty to a rape at knifepoint, and served four years in prison.

Elect...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in an interview that she opposes moving to impeach President Trump, even though she believes he is unfit for office — her most definitive statement on ousting the president and one that stands to alienate some members of the Democratic Party.

“I’m not for impeachment,” she said in a March 6 interview conducted for a future issue of The Washington Post Magazine.

“This is news,” added Pelosi (D-Calif.). “I haven’t said this to any press person before. But since you asked, and I’ve been thinking about this, impeachment is so divisive to the country that unless there’s something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan, I don’t think we should go down that path because it divides the country.” 

Erica...

Erica Tishman is a 60-year-old prominent architect who was killed by a piece of debris that fell off a building facade in Manhattan. The New York Post identified Tishman as the victim in the tragic incident, which occurred on December 17th, 2019. She was deeply involved in her community and synagogue.

Tishman was a very accomplished person. She had a master’s degree in architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design, according to her biography.

She had a bachelor of arts degree from Princeton University. She was a registered architect in New Jersey and New York and an accredited professional who had a certificate in lighting design and also, was affiliated with the American Institute of Architects, New York Chapter.

Erica is a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees and Chair of the Real Estate Committee for the Educational Alliance, a social service agency located in lower Manhattan that serves 50,000 New Yorkers annually. She served as a board of trustees member, and chair of facilities for Riverdale Country School for twelve years and currently oversees their Capital Projects. In addition, she is a chair for the Alumni Schools Committee for Princeton University.

Tourism...

The woman who ran a "birth tourism" operation was released from jail. Now she faces deportation.

Dongyuan Li's operation, You Win USA Vacation Services Corp., helped Chinese customers -- including doctors, lawyers and government officials -- travel to the United States to give birth so their children would receive US citizenship.

The operation coached families on what to say in their visa interviews, created ways for them to bypass immigration controls and housed them in upscale apartments in California for up to three months.

The mothers-to-be paid between $15,000 to $50,000 to give birth in the US, according to a statement given at the time by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Angry...

German railway company has taken back an apology they made to Greta Thunberg after they realized the climate activist wasn’t schlepping it on the train’s floor but instead was treated “friendly” in first class.

The rail company was responding to an image Thunberg tweeted of herself sitting amid bags and suitcases on the floor of what she called “overcrowded trains through Germany.”

They also thanked Thunberg for supporting the company’s battle against climate change and pointed out that the train she used had been running 100 percent on eco-friendly electricity.

But upon reflection, Deutsche Bahn said Thunberg’s “overcrowded” claims were just hot air.

“It would have been even nicer if you had also reported how friendly and competently our team served you at your seat in first class,” the company added.

Van Drew...

A House freshman from New Jersey who was planning to break with his party and vote against impeaching President Donald Trump will become a Republican, a GOP official said Saturday.

Top House Republicans have been told of Rep. Jeff Van Drew's decision, according to a GOP official familiar with the conversations. 

Van Drew's decision underscores the pressures facing moderate Democrats from Trump-leaning districts as next week's impeachment vote approaches. Van Drew won his southern New Jersey district by 8 percentage points last year, but Trump carried it by 5 points in 2016 and Van Drew was considered one of the more vulnerable House Democrats going into next November's congressional elections.

Pro Growth...

The stock market has been unstoppable under the influence of President Trump.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average crossed 28,332.74 on Monday, meaning it has rallied 10,000 points, or more than 54 percent, since Trump’s election victory on November 8, 2016. The benchmark S&P 500 has gained more than 46 percent.

“The rally has been driven by pro-growth measures, de-escalation of trade tensions, huge liquidity injections by central banks and a FOMO approach by investors worried about missing out on a remarkable U.S. market outperformance that has set one record high after the other.” 

The gains show why U.S. markets have become the envy of the world under Trump, who has followed through on his promises of cutting taxes and regulations and rewriting global trade deals in America's favor.

Tessa...

“On Wednesday, December 11, 2019, at approximately 1736 hours, police responded to a 911 call for a female assaulted in the vicinity of West 116th Street and Morningside Drive.”  

The female was Tessa Majors, an 18-year-old Columbia-Barnard College student, who was found near a Columbia University security guard booth. “Upon arrival, officers discovered an unconscious and unresponsive 18-year old female with multiple stab wounds to her body,” says the NYPD.

“We lost a very special, very talented, and very well-loved young woman,” Tessa’s family said in a statement. “Tess shone bright in this world, and our hearts will never be the same.”  

The parents sent their child to a great school and that is the protection they provide?  Just a thought.

Malarkey...

All of the presidential candidates who qualified for next week’s Democratic debate are threatening to skip the event in response to a labor dispute taking place at the debate venue, Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), businessman Andrew Yang, former vice president Joe Biden, billionaire activist Tom Steyer, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (Minn.) and South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg said they would refuse to cross picket lines at the debate next in solidarity with Unite Here Local 11, which represents food service workers at the university who have been negotiating for a collective bargaining agreement.

Comment:
The candidates have been tearing each other apart and causing real damage. So the idea of ditching one fight is our new "New Deal" with the people of America.

Plan-B

A woman in Minnesota is suing two pharmacies, including CVS, for sex discrimination after she claims she was denied a morning-after pill.

Andrea Anderson, a 39-year-old mother of five, said she was first refused the pill at her local pharmacy, Thrifty White Pharmacy in McGregor, according to a lawsuit filed in Minnesota’s Ninth Judicial District on Tuesday.

Jess Braverman, the Legal Director at Gender Justice, the non-profit representing Anderson,

 hopes that the lawsuit will "ensure that health care providers uphold their legal and ethical responsibilities to care for their patients, regardless of the providers’ personal beliefs."