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“Most of us are ecstatic” about Medicaid expansion in Utah, said Grant Burningham, of Bountiful. “We were all together and hugging and kissing last night.”
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Voters in three traditionally Republican states supported ballot measures to extend Medicaid benefits to more low-income adults.
The results highlight the divide between voters, even in conservative states, who generally support providing health benefits to the poor, and conservative politicians who have rejected the expansion, which is a central part of the Affordable Care Act.
With the approval of the measures in Idaho, Utah and Nebraska, about 300,000 low-income people will gain access to health care coverage, according to estimates from government agencies and advocacy groups in those states.
“People are enthusiastic about Medicaid expansion because they recognize that it’s both good for health care but it’s also a compassionate thing to do,” says Jonathan Schleifer, executive director of The Fairness Project, which worked to get the questions on the ballots of the four states. “And it’s a financially sound thing to do. It’s a fiscally responsible thing to do.”
The Fairness Project is funded by the SEIU United Healthcare Workers West, a California health care workers union.
Voters in Montana, however, appeared to reject a proposal to raise taxes on tobacco and e-cigarettes to continue funding the state’s expansion of Medicaid, which is set to sunset next year, leaving 100,000 Montanans at risk of losing coverage.
Before the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid, the government health insurance for the poor and disabled, was reserved mainly for pregnant women, children, low-income seniors and people with disabilities.
Since the law passed, 32 states, plus the District of Columbia, have expanded access to childless adults whose incomes are below 138 percent of the federal poverty level. That cutoff is $16,753 for a single person and $34,638 for a family of four.
Maine voters approved an expansion in 2017, but Gov. Paul LePage, a Republican, has resisted implementing the law, even vetoing a $60 million funding bill that passed the Legislature. LePage was barred by term limits from seeking another term. Democrat Janet Mills, Maine’s governor-elect, has pledged to expand Medicaid on her first day in office.
One person who stands to gain coverage in Utah is Grant Burningham, of Bountiful. “Most of us are ecstatic,” he said, referring to his friends who worked to get the measure passed. “We were all together and hugging and kissing last night.”
Burningham has spent the past several years working for this day. A former financial adviser, he became seriously ill after having a severe reaction to a medication in 2001, lost his job, his home and his health care.
Burningham now has a place to live, and hopes that access to health care will help him get back on his feet.
Still, he’s a bit wary that members of the Utah Legislature will try to do something to derail the results before the expansion of Medicaid can be implemented next spring.
“We had a win last night. But we still have the fourth quarter to go through,” he said. “A lot of us are deadly sick and we’ll still wait until April (after the state’s legislative session ends) to turn in our applications.”
Utah has come close to expanding Medicaid several times in recent years. But those efforts were blocked by conservatives in the state’s House of Representatives.
Burningham says it was necessary to put the question directly to voters “because so many of our politicians have been out of touch with their constituents.”
That’s why voters had to step in, says The Fairness Project’s Schleifer, who helped organize the campaign to put the measure on Utah’s ballot.
“This election proves that politicians who fought to repeal the Affordable Care Act got it wrong. Americans want to live in a country where everyone can go to the doctor without going bankrupt. Expanding access to health care isn’t a blue state value or a red state value; it’s an American value,” Schleifer said in a statement.
Utah will pay for its share of expansion costs by increasing the state’s sales tax by 0.15 percentage points to 4.85 percent, which works out to about 1.5 cents for every $10 residents spend on nonfood purchases. The federal government pays for 90 percent of the health care costs incurred by those who get Medicaid benefits through the expansion measures.
RyLee Curtis, campaign managers for Utah Decides, an advocacy group that campaigned for the expansion, says many of the 150,000 Utahans who will benefit are employed, and about a third are parents.
“They’re working one or more jobs and they’re unable to afford health care coverage,” she says.
Nebraska and Idaho also had Medicaid questions on ballots in their states.
In Nebraska, about 90,000 people are now eligible for coverage. And a study by two University of Nebraska professors, commissioned by the Nebraska Hospital Association, concluded that the expansion would cost the state about $148 million over three years but bring $1.36 billion in federal health funding into the state over the same time frame.
The Nebraska analysis is one of several that suggest expanding Medicaid can also help improve employment in a state by supporting health care jobs.
In Idaho, Gov. Butch Otter, a Republican, endorsed the expansion initiative a week before Election Day.
Montana, voters appeared to reject a ballot measure to continue that state’s expansion, which originally passed in the state’s legislature in 2015, but included a built-in expiration date.
The Montana measure would have continued funding for Medicaid expansion with a combination of taxes on tobacco and e-cigarettes. The tobacco industry strongly opposed the measure. Tobacco giant Altria, the parent company of Philip Morris, which makes Marlboro cigarettes, contributed about $17 million on cash and loans to Montanans Against Tax Hikes, which opposed the measure, according to the state’s Campaign Electronic Reporting System.
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Cable Movies On Demand: Same-day-as-disc releases, older titles and pretheatrical
BlacKkKlansman (Spike Lee-directed biographical comedy-drama; John David Washington, Adam Driver, Laura Harrier, Topher Grace, Jasper Pääkkönen, Corey Hawkins, Ryan Eggold, Michael Buscemi, Paul Walter Hauser, Ashlie Atkinson, Harry Belafonte; rated R)
Christopher Robin (comedy-fantasy; Ewan McGregor, Hayley Atwell, Jim Cummings, Brad Garrett, Toby Jones, Nick Mohammed, Peter Capaldi, Sophie Okonedo; rated PG)
Incredibles 2 (Pixar animated sequel; voices: Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Sarah Vowell, Huck Milner, Catherine Keener, Eli Fucile, Bob Odenkirk, Samuel L. Jackson, Isabella Rossellini, Jonathan Banks, Sophia Bush; rated PG)
Papillon (biographical action-drama; Charlie Hunnam, Rami Malek, Roland Møller, Yorick van Wageningen, Tommy Flanagan, Eve Hewson; rated R)
The Miseducation of Cameron Post (romantic drama; Chloë Grace Moretz, Sasha Lane, Forrest Goodluck; not rated)
Gaugin: Voyage to Tahiti (biographical romance; Vincent Cassel, Tuheï Adams, Malik Zidi, Pua-Taï Hikutini, Pernille Bergendorff; not rated)
#Roxy (romantic comedy; Jake Short, Sarah Fisher, BooBoo Stewart, Danny Trejo, Pippa Mackie, Jake Smith, Patricia Zentilli, Carter Thicke, Hannah Duke, Scott Pocha, Jesse Lipscombe, Chris Aanderson; not rated)
Here and Now (drama; Sarah Jessica Parker, Simon Baker, Jacqueline Bisset, Common, Taylor Kinney, Renee Zellweger, Waleed Zuaiter; available 11/9 on cable MOD and in select theaters; rated R)
In a Relationship (romantic comedy; Emma Roberts, Michael Angarano, Dree Hemingway, Patrick Gibson; available 11/9 on cable MOD and in select theaters; not rated)
The Delinquent Season (romantic drama; Cillian Murphy, Catherine Walker, Eva Birthistle, Andrew Scott, Lydia McGuinness; available 11/9 on cable MOD and in select theaters; rated PG-13)
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Crazy Rich Asians (romantic comedy; Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Gemma Chan, Lisa Lu, Awkwafina, Ken Jeong, Michelle Yeoh; available now to download to own—not rent—two weeks before disc; rated PG-13)
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Dog Days (comedy-drama; Nina Dobrev, Vanessa Hudgens, Adam Pally, Eva Longoria, Rob Corddry, Tone Bell, Jon Bass, Michael Cassidy, Thomas Lennon, Tig Notaro, Finn Wolfhard, Ron Jones; available now to download to own—not rent—two weeks before disc; rated PG)
Blindspotting (comedy-drama; Daveed Diggs, Rafael Casal, Janina Gavankar, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Ethan Embry, Tisha Campbell-Martin, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Wayne Knight; available now to download to own—not rent—two weeks before disc; rated R)
Kin (sci-fi thriller; Jack Reynor, Zoë Kravitz, Carrie Coon, Dennis Quaid, James Franco, Myles Truitt; available now to download to own only; rated PG-13)
The Last Sharknado: It’s About Time (sci-fi action-comedy; Ian Ziering, Tara Reid, Vivica A. Fox, Cassandra Scerbo, Charles Hittinger, Jonathan Bennett, Lucia Oskerova, Roxanna Bina, Raine Michaels, Alexandre Ottoni; not rated)
Blood, Sweat and Terrors (action-thriller-horror; John Hannah, Neil Maskell, Paul Sloan, Jamie Birkett, Beau Fowler, Warren Brown, David Leitch; not rated)
Alone We Fight (war; Corbin Bernsen, Johnny Messner, Aidan Bristow, Philip Nathanael, Lara Ducey, Kate Conway; not rated)
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Crazy Rich Asians, Dog Days, Blindspotting, Kin, The Last Sharknado: It’s About Time, Alone We Fight, Superman: The Movie
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Crazy Rich Asians, Dog Days, Blindspotting, Kin, The Last Sharknado: It’s About Time, Alone We Fight, Superman: The Movie and Blood, Sweat and Terrors
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Kristy Taylor baits her hook while fishing on the Two Hearted River in Michigan. She’s part of a steelhead fishing class put on by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources in an effort to inspire more women to fish.
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The percentage of Americans who fish is in decline and that decline has had an impact on conservation projects, because hunting and fishing licenses help fund everything from habitat restoration to clean water programs.
So there are efforts to lure more anglers to the sport — and those efforts seem to be working, as more and more young women are taking up fishing.
Recently, a whole band of women spread out along the bank of the Two Hearted River in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. They were part of a steelhead fishing class put on by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources called Becoming an Outdoors Woman (BOW). The goal is to inspire women to fish.
Kristy Taylor was part of the class. She stood on the bank of the river on a cold, bleak morning.
Female anglers stand along the Two Hearted River, watching as a class instructor demonstrates casting.
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Instructor Katie Urban stood right by Taylor as she cast her line into the Two Hearted. “Whip it,” Urban said, just before Taylor cast.
They were tracking a fish. It was swimming close to surface, leaving a swirl of water behind it as it moved slowly.
“You see it?” Urban asked. “Alright she’s coming back to this side; she’s going to that pocket.”
The fish moved towards them, then disappeared and resurfaced farther down the river.
“Yes, go,” Urban told Taylor.
They took off running, scrambling up the dunes, the dark-stained Two Hearted River like a ribbon of tar below them.
More younger women drawn to fishing
In 2016, about 14 percent of Americans fished, and most of them were men. But a recent study on the Upper Great Lakes indicates female participation is on the rise. It found that fishing license sales increased among female anglers by about 4.5 percent between 2000 and 2015. That’s an additional 43,000 female anglers.
Richelle Winkler is the principal investigator on that study and an associate professor at Michigan Technological University. She says younger women in particular are getting involved.
“Young women today are about two times more likely than women born in 1960 to buy a fishing license,” says Winkler.
Winkler and Ph.D student Erin Burkett based the findings on the number of fishing licenses sold in Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana and Illinois.
Michelle Zellar, Michigan’s BOW coordinator, confirms that more women are drawn to fishing.
“We have a waiting list for every program we do,” she says.
Winkler says it’s not clear yet why more women are fishing. She’s looking into it, but for now, she has a hunch.
“I think it’s part of a broader cultural pattern of the world opening up a bit to women’s participation in activities that have traditionally been seen as more masculine,” she says.
Winkler says that’s particularly true for women born after 1980.
Kristy Taylor was born in 1981; she’s 37. She says she learned to fish when she was about five or six.
“My parents divorced when I was really young,” says Taylor. “So whenever I would be with my dad, that was the activity he knew best. So he would take my sister and I both to go fishing.”
But not all the new fisherwomen are young. Ellen Rice — another class participant — is 63 and fishing for the first time. She had a completely different experience growing up.
“The men went out fishing and hunting and the women — we just never thought about it,” say Rice.
She says even if she’d tried to fish, she wouldn’t have known how, and male anglers wouldn’t have shown her.
Richelle Winkler of Michigan Tech says new anglers like Taylor and Rice, who purchase state fishing and hunting licenses, are essential for conservation.
“Habitat restoration programs that keep our water clean and that keep invasive species in check — all of those kinds of programs are funded by fishing license sales,” says Winkler.
If more women keep fishing, Winkler says angler participation could stabilize. But she says that probably won’t stop the decline in conservation money, because hunting participation is in serious decline with no signs of changing.
Taylor says fishing for her is about being in nature; it’s also empowering.
“You’re in charge of your pole,” she says. “You’re in charge of your bait. You’re in charge of your casts. And when you catch a fish, it’s then your doing.”
Catching dinner?
When Kristy Taylor got to her new spot on the Two Hearted, a man at a campsite across the river spotted the fish she’d been chasing. He got out his fishing rod, lit a cigarette and cast for the fish.
“No,” Taylor whispered.
The bait landed right on the fish, but the fish turned away.
“She’s runnin’ from him,” said Urban. “Yeah, she doesn’t like that.”
Then the fish came right to the shore by Taylor, and she lightly tossed her bait sack filled with bright red coho salmon eggs in front of the fish. No interest there either.
In the end, Taylor didn’t catch a fish. All she hooked was some dark, wet sticks.
“I’ve got salad to go with dinner,” she joked.
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Simone Biles of the U.S. shows her gold medal after the women’s vault final at the gymnastics World Championships in Doha, Qatar last week.
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The U.S. Olympic Committee has taken preliminary steps to revoke USA Gymnastics’ status as the governing body for the sport, after it fumbled attempts to reorganize after a sexual abuse scandal.
In an open letter to the U.S. gymnastics community, U.S. Olympic Committee CEO Sarah Hirshland wrote, “You deserve better.” Invoking the decertification process would usher in new leadership, she added, acknowledging that the interim period could be rocky: “I do not know how long the process will take, and we will make every effort to proceed quickly.”
This dramatic step can be traced to the scandal that rocked the sport last year, when it came to light that a former team doctor, Larry Nassar, had abused hundreds of athletes under the guise of medical treatment. He is now serving the equivalent of a life sentence in prison.
The organization has cycled through three leaders in less than two years. Former USA Gymnastics CEO Steve Penny, who presided over the organization during Nassar’s tenure, resigned in early 2017. Last month Penny was arrested for allegedly tampering with evidence related to the Nassar case. Penny pleaded not guilty.
Penny’s two successors were also pressured to step down. Mary Bono, a former member of the U.S. House, lasted less than a week as interim CEO before resigning last month. On social media, Bono had criticized Nike for featuring football quarterback Colin Kaepernick in an ad campaign. Kaepernick has knelt at NFL games to protest police brutality and discrimination against African-Americans.
Simone Biles, the biggest star in gymnastics and a Nike-sponsored athlete, took to Twitter to register her disapproval of Bono’s since-deleted tweet.
Bono resigned shortly afterwards. Before her, the job was held for less than a year by Kerry Perry.
Despite the USOC’s move, the USA Gymnastics board said it would continue to serve the gymnastics community: “Our commitment will always be to ensure the health and safety of our members while they pursue their love of the sport.”
Despite the disarray at USA Gymnastics, the female team has triumphed in international competitions. They dominated at the World Championships this week, and Biles took home a record four gold medals.
Lowe’s announced Monday it will close 51 stores in the U.S. and Canada.
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The home improvement retailer Lowe’s will be closing 51 locations in the U.S. and Canada, it announced Monday.
The company described the stores as underperforming.
“The store closures are a necessary step in our strategic reassessment as we focus on building a stronger business,” said Marvin Ellison, Lowe’s president and CEO.
The list included 20 U.S. locations in 13 different states.
The company said most employees will be offered positions at stores within 10 miles of where they had worked.
“We believe our people are the foundation of our business and essential to our future growth, and we are making every effort to transition impacted associates to nearby Lowe’s stores,” Ellison said.
This decision by Ellison is not unprecedented.
After leaving J.C. Penney and beginning his tenure as Lowe’s CEO in July, he quickly shuttered Orchard Supply Hardware, a chain the company had bought in 2013, NPR’s Rebecca Ellis reported.
Regarding the most recent cutback, some stores will close immediately and others will wind down operations more gradually, selling off remaining inventory.
All the stores on the list are expected to be closed by the end of the company’s 2018 fiscal year, which is Feb. 1, 2019.
First place finishers Mary Keitany of Kenya, left, and Lelisa Desisa of Ethiopia pose for a picture at the finish line of the New York City Marathon on Sunday.
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At the New York City Marathon on Sunday, the race’s top long-distance runners greeted an ideally brisk and sunny fall morning with near record times.
It was a day of many personal firsts, as a field of more than 50,000 sought to push their way through the city’s five boroughs in the annual race.
Lelisa Desisa of Ethiopia won the men’s race — his first in New York — in 2 hours, 5 minutes, 59 seconds.
Lelisa Desisa, of Ethiopia, crosses the finish line first in the men’s division of the NYC Marathon.
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“This is my dream,” Desisa, 28, said after the race, The Associated Press reported. “To be a champion.”
Shura Kitata, also of Ethiopia, took second place in the men’s race with a time of 2:06:01. Last year’s title defender, Kenya’s Geoffrey Kamworor, was favored to win going into the race, but ultimately placed third with a time of 2:06:26.
In the women’s race, fellow Kenyan Mary Keitany, 36, became the third person to win the NYC marathon four times, according to The New York Times. She ran the course in 2:22:48, the second fastest time for a female runner in NYC marathon history. Kenya’s Margaret Okayo’s record of 2:22:31 from 2003 remains unbroken.
Mary Keitany of Kenya is first to finish the women’s NYC Marathon.
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Keitany said that setting a course record was never on her mind, according to the AP. She just wanted to win.
“For me, winning was the most important,” she said.
Keitany outran Vivian Cheruiyot, 35, of Kenya, who came in at 2:26:02. American Shalane Flanagan, 37, who finished third with a time of 2:26:22, ran faster than last year when she won the race.
In the wheelchair division, Daniel Romanchuk became the first American to win the men’s race, finishing in 1:36:21. Switzerland’s Marcel Hug trailed about one second behind Romanchuk, followed by David Weir of Britain, to round out the top three.
Daniel Romanchuk of the United States poses for a picture after crossing the finish line first in the men’s wheelchair division.
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Manuela Schar of Switzerland won the women’s wheelchair division for the second time, at 1:50:27. Tatyana McFadden of the U.S. finished as runner-up at 1:50:48 and Lihong Zou of China came in third.
Massachusetts cranberry growers are halfway through the harvest. It’s been a good crop, but they’re worried about low fruit prices. We visit with one farmer and discuss the struggling industry.
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Massachusetts cranberry growers are halfway through this year’s harvest season. It’s been a good crop so far. But they’re worried about how low fruit prices are affecting the industry in the state. Hayley Fager from member station WCAI visits a cranberry farmer, and she has this report.
HAYLEY FAGER, BYLINE: The leaves have just started to turn orange and yellow in Southeastern Massachusetts. I’m on a cranberry farm with Steve Ward, a second-generation grower in Middleborough. His 22-year-old son Justin Ward is out here today harvesting. Justin’s already started up the pump and flooded the cranberry field.
JUSTIN WARD: Before we got onto that bog, I said as long as you don’t fall in the ditch, we’ll be OK. Well, he fell in the ditch (laughter).
FAGER: That’s part of the whole harvesting process. Somebody always falls into the ditch. Picking machines remove the berries from the bushes, and the fruit floats to the top. Then it gets corralled into a big ring.
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FAGER: I put on some waders and walk into the water with Steve. The pump sucks the berries up a tube.
STEVE WARD: When I talk to little kids, I say it’s like a whirlpool sucking everything in.
FAGER: Steve rakes the berries toward the suction box.
(SOUNDBITE OF ENGINE RUNNING)
FAGER: The fruit moves up through a washing system and onto a truck.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: Welcome, everyone, to the cranberry harvest festival by Makepeace.
FAGER: I first saw this process at the 15th cranberry harvest festival, where I met Steve a few weeks ago. He says working on the bogs is hard and can be kind of lonely.
S. WARD: When I come to something like this, it reinvigorates me. The excitement that someone shows on their face when I talk about something that, I think, is kind of day-to-day, almost kind of boring at times, makes me feel good, makes me feel needed.
FAGER: The event brings nearly 30,000 people to the small town of Wareham, Mass. You can take a helicopter ride over the fields and even walk into the bogs.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: We are going to go wade in the cranberries.
FAGER: But this year was the festival’s last, and that’s a sign of bigger changes in the industry. Nationally, cranberry revenues have dropped. And farmers who staff the event just can’t afford to take a week off from harvesting. The problem is worse for Massachusetts growers because most of the bogs here are natural, which makes them less efficient than man-made bogs in places like Wisconsin or Canada. Farmers here are banking on state funding to upgrade their bogs.
S. WARD: If we don’t do that, other parts of the world and other parts of the country are going to put us out of business.
FAGER: Steve has mixed feelings about his son entering a struggling industry. But Justin says this job makes him happy.
J. WARD: I’m hoping to do it as long as I can, you know? This is really fun for me.
FAGER: Every year, they go out together when the first cranberries are ready to taste. And they find the very best berry that they can. And then Steve takes that perfect berry, and he holds it up over his head.
S. WARD: Now, Justin usually doesn’t jump in and say it with me because he’s laughing so hard.
J. WARD: Yeah.
S. WARD: But I’ll yell at the top of my lungs, first cranberry of the season.
FAGER: Even now Justin is laughing at his dad.
S. WARD: And Justin says, dad, why do you have to do it so loud? The neighbors are going to hear us (laughter). It has to be that way. The whole world has to hear it.
FAGER: Steve and Justin Ward are doing everything they can to stay in business. They say they’ll be out here every year for their own harvest celebration. For NPR News, I’m Hayley Fager in southeastern Massachusetts.
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