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GENEVA Voters overwhelmingly rejected a referendum Sunday that would have made Switzer- land the world’s first country to guarantee a generous monthly in- come to all 8.1 million residents Nearly 77% of the voters op- posed the measure that would mandate the government pay

$2,600 a month to each adult — regardless of work status or wealth — and $650 to each child Only 23% favored the referen- dum

“The results demonstrate that voters are satisfied with the way our economy functions and don’t think it needs to be revolution- ized,” said Alain Berset, head of the Federal Department of Home Affairs.

The prospect of an tional basic income is being dis- cussed in various cities in the Netherlands, Finland, Canada, New Zealand and other nations But Switzerland is the first coun- try to actually vote on a guaran- teed income on the national level Backers of the referendum claimed the money would offer all adults an option of reducing their working hours while maintaining

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Hillary Clinton is poised to break historic ground Tuesday, but the latest research shows that she and other women still tra- verse a more difficult political landscape than men when they run for office — and that those differences exacerbate some of the most serious challenges she

faces about honesty and likability

While more than 100 men have been nominated for president by the nation’s dominant political parties over the past 220 years, when the polls in New Jersey close Tuesday night, Clinton is expected to become the first woman to clinch the nomination

of a major party for the nation’s highest office

“It’s the ultimate treehouse with a ‘no-girls-allowed’ sign posted on it, and it would be ab- solutely wonderful to have her break into the treehouse and take the sign down,” former Colorado congresswoman Patricia Schroe- der says of the White House.

Even so, Schroeder, 75, says the gender-based hurdles and stereo- types she faced in her own bid for the Democratic nomination in

1988 now are “more subtle, but it’s more of the same.”

For instance, a report this spring by the Barbara Lee Family Foundation found that voters are willing to support a male candi- date they don’t like if they think

he is qualified But they are less likely to support a female candi- date they think is qualified unless they also like her “For women candidates, likability is linked to electability, and that’s not the

‘Why are you yelling’: Women still face a political double standard

Clinton at cusp of history, but obstacles remain on landscape

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Like a lot of kids growing up

in the 1960s, I idolized

Muham-mad Ali.

Not just because he was

heavyweight champion of the

world Or that he was The

Great-est of All Time He was from

Louisville, like me.

I was not yet 4 when

22-year-old Cassius Clay upset Sonny

Liston to win the heavyweight

title But even then, I was aware

that the Champ and I shared a

hometown In TV interviews

af-ter his fights, he always would

say hi to his mother, Odessa, and

“all my kin in Louisville.”

By the time I became fully

aware of his status as the most

famous man in the world, he had

changed his name, become a

lightning rod for the Vietnam

War, was vilified for his refusal

to serve on religious grounds,

stripped of his title and not

al-lowed to box.

I read every word of every

sto-ry in The Courier-Journal

trac-ing his comebacks and victories,

from training camp in Deer

Lake, Pa., to “the Thrilla in

Ma-nila” and beyond.

Sometime around 1975, fresh

from his victory over George

Foreman in “The Rumble in the

Jungle,” Ali came home to

Louisville to promote a new

box-ing school that would bear his

name and to stage an exhibition

with sparring partner and

for-mer champion (and fellow

Lou-isvillian) Jimmy Ellis.

His bravado was on full

dis-play, even in an exhibition He

put on a show using his

still-con-siderable skills, moving, dancing

and jabbing Of course he onstrated the Ali Shuffle and the

dem-“rope-a-dope” that helped him reclaim the title.

The other memorable ment from that night may or may not have been a stunt At one point, Ali went down to the canvas Was it a slip, or did the Champ take one on the chin?

mo-We’ll never know because spite a photo array and scream- ing headlines in the next day’s paper, Ali played it off as part of the show, falling down in dra- matic fashion several more times in a matter of minutes.

de-Flash forward some two ades In June 1997, I’m in Chi- cago, walking down my street

dec-when I see a wedding party ing pictures on a patio just off the street The man in the morn- ing coat is the Champ himself, Muhammad Ali His daughter, Rasheda, was getting married, with her twin, Jamillah, as her maid of honor.

tak-For a few precious minutes, I was the only one watching By the time I came to my senses and ran the block and a half to

my apartment to grab my era and come back, a crowd had gathered on this small section of Dearborn Street.

cam-I still was able to go up to the wrought iron fence and shoot some photos Between wedding photos, Ali would leave the

group and come over Cars were stopped in the middle of the street and fans were crowding the sidewalk as they recognized the man in the formal wear, shadowboxing and clowning around “Ain’t he ugly?” Ali joked in a barely audible rasp while boxing with a man in a morning coat.

After screwing up my courage,

I shook his hand and ately felt like a little boy again I managed to blurt out “You’ve been my hero my whole life, and I’m from Louisville …” The Champ whose Parkinson’s made him nearly silent by choice, didn’t respond verbally But I saw his eyes light up.

immedi-A minute later, a member of the wedding party, smiling be- hind his shades, said: “So you and the Champ are homeboys, huh?”

“I guess we are,” I said proudly.

A year or so later, as an editor for USA TODAY in the Washing- ton, D.C., area, I was invited to a book-signing event for Powerful Prayers, a collection of Larry King’s conversations on faith with celebrities including Ali

I had brought along photos from the wedding in case I got to meet the Champ again I intro- duced myself to his wife, Lonnie, who accepted my photos “to give

74, is forever silent But he will always be The Greatest And we will always be homeboys from Louisville.

Jim Cheng is a copy editor at the Gannett Design Studio in Louisville

my hero my whole life, and I’m from

Louisville…”

case for men,” says Adrienne

Kimmell, executive director of

the non-partisan institute

Voters view Clinton and

pre-sumptive Republican nominee

Donald Trump unfavorably by

record levels — 54% for her and

61% for him in the latest USA

TODAY/Suffolk University Poll —

but the study indicates that she is

more likely to lose votes as a

re-sult than he is.

In a study at Macalester

Col-lege in St Paul this year, an

analy-sis of media coverage of Clinton,

Democratic rival Bernie Sanders

and Republican Ted Cruz came to

a similar conclusion “Although

Ted Cruz was often tagged for ing not very likable, it didn’t seem

be-to be as much as a detriment be-to him as it was for Hillary Clinton,”

says political science professor Julie Dolan, the lead author of the 2016 edition of Women and Politics: Paths to Power and Politi- cal Influence “Clinton received more personal coverage than did Cruz, despite already being a much better known political fig- ure, and her coverage was much more negative than his.”

When it comes to honesty and trustworthiness, Americans auto- matically give an edge to women.

In a Pew Research Center Poll leased in January, 31% said wom-

re-en were better at being honest and ethical; just 3% said men were better But studies show that women pay a higher price than men when they aren’t seen

as honest, and have a harder time regaining trust if they lose it

That’s true in fields other than politics A not-yet-published study by Wharton professor Ma- ry-Hunter McDonnell and others into disciplinary punishments imposed by the American Bar As- sociation, first reported by NPR, found that female lawyers were twice as likely as male lawyers to

be disbarred when accused of tually identical infractions.

vir-For Clinton, perceptions that she can’t be trusted, stoked by on- going investigations into her ex- clusive use of a private email server when she was secretary of State, are seen as one of her big- gest liabilities in the campaign.

Nearly two-thirds of likely voters

in a CBS News/New York Times poll last month said Clinton wasn’t honest or trustworthy — though those are the same dismal ratings Trump received

Now Trump routinely derides Clinton as “Crooked Hillary.”

“When women are pushed off

of or fall off their ethical pedestal, it is very, very hard for them to climb back up, and that isn’t the case for men,”

honesty-and-Kimmell says Male candidates face lower expectations they will

be honest, and voters are quicker

to forgive them when they aren’t.

“You know that former nor of South Carolina who’s now

gover-a member of Congress?” she gover-asks,

a reference to Mark Sanford.

While governor, he was censured

by the South Carolina General Assembly for personal misbehav- ior, then won a House election

four years later “If ‘he’ were a

‘she,’ that couldn’t happen.”

‘A SEA CHANGE’

To be sure, some barriers for female candidates have been low- ered In a 2013 book He Runs, She Runs, Dartmouth professor Deb- orah Jordan Brooks argues that gender stereotypes don’t hurt female candidates, especially as more women seek and win office.

“When I started out in 1972, it was practically impossible,” re- calls California Sen Barbara Box-

er, retiring this year after four terms in the Senate and five in the House “I lost a local county supervisor race because people

wrote that I was abandoning my children.” Her memoir, The Art of Tough, was published last week

by Hachette “There’s been a sea change,” Boxer said “But are there still challenges; are there still prejudices? Absolutely.”

In an interview with USA DAY two years ago about her memoir, Hard Choices, Clinton predicted that a woman running for president in 2016 would en- counter a friendlier landscape than she did in her 2008 bid “It feels different,” she said “It feels like our country, our society —

TO-we’ve gone through a learning process.” While there would be

“vestiges” of sexism, “I do believe

it would not be as reflexive It would not be as acceptable.”

Clinton starts out having mounted some of the hurdles female candidates typically en- counter “She’s not your typical woman candidate in the sense that the No 1 thing most women have to do running for executive office is prove that they’re quali- fied, prove that they’re compe- tent, and that is not something that Hillary Clinton has had to do,” says Democratic pollster Ce- linda Lake, who has studied gen- der politics

sur-Clinton’s four-year tenure heading the State Department also has an impact, she says “Tra- ditionally women have more credibility on domestic issues than foreign policy, and of course she is perceived to be extremely experienced on foreign policy.”

Still, Clinton faces the same lemma as other female candi- dates in trying to come across as decisive and impassioned without being accused of being shrill

di-Debbie Walsh, director for the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University, says commentary on Clinton’s de- meanor on cable news shows and Twitter proves the persistence of bias “I mean, the conversation about ‘why don’t you smile’ and

‘why are you yelling at me?’ ” she says “The campaign is filled on both sides with men doing a lot of yelling, and that doesn’t seem to get called out in the same way.”

After Trump accused Clinton

of playing “the woman card,” he was asked on MSNBC’s Morning

Joe to address her response to

“deal me in” when it comes to sues such as equal pay and paid family leave He countered by discussing not what she said but how she said it “I haven’t quite recovered from her shouting that message,” Trump replied Lake once did an experiment with a pair of radio ads that con- tained the same content but had

is-a mis-ale voice on one version is-and is-a female voice on another While the decibel levels were identical, listeners rated the woman’s voice

as being significantly louder “A man is assertive where a woman

is aggressive,” Boxer says with an edge of sarcasm

STILL, SOME RESERVATIONS

Some voters continue to express doubts about a woman as presi- dent In a recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, one in five of those surveyed said they were

“very uncomfortable” or had

“some reservations” about ton as the first female president (Trump faces challenges as well: 6 in 10 said they were “very uncomfortable” or had “some reservations” about him serving

Clin-as president without having had experience in the government or serving in the military.)

In the survey, nearly one in five said they were “comfortable” with a woman as president, and more than 1 in 5 said they were

“enthusiastic” about it

At a rally Friday, Clinton prised language she used eight years earlier, when she conceded-

re-to Barack Obama “Starting next Tuesday,” she said, “we’re on our way to breaking the highest and hardest glass ceiling.”

Women get edge

in trustworthiness

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‘no-girls-Patricia Schroeder,

former Colorado congresswoman,

on Hillary Clinton’s run for the White House.

STE MÈRE - ÉGLISE , FRANCE The first thing Ralph Ticcioni noticed was the faces of the paratroopers.

Sitting in two rows on the floor

of the C-47, the men clad in World War II replica uniforms looked up at Ticcioni, an original paratrooper.

Seventy-two years ago Ticcioni had looked at the soldiers sitting across from him, who all wore on their shoulders the double-A, red-and-blue patch of the 82nd Airborne, as they flew across the English Channel on a C-47 on the journey to Normandy Their eyes betrayed their anxiety as flak ex- ploded around them, fear of the unknown etched on their faces.

Not so this weekend in the same skies over Ste Mère-Église

as members of the Round Canopy Parachute Team jumped out of two C-47s painted in the D-Day invasion markings to re-create, in

a small way, the June 6, 1944, sault on Normandy.

as-“Looking at the expressions on their faces, they’re so calm,” said Ticcioni, who was invited to fly with the team and watch them jump Sitting on the floor next to Ticcioni’s seat, Peder Ek smiled and looked up at the D-Day veter- an.“I can’t even tell you how ex- cited I am to meet you,” said Ek, a Swede “It’s an honor.”

There was something Ek

want-ed to know — “you must have been terrified?”

Ticcioni nodded Yes, he was.

The 93-year-old New Berlin, Wis., man survived the war, though some of his buddies died in combat and others were wounded.

He didn’t return to France until last week, when the citizens of Ste.

Mère-Église, the village near where Ticcioni landed as part of the D-Day invasion, arranged for him to come and participate in a week-long commemoration He has been treated as a hero.

One day before the anniversary

of the invasion, Ticcioni spent Sunday near La Fiere Bridge near Ste Mère-Église watching hun-

dreds of parachutists land in farm fields in a re-creation of the 82nd and 101st Airborne landings

“Three hundred and sixty paratroopers saved our lives,”

said Maurice Renaud, the son of Ste Mère-Église’s mayor during the D-Day invasion “If the Ger- mans had succeeded I wouldn’t

be here today They would have burned down the town, which they did in other places And my father being the mayor would have been the first to die.”

On Sunday, Ticcioni received the French Legion of Honor med-

al in a solemn ceremony along with two other recipients — Gen.

Dwight Eisenhower’s daughter Susan and four-star Gen John Nicholson Ticcioni didn’t know he was receiving the prestigious honor until his name was called “I’m overwhelmed Completely surprised I had no idea,” Ticcioni said.

grand-Ticcioni is a humble man who speaks quietly about his World War II experiences

He recounted what it was like

to stand up in a plane while

load-ed down with gear, checking the static line of the man in front of him while the man behind him checked his Then seeing the light inside the C-47 change to green and stepping into the void as the static line yanked open his parachute.

Ticcioni watched the World War II re-enactors in the C-47 do the same thing, though without the flak or grenades stuffed in pockets

“Boy, is this something,” cioni said, after the parachutists jumped out at 1,200 feet and the C-47 turned back to an airport near Cherbourg “It brings back memories.”

Tic-WWII vet revisits D-Day

MEG JONES, MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL

Dozens of parachutists in World War II paratrooper replica uniforms and gear fill the skies near Ste Mère-Église, France,

on Sunday, one day before the 72nd anniversary of the start of the D-Day invasion.

French city treats Wis man as hero for his paratrooper role

Meg Jones

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

“Three hundred and sixty

paratroopers saved our lives If the Germans had succeeded I

wouldn’t be here.”

Maurice Renaud, the son of

Ste Mère-Église’s mayor during the D-Day invasion

IN BRIEF

TROPICAL STORM FORECAST

FOR FLORIDA’S GULF COAST

Tropical Storm Colin took aim

on Florida late Sunday, bringing

with it waves of rain, strong

winds, flooding and even the

threat of tornadoes as the

Na-tional Weather Service issued a

round of flood watches and storm

warnings.

The National Hurricane

Cen-ter said Colin had maximum

sus-tained winds of 40 mph and had

gained strength over the warm

waters of the Gulf of Mexico The

north-northeast system was

ex-pected to push its way just north

of Tampa by Monday, impacting

the state as far as the Big Bend

area before churning its way on

the other side to the Atlantic

Ocean by Tuesday

Tropical Storm Colin, the third

named storm of the 2016

hurri-cane season, is also the earliest

third tropical storm of a season

on record.

— J.D Gallop, Florida Today

IRAQI FORCES ADVANCE

TOWARD FALLUJAH

Iraqi forces supported by U.S.

airstrikes advanced Sunday

to-ward Fallujah and pressed to

re-take the key western city from

the Islamic State, which has

con-trolled it for nearly two years.

An Iraqi military commander,

Lt Gen Abdel Wahab al-Saadi,

said his forces have secured a

largely agricultural neighborhood

on the southern edge of the city, the Associated Press reported He said Iraqi special forces are poised to enter the main city, two weeks after the offensive began.

The slow-moving Iraqi tion is hampered by tens of thou- sands of civilians still trapped in the city, plus bombs and booby traps set by the Islamic State.

opera-— Thomas Frank

ALSO

uMemphis police on Sunday charged Justine Welch, 21, in connection with a violent ram- page through downtown late Sat- urday in which a veteran police officer was run over and killed af- ter three other people were wounded by gunshots.

uRetired Air Force colonel Thomas Schaefer, one of the 52 American hostages held for 444 days in Iran, died this week in Scottsdale, Ariz He was 85 David Schaefer said Friday that his fa- ther died of congestive heart fail- ure Tuesday at a hospice.

uA diver was killed by a shark off the west Australian coast on Sunday in the country’s second fatal attack in less than a week, the Associated Press reported.

The 60-year-old woman was ing at a popular dive spot in the northern Perth suburb of Minda- rie when the shark attacked, Western Australia state Police In- spector Danny Mulligan said.

div-ADI WEDA, EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY

Muslim women perform an evening prayer called Tarawih, the

night before the start of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, at

Istiqlal mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Sunday

RAMADAN BEGINS

The thousands of residents

evacuated by the brush fire in a

residential area near Los Angeles

were allowed to return home

Sunday evening as crews reached

nearly full containment, fire

de-partment officials said.

The fire was 80% contained by

Sunday afternoon, according to

the Los Angeles County Fire

Department.

The fire, which burned about

515 acres, had threatened houses

in the hilly, affluent suburbs northwest of Los Angeles.

The fire destroyed one mercial building, damaged two homes and forced the closing of some local roads.

com-Officials lifted all evacuation orders for residents of Calabasas,

a city of about 23,000 in western Los Angeles County, and Old Topanga, although as many

683 residents may find their homes without power, accord- ing to Southern California Edi- son

Fighting the blaze near the Los Angeles and Ventura county lines had not been easy

“It’s an area with rugged pography That’s our biggest con- cern,” said inspector Joey Marron of the Los Angeles Coun-

to-ty Fire Department.

Temperatures near 100 grees and overgrown brush fed the flames that began at around

de-4 p.m Saturday when a vehicle hit a utility pole and knocked down electrical lines.

About 400 firefighters were fighting the blaze Sunday morn- ing, Los Angeles County Deputy

Fire Chief John Tripp said “The fire is halfway up a mountain,” he said

Three firefighters were injured fighting the blaze, but Marron described the injuries as minor Fire crews from across the area fought the blaze, using wa- ter-dropping aircraft that si- phoned water from Lake Calabasas

Crews were expected to tinue extinguishing embers in hard-to-hike areas to reach full containment, said Andy Olvera

con-an investigator with the ment.

depart-MICHAEL OWEN BAKER, AFP/GETTY IMAGES

Ventura County firefighters examine burned hillsides in Calabasas, Calif., on Sunday About 5,000 people were evacuated and local roads were closed.

BRUSH FIRE ROUSTS

THOUSANDS FROM HOMES

Vehicle accident sparks blaze that has burned more than 500 acres, damaged houses

Wendy Leung

Ventura County (Calif.) Star

and Thomas Frank

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me sneeze when I first drink it.

It bubbles That immediately hits my nose.”

Vernors — which was nally Vernor’s, before the apos- trophe was dropped decades ago — is among the oldest con- tinuously made soft drinks in America This week, it cele- brates its 150th anniversary.

origi-For many Vernors drinkers, it’s a nostalgic celebration Gen- erations of Michiganders, like Kole, grew up with the efferves- cent, caramel-colored elixir as a beverage of choice, a special treat on special occasions and also as a general cure for what- ever ailed them.

A few years ago on network television, singer Aretha Frank- lin, the Queen of Soul, was making a recipe that required Vernors and called the ginger ale a “Detroit treasure.”

Vernors is no longer made in Detroit, and the business has

changed hands many times But the drink has endured.

“Vernors is so unique,” said Joel Stone, 60, the senior cura- tor of the Detroit Historical So- ciety The historical museum even has a small collection of Vernors artifacts “Putting it in romantic terms, Vernors ties back to good things people re- member about their childhood.

Times were simpler then If you were a good boy on a hot summer Saturday and you got the grass cut, you got to have a cold Vernors.”

To commemorate the versary, restaurants also plan to serve specials made with Ver- nors Among the public events:

anni-the Detroit Historical Museum

is setting up a special exhibit that opens Tuesday; an anni- versary party is Saturday.

Kole remembers getting the pop from her mom, now 91, as a treat when she was a girl She says it was the one concoction she could count on when she was pregnant with each of her three children “It’s very com- forting,” Kole said.

State hails its ale, 150 years and countingHIGHLIGHT: MICHIGAN

Frank Witsil

Detroit Free Press

MARY SCHROEDER, DETROIT FREE PRESS

Generations of Michiganders grew up with Vernors This week it celebrates its 150th anniversary

STATE-BY-STATE

ALABAMA Tuskegee: Three

veterinarians who graduated

from the Tuskegee University

School of Veterinary Medicine

are on Animal Planet’s new series

The Vet Life the Opelika-Auburn

News reported The eight-episode

season stars doctors Diarra Blue,

Aubrey Ross and Michael

La-vigne

ALASKA Bethel: Only qualified

subsistence users will be able to

harvest chum and king salmon

from the Kuskokwim River,

KYUK-AM reported The Federal

Subsistence Board closed federal

waters from Aniak to the mouth

of the Kuskokwim to all gillnets

under a state action, effective

June 1

ARIZONA Casa Grande: The

Casa Grande Dispatch reported

that Danrick Builders plans to

build a 2,360-acre recreational

motorsports park near here

ARKANSAS Jonesboro: A

his-toric building at Arkansas State

University here was rededicated

for use as a second site of the

New York Institute of Technology

College of Osteopathic Medicine,

the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

reported

CALIFORNIA Long Beach:

Three more people have pleaded

guilty to bilking the government

of nearly $600 million in a billing

scheme involving Pacific Hospital

here, authorities said

COLORADO Aspen: A former

sled dog was rescued after going

missing from a Snowmass Village

business for 10 days in the woods,

the Aspen Times reported

CONNECTICUT Shelton: Shelton

High will award posthumous

honorary diplomas to Eddy

Con-klin and Kristjan Ndoj, the New

Haven Register reported Conklin

died in a car accident in February.

Ndoj was fatally shot in a friend’s

driveway in March 2014

DELAWARE Dover: An

anony-mous Facebook tip helped state

police identify a man and charge

him with repeatedly stealing

items from vehicles, authorities

said

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: As a

massive subway rebuilding

pro-ject got underway, Metro Chief

Paul Wiedefeld urged commuters

to find alternative routes, The

Washington Post reported

FLORIDA Cape Canaveral:

Negotiations that NASA

an-nounced could lead to launches

of a new Orbital ATK commercial

rocket from Kennedy Space

Cen-ter as soon as 2019, Florida Today

reported

GEORGIA Warner Robins: A

Robins Air Force Base airman

was found not guilty of felony

murder and aggravated arson in

the death of a friend as part of

what authorities said was an

insurance fraud scheme, The

Telegraph reported

HAWAII Honolulu: Sixty-eight

public schools statewide will be

serving free weekday meals to

children this summer through

the Department of Education’s

summer food service program,

the Honolulu Star-Advertiser

reported

IDAHO Caldwell: A reward of up

to $5,000 is being offered for

information leading to the arrest

and conviction of those

respon-sible for poisoning dogs here The

Humane Society of the United

States announced the offer after

reports that 14 stock and guard

dogs have been poisoned with 12

dying

ILLINOIS Wheaton: Forest

pre-serve officials are asking drivers

to keep an eye out for turtles on

area roadways The Daily Herald

reported that it’s nesting season.

That means more turtles are

crossing roads

INDIANA Muncie: By year’s end,

glassmaker Ardagh Group will

close its Muncie headquarters

and relocate to the Indianapolis

suburb of Fishers, taking 200 jobs with it, The Star Press reported.

IOWA Sioux City: The Hard

Rock Hotel & Casino is seeking approval for a $5 million, nearly 8,000-square-foot addition to its downtown casino, the Sioux City Journal reported

KANSAS Topeka: Republican

Gov Brownback said that the state is drought-free for the first time in more than five years

KENTUCKY Louisville: A new

Change.org online petition calls for replacing a controversial Confederate monument near the University of Louisville with a statue of Louisville-born boxing legend Muhammad Ali, who died Friday, The Courier-Journal re- ported

LOUISIANA Shreveport:

Resi-dents of a local apartment plex were told they have less than

com-30 days to get out The Times reported that the financial in- stitution that took ownership of Chimney Hill apartment complex says the buildings are structurally unsafe

MAINE Portland: Officials say

The Cat, a new ferry contracted

to transport passengers from Portland to Nova Scotia, has finished its sea trials in South Carolina and is headed to Maine, the Portland Press Herald report-

ed Ferry service between land and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia

Port-is scheduled to resume on June 15

MARYLAND Bloodsworth Island: Nearly two dozen

adults and schoolchildren were rescued and treated at an area hospital after their boat sank near Bloodsworth Island, The Daily Times reported Investiga- tors were still piecing together how the 40-foot vessel ended up

in an area banned from boat traffic

MASSACHUSETTS Springfield:

A 23-year-old man denied sations that he committed two bank robberies in a span of just

accu-90 minutes earlier this week in Springfield, The Republican re- ported

MICHIGAN Sault Ste Marie:

An 850-foot freighter has been freed after being grounded on a reef for a week in Whitefish Bay off Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, MLive.com reported The Roger

Blough was floated off Gros Cap Reef Saturday morning The freighter ran aground May 27.

Food, water and other supplies were taken by tugboat to the crew earlier this week

MINNESOTA Duluth: Lake

Su-perior College will offer free tuition grants to Minnesota high school seniors who enroll in certain programs this fall, the Duluth News Tribune reported.

To qualify, students must also select one of LSC’s 84 qualifying programs, maintain a 2.5 GPA and participate in a mentoring program

MISSISSIPPI Clinton:

Continen-tal Tire will bring a $1.45 billion investment to the area over 20 years, and add 2,500 jobs to the local economy, the Magnolia Gazette reported The 915-acre site will sit between Clinton and Bolton

MISSOURI Kansas City: Police

are investigating after two people were found shot to death in a car The Kansas City Star report-

ed that police found more than

20 shell casings near the vehicle

MONTANA Butte: State and

federal officials reached a tive agreement on the removal of more contaminated mine waste around Butte The U.S Environ- mental Protection Agency ex- pects to finalize the agreement by the end of the year, the Montana Standard reported

tenta-NEBRASKA Crete: State Sen.

Laura Ebke has switched her affiliation from Republican to Libertarian, the Omaha World- Herald reported “I got frustrated with some of my colleagues who don’t recognize civil liberties and don’t seem to agree with getting government out of people’s busi- ness,” she said

NEVADA North Las Vegas: One

of three College of Southern Nevada campuses is poised to add North Las Vegas to its name, school administrators said

NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord:

In-state tuition at all seven state community colleges will remain

at a five-year low of $200 per credit hour, or about $6,000 per year The state universities will raise tuition for the second straight year, the Concord Mon- itor reported

NEW JERSEY Freehold ship: As many as 20 people were

Town-treated for injuries suffered at a Dolan Twins show at the iPlay America Event Center, the As- bury Park Press reported At least five were taken to Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune after suffering heat- related health issues The Dolan Twins, Grayson and Ethan Dolan, are 16-year-old brothers who have become a YouTube sensa- tion

NEW MEXICO Bernalillo: Two

people were killed in a head-on collision on Interstate 25 in what New Mexico State Police say was

a wrong-way accident

NEW YORK Webster: Xerox has

announced it will eliminate 48 jobs and close its Supplies Dis- tribution Center here as part of restructuring efforts first an- nounced late last year, the Demo- crat and Chronicle reported

NORTH CAROLINA Buxton:

Officials with Cape Hatteras National Seashore say recent record-breaking rain on Hatteras Island has impacted beach ramps, campgrounds and roads The campground’s online reservation system for Cape Point has been paused for a week

NORTH DAKOTA Minot: The

Head Start program here was forced to cut staff and reduce the number of students it can enroll this fall, The Minot Daily News reported Director Karen Knowles says budget woes in part because of rising health insur- ance costs are to blame

OHIO Lorain: Shedding light on

the life of a lost loved one and providing comfort to those in mourning has become the spe- cialty of Joseph Conley, 54, who has written and delivered 159 eulogies since 1986, The Morning Journal reported

OKLAHOMA Tulsa: Months

after a March 30 tornado hit an impoverished stretch of the city, workers have made at least three sweeps through the area to haul away debris, but the neighbor- hood is still dotted with piles of broken limbs, the Tulsa World reported

OREGON Salem: The Oregon

Humane Society recovered more than a dozen pets from an RV at Silver Falls State Park, authorities said The owner of the pets agreed to relinquish them and has not been charged with a crime

PENNSYLVANIA Beaver: The

Beaver County Times reported that Patricia Russell discovered a carpet python snake wrapped around the roof of her vehicle in WesBanco’s parking lot Police were called to capture the snake

and took it to the Aquatic dens here

Gar-RHODE ISLAND Providence:

The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management warned homeowners statewide that caterpillars may cause short- term defoliation of trees over the next few weeks

SOUTH CAROLINA Charleston:

The Justice Department’s Office for Victims of Crime is providing

a $3.6 million grant to help tims of the Emanuel AME Church shooting, The Post and Courier reported The grant will provide funds for costs relating to medical care, funeral services, mental health counseling and lost wages

vic-SOUTH DAKOTA Pierre: Local

officials said the city’s outdoor pool is scheduled to open for the season on Monday

TENNESSEE Smyrna: The body

of Marine Capt Jeff Kuss, an elite fighter jet pilot killed in a crash here Thursday, was flown home Saturday, The Tennessean report-

ed Onlookers braved rain, some carrying American flags, others wiping away tears, as a police procession guided a white hearse from Murfreesboro to Smyrna Airport, which is just southeast of Nashville

TEXAS Austin: Thirty-one

coun-ties, including Austin, have been declared a state of disaster by Gov Abbott because of the recent flooding, Khou.com reported

UTAH Springville: The Daily

Herald reported that Strap Tank Brewing Co will be the only microbrewery in Utah County —

an area predominantly filled with observant Mormons who do not drink

VERMONT Burlington: Josh

Blow, 28, pleaded no contest to involuntary manslaughter in the July 2014 death of Aiden Haskins,

2, who died from blunt force trauma to the head and neck, Burlington Free Press reported Blow was the live-in boyfriend of Aiden’s mother, Ashley Stewart, when the toddler died

VIRGINIA Virginia Beach: The

Virginian-Pilot reported that Rodney Hahn, 55, broke the world record for most pullups done in 24 hours He did 6,844 pullups and raised more than

$7,800 for the Navy SEAL dation, a non-profit that supports SEALs and their families

Foun-WASHINGTON Stevenson: The

Skamania County Sheriff’s Office says a climber on Mount St Hel- ens had to be rescued after he slid

100 yards down the mountain and fractured his ankle

WEST VIRGINIA Bramwell: The

Bluefield Daily Telegraph

report-ed that an exhibit “Outside the Mine: Daily Life in a Coal Com- pany Camp” opened at the Bram- well Train Depot National Coal Heritage Area spokesman Rich- ard Bullins says the exhibit fea- tures artifacts and photographs that show the lives of miners and their families in coal towns.

WISCONSIN Mount Pleasant:

Rising water levels are eating away at the Lake Michigan shore- line, with conditions most severe this spring in a neighborhood of Racine County where homes are

in danger of toppling into the lake, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.

WYOMING Riverton: The

Na-tional Weather Service says creeks and streams in much of central Wyoming will be on the rise The Little Wind River near here is expected to peak near flood stage by Wednesday

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WASHINGTON Congress returns from its Memorial Day recess this week to a crucial test of its leadership.

Republican leaders in both chambers have set a goal of pass- ing government spending bills in- dividually and on time for the first time since 1994 to demon- strate that they can make Con- gress work.

But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and House Speaker Paul Ryan, R- Wis., face many obstacles and have precious little time to do that with only roughly 40 days left in session between now and Sept 30, when the current fund- ing for the government runs out.

And tied up in the spending battle is emergency funding to fight the mosquito-borne Zika vi- rus as temperatures rise and mosquito populations flourish.

“The enemy of this Congress is the calendar,” said Jim Dyer, who worked as an aide in the George H.W Bush and Reagan White Houses and for the House Appro- priations Committee for 10 years.

“And if you take the calendar, and then you add to it the elec- tion — where every movement and every decision has electoral implications — and then you add into that toxic mix the notion that some of these people may or may not like each other and you get an institution that’s really kind of limping along.”

So far, only one of the 12 spending measures has passed both chambers, legislation fund- ing military construction and vet- erans affairs programs But the Senate and House passed differ- ent versions of that bill.

Right now, the versions are far apart on Zika, with the Senate passing $1.1 billion for the effort and the House approving only

$622 million and redirecting money for it from other programs.

Other bills pose problems

In an unexpected implosion

two weeks ago, the House voted down a spending measure fund- ing energy and water

programs, which had been seen as one of the least controversial The defeat left Ryan saying

he would conduct ily discussions” to deter- mine how to proceed.

“fam-After he accepted the gavel last fall, Ryan promised to give rank- and-file members more say in legislating, includ- ing allowing lawmakers

to offer more ments But allowing law- makers from both sides

amend-of the aisle to file any amendment they want after bills hit the floor is what helped derail the energy legislation and could sink any bills Ryan wants to get through.

The riders added to the energy measure included an amendment from North Carolina Republican Rep Robert Pittenger barring the Obama administra- tion from restricting funding to his state over its controversial law requiring transgender people to

use bathrooms assigned to their birth gender.

Another from Florida Republican Rep Ron DeSantis would have stopped the administra- tion from buying heavy water from Iran, poten- tially undercutting the landmark nuclear deal with that country and inviting a veto by the White House As part of the deal, Iran agreed to sell off its excess heavy water, a non-radioactive component used in a type of nuclear reactor that can also be used to make weapons-grade plutonium.

The House adopted

an amendment from New York Democratic Rep Sean Patrick Malo- ney upholding President Obama’s executive order prohibiting federal contractors from discriminating on the basis

of gender identity or sexual entation Republican Rep Brad- ley Byrne of Alabama then introduced an amendment that would exempt religious groups

ori-from Obama’s directive, which the House also passed.

The energy bill failed, 112-305, with 130 Republicans joining 175 Democrats in voting it down.

“You have Republicans ing conservative social amend- ments, and now you have Democrats proposing progressive social amendments, so you’re los- ing votes on both sides,” said Ken- neth Gold, director of the Government Affairs Institute at Georgetown University.

propos-He said that if Ryan can’t get the spending measures through,

it would be “very much a failure” for his 7-month-old speakership Ryan spokeswoman AshLee Strong said, “Family discussions continue about the path forward

“People outside the Beltway don’t understand ‘OK, we got it passed in one chamber — we got

it passed but the House didn’t,’ ” Gold said “The fact is they didn’t pass the bills.”

Congress faces tests, ticking clock

Bills are piling up, time is running out, and election looms

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WASHINGTON An already

unusu-al election is developing another

unique feature: an outgoing

president who is busy on the

campaign trail

Little more than seven months

before the end of his

administra-tion, President Obama is poised

to become the most active lame

duck campaigner in history,

offer-ing a new twist on an often

awk-ward role: a White House

occupant watching the election of

a successor.

“They usually wait to pretty

much close to the end, when it

really starts to heat up,” said

Ste-phen Hess, a former aide to

presi-dents Dwight Eisenhower and

Richard Nixon “This man is in it

very early, which means he will

be in it very long.”

Obama has served notice he is

willing to work hard to elect a

Democratic successor — most

likely Hillary Clinton — and

de-fend his own legacy, currently

under assault by Republican

nominee-in-waiting Donald

Trump.

Trump’s attacks may well

in-spire toward “a record-breaking

amount of intensity, energy and

time invested on the campaign

trail.” said historian Gil Troy.

In the past, lame duck

presi-dents have been inhibited from

campaigning too much, either

be-cause of low approval ratings or

friction with their party’s

nominees.

Obama has already made his

presence felt, frequently

criticiz-ing Trump as temperamentally

unfit for the presidency.

Trump, meanwhile, says that if

Obama campaigns again, he is

only too happy to return the

fa-vor: “Once they attack, then we’re

DETROIT David P Gilkey, a

for-mer Detroit Free Press

photogra-pher and video editor who built a

career out of finding the human

side in dire conflicts, was killed

while on assignment for NPR in

Afghanistan on Sunday, NPR

news reported.

Gilkey was traveling with an

Afghan army unit when the

con-voy came under fire and his

vehicle was struck, NPR

spokes-woman Isabel Lara said in a

state-ment An Afghan translator,

Zabihullah Tamanna, also was

killed Two other NPR journalists

traveling with them were

unharmed.

“I cannot think of a better

per-son to face danger with than

Gil-key,” said former Free Press

reporter Joe Swickard, who

trav-eled to Fallujah, Iraq, with Gilkey

in 2006 “He was at home on a

battlefield under fire, in military

situations He kept his cool, and

never lost his artist’s eye.”

During his 11 years at the Free

Press, Gilkey became the “driving

force” behind a video series that

won the newspaper its first

Em-my: Michigan Marines: Band of

Brothers, Swickard said As a key part of that series Gilkey and Swickard followed the largest unit of Marines from Michigan and chronicled their daily lives in Fallujah.

The project covered the diers’ daily routines, their cook- ing, living conditions, their patrols and combat and their fu- nerals Gilkey stood out for his ability to bond with his subjects.

sol-That assignment was not out its own intense perils While following the Marines on patrol, Swickard remembers sitting one humvee behind Gilkey when a rocket lifted Gilkey’s humvee into the air, as it burst into flames.

with-Yet Gilkey emerged, “cleared his head and started shooting video,” Swickard said “His dedi- cation to getting the story was extraordinary.”

In his work for NPR, Gilkey traveled to conflicts across the world, including numerous trips

to Iraq and Afghanistan His work has been recognized with numer- ous awards, including the presti- gious George Polk Award The White House Photographers As- sociation named Gilkey Still Pho- tographer of the Year in 2011.

Contributing: The Associated Press

MICHAEL M PHILLIPS, AP

David Gilkey,

a veteran news photog- rapher and video editor for NPR, at Kandahar Airfield Gil- key and translator Zabihullah Tamanna were killed Sunday while

on ment in southern Afghanistan.

to getting the story was extra- ordinary.”

Joe Swickard,

former Free Press reporter who traveled to Fallujah, Iraq, with Gilkey in 2006

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MUHAMMAD ALI

He was a champion

in, outside the ring

My friend and I had

arrived late at the

thea-ter in downtown Los Angeles to

see the rematch fight between

Muhammad Ali and Sonny

Liston The crowd in the big

theater was pushy Finally, we

got a seat as the fight was just

starting I took off my coat, and

as I turned to put it on my seat,

I heard the crowd roar I looked

around just in time to see

Lis-ton being counted out There

were those who felt Liston

threw the fight The thought

that stuck with me was that I

had just seen a true champion.

The years that followed proved

it to be true

Out of all of his fights, he

proved his character the most

in his battle with Parkinson’s

disease He never lost his zest

for life A real champion of a

category we are not likely to see

again for a very long time.

Larry Palmer

Norco, Calif

The fascination of the

life of Muhammad Ali

is baffling to a civilized citizen.

Why does boxing exist? The

sport of going into a ring and

attempting to bang someone's

brains out and have people

cheer should have long been

dismissed Ali has been likened

to one of the greatest athletes

who ever lived This should not

be considered athletic prowess

Sensible people should be

offended that humans would do

such things to one another

letters@usato-POLICING THE USA

POLICING.USATODAY.COM

Rest in peace Muhammad Ali My condolences to your family and friends on their loss.

My mother died the same way.

Once you get sepsis, it’s an minent death sentence.

im-Kathy Welch

He was a man who mized” the trash talking, flexing, preening, screaming, narcissistic style of athletes’ personal con- duct that we suffer today

“legiti-George Gagner

Ali was a living symbol of African strength, and he fought for African liberation In the black community, his fights stood for the reclamation of African honor and respect He is beloved because he recognized the suffering within his

community.

Helen Nance

Yes, Muhammad Ali was a great boxer, but he was an even better humanitarian.

Jean Mailer

Ali showed faith and courage,

in life and death He is more of

an American and hero than most men could ever dream of being.

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Prince’s death was preventable

In USA TODAY’s article “Prince died of

'fentanyl toxicity,' an overdose of

a painkiller,” Maria Puente does

an excellent job of explaining the conundrum that underlies the tragedies of fame, drugs and death.Unfortunately, the treat- ment platform in America con- tinues to be one of complete abstinence

In other countries, harm reduction models have proved

to be an alternative for people who are fearful of the shame and guilt associated with labels and rigidity The same shame and guilt make many people in America reluctant to seek help.

Addiction should be treated like any other illness Hopefully, the American Medical Association will consider alternatives to the current treatment platform in the nation that is obviously not working

an injury yet becomes addicted.

I, as an injured person who has lived 26 years in extreme pain due

to an on the job injury, feel Prince’s pain and can understand No shame No pain.

James King

Blame the high heels and tinually jumping off stages Iwent to one of his shows in the

con-‘80s, and the physical abuse he put his body through was bound to lead him to painkillers.

er worked very well

Examining these programs

in 2011, the Government countability Office found that

Ac-“little is known about the tiveness of employment and training programs.”

effec-Other studies have come to similar conclusions If we can’t show that programs work, why fund them?

One of the problems is management The word “boon- doggle” was coined in the 1930s

mis-to describe federal jobs grams, and a 2011 report by Sen Tom Coburn found that the word still applies.

pro-When federal training funds flow to local governments and contractors, they often get wasted Coburn found “exces- sive duplication, a lack of de- monstrable results, and outrageous examples (of) waste, fraud, abuse and graft.”

The good news is that vate markets provide vast job training U.S organizations spend more than $160 billion a year on worker training and development, according to the Association for Talent Development And individuals

pri-are taking charge of their own training: Community colleges award 1.3 million degrees and certificates a year, many to stu- dents who pay their own way without federal aid.

Another source of training is temporary staffing firms, which employ a rotating group of 16 million people a year in offices, hospitals and industrial jobs They provide a great way to gain on-the-job experience in top companies, and they often offer in-house training as well These days, job training and education are moving online More than 7 million students a year now take college courses online Online education has filled the need for lower-cost and flexible options in today’s dynamic economy.

A new development is the growth in mass open online courses Dozens of top univer- sities, such as Harvard and MIT, have teamed with MOOC firms to provide hundreds of certificate courses on every- thing from computer coding to dairy farm management.

Federal job training grams have always been of du- bious value, but in the Internet era they have become obsolete Chris Edwards is editor of DownsizingGovernment.org at the Cato Institute.

pro-Opposing view

Don’t fund federal job retraining

Chris Edwards

International trade has taken a

beating in this year’s presidential

campaign Donald Trump and

Bernie Sanders regularly bash it

in their stump speeches, and even

Hillary Clinton turned against an

Asian trade agreement that she

championed while secretary of

State.

Given the evidence that trade

stimulates innovation, lowers

prices and offers consumers more

choice, this has been a big

disap-pointment It has infected both

parties and comes off as a highly

cynical ploy to win over voters by

playing with their emotions.

However, supporters of

re-sponsible trade need to

under-stand why the electorate has

turned so sour and find ways to

help those left behind by

globalization.

The data show the problem:

Manufacturing employment has

fallen by nearly 5 million, or

about 28%, in the past two

dec-ades Meanwhile, the recovery

from the Great Recession

re-mains modest, evidenced by the

creation of just 38,000 jobs in

May.

But halting pending trade

deals, or even repealing existing

ones, is not the answer The U.S.

does not have any commerce

agreements with China or Japan.

And yet those nations

consistent-ly maintain the largest trade

sur-pluses with America In fact, only

three of our 15 largest trade

part-ners — Canada, Mexico and South Korea — have trade agree- ments with the United States.

What’s more, there is strong evidence that technology is the main reason for the decline in manufacturing employment.

Manufacturing output has tinued to rise thanks to more automated workplaces and a fo- cus on higher-tech products.

con-The only real solution to the decline is to train young people in areas with a more promising out- look, and to retrain workers who’ve lost jobs or fear they might.

The good news is that, after

years of trial and error, ment leaders are beginning to get

govern-a sense of whgovern-at works govern-and whgovern-at doesn’t To that end, President Obama signed a bipartisan law two years ago to eliminate notori- ously overlapping or unproduc- tive training programs and give states more freedom to spend jobs money as they see fit

Virtually everyone agrees that what works are apprenticeships and similar programs that bring employers into the process early and have workers do much of their learning on the job Some successful programs, like one in Wisconsin known as WTRP/Big Step, focus on glaziers, electri- cians, cement masons and other traditional blue-collar trades.

Others are branching into health care and other areas not generally thought of as landing spots for people without a college education Two large European insurance companies — Aon and the Zurich Insurance Group — have apprenticeships for people

as claims adjusters and other sitions in their industry

po-We ought to double down on approaches like these, instead of erecting trade barriers that would

do terrible harm to the economy

or making futile efforts to limit technological advance Candi- dates for high office should be candid about this And they should get behind programs that might actually do some good.

TODAY’S DEBATE LABOR MARKET

Our view

Trade bashing won’t save

jobs, but retraining could do it

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As a kid, I would sit with

my father in front of the

black-and-white RCA

television set, the rabbit

ears adjusted just so, and peer

through the snow on the screen

at the fight unfolding before us.

For my dad, who left home at

age 18 in 1942 and joined the

Na-vy while war raged in both

Europe and the Pacific, the boxer

on the screen was nothing but a

loud-mouthed draft dodger.

It didn’t matter to him that the

boxer possessed lightning in his

hands and thunder in his fists, or

that he danced around the ring

like Gene Kelly or Fred Astaire.

He was someone Dad rooted

against, no matter who the man

was fighting — be it Joe Frazier or

Alfredo Evangelista.

I’d puff with pride when the

ring announcer would say

some-thing like, “Introducing, from

Louisville, Ky., he’s wearing red

trunks, he weighs 215 here is

Muhammad Ali.”

It was a generational thing.

The old man would cheer

when the other boxer landed a

blow I’d let out a hoot when

Mu-hammad Ali left his opponent flat

on his back or staggering against

the ropes.

‘STRIKE CITY’

For me, Ali was the

personifica-tion of hope at a time when

Louisville needed just that.

A public relations or

advertis-ing guru in town had dubbed it

“The City of the Seventies” in a

bank’s marketing campaign, but it

was anything but that.

Downtown was ailing as folks

had moved to the suburbs,

leav-ing once stately buildleav-ings to

de-cay, be torn down and eventually

be replaced by parking lots.

Working-class neighborhoods

near downtown had been

demol-ished and filled with bleak

gov-ernment-owned apartment

complexes Fourth Street, long

the city’s shopping and

entertain-ment hub, was a ghost town.

Louisville was gaining its

repu-tation as “strike city” because of

frequent work stoppages at Ford,

General Electric and other

manu-facturing companies around

town.

The city was being torn apart

by riots and protests over a

feder-al judge’s order to integrate the

Jefferson County Public Schools,

which along with the old

Louis-ville Board of Education had for

years adopted an unofficial policy

of “separate but equal.”

There wasn’t much to be proud

of in those days in Louisville.

Although Ali had long moved

his base of operations from

Co-lumbia Gym — where Joe Martin

taught him to punch and jab, and bob and weave — and taken up residence in rural Pennsylvania

or Michigan or Cherry Hill, N.J., Ali was still ours.

‘LOUISVILLE LIP’

In most of his fights, Ali was troduced as being from Louisville even years after he moved away.

in-The Louisville Lip.

The Greatest of all Time.

And if you didn’t care about his politics, he was something to be proud of in a city that, at the time, seemed to have little going for it.

If you did care about his tics, well …

poli-He didn’t subscribe to the tion that a black man couldn’t or shouldn’t be outspoken like he was, or that a boxer should shut

no-up and let his fists talk for him.

Ali wouldn’t allow the ment to tell him he had to join the Army and participate in a war with which he didn’t agree He stunned the folks like my father when he explained why he wouldn’t be inducted thusly:

govern-“My conscience won’t let me

go shoot my brother, or some darker people, or some poor hun- gry people in the mud for big powerful America And shoot them for what? They never called

me nigger; they never lynched me; they didn’t put no dogs on

me Shoot them for what?”

He made some people

uncom-fortable when he converted to lam and gave up the name Cassius Clay, which he called his

Is-“slave name.” He rebelled and vanced civil rights.

ad-Some anger like my father’s still exists toward Ali When Ken- tucky House Speaker Greg Stum-

bo suggested placing a statue of Ali in the Capitol, a number of people emailed and wrote letters opposed to the idea.

“Ali should NOT be in the itol,” one person wrote “That is a spot for statesmen — not for box- ers and draft dodgers.”

Cap-Ali came into my ness long after he took Rome and the world by storm, winning the gold medal in the light heavy- weight division at the 1960 Olym- pic Games and after his battle with the federal government over his induction into the Army.

conscious-He gave me my first

opportuni-ty to really disagree with my ther about something — him.

fa-He came for me at a time when

he was in his 30s and his boxing skills were beginning to fade, when he used his guile rather than physical superiority to beat boxers much younger and strong-

er than he.

And he came at a time when the city needed a hero.

Joseph Gerth is political writer

at The (Louisville) nal.

Courier-Jour-ALI INSPIRED HOPE, PRIDE

My father considered him a loud-mouthed draft dodger.

It was our first real disagreement.

“uni-During Ryan’s holdout, Trump made no progress toward the goals Ryan said he needed to see from the presumptive GOP nomi- nee In fact, just in the 10 days be- fore the endorsement, Trump floated discredited conspiracy theories about former Clinton adviser Vince Foster’s death and attacked the ethnicity of a judge overseeing the Trump University case

Are these what pushed Ryan toward capitulation?

Ryan is reminiscent of San Francisco Giants fans who cheered on Barry Bonds during his desecration of America’s pas- time Normally sane fans de- fended Bonds simply because he wore the right color jersey

Now that Trump is wearing the Republican jersey, conscious con- servatives are losing their minds defending someone who is uniquely unqualified to lead the nation If there existed an organi- zation called People Named Don- ald Trump, Trump wouldn’t be cognitively stable enough to serve

as its president.

And there will be a long-term price to pay Any time Ryan de- tails his positive conservative agenda, the podium should fea- ture a giant asterisk — that is, House Republicans believe in the pillars of conservatism right up until the point when a puzzlingly hirsute man-baby decides to

mock women, minorities and the handicapped When Ryan es- pouses political civility, ask him about his endorsement of Ameri- ca’s most prominent Obama birther We now know that no person exists who is so disgusting that he is below Republican appeasement.

Republicans are hoping that supporting Trump is like break- ing the speed limit — if everyone does it, nobody will get busted Sure, Republicans may say their ultimate goal is to stop Hillary Clinton, but to replace her with what? A Clinton donor who op- poses reforming Social Security and has publicly waxed poetic about single-payer health care?

As president, Trump is just as likely to hold a news conference

to sell Trump Tangy Barbecue Sauce as he is to announce a plan

to rein in government.

And exactly what was the pose of Ryan’s several-week non- endorsement period? It wasn’t even long enough to earn him credit in the footnotes of future history books He’ll earn plaudits for delaying his Trump endorse- ment in the same way an arsonist will get credit for waiting three weeks to burn down a library out

pur-of respect for the Dewey Decimal System.

In 1984, George Orwell writes that in his dystopia, “Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters inside your skull.” Trump is now the proud owner of the Republican Party’s great minds Let’s just hope he kept the receipt so he can return them to their rightful owners after his No- vember decimation.

Christian Schneider is a nist and blogger for the Milwau- kee Journal Sentinel.

colum-Holdout Ryan sells out

on Trump for free

Christian Schneider

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ACTUAL JOB GROWTH TUMBLES BELOW ESTIMATES

SOURCE Bureau of Labor Statistics

JIM SERGENT AND GEORGE PETRAS, USA TODAY

Consensus estimate

Job growth (in thousands)

Not only did the economy ate just 38,000 new jobs in May, its weakest showing since 2010, but the Labor Department re- vised down employment gains for the previous two months by 59,000 That cut average monthly gains in 2016 to about 150,000

cre-from 209,000 last year Why have employers suddenly throttled back hiring? And is this the new baseline for a labor market that’s been a pillar of the economy?

The short answer: Job growth

is expected to slow somewhat now that the economy is ap- proaching full employment, but gains the past two months have been suppressed by myriad tem- porary factors, from odd weather patterns to Donald Trump.

“The trend of job growth has downshifted,” says Stuart Hoff- man, chief economist of PNC Fi- nancial Services Group.

But Mark Zandi, chief mist of Moody’s Analytics, says Friday’s meager total “significant-

econo-ly overstates the slowdown.”

Hoffman and Zandi agree that

the 4.7% unemployment rate means there are fewer available workers to fill job openings, slow- ing hiring Employers are strug- gling to find high-skilled workers

in particular, a problem they’ve faced for several years because of mismatches between job require- ments and the talents of laid-off employees It looms larger amid a shrinking pool of workers Lauren Griffin, senior vice president of Adecco Staffing, says employer demand and place- ments have remained strong But she says it’s tougher to find work- ers, particularly in fields such as technology and engineering, and

so openings are taking longer to fill this year

Suddenly, some gray days for U.S labor

Dismal jobs report blamed on temps, Trump and more

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Salary sticker shock

SOURCE iCIMS analysis of 400 college seniors

and 400 hiring managers

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42%

of college seniors expect to

earn more than $50,000 at

their first job; 23% of

companies pay this amount.

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Retirement plans begin offering socially responsible

which one class

holds a minority of a company’s

shares but casts a majority of its

votes Sumner Redstone, at 93 in

a deeply diminished capacity and, according to claims by personal and business intimates, com- pletely out of it, is still in theory calling the shots at Viacom and CBS, companies at which he owns about 10%, but with his special class of stock votes 80% In other words, in an ultimate demonstra- tion of the perils of dual-class shares, these two major public companies are controlled by … well, that’s the mystery now being extensively litigated Nobody knows who is in actual control.

The entire premise of good porate governance is to impose logic and transparency on man- agement so that shareholders can accurately evaluate and their in-

cor-terests can be fairly represented

in a company’s decision-making process To say that the Redstone companies represent an inver-

sion of that ideal is itself a cal understatement This is the Hieronymus Bosch of corporate governance, bizarre and perverse

comi-— and in plain sight of helpless shareholders and an amazed public.

Viacom and CBS, with stone’s chosen executives and of- ten disenfranchised family members fighting over control of his yet-still-breathing corpus, are less like modern corporations and more like an 18th-century royal court Redstone, with his extensive symptoms of dementia, including vast memory loss, un- controllable rages, incontinence, feeding tubes and sexual mania, spelled out in court documents, is mad King George.

Red-Up until recently, his nies were run in a kind of con- struct of mental capacity, in which his family and lieutenants insisted that, with Redstone hid- den from view, they knew his de- sires The dual class of shares not only gave outsize control to one man, but now it effectively gave it

compa-to people claiming compa-to speak for him Transparency reached something near zero.

Then, outsiders in the form of girlfriends/caregivers began to wrestle for control — represent- ing that they knew what the man they were shielding from the view of others wanted That spooked his lieutenants and fam-

Redstone mess shows pitfalls of dual-class shares

Shareholders helpless

in battle for control

of Viacom and CBS

DIA Sumner Redstone, 93, owns ROBYN BECK, AFP/GETTY IMAGES

about 10% but votes 80%

re-er this month from the Fedre-eral Reserve, traders start the week once again trying to figure out the Fed’s next move on interest rates and wondering if the U.S econo-

my has enough energy to bust out

of its recent soft patch.

Blame what Wall Street pros say was a “disastrous,” “miser- able” and “dismal” new job count

of just 38,000 last month for changing investors’ calculus on the timing of the next rate hike and putting them squarely back

in data-watch mode.

The Fed said earlier this month that it would consider hiking rates in coming months if data on jobs and the broader economy kept coming in strong The May jobs report — the weakest since September 2010 — did not meet that criteria

So where does Wall Street go from here?

First up, investors will be closely following a well-timed speech Monday from Fed chair Janet Yellen They will want to know if Yellen thinks the weak May jobs report was a one-off — a soft patch, a stumble, an aberra- tion — or whether it portends the start of a weaker period for both job creation and economic growth?

Most important, they will be listening for clues as to whether the central bank’s rate-hike time- table has changed in a major way

“This (the jobs report) was such a curve ball, not only to in- vestors but to the Fed, too,” Brian Needleman, a managing partner and co-founder at Cornerstone Financial Partners, told USA TODAY “The Fed will have to take a wait-and-see approach”

before raising rates.

Wall Street has all but ruled

out a June hike And it is placing a 1-in-3 chance the Fed moves in July Some money managers say the Fed could hold off on a hike until its September meeting.

The big jobs miss “creates a gree of uncertainty” as it relates

de-to the Fed but is not expected de-to jolt the market out of its 18- month trading range either to the upside or downside, adds Ron Sanchez, chief investment officer

at Fiduciary Trust What it does,

he adds, is shift the debate to,

“Will they move in July?”

In the meantime, Sanchez adds, the Fed will be monitoring another potential risk: the vote in Britain later this month on whether to stay in or leave the European Union.

A so-called “Brexit” could

cause market turmoil.

But a July hike isn’t a slam dunk, either The reason: The da- ta-dependent Fed, Sanchez says,

“clearly needs to see more nomic data and more labor data” before pulling the trigger A basic prerequisite for a July hike, Wall Street pros say, would be a drastic rebound in the June jobs report, with upward revisions to the weak May count, as well as a Brit- ain vote to stay in the EU Wall Street doesn’t want the Fed to make the type of mistake it made back in December, when it raised rates for the first time in nearly 10 years, despite early signs of a slowing economy That initial rate hike was fol- lowed by a 12% stock market drop.

eco-Wall St regroups after jobs report ‘curve ball’

JUSTIN LANE, EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY

Traders work at the New York Stock Exchange on Friday A jobs report released the same day showed a lower-than-expected number of people were added to payrolls last month.

Fed speech Monday may hint at whether June hike is a goner

Adam Shell

@adamshell USA TODAY

Wall Street has all but ruled out a June interest rate hike.

And it is placing a 1-in-3 chance the Fed moves in July Some money managers say the Fed could hold off until September

AT&T, NOKIA TEAM UP TO

EXPAND LAB WORK ON 5G

AT&T is teaming with Nokia to

expand its ‘next generation 5G’

lab trial work In addition to

previously announced trials in

Austin, AT&T has begun lab work

in Middletown, N.J.; Atlanta and

San Ramon, Calif The

compa-nies have set their sights on

reaching speeds of at least 10

gigabits-per-second in trials this

year, above the more than 5

gigabits-per-second it is already

seeing in lab trials.

BOSE COMES OUT WITH FOUR

NEW WIRELESS HEADPHONES

Bose has introduced four

wire-less headphones, two of which

exploit the premium brand’s

noise-canceling technology Bose

had been a relative laggard in

the increasingly crowded

wire-less-headphone space The top

of the line is the QuietComfort 35

model that costs $349.95.

CUSTARD STAND RESOLVES

ENGLISH-ONLY DISPUTE

If a customer wants to speak

Spanish at Leon’s Frozen Custard

in Milwaukee, a

Spanish-speak-ing employee won’t be frowned

upon for answering back The

stand also is concluding a review

of its personnel policies to ensure

they are in compliance with civil

rights laws and federal

guide-lines, officials with the League of

United Latin American Citizens of

Wisconsin said It was

encourag-ing English-only transactions

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MONDAY, JUNE 6, 2016

Beginning in

De-cember, about 4.2

million more

Ameri-cans will qualify for

overtime pay under

new rules from the Department

of Labor If you own a small

busi-ness and have full-time

employ-ees, there’s a good chance these

rules will apply to you.

Hourly workers, lower-wage

earners and non-managerial

workers now must be paid 1.5

times their hourly wage when

they work more than 40 hours in

a week Under the new rules,

overtime will be paid to many

more workers, including those on

salary

In a nutshell, here’s what the

new rules do:

uIncrease the minimum

sala-ry threshold at which a full-time

salaried worker can be exempt

from overtime rules from

$23,660 to $47,476 annually, or

from $455 to $913 weekly.

uThis level will be adjusted

every three years.

uEmployers can include

non-discretionary bonuses and

com-missions to comprise up to 10%

of the salary level.

HOW IT ALL STARTED

In the 1930s, in the midst of the

Great Depression, workers were

often badly mistreated To help

protect workers, the Fair Labor

and Standards Act (FLSA) was

uSet an eight-hour workday.

uEstablished a national

mini-mum wage (25 cents in 1938;

$7.25 today).

uRequired time-and-a-half pay for overtime.

uLimited child labor

EXEMPT VS NON-EXEMPT

The purpose of the Fair Labor and Standardsd Act is to protect workers from being exploited, but businesses need flexibility, so FLSA exempts bona fide salaried executive, administrative and professional (EAP) employees and outside sales and many tech- nology employees from overtime pay requirements

After all, it would be silly to quire employers to pay overtime

re-to a re-top corporate executive ing hundreds of thousands of dol- lars a year

mak-Once a business has an ployee, it’s critically important to know whether that worker is ex-

em-empt or non-exem-empt:

uNon-exempt employees are covered by FLSA and, by exten- sion, most state and city labor laws They must be paid at least federal and state minimum wage and receive overtime pay of 1.5 times their regular hourly rate when they work more than 40 hours in a week.

uExempt employees are not entitled to overtime pay but must meet certain criteria for pay and job responsibilities.

WHAT DROVE THE CHANGE

In 1975, the Fair Labor and dards Act’s overtime provisions protected 62% of all full-time workers; today, overtime provi- sions protect only 8% of full-time workers.

Stan-The minimum exempt salary threshold was last changed in

2004, when rules regarding utive and managerial jobs were loosened, resulting in many more employees being legally consid- ered exempt

exec-Some businesses took tage of these new rules, resulting

advan-in some employees beadvan-ing named

“supervisors,” especially in fast food and retail jobs, where they regularly work more than 40 hours a week without additional pay

On the other hand, many may question the new minimum threshold.

After all, a white-collar visory or administrative job pay- ing $20 an hour, or about

super-$41,600, may be considered a good job in many parts of the country

Often, employers and ees alike would view having em- ployees working some overtime

employ-to complete tasks or employ-to respond

to email as fair, not requiring overtime pay.

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How the new overtime rules will

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TO THE NEW RULES

If you employ salaried, full-time workers who are paid less than $913 per week, you’ll need to decide how to respond to these new rules Some options:

1 Keep salaries the same, but eliminate or reduce time Monitor activity and hours to limit overtime

over-2 Raise salaries to the new minimum, enabling you to quire unpaid overtime of

re-qualified employees

3 Keep salaries the same, and pay overtime This is fi- nancially beneficial if over- time is limited or irregular and current pay is at the low end of the present minimum Be careful track- ing employees’ hours.

4 Lower wages, but pay overtime This results in your expenses staying the same, but will certainly create dis- gruntled employees and high turnover

5 Hire more employees If you regularly need a lot of overtime from current employees, you may want to consider hiring additional hourly workers to pick up the extra hours

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Rules start in December.

ily They argued, on the contrary, that he had given them the go- ahead to take back control, hence they forcibly ejected the remain- ing girlfriend/caregiver, Manuela Herzer In court, she argued that

he could not take control from her because he lacked the capaci-

ty to do so.

His lieutenants and family might have reasonably argued that he did not have the capacity

to give control to Herzer in the first place (along with the $70 million he also reportedly gave her) But, alas, they couldn’t make that argument, because they had been running his companies un- der the premise that he was yet in control To refute that now meant they’d have been lying to share- holders (shareholders might not have been able to equitably vote their shares, but they do have the right to know who was actually voting the voting shares), inviting suits and SEC investigations.

In court, his lieutenants and family, showing a videotape with

a monosyllabic Redstone ing obscenities and unable to re- member his given name (Rothstein), managed to avoid a finding of incompetence (but not

sputter-an affirmative finding of tency) On that thin basis, Red- stone’s daughter, Shari, who has spent much of her adulthood es- tranged from her father, recently used her father’s theoretical con- trol — and what one of his doc- tors has characterized as a “legal mental capacity” — to remove Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman and one of his allies from the trust that, up until then, Dauman controlled He would have legiti- mately assumed Redstone’s con- trol after his death (In theory, Dauman, if he had acted first in Redstone’s name, might have been able to remove Shari Red- stone from the trust).

compe-Dauman has been joined in his suit by one of Redstone’s grand- daughters, a direct beneficiary of the trust He now argues that, contrary to his recent position with regard to Herzer, that Red- stone, held incommunicado, is being unlawfully manipulated by his daughter, who will now be able to run the empire, even though her father has repeatedly cast her out — and even though her father only owns 10% of the empire anyhow.

Voting control by a minority shareholder is generally thought

to have started, or at least become respectable, when The New York Times went public in the 1960s.

The idea here was that the time owners of the paper, the Sulzberger family, would remain

long-as the institution’s stewards, with their vote sheltering it from short-term Wall Street demands.

This structure was adopted by many other newspaper compa- nies, including The Wall Street

Journal and The Washington Post Then it was adopted by the mogul class, interested less in editorial protections then effi- cient power, giving Rupert Mur- doch and Redstone absolute control over vast companies with

a small percentage of the stock.

Now dual shares have became a favorite structure for tech compa- nies, among them Google and Facebook Mark Zuckerberg might one day be Sumner Redstone.

While control in such nies can pass seamlessly — it did

compa-at The New York Times, although the company’s fortunes have surely lagged under its system of family inheritance, and another generation is now preparing to do battle with itself — the far more likely result is a fraught and oper- atic game of thrones In the Mur- doch house, for instance, four votes, each in the hands of his four adult children, without a tie- breaking mechanism, will deter- mine, or be unable to determine, who controls the less than 20%

stake in the Murdoch companies that controls 100%.

As the age of moguls ends — moguls who, by a fluke of person- ality and circumstance, were able

to use other people’s money to create vast empires over which they had personal control — many of their relatives and cro- nies will, as they always have, do anything it takes to hold on to that unique and happenstance power And, less because of de- mentia and more because of the nature of absolute and illogical power, we will see many more messes like the one playing out now on a daily basis around Sum- ner Redstone.

Viacom, CBS play game of thrones

v CONTINUED FROM 1B

ANDREW BURTON, GETTY IMAGES

Until recently, there was little transparency about how Viacom was run Above, its NYC office

2012 PHOTO BY ROBYN BECK, AFP/GETTY IMAGES

Viacom CEO Philippe man claims Sumner Redstone

Dau-is being manipulated

Zandi expects monthly job

growth to average 175,000 the

rest of 2016 Hoffman forecasts

average gains of 150,000 Yet

economists also point to a

hodge-podge of temporary forces that

resulted in payroll advances of

just 123,000 in April and 38,000

in May Among them:

u The Verizon strike The

now-settled walkout idled 35,000

employees last month.

u Funky weather High

win-ter temperatures led employers

to hire more workers early this

year, especially in construction,

retail and hotels, Zandi says So

they needed to hire less in April

and May

u Market turbulence

Fi-nancial markets have bounced

back after stocks sold off and

cor-porate borrowing costs spiked in

January and February, but it

takes time for firms to respond by

reining in hiring and investment,

Zandi says Some big banks have

brought on fewer workers

be-cause the market plunge doused

mergers and initial public

offer-ings, says Jeanne Branthover, of

executive recruiting firm DHR

International “If they don’t have

as many deals, they don’t need as

many people,” she says.

u Political uncertainty.

Many businesses grow hesitant to

hire because of the uncertainty

generated by a presidential

elec-tion But Trump, the presumptive

GOP nominee, has intensified the

paralysis, says Bernard Baumohl,

of The Economic Outlook Group.

Trump has called for imposing

tariffs on China and lowering

tax-es, fomenting CEO fears of trade

wars and bigger budget deficits,

Baumohl says

Branthover says some financial

service firms are conserving their

2016 hiring budgets and plan to

add workers at year-end after the

election clarifies the landscape.

u Weak economy The labor

market may finally be feeling the

impact of a weak economy the

past two quarters, says economist

Scott Anderson of Bank of the

West The good news: The

econo-my is expected to rebound in the

Corrections & Clarifications

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man of Arabesque Asset ment in London Ask your employee benefits department for the criteria used to select the SRI.

Manage-“The company will have done some basic due diligence,” says Christine Russell, a consultant with Christine Russell Retire- ment Consulting in Philadelphia.

Note, too, that methodologies for determining whether a fund qualifies as “sustainable invest- ing” are still being developed, Ec- cles says He recommends using Morningstar for research.

Also, ask yourself if the fund fits into your definition of an SRI.

Russell says participants should consider the fund’s investing cri- teria: What is the investment avoiding (tobacco stocks, for ex- ample) and/or what is it support- ing (solar energy stocks)?

“Then participants decide whether this philosophy matches

up with their own,” Russell says.

Eccles also recommends the following due diligence: First, de- termine how transparent the fund’s methodology is

“While no one is going to give away the ‘secret sauce’ in their in- vestment strategy, one should be skeptical about descriptions that are largely qualitative with a lot of

there are a lot of personal ment calls and digging through fund prospectuses when looking

of-IS IT REALLY AN SRI FUND?

Your first order of business:

De-termine whether the SRI fund is

really an SRI fund Unfortunately,

that’s not easy.

“Basically, there is no ‘SRI flag’

that funds have to fly to indicate

whether they are SRI or not,” says

Brooks Herman, head of research

for BrightScope in San Diego “So

flowery language around ability,” he says “Look for some numbers and phrases such as

sustain-‘material ESG factors,’ which show there is some degree of rigor.”

And two, look at the tion of the investment committee and the fund’s trustees.

composi-“Is there anybody who has

‘sustainability credentials,’ or are they all traditional financial, ac- counting and legal types?”

EVALUATE THE SAME AS ANY OTHER INVESTMENT OPTION.

How do you go about selecting the investments for your 401(k) plan today? Use the same ap- proach with SRIs Examine the fund’s long-term performance, manager tenure, fees and ex- penses, its investment objective and philosophy, its underlying holdings and how it fits in with your other investments, Russell says Does it, for instance, help you further diversify your portfo- lio, or does it duplicate the objec- tives of other funds?

CONSIDER IT A SATELLITE FUND.

As a rule, you shouldn’t invest more than 5% of your 401(k) in a specialty fund, including an SRI.

“The typical investor should invest a modest percentage of his

or her assets here,” Eccles says.

In general, you might invest the bulk of your assets in a core fund, such as a target-date or tar- get-risk fund, and then a smaller amount in satellite funds

THE OPTION MIGHT ALREADY BE AVAILABLE.

Surprise! You might already be able to invest in SRI funds if you have a brokerage account option

as part of your 401(k) That’s cause the brokerage account gives you access to all sorts of in- vestments, including SRI funds.

be-A DOSE OF REbe-ALITY.

Now truth be told, it might take some time before plan spon- sors include SRI funds as a 401(k) investment option, according to Jerry Bramlett, a defined contri- bution consultant in Austin.

“Having implemented dreds of 401(k) plans over three decades,” he says, “I cannot re- member once being asked for a socially responsible fund.”

hun-Robert Powell is editor of Retirement Weekly, contributes regularly to USA TODAY and MarketWatch Got ques- tions about money? Email Bob at rpowell@allthingsretirement.com.

What investors should know as more

retirement plans begin offering SRIs

I t may not happen today or

tomorrow, but soon you

may get the chance to

in-vest in a socially

respon-sible investment in your 401(k)

plan.

That’s because the Labor

Department this fall issued

guidance easing the fiduciary burden for selecting these funds

for 401(k)s, according to a Plansponsor article by Fred Reish,

a partner at Drinker Biddle & Reath

At the moment, most 401(k)s don’t offer socially

respon-sible investment (SRI) funds — those that apply

environmen-tal, social and governance (ESG) factors to management — as

an option Offering such funds had been problematic,

accord-ing to Reish Investment committee members could easily get

sued by plan participants if the SRI didn’t perform as

expect-ed And, there never really has been enormous demand for

SRI funds from 401(k) participants.

But all that may change now One, Millennials, who are now

starting to save for retirement, may be more interested than

Boomers and Gen X in SRIs Two, SRIs may be consistent

with the culture of a socially conscious or environmentally

sensitive company, according to Reish.

So how might you evaluate whether to invest in an SRI fund

in your 401(k), and how might you decide if it’s a good

invest-ment? Here’s what experts had to say.

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YOUR ACTUAL HOUSE CAN WAIT.

Airlines will

col-lect more luggage

fees this summer

than in any other in

the history of

mod-ern aviation.

At least they will if the

cur-rent trends hold Last year,

American carriers pocketed

$3.8 billion in luggage fees, up

$275 million from 2014 (Never

mind whether the fees are related

to the cost of transporting your

luggage.)

Maybe this isn’t the summer to

overpack.

But this isn’t the story you’re

expecting It’s not a “how-to”

about folding your clothes more

efficiently or lightening your load

by jamming everything into a

jacket that you wear on the plane.

I’ve written that one time or two,

and I really hate reruns Instead,

I’m just going to tell you what to

leave home.

Oddly, the things travelers

leave behind are the same things

they forget Depending on which

survey you read, the top items left

behind are your toothbrush, your

technology and accessories such

as a phone charger Travelers tell

me those are exactly the items

you should leave behind.

“This may sound gross, but I’ve

stopped packing a toothbrush

and toothpaste,” says Chelsea

Dowling, who works for a keting agency in Chicago “I got tired of the TSA confiscating my toothpaste tubes I’ve started ei- ther asking the hotel front desk for these or stopping by a local drug store when I arrive.”

mar-Good point Why pack an old toothbrush and a half-used tube

of toothpaste that will probably just be confiscated when you can just pick up a fresh one at your destination?

“Toiletries,” agrees Francesca Montillo, who runs culinary tours

to Italy “I used to pack full-size bottles of shampoos, condition- ers, deodorants, toothpaste, per- fumes, hand lotion, sunblock and the list goes on and on! You would be shocked to find how much all those items weigh

Now, I leave all those things hind and just head to a store when I reach Italy.”

be-And that’s not the only thing travelers are leaving at home.

“This summer when I travel I’ll leave behind my heavy laptop,”

says Lisa Batra, the owner of a kids’ clothing company in New- town, Pa In fact, she’s downsized everything, shedding books and other gadgets and downloading everything onto a tablet comput-

er

“The baggage fees and weight requirements vary so much, so packing light and just the essen- tials is the way to go,” she says.

But that’s not the only reason

to dump your technology, ing all of those pesky chargers and wires

includ-The pros say other gadgets such as standalone cameras and phones don’t just bulk up your baggage, but they can take away from the vacation Bruce Poon Tip, the founder of G Adventures,

a tour operator based in ronto, leaves both his laptop and his camera behind when he travels for lei- sure “I don’t mind keep- ing in touch and replying

To-to occasional emails,” he says, “but if I have my laptop

to my destination.

I’ve shed the massive digital camera, the video camera, the bulky laptop My Samsung S7 takes better pictures than the four 4-pound camera I’ve relied

on Oh, and the portable vacuum cleaner I thought we needed to keep the car tidy

“After you pack your bag, take 50% of it out,” he says Remove the non-essential items “Leave it

at home You can buy anything you really need while in another location, and support local econo- mies at the same time.”

Elliott is a consumer advocate and editor at large for National Geographic Traveler.

Suitcase packed? Now take out half your stuff!

United unveiled its new

inter-national business class cabin

Thursday, a revamping that it

hopes will help it win back

covet-ed corporate travelers who may

have turned away from the

carri-er as its pcarri-erformance struggled in

the wake of its bumpy merger

with Continental

The new Polaris business class

will ferry passengers traveling on

long-haul intercontinental flights

starting Dec 1.

In an interview, United CEO

Oscar Munoz said that the

up-graded service, from a new

cus-tom designed seat to exclusive

airport lounges, marks the

carri-er’s biggest product overhaul in a

decade It also builds on a series

of other moves, from upgrading

the overall fleet to bringing back

free snacks in coach, meant to

re-store confidence in the airline.

In order to win “back the trust

of not only our employees and

our customers we have to make

some serious investment,”

Mu-noz said “And we’ve been doing that .You’ve got to put your money where your mouth is.”

Business travelers and others who buy seats in the front of the plane play a vital role in bolster- ing an airline’s bottom line, po- tentially accounting for 25% to 45% of a flight’s revenue, accord- ing to travel industry analyst Henry Harteveldt United hopes this new offering will boost its share of that segment of the trav- eling public.

“That is of course the obvious intent,” Munoz said “I want to win back customers and have that revenue share perk up But at the same time we want to provide a

win for the customer, and that’s the reason for the focus on sleep.”

The Polaris experience is signed to be restful, from the lie- flat seats inside suite-like pods, to the “Do Not Disturb” signs to the lavender pillow mist and gel- cooled pillows available if a pas- senger wants one Flight atten- dants will receive special training and expedite the serving of meals

de-to ensure passengers can rest without interruption.

Before takeoff, international business-class fliers can grab a shower or a nap inside one of nine new airport lounges, the first

of which is set to open at Chicago O'Hare on Dec 1 Unlike typical

airline clubs, including United’s, which are open to members who pay an annual fee, buy a day pass

or anyone with a first or class ticket, the new lounges will

business-be exclusively for those traveling

in the Polaris cabin.

Many of the offerings, whether it's the pajamas that passengers can request on flights lasting more than 12 hours to the lie-flat seats or the seasonal in-flight menus, can be found on other air- lines But Munoz says that Unit- ed's emphasis on rest, along with heightened service and perks will add up to a distinctive experience.

“The individual components may be like others, but at the end

of the day, it’s the way you deliver the product that has us excited,”

he says

The new offering could also help United better compete with international carriers such as Eti- had and Emirates, which are known for their luxe service, and have been expanding their pres- ence in the U.S Those overseas carriers are engaged in a battle with several major U.S airlines who argue that they receive un- fair subsidies from their Gulf-re- gion governments

“It clearly provides the quent traveler an option,” Munoz says

fre-United taking international

business class to new heights

PHOTOS BY UNITED

The Polaris experience is designed to be restful, from the lie-flat seats inside suite-like pods to the “Do Not Disturb” signs to the

lavender pillow mist and gel-cooled pillows It is United’s biggest product overhaul in a decade.

supple-— John A., N.J.

A: On typical airliners oxygen generators will last 10 to 14 min- utes That is more than enough time to descend to 10,000 feet or the lowest altitude above the ter- rain Airplanes can descend very rapidly, which means the need for supplemental oxygen lasts only a few minutes.

Q: We test seat belts every time we fly, but how do we know that the oxygen masks will actually come down and work?

— Terry Miller, Idaho Falls, Idaho

A: The oxygen system is tested during certain maintenance checks The interval between these checks varies from airplane

to airplane.

Most modern jets use oxygen generators located in the passen- ger service units They are very reliable The release for the door

is operated by a pressure switch when the cabin altitude reaches 14,000 feet, or by the pilots via a switch in the flight deck.

Q: If the bag on the oxygen mask “may not fully inflate,” why is there a bag?

— R B., Monterey, Calif.

A: The bag allows for oxygen to collect prior to being inhaled, and during exhalation How much the bag inflates depends on the fre- quency and amount of breaths taken

A passenger oxygen system is a continuous flow system When activated, the chemical generator produces oxygen for the designed time at a continuous rate; the bag allows for expansion and contrac- tion as you breathe.

Q: Could an electrical lem result in the transponder being shut off, communica- tions being cut off, and the ox- ygen being cut off?

prob-— Roy, Galesburg, Mich.

A: No, the function of the pilot oxygen system is independent of the electrical system The passen- ger oxygen is also independent of electricity and uses individual ox- ygen generators.

Have a question about flying? Send it to travel@usatoday.com

ASK THE CAPTAIN

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This summer, you’ll ably drive to your vacation Here’s what to add to your car without bulking it up.

prob-u A Wi-Fi hotspot Every

member of your family will thank you, and you won’t spend a fortune stopping

at McDonald’s or Starbucks for their “free” hotspot Try the ZTE Mobley Vehicle Wi-Fi Hotspot, which plugs directly into your car’s OBD

II It’s included with AT&T’s data plans, which cost anywhere from $10 to $30 per month.

u A clever trip computer.

Try an application like romile (metromile.com), a pay-per-mile car insurance provider, which offers a device that plugs into your onboard computer and lets you track the number of miles you’ve driven, figure out what those mysterious diagnostic warnings mean and even locate your car when you forget where you parked Costs vary based

Met-on your state of residence.

u And don’t forget the

coffee! I admit, I travel with

a fairly large French press, but they come in smaller sizes that easily fit your luggage, or your trunk One

of the highest-rated is dum’s Travel Press (bodum.com), a $30 per- sonal-size press that holds

Bo-15 ounces That’s plenty of good coffee.

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