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Monday, November 9, 2015
Denton Record-Chronicle
Rhode Island targets ending vets’ homelessness
The efforts that have secured
Perrault a newly renovated one-
bedroom apartment
plete with new furniture and a
TV, in exchange for a rental
voucher and $25 per month for
rent and utilities — are part of a
national push to end homeless-
ness among veterans by the end
of the year. The goal has been
spurred by both President Ba-
rack Obama’s administration
and Zero: 2016, a campaign run
by the nonprofit group Commu-
nity Solutions
In August, the federal gov-
ernment declared Connecticut
the first state to end chronic
homelessness among veterans.
New Orleans, Houston and a
handful of other communities
have also reached the goal.
Nearly 50,000 veterans were
homeless nationwide before the
effort began, Community Solu-
tions estimated.
Rhode Island, Connecticut
and New Mexico, all part of the
campaign, are on track to reach
the veterans goal, said Commu-
nity Solutions spokesman Adam
Gibbs. One strategy all three
states are using is a list of names,
he said.
In Rhode Island, every per-
son who comes into the home-
less system is given a “vulnera-
bility survey,” which asks a series
of questions about their history
and assigns them a score based
on how likely they are to die on
the street. Then, advocates cre-
ate a list of all the people who are
homeless with the most vulner-
able people listed on top, by
name.
prioritizes getting people into
permanent housing, said Eric
Hirsch, a professor of sociology
at Providence College, who
chairs the Zero: 2016 campaign
in Rhode Island. In the past,
people would be placed in tem-
porary housing and have to get
substance abuse or mental
health counseling or jump
through other hoops before get-
ting a permanent place to live,
Hirsch said.
Now, they get the apartment
first and are then “surrounded”
with services that they can then
choose to use. Many decide on
their own they want the help, he
said. Hirsch said his research
and research by others shows 85
to 95 percent of people placed in
permanent housing were there a
year later using this approach.
By Michelle R. Smith
Associated Press
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - For
more than two years, Don Per-
rault lived without a home as the
Vietnam veteran struggled with
depression and personal set-
backs that at one point left him
with nothing to do but take a
therapeutic 7-day walk to New
Jersey — then walk back.
Now, after living out of a
shelter where he shared a room
with six other men, he has a
home of his own under an ambi-
tious push to wipe out homeless-
ness among veterans in Rhode
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A historic building in Providence, R.I., has been renovated to
house apartments designated for veterans who previously
were homeless.
“It helps a little bit with your
mind, your mental aspect,” Per-
rault, 60, said. “It’s hard for a
person who is homeless to have
dignity.”
A committee meets weekly apartment, such as a criminal
and goes down the list to try to record, the committee tries to
find housing for each person. If a come up with a solution,
person has a problem that’s
standing in the way of getting an “housing first” strategy, which
The state is also using a
GOP House chairman
had Democratic roots
BRIEFLY
ACROSS THE NATION
Washington
Carson criticizes scrutiny
Republican presidential can-
didate Ben Carson said Sunday
that he’s facing an unprecedent-
ed level of scrutiny about the ve-
racity of his life story and ques-
tioned whether the issues dog-
ging him over his autobiography
are important to the nation’s
search for the next president.
“Every single day, every other
day or every week, you know,
they’re going to come out with,
‘Well, you said this when you were
13,’” the retired neurosurgeon said
on CBS’ Face the Nation.
“The whole point is to dis-
tract the populace, to distract
me,” Carson added.
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Texas’ Kevin Brady
now at helm of
Ways and Means
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By Alan Fram
Associated Press
WASHINGTON
House’s newest and perhaps
most powerful committee chair-
man is a 60-year-old Texas Re-
publican who began life in a
family of stalwart Democrats
from South Dakota and lost his
father at age 12 in a courtroom
shooting.
Rep. Kevin Brady, from a sol-
idly Republican district north of
Houston, took the helm of the
Ways and Means Committee
last week. That puts the 19-year
House veteran at the forefront of
key issues Congress will tackle
heading into the 2016 election
year, including taxes, trade and
benefit programs such as Medi-
care and Social Security.
Brady’s Chamber of Com-
merce career before entering
Congress molded a mainstream
conservative viewpoint, yet he is
well regarded by harder-line
conservatives. But he has a
tough act to follow: the popular
Paul Ryan, R-Wis., who led the
committee until becoming
speaker last month after a revolt
by hard-line conservatives
pushed former Speaker John
Boehner, R-Ohio, to resign.
“We’re going to follow the
speaker’s lead,” Brady said in an
interview last week. He said
House Republicans “want us to
tackle the big issues, and they
want to be involved.”
Involvement has been a ma-
jor demand of the House Free-
dom Caucus, around 40 hard-
core conservatives whose frus-
tration with being muscled aside
by Boehner fueled their antipa-
thy for him. Ryan, R-Wis., is
working with conservatives on
giving lawmakers more say on
legislation and other decisions.
Brady says he, too, is willing
to accommodate them, though
no Freedom Caucus members
The
Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP
Rep. Kevin Brady is the new
chairman of the House Ways
and Means Committee.
will come under pressure” from
the Freedom Caucus “because
we’ll have the opportunity to of-
fer amendments,” said another
member, Rep. Rod Blum, R-Io-
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Dave Kolpack/AP
University of North Dakota student Megan Halek stands in the lobby of the university’s avia-
tion department in Grand Forks, N.D. “I want to be in a program that is up and coming,” says
Halek, who’s majoring in unmanned aircraft.
Los Angeles
Startup looking to build
electric car factory
The luxury electric car mar-
ket may be small, but it’s lucra-
tive enough to get another jolt —
this time from a mysterious
startup that says it wants to re-
imagine how people interact
with their autos.
The startup’s name is Faraday
Future, and it has been hunting
for a place to build what it says
will be a $lbillion manufacturing
plant for a new line of cars. Four
states are contenders and the
company says to expect an an-
nouncement within weeks.
Headquartered in a low-pro-
file office just south of Los Ange-
les, Faraday is holding a lot of de-
tails close. Though it won’t con-
firm the source of its funds, docu-
ments filed in California point to a
parent company run by a Chinese
billionaire who styles himself after
Apple’s late Steve Jobs.
Orlando, Fla.
Google, American Heart
Association team up
A company whose name is
synonymous with eyeballs on
the Internet is turning its atten-
tion to hearts. Google life Sci-
ences, a research group recently
spun off from its parent corpora-
tion, is teaming with the Amer-
ican Heart Association in a $50
million project to find new ways
to fight heart disease. The asso-
ciation’s half, $25 million over
five years, is the largest single re-
search investment in its history.
— The Associated Press
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Democrats consider him
someone they can work with.
“Kevin and I don’t agree prob-
ably on any public policy. But he’s
not an unpleasant person,” said
Ways and Means veteran Rep.
Jim McDermott, D-Wash.
Brady calls Ryan coach of the
House Republicans and himself
“the quarterback of the Ways
and Means team.” Sports analo-
gies seem fitting for Brady, a star
athlete in baseball and other
sports while growing up in Rap-
id City, South Dakota.
As a 12-year-old at football
practice one day, Brady’s coach
tapped his shoulder and guided
him to a policeman nearby.
That’s when he learned his fa-
ther, Bill, an attorney re-
presenting a woman in a divorce
trial, had been shot to death in
the courtroom by her husband.
That left Brady’s mother, Nancy,
with five children to raise.
Brady worked his way
through the University of South
Dakota with odds jobs including
maintenance worker and bar-
tender. He took a job at the local
Chamber of Commerce, then
started working for chambers in
Texas.
Young pilots face hurdles
before they can fly drones
es — especially because the ma-
jority of its pilot workforce is
made of baby-boomer federal
agents who must retire at 57 —
but could not discuss specifics.
Other agencies that fly drones,
like some branches of the mili-
tary, have less strict guidelines.
Loosening the rules also could
give students a stable, well-pay-
ing job out of college, rather than
flying with regional airlines.
Updating hiring practices is a
debate worth having, given the
many job openings on the hori-
zon among its 1,200-strong staff,
according to Max Raterman,
who directs the CBP’s Air and
Marine Operations in Grand
Forks.
the most difficult plane, manned
or unmanned, that Bodin said
he has to land. It’s harder to feel
connected to a drone, he said.
‘When you are flying a real
airplane, you can feel that kinet-
ic sense, you have a peripheral
view. You can sense the ground
coming up, stuff like that,” he
said. “With the unmanned,
there’s no sound, there’s no feel-
ing, there’s no rumbling or any-
thing in there.
“It’s all what you perceive out
of a video monitor. It’s a 2-D
plane and it’s all pretty much re-
active.”
By Dave Kolpack
Associated Press
GRAND FORKS, N.D.
Megan Halek could be the best
unmanned aircraft pilot coming
out of the University of North
Dakota’s highly regarded avia-
tion program this year: She’s
aced a training program and has
enough air experience to fly pri-
vate jets worldwide.
That won’t be enough to land
her dream job, flying the Preda-
tor drone for the U.S. Customs
and Border Protection.
Although she would enthusi-
astically take on a job that cur-
rently falls to federal pilots
who’d mostly rather be up in the
air, she’s more than 1,300 hours
short of the federal agency’s re-
quired actual flight time and
doesn’t have the proper flying
certificate.
“The CBP has their stan-
dards, and rightly so. They’re
looking for qualified people,”
said UND aviation professor
John Bridewell, who is Halek’s
faculty adviser. “But at some
point you have to question if
there’s a tradeoff between some-
one who simply has hours and
this particular certificate versus
someone who has capabilities
and wants to be there.”
Officials said they are looking
at changing their hiring practic-
Halek decided from the first
day of college that she wanted to
major in unmanned aircraft.
“I am a pilot. I love being in
the sky” said the 22-year-old
who’s set to graduate next
month. “But this is something
new and a platform I had my eye
on since day one. I want to be in
a program that is up and com-
“I would say the agency is
aware of the concerns of not be-
ing able to hire enough pilots,”
he said. “It’s what to do about it.”
Steve Bodin, a civilian pilot
who had about 3,500 flying
hours when he was hired with
CBP in 2009, said he’d rather be
flying a plane than operating a
drone.
Brady’s parents were active
Democrats in South Dakota and
an uncle was a Democratic state
senator. Brady said he became a
Republican while working for
the chambers, where he spent
time helping businesses.
“You can’t help but know
how government burdens those
job creators,” he said. “So that is
where the light bulb went off for
mg.
acknowledged
that many college pilots have the
technological savvy and the in-
terest in flying unmanned air-
craft.
Raterman
“You’re going out and getting
somewhere,” the 32-year-old
said. “The unmanned is cutting-
edge stuff, and we’re at the front
line of it, so this is interesting.
But it’s not flying.”
The Predator drone — a $13
million piece of equipment — is
serve on Ways and Means. So
far, he has won praise from
members of the group.
“Very, very positive,” Rep.
Mick Mulvaney, R-S.C., said of
Brady.
“I think that will be helpful,
but is that enough?” he asked.
“As an emerging technology and
platform, I do think it’s going to
sort itself out.”
‘I don’t think the chairman
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