Senate GOP Unveils Health Care Overhaul, but Not All Are Aboard
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After the event at the See HOT RODS, A5 WASHINGTON YOUNGSTOWN SCHOOLS CEO EAGER TO BEGIN SECOND YEAR AT THE HELM Senate GOP unveils Driven to succeed health care overhaul, but not all are aboard Associated Press WASHINGTON Ohio lawmakers: Senate Republicans launched their plan for Bill would make shriveling Barack Obama’s health care law Thursday, opioid crisis worse edging a step closer to their dream of repeal with a bill By JUSTIN WIER that would slice and reshape [email protected] Medicaid for the poor, re- YOUNGSTOWN lax rules on insurers and Some local politicians end tax increases on higher fear the health care bill earners that have helped unveiled in the Senate fi nance expanded coverage on Thursday will make it for millions. more diffi cult for Ohio to Four conservative GOP fight the growing opioid senators quickly announced crisis. initial opposition to the mea- Sen. Sherrod Brown, sure and oth- a Democrat from Cleve- U INSIDE: ers were eva- land, specifi cally targeted How the sive, raising changes in the Medicaid Senate the specter program. health bill of a jarring “We cannot allow compares to rejection by Washington to rip the rug House bill, the Repub- out from under Ohio com- Aff ordable lican-con- munities,” Brown said in a Care Act. A2 trolled body. news release. “Instead of But Senate raising prices on people Majority Leader Mitch Mc- over 50 and working fami- Connell, R-Ky., indicated he lies, we should be working was open to discussion and together to lower costs, seemed determined to mus- fight the opioid epidem- ROBERT K. YOSAY | THE VINDICATOR cle the measure through his ic and make health care CEO Krish Mohip talks about his fi rst year at the helm of Youngstown City Schools. “No one could’ve prepared me for what I was walking chamber next week. work better for everyone.” into, and I admit I was a little optimistic while doing my strategic plan,” he told The Vindicator on Thursday. Release of the 142-page Brown cited a Harvard By AMANDA TONOLI proposal ended the long wait study that found more for one of the most closely [email protected] A FUTURE than 150,000 Ohioans guarded bills in years. Mc- with addiction or mental YOUNGSTOWN FOR THESE Connell stitched it together health disorders received EO Krish Mohip said KIDS MEANS behind closed doors, po- health care through the SOMETHING TO ME. tentially moving President Medicaid expansion. he is looking forward WE ARE CHANGING See HEALTH, A5 See CRISIS, A5 to year No. 2 with THE TRAJECTORY OF C CHILDREN’S LIVES IN HEALTH BILL’S JOURNEY THROUGH CONGRESS the same – if not more – drive The House has passed a bill to revamp the health overhaul known as the Affordable Care A POSITIVE WAY.” Act or “Obamacare,” while the Senate has written its own version. What awaits: to push the Youngstown City Krish Mohip The Senate puts its The Senate votes Bill fails The bill dies, School District toward success. own version of the bill (51 needed to pass; leaving GOP on the floor for debate. Republicans hold a to start over. Mohip, refl ecting a few days before Senate rules 52-48 majority). Bill passes his June 29 anniversary, said his key prevent this kind focus will be a shift in the teaching of bill from being and learning culture. filibustered, or “A future for these kids talked to death. means something to That is something that won over the plan, or House Bill 70, which was The bill goes to A final version A joint conference me,” Mohip said. “We are Laura Meeks, former Eastern Gate- implemented in 2015. It put Mohip in the White House, Bill passes of the bill must committee resolves changing the trajectory of way Community College president, control of the district as CEO under where President ONLINE be voted on differences VIDEO children’s lives in a posi- as she helped to form the Youngstown the auspices of the academic distress Donald Trump is again by both between the Senate tive way.” Plan that eventually led to Mohip’s commission. expected to sign it. Bill fails chambers. and House bills. See video for The ultimate goal, he selection by a state academic distress From the beginning, Meeks said this story at said, is “to have high- commission. she saw Mohip as simply “a very tal- vindy.com quality education in Meeks was one of an eight-member ented administrator.” every classroom for every student, group that worked with Ohio De- every day.” partment of Education officials on See SCHOOLS, A5 SOURCES: U.S. House of Representatives; U.S. Senate AP inside INDEX Best-selling author kicks off book tour in Valley Business . A7 today By WILLIAM K. ALCORN Classifi eds . B5-6 U [email protected] INSIDE: Trigiani will have a discussion Comics . C4 SERVING THE CHILDREN and book signing tonight at Our Lady of Crossword . C3 POLAND Mount Carmel Church. Details, A5 Cafeteria staff at Austintown Elemen- Best-selling author Adriana Tri- Daily Briefi ng . A2 tary School serves about 350 meals Editorial . A9 giani, at The Lake Club on Thursday to local children each day through a kicking off the book tour promoting Philadelphia in 1949 just after World Legal ads. A7 federal program intended to keep kids War II. Lotteries . A2 healthy during the summer. her 17th novel, “Kiss Carlo,” thinks of Youngstown as her second home. Trigiani described her latest book as Society. C2 LOCAL, A3 a story about a family schism and how Sports. .B1-5 She also is scheduled to appear AJGA CHAMP CROWNED today at Our Lady of Mount Carmel the family comes back together. Tributes. A6 “I wanted something uplifting in TV Grid . C3 Maxwell Moldovan of Uniontown Church hall, 343 Via Mount Carmel, held off China’s Aaron Du to win the Youngstown. this very trying time,” she said. Valley Life. C1 Trigiani, who grew up in Big Stone Weather. A2 American Junior Golf Association’s “It’s family here,” Trigiani said of the Mill Creek Foundation Junior All-Star Youngstown area during an interview Gap, Va., is at her core a writer. She PLEASE RECYCLE title Thursday. Coaches from eight while signing books before the ban- says she works at her craft seven days a week and has published a novel a year WILLIAM D. LEWIS | THE VINDICATOR Division I schools made the trip to Mill quet. Best-selling author Adriana Trigiani signs Creek Park to watch the fi nale. She said many people in Youngstown since 2000. copies of her new novel, “Kiss Carlo,” before SPORTS, B1 have their roots in Italy as does the a banquet Thursday at The Lake Club in family in “Kiss Carlo,” which is set in See TRIGIANI, A5 Poland to promote the book. A1 - 06/23/17 CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK TODAY ON VINDY.COM Find a job or vehicle on: 107 Vindicator Square, DAILY BRIEFING Youngstown, OH 44503 U vindyJOBS.com: 157 openings U Published daily. 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