Issue #8, December 20, 2017

Local Radio with a Big Reach evenings, Saturday mornings, and Sunday evening. Its WKHS-FM, at 90.5 on your website, radio dial, is operated by Kent http://www.wkhsradio.org, County High School students offers pre-recorded podcasts under the supervision of station and hopes soon to offer live manager Chris Singleton. It streaming over the internet of offers music from its extensive its broadcasts. library, news, and sports (including live play-by-play The students who provide its coverage of most Kent County broadcast content and manage high school games), as well as a daily operations are enrolled in marine forecast and interviews the high school’s career with key personalities or technical education program, organization heads from the which offers a wide variety of broader community. The practical training and which student staff also produces a more than 80 percent of all weekly public affairs show in students complete. Typically, partnership with medical the radio/broadcasting program students from John Hopkins has 30-35 students at any given University. The station also time. offers a broader variety of programming hosted by What’s unique about WKHS, volunteers most weekday however, is its broadcast reach.

1 Because of a typo on the and to replace disintegrating original application to the FCC sound proofing. It has already for a broadcasting license, back replaced is audio playout in 1974, the station is one of system, bringing it up to the most powerful FM stations industry standard, and anywhere. Its signal can be automated its extensive music picked up as far north as library to facilitate pre-recorded Wilmington, as far south as shows. It plans to upgrade the Cambridge, and as far west as link between its studios and the and Columbia. That broadcast tower to an optical reach is why the station fiber. The goal is to provide partners with University of interview guests with a more ’s WXPN station, comfortable experience and the which broadcasts over the students with training that WKHS tower for morning and would prepare them to operate evening drive time (up til 8 am, in any commercial broadcast when WKHS’s local studio. Since funds for the programming starts, and after 3 upgrade aren’t available in the pm, when WKHS signs off). school budget, the station is also undertaking a fundraising That reach also means that campaign. the station could function as a means to share information http://www.wkhsradio.org about local Kent County or eastern shore activities to neighboring urban areas, helping to attract visitors and Voter Fraud and Voter new residents. Chris Singleton Suppression says that he “would welcome more community involvement We hear those words a lot, that could help it function as a so let’s make clear what we beacon” in ways consistent with mean when we use them. Voter its educational mission, pointing Fraud generally means one out that the station would be voter voting many times, in glad to have more local sources spite of the fact that voting of news to report and guests to twice is a felony punishable by a interview about county fine and 5 years in prison. Our activities. 1st District had its own fraudulent voter in The station is now Congressional candidate Wendy undergoing a major upgrade in Rosen, who in 2013 was fined its physical facilities, to create $5000 and given a 5-year more studio space and a probation for voting in two modernized operations center states in 2006 and 2008.

Common Sense, Issue #8, December 20, 2017 2 According to a report by the or who haven’t voted in Brennan Center for Justice, the last two or three while Kris Kobach was Kansas elections; Secretary of State, he • limitations on early voting conducted a review of 84 million to eliminate weekend votes cast in 22 states and voting; found a total of just14 instances • felon disenfranchisement; of fraud that could be referred • transgender for prosecution. Kobach is disenfranchisement; currently vice-chairman of the • falsifying information national Election Integrity about voting procedures Commission, which has so far and polling place location been unsuccessful in its efforts changes, sometimes using to ferret out massive instances robo calls to deter people of fraud across the country. from going to the polls; • inequality in Election Day Another definition of voter polling places and hours, fraud, however, is the fraud causing long lines and perpetrated on voters by their missed hours at work; state legislatures. It’s called • closure of DMV offices to Voter Suppression. The opposite make registration a longer of one person voting several trip; times, Voter Suppression is • gerrymandering to make aimed squarely at preventing districts safe for one party qualified people, most of them or the other; registered with the “wrong” • Jim Crow laws; political party, from voting. The • “losing” absentee ballots; numbers of voters • using electronic voting disenfranchised by these tactics machines which have no are in the millions. A Wikipedia paper trail back-up. article does an eye-opening job of outlining many of the voter Here are two of many sources of suppression tricks, including: information on this issue: • creating impediments to • https://www.brennancent voter registration; er.org/analysis/debunking • photo ID laws which hit -voter-fraud-myth students, the elderly and • https://en.wikipedia.org/w the disabled who may not iki/Voter_suppression_in_t have a driver’s license or he_United_States (If you passport; go to this website, be sure • purging of voter rolls not to read about ’s only of those who have 2010 gubernatorial moved or died, but those election and the fraud who have similar names

Common Sense, Issue #8, December 20, 2017 3 perpetrated on Maryland’s voters.) The prescribing rates for by Francie Miller prescription pain medicines among adolescents and young adults in the US nearly doubled from 1994 to 2007. In 2012, The Opioid Epidemic 259 million prescriptions were written for opioids in the US, Medical authorities report more than enough to give every that opioid overdoses now rank American adult their own bottle with cancer, strokes, and heart of pills. And there is strong attacks among the top killers in evidence that four of every five the state of Maryland. In the new heroin users starts out first 9 months 2016, for misusing prescription example, Maryland saw 1,468 painkillers. After using deaths related to overdoses. prescription pain medicines, The opioid crisis has grown to many opioid users said they the point that it is not unusual switched to heroin because it to know a family member, a was less expensive and easier neighbor, or a coworker who to obtain. has been affected or even killed by this scourge. Another influence for a teen or young adult to try opioids can Addiction can occur in any be peer pressure for generation and for any experimentation with alcohol or socioeconomic class. A common drugs. Some overdoses occur route into addiction is for a when users think they are young adult or teen to be given buying heroin but in fact are a medical prescription for pain actually buying even deadlier medicine following an injury, fentanyl, which is many times which then leads to drug more potent. seeking behavior after the injury has healed. Opioids include The Department of Maryland heroin as well as prescription Health and Mental Hygiene has pain relievers oxycodone, been collaborating with federal, hydrocodone, codeine, state and local partners to try to morphine, fentanyl and others. reduce the number of Opioids relieve pain by reducing overdoses, including expanding the number of pain signals access to naloxone, a drug that getting to the brain, and they can reverse opioid-related produce pleasure by binding to overdoses when given in time. the same receptors as our All Maryland-licensed body’s internal pleasure pharmacists can now dispense chemicals. naloxone without a prescription

Common Sense, Issue #8, December 20, 2017 4 to anyone trained and certified return to their former health under the Department’s insurance plan, known as the Overdose Response Program. FEHBP, which also pays 72 But it’s clear that early family percent of their premiums. In awareness and intervention to addition, under either plan, they prevent addiction or get affected can make use of the free or low individuals into treatment is and cost outpatient care at military even better strategy. medical facilities in the D.C. area, and the free services of Marylanders who need help the Office of the Attending finding substance related Physician. disorder treatment resources should visit Details can be found at: MdDestinationRecovery.org or • Congressional Salaries call the Maryland Crisis Hotline, and Allowances – which provides 24/7 support, at Senate.gov; 1-800-422-0009 • 10 Perks Congress Has That You Don’t – The by Melinda Miller, CRNP, and Motley Fool; and Robert Miller • Here’s How Much Members of Congress Pay for their Health Insurance - CNBC. Why Congress Doesn’t Care About Obamacare Common Sense wants to get Since 2014 Members of it right across the Shore. Congress must get their health Become a volunteer CSES insurance through the reporter: send us your Affordable Care Act (aka county's news, reactions, Obamacare). However, they preferences and priorities to receive government subsidies info@CommonSenseEasternS that cover 72 percent of the hore.org cost. Why then, you might ask, do they want to do away with Obamacare? Well, if they can eliminate the ACA, they can

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