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Calvin Johnson played in the Detroit Lions' first preseason game of the season without any apparent incident, but the All-Pro wide receiver has apparently suffered some sort of injury since Friday night's game, as the man known as Megatron didn't participate in Monday morning's practice.
Johnson sat out of practice with "tape on his left index finger and no helmet," according to Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press. No further details were known at the time of his initial report, though there could be an update later Monday.
The 26-year-old wide receiver started all 16 games for the Lions last season, recording 96 receptions for 1,681 yards and 16 touchdowns.
The Lions were also missing wide receivers Patrick Edwards and Ryan Broyles, running back Mikel Leshoure, defensive end Kyle Vanden Bosch and safety Don Carey from Monday morning's practice. In better news,RonnellLewis and Justin Durant both returned to the field after having to sit out part of Sunday's practice due to injury.
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NJ leaders react to Trump's tax overhaul plan
BY Briana Vannozzi, Senior Correspondent | September 28, 2017, 5PM EST
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If President Trump's major tax reform proposal were a coin toss, today most New Jersey leaders are saying the policy leaves the Garden State on the losing side. In a sweeping overhaul, House GOP lawmakers worked with the president to unveil an ambitious tax plan with nearly $6 trillion in cuts by most estimates.
"We're going to cut taxes for the middle class, make the tax code simpler and more fair for everyday Americans and we are going to bring back the jobs and wealth that have left our country," said President Trump on Wednesday.
It includes cutting the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 20, while taxes for small business owners will be capped at 25 percent. Perhaps the biggest change is reducing the number of personal tax brackets from seven to just three. They're funneled instead to 12 percent, 25 percent and 35 percent brackets. And, it doubles the standard deduction for individuals and families, raising it to $12,000 a year for single filers and $24,000 for married couples.
"There's maybe a benefit to making the tax code simpler, but in terms of reducing the number of brackets, it usually makes the tax code less fair. The more brackets you have on an income tax the more spread out it is over income," said Jon Whiten of liberal think tank New Jersey Policy Perspective.
The proposal also eliminates a key deduction for New Jersey taxpayers which would end their ability to deduct income and property taxes they pay to state and local governments from their federal filing. According to the Tax Foundation, New Jersey was third in the nation, behind just California and New York, as the largest beneficiary of that deduction.
"The most recent numbers that we've seen show the average New Jersey taxpayer would see a tax increase from their federal tax bill of $3,500 if the state and local tax deduction went away," said Whiten.
"Right now, I think we get back 38 cents for every dollar we send down to Washington, so I'm working closely, watching it closely with the congressional delegation. I've reached out to Congressman Lance and Congressman Frelinghuysen because I want to make sure they don't take that away," said Sen. Kip Bateman.
More than 50 percent of taxpayers in Reps. Lance and Frelinghuysen's districts take the deduction. Other than one area of Long Island, that's more than any other district in the country.
"I do have a concern about the fact that I favor the continued destructibility of state and local taxes. That's incredibly important to New Jersey and I'm trying to lead the charge in that area," said Lance.
Lance wouldn't say if he'd vote for the bill if the eliminations remain.
"It would be very difficult for me to do so, but I'm fighting what I think is the good fight and I hope that we can preserve it," he said.
There's few details on just how much these tax cuts would cost or where the federal government will pull funding from.
"Like everything else, it's very thin on details. Secondly, it looks like if you're really wealthy, you'll do really well. If you're in the middle class it's a mixed bag at best. And if you're striving to get in the middle class, there's nothing for you," said Democratic Gubernatorial candidate Phil Murphy.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Kim Guadagno opposes eliminating the deductions adding in a statement, "This reinforces the fact that we have to lower taxes — especially property taxes — in New Jersey and give middle class families a break."
Whether or not this bill will succeed is a whole other question. It's likely to cause tension within the Republican party, who could be forced to make politically damaging votes.
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US still giving aid money to Africa's dictators
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By Lorenzo Piccio04 August 2014
Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn and U.S. President Barack Obama converse at the G-8 summit in Northern Ireland. While Addis Ababa remains one of the largest U.S. aid recipients in sub-Saharan Africa, U.S. aid flows to Ethiopia have fallen sharply over the course of the Obama administration. Photo by: Pete Souza
Five years ago, during his first visit to sub-Saharan Africa as U.S. president, Barack Obama memorably told Ghana's parliament that "Africa does not need strong men. It needs strong institutions." And months before his re-election, Obama stressed strengthening democratic institutions as one of four pillars of his administration's sub-Saharan Africa strategy .
"Our message to those who would derail the democratic process is clear and unequivocal: the United States will not stand idly by when actors threaten legitimately elected governments or manipulate the fairness and integrity of democratic processes," Obama said in the strategy.
Obama's strident and lofty rhetoric on democracy in Africa may make for odd bedfellows this week as 50 African heads of state gather in Washington for the first-ever U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit.
While sub-Saharan Africa as a whole has made marked progress toward democracy and institution building since the 1990s, more than a dozen of the African leaders expected in Washington can aptly be called strongmen — President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and President Paul Kagame of Rwanda included.
Freedom House classified 20 of 49 sub-Saharan countries as "not free" in its 2014 Freedom in the World index , the think tank's annual assessment of political rights and civil liberties around the world. Nineteen countries were classified as "partly free," while only 10 were classified as "free."
Fiscal 2015 U.S. aid to countries rated "partly free" and "not free" by Freedom House. View larger version .
As the graphic above shows, the United States is a significant donor to 28 of those 39 "partly free" or "not free" countries in sub-Saharan Africa. In fact, of the 10 largest U.S. aid recipients in sub-Saharan Africa, only one is rated "free" by Freedom House: South Africa, which is seeing asharp decline in funding under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
Like administrations before it, the Obama White House has come under fire from some quarters for keeping the aid tap on in countries that routinely trample upon human rights and civil liberties. These advocates argue that the steady flow of U.S. aid money to Africa's autocrats only prolongs their hold on power.
The prevailing bipartisan view, however, is that it would be foolhardy for the U.S. aid program to tie U.S. foreign aid flows entirely to democracy and human rights considerations. U.S. foreign aid is regarded by many in Washington as a key tool in the U.S. democracy and human rights promotion toolbox — one that can be used to promote and encourage reform not only within the government but also in civil society. Funding civil society groups directly is a strategy routinely employed to avoid giving money to these strongmen.
At the same time, it's not clear whether the administration or Congress is willing to take the strategic blowback should the United States cut aid to some of its key African partners that happen to have strongmen at the helm.
"The question is how and when to promote democracy when the U.S. has multiple competing national interests. It's easy to talk about democracy, but what do you do when an ally shows authoritarian tendencies?" said Todd Moss, senior fellow at the Center for Global Development who was deputy assistant secretary in the Bureau of African Affairs at the Bush State Department.
Jennifer Cooke, director of the Africa Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies echoed this sentiment.
"The conundrum is in those countries that are authoritarian but which the U.S. regards as important security partners," said Cooke, who cited Ethiopia, Uganda and Rwanda as examples.
Below, Devex examines U.S. aid engagement with four authoritarian regimes that are also among the largest recipients of U.S. aid in sub-Saharan Africa: Uganda, Zimbabwe, Rwanda and Ethiopia. In particular, we looked at three key questions that shed light on the administration's approach to these regimes:
1. To what extent is the Obama administration's aid engagement tied to progress on democracy and human rights?
2. Is the administration robustly supporting democracy and governance aid programming?
3. Is aid being channeled directly through the government or through nongovernmental channels?
(A previous Devex analysis found that democracy and governance accounted for roughly 5 percent of the Obama administration's aid spending in sub-saharan Africa.)
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East Africa's longest-serving ruler, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has been in power for nearly three decades.
Freedom House rates Uganda as "partly free" in its latest assessment, citing Museveni's increasingly repressive style of leadership. Critics charge that since abolishing term limits in 2005, Museveni's "constitutional dictatorship" has persecuted dissidents and militarized the country's civil institutions. Uganda's human rights record has deteriorated even further following its passage of a highly controversial law — annulled Friday — that criminalized homosexuality.
Averaging nearly $470 million over the course of the Obama administration, U.S. aid spending in Uganda had been slated to remain fairly steady in the administration's fiscal 2015 budget request. Signaling a change in direction, however, the White House announced in June plans to discontinue or redirect funds for "certain additional programs" involving Ugandan government institutions such as the Ugandan Police Force, Ministry of Health and National Public Health Institute. It remains to be seen whether the Ugandan constitutional court's annulment of the anti-homosexuality law will prompt the administration to reevaluate its decision.
Devex analysis reveals, however, that only 1 percent of USAID local spending in Uganda flows through the Ugandan government — reason to believe that the impact of the announcement on the Ugandan government may be minimal.
In contrast to many other major donors to the East African country, the United States has historically refrained from channeling budget support to Kampala, which helps explain whyUSAID did not suspend aid to Uganda in the wake of a high-profile aid embezzlement scandal back in 2012.
The vast majority of U.S. aid spending in Uganda is coursed through PEPFAR. While USAID'scountry strategy for Uganda elevated democracy and governance as one of three key objectives for the agency's programming in the East African country, the sector will account for only 1 percent of U.S. aid spending in fiscal 2015, which is down from 2 percent in 2010. In the run-up to Uganda's next national election in 2016, however, the Obama administration has revealed plans to bolster its support for political parties and civil society.
After a period of power sharing with the opposition, Zimbabwe's longtime president Robert Mugabe is once again firmly in control in Harare; Mugabe won a seventh term in office in last July's widely disputed election. Freedom House assessed Zimbabwe as "not free," citing restrictions on freedom of speech and assembly, state-sponsored political violence, as well as serious irregularities in the July 2013 election. At the helm of one of Africa's most repressive regimes, Mugabe has been in power since Zimbabwe gained independence in 1980.
Early on in his administration, Obama had pledged $73 million in fresh assistance to Zimbabwe — an olive branch to the then months-old power-sharing government. That same year, USAID also reinitiated programming in agriculture and economic growth, which had been on hold for much of the decade. USAID Zimbabwe had redirected the vast majority of its resources toward humanitarian programming in the aftermath of Mugabe's systematic expropriation of white-owned farms in the early 2000s.
Until recently, the Obama administration had also begun to channel aid to select ministries aligned with the opposition and its leader, then-Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai — further evidence of a thaw in aid relations between the United States and Zimbabwe. According to Cooke, U.S. assistance to the public sector in Zimbabwe has been largely limited to health, particularly HIV prevention and treatment, as well as education.
Now that Mugabe has tightened his grip on power once more, the Obama administration, by most accounts, appears to have pulled back on the U.S. aid program's reengagement with Harare. Very little of the administration's robust $159 million aid budget for Zimbabwe in fiscal 2015 — which is on a par with recent levels — will likely be channeled through the central government. But the administration has left the door open to continued aid engagement with reform-minded institutions, including the parliament.
Strikingly, the share of U.S. aid to Zimbabwe directed to democracy, human rights and governance is on course to decline even further to just 7 percent in fiscal 2015, compared with 12 percent in fiscal 2010. According to the Obama administration, its programming in the sector will now be focused on safeguarding democratic gains made during the power-sharing period, including the new constitution that was overwhelmingly approved by Zimbabweans in a March 2013 referendum.
Since assuming the presidency in 2000, Paul Kagame has presided over Rwanda's rapid development progress — no small feat for a small, landlocked country devastated by genocide only two decades ago. At the same time, the African strongman has come under intense criticism from human rights groups for his authoritarian — some would say, repressive — style of leadership. Freedom House assessed Rwanda as "not free," citing the country's flawed electoral process and the Kagame regime's targeting of human rights organizations.
Despite persistent questions over Kigali's human rights record, Rwanda has emerged as adarling of Western donors — including its single-largest bilateral donor, the United States — during the past decade. Over the course of the Obama administration, however, U.S. aid flows to Rwanda have declined noticeably — proof perhaps that Kigali's standing in the U.S. aid portfolio may not be quite where it used to be.
The administration has requested $171 million in foreign aid to Rwanda in fiscal 2015, which is nearly a fifth below fiscal 2010 levels. These cuts appear to have been driven in part by the Obama administration's reservations over the Kagame regime's commitment to democracy and human rights. Most notably, in October of last year, the Obama administration announced plans to restrict aid to Uganda's military over its support for a Congolese rebel group believed to be using child soldiers.
Military aid, however, accounts for only a small portion of U.S. aid to Rwanda, which, much like in Uganda, is mostly in support of PEPFAR programming managed by nongovernmental organizations. Only 3 percent of the administration's fiscal 2015 aid request for Rwanda has been allocated for democracy, human rights and governance, which is unchanged from fiscal 2010 levels.
Since taking office upon the death of the Ethiopian strongman Meles Zenawi two years ago, Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn has, by most accounts, governed the one-party state with the same iron fist. Freedom House assessed Ethiopia as "not free," citing the Desalegn government's harassment and imprisonment of political opponents. Just last month, Addis Ababa came under fire from human rights groups — and lawmakers in Washington — for its detention of Ethiopian opposition leader Andargachew Tsige.
While Addis Ababa remains one of the largest U.S. aid recipients in sub-Saharan Africa, U.S. aid flows to Ethiopia have fallen sharply over the course of the Obama administration. The administration has requested $483 million in foreign aid to Ethiopia in fiscal 2015, down by almost half since fiscal 2010. The vast majority of U.S. aid spending in Ethiopia is channeled toward PEPFAR. U.S. aid officials have said that the budget slashes are part of an effort to transfer PEPFAR resources to countries with higher HIV prevalence.
The Obama administration, on the other hand, is poised to ramp up loans, credits and guarantees for the country's energy sector. The administration has named Ethiopia as one of six focus countries for its $7 billion Power Africa initiative. With the backing of Power Africa, the Ethiopian government and Reykjavik Geothermal, a U.S.-Icelandic private developer, recently signed a landmark deal to construct a 1,000-megawatt geothermal plant in Corbetti Caldera valued at $4 billion.
Despite the USAID country strategy for Ethiopia's assertion that democracy and governance is the one sector that has "demonstrably deteriorated," programming in this area will garner less than 1 percent of U.S. aid spending in Ethiopia in fiscal 2015, which is flat from fiscal 2010. At the same time, there has been little to no indication from the administration that the PEPFAR budget slashes are tied to U.S. concerns over Ethiopia's democracy and human rights record.
Strikingly, USAID channels roughly a third of its local spending through governmental channels — a share that's higher than all but five of the agency's bilateral missions in sub-Saharan Africa. Ethiopia's harsh NGO laws, which is one of the most restrictive in the world, likely helps explain USAID's reluctance to channel more funding through nongovernmental organizations.
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Article from Wisconsin State Journal BY BARRY ADAMS
SHOREWOOD HILLS — The newest mixed-use development project in the Madison area is providing a major upgrade not only to the corner of University Avenue and Shorewood Boulevard but also for one of its new tenants.
Ancora Coffee has moved into the ground floor of The Boulevard after spending 10 years on the opposite side of the street and a block east in a 600-square-foot space next to a Klinke Cleaners.
The new 1,600-square-foot location provides enough space for owner Tori Gerding to add a full kitchen and tweak the business model for her company that has been a part of the Madison landscape for over 20 years. And it comes just a few weeks after she and her husband, Matt Gerding, co-owner of the Majestic Theatre, had their first baby, adding more excitement to the already demanding task of opening a new store.
"I have lots of good people around me and a hardworking staff," Tori Gerding said during one of her few breaks in the day. "Food-wise, (the previous location) was never there for me and I've always wanted more food. It's pretty cool to open something that I've been envisioning for four years and see it all play out."
Ancora also has a location on King Street that offers grab-and-go sandwiches and two small licensed locations at the Dane County Airport, but none offers the menu that is now available at the new location on University Avenue.
The Boulevard, a project by Flad Development & Investment Corp. and Knothe & Bruce Architects, is a four-story building with 38 upscale apartments, underground parking and 12,000 square feet of retail on the ground floor. The commercial tenants include Great Clips, Nails 4U, Tech Heroes, a Potbelly Sandwich Shop and what will soon be an expansive AT&T store.
The Ancora shop offers views of University Avenue, but like all of the other businesses in the development, the main entrance is on the backside of the building where there is a parking lot. This is where Gerding has a garage door that can be raised in warmer weather, opening to the shaded outdoor patio.
The interior features wood accents, custom-made tables with reclaimed wood, decorative pocket doors with windows salvaged from an old home in Maple Bluff and several wooden chairs that were painted in Gerding's garage.
But the biggest change is the kitchen, although Gerding is quite familiar with the chef.
Gerding is from the Manitowoc County farming community of Valders, about 50 miles south of Green Bay. Growing up, she and her family lived above a funeral home because it offered cheap rent. Her chef, Evan Braun, lived above the meat market in nearby Whitelaw where his father was a butcher. Braun had been in Chicago for the past eight years and was working at the Kanela Breakfast Club when he ran into Gerding while visiting in Madison.
Braun jumped at the chance to create a brunch menu from scratch with his own Mediterranean-leaning signature. It includes entrees like lamb shank hash, a Caprese omelet and the Buddha Bowl, a mix of quinoa, avocado, black beans, garlic hummus and sunflower seeds topped with an over-easy egg. The egg sandwiches can include ingredients like sriracha honey, havarti cheese, smoked ham, lox and black bean puree, while the salads can include baby kale, fresh mint, avocado, grapefruit and quinoa and whipped-herb feta.
Braun, 26, is also trying incorporate as many local ingredients as he can into his dishes.
"It's a lot of stuff I missed while I was away from Wisconsin," Braun said. "I wanted a lot of fresh ingredients."
Those ingredients include meats from Underground Meats in Madison, maple syrup from Marquardt's Tree Farm in Shawano County and fresh brown eggs from Yuppie Hill Poultry in Walworth County.
Gerding, 27, who purchased Ancora in 2013, said the project was "expansive" for her but she has no immediate plans to expand her other shop or look for more locations in the Madison area that is saturated with coffee shops. Her focus for now is on fine-tuning her new restaurant, taking care of her daughter and getting the word out about the new kitchen and expanded menu.
"We've never had a full kitchen, so finding a chef that I could trust was really important," Gerding said. "We really get each other and we're really happy how the kitchen is turning out. The biggest challenge is getting the public to know that we now offer these things."article
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