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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2015 - FEBRUARY 8, 2015
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Californians Can Soon Vote on Death with Dignity by nick kipley Having once failed in the polls, voters in the State of California will soon be able to decide again whether or not a patient of a terminal disease can electively end his or her own life under new, “Death With Dignity,” legislature. The measure, which has seen various revisions from the time it has been up for debate in 1992, 2005, and 2007, is gaining in support after 29-year-old Brittany Maynard, a California resident, moved to Portland in order to electively end her life, which she succeeded in doing on the 1st of November, last year. Oregon, Washington and Vermont have voted into their state legislation the right for a patient of an end-stage terminal disease to take a deliberate overdose of a heavy sedativehypnotic—typically a mixture of barbiturates—slip into a coma and die peacefully. Maynard had been diagnosed with a particularly aggressive form of brain cancer whose prognosis indicated irreversible physical and mental scarring if she were to undergo even the most successful treatment. Even
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defendant, who entered pleas of “not guilty” and “not guilty by reason of insanity,” was found to be legally sane at the time of the murder by the jury on Oct. 31, 2014. At approximately 6:30 a.m. on Sept. 16, 2009, Le spent the night at a family member’s home with her children, 5-year-
To bring attention to a new meal plan in Anaheim, the Orange County Register describes a school day as it ended: “As the sun began to set, an afterschool worker rolled out carts onto the courtyard to rows of students and started handing out meals – salami, turkey and ham sandwiches, baby carrots, ranch dressing and fatfree milk.” The children were eating at picnic tables at Mann Elementary School in Anaheim, said the paper where they took the packages of food, balancing their small milk cartons on them. The Register noted that there were about 120 students in attendance who would finish their dinner before heading home. As part of the after-school program in the Anaheim City School District, the schools started to serve dinner during the weekdays to their elementary school students. The districtwide effort acknowledges the statistics on hunger most recently reported by the Washington Post and the Huffington Post: the majority of public school students is from low-income families and is frequently hungry. For that reason, Anaheim is providing after-school meals by using federal funds, part of a county-wide effort that is growing across the country so to support children academically. “It’s good for kids to eat
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worse, it was feared that, after months of these personalityaltering treatments, the radioactive waves would fire through her skull and kill her. “I considered passing away in hospice care at my San Francisco Bay-area home. But even with palliative medication, I
could develop potentially morphine-resistant pain and suffer personality changes and verbal, cognitive and motor loss of virtually any kind,” she said in a final statement released to CNN on the 2nd of November. Please see page 2
Mother Sentenced for Attempting to Murder Her Two Children On January 23rd, a mother was sentenced to 11 years to life in state prison for attempting to murder her two young children by stabbing them while they were asleep. Thuy Thi Le, 43, Westminster, was found guilty by a jury Feb. 4, 2014, of two felony counts each of attempted murder, and child abuse and endangerment with sentencing enhancements for the personal use
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of a deadly weapon and committing great bodily injury. On Oct. 27, 2014, a unanimous jury found the sentencing enhancement for premeditation and deliberation for the attempted murder charge to be true following a retrial of the sentencing enhancement as a former jury was unable to reach a unanimous verdict, finding 11 to one for the sentencing enhancement to be true. The