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Assertive speech portends clash Obama pushes liberal ideas; GOP to press on spending By CHARLES BABINGTON The Associated Press
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama appealed for “one nation and one people” in his second inaugural address. Any notion that the country’s bitter partisanship might fade, however, seemed tempered by the president’s newly assertive push of central Democratic tenets: safety-net programs for the poor, equal rights for gays and minorities and government
spending on investments such as schools and highways. Deficit spending, the president’s biggest conflict with Republicans, got only one passing mention. And he never uttered the word “debt.” Never fear, Republicans seemed to say in response. They will press the overspending issue time and again, starting this week in the GOP-controlled House. And the outcome of the two parties’ long-running conflict will help shape the government’s
role in coming years, not to mention Obama’s legacy. All presidents want to drive the national agenda. Inauguration Day is their moment to lay out their visions. As Obama learned in his first term, however, unforeseen events quickly intervene, and a president’s fate is to adjust, improvise and reorder priorities. After winning his first election with a call for greater unity and cooperation in Washington, Obama appeared to be taken aback by the feroc-
ity of Republican resistance. It gave birth to the tea party in 2009, forced him to pass “Obamacare” without a single GOP vote and fueled huge Democratic setbacks in the 2010 congressional elections. November’s election chastened Republicans a bit, but they still adamantly oppose the president’s tax-andspend policies. That poses the central challenge to his hopes for an ambitious second-term agenda.
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Message stressed at interfaith breakfast
Cold to be here for days 6 degrees today, 20s rest of week By SARAH SUTSCHEK ssutschek@shawmedia.com
By JIM DALLKE jdallke@shawmedia.com CRYSTAL LAKE – Religious leaders and community members gathered Monday to celebrate diversity and to honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. About 200 people attended the fourth annual Interfaith Prayer Breakfast at D’Andrea Banquets
in Crystal Lake. Leaders of several faiths read prayers and sang songs, with the Rev. Calvin Morris giving the keynote address. “I’m aware of the challenges of interfaith involvement,” said Morris, who is a minister and humanrights advocate in Chicago. “I’ve also learned how important it is to continue to be a learner so people can help teach us their faith
journey. One need not be afraid of having your own understanding broadened.” In 1967, Morris was asked by the Rev. Jesse Jackson to be associate director and national coordinator of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s Operation Breadbasket.
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The Rev. Calvin Morris, keynote speaker for the fourth annual Interfaith Prayer Breakfast, speaks Monday to a crowd at D’Andrea Banquets in Crystal Lake. The breakfast was in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Morris, known as a powerful speaker, spoke about “One Nation Indivisible: Where Do We Go From Here.”
Temperatures across McHenry County topped out around 6 or 7 degrees Monday, and today isn’t going to be much warmer. “We’ll still be in the same air mass, so highs will be probably around the same, around 6 degrees,” said meteorologist Ben Deubelbeiss of the National Weather Service. Overnight, the temperature was expected to drop to 5 below zero, with a wind chill as low as 20 below, Deubelbeiss said. A wind chill advisory remains in effect until 10 a.m. today. “For Chicago, the normal high temperature is 31. The normal low is 16,” Deubelbeiss said. “We’re well below our normals for this time of year.” The last time the area was this cold was Feb. 10, 2011, when the temperature was -9 at night, he said. Frostbite to exposed skin can happen in 30 minutes, and it’s not recommended to spend extended time outdoors. Local fire departments
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COUNCIL DENIES BUSINESS PERMIT The City Council voted down a conditional-use permit for a new business that sought to offer video gaming to customers. The council voted, 4-2, Monday night to deny the permit in spite of support from the city’s Planning and Zoning Commission and administrative staff. For more, see page B1.
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Bill Daley neither in nor out against Quinn
Bill Daley called the other day. We estimated that it had been three or four years since we last spoke to each other, which is par for the course. Going back to at least 2001, Daley, the brother and son of former Chicago mayors, has mulled a bid for governor. The last time was in 2009, when he publicly thought about challenging Pat Quinn in the Democratic primary. And now he’s talking about it again. Before I returned Daley’s call, I wanted to check around and see what might be different this time. I was told that there are two major differences between now and before. First of all, Rich Daley is no longer mayor. Hizzoner simply didn’t want his brother running statewide. A gubernatorial bid could shine too much of a spotlight on the mayor, and there was real fear that a statewide run could upset the mayor’s delicately balanced coalition – meaning black voters. Bill Daley is now free to do whatever he wants. The other consideration also has to do with family. Daley had gone through a divorce in 2001. Now, though, he has a supportive, solid spouse who will back him all the way.
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CAPITOL EFFECTS Rich Miller Daley confirmed both of those points when we finally connected. But he hasn’t been raising money, he hasn’t been traveling the state, and he flatly denied a newspaper report that he had commissioned a poll. Instead, he’s been reaching out to old friends, including former President Bill Clinton, who encouraged a run. At 64, this could be his last opportunity to run a strenuous statewide campaign, and Daley said that if he does run, it’ll only be for a term or maybe two, just to straighten things out and move along. My big question was what he could bring to the table that Dan Hynes couldn’t in 2010, when he narrowly lost to Quinn in the Democratic primary. Like Hynes, Daley is a white, Irish, South Side Chicagoan. What votes does he get that Hynes could not? While he wouldn’t come right out and say it (most of the conversation was off the record), I think he believes
that Hynes made some late mistakes and that enough voters are ready to move beyond Quinn that he has a legit shot. The power of a sitting governor should never be underestimated in a primary. Even in the “new era” of reform, governors have jobs, contracts and other favors they can hand out to key constituencies. Quinn doled out million-dollar grants like they were candy in 2010. Besides that, Quinn himself is one of the best closers I’ve ever seen. After leading for months, Quinn began slipping against Hynes and, by the last weekend, even some of the governor’s top aides were thinking about finding new jobs after primary day. He did it again in the fall, when most people had written him off against Bill Brady. Anyway, back to Daley. Will he do it? Well, he sounds more like a candidate than he ever has, but until he starts raising money and doing a bit of traveling, we shouldn’t take him all that seriously. Can he beat Quinn? In 2010, enough people still were willing to give the relatively new “accidental governor” a chance that he could win by small
margins in both the primary and the genera electionsl. This time around, Quinn will have had almost six years under his belt, and if things don’t turn around soon, he’s not going to get the same benefit of the doubt. Another Daley consideration has to be whether Attorney General Lisa Madigan decides to run. After years of dismissing the prospect, Madigan seemed almost eager to take on the challenge on election night last November, when we spoke. She flatly denied any interest in a state Supreme Court bid, saying such a job would be too boring. She seemed steamed at Chicago reporters, who’d asked her whether she could be a governor and raise her young children. And she pointed to her huge campaign war chest – currently $3.6 million. One poll had Madigan leading Quinn 64-20. The Daley people say they aren’t factoring Madigan into the equation just yet. If she runs, she runs. But right now they aren’t worrying too much about it. We’ll see.
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that his brother did not believe him that their mother was dead so he showed his mother’s bloody face to his brother and then shot him, according to the statement. He’s accused of then shooting his two young sisters in their room. He retrieved an AR-15 rifle from his parents’ closet and waited in a downstairs bathroom for his father to come home. The statement said he shot his father multiple times after he passed the bathroom doorway. The teen said he reloaded
the guns so “he could drive to a populated area to murder more people,” according to the statement. His plan, the statement said, was to “shoot people at random and eventually be killed while exchanging gunfire with law enforcement.” Sheriff’s spokesman Deputy Aaron Williamson said Monday he couldn’t immediately comment on the document. Detectives have spent two days collecting evidence and trying to piece together what led to the violence.
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Topinka: Ill. agencies face $1B shortfall By SARA BURNETT The Associated Press
CHICAGO – Illinois’ top fiscal officer urged lawmakers Monday to transfer more than $1 billion from financially sound state programs to agencies that are in danger of running out of money, including some that serve seniors, children and the disabled. Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka said the supplemental funds are needed so the agencies can pay for services through this fiscal year, which ends in June. “We need to end the denial and address those budget shortfalls before they jeopardize critical services that our residents depend on,” said Topinka, a Republican.
She said a health insurance fund for state workers faces a $900 million shortfall. The Department of Aging needs about $200 million for a program that helps seniors and people with disabilities in home-based settings; workers compensation has requested an additional Judy Baar $82 million; and Topinka the Department of Children and Family Services needs about $25 million to avoid laying off child-welfare workers, she said. Jerry Stermer, budget director for Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn, issued a similar warning to the House Revenue and Finance Committee in Novem-
ber. Quinn’s office worked to pass legislation during the recent lame-duck legislative session that would have addressed some of the funding issues, but the problems remain. At least one bill – which would have allocated money to avoid the child welfare layoffs – failed to get out of a Senate committee because of various concerns, including that it would take away money that had been promised to other programs. Abdon Pallasch, Quinn’s assistant budget director, said Monday that discussions with lawmakers are continuing. “We have been pressing the General Assembly for months to restore this critical funding,” Pallasch said. Last year, more than 40,000
child care providers were notified they wouldn’t get state funding for three months because the child care fund had run out of cash. Legislators later moved $73.6 million from other parts of the budget to supplement the fund, but not until after the child care providers panicked after receiving letters saying there was no more money, said Brad Hahn, a spokesman for Topinka. He said Topinka wants to avoid a similar situation this year. The funding problems are one piece of the state budget that’s in crisis. Illinois also has a $96 billion unfunded pension liability – the worst shortfall in the nation – and a backlog of unpaid bills estimated at more than $9 billion.
Nation honors King day of Obama inauguration By KATE BRUMBACK The Associated Press
ATLANTA – Commemorative events for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. slid seamlessly into celebrations of the swearing-in Monday of the nation’s first black president, with many Americans moved by the reminder of how far the country has come since the 1960s. “This is the dream that Dr. King talked about in his speech. We see history in the making,” said Joyce Oliver, who observed King Day by visiting the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tenn., built on the site of the old Lorraine Motel, where King was assassinated in 1968. In Atlanta, at the 45th annual service for the civil rights leader at the church where he was pastor, those gathered in the sanctuary were invited to stay to watch President Barack Obama’s second inauguration on a big-screen TV. As the nearly three-hour service came to a close at Ebenezer Baptist Church, or-
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Inside job, 2 Canadian militants in Algeria siege The ASSOcIATeD pReSS
ALGIERS, Algeria – The hostage-taking at a remote Algerian gas plant was carried out by 30 militants from across the northern swath of Africa and two from Canada, authorities said. The militants, who wore military uniforms and knew the layout, included explosives experts who rigged it with bombs and a leader whose final order was to kill all of the captives. The operation also had help with inside knowledge – a former driver at the plant, Algeria’s prime minister said Monday. In all, 38 workers and 29 militants died, the Algerian prime minister said Monday, offering the government’s first detailed account of four days of chaos that ended with a bloody military raid he defended as the only way possible to end the standoff. Five foreigners still are missing. “You may have heard the
last words of the terrorist chief,” Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal told reporters. “He gave the order for all the foreigners to be killed, so there was a mass execution, many hostages were killed by a bullet to the head.” Monday’s account offered the first Algerian government narrative of the standoff, from the moment of the attempted bus hijacking on Wednesday to the moment when the attackers prepared Saturday to detonate bombs across the sprawling complex. That’s when Algerian special forces moved in for the second and final time. All but one of the dead victims – an Algerian security guard – were foreigners. The dead hostages included seven Japanese workers, six Filipinos, three energy workers each from the U.S. and Britain, two from Romania and one worker from France. The prime minister said
three attackers were captured but did not specify their nationalities or their conditions or say where they were being held. He said the Islamists included a former driver at the complex from Niger and that the militants “knew the facility’s layout by heart.” The vast complex is deep in the Sahara, with a network of roads and walkways for the hundreds of workers who keep it running. The attackers wore military uniforms, according to state television, bolstering similar accounts by former hostages that the attackers didn’t just shoot their way in. “Our attention was drawn by a car. It was at the gate heading toward the production facility. Four attackers stepped out of a car that had flashing lights on top of it,” one of the former hostages, Liviu Floria, a 45-year-old mechanic from Romania, told The Associated Press.
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DIABALY, Mali – French troops in armored personnel carriers rolled through the streets of Diabaly on Monday, winning praise from residents of this besieged town after Malian forces retook control of it with French help a week after radical Islamists invaded. The Islamists also have deserted the town of Douentza, which they had held since September, according to a local official who said French and Malian forces arrived there on Monday, as well. The militants’ occupation of Diabaly marked their deepest encroachment into government-held territory, and Monday’s retaking of the town is a significant victory for the French-led intervention. Diabaly, about 320 miles north of Bamako, the capital, fell into rebel hands Jan. 14.
Residents said those who fled in the aftermath were forced to escape on foot through rice fields. “We are truly really grateful to the French who came in the nick of time,” said Gaoussou Kone, 34, the head of a local youth association. “Without the French, not only would there no longer be a Diabaly, there would soon no longer be a Mali. These people wanted to go all the way to Bamako.” On Monday, all that remained of the Islamists were the charred shells of their vehicles destroyed by the French air strikes. Three of them were clustered in one location, the machine-gun cannon of one still pointing skyward. The cluster of rebel vehicles was in front of the home of an elderly man, Adama Nantoume, who said the French bombs started falling at around 11 p.m. the same day
that the Islamists occupied Diabaly. “I was at home, sitting like this against the wall,” he said, showing how he had hugged his knees to his chest in a fetal position. “The plane came and the bombs started to fall. After that, I saw that the cars had caught on fire. And the explosions were so loud that for a while I thought I had gone deaf. I was suffocated by the smoke and the light burned my eyes. The gas made me cry.” Islamists had seized Diabaly just days after the French began their military operation Jan. 11. The offensive is aimed at stopping the radical Islamists from encroaching toward the capital in Mali’s south from their strongholds in the vast, desert north where they have been amputating the hands of thieves and forcing women to wear veils for the last nine months.
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Continued from page A1 are encouraging people to plan ahead, such as keeping a blanket and some provisions inside vehicles, as well as jumper cables, a shovel and ice melt. “In your home, plan for the worst so when it happens, you are ready,” said Lt. Anthony Fredrickson of the Union Fire
Department. Know where to shut off the water if a pipe bursts. And if one does, get help from a qualified plumber. “Do not use [a] Torpedo or other open flame heaters to try and thaw out frozen pipes,” Fredrickson said. “Chances are you are introducing a deadly carbon monoxide hazard, or even a fire hazard, into your home.” On Wednesday, there will
be a little bit of warmth, with a high near 21. Temperatures will stay in the low 20s for the rest of the week, Deubelbeiss said. “Looking into this weekend, we’ve got a pretty strong low-pressure system that’s going to develop,” he said. “It looks like it’s going to transport some warmer air up here. By Sunday into Monday, we might be back into the mid- to upper 30s.”
Obama defends Medicare, Medicaid • Speech
Continued from page A1 In Monday’s speech, Obama recited a litany of liberal ideals. “Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law,” he said. He hailed equal pay for women, investments in infrastructure, regulation of markets and treatment of immigrants so they are “enlisted in our workforce rather than expelled from our country.” His sharpest warning to Republicans began with his single acknowledgement of the fierce deficit-spending debate. “We must make the hard choices to reduce the cost of health care and the size of our deficit,” the president said. “But we reject the belief that America must choose between caring for the generation that built this country and investing in the generation that will build its future.” He specifically defended Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. Although Obama has expressed a willingness to slow the growth of these costly programs, he seemed to caution Republicans to back off the deeper cuts they propose. Obama starts his second
Voice your opinion What are you expecting from the economy during Barack Obama’s second term? Vote online at NWherald.com. term facing three immediate priorities: restoring the economy’s health, overhauling immigration laws and reducing gun violence. He also vowed Monday to “respond to the threat of climate change.” That issue, however, seems likely to wait its turn. Restoring the economy has been Obama’s biggest challenge. Any relapse into recession could put millions of Americans out of work and vastly complicate his hopes for second-term achievements. From the start, two forces have pulled at him on the economy. Liberal economists implored the president to pour federal money into stimulus programs, saying the deficit’s resulting spike could be addressed later. But anti-deficit activists gained ascendancy in the Republican Party, demanding deep spending cuts without detailing who would pay the price. Deficit reduction remains the GOP battle cry. House Republicans recently agreed to postpone a showdown on the debt ceiling by three months
but say they will use other coming budget deadlines to extract reductions in social programs from reluctant Democrats. “Spending has raged out of control and America’s debt has ballooned,” House Republican Conference Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers said in her response to Obama’s speech Monday. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell promised Obama a “fresh start,” but reminded him of “the transcendent challenge of unsustainable federal spending and debt.” The Republicans’ highestranking official, House Speaker John Boehner, used a Lincoln quote to offer Obama an olive branch. The nation’s leaders, Boehner said at a Capitol luncheon, were assembled to “renew the old appeal to better angels.” Obama on Monday seemed to signal a willingness to work with Republicans, couched in a reminder that he won the last election and thus can’t be expected to yield very much. Boehner and his fellow Republicans this week will craft the next legislation in the deficit-spending confrontations. It will be the first of many tests of whether the nation’s “better angels” can break through a barrier of bitter standoffs.
Monica Maschak – mmaschak@shawmedia.com
Jim Olson and Teri Lancaster close their eyes and Lancaster holds out her hands during a hindu blessing read by the Rev. Anil Joshi on Monday during the fourth annual Interfaith prayer Breakfast at D’Andrea Banquets in crystal Lake. prayers, readings and blessings covered a variety of faiths and music was provided by Lia Nicine Mccoo.
Prayer breakfast began in 2009 • BReAKFAST
Continued from page A1 He also served as the executive director of Atlanta’s Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change from 1973 to 1976, working directly with Coretta Scott King. With Monday being both Martin Luther King Jr. Day and President Barack Obama’s second inauguration, Morris spoke about the importance of breaking from religious and racial prejudices, and learning from those who come from different backgrounds. “As a historian, I’m aware that in this country there have been a series of contentious decades where any entrance of a new faith tradition … there has been misunderstandings,” he said. “What needs to happen is the discussions, the sharing, the breaking of bread together.” The discussion Monday was one of religious tolerance and understanding.
“I moved here from the city, and people said to me, ‘There’s no diversity in Crystal Lake,’ and I think this room shows you something very, very different.” The Rev. Carrie Smith Pastor at Bethany Lutheran Church in Crystal Lake Religious leaders of Buddhist, Christian, Hindu and Jewish faiths read prayers and spoke about loving one another. “I moved here from the city, and people said to me, ‘There’s no diversity in Crystal Lake,’ and I think this room shows you something very, very different,” said the Rev. Carrie Smith, a pastor at Bethany Lutheran Church in Crystal Lake. “I thought it was wonderful to have all these faith traditions in one place.” The Interfaith Prayer
Breakfast began in 2009 and is put on by Faith Bridge, a consortium of faith-based communities in Lake and McHenry counties. Its mission is to promote mutual understanding among religious communities. “We want to increase respect among religions,” Smith said. “We want to be able to have relationships. God forbid something tragic would happen in our community. We would have relationships with other faith communities and be able to work together.” “Religion is truly manmade,” said the Rev. Anne Muelleman, a Faith Bridge board member and co-chairwoman of the Interfaith Prayer Breakfast. “But faith is what we all carry in us. At that level, I believe that we are all connected in that.” The breakfast ended on a note of action as everyone recited a litany of commitment: “We will remember, we will celebrate, but most importantly, we will act. We still have work to do.”