friday, february 21 , 2020. the washington post ez M2 B3
D.C. man found dead
in Capitol HeightsA 22-year-old man was fatally
stabbed in Capitol Heights, and
police are looking for a suspect.
At around 11:30 a.m.
Wednesday, officers were called
to the 7500 block of millrace
road for a welfare check,
according to Prince George’s
County police.
When they arrived, they found
the victim, who had been
stabbed. He was pronounced
dead at the scene.
The victim was later identified
as Timothy Juwuan Jackson of
the District. Police said they are
trying to figure out a motive.
— Dana HedgpethState bills would ban
releasing balloonsUp, up, and away — no more?
With a 92-to-47 vote Thursday
in the House of Delegates, both
chambers of the maryland
General Assembly have voted to
ban the intentional release of
balloons into the air.
The bill, sponsored by Del.
Wayne A. Hartman (r-
Worchester), establishes a civil
fine of up to $250 for the release
of a balloon by an organization
or an individual who is at least 13
years old. The goal, proponents
say, is to end the practice of
celebratory balloon releases that
often leave litter miles away.
The Senate version, sponsored
by Sen. Clarence K. Lam (D-
Howard), passed by a vote of 38
to 8.
Both chambers must pass the
same version of the bill for it to
go to Gov. Larry Hogan (r) for
his consideration.
Balloon releases are popular
for celebrations and memorials.
Proponents of balloon bans
argue the practice creates trash
that poses a danger to wildlife.
Queen Anne’s and Wicomico
counties on the Eastern Shore
already have bans on releases,
and ocean City has a ban as part
of its anti-littering law, according
to legislative analysts.
— Baltimore SuntHe districtMan charged in fatal
stabbing on U StreetD.C. police on Wednesday
arrested a suspect being sought
in the fatal stabbing of a
maryland man in early January
on U Street, a popular nightlife
spot in Northwest Washington,
according to authorities.
reginald Hooks, 35, of
Northeast Washington, was
charged with second-degree
murder while armed. He was
arrested by member of the
Capital Area regional fugitive
Ta sk force.
Police said the victim,
Dy’mani Priestley, 22, of
Hyattsville, was stabbed in the
left side of his chest about 2:20
a.m. on Jan. 5 in the 1200 block
of U Street NW. He was
pronounced dead at a hospital.
Additional details of the
stabbing were not immediately
available.
— Peter HermannmarylandAcupuncturist charged
with sexual offenseAn acupuncturist who
allegedly touched a woman
inappropriately at a shop in
Poolesville was arrested and
charged with a sexual offense.
montgomery County police
said the incident happened in
late August, and the victim
reported it to authorities earlier
this month.
Police said the woman went to
an appointment at Acupuncture
Cure on fisher Avenue and was
told to “remove her clothing
(except for her underwear)” and
put on a medical gown. While on
the table, police said Sang Kim,
50, who owns the shop, “touched
the victim inappropriately and
without her consent.”
officers interviewed Kim on
Saturday, and he was arrested
and charged Sunday. He faces a
charge of a fourth-degree sexual
offense.
It was not immediately clear
whether Kim has a lawyer.
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lotterylotteriesDon’t worry, corporate
gatekeepers.
Your faithful employees
Charlene and malgorzata did not
go on the record, even after they
handed you a fortune’s worth of
good press and extra eyeballs by
being genuine, smart assets in
their community.
Kind of like all the small
stores in small towns that didn’t
have corporate owners
thousands of miles away used to
do.
[email protected]
Twitter: @petuladWashington Post because of a
story we did earlier in the week.
Ahh. Was it the one our
business section did about
disappointing holiday sales? or
the one about a man and a
woman having a gunfight inside
a Colorado Walmart?
Probably not. The story that
probably irked Walmart the
most was Abha Bhattarai’s deep
dive into their corporate culture
and growing competition with
Amazon (familiar disclosure:
Amazon chief executive Jeff
Bezos owns The Washington
Post.)
“Walmart, the nation’s largest
private employer, is telling
employees that it is doing away
with certain positions —
including hourly supervisors and
assistant store managers — and
replacing them with a smaller
set of roles that carry more
responsibilities, often for the
same pay, according to
interviews with current and
former store employees, and
internal documents obtained by
The Washington Post.”
In that story, The Post
reported on troubles that may
await employees like Charlene:
“Terminations are part of the
plan,” s aid Bianca Agustin,
research director for United for
respect, an employee group that
advocates for workers’ rights.
“It’s clear that mid-level
management positions are being
eliminated. These are valuable
employees who have been there
a long time and have worked
their way up the corporate
ladder.”
Is that what they’re afraid
Charlene would talk about, after
her 10 years as a loyal employee?
Are they worried we would
find out that Charlene
sometimes has a hard time
keeping a straight face during
the photo shoots?And I wish she could share
that side of her with the world.
I called the Walmart bosses as
I headed to the store — about an
hour and a half from
Washington. They were excited
to let their grammy shine in the
national media. Even “Good
morning America” picked up the
story of Charlene’s booming
popularity.
But the local bosses said I had
to call the corporate offices in
Arkansas to make my case,
because those folks put a gag
order on their beloved
employees.
“We won’t be working with
The Washington Post,” the
corporate woman told me.
They didn’t let Charlene work
with fox, “Good morning
America” or anyone else who
contacted them and wanted to
feature her. Those organizations
just grabbed the facebook feed
and left it at that.
As of Thursday morning,
nearly 14,000 people have signed
a petition urging Ellen
DeGeneres to bring Charlene on
her show. Think Walmart will let
that fly?
I couldn’t understand why
they wouldn’t let Charlene have
her moment. What are they
afraid she’ll say?
maybe they looked at her
social media and found a salty
granny — a big President Trump
supporter — who is raising her
8-year-old grandson on her own
and loves the heck out of him?
or that she has a delightfully
bawdy — not filthy — sense of
humor? Because she and my
teen boys are right there on the
scatological and penis jokes.
or are they afraid she’d speak
her mind about Walmart’s
infamous reputation for treating
employees poorly?
The corporate gatekeeper said
they won’t work with TheThey all smile earnestly. But
none of them bring the I-really-
have-no-patience-for-you je ne
sais quoi that Charlene so
deliciously exudes.
Her fans are many.
“I always said I would never
work for Walmart again,” J amie
Hopkins wrote on their
facebook page. “(mr. Walton
would roll in his grave if he
knew how bad they treat their
employees) but I would work at
this Walmart with Charlene!”
“miss Charlene is the only
reason I follow this Walmart
page,” wrote Tiffenii mumphrey,
who identifies as a “Charlene fan
from Te xas.”
“It’s a new goal to road trip to
this maryland Walmart from
California just to go and visit
Charlene. #GiveCharleneAraise,”
wrote Kayla marie Engh.
I gotcha, Kayla, so I pointed
my car north as soon as I
finished with my kids’ carpool.
When I finally found Charlene
at Walmart No. 5450, I got the
signature scowl. But for a
change, it’s not meant for me.
She’s mad that her corporate
bosses won’t let her or the
women who do the photo shoots
— Baker and Danielle Davis and
Hope To me Poore — talk to any
media.
Charlene stuck to the gag
order from her overlords in
Arkansas and didn’t go on the
record. Y’all hear that? Don’t
punish her. She obeyed.
But here’s the secret I cracked
when I stalked her in her native
habitat interacting with
customers and fellow workers
somewhere between a thicket of
Nintendo games and a stand of
phone parts — she is nothing
like her scowl. In fact, she’s
smiley, joking, sweet, a little
pragmatic and totally generous.
dvorak from B1
Petula dvorak
Charlene’s overlords want her frowning mouth shut
for the soaring crime in Balti-
more, where more than 300
people have been killed in each
of the past five years.
one-third of the murder vic-
tims and 27 percent of murder
suspects in Baltimore last year
were on parole or probation and
therefore under the s tate’s s uper-
vision, Jones said. The union
representing parole and proba-
tion workers has complained for
years that the a dministration has
left their department dangerous-
ly short-staffed.
“What are the Governor’s
plans to inject some urgency in
staffing his own Departments
that can help curb some of this
violence?” Jones asked in a
statement. “... We cannot just
add more criminal laws on the
books if the ones we have aren’t
being used effectively. We can-
not arrest our way out of this
problem.”
Jones said Hogan has not met
with her since the legislative
session began Jan. 8. “If he has
an urgent concern about his
bills, I invite him to pick up the
phone or talk to me directly,” s he
said.
[email protected]
[email protected]crease. He also said Thursday
that his internal polling shows
residents widely support his
crime package, which would im-
pose increased penalties for re-
peat violent offenders and those
who intimidate witnesses. An-
other bill would require public
records of how judges sentence
violent criminals.
The governor mentioned his
polling data 11 times in a nearly
12-minute statement to report-
ers.
Within hours, a Democratic
lawmaker had tweeted criticism
of Hogan with the hashtag #stop-
pollingstartleading.
Smith invited the governor to
testify before the Judicial Pro-
ceedings Committee about his
crime legislation, so that the
committee can have “an intellec-
tually honest conversation”
about any data that shows why
the bill is merited.
Senate President B ill ferguson
(D-Baltimore City) said Hogan
was “out o f line” t o suggest S mith
should resign. “This session is
about solving problems and not
pointing fingers,” ferguson said.
House Speaker Adrienne A.
Jones (D-Baltimore County) said
Hogan bears some responsibilityone option the House is consid-
ering to generate more money
for schools. The Senate is also
considering raising revenue by
increasing a tax on cigarettes,
taxing digital downloads and
digital ads and allowing sports
betting.
Because wealthier residents
are believed to spend more on
professional services, the sales-
tax change would make the
state’s tax code less regressive,
Luedtke said, shifting a greater
burden to the affluent.
He also said it would address a
disconnect between maryland’s
tax code and major sources of
commerce in the modern econo-
my. “Why should we tax books
but not bookkeeping?” he asked.
“It’s a better tax policy in gener-
al.”
Hogan, who campaigned on
an anti-tax agenda in 2014, said
the proposal “is a tax on working
families,” since it would apply
regardless of income.
“It’s a tax on single moms,” he
said. “It’s not ever going to
happen while I’m governor. I can
promise you.”
Hogan said his internal poll-
ing shows that only 2 percent of
marylanders support a tax in-mandatory minimum bill should
disqualify t he lawmaker from the
committee chairmanship.
Smith accused Hogan of push-
ing the kind of “draconian poli-
cies” that have “destroyed and
decimated generations of mary-
landers, most of whom are black
and brown.”
Hogan spoke in catastrophic
terms about the Democratic tax
legislation and vowed to stop it.
The proposal would broaden
the s ales t ax to s ervices i ncluding
day care, yoga classes and finan-
cial advisers, but also cut the rate
from 6 percent to 5 percent,
lower than neighboring Virginia
and Pennsylvania.
The tax would generate
$2.6 billion a year by 2025 — a
50 percent increase over current
sales tax revenue — that would
be spent on improving public
schools.
It would not apply to educa-
tion services, health care or ser-
vices provided by nonprofit or
civic organizations.
“maryland’s sales tax is anti-
quated,” said House majority
Leader Eric G. Luedtke (D-mont-
gomery), who sponsored the bill.
“We tax goods and not services,
and the economy is on services.”
An August report on state
revenue described the growth of
maryland’s sales and use tax as
“generally weak” and recom-
mended broadening it to include
services.
But the National Conference
of State Legislatures said only
four other states broadly tax
services. many states have at-
tempted to do so but failed,
researchers with the organiza-
tion said.
Luedtke said the tax would
generate enough to pay the bal-
ance needed for a landmark
education bill that calls for ex-
panding prekindergarten for 3-
and 4-year-olds, increasing
teacher training and salaries,
funding grants for schools with a
high percentage o f students from
poor families and boosting mon-
ey for special education.
The overhaul is the top priori-
ty for Democrats, who hold veto-
proof majorities in both cham-
bers of the legislature.
The sales-tax expansion is just
maryland from B1
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