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several allegations of corruption and an
extra-marital affair.
Current Snohomish County Executive
John Lovick – formerly county sheriff but
appointed to the executive job last year in
the wake of Reardon’s resignation – wiped
tears from his eyes at a Monday press con-
ference on the disaster site.
Despite his own stormy tenure as sheriff –
some five lawsuits are pending over deaths
‘I can’t stand there and say ‘I know how you
feel,’ because I truly don’t know how they feel.’
Brown was appointed to the FEMA post
by President Bush after being driven out of
his previous position – and forced to buy
out his employment contract — as Judges
and Stewards Commissioner for the Interna-
tional Arabian Horse Association.
When the Times singled out Pennington
for scrutiny regarding his lack of emergency
management experience in 2005, members
of Congress were calling for federal regula-
tions requiring emergency managers to have
a track record in the field, rather than allow-
ing such positions as “political patronage.”
Pennington was appointed by former Sno-
homish County Executive Aaron Reardon,
himself driven out of office last year over
in custody at the county jail – Lovick has
been seen as the right man to bring stability
to county government.
He is running for election to the post this
May.
Lovick told KIRO reporter Dori Monson
this week that the devastation is over-
whelming.
“I had a gentleman walk up to me and tell
me his 13-year-old son is missing and I had
a lady tell me her entire family is missing.
You know me, I’m a family man, I have
youngsters,” Lovick told Monson. “The fact
of the matter is I can’t tell them anything
and I can’t stand there and say ‘I know how
you feel,’ because I truly don’t know how
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a Republican state legislator with a college
degree from a mail-in correspondence
course that the newspaper’s sources
described as a “diploma mill.”
The newspaper compared Pennington’s
experience with that of former U.S. Under-
secretary of Emergency Preparedness and
Response Director Michael Brown, widely
criticized for his inadequate response to the
Hurricane Katrina disaster.
Current Snohomish County Executive John Lovick wiped tears from his eyes at
a Monday press conference on the disaster site.
they feel. This has never happened to me nomah County in Oregon – the “action
and all we can do is do what we are all plan” does not include tips or resources for
how global warming impacts residents in
doing - hope and pray for them.”
Experts report that increases in warm, their homes.
Meteorologists report that March rainfall
winter rain due to global warming trends
mean more landslides are likely in the in the Snohomish County town of Everett is
future for Washington State – already a currently at more than 250 percent of nor-
mal.
landslide-prone area.
For more information on the county’s dis-
Snohomish County last year established a
response
go
to
“Sustainable Operations Management Plan” aster
www.snohomishcountywa.gov.
to reduce greenhouse emissions.
However – unlike King County and Mult-
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Quarter Center in Portland.
Now Curry looks at health with a deeper
perspective. She said she eats more fruit and
exercises regularly, though vegetables will
take a bit more work. “If I could teach oth-
ers, I would emphasize how important
kidneys are,” Curry said. “I would show
them how food and alcohol affects their
bodies.”
Curry’s determination has carried her suc-
cessfully through her academic life at De La
Salle North. As a recipient of the 2014 Fam-
ily Care Scholarship for academic
excellence and community service awarded
at The Skanner’s Martin Luther King Jr.
Day Breakfast in January, Curry reflects the
emphasis placed on student success at the
school.
earn 75 percent or less of Portland’s median
income and are on average 1.5 years behind
their peers in reading in math. By the time
‘But seeing those machines and finding out how
people have to manage with dialysis, I decided
how to eat better and watch myself.’
De La Salle North prepares youth for col-
lege
who
experience
challenges
economically, socially and academically.
The private school accepts families who
De La Salle North students graduate, 95
percent are accepted into college and
already have a work portfolio for interning
a day each week during their time at the
school. De La Salle North students intern
with more than 100 Portland area corpora-
tions, institutions and agencies.
During spring break, Curry senior will
visit Xavier University of Louisiana in New
Orleans where she plans to study in the fall.
For Curry being a nurse is a way to rein-
force what she’s learned. “I want to help
people,” said Dayja, who plans to return to
Portland after college. “I want to help those
in disadvantaged communities. And, I want
to give back to where I came from.”
For more info go to www.MIKEpro-
gram.org
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talking not only about Troy’s case,
reading from the book “I Am Troy
Davis” and talking about the
Davis’s family two-decade strug-
gle to prove Troy’s innocence, but
we will also be talking about how
Troy’s case is so emblematic of
what is broken about our death
penalty system, and the criminal
justice system as a whole.
TSN: Is there any sense of how
many incarcerated people are right
now in the same position as Troy
Davis?
Marlowe: We don’t know how
many innocent people are current-
ly on Death Row, nor do we know
how many innocent people are
incarcerated not on Death Row,
though. What we do know is this:
There are 144 individuals who
have been exonerated from Death
Row, the most recent exonoree
having spent 30 years there for a
crime he did not commit. There
are thousands more who have
been exonerated who were wrong-
fully convicted and imprisoned,
though not on Death Row. And,
we know for a near certainty that
we have killed other innocent pris-
oners aside from Troy, in the name
of “justice.”
TSN: Can you talk a little about
Martina Davis Correia? What do
you feel is her legacy?
old son to raise and a brother to
get off of death row, she decided
that dying was not an option, so
she fought fiercely for her own life
so that she could continue to fight
for her brother, and raise her son.
When Troy’s fourth (and final)
execution date was set, Martina
(whose health had been declining
‘Troy’s case is so emblematic of what
is broken about our death penalty
system, and the criminal justice
system as a whole’
Marlowe: Martina Davis-Cor-
reia was a warrior for justice and a
warrior for human rights. For two
decades she fought for her broth-
er’s life, and one of those decades
she was fighting for her own life
as well. Martina had been diag-
nosed with Stage IV breast cancer
in 2001 and was given 6 months to
live. At that point, with a six-year-
precipitously in the last months)
all but busted out of the hospital in
order to be there with and for Troy
in what were his final days.
I stood with Martina on Sept. 21,
2011, on the grounds of the prison
in Jackson, Ga., as the state of
Georgia killed Troy. Soon after,
the U.S. Supreme Court declined
to hear Troy’s final petition, mean-
ing the execution would begin,
effective immediately.
I saw Martina (who was too
weak to walk and was sitting in a
wheelchair) talking to a young
woman. Martina then called over
Laura Moye, the Amnesty USA
Death Penalty Abolition Cam-
paign director, and introduced her
to the young woman. This young
woman had driven all the way
from San Francisco in order to be
there with Troy’s supporters.
Martina wanted Laura to con-
nect this young woman with the
death penalty repeal activists in
California, and help her get
plugged into the struggle.
Scott Langley (a human rights
photojournalist) took a snapshot of
Martina introducing the young
woman to Laura. The time of the
picture was 11:08 p.m.
Only later did we learn that
11:08 p.m. was the precise time of
Troy’s death, the moment he suc-
cumbed to lethal injection.
What was Martina doing the
moment that Troy died? She was
recruiting another activist. She
was enlisting another solider in the
struggle to bring down the system
that killed her brother.
That was the essence of Martina
Davis-Correia.
Marlowe and Kimberly Davis
appear as follows: Seattle, Tues-
day, April 8, 6 p.m. at the
Woodland Park Presbyterian
Church, 225 N 70th St.; in
Olympia on Wednesday, April 9, 3
p.m. at the Evergreen Communi-
cations Building Recital Hall,
2749 McCann Plaza NW, and
again at 7 p.m. at Orca Books, 509
E. 4th Ave.; and Portland, in con-
junction with the NAACP, on
Thursday, April 10, First United
Methodist Church Fireside Room,
1838 SW Jefferson St.
For more information on the “I
Am Troy Davis” tour — and Mar-
lowe’s other work on Darfur and
Bahrain — go to www.donkeysad-
dle.org and click through ‘I Am
Troy Davis’ links.
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