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Early education summit features well-known speaker
\"Our goal is to educate the community about the importance of early childhood issues,\" said Carrie Theall, executive director of the Alamance Partnership for Children. \"That's when 90 percent of brain development occurs. Unfortunately that's not when you see a lot of funding on childhood programs.\" \"We've had a lot of people come around to early childhood education in the past year,\" Theall said. \"It's really exciting.\" [Regina Calcaterra] wrote \"Etched in Sand,\" a memoir of her childhood with an abusive mother, and how she and her four siblings got through it and the foster care system. She grew up to become an attorney working for the state of New York. Her memoir spent 16 weeks on the New York Times Bestsellers List.
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Exercise in frustration Members rage over meddling as Cuomo's ethics panel dies
Albany thought that would be that. But last week, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara asked the commission to turn over its files so that he could see whether further investigations need to be pursued. He also delivered a swipe at [Cuomo]. \"Nine months may be the proper and natural gestation period for a child, but in our experience not the amount of time necessary for a public corruption prosecution to mature,\" Bharara said. The commission formed to root out corruption in state government was often divided, with the investigators on one side and Cuomo's $175,000-a-year executive director Regina Calcaterra on the other. \"There was no trust there,\" said the first commission source. \"It was pretty widely understood that anything Regina Calcaterra knew, it would immediately be on the desks of (top Cuomo aides Larry Schwartz and Mylan Denerstein).\" Denerstein was described as \"measured\" but Schwartz as aggressive. \"I heard the word 'bully' mentioned more than once,\" said the source. The panel's zeal to investigate was repeatedly curbed by the governor's office, the source said. The commission wanted to subpoena prior ethics complaints from its ineffectual predecessor, the Legislative Ethics Commission, but was ordered not to, sources said.
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The Alamance Scene: Book sale continues
The Alamance Partnership for Children and the Alamance Alliance for Children and Families are among the hosts for an Early Education Summit on April 14 at Elon University. The keynote speaker is Regina Calcaterra, best-selling author of \"Etched in Sand.\" The deadline to register is April 1. The event is from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Lakeside Hall in the Moseley Center at Elon and lunch will be served.
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Local support for early childhood education evident at summit
\"Our future depends on that,\" said Leo Lambert, Elon University president, in his comments to the summit. \"We all know that our economic future, the future of our democracy depends on an educated citizenry.\" \"It's becoming more of a discussion in the community,\" [Carrie Theall] said. \"We don't have to sell it as hard as we did 20 years ago; people are taking this period in a child's life more seriously.\" [Cindy Watkins], who also helped found Smart Start in Alamance County as executive director of the Alamance Partnership for Children, told the summit she was a first-grade teacher early in her career, and could predict, \"with 90 percent certainty\" which students would drop out because she knew \"where these kids came from.\"
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Break-ing mad: Shel ally's fury
ALBANY - Assemblyman Keith Wright is furious at Speaker Sheldon Silver for dragging him into a controversy - now the subject of an investigation - over tax breaks quietly awarded to five city developers. Wright, chairman of the Assembly Housing Committee, was the prime sponsor of the bill that passed in January. The Manhattan Democrat inherited the bill after he replaced previous committee chairman Vito Lopez, who was removed by Silver last August amid a sexual harassment scandal that ultimately ended Lopez's Assembly career.
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Dem duo's a 'joke': top DA
ALBANY - The new head of the state district attorneys association has called the candidacies of fellow Democrats Anthony Weiner and Eliot Spitzer \"a joke.\" \"Weiner is incapable of telling the truth; Spitzer broke the law and was never held accountable for it - and now both of them are asking for the public to trust them again,\" Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice told the Daily News. Weiner, who is running for mayor, lied several times about a sexting scandal that caused him to quit Congress in 2011. Spitzer, who is running for city controller, resigned as governor in 2008 amid a prostitution scandal. He was not prosecuted. \"I think that Spitzer and Weiner are a joke,\" said Rice, whose office has aggressively gone after johns.
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