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INSIDE TODAY
COMING SUNDAY
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Vol. 114, No. 171 /16 pages, 3 sections
Saturday, January 20, 2018
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Denton, Texas
Blame flies as government shuts down
determined, and since the shutdown
began at the start of a weekend, many of
the immediate effects will be muted for
most Americans.
Still, it comes with no shortage of
embarrassment for the president and
political risk for both parties, as they
wager that voters will punish the other
at the ballot box in November.
Social Security and most other safety
net programs are unaffected by the
lapse in federal spending authority.
Critical government functions will con-
tinue, with uniformed service mem-
bers, health inspectors and law enforce-
ment officers set to work without pay.
But if no deal is brokered before Mon-
day, hundreds of thousands of federal
employees will be furloughed.
After hours of closed-door meetings
and phone calls, the Senate scheduled
Senate vote falters,
but party leaders say
they’ll keep talking
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and Alan Fram
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The federal gov-
ernment shut down at the stroke of
midnight Friday halting all but the
most essential operations and marring
the one-year anniversary of President
Donald Trump’s inauguration in a strik-
ing display of Washington dysfunction.
Last-minute negotiations crumbled
as Senate Democrats blocked a four-
week stopgap extension in a late-night
vote, causing the fourth government
shutdown in a quarter century. The
slide toward closure lacked for high
drama: The Senate vote was all but pre-
Members of the
media swarm
Office of Man-
agement and
Budget Director
Mick Mulvaney
as he talks
about a possible
government
shutdown late
Friday at the
White House in
Washington,
D.C.
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Schools
say state
handed
down cap
A growing
danger
Addiction
recovery
advocate Tim
Ryan talks
about his
own recovery
process and
the national
opioid crisis
Thursday at
Liberty Chris-
tian School in
Argyle.
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as national opioid crisis hits close to home
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Local districts react
to feds' findings on
special ed programs
governor's response
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By Caitlyn Jones
Staff Writer
cjo7ies@,denton rc. com
When Gov. Greg Abbott said Texas
school districts were derelict when it
came to serving special education stu-
dents, it struck a chord with local school
officials,
“As an educator, it’s discouraging
that those in power cast blame on pub-
lic education when those regulations
came down from state agencies,” said
Krum ISD Superintendent Cody Car-
roll. “They weren’t local, they were
handed down. All were doing is adher-
ing to the rules that are in place.”
Abbott’s comments in a directive to
Texas Education Commissioner Mike
Morath come on the heels of a 15-
month U.S. Department of Education
investigation that came to a close last
week.
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The monitoring report found that
Texas had violated federal law by plac-
ing an apparent cap on the number of
special education students a school dis-
trict could serve. The Individuals with
Disabilities Education Act requires
school districts to provide free and ap-
propriate services to every student with
a disability.
Since the Texas Education Agency
placed a benchmark of 8.5 percent en-
rollment for special education services
in 2004, some schools interpreted that
number as a limit and feared they
would be penalized by the agency in
their accountability ratings if their per-
centages exceeded the benchmark.
A 2016 Houston Chronicle investi-
gation found that the perceived cap
caused Texas enrollment to drop by 32
percent over a decade despite a 16 per-
cent increase in the number of U.S. chil-
dren diagnosed with a disability. The
seven-part series revealed that if school
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Patty Milam, shown at her home in Argyle, lost her 23-year-old son Aaron to a heroin overdose last year. She wants to raise awareness about
addiction. “This disease can strike any family,” she says. “It doesn’t matter if you’re poor, wealthy, white, black, purple, green — it crosses all
lines.”
ent neighborhood in Argyle, specifically wants
people to know opioid addiction doesn’t discrim-
inate between racial groups or social classes. It’s a
national crisis because it’s not relegated to the
downtrodden. It affects people all over Denton
County, where local police grapple with drug traf-
ficking and 29 people died from an opioid over-
dose in 2017.
‘Addicts are people of value,” Patty Milam said.
“They don’t want to be addicts. They need help
and we need to quit stigmatizing them. ... This
disease can strike any family It doesn’t matter if
you’re poor, wealthy white, black, purple, green —
By Julian Gill
Staff Writer
jgill@ denton7x.com
Patty Milam doesn’t hide behind the death of
her 23-year-old son Aaron.
She openly shares his story — one of a young
man who for years battled a heroin addiction until
it took his life in May 2017. She tells people his
addiction, like that of many others around the
country, thr ived in darkness. And she’s since ded-
icated much of her life to spreading awareness of
heroin abuse in her community
Milam, who lives with her husband in an afflu-
it crosses all lines.”
Opioids include prescription pain pills as well
as the highly addictive drug heroin, which has
become available in exponentially larger quanti-
ties across the United States since as far back as
2007, according to data from the Drug Enforce-
ment Administration. Eleven of the 21DEA field
offices in the country ranked heroin as their top
drug threat in 2016. Additionally, 44 percent of
people who responded to a survey last year said
heroin was the greatest drug threat in their area,
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Tom Petty died last year
because of an accidental
drug overdose that his
family said occurred on
the same day he found
out his hip was broken.
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A federal judge
ordered Texas to
Conservative Catholics
questioned the legitima-
cy of an impromptu
marriage ceremony
performed by the pope
in a plane above Chile.
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Low: 46
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