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As a doctoral student at WSU, Hopkins perfected a system of freezing and thawing bee semen for use in artificial insemination. \u003ccite>(Shelly Hanks/Courtesy of Washington State University)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The imported semen has restacked the deck. WSU’s crossbred honeybees already test positive at a higher level of genetic diversity than the first queens tested in 1994. “This doesn’t mean they are superior in performance to the other bees,” Hopkins says. “It means we have a better chance of finding rare and unique traits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It used to be that honeybee breeders selected for bees that produced more honey, grew more populous hives, and were gentler to handle. Now, they want honeybees that can resist varroa. Without it, beekeepers must rely on costly “miticide” treatments to control varroa\u003cstrong>. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, studies suggest the mites are developing resistance to pesticides and the chemicals may be harming honeybees, compounding the problem of widespread bee deaths known as Colony Collapse Disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I lost 40 percent of my colonies to varroa last fall,” says Matthew Shakespear, whose company, Olson’s Honeybees, raises 16,000 hives in central Washington. “I’m not taking any more chances. We’ve already done five treatments, compared with the two treatments we applied this time last year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>A problem that blooms in almond orchards\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Pollination services like Olson’s Honeybees are the cornerstone of a $15 billion segment of U.S. agriculture. A hefty share of that is the almond industry, whose trees are completely reliant on honeybees for pollination. It’s also the industry most susceptible to fallout from the varroa epidemic in bees: California’s almond groves serve as an incubator for the growth and spread of varroa mites across the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are 800,000 acres of almonds in California,” says Patrick Heitkam, owner of Heitkam’s Honey Bees in Orland, Calif. “It takes two hives to pollinate one acre, so that’s a need for 1.6 million hives. There are only 500,000 hives in the state, so the rest are trucked in from around the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almond trees bloom in January, a time of the year when most honeybee varieties are dormant in their hives. But an Italian species of honeybee, \u003cem>Apis mellifera linguistica\u003c/em>, which evolved in the warm Mediterranean climate, is active when the first almond blossom pops in late-January, making them the most popular variety in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trouble is, Italian honeybees are extremely susceptible to varroa mites, because their hives grow so big, so fast and so early.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Italian honeybees rear their babies and varroa mites nearly one-for-one,” says Dr. Robert Danka, a research entomologist at the USDA’s Honey Bee Breeding, Genetics and Physiology Research Unit in Baton Rouge, La.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Lessons from mighty Russian stingers\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Like the WSU team, Danka has also looked to the Old World for an answer to varroa mites. Between 1994 and 2000, he traveled to the Russian far east, where a local honeybee, \u003cem>Apis mellifera\u003c/em>, has developed resistance to varroa. They are descended from European honeybees brought by Russian settlers traveling the Trans-Siberian Railway at the turn of the 20th century. The journey inadvertently transplanted the honeybees into the native range of varroa mites in east Asia, where they evolved resistance to the pest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These Russian bees groom themselves, biting and crushing the mites. They also have a prevalent genetic trait called \u003ca href=\"http://www.beeculture.com/breeding-mite-biting-bees-to-control-varroa/\">varroa sensitive hygiene\u003c/a> (VSH), aborting larval honeybees infested with mites and removing them from the hive before the parasite can spread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Danka brought back 360 queens, the basis for what is now a robust Russian honeybee population in the United States. While their prowess as mite biters continues, Russian honeybees haven’t proven up to task as commercial pollinators. The queens are used to long Russian winters, so they are slow at building up their hives, meaning only a small number are ready to fly in the almond groves come January.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Survival of the fittest bees\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Still, Danka says the Russian honeybee offers proof that a European subspecies can develop varroa mite resistance through natural selection. That evolutionary process is interrupted in commercial beehives, because of the “prophylactic use of miticides,” Danka says. “We’re maintaining varroa-susceptible bees through chemistry. If we took away all those pesticide treatments – and to be clear, I’m not advocating for this – the results would be horrific. But in a rather short period of time, only varroa-resistant bees would be left.” And those bees could be the basis of a new population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matthew Shakespear, the commercial honeybee keeper in Yakima, Wash., would rather not spend money treating his hives for varroa mites. Starting last year, he diversified his business to include hives of Carniolan honeybees, \u003cem>Apis mellifera carnica\u003c/em>, a subspecies native to Eastern Europe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The queens he bought were the great-great-great granddaughters of a honeybee drone that Susan Cobey found in the mountains of Slovenia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe these new genetics can deal with the varroa mites naturally, rather than having to rely on chemicals,” Shakespear says. “It’s time to start widening our gene pool.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ryantbell.com\">\u003cem>Ryan Bell\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> is a journalist based in Washington State. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor’s note: This story is for mature bees only.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seducing a honeybee drone—one of the males in a colony whose only job is to mate with the queen—is not too difficult. They don’t have stingers, so you just pick one up. Apply a little pressure to the abdomen and the drone gets randy, blood rushing to his endophallus, bringing him to climax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re really accommodating,” says Susan Cobey, a honeybee breeder on Whidbey Island, Wash. “One ejaculate is about 1 microliter, and it takes 10 microliters to artificially inseminate a queen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Since 2008, Cobey has done her share of bee abdomen rubbing as part of a research team from Washington State University traveling through Europe and Asia. They’ve collected sperm from native honeybees in Italy, Slovenia, Germany, Kazakhstan and the Republic of Georgia – countries where honeybees have favorable genetic traits, like resistance to the \u003ca href=\"http://articles.extension.org/pages/71172/honey-bee-viruses-the-deadly-varroa-mite-associates\">varroa mite\u003c/a>. The deadly parasite has been cited as a major factor in bee deaths, along with genetics, poor nutrition and pesticide exposure, according to a major \u003ca href=\"https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2013/05/02/usda-and-epa-release-new-report-honey-bee-health\">report from the USDA and EPA\u003c/a> in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Varroa mites are an invasive parasite from Asia that sucks hemolymph (bee blood) from adult and larval honeybees, weakening their immune systems and transmitting \u003ca href=\"http://articles.extension.org/pages/71172/honey-bee-viruses-the-deadly-varroa-mite-associates\">deadly pathogens\u003c/a>, like bent wing virus. If left untreated, a varroa infestation can kill a colony in one year. First detected on U.S. soil in 1987, varroa has spread quickly, infesting upwards of 50 percent of American hives. Last year, 33 percent of U.S. honeybee hives died. That’s troubling for the plight of honeybees and U.S. agriculture, which relies on pollinators to produce\u003ca href=\"https://www.nrdc.org/sites/default/files/bees.pdf\"> one-third of the food we eat\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>The buzz on American bees: too much inbreeding\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>According to the WSU research team, the root cause of the U.S. honeybees’ vulnerability to varroa is a dwindling gene pool that has left them short on genetic traits that help honeybees resist varroa elsewhere in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honeybees aren’t native to America,” Cobey says. “We brought them here. But the U.S. closed its borders to live honeybee imports in 1922, and our honeybee population has been interbreeding ever since.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>WSU has monitored the genetic diversity of honeybee queens in Washington and California since 1994, showing a steady decline. Dr. Brandon Hopkins, the team’s expert in freezing and thawing bee sperm, likens honeybee breeding to a poker game played with an incomplete deck of cards. “There’s no way to get a four-of-a-kind if there aren’t four aces in the deck,” Hopkins says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1838831\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/02_bees_hopkins_custom-5e2379eb06d3debd2668aabc5a5def3a1fac5490.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1838831\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/02_bees_hopkins_custom-5e2379eb06d3debd2668aabc5a5def3a1fac5490-800x522.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/02_bees_hopkins_custom-5e2379eb06d3debd2668aabc5a5def3a1fac5490-800x522.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/02_bees_hopkins_custom-5e2379eb06d3debd2668aabc5a5def3a1fac5490-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/02_bees_hopkins_custom-5e2379eb06d3debd2668aabc5a5def3a1fac5490-768x501.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/02_bees_hopkins_custom-5e2379eb06d3debd2668aabc5a5def3a1fac5490-1020x665.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/02_bees_hopkins_custom-5e2379eb06d3debd2668aabc5a5def3a1fac5490-1920x1252.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/02_bees_hopkins_custom-5e2379eb06d3debd2668aabc5a5def3a1fac5490-1180x769.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/02_bees_hopkins_custom-5e2379eb06d3debd2668aabc5a5def3a1fac5490-960x626.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/02_bees_hopkins_custom-5e2379eb06d3debd2668aabc5a5def3a1fac5490-240x156.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/02_bees_hopkins_custom-5e2379eb06d3debd2668aabc5a5def3a1fac5490-375x245.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/02_bees_hopkins_custom-5e2379eb06d3debd2668aabc5a5def3a1fac5490-520x339.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/02_bees_hopkins_custom-5e2379eb06d3debd2668aabc5a5def3a1fac5490.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brandon Hopkins, a cryopreservation specialist, works in Washington State University’s fruit tree orchard in Pullman, Wash. As a doctoral student at WSU, Hopkins perfected a system of freezing and thawing bee semen for use in artificial insemination. \u003ccite>(Shelly Hanks/Courtesy of Washington State University)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The imported semen has restacked the deck. WSU’s crossbred honeybees already test positive at a higher level of genetic diversity than the first queens tested in 1994. “This doesn’t mean they are superior in performance to the other bees,” Hopkins says. “It means we have a better chance of finding rare and unique traits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It used to be that honeybee breeders selected for bees that produced more honey, grew more populous hives, and were gentler to handle. Now, they want honeybees that can resist varroa. Without it, beekeepers must rely on costly “miticide” treatments to control varroa\u003cstrong>. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, studies suggest the mites are developing resistance to pesticides and the chemicals may be harming honeybees, compounding the problem of widespread bee deaths known as Colony Collapse Disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I lost 40 percent of my colonies to varroa last fall,” says Matthew Shakespear, whose company, Olson’s Honeybees, raises 16,000 hives in central Washington. “I’m not taking any more chances. We’ve already done five treatments, compared with the two treatments we applied this time last year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>A problem that blooms in almond orchards\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Pollination services like Olson’s Honeybees are the cornerstone of a $15 billion segment of U.S. agriculture. A hefty share of that is the almond industry, whose trees are completely reliant on honeybees for pollination. It’s also the industry most susceptible to fallout from the varroa epidemic in bees: California’s almond groves serve as an incubator for the growth and spread of varroa mites across the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are 800,000 acres of almonds in California,” says Patrick Heitkam, owner of Heitkam’s Honey Bees in Orland, Calif. “It takes two hives to pollinate one acre, so that’s a need for 1.6 million hives. There are only 500,000 hives in the state, so the rest are trucked in from around the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almond trees bloom in January, a time of the year when most honeybee varieties are dormant in their hives. But an Italian species of honeybee, \u003cem>Apis mellifera linguistica\u003c/em>, which evolved in the warm Mediterranean climate, is active when the first almond blossom pops in late-January, making them the most popular variety in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trouble is, Italian honeybees are extremely susceptible to varroa mites, because their hives grow so big, so fast and so early.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Italian honeybees rear their babies and varroa mites nearly one-for-one,” says Dr. Robert Danka, a research entomologist at the USDA’s Honey Bee Breeding, Genetics and Physiology Research Unit in Baton Rouge, La.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Lessons from mighty Russian stingers\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Like the WSU team, Danka has also looked to the Old World for an answer to varroa mites. Between 1994 and 2000, he traveled to the Russian far east, where a local honeybee, \u003cem>Apis mellifera\u003c/em>, has developed resistance to varroa. They are descended from European honeybees brought by Russian settlers traveling the Trans-Siberian Railway at the turn of the 20th century. The journey inadvertently transplanted the honeybees into the native range of varroa mites in east Asia, where they evolved resistance to the pest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These Russian bees groom themselves, biting and crushing the mites. They also have a prevalent genetic trait called \u003ca href=\"http://www.beeculture.com/breeding-mite-biting-bees-to-control-varroa/\">varroa sensitive hygiene\u003c/a> (VSH), aborting larval honeybees infested with mites and removing them from the hive before the parasite can spread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Danka brought back 360 queens, the basis for what is now a robust Russian honeybee population in the United States. While their prowess as mite biters continues, Russian honeybees haven’t proven up to task as commercial pollinators. The queens are used to long Russian winters, so they are slow at building up their hives, meaning only a small number are ready to fly in the almond groves come January.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Survival of the fittest bees\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Still, Danka says the Russian honeybee offers proof that a European subspecies can develop varroa mite resistance through natural selection. That evolutionary process is interrupted in commercial beehives, because of the “prophylactic use of miticides,” Danka says. “We’re maintaining varroa-susceptible bees through chemistry. If we took away all those pesticide treatments – and to be clear, I’m not advocating for this – the results would be horrific. 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"content": "\u003cp>Two years ago, near the end of California's devastating drought, Tom Moore stood on the banks of the depleted Kern River in Southern California and looked out at the slow-moving waters dejectedly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We call that a creek,\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2015/04/03/397325268/californias-ongoing-drought-hits-water-recreation-businesses\">he said of the mighty Kern\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore is the owner of Sierra South, a whitewater recreation company in Kernville. And with the drought, there wasn't much in the way of whitewater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oh, how things change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A wet winter and near-record snowpack have left the Sierra Nevada buried in a deep, lingering snow; \u003ca href=\"http://freeskier.com/stories/go-skiing-in-california-fourth-of-july\">ski resorts\u003c/a> in Northern California are still open. But as temperatures have risen, melting some of that snow, so too have the state's waterways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is not a creek,\" Moore says, looking out at the Kern River on a recent hot summer day. \"This is a raging river.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/NathanRott/status/880253349295120388\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The change in the water's behavior has been good for Moore and whitewater sports enthusiasts -- professional kayakers are flocking to the Kern. But it's also proved dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kern River has claimed the lives of eight people since March. The Los Angeles Times \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-kern-river-4th-july-20170705-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reports\u003c/a> that over the long holiday weekend, one more person died and two others went missing. And on Saturday, crews pulled out the body of a swimmer lost to the raging waters more than a week earlier. That body was identified as belonging to Michael Ramirez, a member of the Orange County underground hip-hop group Rebellion Warfare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emergency workers worry there will be more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is not the same river [people] may have visited last year,\" says Sgt. Zack Bittle, with Kern County Search and Rescue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/534877196/535348114\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The water is 10 times stronger than it was a year ago, Bittle says. Riverbanks are less stable. Vegetation and brush that had grown on low shorelines during the drought are now submerged, creating invisible, underwater hazards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I can't recommend going in the river this year. It's just insane,\" Bittle says. He adds that if you must go in the water, to be sure to take an expert guide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The power of the Kern River is partly due to geography. The Kern River draws its waters from the base of Mount Whitney, the highest point in the continental U.S., more than 2 miles above sea level. From there, the snowmelt races down narrow canyons and chutes, past Kernville, to the flat, flax-colored floor of the Central Valley below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The drop in elevation and surrounding geology give the Kern River oomph.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/NathanRott/status/879878082366132224\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the issues with snowmelt aren't unique to Kern this year. Up and down the Sierra Nevada, waterways are flooding with snowmelt. Further up California's Central Valley, \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-kings-river-flooding-snowpack-20170626-story.html\">homeowners were evacuated\u003c/a> when the King River breached the riverbank. Reservoirs are near full.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compounding matters is the fact that water officials aren't entirely sure how much snow there is left to melt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we noticed during the heat wave is that the area of snow that is still covered up there didn't really reduce from one extent to the other,\" says David Rizzardo, of California's Department of Water Resources. \"There was just an incredible amount of depth. 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The concern water officials have is that this could become the new normal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of the worries with climate change is that we see extremes more often,\" Rizzardo says. \"And the extremes are even more extreme than we've seen in the past.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whitewater recreation companies like Moore's firm are well aware of the unpredictability. They're booking rafting trips and padding their wallets for possible thin years ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"MYgvjGDQuqXyRnkNnGiDjrmWeeImTpX3\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some customers have been scared off by the recent deaths and the river's strength.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olivia Vantol is not one of them. The San Diego native is smiling as she hops off a raft and wades up to the shadowed banks of the Kern River on a recent day. 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"content": "\u003cp>For a first-time visitor, Anderson Street in Los Angeles' Boyle Heights neighborhood looks pretty gritty and industrial: old brick workshops, small factories and a steady rumble of delivery trucks driving by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But step inside some of the old, soot-stained buildings and you're in a world of high-end art, with paintings worth thousands of dollars on the walls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last couple of years, about a dozen art galleries have moved to vacant industrial spaces on and around Anderson Street to escape escalating rents in other parts of the city. Their arrival in the largely Latino neighborhood has angered some residents and neighborhood activists. With about a third of its 90,000 residents living below the poverty line, they argue the community has more important needs than art galleries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/534443389/534516212\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A laundromat, a homeless shelter, affordable housing for people who make less than $20,000 a year, maybe get some parks, and some gardens, \" says Leonardo Vilchis, who is executive director of Union de Vecinos, a Boyle Heights nonprofit that represents low-income residents in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vilchis fears the art galleries on Anderson Street could represent just the first wave of gentrification in Boyle Heights, a wave that could force longtime residents out as other businesses arrive and rents rise in their wake. Some observers have dubbed this connection between art and gentrification \"art washing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Put in an art gallery with paintings that cost tens of thousands of dollars and the audience that comes to this place starts looking for other kinds of amenities,\" says Vilchis. \"They look for the brewery, for the coffee shop, for the place to hang out. All of those things increase the cost and the value of the local neighborhood.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11535651\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11535651\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/dsc09213-dc9c625c760ce4d1667c335db0d34177ae02c896-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Leonardo Vilchis is executive director of Union de Vecinos, a Boyle Heights nonprofit that represents low-income residents. 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And anti-gentrification activists are using some of that same energy in a campaign to force the galleries to leave Boyle Heights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their tactics include protests in front of the galleries and the posting of mock eviction notices on the businesses' doors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One group has even posted flyers showing a human skull in gun sights and the words \"Boyle Heights is not safe for hipster trash.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11535669\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11535669\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/dsc09296_wide-fae9b53a5c7671298c1f544cb89011f244c890aa-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters posted these flyers around Boyle Heights.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/dsc09296_wide-fae9b53a5c7671298c1f544cb89011f244c890aa-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/dsc09296_wide-fae9b53a5c7671298c1f544cb89011f244c890aa-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/dsc09296_wide-fae9b53a5c7671298c1f544cb89011f244c890aa-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/dsc09296_wide-fae9b53a5c7671298c1f544cb89011f244c890aa-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/dsc09296_wide-fae9b53a5c7671298c1f544cb89011f244c890aa-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/dsc09296_wide-fae9b53a5c7671298c1f544cb89011f244c890aa-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/dsc09296_wide-fae9b53a5c7671298c1f544cb89011f244c890aa-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/dsc09296_wide-fae9b53a5c7671298c1f544cb89011f244c890aa-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/dsc09296_wide-fae9b53a5c7671298c1f544cb89011f244c890aa-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters posted these flyers around Boyle Heights. \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/KCRW)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last year, the door of a gallery was graffiti-tagged with the words \"F*** White Art.\" That prompted an ongoing hate crime investigation by the Los Angeles Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vilchis doesn't apologize for these actions, saying that they're the only way Boyle Heights' poor and working-class residents can get attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also likens the presence of galleries in the neighborhood to a kind of cancer and believes compromise is impossible, even with gallery owners who say they want to help the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"\u003c/em>What you need to do with cancer is you've got to do surgery, right?\" says Vilchis.\"You need to start killing the cells that are creating the cancer. So to say, 'OK, I'm a cancer cell, but I want to be good,' doesn't change the fact that you're a cancer cell. You need to move out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And how are the gallery owners reacting to such tough talk?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not intimidating,\" says Mihai Nicodim, owner of the gallery that was graffiti-tagged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11535638\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11535638\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/dsc09734_wide-ae920878b95fca4f73c5650de2a7bc600fd2a851-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Anti-gentrification activists staged a protest outside Weird Wave Coffee Brewers recently, chanting 'Weird Cafe has got to go.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anti-gentrification activists staged a protest outside Weird Wave Coffee Brewers recently, chanting 'Weird Cafe has got to go.' \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/KCRW)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nicodim opened his Boyle Heights Gallery in 2015, but he's a longtime figure in the L.A. arts scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm not going anywhere,\" Nicodim says.\" I've been here in the downtown area for the last 25 years, I'm not going to go away because someone tells me to just go, you know? I'm home.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But gallery opponents recently scored their first victory. Citing persistent harassment and trolling, one art space in Boyle Heights closed this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To celebrate its closure, Vilchis and his fellow anti-gallery activists held a party in front of the building, complete with a mariachi group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the battle for Boyle Heights continues, gallery owner Eva Chimento is already thinking about her own long-term future in the neighborhood. But she says it has more to do with escalating costs than protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Well, when my lease is up, I may be moving, too,\" Chimento says. \"I might not be able to afford the rent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>You can follow Saul Gonzalez on Twitter at \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SaulKCRW?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\">@SaulKCRW\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2017 KCRW. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For a first-time visitor, Anderson Street in Los Angeles' Boyle Heights neighborhood looks pretty gritty and industrial: old brick workshops, small factories and a steady rumble of delivery trucks driving by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But step inside some of the old, soot-stained buildings and you're in a world of high-end art, with paintings worth thousands of dollars on the walls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last couple of years, about a dozen art galleries have moved to vacant industrial spaces on and around Anderson Street to escape escalating rents in other parts of the city. Their arrival in the largely Latino neighborhood has angered some residents and neighborhood activists. With about a third of its 90,000 residents living below the poverty line, they argue the community has more important needs than art galleries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/534443389/534516212\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A laundromat, a homeless shelter, affordable housing for people who make less than $20,000 a year, maybe get some parks, and some gardens, \" says Leonardo Vilchis, who is executive director of Union de Vecinos, a Boyle Heights nonprofit that represents low-income residents in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vilchis fears the art galleries on Anderson Street could represent just the first wave of gentrification in Boyle Heights, a wave that could force longtime residents out as other businesses arrive and rents rise in their wake. Some observers have dubbed this connection between art and gentrification \"art washing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Put in an art gallery with paintings that cost tens of thousands of dollars and the audience that comes to this place starts looking for other kinds of amenities,\" says Vilchis. \"They look for the brewery, for the coffee shop, for the place to hang out. All of those things increase the cost and the value of the local neighborhood.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11535651\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11535651\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/dsc09213-dc9c625c760ce4d1667c335db0d34177ae02c896-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Leonardo Vilchis is executive director of Union de Vecinos, a Boyle Heights nonprofit that represents low-income residents. His group wants the art galleries out of the neighborhood.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leonardo Vilchis is executive director of Union de Vecinos, a Boyle Heights nonprofit that represents low-income residents. His group wants the art galleries out of the neighborhood. \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/KCRW)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eva Chimento, of Chimento Contemporary, admits that before her gallery's opening night she was pretty clueless about this part of Boyle Heights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"\u003c/em>You know like when you cross the state line there are empty fields that is like 'No Man's Land.' It's not Arizona, it's not California it's just 'No Man's Land.' That's where I thought I was,\" Chimento says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'Hipster Trash'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Boyle Heights is a community with a long history of protest dating back to the Chicano civil rights movement of the 1960s. And anti-gentrification activists are using some of that same energy in a campaign to force the galleries to leave Boyle Heights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their tactics include protests in front of the galleries and the posting of mock eviction notices on the businesses' doors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One group has even posted flyers showing a human skull in gun sights and the words \"Boyle Heights is not safe for hipster trash.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11535669\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11535669\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/dsc09296_wide-fae9b53a5c7671298c1f544cb89011f244c890aa-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters posted these flyers around Boyle Heights.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/dsc09296_wide-fae9b53a5c7671298c1f544cb89011f244c890aa-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/dsc09296_wide-fae9b53a5c7671298c1f544cb89011f244c890aa-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/dsc09296_wide-fae9b53a5c7671298c1f544cb89011f244c890aa-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/dsc09296_wide-fae9b53a5c7671298c1f544cb89011f244c890aa-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/dsc09296_wide-fae9b53a5c7671298c1f544cb89011f244c890aa-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/dsc09296_wide-fae9b53a5c7671298c1f544cb89011f244c890aa-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/dsc09296_wide-fae9b53a5c7671298c1f544cb89011f244c890aa-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/dsc09296_wide-fae9b53a5c7671298c1f544cb89011f244c890aa-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/dsc09296_wide-fae9b53a5c7671298c1f544cb89011f244c890aa-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters posted these flyers around Boyle Heights. \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/KCRW)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last year, the door of a gallery was graffiti-tagged with the words \"F*** White Art.\" That prompted an ongoing hate crime investigation by the Los Angeles Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vilchis doesn't apologize for these actions, saying that they're the only way Boyle Heights' poor and working-class residents can get attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also likens the presence of galleries in the neighborhood to a kind of cancer and believes compromise is impossible, even with gallery owners who say they want to help the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"\u003c/em>What you need to do with cancer is you've got to do surgery, right?\" says Vilchis.\"You need to start killing the cells that are creating the cancer. So to say, 'OK, I'm a cancer cell, but I want to be good,' doesn't change the fact that you're a cancer cell. You need to move out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And how are the gallery owners reacting to such tough talk?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not intimidating,\" says Mihai Nicodim, owner of the gallery that was graffiti-tagged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11535638\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11535638\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/dsc09734_wide-ae920878b95fca4f73c5650de2a7bc600fd2a851-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Anti-gentrification activists staged a protest outside Weird Wave Coffee Brewers recently, chanting 'Weird Cafe has got to go.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anti-gentrification activists staged a protest outside Weird Wave Coffee Brewers recently, chanting 'Weird Cafe has got to go.' \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/KCRW)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nicodim opened his Boyle Heights Gallery in 2015, but he's a longtime figure in the L.A. arts scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm not going anywhere,\" Nicodim says.\" I've been here in the downtown area for the last 25 years, I'm not going to go away because someone tells me to just go, you know? I'm home.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But gallery opponents recently scored their first victory. Citing persistent harassment and trolling, one art space in Boyle Heights closed this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To celebrate its closure, Vilchis and his fellow anti-gallery activists held a party in front of the building, complete with a mariachi group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the battle for Boyle Heights continues, gallery owner Eva Chimento is already thinking about her own long-term future in the neighborhood. But she says it has more to do with escalating costs than protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Well, when my lease is up, I may be moving, too,\" Chimento says. \"I might not be able to afford the rent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>You can follow Saul Gonzalez on Twitter at \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SaulKCRW?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\">@SaulKCRW\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2017 KCRW. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 3:30 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facing a perilous path for their health care bill, Senate Republican leaders have decided to push off a vote until after Congress returns from next week’s July Fourth recess, GOP aides confirm to NPR’s Susan Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re still working toward getting at least 50 people in a comfortable place,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday. Despite the delay, McConnell confirmed that Republican senators were heading to the White House to meet with President Trump later in the afternoon to continue work on the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If three Republicans oppose the bill, it cannot pass. The GOP holds 52 seats, with Vice President Mike Pence as a potential tie-breaker. The delay was announced with at least five Republicans indicating they were against bringing the bill to the floor this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”ZRTrHV0lrDJshV1rQ5I96AmHTDlvmW9R”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Several of them want more time,” McConnell added. “We have a number of different discussions going on, that have been going on for six weeks. They continue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He made the announcement during Senate Republicans’ weekly lunch, which was attended by Pence. White House Chief of Staff Reince Preibus and press secretary Sean Spicer were in the Capitol on Tuesday as well. It’s expected the bill will be altered and get a new score from the Congressional Budget Office before it comes back up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaders had been pressing hard for a vote before the holiday. Majority Whip John Cornyn of Texas \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JohnCornyn/status/879364669907099648\">tweeted Monday\u003c/a> morning, “I am closing the door. We need to do it this week before double-digit premium increases are announced for next year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There has been speculation that McConnell had been prepared to bring the bill to the floor, even if it can’t pass, so the Senate can move onto its next big priority: tax reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said late Monday that \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SenatorCollins/status/879471862694256641\">she would vote “no” on a motion to proceed\u003c/a>, a procedural step that needs to be taken before a floor debate can even begin on the bill. If two more Republicans were to have voted no on that motion, the bill would have died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SenatorCollins/status/879472221202391040\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collins cited \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/06/26/534432433/gop-senate-bill-would-cut-health-care-coverage-by-22-million\">a report from the Congressional Budget Office released Monday\u003c/a> that said the bill would result in 22 million fewer people with health care coverage over the next decade, compared with under the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. Much of that reduction would be because of the rollback of the ACA’s expansion of Medicaid, which Collins and other Republicans in states that took up the expansion funds have expressed serious reservations over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski had similar concerns to Collins. “I need to understand really what we’re talking about, with some of the conclusions that we saw yesterday with the CBO score,” she told MSNBC. “Taking the time to get it right is where we should be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats held a protest on Capitol Hill Tuesday. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told reporters, “We know the fight is not over. That is for sure. We’re not resting on any laurels, nor do we feel any sense yet of accomplishment, other than we are making progress because the American people are listening to our arguments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the hurdle for McConnell remains divisions within his own party. Conservative Republicans, including Sens. Mike Lee of Utah, Ted Cruz of Texas and Rand Paul of Kentucky, had indicated they were very likely to vote no, as they push for greater spending cuts and reduction of regulations on health insurers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other GOP senators who appear strongly opposed include Dean Heller of Nevada, who excoriated the bill at a press conference on Friday mostly over its cuts, and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, who had been urging leaders to wait on a vote until after next week’s recess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”VhSZnQ7oBkrgFZuGgGq7e9zxZLKy1E33″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The House failed to advance a bill to repeal and replace Obamacare in late March, and it was seen as a spectacular failure on the GOP’s most persistent pledge to voters for the past seven years. After rounds of negotiations and amendments, the House passed its bill in early May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outlook for delaying the bill is tricky. Leaders have been insistent that they need to move on to other issues. To take up tax reform or funding the government in 2018, Senate procedure would require them to scrap the health care effort altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans have expressed grave warnings about what that could mean politically. Polls have shown the Republican health care effort is very unpopular overall, with even GOP support for the House bill at just 34 percent in an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released last week. But that same poll showed that 71 percent of Republicans support repealing the Affordable Care Act, and it would be risky for the GOP to head into the 2018 midterms having failed their base on that pledge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would not bet against Mitch McConnell,” House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., told reporters Tuesday morning when asked about the bill’s fate — but before news broke of McConnell’s announcement that he was pushing the vote back. “He is very, very good at getting things done through the Senate, even with this razor-thin majority. I have every expectation that the Senate — I don’t know what day —but I have every expectation the Senate will move this bill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The speaker nodded to the political pressure the party is under to deliver on their signature campaign pledge. “Every Republican senator campaigned on repealing and replacing this law,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”hapQ6Vi3wewi0oe57liVFWkEYjgs7zWs”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Senate bill repeals the individual mandate to carry health care coverage and the employer mandate for businesses with at least 50 employees to offer coverage. It also repeals most of the taxes enacted under the ACA, which mostly affect high-income earners and corporations, in addition to rolling back federal subsidies and the expansion of Medicaid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would allow people up to age 26 to remain on their parents’ plans, and it would bar insurance companies from denying coverage to those with pre-existing conditions. Republicans revised the bill on Monday to add a penalty aimed at preventing people from signing up for coverage only once they are sick, which most experts predict would sink the insurance market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a ‘no’ on it unless the bill changes,” Paul said to reporters on Monday. He has called the bill “Obamacare Lite” and is seeking a fuller rollback of the ACA. But the changes he wants seem unlikely to be included or would risk losing too many moderates because they would further reduce benefits from the federal government. Paul had a noon meeting at the White House scheduled on Tuesday, at which Trump had been expected to appeal for his support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One frequent critic of Trump, Sen. 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Rand Paul, R-Ky.; Ted Cruz, R-Texas; Mike Lee, R-Utah; and Ron Johnson, R-Wis., said in a statement Thursday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”Js5fAdImbZVCutUZd0YxgZDWm1KtJNvA”]With Republicans in the Senate holding only a 52-48 seat edge, they can afford only two defections to get to a 50-50 tie, allowing Vice President Pence to then presumably break any logjam. However, the four senators do appear open to negotiations and amendments that could turn their “no” to a “yes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are provisions in this draft that represent an improvement to our current healthcare system but it does not appear this draft as written will accomplish the most important promise that we made to Americans: to repeal Obamacare and lower their healthcare costs,” the quartet continued in their statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Tea Party-aligned group FreedomWorks also said in s statement that the bill doesn’t live up to promises by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., of a full repeal of the ACA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, the Senate bill is an amendment to Obamacare, not a repeal of it,” said FreedomWorks President Adam Brandon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Termed the “Better Care Reconciliation Act,” the Senate’s answer to the House’s efforts to repeal and replace the ACA was finally released Thursday morning after weeks of secret negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As NPR’s Danielle Kurtzleben \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/06/22/533947844/senate-republicans-reveal-long-awaited-affordable-care-act-repeal-bill\">reports\u003c/a>, the BCRA is similar in many ways to the House’s health care alternative, the American Health Care Act, that passed last month. The bill “rolls back the ACA’s Medicaid expansion — making for deep spending cuts to that program, compared with current law. The Senate bill also proposes eliminating many ACA taxes, and the employer penalties associated with the employer and individual mandates would be repealed retroactively, dating to the start of 2016. And as in the House bill, young adults up to the age of 26 could stay on their parents’ health care plans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill in its current form may not just alienate conservative voters who think it doesn’t go far enough but also may not assuage moderates enough to get their votes, either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., who faces a competitive re-election race in 2018, says he has “serious concerns about the bill’s impact on the Nevadans who depend on Medicaid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As I have consistently stated, if the bill is good for Nevada, I’ll vote for it and if it’s not — I won’t,” Heller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Annie Clark, a spokeswoman for Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said the centrist has some misgivings about the bills as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sen. Collins will carefully review the text of the Senate health care bill this week and into the weekend. She has a number of concerns and will be particularly interested in examining the forthcoming CBO analysis on the impact on insurance coverage, the effect on insurance premiums, and the changes in the Medicaid program,” Clark said. “She has met with and heard the concerns of many Mainers about their health care challenges, and she will continue to do so as she studies the impact of this legislation on Maine and the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Predictably, Democrats were firm in their opposition to the GOP bill. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., didn’t mince words when she ripped into the bill on the Senate floor earlier Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These cuts are blood money. People will die,” Warren said. “Let’s be very clear. Senate Republicans are paying for tax cuts for the wealthy with American lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said that the new Republican bill was “every bit as bad as the House bill” and “even worse” in some ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This bill will result in higher costs, less care and millions of Americans will lose their health insurance, particularly through Medicaid,” Schumer said. “The way this bill cuts health care is heartless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former President Barack Obama, whose signature legislation is the target of GOP repeal efforts, wrote in a lengthy \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/barackobama/posts/10154996557026749\">Facebook\u003c/a> post that the Republican plan “is not a health care bill.”\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“It’s a massive transfer of wealth from middle-class and poor families to the richest people in America. It hands enormous tax cuts to the rich and to the drug and insurance industries, paid for by cutting health care for everybody else. Those with private insurance will experience higher premiums and higher deductibles, with lower tax credits to help working families cover the costs, even as their plans might no longer cover pregnancy, mental health care, or expensive prescriptions. Discrimination based on pre-existing conditions could become the norm again. Millions of families will lose coverage entirely.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/republican-senators-ready-vote-health-care-bill/story?id=48205351\">ABC News\u003c/a> also reported that as the GOP bill was being released Thursday morning there was a “large protest gathered outside McConnell’s office, with people in wheelchairs staging a ‘die-in,’ and protesters chanting that no changes be made to Medicaid. Protesters were physically removed by Capitol Police officers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/MKhan47/status/877910250560643072\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2017 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated at 2:32 p.m. ET Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Republicans unveiled \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3872487-SenateHCBill.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">their long-awaited health care overhaul proposal\u003c/a> on Thursday. The Senate bill, called the \"Better Care Reconciliation Act,\" would repeal major parts of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. The broad outlines of it look a lot like the House bill, the American Health Care Act, which was passed in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a lot of ways, the Senate's bill looks like the House bill: It rolls back the ACA's Medicaid expansion — making for deep spending cuts to that program, compared to current law. The Senate bill also proposes eliminating many ACA taxes, and the employer penalties associated with the employer and individual mandates would be repealed retroactively, dating back to the start of 2016. And like the House bill, young adults up to the age of 26 could stay on their parents' health care plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larry Levitt, a health policy expert at the Kaiser Family Foundation, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/larry_levitt/status/877910700315729920\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">summed up his thoughts on the bill\u003c/a> on Twitter on Thursday: \"In broad strokes, the Senate bill is just like the House: Big tax cuts, big cut in federal heath spending, big increase in the uninsured.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As with the House bill, the Senate proposal also allows insurance companies to charge older people five times more than younger people — under the ACA, that ratio is 3 to 1. That's just one provision that could hit older Americans hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A small group of Republican senators has written the bill in secret in recent weeks, with many Americans and even some fellow Republicans eagerly awaiting details about what's in the bill. After the bill was released on Thursday, protesters gathered outside Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's office. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NBCNightlyNews/status/877915310526939136\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Video from NBC\u003c/a> showed police removing some of those protesters from the hallway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/NBCNightlyNews/status/877915310526939136\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Big Changes to Medicaid\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Some of the biggest changes this bill makes are to Medicaid, the entitlement program that provides health care to low-income Americans. In that sense, it looks like the House bill, which the CBO said would cut Medicaid by $834 billion over a decade (relative to current law), with a loss of 14 million beneficiaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both bills roll back a Medicaid expansion undertaken under the Affordable Care Act. That law extended the program to some low-income Americans above the poverty level. The Senate proposal would roll back that expansion, though it would do so more slowly than the House bill proposes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As with the House, the Senate also proposes giving states either a per capita cap on Medicaid spending or a block grant of funds. That's a fundamental change; currently the program is \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/newsletters/headlines-in-health-policy/2017/jan/january-23-2017/medicaid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">open-ended\u003c/a>,\" meaning funding increases as need increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there's another change on top of that. 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