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Clinton brands Trump as threat to U.S.

Dem rallies thousands in visit
at Squirrel Hill high school

by

TOM FONTAINE
dONALd GILLILANd

ANd

Democratic presidential
candidate Hillary Clinton told
thousands of supporters Saturday at Pittsburghs Allderdice High School that Donald
Trump is a threat to America.
Make no mistake, my
friends. He is threatening our
ANDREW RUSSELL | TRIBUNE-REVIEW democracy, Clinton said of her
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton greets a
opponents repeated warnings
baby at a rally Saturday at Allderdice High School in Squirrel about widespread voter fraud
Hill.
and his unwillingness to say

whether he will accept the election results if he loses.

Clinton, who leads in the
polls after the third and final
debate, spent time promoting
other candidates on the November ballot. She urged supporters to vote for Chester County
Democrat Katie McGinty in
Pennsylvanias pivotal U.S.
Senate race. Clinton took a few
swipes at McGintys opponent,
U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Lehigh
Valley, for not saying whether
he will vote for Trump.

the domestic steel industry

and manufacturing but used
foreign-made steel and alumi Donald Trump vows to
num on his hotels. She said
sue every woman who has
he claims hell make America
accused him of sexual
great again but makes many of
assault. Story, A5
his products overseas. Trump
didnt pay federal income taxes
How much more does Pat for years yet stands onstage
Toomey have to hear? Clinton and criticizes America for
not committing more funding
said. If he doesnt have the
toward strengthening the nacourage to stand up to Donald
tions military and infrastrucTrump, can you be sure that
ture, she said.
he will stand up for you when
Clinton acknowledged there
it counts?
are people in Western PennClinton branded Trump as
sylvania who are angry about
a serial hypocrite during her
the economy and other issues,
37-minute speech.
and are inclined to vote for
She said Trump has promCLINTON A5
ised to breathe new life into

Liars

Chinas
big data
plan rates
citizens

Prison
site eyed
for vets
facility

Housing, medical
center proposed in
Hempfield where
SCI Greensburg stood
by

dEbRA ERdLEy

Three years after it was

mothballed, new owners of a
former state prison in Hempfield have quietly been rolling
out plans to transform the
massive complex into a fullservice veterans transition
campus.
Westmoreland County commissioners attended a meeting
last week at the former SCI
Greensburg to learn about
Veterans Sunrise Center, a
proposed $150 million rehabilitation center. Carlisle businessman David Goldsmith
wants to open the center on
the 96-acre property he bought
last year.
Its an ambitious plan and
certainly a worthy one, but
they have a long way to get
there, Commissioner Ted
Kopas said. When and if they
get to the point where we can
be helpful, well look at it.
He and Commissioner
Charles Anderson met Thursday at the 300,000-square-foot
facility with Steve Jecker, a
representative of Goldsmiths
company. The commissioners
said Jecker described a plan
that was largely conceptual
and did not ask for anything
from the county.
Jecker declined to discuss
the proposal with the TribuneReview, saying it is too early in
the process.
Goldsmith, who did not
attend the meeting, did not return a call seeking comment.
State and local veterans
groups as well as local economic development officials
said they have not heard about
the plans.
Goldsmiths company in
August launched a website
that features a nearly five-minute video with aerial footage
of the former prison property and renderings of how it
would be repurposed.
An article in the fall edition of the trade publication
Whos Who in Building & Construction provided details of
Goldsmiths proposed project
including its cost, an assembled team of development
and construction managers
from Texas and Louisiana, a
timeline with work starting
this fall and continuing for
two to three years and a goal
to help about 1,500 veterans
each year.
Greensburg Veterans Sunrise Center is envisioned to
PRISON A4

ANDREW RUSSELL | TRIBUNE-REVIEW

C
Craig Amick, 57, of Canal Winchester, Ohio, stands
aat the gravesite of his daughter, Shelby Slagle, who
died June 26, 2015, from a fungal infection she
contracted at UPMC Presbyterian.

TRANSPLANT

TRAGEDY
Ohio family opens up about daughters
heart procedure, UPMCs mold crisis

by

bEN SCHMITT
CANAL WINCHESTER, Ohio

helby Slagle sauntered into UPMC Presbyterian hospital and heartily

greeted the security guard perched behind the revolving doors: Hi, Im
Shelby, and Im here for my new heart.
Other than her wedding, this day May 4, 2015 was expected to be the
happiest of her life. The previous night, she and her husband, Ryan, were
getting ready for bed in their suburban Columbus, Ohio, home when the hospital called. Leave immediately for Pittsburgh, a nurse told her. They had
a heart ready for her.
Shelby had lived her
entire life 27 years
with a heart anomaly
called ventricle septal
defect. She was born
with a hole in the wall
between her hearts
lower chambers. She
underwent surgery in
Columbus when she
was 4. Doctors transformed her heart from four to three chambers a procedure known as Fontan.
She grew up a jovial, family-oriented Midwestern kid without physical restrictions:
playing clarinet in the marching band,
making the Canal Winchester high school
basketball team even at 4 feet, 11 inches tall.
She loved cooking, thunderstorms, music,
creating homemade gifts and hanging out

Social credit system in development

to firm up government authority;
critics call it police state of future
THE WASHINGTON POST

BEIJING Imagine a world where an authoritarian government monitors everything

you do, amasses huge amounts of data on
nearly every interaction you have and awards
you a score that measures how trustworthy
you are.
In this world, anything from defaulting on a
loan to criticizing the ruling party, from running a red light to failing to care for your parents properly could cause you to lose points.
And in this world, your score becomes the
ultimate truth of who you are determining
whether you can borrow money, get your children into the best schools or travel abroad;
whether you get a room in a fancy hotel, a
seat in a top restaurant or even get a date.
This is not the dystopian superstate of
Steven Spielbergs Minority Report, in
which all-knowing police stop crime before it
happens. But it could be China by 2020.
It is the scenario contained in Chinas ambitious plans to develop a far-reaching social
credit system, a plan that the Communist
Party hopes will build a culture of sincerity
and a harmonious socialist society where
keeping trust is glorious.
A high-level policy document released in
September listed the sanctions that could be
imposed on any person or company deemed
to have fallen short. The overriding principle:
If trust is broken in one place, restrictions
CHINA A4

with
w her younger sister,
Haylee.
Her dad treasures
H
th
he fleece Cincinnati
B
Bengals blanket she
sttitched together for him.
By the time she
reached her mid-20s, her
h
heart started giving her
problems: severe fatigue,
flluid retention in her
abdomen and breathing
trouble plagued her.
Installation of a pacemaker at 25 didnt
lead to long-term improvements. Her heart
was slowly failing. A little less than
200 miles from Shelbys home in suburban
Columbus, UPMC loomed as a place where
she could find a cure of last resort: a heart
transplant.
SHELBY A4

It was the most horrific thing I have ever seen in my life. To sit there
and watch your child be eaten to death by infection was
CraigAmick,fatherofShelbySlagle

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MOSUL PUSH

Displaced Iraqis arrive at a refugee camp

Saturday in the town of Qayyarah as the
operation to recapture the city of Mosul
from the Islamic State ramps up.
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