The Baltimore Children and Youth Fund paid for several individuals, including an assistant deputy mayor and a Baltimore City Public Schools employee, to go on a trip to Missouri in November, documents obtained by Spotlight on Maryland show. The fund, which is entirely supported by taxpayer dollars, was approved by voters in 2016. Baltimore City is required to give millions of dollars to BCYF every year with no sunset date. Unlike city agencies, the city auditor is not required to conduct biennial performance audits of the fund. BCYF operates as a nonprofit outside city government. Spotlight on Maryland previously reported the fund paid for 100 local activists to go on a trip to Alabama in February 2024 for its “Opening Plenary,” which CEO Alysia Lee called a “city-wide learning series to explore racial justice and liberatory practice in youth-centered organizations.” But new documents show BCYF continued dishing out money for travel in 2024, including for a November trip to St. Louis for the fund’s racial equity committee to attend the annual “Facing Race” conference. Members of the racial equity committee also sit on the BCYF board of directors, which is deeply tied to Baltimore City Hall. The fund’s website says two voting seats on its board must be occupied by a representative from the Mayor’s Office of Children and Family Success and a designee chosen by the City Council president. Noell Lugay, who serves as Mayor Brandon Scott’s interim assistant deputy mayor for equity, health and human services, is one of the city hall representatives who sits on the BCYF board. She earns a $137,917 annual salary in her role on Scott’s staff. BCYF paid her way to the St. Louis conference, prompting her to send an email to BCYF leaders expressing her excitement. “PACK ME UP NOW!” Lugay wrote to the BCYF board in September, an email obtained by Spotlight on Maryland through a public records request shows. A spokesperson for Scott did not return a request for comment from Spotlight on Maryland about Lugay’s trip to St. Louis on BCYF’s dime. Lugay declined to comment on the trip when reached by Spotlight on Maryland. She previously worked in the Office of School Supports at Baltimore City Public Schools. BCYF also paid for a current Baltimore City Public Schools employee, Chan’nel Williams, to go on the St. Louis trip. Williams makes $116,089 per year working for the city school system as a fine arts coordinator. Like Lugay, Williams sits on the BCYF board as well as the fund’s racial equity committee. The fund also allowed individuals who do not sit on the racial equity committee to go on the St. Louis trip, including Lee and her executive assistant. Jerel Wilson, who runs a local nonprofit, indicated in an email obtained by Spotlight on Maryland that he registered to have the fund pay for his travel to the conference. Wilson’s nonprofit, For My Kidz Inc., is a BCYF grantee. BCYF paid for travelers to stay at the Marriott St. Louis Grand and covered the cost of their airfare, meals, conference registration and $75 worth of ground transportation, according to an email from Lee reviewed by Spotlight on Maryland. A spokesperson for BCYF did not return a request for comment from Spotlight on Maryland about the trip and whether it was an appropriate use of taxpayer money. The purpose of BCYF is to provide grants to community-based organizations supporting Baltimore City youth. The architect of the fund, former Baltimore Mayor Jack Young, called on BCYF earlier this month to realign itself with his original vision instead of paying for adults to take trips. “Right now, [BCYF] is not anything that I envisioned,” Young told Spotlight on Maryland in a phone interview. “That fund was created so that community-based organizations could get funding for the programs they had for the youth. Not a junket for grownups.” The financial management of BCYF has also caught the attention of Baltimore Inspector General Isabel Cumming and Baltimore Comptroller Bill Henry, whose office says it is working to build “a stronger relationship with BCYF to understand their strategies and be a resource for fiscal prudence.” Three former BCYF employees told Spotlight on Maryland that the fund’s former vice president of finance warned BCYF leadership that the fund’s spending could “get [them] in trouble.” The former employees say the fund’s in-house finance team was dissolved shortly thereafter. Spotlight on Maryland is keeping the identities of the former employees confidential due to fear of retaliation in their current lines of work. BCYF did not address the matter when reached for comment. Spotlight on Maryland is a joint venture by FOX45 News and The Baltimore Sun. Got a story idea or news tip? Reach out to Julian Baron on X or via email at jtbaron@sbgtv.com .In a recent team meeting, Mbappe made his intentions clear, delivering a stern and impassioned speech calling for solidarity and accountability. "We are a team, a family, and we must protect each other at all costs," he declared. "It pains me to see this division among us, but we must root out the source of our troubles and stand together to overcome them."
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Malcolm In the Middle's Frankie Muniz details hair loss battle and how finding the solution got him 'back into racing' Have YOU got a story? Email tips@dailymail.com By DAILYMAIL REPORTER Published: 23:15, 13 December 2024 | Updated: 23:30, 13 December 2024 e-mail 2 View comments Malcolm In the Middle star Frankie Muniz opened up about his hair loss journey, how balding affected his confidence and finally finding a solution with his wife's help. Over the years, the actor, 39, admitted that he tried a variety of treatments, including a hair transplant, but ended up suffering from some rare side effects, which left him disheartened. While appearing on HairClub's podcast, HairPod , the father-of-one, admitted that he struggled with accepting his hair thinning in his early twenties as someone who always had 'thick hair' growing up. In an effort to slow down his hair loss, he 'started taking medications and doing topical creams and [wearing] laser hats.' 'I remember it just kind of continued to get worse and worse and worse,' he recalled. 'I really didn't know what to do, almost to the point to where I kind of gave up on it.' Ultimately, Muniz said he 'was tired of trying things that weren't helping the situation' and it made him 'more and more self conscious' about his hair. Malcolm In the Middle star Frankie Muniz opened up about his hair loss journey, how balding affected his confidence and finally finding a solution with his wife's help; seen in 2023 At the time, he remembered hyperfixating on his hair whenever he passed a mirror and was always 'talking pictures' and 'comparing' it to past photographs. Muniz recalled first struggling with hair loss while filming the last season of his hit series, Malcolm In the Middle, which aired from 2000 to 2006. Read More Malcolm In the Middle's Frankie Muniz details hair loss battle and how finding the solution got him 'back into racing' It also coincided to his pivot to racing cars professionally. 'I don't want to say it shocked me how I went from having hair to not having hair,' he began. 'I didn't really notice it, like, until I noticed it.' After wrapping Malcolm In the Middle, Muniz said, without the assistance of hair and makeup styling him, he finally noticed his hair loss. 'I started having to actually comb my hair for the first time myself,' he said, referring to the time period after Malcolm In the Middle ended. 'It definitely was just a shock, you know, especially because I was young, 19 or 20 years old.' Despite being in the spotlight and having a team of people working for him, the actor said he was on his own navigating his hair loss. 'I didn't have anybody helping me,' he said, before detailing his trial and errors, before finding the hair restoration company, HairClub. Over the years, the actor, 39, admitted that he tried a variety of treatments, including a hair transplant, but ended up suffering from some rare side effects, which left him disheartened While appearing on HairClub's podcast, HairPod , the father-of-one, admitted that he struggled with accepting his hair thinning in his early twenties as someone who always had 'thick hair' growing up While discussing his openness about his hair loss, Muniz admitted that others in his industry are 'afraid' to talk about what treatments they've done to fix it. 'I think it's interesting because, you know, we live, especially now, in a time where most celebrities, most people that you see on social media have tons of work and they don't hide it, but it's still a touchy subject when it comes to men talking about their hair,' he pointed out. He continued: 'I think that's an interesting thing because, like, it's not something that you can help, right? If you're losing your hair, if you have issues like that, it's nothing like you did something wrong or, you know, what I mean? It's genetics.' Muniz noted that it was his wife, Paige Price, who forced him to do a hair consultation with HairClub when he had resorted to just wearing hats and shaving his head. In response to his hair loss, he 'started taking medications and doing topical creams and [wearing] laser hats' in an effort to slow down the balding process 'I remember it just kind of continued to get worse and worse and worse,' he recalled. 'I really didn't know what to do, almost to the point to where I kind of gave up on it' 'I was so used to being kind of let down by the results of things that you spent a lot of money on, or you spent a lot of time or pain, like, physical pain. So I kind of didn't have very high hopes,' he remembered. After working with HairClub, however, he said he received 'immediate gratification' and a boost to his confidence. 'It was truly life changing,' he said of his results. 'It changed every aspect of my life. It made me more confident in everything from a work standpoint, from a working out standpoint, everything!' Following his hair transformation, which he described as basically immediate, the performer said it gave him the 'confidence' to get back to racing. 'I think I'd kind of just kind of crawled almost in a hole a little bit,' he confessed. 'And kind of just stayed away from the acting stuff, stayed away from kind of like putting myself out there... I hate to admit that almost, but I didn't realize it had such a big effect on me in a negative way.' After working with HairClub, however, he said he received 'immediate gratification' and a boost to his confidence; seen on February 17, 2024 Following his hair transformation, which he described as basically immediate, the performer said it gave him the 'confidence' to get back to racing Frankie was just a teenager when he rocketed to fame as the star of the hit sitcom, Malcolm In The Middle. The series also starred Bryan Cranston, who would later become a household name for his role in Breaking Bad. The young actor was nominated for Best Performance by an Actor in a TV-Series Comedy/Musical for his role, but lost to Charlie Sheen for Spin City. Frankie remained in the spotlight following his run on Malcolm In The Middle, with roles in several Sharknado films and even a hosting stint on Dancing With The Stars: Junior. Next, he is set to return to the Malcolm in the Middle reboot, which will stream on Disney+ and Hulu. 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What Will Yankees Emergency Plan B Look Like If Mets Steal $600 Million Juan Soto?The jury had long come to its clear majority verdict on former US president Jimmy Carter by the time he died at age 100 on 29 December at his home in Plains, Georgia. A thin-voiced, nerdy, preachy peanut farmer from the deep south, surrounded by cronies, palpably out of his depth in Washington — a one-term Democrat president whose promise to lift America out of its post-Watergate, post-Vietnam despond turned to dust. His presidency began in January 1977, when the memory of a defeated America deploying helicopters to evacuate its embassy in Saigon was still fresh. His administration was later utterly demoralised in April 1980 by a breakdown of different American helicopters in an Iranian desert – on a mission to rescue the US diplomats held hostage in the embassy in Tehran. There’s more. The economy tanked – and he was, the verdict continues, a Cold War president who got nowhere with the Soviet Union. Yes, he had one big, if imperfect, achievement while in office: the brokering of the Camp David agreement between Egypt and Israel in 1978, which played to a great Carter strength – his mastery of detail. But overall, we are led to believe he was just too small for the job. And then the redemptive long coda as head of the Carter Center human rights organisation. He travelled to the world’s hotspots – from Eritrea to Korea to Bosnia — to douse the flames, acting as the trusted observer for scores of elections and leading public health initiatives, including one successful programme that greatly reduced mortality from Guinea worm disease. All of this brought him the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. Yet, contrary to public opinion, Carter in the White House was not a flop. He had graduated from the US Naval Academy with distinction, served seven years as a naval officer and was confident enough to be very wary about using America’s military power to impose its will abroad – in sharp contrast to his predecessors both Democrat and Republican. True, his administration, like many, was chronically divided about strategy. His national security advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, often linked regional conflicts to the grand struggle with the Soviet Union, while his secretary of state, Cyrus Vance, took a markedly different view of the world, understanding, for instance, that the civil war in Angola was not best seen as “made in the Kremlin”. Carter never created a coherent worldview, but that was a great deal less damaging to American interests than bad world views — the domino theory that led to Vietnam, or the interventionism of George W. Bush in Iraq in 2003 – and the bloody chaos that followed. Carter spoke out against that latter war when that was far from the prevailing wisdom. He thought it was unnecessary and – a Carter word – unjust. In Latin America, the prevailing American orthodoxy pre-Carter was to prop up grizzly authoritarian regimes – to stop another Cuba. Among a host of examples: America had supported a coup and installed a dictator in Bolivia in 1971 and, more famously, played a crucial role in toppling Salvador Allende in Chile in 1973. Carter set out to reverse Harry Kissinger’s “realist” view that human rights were not a concern when it came to anti-Soviet dictators perpetrating major abuses. Of course, he couldn’t simply overthrow regimes he detested, like the military junta in Argentina. Sending troops to Buenos Aires was not an option and he knew that American-backed coups would not produce sustainable answers. But Carter was right to plant a human rights flag and to reverse the presumption of impunity for those involved in murder and torture. He found other ways of defending American interests that did not rely on raw power. The Panama Canal had been controlled by America since 1903 and there had been any number of Panamanian demonstrations and revolts. Carter negotiated a treaty that gave America a permanent right to defend the canal from any threat but was nevertheless confronted by hellfire rhetoric, largely from Republicans, who yearned for untrammelled American power. Ceding the canal to Panama would be, as Philip Crane, a Republican congressman from Illinois, put it, “one more nail in the coffin of American sea power...one more crucial American step in a descent to ignominy”. Yet Carter got the treaty through the Senate in the end with the help of 14 Republicans – a dollop of bipartisanship unimaginable now. He had to deal with Brezhnev’s Soviet Union – not Gorbachev’s. The Soviet Union was still a rigid gerontocracy. But he painstakingly negotiated a nuclear weapons deal in 1979, which had no chance of being ratified once the Soviet tanks rolled into Kabul. Ronald Reagan denounced the treaty as it was being formulated, but when he became president in 1981 he abided by its terms. As did Moscow. Even before the Tehran hostage fiasco beginning in November 1979, the rise of the Ayatollahs presented a huge challenge. Iranian oil supply was severely disrupted and there were queues for petrol in America, a hitherto unimaginable phenomenon. The world economy shuddered. Carter went on television in July 1979 for what became known as his “crisis of confidence” broadcast with the aim of lessening American dependence on foreign oil. He made some less than cheery observations about aspects of the American way of life. There was a problem with “self-indulgence and consumption” and proclaimed that “every act of energy conservation... is more than just common sense, I tell you it is an act of patriotism”. He did more than talk. He brought in regulations that encouraged American manufacturers to stop building gas-guzzling cars and probably helped save the American auto industry in the process. He put solar panels on the White House (removed by Reagan a decade later). In the immediate aftermath of that striking broadcast Carter’s poll numbers went up but, in the end, he became irrevocably associated with that most un-American of attributes: pessimism. He lost by miles in the 1980 election to “it’s morning again in America” Reagan. In his diaries, published in 2010, Carter writes of a White House dinner close to the time of his departure. The great cellist Mstislav Rostropovich told him La Traviata , Tosca and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony had all been booed on their first nights and that history “would treat him in the same way as they did Verdi, Puccini and Beethoven”. It hasn’t quite worked out that way; there’s no clamour to have his face carved into Mount Rushmore. But Carter understood well that America could not go on acting as if all constraints on its power were unreasonable and should be swatted aside – rather that America was a great power that should not confuse restraint with weakness. For all of that, he should be recognised and praised. [See more: The contradictions of team Trump ] Related
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