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IS THERE LEAD IN OUR SCHOOLS?

MANY DISTRICTS HAVE NO IDEA BECAUSE TESTING ISNT DONE Kindergartners
Trent Donnell,
6, gets a drink
by AARON AUPPERLEE as Octavia
Haynes, 6,
Schools in Western Pennsylvania likely dont know whether the water Naccarati-Chapkis organization has waits her turn
coming out of hallway drinking fountains or used to prepare lunches has offered to help districts test their water Thursday at
for free. She said some districts in West- Penn Hills
high levels of lead because they likely arent testing for it. ern Pennsylvania have shown interest. Elementary
A look nationwide at levels of lead in School. The
Several districts said they dont wor- to ensure that the water is safe for chil- school water grew out of the water cri- school was built
ry about contamination because their dren, said Michelle Naccarati-Chapkis, sis in Flint, Mich., where lead leached in 2013 and
schools dont have lead pipes or solder, the executive director of Women for a from pipes, contaminated peoples 2014, decades
from which lead can leach. Healthy Environment, an East Liberty water and put thousands of children after lead was
Most districts dont test voluntarily; nonprofit that runs the Healthy Schools at risk. Children are more vulnerable banned from
state and federal laws dont require PA initiative. But frankly, you dont use in pipes
to the health effects of lead.
most schools to. know unless you test what type of prob- and solder.
We want schools to get that testing lems you might have. LEAD A6
JUSTIN MERRIMAN | TRIBUNE REVIEW

Falsifying
Head
MASTERS OF THE GAME

wait times
at VA sites
runs deep
of ICA
Bosses at centers in
7 states had schedulers
denies
gaffes
fake data, reports show
USA TODAY

WASHINGTON Supervi-
sors instructed schedulers to
falsify patient wait times at
Veterans Affairs medical fa-
cilities in at least seven states,
according to newly released
investigation reports from
the departments inspector
general.
The manipulation gave the
false impression that the fa-
cilities in Arkansas, Califor-
nia, Delaware, Illinois, New
York, Texas and Vermont were
meeting VA performance mea-
sures for shorter wait times.
The reports detail for the
first time since the Phoenix
VA wait-time scandal in 2014
how widespread scheduling
manipulation was throughout
the VA. Investigators have said
manipulation was systemic
but they had not identified
In email to higher-ups, chief
of city fiscal watchdog says he
didnt destroy or lose records
by CARL PRINE
The embattled executive director
of the Pittsburgh Intergovernmental
Cooperation Authority told board mem-
bers, state lawmakers and officials in
GETTY IMAGES an email that he did not destroy or lose
agency records or fail to disclose his
A frail Arnold Palmer (center) joins fellow golf icons Jack Nicklaus (left) and Gary Player on the first
personal bankruptcy.
tee Thursday for an emotional ceremonial start of the 80th Masters in Augusta, Ga. To be on the
tee with Arnold ... it was gratifying and sad, because everything shall pass, a tearful Player said Henry V. Sciortino, 67, of West Ches-
ter, the ICAs only full-time employee,
afterward. But it was nice to have him on the tee. I dedicated my first tee shot to him in respect. It
was a very special moment. For first-round coverage, see C10-11. sent the message on
Wednesday from his
ICA email address
to top state legisla-
tors, including House

U.K. leader discloses offshore dealings

which facilities had problems
and how serious they were.
The investigations found
that employees at 40 VA medi-
cal facilities in 19 states and
Puerto Rico regularly ze-
roed out veteran wait times,
which masked growing de-
mand as new waves of vet-
erans returned from wars in
Iraq and Afghanistan and as
Vietnam veterans aged and
needed more health care.
In some cases, the system
encouraged manipulation
even without explicit instruc-
tion from supervisors. A man-
ager in West Palm Beach, Fla.,
sent out laudatory emails tout-
ing the shorter wait times the
system showed. Schedulers
in Harlingen, Texas, reported
being berated by supervisors
when they booked appoint-
Cameron tells broadcaster he sold his interest in trust
in 2010, months before he became prime minister
THE WASHINGTON POST
LONDON After dodg-
ing questions for days, British
Prime Minister David Cameron
acknowledged Thursday evening
that he had owned and profited
from shares in an offshore trust
set up by his late father.
The admission came as the im-
pact from a huge leak of financial
data continued to ripple across
the globe, with Russian President
Speaker Mike Turzai,
R-Marshall, and Sen-
ate Minority Leader
Jay Costa, D-Forest Sciortino: Says
Hills; the five voting board knew of
represented an awkward moment
for a leader who has spoken out members of the ICA personal finan-
forcefully against international board; and several cial matters
legislative staffers and
tax avoidance and evasion.
Vladimir Putin alleging a West- state executive branch officials.
After the fund was linked to
ern conspiracy and Iceland reck- Camerons stockbroker father The Tribune-Review obtained a copy
of the email.
oning with the fall of its prime this week, Downing Street issued
In it, Sciortino contended that he
minister. a series of statements first
never destroyed any documents nor
Cameron faced calls to resign claiming that the issue was a
have I ever directed anyone else to do
from at least one member of the private matter, then saying that
so. He insisted that the ICA board
opposition Labor Party on Thurs- Cameron did not currently own
was fully informed of all my personal
day night. Theres been no evi- shares in the trust and finally
financial matters, including my per-
dence that Cameron did anything that the prime minister and his
sonal bankruptcy and that a former
illegal or improper. family would not benefit from
Still, the admission of a past fi-
nancial stake in an offshore trust OFFSHORE A6 ICA A4

Pa. a microcosm of Hillarys hurdles nationally

ments showing longer wait
times for veterans. (It was not
pretty, one employee said.) In
some cases in Gainesville,
Fla., White River Junction,
Vt., and Philadelphia, for ex-
ample investigators found
VA employees improperly
kept lists of veterans needing
care outside the scheduling
system, a violation that hid
actual wait times.
The inspector general began
investigations of more than
100 facilities after the Phoenix
scandal in 2014. In some cases,
they found manipulation had
been going on for as long as a
decade. In others, it had been
a few years. About half of the
70 newly released reports are
VA A4
Although polls show she can win matchup for Clinton. A Quinnipiac Univer-
sity poll out this week showed that Clin-
Bill Clinton has a
against Trump, she falls behind ton would defeat Trump in Pennsylvania,
45 percent to 42 percent.
heated exchange with white, working-class voters If its Trump, most of the Obama coali-
with a protester tion will flock to her, said Paul Sracic, a
during a rally for by SALENA ZITO ANd TOM FONTAINE
political science professor at Youngstown
Hillary Clinton For Democratic presidential front-run- State University.
on Thursday in
ner Hillary Clinton, winning the White In Pennsylvania, however, Clinton has to
Philadelphia. He House in November hinges on who the worry about garnering support from white,
was interrupted
Republican nominee is and whether she working-class voters, Sracic said. Obama
by people in the can shore up support with voting blocs that
did very well with such voters in places like
crowd holding backed President Obama in large numbers
Johnstown and Scranton eight years ago,
signs reading eight years ago.
but likely because (Joe) Biden was on the
Clinton crime Pennsylvania provides a window onto
ticket, he said. Biden is a Scranton native.
bill destroyed our her challenges.
Trump appeals to white, working-class
communities. Businessman Donald Trump, who leads
Story, A4 the GOP race, provides the most favorable CLINTON A4
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