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Theres no denying the first half of 2017would have been very different had Hillary Clinton defeated Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election. In her current St. Louis gallery exhibition, artistBunny Bursonremembers the future that very nearly was, creating an artwork using the iridescent confetti that was primed to go off on election night this past November 8, had the country elected its first woman president.

A longtime Clinton devotee, Burson was the executive director of thePresidents Committee on the Arts and the HumanitiesunderPresident Bill Clintons administration. In the aftermath of the 2016 election, she hopes her art will helpmotivate women to run for office in 2018.

Bunny Burson, And Still I Rise (2017) installation view at Bruno David Gallery, Clayton, Missouri. Courtesy of Bruno David Gallery, Clayton, Missouri.

I was among her supporters at the Javits Center waiting for the symbolic shattering of the glass ceiling and the shard like confetti to fall down on us. We left the Javits Center at 2 in the morning with profound emptiness, Burson told NBC. The unused confetti had to be removedfrom the air cannons and swept into empty boxes by workers.

I wanted to fill that emptiness with hope by giving voice to my feelings that even in defeat, Hillarys confetti could be used to inspire the next generations of little girls and young women to dream big and to act on their dreams, she added.

Tracking down the unused confetti was no easy task. Burson made calls to Arkansas, Boston, New York, Connecticut, Illinois, and Washington, DC. Though many warned her the confetti she sought had likely wound up in the trash, Bursons quest was ultimately successful.

After about two weeks of searching, she tracked downthe confetti in Chicago and was able to acquire several large boxes of it200 pounds, to be exactfor her work.

Bursons sculpture, titledAnd Still I Rise, takes its titlefrom the Maya Angelou book of poetry of the same name. Pieces of clear, shiny confetti swirl around inthe gallery window, which has essentially been transformed into a political snow globe. The works title is printed on the glass in white block letters. The colorless confetti was chosen for itsresemblance to shards of broken glass, to represent the breaking of the highest, hardest glass ceiling, as Clinton referred to a woman someday winning the presidency.

Bunny Burson, And Still I Rise (2017) installation view at Bruno David Gallery, Clayton, Missouri. Courtesy of Bruno David Gallery, Clayton, Missouri.

For Burson, the artwork is more than just a message of hope, but a call to action in the face of Trump administration policies. We need to think about all of these rights that we have sort of gotten used to, which we may not always havewomens rights, voting rights, shetoldSt. Louis Public Radio.Elections have consequences, serious consequences we need to stay engaged.

The piece is displayed 24 hours a day in the gallerys front window, overlooking Forsythe Boulevard.

Bunny Burson: And Still I Rise is on display through at Bruno David Gallery,7513 Forsythe Boulevard, Clayton, Missouri, May 4August 12, 2017.

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BY: Joe Schoffstall July 6, 2017 3:08 pm

Huma Abedin, a longtime aide to failed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, has collected more than $50,000 from Clintons campaign since the November election loss to Donald Trump, according to federal election commission filings.

Abedin, who served as the vice chair of Clinton's campaign, has been given $52,180.65 from Hillary for America, Clinton's campaign committee, from mid-November to the end of March, the time of the latest available filings. Abedin received 12 checks ranging from $2,316.06 to $6,005.45 and was also paid hundreds for phone and travel expenses.

A handful of other close Clinton associates,includingNick Merrill, Hillary's former press secretary, were also still being compensated as of late March.

Donald Trump's campaigncommittee has also continued to pay staffers, including John Pence, the nephew of Vice President Mike Pence, who became the campaigns executive director in January. However, Trump filed for re-election and has been pulling millions into his campaign committee for 2020.

Abedin is in the midst of filing for divorcefrom disgraced former Rep. Anthony Weiner.

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Right now, GOP senators are trying to gather enough votes to pass their Obamacare replacement plan, but even fellow Republicans are having a time a hard time accepting the health care bill. USA TODAY

The Republican National Committee attempted to highlight Democrats' lack of solutionsover problems with Obamacare on Wednesday,but a question directed at Hillary Clinton, likely didnt go asplanned.

The RNC tweeted thechallenge to Clinton:

Clinton responded with a link to her 2016 presidential campaign website, where there was a bullet-point version of a health care plan that would keep Obamacare and further expand Medicaid.

The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that 23 million people will not have health coverage by 2026 under the repeal and replacement plan the House passed in May. The Senate is working on a plan of their own the last CBO-scored version had 22 million people without insurance but the narrow majority Republicans hold is making it difficult for them to come to consensus on a bill of their own.

If they want their legislation to pass, Republicans cant lose more than two votes in the Senate. No Democrats are expected to vote to repeal former president Barack Obamas signature health care law and Republicans have so far limited the legislation drafting process to members of their party.

The RNCattempted to put the responsibility on Democrats in multiple emails and tweets Wednesday.

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In Defense of Hillary Clinton

I was disturbed to read that columnist Willem Lange (The Democrats Have Lost Their Bearings Along the Way, July 5) joined the many disgruntled Americans who voted for Hillary Clinton because the alternative was unthinkable. At a recent social event here in Grantham, neighbors sat around a table lamenting the fact that both candidates were flawed.

I am not a historian or a politician, but am very interested in both American history and our political history. I read widely and have worked for every political candidate whose ideas I support. (Full disclosure: I am culturally deprived. I do not watch Fox News.) I believe that Hillary Clinton was the most qualified presidential candidate in my lifetime, more qualified than her husband and certainly more qualified than any of the candidates mentioned by Lange in his column, even Joe Kennedy, whom I admire.

Clinton has been maligned by some in letters to this newspaper for daring to try to explain her loss, and by others for retreating into relative obscurity. I write to praise her for her dignity, her intelligence, patriotism and gravitas. She is a class act.

Judy McCarthy

Grantham

Sad but true!

So sad that Twitter users did not recognize our own Declaration of Independence (NPRs Declaration of Independence Tweets Called Propaganda, July 7).

The tradition of reading the Declaration dates back to the first Fourth and I am thankful to NPR for doing that reading every year. Thank you for printing this story that underlines the strong feelings people have in this day and time, plus many more good op-eds to keep us informed.

Susan Westbrook

Randolph

As we celebrated July Fourth: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

In 1776, there was no need to mention medical care, since purging and bleeding were the mainstays of treatment back when life expectancy was 36 years. Modern health concepts and medical science have altered disease, alleviated suffering and extended life. So it is gratifying to see our nation coming to recognize the moral imperative of affordable health care.

However, we are hobbled by a 70-year legacy of supposed free-market and employer-based insurance concepts to the realm of health care. Medicare remains the most efficient (2-3 percent overhead) and popular form of American health insurance since 1965. But younger Americans increasingly became uninsured in the two decades before Obamacare, as fewer employees received benefits from lifelong employers, and health premiums for the self-insured became progressively unaffordable. Not long ago, 62 percent of U.S. personal bankruptcy was a consequence of medical expenses and 75 percent of Americans who incurred medical bankruptcy did so while covered by flimsy under-insurance that was affordable but worthless.

The introduction of multiple patchwork, tax-funded programs (Medicaid, Medicare, SCHIP, ACA, VA, tax credits, etc.) to this system has resulted in the most expensive and inefficient health care system in the world. Pharmaceutical and health lobbies support the pretense that free-market rules apply. In the effort to avoid any taint of socialism, we spend more tax money per capita than any other developed country, but rank dead last in efficiency, equity and outcome.

As we reflect on American values and our health care, its time to become educated on the advantages of substituting an expanded Medicare for All to our citizens, business and our nation. Please join us on Sunday at 2 p.m. for a panel discussion and information meeting on Medicare for All at Main Street BookEnds in Warner, N.H.

Kenneth Dolkart, M.D.

Grantham

I was encouraged to see that a Vermont legislative committee delayed until October adopting new rules for wind turbines in the state. Although there are many legitimate concerns individuals may have concerning large wind turbines on ridgelines near their homes and community, there are also many ways of addressing those concerns without making efficient wind power installation impractical or impossible in Vermont.

Near-100 percent carbon-free energy will be essential if we are to limit our planets temperature to levels conducive to life, and perhaps even to pre-industrial levels. And because both wind and solar power will be essential ingredients in this centurys carbon-free energy system, Vermont should be very careful to develop its guidelines in such a way as not to limit Vermonts ridgeline wind potential.

Vermonts wind energy potential belongs to all of us. And like our roads, wind power generated as part of our states carbon-free energy infrastructure will serve us all. And also like our roads and other infrastructure, restrictions to construct must not be allowed based on the interests of a few who may be affected. Rather, the entire states interest must be weighed.

Carbon-free energy system development, just as for roads or other public infrastructure, should include reimbursement costs to those adversely affected. A science-based effort to define reimbursable impacts should be an important part of any new legislation impacting carbon-free energy development.

Charles McKenna

Wilder

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Hillary Clinton in June.

The official Twitter account for the Republican Party tried to make an example out of Hillary Clinton on Wednesday.

She was not having it.

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On Wednesday morning, the Twitter account @GOP went on a tweetstorm about health care, sending out videos of various Democrats criticizing the Affordable Care Act and asking how, exactly, they planned to actually fix it.

Our healthcare system is collapsing, but Democrats refuse to bring anything to the table. Wheres THEIR plan? one tweet read.

Several other tweets targeted former president Bill Clinton, Senator Elizabeth Warren, and Senator Bernie Sanders, to name a few.

Republicans were forced to regroup after several GOP senators said they did not support the bill, and during a meeting President Trump said a defeat could be OK.

But when they targeted Hillary Clinton, she fought back.

The @GOP Twitter account also sent out a video of Clinton with a quote of her followed by a question: Weve got to fix whats broken. Wheres your plan, @HillaryClinton?

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She tweeted a reply Wednesday afternoon with a zinger and a link to her campaign website, which included her promises on health care.

The exchange comes as the Republican-controlled Congress is trying to pass a bill overhauling health care policy in the US Senate. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had hoped to bring the bill for a vote before the July 4 holiday, but had to delay it amid waning support among some Republican senators, raising new doubts about whether President Trump and the GOP can deliver on their promises to repeal and replace Obamacare.

The delay also came after the Congressional Budget Office said the measure would leave 22 million more people uninsured by 2026 than Obamas 2010 statute just 1 million fewer than the number the budget office estimated would become uninsured under the House version.

As for Clinton fans? They took a figurative victory lap over the Democrats tweet.

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