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All my teachers have -- they have to go buy their own paper. >> one angry resident going "on the record" when the story broke. >> something is very, very wrong in this school district that the superintendent is getting that kind of neon. >> that resident taking on the school board at last nights meeting. >> what do you care about? do you care about the children? absolutely not. thats the last thing -- i asked myself, i said what would a man like this care about in the only thing that he cares ab...

Well you int as i -- affluent as i are giving me money. >> politicians are bribing your generation, to put their next election. john: some of my generation is poor, they worked all their life, they remember promised medicare. >> we need to keep our promises and restructure and reform our entitlement programs but were not kieving the promises t to keeps promises to next generation. >> raise the retirement age? >> absolutely, slowly entr en increase retirement age. john: there are reforms when pre...

Affluent as i are giving me money. >> it is an important place to be for my generation. you have 16 percent unemployment a third of us forced to move back in with our parents. they will make the next election toward the next generation. >> some of my generation is pour and they were promised medicare. >> they started restructuring and reforming the entitlement program to keep the promises we made. there are a lot of good policy proposals. >> like what, raise the retierments age? >> absolutely. y...

Make sure you understand im playing devils advocate here. you go to public schools, some kids go to the neighborhood schools, the ones they would walk to if theyre lucky. okay. they get everybody. charter schools get students who are maybe smarter, maybe, they get kids who definitely -- parents who care a little bit more about their upbringing, a little more money, a little more resources. is it fair to compare the results of the two kinds of schools and say charters are better because they get ...

>> but isnt that the point? this is about 2016, showing he can reach across the aisle. >> this is from early on, before he was a national political contender or anything like that. the thing is, if hes trying to reward his friends, why would he do something thats hurting suburban, affluent, property taxpayers. there was a huge counterpunch from democrats saying he was raising property taxes. that is a big vulnerability in a state like new jersey. >> the right is angry about, and not on the text ...

T already there are bills to restrict voting that are working their ways through legislatures in some 19 maps. look at in ohio. a bill to trim early voting moves forward. there is also a movement to end same-day registration and put new limits on absentee ballots. in florida on the states gulf coast, the commissioners down there have okayed the closing, catch this, of 30 polling places, which amounts to 1/3 of the countys total. the local naacp president said of the shutdowns the more affluent c...

Case of 46-year-old actor philip seymour hoffman. but evidence found by police on the scene, prescription drugs and nearly 50 envelopes of a substance believed to be heroin, strongly suggests that hoffman died of a drug overdose. the suspicion of a heroin overdose has shed light on the proliferation of the use of heroin and the changing face of users in america. heroin used to conjure a gritty 1970s image of addicts on an urban street corner with track marks up their arms. that was before the hi...

I have to constantly remind myself when waking up im given the gift of breathing again. and that if i just stay in that day and do what im supposed to do, god-willing, i can wake up tomorrow and do it again. >> hes a great human being. you hear him say he doesnt know whats in those bags, thats the problem. the bags are mixed with fentanol now. and the euphoria is what drives people in. >> well, heroin -- >> what do we do to stop this epidemic? >> we need to educate our children. i think if you l...

Though the defense says, no, no, no. anna? >> thats absolutely right, gregg, because it was the defenses own expert who said that term. he didnt say he didnt want to use that term, he regrets using that expression, but the cop tent in and of itself was the same, the kid was so affluent -- gregg: we are way out of time. keith, anna, good to see you both. thank you. >> pleasure. martha: lets go over to jenna lee and find out whats coming up on "happening now." jenna: a major push for young people ...

But philip seymour hoffmans losing battle with heroin was not unusual. >> getting drugs if you were highly affluent and traveling in artistic circle is not hard. >> reporter: david sack is here at the treatment center in a center that caters to the affluent, reportedly treating lindsay lohan and charlie sheen. >> there are a lot of facilitators. if youre in a performing arts circle or artistic circle, there are many people who view drugs as part of the creative process, as part of the lifestyle....