Detroit Mayoral candidate Anthony Adams on Friday touted a crime reduction strategy that would bolster community intervention to stem violence and hopelessness.
Adams provided an overview of his crime plan before an audience of about a dozen residents and supporters in the parking lot of a gas station on the city s east side. We re dealing with issues of hopelessness in our community, Adams said. Until we begin to understand that we cannot deal with crime without addressing underlying issues of poverty, we will continuously be in a cycle of high crime rates, high poverty and high hopelessness.
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crowd funding website where teachers post wish lists called projects. you vet and validate that project before posting it to the public site. when a project is funded, we do not give the teacher cash, we fulfill the project. reporter: the project was start by a former new york city teacher. he anonymously paid for the first few projects, which created a buzz about a mysterious benefactor. that rumor spread across the bronx. teachers started posting hundreds of projects, projects which needed a lot more money than what i could afford. and we were off. reporter: donna pitts, a fifth grade teacher in connecticut, uses the website to fulfill her classroom needs. you feel a little tentative about putting such a big project up that s so expensive, but you know that one person isn t funding that. people from all across the country are contributing. it all adds up. then your project is funded before you know it. reporter: since 2000, donorschoose.org has raised more than $190 milli
of private donors and corporate sponsorships. and recognizing the need, cities like philadelphia and chicago now have their own fundraising campaigns. best says he d love to see the need for the donors choose website disappear, but if not, teachers like jason boy and donna pitts say they ll keep spending their own money so their students don t have to go without. laura engel, fox news. turning tragedy into triumph. from the sideline to the finish line, a boston marathon bombing victim makes a return to the sport. we re going to introduce you to a true survivor who refused to let anyone stand in the way of her dream. [ male announcer ] hurry in to red lobster s crabfest,
0 national parks closed when the shutdown began. on thursday, the obama administration gave states the option to use their own money to reopen some of them. new york s not the only state jumping at that offer. when you close down the statue of liberty, you close down a good portion of the tourism that comes to new york city. and that has been untold millions of dollars in damage. new york govern andrew cuomo there. new york state is paying more than $61,000 every single day to keep liberty island national park open. that money will only last through thursday. so if the shutdown isn t resolved by then, officials say they ll renegotiate and plan to reopen lady liberty park. as i just mentioned, governors across the country are putting their own funds toward keeping their national parks open. they re all hoping they ll make that money back from tourism. utah was the first state to do so. reimbursed. i guess you could say that is the price of patriotism in times like these, i think. ba