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New York Post
19-07-2025
- New York Post
New Jersey man exacts gruesome revenge on seagull who stole his kid's snack
That's just not gonna fly. A New Jersey man who decapitated a seagull that dared to steal a French fry from his daughter has been indicted on animal cruelty charges by a grand jury. Franklin Ziegler and his daughter were on Surfside Pier at Morey's Piers & Beachfront Waterparks in North Wildwood during Independence Day week 2024 when the pesky seagull swiped some of the child's snack. Advertisement After taking revenge, Ziegler, 30, then carried the dead seabird around the amusement park before asking the staff if they could provide him with a trash bag. 3 The seagull paid the ultimate price for the stolen snack. Brian – Onlookers who spotted Ziegler's gruesome souvenir called the cops. Advertisement Ziegler, of Cape May, allegedly became hostile with police and was charged with animal cruelty and resisting arrest. 'During the investigation, Zeigler was irate and uncooperative with officers on an unrelated investigation, which resulted in his arrest for Disorderly Conduct and Resisting Arrest, both Disorderly Persons offenses,' the North Wildwood Police Department said in a Facebook post. LINK? The Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 makes it illegal to 'pursue, hunt, take, capture, kill, or sell' seagulls and other migratory birds. 3 Franklin Zeigler was recently indicted on animal cruelty charges, authorities said. Franklin Clair Zeigler III / Facebook Advertisement 3 The irate New Jersey dad allegedly walked around with the seagull's remains, authorities said. Morey's Piers & Beachfront Water Parks / Facebook Barry Fast, who has run Seagull Control Systems in New Rochelle for more than 20 years, says the seabirds can be fearless if they associate people with food. 'We deal with seagulls eating people's food all the time at outdoor dining restaurants,' Fast said. 'Seagulls even attack restaurant workers bringing trash bags to dumpsters.' Advertisement According to Fast, Seagull Control Systems receives two or three legitimate calls for help with seagull trouble a day. He says controlling seagull activity on boardwalks is a difficult job. 'The solutions that we have must mitigate seagull infestation without disrupting people on the boardwalk,' Fast said. 'Seagulls are flocking birds; they tend to colonize locations where they have a constant food source.' Ziegler could not be reached for comment.
Atlantic
01-07-2025
- Health
- Atlantic
The Biggest Anti-Abortion Victory Since ‘Dobbs'
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Amid all the news coverage of the GOP's spending-bill extravaganza—the late-night deficit debates, the strategy sessions, the hallway blanket-wearing —one piece of the package has received comparatively little attention: a provision that would block abortion clinics from receiving Medicaid funds for any of the non-abortion services they provide. During the past three years, abortion restrictions have mostly taken effect mostly in red and purple states—where legislatures have voted to enact them. But if this proposed provision passes, clinics all over the country will be affected. It would 'have a pretty devastating impact on a lot of providers,' Mary Ziegler, a legal scholar and an Atlantic contributor, told me. Some would probably close, and others would have to limit the number of patients they serve. It's 'a really big deal,' she said, with perhaps the most significant consequences for abortion access since the passage of the 1976 Hyde Amendment, which bans federal funds for abortions in most cases. All of this is complicated—which helps explain the dearth of attention to the matter. But funding for independent abortion providers works like this: Clinics receive money from a variety of sources, including local donations, insurance payments, and Medicaid reimbursements. (Yes, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America receives millions in contributions every year, but most of those funds are earmarked for advocacy, Ziegler told me.) A big percentage of Planned Parenthood's patient pool relies on Medicaid. In keeping with the Hyde Amendment, providers are not reimbursed for abortions, but they do receive federal payments for other services, such as breast-cancer screenings, Pap smears, and STI testing. This new legislation would make Planned Parenthood and other clinics ineligible for any kind of Medicaid reimbursement, Ziegler said. If clinics are not paid for these services, then, in many cases, they won't be able to provide them. Maybe some clinics would be able to find funds from state legislatures or local donors to fill in the gaps, but many wouldn't. An initial version of the bill passed by the House would have blocked Medicaid funding for 10 years, but the current version, which passed the Senate earlier today, would prohibit that funding for just one year after the law's passage. (That's right—we'll all be back here again soon.) The cuts represent a pretty clear departure from President Donald Trump's 'leave it to the states' approach to abortion policy. They'd affect clinics everywhere, not just in places where Americans have grown accustomed to hearing about abortion restrictions. Most Planned Parenthood clinics at risk of closure under the bill are in states where abortion is legal, the organization says. That's partly because more blue states have recently expanded Medicaid. Up to one-third of patients at Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, for example, are on Medicaid, and reimbursement totals in the millions of dollars, PPNNE CEO Nicole Clegg told me. 'We'll work with our state leaders' and increase local fundraising efforts, she said. But it will be difficult to make up the difference. The bill's passage is part of an abortion one-two punch: Last week, the Supreme Court made it easier for states to deny Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood. 'This is tremendous progress on achieving a decades-long goal that has proved elusive in the past,' Marjorie Dannenfelser, the president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, told me in a statement about the SCOTUS decision and the GOP bill. 'This proves what we've said all along: Congress can cut Planned Parenthood's funding—and they just did,' Kristan Hawkins, the president of Students for Life of America, wrote on X about the bill. 'The moral obligation is clear: If we can do it for 1 year, we must do it for good.' The events of this week also represent a slight strategy change. Reporters like me who have long covered the anti-abortion movement anticipated that, under the second Trump presidency, activists would shift their efforts in a different direction: attempting to outlaw abortion via the 1873 Comstock Act. Many who follow this debate agree that they probably still will. But so far, Trump 'hasn't really been doing a lot of what the anti-abortion movement has wanted,' Ziegler said. She wonders whether it was 'a self-conscious decision to go where they thought Republicans already were'—to work toward withholding funding, which is probably politically safer for the GOP than pursuing a relatively unpopular outright abortion ban. Next stop: the House of Representatives. Lawmakers there took up the bill today and want to make it law by Friday. But defenders of abortion access are keeping an eye out. As always, with a razor-thin Republican majority, anything could happen. A big, bad, very ugly bill Jonathan Chait: Congressional Republicans didn't have to do this. A classic childhood pastime is fading. Today's News President Donald Trump visited ' Alligator Alcatraz,' a makeshift migrant-detention center in the Florida Everglades, and said that he wants to see more detention centers in 'many states.' Trump wrote in a social-media post that the Department of Government Efficiency might need to reexamine government subsidies for Elon Musk's businesses. Zohran Mamdani officially won New York City's Democratic mayoral primary by 12 points. Evening Read The Birth-Rate Crisis Isn't as Bad as You've Heard—It's Worse By Marc Novicoff First, the bad news: Global fertility is falling fast. The aging populations of rich countries are relying on ever fewer workers to support their economy, dooming those younger generations to a future of higher taxes, higher debt, or later retirement—or all three … By about 2084, according to the gold-standard United Nations 'World Population Prospects,' the global population will officially begin its decline. Rich countries will all have become like Japan, stagnant and aging. And the rest of the world will have become old before it ever got the chance to become rich. Sorry, did I say 'bad news'? That was actually the good news, based on estimates that turned out to be far too rosy. More From The Atlantic Watch. F1 (out now in theaters) threads the nitty-gritty details of Formula One racing into a traditional underdog drama, David Sims writes. Read. Soft Core, by Brittany Newell, is a noirish novel set in the world of strip clubs and BDSM dungeons that ventures beyond titillation and into the daily grind, Lily Burana writes.
Yahoo
04-06-2025
- General
- Yahoo
CSU student success manager running for seat on Poudre School District Board of Education
Coronda Ziegler, a student success manager at Colorado State University, is running for a seat on the Poudre School District Board of Education in the November 2025 election. Ziegler is running for the District D seat, representing northwest Fort Collins. Jim Brokish, who currently holds that seat, is not running for reelection. Tom Griggs, who spent most of his professional career teaching teachers, and Mike Thomas, a teacher at Poudre Community Academy, have also announced their candidacy for the District D seat. Board of Education members must reside in the district that they represent but are elected by voters throughout the school district. Ziegler and her husband, Joe, are the parents of three children attending PSD schools. Her primary reason for running, Ziegler said, is 'to make sure that it is a sustainable district that speaks to the needs of all students, families, teachers and so on and so forth, and making sure that we are having broad considerations in the work that we do.' At CSU, Ziegler's job as a senior student success manager focuses on improving the university's graduation and student retention rates and 'developing a good student experience,' she said. More: Poudre School District raising pay for teachers, classified employees 'I help advance our student success efforts across the university in different departments, units, in classrooms and cocurricular activities,' Ziegler told the Coloradoan. 'My ultimate goal is how do students succeed?' Ziegler previously worked in housing and dining services and academic advising roles at CSU, her employer since 2007. She has taught undergraduate- and graduate-level courses, as well, according to her biographical information on the CSU website. 'I believe I would bring a broad perspective and understanding to the Board of Education,' Ziegler said. 'It's not just a single issue when I think about how we use data to make decisions, and understanding that data is both quantitative and qualitative. 'What does the budget and funding look like? How do we spend our money, and how do we get more funding in the district. I believe I bring some translatable experience that will enhance the board.' Ziegler said she's in her mid-40s while declining to give her precise age. Her husband is the education director for The Family Center/La Familia, a family resource center providing childcare and supportive services focused on the local Latinx community. One of her strengths, Ziegler said, is the ability to have meaningful dialogue and build relationships with people from diverse backgrounds. Ziegler earned a bachelor's degree in general science and master's degree in higher education administration from Fort Hays State in her native Kansas and a doctorate in education and human resource studies from CSU. 'One thing I want to highlight is that I represent a segment of the population that consists of folks who are working day to day raising their children,' Ziegler said. 'The middle-class piece, to me, I think is important. Being in the throes of affordability in Northern Colorado is part of my life every single day, and you need people to talk about that. That's part of a child's experience, too.' Two candidates in other districts have also announced their candidacy for Board of Education seats in the November 2025 election — Sabrina Herrick in District C (northeast Fort Collins) and Andrew Spain in District E (northern and western Larimer County, including Wellington, Red Feather Lakes and Poudre Canyon). Reporter Kelly Lyell covers education, breaking news, some sports and other topics of interest for the Coloradoan. Contact him at kellylyell@ and This article originally appeared on Fort Collins Coloradoan: Coronda Ziegler running for seat on PSD Board of Education
Yahoo
31-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Ziegler Cat hosts Cat Operator Challenge in Sioux City
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (KCAU) — Ziegler Cat in Sioux City held one of three local operator challenge events in the search for the best equipment operator. Competitors were given three events to challenge their skills of balancing, adjusting, and driving. A spokesperson from Ziegler said this a great way to let local operator show off their talents. 'It's great. It's fun. It's fun to see local people come out and show showcase their talents, and it's something that people drive past every day but don't necessarily appreciate. So the fact that we can put this on for them is great, and today is an opportunity to celebrate them and their skill sets in operating,' said Digital Marketing Manager Bryant Johnson. One of those operators participating in the event is Kait Burds, who competed at regionals a couple years ago. While she will be competing to beat her previous performances and competitors, she says that it's just a great way to show off their skills. 'You're going to see some experienced people make mistakes. They're going to see some laughs. They'll probably see some things that look super easy, and they don't understand the level of difficulty that comes through it, but they're going to see us in our element. And a lot of times, when we're tucked away on the job, not a lot of people get to see us, and we don't really get to show off, so this is kind of a really good opportunity for that,' explained Competitor Kait Burds. Prizes will be awarded for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place and each participant also will receive a Ziegler merchandise gift card. An overall winner will be selected after the two other local events are held in June and July. That winner will be nominated to participate in the Caterpillar Regional Operator Challenge to compete for an opportunity to participate in the Caterpillar Global Operator Challenge finals at Conexpo in 2026 in Las Vegas. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
29-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Ziegler Closes $39,240,000 Tax-Exempt Bonds for Bethesda Senior Living Communities
CHICAGO, May 29, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Ziegler is pleased to announce the successful closing of Bethesda Senior Living Communities (BSLC) $39,240,000 Series 2025 Tax-Exempt Bonds for the Senior Living Finance Practice. The Bonds were issued through the Colorado Health Facilities Authority. Ziegler is pleased to announce the successful closing of Bethesda Senior Living Communities (BSLC) $39,240,000 Series 2025 Tax-Exempt Bonds for the Senior Living Finance Practice. The Bonds were issued through the Colorado Health Facilities Authority. Bethesda Senior Living Communities ("BSLC") and its parent, Bethesda Foundation, own, operate and manage 20 senior living communities located in the states of Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, Nebraska and Texas. BSLC is ranked #29 on the 2024 LeadingAge Ziegler 200 listing of America's largest senior living providers. As of December 31, 2024, BSLC owned or managed 593 ILUs, 1,359 ALUs, and 282 Memory Care units, for a total of 2,234. Bethesda Foundation is a faith-based 501(c)(3) corporation based in Colorado Springs, CO. Its roots in senior living and charitable giving date back to 1959. BSLC and the Bethesda Foundation specialize in middle income rental housing and services for assisted living and memory care residents. BSLC and the Bethesda Foundation also serve independent living residents, primarily through the communities they manage (but do not own) in Arizona. The proceeds of the bonds will be used to finance expansions at three locations, which will add 91 memory care units and convert certain units from memory care to assisted living. The Series 2025 Bonds are rated "BBB" (Stable Outlook) by Standard & Poor's. This rating level was a two-notch upgrade to the prior rating of BB+. BSLC's Series 2018A Bonds, which are senior to the Series 2025 Bonds, were also upgraded two notches to "BBB+". Investor reception to the issue was strong, despite market uncertainty and volatility at the time of pricing. In connection with the financing, BSLC elected to add its Phoenix campus to the BSLC Obligated Group, which contributed to the rating upgrade and investor interest in the offering. Ziegler's Will Carney, Managing Director and Senior Investment Banker to BSLC said "Bethesda and Ziegler have had a strong relationship and mutual commitment to nonprofit senior living since the 1990s. It is a great honor to continue to serve an organization that is so focused on its mission and excellence in the care of seniors. Ziegler was very pleased to facilitate BSLC's new project financing using fixed rate bonds. We welcomed the opportunity to help investors refamiliarize themselves with the great work of BSLC given the seven years that have passed since their last financing in 2018". Nathan Merrill, Chief Financial Officer of BSLC, commented, "Bethesda Senior Living has long respected and valued Ziegler's expertise supporting the non-profit senior living sector. We are thrilled that this financing enables us to serve more residents with memory care services, in more of our markets, than ever before. We appreciate the Ziegler team advising us on all aspects of the financing process and guiding us to a successful offering." Ziegler is the nation's leading underwriter of financing for not-for-profit senior living providers. Ziegler offers creative, tailored solutions to its senior living clientele, including investment banking, financial risk management, merger and acquisition services, seed capital, FHA/HUD, capital and strategic planning as well as senior living research, education, and communication. For more information about Ziegler, please visit us at About Ziegler: Ziegler is a privately held, national boutique investment bank, capital markets and proprietary investments firm. It has a unique focus on healthcare, senior living and education sectors, as well as general municipal and structured finance. Headquartered in Chicago with regional and branch offices throughout the U.S., Ziegler provides its clients with capital raising, strategic advisory services, fixed income sales, underwriting and trading as well as Ziegler Credit, Surveillance and Analytics. To learn more, visit Certain comments in this news release represent forward-looking statements made pursuant to the provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. This client's experience may not be representative of the experience of other clients, nor is it indicative of future performance or success. The forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, in particular, the overall financial health of the securities industry, the strength of the healthcare sector of the U.S. economy and the municipal securities marketplace, the ability of the Company to underwrite and distribute securities, the market value of mutual fund portfolios and separate account portfolios advised by the Company, the volume of sales by its retail brokers, the outcome of pending litigation, and the ability to attract and retain qualified employees. Media Contact Christine McCarty, Ziegler, 3125961617, cmccarty@ View original content: SOURCE Ziegler Error while retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error while retrieving data Error while retrieving data Error while retrieving data Error while retrieving data
