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HEATHERHOELSCHER—DAILYNEWS A young boy enjoys playing on the new playground equipment at the Red Bluff River Park next to the McGlynn Pool Thursday. ple of playground equip- ment poles and edges that people were getting cut on, either by rusted-through or broken equipment. The wood fiber surfac- ing is in compliance with the Americans with Dis- ability Act regulations. The new surface settles enough to allow for wheelchairs to cross through the play- ground, said Chris Hurton, recreation supervisor. The new surfacing has fall protection for children playing on the equipment, as the material bounces back well, Hurton said. The new surface also will prevent children from get- ting splinters. Mayor Gary Jones said he went by the new play- ground with his 2-year-old son and said his son en- joyed the new slides and swings. The contract was awarded to NSP3 — North- state Playgrounds — in the amount of $59,012.23 at the October meeting and was fully funded by al- located money from the quarter-cent sales tax in- crease. Red Bluff's sales tax rate went from 7.5 percent to 7.75 percent with 85 per- cent of the proceeds going to the police and fire de- partments and 15 percent going toward supporting the Parks and Recreation Department and other city services. Park FROMPAGE1 maintaining a residence for the purpose of using narcotics, felony child abuse and numerous out- standing warrants, the re- lease said. Soto also was charged with felony child endangerment and her bail is set at $28,000. The child, whose age was not released, was taken into protective cus- tody and turned over to the Tehama County De- partment of Social Ser- vices. Officers were assisted by Tehama County District Attorney's Bureau of Inves- tigations, California High- way Patrol and the Tehama County Probation Depart- ment. The case is still under investigation and no fur- ther information was re- leased Thursday. Arrests FROM PAGE 1 By Matthew Daly TheAssociatedPress WASHINGTON The new chief of the Environmen- tal Protection Agency said Thursday he does not be- lieve that carbon dioxide is a primary contributor to global warming, a state- ment at odds with main- stream scientific consen- sus and his own agency. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt said measur- ing the effect of human activity on the climate is "very challenging" and that "there's tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact" of car- bon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. "So, no, I would not agree that (carbon diox- ide) is a primary contribu- tor to the global warming that we see," Pruitt told CNBC's "Squawk Box." Pruitt's view is contrary to mainstream climate sci- ence, including NASA, the National Oceanic and At- mospheric Administration and the EPA itself. Carbon dioxide is the biggest heat trapping force and is responsible for about 33 times more added warming than nat- ural causes, according to calculations from the No- bel Prize winning Inter- governmental Panel on Cli- mate Change organized by the United Nations. The panel's calculations mean carbon dioxide alone accounts for between 1 and 3 degrees warming, said MIT atmospheric scientist Kerry Emanuel. "Scott Pruitt is just wrong on this," he said. AT ODDS WITH CONSENSUS EPA chief: Carbon dioxide not primary cause of warming VORACIOUS CONSUMER EVAN VUCCI — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS President Donald Trump listens during a meeting in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington,on Thursday. By Jonathan Lemire The Associated Press NEW YORK Before most people are out of bed, Don- ald Trump is watching ca- ble news. Indeed, with Twitter app at the ready, the man who condemns the media as "the enemy of the people" may be themostvoraciousconsumer of news in modern presiden- tial history. Trump usually rises be- fore 6 a.m. and first watches TV in the residence before later moving to a small din- ing room in the West Wing. A short time later, he's given a stack of newspapers — in- cludingTheNewYorkTimes, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and, long his favorite, The New York Post — as well as pile ofprintedarticlesfromother sources including conserva- tive online outlets like Breit- bart News. The TVs stay on all day. Thepresidentoftenchecksin atlunchandagainintheeve- ning, when he retires to the residence,cellphoneinhand. It is a central paradox of the Trump presidency. Trump is a faithful newspa- per reader who enjoys joust- ing with reporters, an avid cable TV news viewer who frequently live-tweets what he's watching, and a reader of websites that have been il- luminatedbyhispresidential spotlight, showcasing the at- times conspiratorial corners of the internet. No recent president has been so public about his in- terest in his media coverage, norseemedsowillingtomo- bilize the powers of the fed- eral government based on a mediareportthathehasjust read, heard or watched. In fact, the power of Trump's media diet is so po- tent that White House staff- ers have, to varying degrees of success, tried to limit his televisionwatchingandcon- trol some of what he reads. The president's cable TV menufluctuates.FoxNewsis a constant, and he also fre- quentlywatchesCNNdespite deriding it as "fake news." Though he used to watch "MorningJoe,"aTrumpaide saidthepresidenthasgrown frustrated with his coverage on the MSNBC program and has largely stopped. For Trump, watching ca- ble is often an interactive ex- perience. More than dozen times since his election, he has tweeted about what he saw on TV just minutes be- fore. On Nov. 29, he posted about instituting potentially unconstitutional penalties for burning the American flag 30 minutes after Fox ran a segment on the sub- ject. On Jan. 24, he threat- ened to "send in the Feds!" to Chicago a short time after watchingaCNNsegmenton violence in the city. On Feb. 6, after CNN reported about aSaturdayNightLiveskiton the increasing power of the president's advisers, Trump just11minuteslatertweeted, "I call my own shots, largely based on an accumulation of data, and everyone knows it!" On Tuesday, Trump tweeted five different times about the news of the day being discussed on his pre- ferred morning show, Fox & Friends. MSNBC'sRachelMaddow, a frequent Trump critic, told The Associated Press that she finds it "unsettling" that Trump"maybegettingmost of his understanding of the world based on whatever he stumbles upon on cable." WhilepleasedthatTrump is following the media, Mad- dow noted that "the White House is designed as an in- strument to feed the presi- dent of the United States ex- pertly curated and highly selective, well-vetted infor- mation from every corner of the world." Others note the president is there may be some smart politics behind Trump's me- dia diet. He "advertised getting his news the same way his supporters do, which helps make a connection," said Tobe Berkovitz, a communi- cations professor at Boston University. The president's advisers try to curb his cable con- sumption during the work- day. But there are no limits when he returns to the res- idence. Healsoavidlywatcheshis ownstaff'sTVperformances, includingWhiteHousePress Secretary Sean Spicer's daily briefing. Aides have been known to shape their public commentstopleasethepres- ident or try to influence him. Trump's consumption of cable news differs consid- erably from previous com- manders in chief, who have atleastclaimedtobediscon- nected from the cable chat- ter. Jay Carney, White House presssecretaryunderBarack Obama, has claimed that Obama "doesn't watch cable news," though that did not keep the former president fromcriticizingthemedium. Where Trump differs most from his presidential predecessors is his reliance on getting news online — even though he rarely uses a computer and prefers aides to print out articles for him to read. What he was seeing on Twitter and conservative websites like the Drudge Report and the conspir- acy-laden Infowars helped forge his political persona — and his public misinforma- tion campaign questioning whether Obama was born in the United States. And social media has be- come a way for some news sources to gain an audience with the president. Last Thursday, as ques- tions swirled around con- tacts between Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the Russian ambassador, a Reddit user posted a picture of Russian President Vlad- imir Putin and New York Sen. Charles Schumer from a 2003 photo-op. Two hours later, the blog The Gateway Pundit reprinted the photo with the headline "Where's the Outrage?" The image careened across the internet from an Infowars editor's post to the Drudge Report to Trump's own Twitter account as he delivered that outrage, de- manding an investigation into Schumer's alleged ties to Putin. Media the enemy? Trump is sure an insatiable consumer By Martha Bellisle and Jennifer Sinco Kelleher The Associated Press SEATTLE Legal challenges against President Don- ald Trump's revised travel ban mounted Thursday as Washington state said it would renew its request to block the executive order. It came a day after Ha- waii launched its own law- suit, and Washington state Attorney General Bob Fer- guson said both Oregon and New York had asked to join his state's legal action. Mas- sachusetts Attorney Gen- eral Maura Healey said the state is joining fellow states in challenging the revised travel ban. Washington was the first state to sue over the origi- nal ban, which resulted in Judge James Robart in Se- attle halting its implemen- tation around the coun- try. Ferguson said the state would ask Robart to rule that his temporary restrain- ing order against the first ban applies to Trump's re- vised action. Trump's revised ban bars new visas for people from six predominantly Muslim countries: Somalia, Iran, Syria, Sudan, Libya and Yemen. It also temporarily shuts down the U.S. refugee program. Unlike the initial or- der, the new one says cur- rent visa holders won't be affected, and removes lan- guage that would give pri- ority to religious minorities. Hawaii Attorney General Douglas Chin said Thurs- day that the state could not stay silent on Trump's travel ban because of Hawaii's unique culture and history. Hawaii depends heavily on tourism, and the revised ban would hurt the state's economy, he said. The courts need to hear "that there's a state where ethnic diversity is the norm, where people are welcomed with aloha and respect," Chin said. He noted that the new travel ban order comes just after the 75th anniver- sary of the Feb. 19, 1942, ex- ecutive order by President Franklin Roosevelt that sent Japanese Americans were sent to internment camps during World War II. That order was put in place after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Hawaii had an internment camp. Ferguson said it's not the government, but the court, that gets to decide whether the revised order is differ- ent enough that it would not be covered by previous temporary restraining or- der. "It cannot be a game of whack-a-mole for the court," he said. "In our view, this new executive order contains many of the same legal weaknesses as the first and reinstates some of the identical policies as the original." White House spokesman Sean Spicer said Thursday the administration believed the revised travel ban will stand up to legal scrutiny. "We feel very confident with how that was crafted and the input that was given," Spicer said. Ferguson said he was pleased that attorneys gen- eral from New York and Oregon had sought to take part in the legal action. "We have a strong case and they are willing to join our efforts," he said of his fellow Democrats. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman in a state- ment called the executive order "a Muslim ban by an- other name." Other states that have filed briefs supporting Washington's initial law- suit include California, Con- necticut, Delaware, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and Virginia. EXECUTIVE ORDER Legal challenges to Trump's travel ban mount ELAINE THOMPSON — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson speaks at a news conference about the state's response to President Trump's revised travel ban Thursday in Seattle. MICHAELARTHURKEAOHOULUJAN August 25, 1982 ~ February 19, 2017 Michael Lujan passed away on February 19, 2017 near Red Bluff, CA. He was born on August 25, 1982 at the University of Washington Hospital in Seattle. Michael at- tended schools in Washington, Colorado, Connecticut and California. He was 34 years old. He died due to an acci- dental drowning at Jelly's Ferry Road while attempting to cross the severely flooded roadway in a canoe which capsized in very turbulent water. Michael graduated from Claremont High School in Claremont, CA. He was a kind, sensitive and loving individual. He made friends easily and understood those whose lives were in disaray. He was very compassionate about animals, especially cats, and had volunteered at several animal shelters. Michael is survived by his wife Myra Martinez and step daughter Keyla Vargas of Martinez. His mother and step- father Laura and Jon Pate and sister Andrea Collette of Red Bluff. His maternal grandparents Herman and Carla Lujan, Uncles Mark Lujan and Timothy Lujan, cousins TJ Lujan and Cody Lujan of Vallejo. Also, his Aunt Jean Small and cousin Jennifer Oscarson of Walnut Creek. His paternal Aunt and Uncle Schelly and Don Wohnoutka, a cousin Nikki, grandparents Ron and Sue Neal, and a sister Ambrosia Williams all of Washington. He will be sadly missed by his many relatives and friends. A gathering of family and friends from the Bay Area was held Saturday, March 4, 2017 at 1:00pm at the Second Baptist Church at 1020 Las Juntas in Martinez, CA. There will be an additional event in the near future. Obituaries FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 2017 REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM |NEWS | 7 A