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Supporters of President Barack Obamas health care law celebrate outside the Supreme Court in Washington, on Thursday after the courts ruling.

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Overhaul survives 5-4 vote

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WASHINGTON Americas historic health care overhaul, certain now to touch virtually every citizens life, narrowly survived an election-year battle at the Supreme Court Thursday with the improbable help of conservative Chief Justice John Roberts. But the ruling, by a 5-4 vote, also gave Republicans unexpected

ammunition to energize supporters for the fall campaign against President Barack Obama, the bills champion and for next years vigorous efforts to repeal the law. Roberts vote, along with those of the courts four liberal justices, preserved the largest expansion of the nations social safety net in more than 45 years.

Local providers react to court ruling

BY BETHANY FULLER
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Local health care professionals still have questions about how the Affordable Care Act upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday will impact them and their patients.

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Jim Pendergraph, candidate for U.S. House District 9, and Dr. David Curtis, candidate for N.C. Senate District 44, each touted their conservative and Christian ideals during questionand-answer sessions with the Iredell County Republican Womans Club on Thursday. The ICRW meeting at Ramada Inn was meant to be a forum discussion between candidates who will face each other in the July 17 runoff election. However, Robert Pittenger, Pendergraphs opponent, and Chris Carney, Curtis opponent, failed to show for the gathering. Im really disappointed my opponent couldnt be here, said Pendergraph. I had some things I wanted to discuss. Pendergraph said Pittenger had accused him of supporting President Barack Obamas policy that grants amnesty to illegal immigrants under the age of 30 who were brought to the United States before the age of 16 and have either served in the military or earned the equivalency of a high school degree. I want them all deported, Pendergraph said. Political correctness is going to cost us more than you can imagine.

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LEGO robotics help spark a love of science in students

BY PRESTON SPENCER
pspencer@statesville.com

Christian Outreach of the Piedmont

hristian Outreach of the Piedmont (COPI) is presenting science and technology to Statesvilles economically disadvantaged students in a way the children have never experienced before. COPIs free summer program, 21st Century Community Learning Center, made a trip to Mitchell Community College on Thursday to give its 20 highest-performing students the chance to work with robotic technology. The activity is part of the summer camps focus on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). The students used MCCs LEGO

Mindstorm kits, which contain computer software and LEGO pieces, to create small, customizable and programmable robots. The students followed computer instructions to build the robots and then programmed the robots to make specic movements and maneuvers, such as shooting small balls. This is amazing, said Bridget Phifer, teacher for COPI. The kids are learning so much about robotics. Its tremendous. Our whole hope is for them to gain interest in science careers. Phifer said she was thankful for MCCs partnership because the kits cost several hundred dollars, which COPI cannot afford on its own. Clint Halsted, electronics

engineering technology instructor at MCC, said he offered the use of the kits after meeting Phifer at a career fair earlier this year where it was discovered the two had shared goals. A lot of my students coming out of high school have no experience with electronics, said Halsted. They have almost no technical skills. I know students can learn these skills at a much younger age than theyre learning them. The 20 students COPI took to MCC were in middle and high school. There are 90 Kindergarten through 12th-grade students in the federally funded summer program.

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RaeQuan McCombs, 11, works on building an electronic robot. McCombs is part of a STEM program, which allows students to learn and work on projects in science, technology, engineering and math.

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