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FINAL TEXAS RIDE THOUSANDS SALUTE BUSH FUNERAL TRAIN 4141 LL ASSOCIATED PRESS COLLEGE STATION, Texas Thousands waved and cheered along the route as funeral train No. 4141 for the 41st president carried George H.W. remains to their final resting place on Thursday, his last journey as a week of national remembrance took on a decidedly personal feel in an emotional home state farewell. Some people laid coins along the tracks that wound through small town Texas so a locomotive pulling the first funeral train in nearly half a century could crunch them into souvenirs. Others snapped pictures or crowded for views so close that police helicopters overhead had to warn them back.

Elementary students hoisted a banner simply reading The scenes reminiscent of a bygone era followed the more somber tone of a funeral service at a Houston church, where former secretary of state and confidant for decades, James Baker, addressed him as Spanish for At times choking back tears, Baker praised Bush as beautiful human who had courage of a warrior. But when the time came for prudence, he maintained the greater courage of a Baker also offered Bush as a contrast to divisive, sometimes vitriolic politics, saying that his for a kinder, gentler nation was not a cynical political slogan. It came honest and unguarded from his world became a better place because George Bush occupied the White House for four said Baker. As the post-funeral motorcade carrying remains later sped down a closed highway from the church to the train station, construction workers on all levels of an unfinished building paused to watch. A man sitting on a Ferris wheel near the aquarium waved.

body was later loaded onto a special train fitted with clear sides so people could catch a glimpse of the casket as it rumbled by. The train traveled about 70 miles the first presidential funeral train journey since Dwight D. remains went from Washington to his native Kansas 49 years ago to the family plot on the grounds of presidential library at Texas University. final resting place is along- side his wife, Barbara, and Robin Bush, the daughter they lost to leukemia at age 3. In the town of Pinehurst, 55-year-old Doug Allen left eight coins on the tracks before the train passed three quarters, three dimes and two pennies.

The train left the coins flattened and slightly discolored. something always Allen said. Andy Gordon, 38, took his 6-year-old daughter, Addison, out of school so she and her 3-year-old sister, Ashtyn, could see the train pass. my children will remember the significance and the meaning of Gordon said. Addison was carrying two small American flags in her hand.

The train arrived in College Station in the late afternoon with a military band playing to the and then Texas War About 2,100 cadets in their tan dress uniforms with jackets and ties and knee-high boots waited for hours on a cold, gray day to line the road as Barbara Bush to the Bush front doors. The U.S. Navy conducted a 21 strike fighter flyover, a salute to the World War II Navy pilot, followed by a 21-gun cannon salute on the ground. At the earlier service at St. Episcopal Church, where Bush and his family regularly worshipped, the choir sang is My which was also sung at presidential inauguration in 1989.

Those gathered heard a prayer stressing the importance of service and selflessness that the president himself offered for the country at the start of his term. ASSOCIATED PRESS The flag-draped casket of former President George H.W. Bush is carried by a joint services military honor guard Thursday in Spring, Texas, as it is placed on a Union Pacific train. Maine can wait to expand after LePage leaves WL PORTLAND PRESS HERALD The judge deciding the Medicaid expansion lawsuit has denied a stay requested by the outgoing LePage administration, but set a new Feb. 1 deadline to begin enrolling people in the expanded health insurance program.

From a practical standpoint, the ruling makes the lawsuit moot. Janet Mills, a Democrat who will be sworn in Jan. 2, has vowed to begin enrolling people as soon as possible after her administration takes over. Maine voters approved Medicaid expansion in a November 2017 referendum by a 59 to 41 percent vote, but Republican Gov. Paul LePage, an expansion opponent, has refused to implement it.

About 70,000 low-income Mainers will be eligible for Medicaid under the expansion. The advocacy group behind the voter referendum, Maine Equal Justice Partners, sued the LePage administration this spring, arguing that the Maine Department of Health and Human Services was failing to follow the law by not implementing it. The court agreed, but the law has been held up for months as the legal process plays out. ruling by Superior Court Justice Michaela Murphy will delay it even further, pushing the start date for enrollments from Dec. 5 to Feb.

1, but supporters are happy with the decision. is good news in that the court is denying the request for a stay, at the same time the court is extending the deadline for rulemaking and enrollment to February said Robyn Merrill, executive director of Maine Equal Justice Partners, in a statement. extension and the deadline will ensure that the new administration that supports Medicaid expansion will be implementing the law so that done right, and people will get the care that eligible Benefits will be retroactive to July 2, according to the ruling. A LePage spokeswoman did not return messages from the Press Herald seeking comment Thursday. Murphy, the judge, wrote that on the central question in the case whether eligible Mainers should be permitted to enroll in Medicaid despite the LePage objections over funding she is siding with Maine Equal Justice Partners.

court would emphasize that the extension of the deadline to comply should not be confused with a central holding of the prior order. The people of Maine enacted a law that requires payment of Medicaid benefits to an expanded class of Maine citizens, and any person who meets the qualifications clearly spelled out in the Expansion Act are entitled to those benefits as of July 2, Murphy wrote in ruling..