. >> reporter: james redmond has covered the story for the "greeley tribune." but there are really two stories. is it some people are on one side and others are on the other side? >> it's been a pretty vehement divide. people feel strongly one way or another. >> reporter: both versions begin at that party. >> i met tom at the door. he gave me a hug. i hugged him back. never done that before but that was fine. >> reporter: john schmitzer, ashley's uncle was there that night. along with his wife peggy. and, of course, ashley's mother jenna fox and father joel raguindin. >> she was vivacious and fun. >> reporter: the whole idea of this party was to celebrate how good things were going. it was a new year. they were happy. they were at a point when things were going really well for them. seemingly, the end of a tough few years. when ashley met tom on a dating site back in 2007 she was divorced. a single mother of two young girls. tom brought something extra to ashley's life. it was almost like he was a lifeline for her, right? >> some of their friends were even jeal

the clean water act in greeley and out of date and abdicating their responsibility. demand management focusing honda of reservoirs' an enormous amount you have to do partly are doing better alternative supply of treated wastewater is critical and i will disagree little about the comment the deceleration that is an alternative supply there is a lot of things he ought to be doing with wastewater treatment. to integrate land-use policy and to talk about energy to do what the federal level and that we integrate to corporate water stewardship a huge role to play in many others are to move toward sustainability and environmental justice into water to waver around this morning that one of the most fundamental failures issues about funding and water cutoff the epa has a standard have much a family should be willing to spend on water bills and their millions of people who pay more than that of this incident populations that have not been addressed but it gives a sense of the broad nature and the appropriate federal rules to talk about economic tools and federal funding but i.

of the sioux, he knew daniel o'connell, the man who freed the catholics in ireland, he knew horace greeley. so how could this giant stride three continue innocents and -- continents and have him disappear? he was flawed as well as brilliant. >> one line just jumped out at me at the beginning of your book, and that is to be irish in ire was to live in a land -- liarland was to -- ireland was to live in a land that was not your own. >> meagher was born in 1823, pre-victorian ireland. and it's, they're getting into probably the 700th year of being under the english boot heel. and you have to understand, i saw all these parallels later, what we now call ethnic cleansing, what we now call apartheid. and in the famine what we now call genocide. none of those terms were around. all of those were applied to the irish. so for almost 700 years it was, essentially, a crime to be irish. they took away their land, they outlawed their religion, they outlawed their language, spoken by a majority of the people. they outlawed their sport, hurling. the first thing the irish did when they moved to newfoundla

in 1868, horace greeley, editor of the new tribune, largest newspaper in the north, dominated lee for president. he endorsed robert e. lee to be president of the united states, 1860. the irony had lee had one company could not assert. is citizenship of been taken away. amnesty was lost and it came to light in a sum of 1965, and those gerald ford who finally signed the amnesty and lee received citizenship posthumously. i like to think of it as a purple heart rather than a piece of paper. >> so he almost became the father of noncitizens running for president of the united states. [laughter] >> i would like to know what you think the average citizen can do to make a difference. >> the average citizen, meaning voting speakers i'm not sure voting is making a difference. >> i can give you a simple thing to do. i tell audiences typically this or you don't realize how powerful your vote is. you don't realize how powerful your vote is. let's start with a simple statement. in a presidential election, 40% of the people vote. but they put it another way. in a presidential election, three out of f