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from Facecrooks (& Bitdefender)
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
Happy Capital Day?
Like most Americans, I’ve traditionally celebrated labor on Labor Day weekend—not organized labor or compulsory labor unions, mind you, but the noble act of physical labor to produce the things we want and need. Nothing at all wrong about that! But this year on Labor Day weekend, I’ll also be thinking about the remarkable achievements of inventors of labor-saving devices, the risk-taking venture capitalists who put their own money (not your tax money) on the line and the fact that nobody in America has to dig a ditch with a spoon or cut his lawn with a knife. Labor Day and Capital Day. I know of no good reason why we should have just one and not the other.
Happy Capital Day?
Like most Americans, I’ve traditionally celebrated labor on Labor Day weekend—not organized labor or compulsory labor unions, mind you, but the noble act of physical labor to produce the things we want and need. Nothing at all wrong about that! But this year on Labor Day weekend, I’ll also be thinking about the remarkable achievements of inventors of labor-saving devices, the risk-taking venture capitalists who put their own money (not your tax money) on the line and the fact that nobody in America has to dig a ditch with a spoon or cut his lawn with a knife. Labor Day and Capital Day. I know of no good reason why we should have just one and not the other.
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from KHQ Local News (Spokane)Cache Creek Fire Along Washington/Oregon Border Creating Bad Air Quality
KHQ.COM - We've received many calls into our newsroom and messages on our Facebook page about smoke down on the Palouse on Sunday. The smoke is actually from a fire on the Washington/Oregon/Idaho border.
The Cache Creek Fire is burning in the Hells Canyon area along the southern border adjacent to the Snake River. It was started six days ago due to lightning.
Right now the fire has burned about 43,000 acres and is only 10% contained. Full containment is expected by Friday.
As a result of that massive fire, a blanket of smoke has covered southeast Washington, north Idaho, and northeast Oregon.
A "Stage 1 Air Quality Advisory" has been issued in Idaho in Latah County, Nez Perce County, Idaho County, Lewis County and Clearwater County (outside of the Nez Perce Reservation Boundaries). The advisory warns that everyone should limit outdoor exertion.
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from The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA)
Policy update states benefits outweigh risks
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May 20, 1891: Locals pose during a celebration
at the hotel on top of Steptoe Butte.
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Prominent Palouse landmark was site of hotel
James “Cashup” Davis, born in England in 1815, came to America in 1840 to seek his fortune. He married in Ohio and headed west in a covered wagon in 1871. He settled near St. John, Wash., and later near Steptoe Butte. On a 1,600-acre homestead he farmed wheat, raised livestock and started a general store with a dance hall and rooms for rent, making the Davis ranch a popular stop for stagecoaches during the 1870s. Intermittent battles between the Army and the Nez Perce made life uncertain, but the Davis family prospered enough to use money instead of barter or credit. When asked to pay a bill, Davis would “cash up,” hence the nickname. But as rails were laid through the region, the stagecoach business dried up in the 1880s. Davis’ early success in the hospitality business led him to dream of a hotel perched atop Steptoe Butte, a rocky hill in the middle of the Palouse. He bought it from the railroad and built a road to the top. His two-story hotel, which cost $10,000, opened in 1888. After a few good years, business slowed. His wife, Mary Ann, died in 1894. In the end, Cashup lived alone in the hotel, waiting for crowds that didn’t come. He died in 1896 at 81. Teens playing in the abandoned hotel burned it down in 1911.
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