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Unemployment checks to be cut by 22 percent starting May 19
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Making Your Own Natural Air Freshener and Oil Diffuser
The number of home fragrance products available today is staggering. There are scented candles, potpourri, scented sprays, oil diffusers, incense and plug-in room deodorizers. But before shelling out for products that contain a host of potentially harmful toxins and chemicals, consider making your own air fresheners. A few drops of highly-concentrated essential oils can add a lovely dose of natural fragrance to your home.
________Making Your Own Natural Air Freshener and Oil Diffuser
The number of home fragrance products available today is staggering. There are scented candles, potpourri, scented sprays, oil diffusers, incense and plug-in room deodorizers. But before shelling out for products that contain a host of potentially harmful toxins and chemicals, consider making your own air fresheners. A few drops of highly-concentrated essential oils can add a lovely dose of natural fragrance to your home.
from The Star
Colorama section inside this issue
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from The Spokesman-Review
Texas launches criminal probe into plant explosion
Associated Press
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Global hackers pilfer millions in debit card scheme
Mideast banks hit by debit card scheme
Colleen Long Associated Press
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Feds reach deal with University of Montana
Matt Gouras Associated Press
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Area around WSU-owned property has violent history
Jody Lawrence-Turner The Spokesman-Review
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CdA colleges expanding
Joint-use building proposed on old mill site
Scott Maben The Spokesman-Review
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Report warned finish line ‘vulnerable’
Assessment lacked specifics, officials contend
Brian Bennett McClatchy-Tribune
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U.S. can have Afghan bases, Karzai says
Kathy Gannon Associated Press
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Pakistani election preceded by violence
Abduction, attacks seen across country
Rebecca Santana Associated Press
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Hezbollah expects weapons from Syria
Bassem Mroue Associated Press
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Senate panel debates standard for secure border
Heart of immigration bill remains largely intact
Lisa Mascaro McClatchy-Tribune
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In brief: From Wire Reports:
Washington – House Republicans are willing to give President Barack Obama a rare win, the chairman of the Education and Workforce Committee said Thursday in outlining a deal that would let college students avoid a costly hike on their student loans.
Rep. John Kline, R-Minn., told the Associated Press that his GOP-led panel would support an idea included in Obama’s budget proposal that links the interest rates on student loans to market rates. To calm fears of runaway interest rates, Kline said his proposal also would include a cap on interest rates that was not part of Obama’s proposal.
Kline’s proposal also would end different interest rates for subsidized and unsubsidized undergraduate loans. Both would pay the same rates, which would be linked to 10-year Treasury notes.
Federally subsidized Stafford student loan rates will double on July 1, unless Congress steps in. During the recession that began in December 2007, Congress temporarily lowered the interest rates, bottoming out at 3.4 percent.
The rates were scheduled to return to the pre-recession level of 6.8 percent last July 1, before Congress and the White House agreed during the presidential campaign to a one-year reprieve.
Statue of Liberty to reopen for July 4th celebrations
New York – The Statue of Liberty will reopen just in time to celebrate the Fourth of July – eight months after 75 percent of Liberty Island was submerged in during the devastation of Superstorm Sandy.
The statue has been closed since Sandy struck the region on Oct. 29 and damaged much of Liberty Island’s infrastructure. The statue itself is on higher ground and was not damaged.
A spokeswoman for the National Park Service said the nearby Ellis Island Immigration Museum will be partially open on July 4.
Sandy brought 8 feet of water to Liberty Island, destroying boilers and electrical systems.
Vietnamese-American’s defamation award restored
OLYMPIA – Washington’s Supreme Court has reinstated a $310,000 jury award to an Olympia man who sued five fellow Vietnamese-Americans for defaming him by calling him a communist.
Duc Tan sued the group in 2004. He alleged that the group defamed him by suggesting in a mass email and in an article published online that he was operating on behalf of the Viet Cong, according to the Olympian newspaper.
The group said he displayed the Viet Cong flag at his Vietnamese language school and that he and his organization, the Vietnamese Community of Thurston County, “planned community events on dates associated with the Viet Cong for the purpose of celebrating North Vietnam.”
An appeals court had overturned the jury’s verdict, but the high court reinstated it in a 6-1 decision, saying the allegations did not constitute protected free speech.
Two of the defendants who made the allegations spent years in Viet Cong labor camps after the communist army captured Saigon in 1975.
Average Idaho hourly wage now 45th among all states
BOISE – A new U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics report shows the average hourly wage in Idaho was $18.48 last year, down from 2011 averages and about 84 percent of the national average wage in 2012.
Overall, Idaho now ranks 45th for its average, down one spot from its 2011 ranking.
The report shows that among Idaho’s largest metro areas, earnings for all occupations except farming, fishing and forestry fell below the national average.
Idahoans in legal, computer or management professions are also earning below the average. For example, in Boise, those professionals earn between 18 and 24 percent less than national averages in those categories.
Inslee calls for steps to woo 777X production
MUKILTEO, Wash. – Washington Gov. Jay Inslee wants to streamline government permitting and review aerospace incentives in order to help convince Boeing Co. to build its 777X jetliner in the state.
Inslee said Thursday that other strategies lawmakers need to implement include improving the state’s transportation corridors and investing in education and workforce training programs. Inslee said those efforts can help preserve thousands of jobs.
Everett Mayor Ray Stephanson said the city has been anticipating the 777X for more than a year.
OLYMPIA – Washington’s Supreme Court has reinstated a $310,000 jury award to an Olympia man who sued five fellow Vietnamese-Americans for defaming him by calling him a communist.
Duc Tan sued the group in 2004. He alleged that the group defamed him by suggesting in a mass email and in an article published online that he was operating on behalf of the Viet Cong, according to the Olympian newspaper.
The group said he displayed the Viet Cong flag at his Vietnamese language school and that he and his organization, the Vietnamese Community of Thurston County, “planned community events on dates associated with the Viet Cong for the purpose of celebrating North Vietnam.”
An appeals court had overturned the jury’s verdict, but the high court reinstated it in a 6-1 decision, saying the allegations did not constitute protected free speech.
Two of the defendants who made the allegations spent years in Viet Cong labor camps after the communist army captured Saigon in 1975.
Average Idaho hourly wage now 45th among all states
BOISE – A new U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics report shows the average hourly wage in Idaho was $18.48 last year, down from 2011 averages and about 84 percent of the national average wage in 2012.
Overall, Idaho now ranks 45th for its average, down one spot from its 2011 ranking.
The report shows that among Idaho’s largest metro areas, earnings for all occupations except farming, fishing and forestry fell below the national average.
Idahoans in legal, computer or management professions are also earning below the average. For example, in Boise, those professionals earn between 18 and 24 percent less than national averages in those categories.
Inslee calls for steps to woo 777X production
MUKILTEO, Wash. – Washington Gov. Jay Inslee wants to streamline government permitting and review aerospace incentives in order to help convince Boeing Co. to build its 777X jetliner in the state.
Inslee said Thursday that other strategies lawmakers need to implement include improving the state’s transportation corridors and investing in education and workforce training programs. Inslee said those efforts can help preserve thousands of jobs.
Everett Mayor Ray Stephanson said the city has been anticipating the 777X for more than a year.
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Police: Ohio captive forced to miscarry
Prosecutors may seek death penalty
Thomas J. Sheeran Associated Press
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Hospitals need surgery on pricing
Shawn Vestal The Spokesman-Review
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Idaho education boss seeks higher standards
Luna: ‘Good is no longer good enough’
Scott Maben The Spokesman-Review
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Officials say state courts website has been hacked
Some personal data may have been accessed during breach
Rachel La Corte Associated Press
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Residential real estate market improves
Washington state home sales up 14.7 percent in first quarter
Nicholas K. Geranios Associated Press
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Too few workers for housing surge
Alex Veiga Associated Press
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‘Bandit’ pleads guilty, hopes for ‘beautiful life’
Ted Warren Associated Press
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Anchorage should see summer boom
Associated Press
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Social media slays Disney’s ‘Day of Dead’ trademark bid
Russell Contreras Associated Press
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Sears to offer lease-to-own at all its stores
Parent company may expand program to Kmart outlets, too
Anne D’Innocenzio Associated Press
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Sales tax receipts up in all sectors of state’s economy
Jim Camden The Spokesman-Review
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BLM to hand over former railroad property to CdA
Plans are to make site official recreation area
Scott Maben The Spokesman-Review
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opinion:
Amy Goodman
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from The Wenatchee World
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