Saturday, March 21, 2015

In the news, Sunday, March 8, 2015


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from Allen West
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Benghazi probe chief “HUGE GAPS in Hillary Clinton email record”

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from Americas Freedom Fighters
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HEY AL! HOW’S THAT GLOBAL WARMING DOING? ANTARCTIC SEA ICE REACHES RECORD LEVELS!

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from The Atlantic (& CityLab)
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Time to Kill Daylight Saving
The changing of the clocks—which happened once again Sunday morning—is wasteful, unnecessary, and even dangerous.

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from The Blaze (& Glenn Beck)
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from Breitbart
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from The Daily Caller
from Freedom Outpost
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George Soros and Barack Hussein Obama - Nazis & Marxists Together Again

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from The Heritage Foundation
from MEDIAite

Colin Powell Still Sees ‘Dark Vein of Racism’ in GOP, Country at Large

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from NaturalNews.com
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Inuit Elders tell NASA Earth Axis Shifted

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from New York Times
from The Spokesman-Review

Spokane seeks seat at talks on proposed Vancouver oil terminal
A BNSF freight train pulling 103 cars of crude oil from North Dakota’s Bakken formation derailed in rural Illinois last week. Last month, a similar incident occurred in rural West Virginia when an oil train carrying 70,000 barrels of Bakken oil derailed and exploded. Any one of these incidents could lead to the evacuation of 20,000 people if they happened in downtown Spokane; there’s no telling the extent of the lives lost or property damaged in the city’s core in such a scenario.

Train derailment spill threatens Mississippi
An oil train derailment and spill in northwest Illinois poses an “imminent and substantial danger” of contaminating the Mississippi River, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Saturday.

Oregon, Idaho, and Washington residents are among the top polluters in the nation when it comes to fine particle emissions from burning wood to heat homes.

Obama marks 50th anniversary of Selma’s ‘Bloody Sunday’
America’s racial history “still casts its long shadow upon us,” President Barack Obama said Saturday as he stood in solidarity and remembrance with civil rights activists whose beatings by police a half-century ago galvanized much of the nation against racial oppression and hastened passage of historic voting rights for minorities. Tens of thousands of people joined to commemorate the “Bloody Sunday” march of 1965 and take stock of the struggle for equality.

Nothing but questions in killing of Spokane man last fall
Zachary Lamb had a job he liked and had recently gotten a promotion. He and his fiancée were planning a wedding and had just learned they were expecting a baby. It all ended abruptly when he was gunned down in the street outside his apartment near 10th Avenue and Elm Street just before midnight Nov. 7 as his fiancée sat in their car. Police have little evidence, few clues and no suspects, despite months of investigation.

Spokane County’s homicides in 2014

Kentucky GOP backs Paul’s dual campaigns
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul took his first step toward running for president with state party leaders Saturday endorsing his plan for a presidential caucus in 2016. The move clears the way for Paul to run for president and for re-election to his Senate seat without breaking a state law that bans candidates from appearing on the ballot twice in the same election.

Canadian soldier killed by friendly fire in Iraq
A Canadian special operations soldier has become the first fatality among international troops deployed to counter the Islamic State group, the Canadian Defense Ministry announced Saturday.

Russia detains two suspects in Nemtsov assassination
Russia’s security service head said Saturday that two suspects in the killing of leading opposition figure Boris Nemtsov have been detained. Russian news reports later cited an official as saying one of them had served with police troops in Chechnya.

Islamic State demolishing another ancient Iraqi city
Islamic State militants continued their campaign targeting cultural heritage sites in territories they control in northern Iraq, looting and damaging the ancient city of Hatra just one day after bulldozing the historic city of Nimrud, according to Iraqi government officials and local residents. The destruction in Hatra comes as the militant Islamic group fended off an Iraqi army offensive in Saddam Hussein’s hometown and fought pitched battles in eastern Syria in an area populated by predominantly Christian villages.

In brief: Islamic State group attacks Libyan oil field
Fighters from the Islamic State group attacked an oil field in Libya, killing several members of the security detail at the site, and nine foreign workers are missing, European officials said Saturday.
Five dead in Mali restaurant shooting
A masked gunman sprayed bullets in a restaurant popular with foreigners in Mali’s capital early Saturday, killing five people, including a French person and a Belgian national, officials and witnesses said.
Ukraine rebels hold beauty pageant
Trading in their combat boots and fatigues for high heels and ball gowns, female rebel fighters who normally fight Ukrainian soldiers took Saturday off to take part in a beauty pageant.
Circus animals may be euthanized
The head of Mexico’s circus owners’ association says his group’s animals may die or be put down because of a ban on animal acts in circuses.

Boko Haram aligns with Islamic State
Nigeria’s homegrown Boko Haram group, newly weakened by a multinational force that has dislodged it from a score of northeastern towns, reportedly pledged formal allegiance to the Islamic State group.

Protests follow Wisconsin police shooting
The fatal shooting of an unarmed black 19-year-old by a white police officer, who authorities say fired after he was assaulted, prompted protesters Saturday to take to the college town’s streets with chants of “black lives matter.” Madison police Chief Mike Koval said he understood the anger, assuring demonstrators his department would defend their rights as he implored the community to act with restraint. Tony Robinson died Friday night after being shot in his apartment following a confrontation with Officer Matt Kenny, who had forced his way inside after hearing a disturbance while responding to a call, authorities and neighbors said.

Public officials, private emails: Transparency dilemma roils states
The types of transparency questions surrounding Hillary Rodham Clinton’s use of personal email to conduct business while secretary of state have led in recent years to access fights in state capitals throughout the country. Governors and other elected officials routinely use private emails, laptops and cellphones for government business, a popular strategy that sometimes helps them avoid public scrutiny of their actions.

Older female orcas lead the group, study says
What does an ocean-going titaness do after she has the lost the ability to bear young? Well, for starters, she goes on living – sometimes past the ripe old age of 90, while male orcas over 50 are dying off in droves. Throughout the animal kingdom, that is unusual enough. But the menopausal female orca does more than survive, says a new study: She becomes an influential leader of younger orcas, honing the survival skills of her progeny – and their progeny – unencumbered by direct childcare duties of her own.

Search for jetliner has been beneficial
The yearlong search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has turned up no sign of the plane, but that doesn’t mean it’s been unproductive. Benefits of the work so far include: New underwater maps, Better tsunami prediction, Better plane tracking, Improved searches, and A window into history.

China’s censors stem green hopes
China’s new environmental minister, Chen Jining, has been described as the nation’s green dream. He’s a scientist who appears to have the political backing to start reversing China’s assaults on its water, air and soil. But at a news conference Saturday, it became clear the government won’t allow Chen to speak freely on topics it deems sensitive. His handlers made sure that no reporters asked about an anti-pollution documentary that recently went viral on China’s government-filtered Internet, only to be quickly censored.

Use of license-plate scanner technology, data stirs controversy
A Texas company selling the cameras to the repo businesses is marketing the data they collect to auto lending companies. A sister company is giving its police customers access to the same information in a separate database. And the police are sharing the data they are gathering with each other.

Inmate uses prison pen pal program to collect information
A Tacoma woman who used a prison pen pal program to gather the personal information of her targets has pleaded guilty to wire fraud and identity theft charges. Acting U.S. Attorney Annette Hayes said Shannon Henderson used that personal information to file more than 150 fraudulent tax returns between 2009 and 2014 and collected $56,000 in tax refunds.

Sleep researcher says area high schools should start later
One of the nation’s leading sleep researchers says Spokane Public Schools has “the biology backwards” in the district’s proposals for new school start times.

Hutterites embrace technology for business, education
Technology is seeping into the Dariusleut Hutterite colony outside of Ritzville. Known for its traditional, communal lifestyle, the colony of 80 people is confronting a world of smartphones and access to the broader world online. Unlike the Amish, the Hutterites have embraced much of modern technology. Agricultural technology, such as irrigation systems, has been a boon to the colony, which has grown from cultivating 3,000 acres in 1980 to 16,000 acres today.

Costco sales beat Wall Street estimates
Costco Wholesale handily beat Wall Street’s profit expectations last week and posted increased store traffic, but its latest earnings report showed it’s not immune to geopolitical factors such as gyrating oil prices and the growing strength of the U.S. dollar.

Eye on Boise: Education top priority before close of Idaho Legislature
House Speaker Scott Bedke and Senate President Pro-Tem Brent Hill say the Idaho Legislature can still wrap up its session by March 27, as long as it addresses education funding. Both also want to see movement on transportation funding, to address a $262 million annual road maintenance shortfall. But Bedke told the Idaho Press Club last week, “I think it is possible that we’ll do education and go home. It’s not my desire that we do that, but certainly it’s possible.”

West Side home prices rise
Six percent jump in one year raises fears of bubble
The median price of King County homes sold in February rose 6 percent over the year to $429,900 amid a sharp drop in active listings. The drought in local homes for sale, combined with heavy demand from buyers, has real-estate brokers openly worrying that the pressure on prices could become toxic.

Idaho: Stop serving booze at ‘Fifty Shades’
 Idaho authorities are telling movie theaters serving alcohol that they can’t provide drinks during showings of the erotic blockbuster “Fifty Shades of Grey.” The Idaho State Police’s Alcohol Beverage Control has contacted at least two theaters showing the popular R-rated flick, ordering them to comply with a law banning businesses from serving booze to people watching sexually explicit films.

In brief: Idaho man dies after crashing into ditch along Highway 57
Priest River resident Charles A. Burke, 58, was killed Friday when his Ford Explorer ran off the road and crashed into a ditch on state Highway 57 just north of Priest River.
Warming Center for homeless closes after busy season
The Salvation Army Warming Center is closing its doors after a busy season that saw 660 people make more than 6,000 visits this year – a substantial increase over last year’s numbers.
Woman escapes home fire that started on kitchen stove
A woman in the 2500 block of North Upriver Court was able to escape her home safely Friday after her smoke detector alerted her to a kitchen fire.
Volunteer musicians, dancers sought for Bloomsday route
Bloomsday organizers are looking for a few good bands – and dancers and singers – who want to perform along the 7.46-mile race course on the first Sunday in May.

Montana rancher surprised by five sets of calf twins
During the last three weeks of February, five of the first eight cows to give birth on the Eakman ranch delivered twins – all of which survived and are now romping across Don Eakman’s pastures on the western edge of Great Falls.

Montana House panel hears bill to create land transfer task force
A state House committee has heard testimony for and against a bill that would create a task force to study the feasibility of the state assuming ownership or management of federal land now run by the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management.

Doug Clark: WDOT reverses course on toll, fine

Spin Control: Something rare from a politician: A sincere apology

Editorial: Road diets make sense for low-traffic routes

Smart Bombs: Business-friendly, worker-mean
Comparatively speaking, Washington has a humane workers’ comp system. But in the name of business-friendly, some states have become worker-mean.

Kathleen Parker: Words can be as deadly as weapons

James McDevitt: Hindsight give insight on race, policing

Banks Lake poachers get ‘light’ sentence
Three Tacoma men got off easy in a Grant County District Court sentencing for illegally using gillnets to kill whitefish in Banks Lake, a state wildlife officer says. The men had been arrested after a short foot chase in a stakeout by Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife police on Dec. 8 near Coulee City. Officers confiscated 376 whitefish and one trout.

Scabland trails: Smell of sage lures hikers, bikers in March
Great horned owlettes are hatching, coyotes are denning and rattlesnakes are still groggy – all signals that it’s prime time to hike, bike or ride a horse through the sagebrush country of Eastern Washington. Wildflowers are just beginning to bloom if you need more incentive, and songful meadowlarks are back.

EWU prof turns students into diehard local historians
For the past two years, Larry Cebula and his history students have bypassed bureaucracy and popular opinion, compiling digital markers for more than 400 historical points of interest in the Spokane area. They do it digitally, on the website SpokaneHistorical.org and its matching smartphone app. It is one of the largest, most readily accessible collections of local historical data.

Library foundation chooses Citizen Hall of Fame finalists
The Spokane Public Library Foundation has whittled the nearly 100 nominees for its Spokane Citizen Hall of Fame to 18 split into six categories. Inductees will be chosen from these lists and announced at a breakfast April 2. The Citizens Hall of Fame is a fundraiser for the foundation.

Wine release marks tasting room’s 100th
One of Walla Walla’s most recognized tasting rooms turns 100 this year. And owners are celebrating with – what else? – a new release in its honor. The two-room Frenchtown schoolhouse was built in 1915 to serve the children of the Walla Walla Valley’s first settlement, Frenchtown, and surrounding communities. Frenchtown was established in the early 1800s by French Canadians. By 1860, a thriving viticulture and winemaking community had been established. The schoolhouse itself closed in 1974. Three years later it was purchased by winery founders Jean and Baker Ferguson. They equipped the building for winemaking and opened L’Ecole – French for “school” – in 1983.


Book highlights Bauhaus-inspired midcentury homes adapted to fit new millennium standards
In the years after World War II, when suburban towns were still “the country,” this unassuming village an hour north of Manhattan became an epicenter of modernist architecture, and a birthplace of then-radical concepts like family rooms, floor-to-ceiling windows and open-plan living. Since then, the surviving homes have continued to evolve, a transformation explored in a new book that looks at 16 of New Canaan’s 91 remaining homes from this influential era.

Julie Neuffer, an American history professor at Eastern Washington University, has published “Helen Andelin and the Fascinating Womanhood Movement” (University of Utah Press, $19.95), about Andelin and her antifeminist movement.

Costco’s deal to replace American Express with Visa as its exclusive credit card company highlights an economic principle that should surprise no one. Consumers benefit when a business uses its market power to negotiate lower prices and passes along the savings to customers. Conservatives have championed such market forces for decades, arguing that if government regulators just got out of the way of businesses, consumers would be the big winners. That is, unless we’re talking about drug prices. Medicare, the federal health care program, is prohibited by law from haggling with makers of prescription drugs over the prices paid by its 54 million beneficiaries.

When McDonald’s heiress Joan Kroc died in 2004, she bequeathed $1.5 billion to fund state-of-the-art Salvation Army fitness and community centers around the country. Ninety-nine cities applied. Coeur d’Alene was among the 27 whose applications were approved. Major Ben Markham oversees the Ray and Joan Kroc Center north of Interstate 90 at 1765 W. Golf Course Road. The 130,000-square-foot facility includes multiple swimming pools, a climbing tower, gymnasiums, meeting space, day care, and a chapel that doubles as a theater.

Regardless of your age group or targeted location, it’s always best to ask yourself how the property – especially if it is not your primary residence – will be used in the next three years.

In the past four years, hundreds of thousands of workers have returned to construction, making it among the nation’s fastest growing job sectors. In the busiest markets, there aren’t enough construction workers to keep up with the pace of building. In a recent survey of more than 900 contractors by Associated General Contractors of America, 83 percent said they were having trouble filling craft positions. The most difficult positions to fill were carpenters, roofers and equipment operators.

19 Jun 1960 - 28 Feb 2015     Wilbur

24 Jan 1923 - 1 Mar 2015     Ruff

14 Jan 1923 - 28 Jan 2015     cousin of Fr. Armand Nigro, S.J.

22 Oct 1920 - 5 Mar 2015     Valley, Chewelah

22 Mar 1929 - 27 Feb 2015    Warden Hutterian Brethren

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