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from The Spokesman-Review
Giffords, Kelly launch gun control lobbying effort
Hagel, Brennan face tough hearings
Obama nominees have detractors
GOP scoffs at debt threat
Obama vows ceiling won’t be negotiable
Deal restores pay for military gays
Discharged veterans lost half of severance
Health care spending slows
Cause debated; trend not expected to continue
Cancer deaths are still declining
Colorado families listen to testimony
First responders’ accounts emotional, detailed
Lawyer has his day in nation’s highest court
Spokane attorney argues case before U.S. Supreme Court
Killer Joseph Duncan gets new hearing
Electric, hybrid cars too quiet, agency says
Government says pedestrians can’t hear vehicles traveling at low speeds
TV makers roll out ultra-high-def models
High-resolution, large-screen sets a highlight at electronics show
Immigration laws are top enforcement cost
WASHINGTON – The Obama administration spent more money on immigration enforcement in the latest fiscal year than all other federal law enforcement agencies combined, according to a report on the government’s enforcement efforts from a Washington think tank.
The report on Monday from the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan group focused on global immigration issues, said in the 2012 budget year that ended in September the government spent about $18 billion on immigration enforcement programs run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the US-Visit program, and Customs and Border Protection, which includes the Border Patrol.
Immigration enforcement topped the combined budgets of the FBI; Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; Drug Enforcement Administration and U.S. Secret Service by about $3.6 billion dollars, the report’s authors said.
The 182-page report, “Immigration Enforcement in the United States: The Rise of a Formidable Machinery,” concludes that the Obama administration has made immigration its highest law enforcement priority.
Church can’t withhold leaders’, priests’ names
LOS ANGELES – The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles must release the names of church leaders and pedophile priests identified in thousands of pages of internal documents recounting sexual abuse allegations dating back decades, a judge ruled Monday.
The decision by Superior Court Judge Emilie Elias overturned much of a 2011 order by another judge that would have allowed the archdiocese to black out the names of church higher-ups. Victims, as well as the Associated Press and Los Angeles Times, argued for the names to be public.
Elias said she weighed the privacy rights of priests and others – including those who are mentioned in the documents but were not accused of any wrongdoing – versus the public’s interest in learning details of the child abuse that prompted the archdiocese to agree to a record $660 million settlement with victims in 2007.
Both plaintiffs’ and church attorneys said Monday they want the documents released as soon as possible.
Shooting suspect found not fit for trial
OAKLAND, Calif. – A judge ruled on Monday that a man accused of killing seven people at a small Northern California Christian college is not mentally fit for trial.
Alameda County Superior Court Judge Carrie Panetta temporarily suspended the case against One Goh after two psychiatric evaluations reached the conclusion that Goh suffers from paranoid schizophrenia.
Alameda County Assistant Public Defender David Klaus said after Monday’s brief hearing that Goh’s condition causes him to have hallucinations and delusions and distrust people, including those trying to help him.
Goh is charged with seven counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder in the April 2 attack at Oikos University in Oakland.
He has pleaded not guilty and remains in jail.
Authorities have said Goh, a former Oikos student, planned the killing spree at the school that caters to Korean immigrants after becoming angry with school officials over a tuition dispute.
First responders’ accounts emotional, detailed
Lawyer has his day in nation’s highest court
Spokane attorney argues case before U.S. Supreme Court
Killer Joseph Duncan gets new hearing
Electric, hybrid cars too quiet, agency says
Government says pedestrians can’t hear vehicles traveling at low speeds
TV makers roll out ultra-high-def models
High-resolution, large-screen sets a highlight at electronics show
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In brief: From Wire Reports:
WASHINGTON – The Obama administration spent more money on immigration enforcement in the latest fiscal year than all other federal law enforcement agencies combined, according to a report on the government’s enforcement efforts from a Washington think tank.
The report on Monday from the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan group focused on global immigration issues, said in the 2012 budget year that ended in September the government spent about $18 billion on immigration enforcement programs run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the US-Visit program, and Customs and Border Protection, which includes the Border Patrol.
Immigration enforcement topped the combined budgets of the FBI; Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; Drug Enforcement Administration and U.S. Secret Service by about $3.6 billion dollars, the report’s authors said.
The 182-page report, “Immigration Enforcement in the United States: The Rise of a Formidable Machinery,” concludes that the Obama administration has made immigration its highest law enforcement priority.
Church can’t withhold leaders’, priests’ names
LOS ANGELES – The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles must release the names of church leaders and pedophile priests identified in thousands of pages of internal documents recounting sexual abuse allegations dating back decades, a judge ruled Monday.
The decision by Superior Court Judge Emilie Elias overturned much of a 2011 order by another judge that would have allowed the archdiocese to black out the names of church higher-ups. Victims, as well as the Associated Press and Los Angeles Times, argued for the names to be public.
Elias said she weighed the privacy rights of priests and others – including those who are mentioned in the documents but were not accused of any wrongdoing – versus the public’s interest in learning details of the child abuse that prompted the archdiocese to agree to a record $660 million settlement with victims in 2007.
Both plaintiffs’ and church attorneys said Monday they want the documents released as soon as possible.
Shooting suspect found not fit for trial
OAKLAND, Calif. – A judge ruled on Monday that a man accused of killing seven people at a small Northern California Christian college is not mentally fit for trial.
Alameda County Superior Court Judge Carrie Panetta temporarily suspended the case against One Goh after two psychiatric evaluations reached the conclusion that Goh suffers from paranoid schizophrenia.
Alameda County Assistant Public Defender David Klaus said after Monday’s brief hearing that Goh’s condition causes him to have hallucinations and delusions and distrust people, including those trying to help him.
Goh is charged with seven counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder in the April 2 attack at Oikos University in Oakland.
He has pleaded not guilty and remains in jail.
Authorities have said Goh, a former Oikos student, planned the killing spree at the school that caters to Korean immigrants after becoming angry with school officials over a tuition dispute.
Court rejects Obama policy challenge
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court has turned away a challenge to President Barack Obama’s policy of expanding government-funded research using embryonic stem cells that scientists say may offer hope for new treatments for spinal injuries and Parkinson’s disease.
The court’s action brings a quiet end to a lawsuit that briefly threatened to derail all funding for such research.
A federal judge in Washington in 2010 ordered the National Institutes of Health to halt funding of the research, citing a long-standing congressional ban on spending for research in which “human embryos are destroyed.”
But an appeals court overturned that order and ruled last year that the ban applied only to research that destroyed human embryos so as to obtain stem cells.
President George W. Bush in 2001 had allowed limited research on several stem cell lines that were already in existence. Upon taking office in 2009, Obama went further and said NIH could conduct “scientifically worthy human stem cell research to the extent permitted by law.” Under guidelines issued by NIH, researchers can use stem line cells derived from donated frozen embryos that are no longer needed for fertility treatments.
Two researchers who work with adult stem lines brought the lawsuit. They appealed to the high court in the fall, but the justices denied the appeal.
Australia fire danger ‘catastrophic’
SYDNEY – Firefighters battled scores of wildfires raging across southeast Australia today with officials evacuating national parks and warning that blistering temperatures and high winds had led to “catastrophic” fire conditions in some areas.
Thousands of firefighters were on standby across the nation’s most populous state of New South Wales, where fire authorities said wildfire conditions were at catastrophic threat levels – the most severe rating available – in parts of the state. All state forests and national parks were closed as a precaution and total fire bans were in place with temperatures expected to reach 113 degrees Fahrenheit in some areas.
“We are shaping up for one of the worst fire danger days on record,” New South Wales Rural Fire Service Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons said. “You don’t get conditions worse than this.”
No deaths had been reported, although officials in Tasmania were still trying to find around 100 residents who have been missing since a fire tore through the small town of Dunalley, east of the state capital of Hobart, last week, destroying around 90 homes. Police today said no bodies were found during preliminary checks of the ruined houses.
Wildfires are common during the Australian summer.
Two survivors of bus crash file lawsuit
PORTLAND – Two survivors of an Eastern Oregon tour bus crash that killed nine passengers allege in a lawsuit that the driver was tired, didn’t heed warnings and was going too fast on a road with patches of snow and ice.
Attorney Charles Herrmann filed the suit against Mi Joo Tour & Travel late Sunday in Pierce County, Wash., on behalf of two South Korean exchange students who were among the 38 people injured in the Dec. 30 crash.
The complaint says the bus driver doubled as a tour guide and worked at least 90 hours without relief over the first eight days of the nine-day tour package, a violation of U.S. regulations that limit drivers to 70 hours in an eight-day span.
An employee at the Vancouver-based travel company referred questions to an attorney who didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Failed lease talks prompt closure of North Side store
Foreclosure deal reached
Banks to pay $8.5 billion for 2009-’10 abuses
Bank of America will pay Fannie Mae $11.6 billion
Mona Charen: Sandy problems overlooked
Few turns into a juggler
Four talented ‘bigs’ downside to depth
NHL has 48 games in mind
Chaplain’s call
Internship reveals valuable lessons for living, dying
Dr. K: Possible to control tics with training
Approaches vary for trying to solve nighttime urinary problems
Joe Graedon M.S.
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from The Wenatchee World
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EARLY EAST WENATCHEE: Back in the 1890s and early 1900s, the East Wenatchee area had lots of sagebrush and little else. It wasn’t until 1908 when the Highline Canal was completed that the Eastside received water. Once water was available, fruit trees were planted extensively throughout the area as this photo taken in the 1910s attests.
Elk study questions Colockum closures
Evidence shows herd’s movements driven by search for food — not human activity
No relief in sight for Australia from fires, withering weather
China censorship prompts rally and online protest
Syrian refugees riot in camp
Wet, cold and homeless, their frustration erupts when wind takes tents
President Nixon gets the star treatment
Wet, cold and homeless, their frustration erupts when wind takes tents
President Nixon gets the star treatment
Funny numbers on immigration
Esther Cepeda Washington Post Writers Group
Esther Cepeda Washington Post Writers Group
Classic gardening concepts are perennial favorites among authors
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from YouTube
Ron Wyatt Archaeology - The Exodus
After finding chariot parts in the Gulf of Aquaba, Ron Wyatt wondered if Mount Sinai could be in Saudi Arabia. In Galatians 4:25 the Bible states that Mount Sinai is in Arabia, "For this Agar is Mount Sinai in ARABIA." The Bible says Mount Sinai is in Midian, and this area has always been known as Midian. Still to this day it is called, "Madyan". After being denied a visa Ron entered the country without one on foot. He made his way to 'Jebel el Lawz', known by the locals as "Jebel Musa" (Moses' mountain) which his research showed could have fitted the biblical description of Mount Sinai.
Ron Wyatt Archaeology - The Exodus
After finding chariot parts in the Gulf of Aquaba, Ron Wyatt wondered if Mount Sinai could be in Saudi Arabia. In Galatians 4:25 the Bible states that Mount Sinai is in Arabia, "For this Agar is Mount Sinai in ARABIA." The Bible says Mount Sinai is in Midian, and this area has always been known as Midian. Still to this day it is called, "Madyan". After being denied a visa Ron entered the country without one on foot. He made his way to 'Jebel el Lawz', known by the locals as "Jebel Musa" (Moses' mountain) which his research showed could have fitted the biblical description of Mount Sinai.
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