Saturday, February 23, 2013

In the news, Saturday, February 23, 2013


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FRI 22      INDEX      SUN 24
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from The Blaze
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from Indian Country Today Media Network

Debunking Lincoln, the ‘Great Emancipator’
Was President Lincoln the 'Great Emancipator' or was he a recovering racist?

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from POLITICO

Bob Woodward: Obama owns sequestration

W.H.: Woodward 'willfully wrong'

Obama brief fuels gay marriage speculation

Sierra Club goes bolder in climate fight

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from The New York Times

Confronting the Fact of Fiction and the Fiction of Fact

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from The Spokesman-Review

Vatican blasts ‘false’ pre-conclave reporting

Abortion rights legislation shows two houses clearly divided in Olympia

Sequester could be painful for travelers
Administration warns of wide disruptions in air traffic system

Cuts would hit military, parks

Region plans for sequester
Parks, schools, Hanford consider cuts in staffing costs

Six Hanford tanks leaking
No imminent health risk, officials say, but senator promises investigation

Coast Guard says Arctic drilling rig flawed

Plan for Afghanistan calls for 12,000 troops
U.S., allies will share duty, Panetta says

U.S., Japan look to trade to boost both economies

McCain likes Mexico talk on security
Drug cartel fight will go on, he says

U.S. troops deployed to Niger
Americans sent to set up base for drones

Crack in engine lands fleet of F-35s
Routine inspection leads to discovery

New breast cancer drug ‘gentle on the patients’

Moody’s lowers Britain’s rating
Credit agency cites slow growth, high debt

Boeing proposes fix for its 787’s batteries
Cause of overheating still unknown; repair covers several possibilities

Seeking a job? You better have one
Some jobless say not working keeps them from being hired

Investors cooling on stocks after strong January
Fed minutes ruffle Wall Street

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In brief:  From Staff and Wire Reports

Fagan stands behind his criticism of Inslee

Spokane City Councilman Mike Fagan is standing behind a letter he signed that called Gov. Jay Inslee “a lying whore.”

Fagan and the two other co-directors of Voters Want More Choices, which advocates for lower taxes through state voter initiatives, criticized Inslee in a mass email sent Thursday.

On Friday, Spokane Mayor David Condon and council members Mike Allen, Steve Salvatori, Jon Snyder, Ben Stuckart and Amber Waldref condemned the letter. City Councilwoman Nancy McLaughlin is on vacation, and attempts to reach her were unsuccessful.

“Words like this have no place in public discourse,” Condon said in a prepared statement released by the city. “This language doesn’t represent the community we all live in.”

In an email, Fagan said the statement shouldn’t be attributed to him as an elected councilman.

“While I would tend to agree that a statement like that shouldn’t come from a city councilman, it didn’t,” he said. “It came from the principals of a political action committee whom on their own time, using their own resources sent an email to convey information and express frustration towards another politician who has gained tremendously through lies.”


Bill sought by sheriff dies in committee

OLYMPIA – A proposal that would have prevented an arbitrator from reinstating a police officer who committed a crime or was caught lying won’t become law this year.

The bill, sought by Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich and other Washington sheriffs but opposed by rank-and-file police organizations, failed to be voted out of the Senate Law and Justice Committee before Friday’s deadline.

Sen. Mike Padden, R-Spokane Valley and the committee chairman, said they considered some amendments that would satisfy the two sides but never came up with version that had enough support in the full Senate. A House version of the bill also died.

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Schools say Facebook is haven for bullying
Training, campaigns target vicious posts

Obama ban on Chinese-owned wind farm upheld in court

Editorial: State needs flexibility on property tax payments

President Barack Obama’s immigration plan leak a signal to Marco Rubio, Republicans
Charles Krauthammer

Sanford’s faults not ordinary
Froma Harrop

STEM fields are withering
William Bennett      Former U.S. Secretary of Education

Judge rejects case challenging Seattle arena deal

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State 1B girls

W-C, Colton, SJE move on

State 2B girls

NWC joins defending champs in final 8

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Red yeast rice unregulated, little studied
Anthony L. Komaroff

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