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from Mother Nature Network
3 simple homemade toothpaste recipes
These money-saving DIY toothpaste recipes let you bypass the synthetic ingredients that commercial toothpastes often contain.
These money-saving DIY toothpaste recipes let you bypass the synthetic ingredients that commercial toothpastes often contain.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Microsoft takes aim at its rivals in email battleOutlook.com marketing blitz could cost up to $90 million
U.S. producing far more oil, but gas prices steadily riseU.S. ready to strike back against China’s hacking
Hecla reopens Lucky Friday
Mullan silver mine was shut down after 2011 incidents
Panel seeks pre-kindergarten help for disadvantaged
Allen declines NATO post, to retire
Unexpected move leaves key alliance post up in air
Obama presses GOP on budget
Dozen hurt in blast, fire in Kansas City
Explosion sparks huge blaze In famed plaza shop district
Tarmac caper nets $50 million in loot
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In brief: From Wire Reports:
TUNIS, Tunisia – Tunisia’s prime minister announced his resignation Tuesday following a failed effort to form a technocratic government to see the country out of its political crisis.
The resignation is expected to further deepen the country’s political instability, which earlier Tuesday prompted Standard & Poor’s to downgrade the government’s credit rating.
Tunisians overthrew a dictator in January 2011, sparking the Arab Spring revolutions. A moderate Islamist party, Ennahda, won subsequent elections in the country of 10 million, and it has since struggled to govern in a coalition alongside two secular parties.
After the assassination of a leftist opposition politician on Feb. 6 set off riots across the country, Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali offered to dissolve the fractious governing coalition and put together a new government of technocrats – a move welcomed by the opposition.
But his own party, Ennahda, rejected his initiative, insisting that the country still needed a government of politicians. The rejection indicated that there are not only divisions among the various parties in Tunisia but also within Ennahda.
Jebali announced he’d quit after a meeting with President Moncef Marzouki, describing the move as what’s best for the country.
“I promised if my initiative did not succeed I would resign as head of the government, and this is what I am doing following my meeting with the president,” he said at the presidential palace. “Today there is a great disappointment among the people and we must regain their trust and this resignation is a first step.”
Gas tax hike part of transportation plan
OLYMPIA – A major transportation plan to be unveiled today will propose a 2-cent-per-year increase in the state’s gasoline tax. The budget plan, from House Transportation Committee Chairman Judy Clibborn, D-Mercer Island, will divide the money between new projects and maintenance and eventually raise the state’s gas tax by a total of 10 cents.
Gov. Jay Inslee, who has said he wants a transportation package that would build new projects and fix some of its crumbling infrastructure, declined to endorse it Tuesday, saying only it is “a good start on that discussion.”
House Speaker Frank Chopp, D-Seattle, called the plan a major jobs package and said the plan would set aside significant amounts for maintenance. Previous gasoline tax packages have been criticized as emphasizing new projects and not leaving enough for ongoing road repairs.
OLYMPIA – A major transportation plan to be unveiled today will propose a 2-cent-per-year increase in the state’s gasoline tax. The budget plan, from House Transportation Committee Chairman Judy Clibborn, D-Mercer Island, will divide the money between new projects and maintenance and eventually raise the state’s gas tax by a total of 10 cents.
Gov. Jay Inslee, who has said he wants a transportation package that would build new projects and fix some of its crumbling infrastructure, declined to endorse it Tuesday, saying only it is “a good start on that discussion.”
House Speaker Frank Chopp, D-Seattle, called the plan a major jobs package and said the plan would set aside significant amounts for maintenance. Previous gasoline tax packages have been criticized as emphasizing new projects and not leaving enough for ongoing road repairs.
Court rules on when ‘sniff is up to snuff’
Police don’t have to extensively document the work of drug-sniffing dogs in the field to be able to use the results of their work in court, the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday.
Instead, Justice Elena Kagan wrote for a unanimous court, courts should apply the same tests to dog sniffs they do when they look at other issues of whether police have probable cause to take an action.
“The question –similar to every inquiry into probable cause – is whether all the facts surrounding a dog’s alert, viewed through the lens of common sense, would make a reasonably prudent person think that a search would reveal contraband or evidence of a crime,” Kagan said. “A sniff is up to snuff when it meets that test.”
The court’s ruling overturns a decision by the Florida Supreme Court in the case of Aldo, a drug-sniffing police dog used by the Liberty County sheriff.
Aldo was trained to detect methamphetamine, marijuana, cocaine, heroin and ecstasy, and alerted his officer to the scent of drugs on a truck during a 2006 traffic stop.
Instead of those drugs, a search of Clayton Harris’ truck resulted in 200 loose pseudoephedrine pills, 8,000 matches, a bottle of hydrochloric acid, two containers of antifreeze and a coffee filter full of iodine crystals – all ingredients for making methamphetamine. Harris was arrested and charged with possessing pseudoephedrine for use in manufacturing methamphetamine. Two months later, Harris was stopped again. Aldo again alerted his officer to the presence of drugs, but none was found.
Harris asked the courts to throw out evidence showing drugs were found in his truck, saying Aldo’s alert did not give police probable cause for a search.
The Florida justices agreed, saying the police officer lacked probable cause to search, arguing that the officials’ contention that a drug dog has been trained and certified to detect narcotics was not enough to establish the dog’s reliability in court. Instead, the Florida court said, police needed to present training and certification records, field performance records, explanation of those records, and evidence concerning the dog handler’s experience and training.
Patent case seems to favor Monsanto
The Supreme Court appeared likely Tuesday to side with Monsanto Co. in its claim that an Indiana farmer violated the company’s patents on soybean seeds that are resistant to its weedkiller.
None of the justices in arguments at the high court seemed ready to endorse farmer Vernon Hugh Bowman’s argument that cheap soybeans he bought from a grain elevator are not covered by the Monsanto patents, even though most of them also were genetically modified to resist the company’s Roundup herbicide.
Chief Justice John Roberts wondered “why in the world would anybody” invest time and money on seeds if it was so easy to evade patent protection.
To protect its investment in their development, Monsanto has a policy that prohibits farmers from saving or reusing the seeds once the crop is grown. Farmers must buy new seeds every year.
The case is being closely watched by researchers and businesses holding patents on DNA molecules, nanotechnologies and other self-replicating technologies.
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Court will weigh campaign caps
GOP, donor appeal limits on political contributions
U.S. delegation gets permission to visit prisoner
Missile strike levels homes, kills dozens
Syrian forces blamed for attack in Aleppo
Gun check bill clears key House committee
Body cameras aid police in Pullman
Officers in Spokane have tested devices
Senator puts new focus on Hanford problems
China’s explosive growth has altered global trading
Google share price surges
Fervor boosts stock to more than $800
Homebuilder confidence sees slight setback
Editorial: State should keep public records open to the public
Fervor boosts stock to more than $800
Homebuilder confidence sees slight setback
Editorial: State should keep public records open to the public
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Pillsbury tweaks Bake-Off rules
Modified Tunnel of Fudge Cake
Oscar entertaining made easy? It’s formulaic
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from The Wenatchee World
Land Trust announces successes in foothills effort
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