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from KHQ Local News (NBC Spokane)
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from Libertarianism.org
"We—meaning all of us, not just libertarians, or progressives, or conservatives—tend to approach any question with a fog of beliefs, biases, and vague impressions. We seek out evidence that supports what we already think true, and look for ways to reject evidence that doesn’t. We’re more forgiving of the mistakes in reasoning made by those on our side, and pounce voraciously on the most minor mistakes made by ideological foes."
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JBLM troops could lose their jobs due to sequestration cuts
Joint Base Lewis-McChord
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from The Spokesman-Review
Argentine’s ascension to papacy represents shift within church
New pope inspires local Catholics
Pope pick thrills Argentine faithful
President, who differs from Bergoglio, less enthused
Goal of lower costs remains big uncertainty
Federal insurance regulations will play key role
Health exchange moves to Idaho Senate
Begrudging supporters say state control key
Huppin’s to close downtown Spokane store
Idaho lawmakers call for crackdown on TV indecency
Budget battlers offer contrasting visions for U.S.
Obama disputes jobs on Keystone XL line
President holds meeting with House Republicans
Obama selects new ambassador to Libya
Veteran diplomat would fill post left vacant since attack
Anti-Taliban revolt grows in Afghanistan
Treatment of locals sparks backlash
Egypt police behind killings of protesters in ’11, report says
Inquiry indicates Mubarak approved
Firm gain in U.S. retail sales eases concerns
February rise best in five months
Google will double Kirkland campus
Announcement comes amid surge of tech investment in Seattle area
Tax glitch will delay thousands’ refunds
Some seeking credit for education affected
Editorial: Budgets out of both chambers unrealistic
Dana Milbank: Ryan budget full of blanks
Oldest Iditarod champ
Doctor K: Secondhand smoke bad for adults, kids
Proposed Appleway Trail draws interest
Nina Culver The Spokesman-Review
Landmarks: Mausoleum holds pioneer-life chroniclers
Robert Edmund Strahorn, two wives traveled the West
Stefanie Pettit The Spokesman-Review
New garden publication, gadgets, LED lighting available
Pat Munts
President, who differs from Bergoglio, less enthused
Federal insurance regulations will play key role
Health exchange moves to Idaho Senate
Begrudging supporters say state control key
Idaho lawmakers call for crackdown on TV indecency
Budget battlers offer contrasting visions for U.S.
Obama disputes jobs on Keystone XL line
President holds meeting with House Republicans
Obama selects new ambassador to Libya
Veteran diplomat would fill post left vacant since attack
Anti-Taliban revolt grows in Afghanistan
Treatment of locals sparks backlash
Egypt police behind killings of protesters in ’11, report says
Inquiry indicates Mubarak approved
WA Senate passes bill creating emissions task force
Another example of government waste. - C.S
Idaho dismissed from school lawsuit
Statute protects state at this point
Fired firefighter denied job reinstatement
Radiation a risk to women
Study: Treatment can lead to heart problems
Border agencies hit with complaints, suits
Seattle – Immigrant advocacy groups have filed nearly a dozen complaints and lawsuits against U.S. Customs and Border Protection across the country, claiming federal agents and officers mistreated and discriminated against illegal immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.
The groups alleged Wednesday that officers at Dulles International Airport outside Washington, D.C., were complicit in sending a 4-year-old American girl to Guatemala without giving her parents a chance to retrieve her. Officers also detained a naturalized citizen who had been working with farmworkers in New York, kept women in cold detention cells in Texas and lied on an arrest report that led to an illegal immigrant’s detention in Washington state, the advocacy groups said.
The complaints are the latest in a series of legal actions taken against U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Border Patrol from immigrant advocacy groups, who have long sought to reform the agency’s conduct on the southern and northern border.
Leader of China adds president to titles
Beijing – China’s new leader Xi Jinping capped his rise to the top today by adding the largely ceremonial title of president, though he will need more time and cautious maneuvering to consolidate his power.
The elevation of Xi to the presidency by the rubber-stamp national legislature gave him the last of the three titles held by his predecessor, Hu Jintao. The move was expected after Xi was named head of the Communist Party and chairman of its military, positions of true power, last November in a once-a-decade handover to a new group of leaders that has been years in the making.
Monarch butterfly numbers drop sharply
Mexico City – The number of Monarch butterflies making it to their winter refuge in Mexico dropped 59 percent this year, falling to the lowest level since comparable record-keeping began 20 years ago, scientists reported Wednesday.
It was the third straight year of declines for the orange-and-black butterflies that migrate from the United States and Canada to spend the winter sheltering in mountaintop fir forests in central Mexico.
The decline in the Monarch population now marks a statistical long-term trend and can no longer be seen as a combination of yearly or seasonal events, experts said. But they differed on the possible causes.
Illegal logging in the reserve established in the Monarch wintering grounds was long thought to contribute, but such logging has been vastly reduced by increased protection and enforcement.
The World Wildlife Fund blamed climate conditions and agricultural practices, especially the use of pesticides that kill off the Monarchs’ main food source, milkweed. The butterflies breed and live in the north in the summer and migrate to Mexico in the winter.
Bill covering marketing calls heads to Idaho governor
BOISE – Telephone, cable and other telecom companies would be able to make commercial solicitation calls to their existing Idaho customers even if they’re on the state’s “do not call” list, under legislation that passed the Idaho Senate 29-6 on Wednesday and headed to Gov. Butch Otter’s desk.
The bill, HB 55, proposed by two phone companies, adds those companies to the existing do-not-call exemption for businesses with an existing relationship with a customer. If one of those businesses calls and the customer tells them to stop calling, they can’t call again. Violations could mean a $500 fine.
North Idaho senators were split on the measure, with Sens. Shawn Keough, R-Sandpoint, and Dan Johnson, R-Lewiston, opposing the bill. Sens. John Goedde, R-Coeur d’Alene; Bob Nonini, R-Coeur d’Alene; and Steve Vick, R-Dalton Gardens, backed it. Sens. Sheryl Nuxoll, R-Cottonwood, and Dan Schmidt, D-Moscow, missed the vote.
U.S. senators support plan to boost hydropower output
WASHINGTON – A plan to ease regulations and encourage energy production at thousands of the nation’s nonproducing dams earned the full support of the Inland Northwest U.S. Senate delegation Wednesday.
A companion to legislation proposed by U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers would ease licensing restrictions on small hydropower projects and encourage turbine retrofitting at existing dams. It was introduced with the backing of Washington Sens. Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray and Idaho Sens. Mike Crapo and James Risch. The bill could increase America’s hydropower output by 15 percent and create 700,000 jobs nationwide, according to Energy Department estimates.
American Rivers, a conservation group based in Washington, D.C., helped draft the bill.
Under the law, the Federal Regulatory Commission would conduct two-year pilot studies of hundreds of dams eligible for hydropower retrofitting, including 10 dams in Washington and two in Idaho. The bill would also double the maximum amount of energy a dam can produce before having to reapply for a license.
House OKs Washington Dream Act
SEATTLE – The Washington House of Representatives has approved a measure giving young illegal immigrants eligibility to state college financial aid.
The House approved the so-called Washington Dream Act on a bipartisan 77-20 vote. They amended the bill on the floor to open college aid to all young illegal immigrants.
The bill’s previous version made only young immigrants who had qualified for the Obama Administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program eligible for the State Needs Grant. That federal program provides young immigrants who arrived in the United States as children a legal way to live in the country on renewable two-year stays, if they meet certain age and noncriminal history criteria.
Opponents say the bill promises financial aid while the state struggles to give help to current students.
Supporters say the measure gives a better future to immigrants who came here without a choice.
Comcast TV customers must get cable box
Comcast Corp. is converting its last group of analog TV signals to digital later this month.
The company is contacting about 2,500 customers in Spokane who receive “limited basic” channels through a cable plugged into a TV set.
By April 1, those customers will need a digital cable box as those channels will be switched to digital format, Comcast spokesman Walt Neary said.
“If customers don’t have a cable box, they’ll be affected,” Neary said.
The limited basic group includes channels 2 through 30, 72 to 79 and 95 to 99.
The digital equipment is free, Neary said, and can be picked up by calling Comcast’s Spokane office.
Like other major cable companies, Comcast is making the change in order to increase bandwidth for more channels and services, Neary said.
NYC law protects jobless job applicants
NEW YORK – New York City Council members have passed the nation’s most far-reaching measure to protect out-of-work job applicants from discrimination.
Council members Wednesday overrode a mayoral veto of a measure that bans discrimination against job applicants because they’re unemployed. The city law takes effect in three months.
While measures elsewhere in the country ban help-wanted ads that say applicants must be employed, the New York City law goes further by letting rejected applicants take employers to court and get damages.
Businesses and Mayor Michael Bloomberg predict the measure will lead to baseless lawsuits from disgruntled applicants. They say lawmakers shouldn’t try to dictate how hiring choices are made.
Rich Landers: Prescribed burns becoming hot topicAnother example of government waste. - C.S
Idaho dismissed from school lawsuit
Statute protects state at this point
Fired firefighter denied job reinstatement
Radiation a risk to women
Study: Treatment can lead to heart problems
Chavez embalming unlikely, Maduro says
Washington Supreme Court rejects Yates petition
Alleged machete attack leads to standoff, man’s arrest
Neighbor avoids serious injury, officer stabbed but unharmed
Scope of drug case causes court problems
Judge to split 62 defendants into three groups
Khmer Rouge leader who faced war crimes dies
Ieng Sary death comes before trial reaches verdict
Military sex abuse protocol ‘broken,’ victim tells panel
Panel questions allowing brass to overrule juries
Washington Supreme Court rejects Yates petition
Alleged machete attack leads to standoff, man’s arrest
Neighbor avoids serious injury, officer stabbed but unharmed
Scope of drug case causes court problems
Judge to split 62 defendants into three groups
Khmer Rouge leader who faced war crimes dies
Ieng Sary death comes before trial reaches verdict
Military sex abuse protocol ‘broken,’ victim tells panel
Panel questions allowing brass to overrule juries
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In brief: From Wire Reports:
Border agencies hit with complaints, suits
Seattle – Immigrant advocacy groups have filed nearly a dozen complaints and lawsuits against U.S. Customs and Border Protection across the country, claiming federal agents and officers mistreated and discriminated against illegal immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.
The groups alleged Wednesday that officers at Dulles International Airport outside Washington, D.C., were complicit in sending a 4-year-old American girl to Guatemala without giving her parents a chance to retrieve her. Officers also detained a naturalized citizen who had been working with farmworkers in New York, kept women in cold detention cells in Texas and lied on an arrest report that led to an illegal immigrant’s detention in Washington state, the advocacy groups said.
The complaints are the latest in a series of legal actions taken against U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Border Patrol from immigrant advocacy groups, who have long sought to reform the agency’s conduct on the southern and northern border.
Leader of China adds president to titles
Beijing – China’s new leader Xi Jinping capped his rise to the top today by adding the largely ceremonial title of president, though he will need more time and cautious maneuvering to consolidate his power.
The elevation of Xi to the presidency by the rubber-stamp national legislature gave him the last of the three titles held by his predecessor, Hu Jintao. The move was expected after Xi was named head of the Communist Party and chairman of its military, positions of true power, last November in a once-a-decade handover to a new group of leaders that has been years in the making.
Monarch butterfly numbers drop sharply
Mexico City – The number of Monarch butterflies making it to their winter refuge in Mexico dropped 59 percent this year, falling to the lowest level since comparable record-keeping began 20 years ago, scientists reported Wednesday.
It was the third straight year of declines for the orange-and-black butterflies that migrate from the United States and Canada to spend the winter sheltering in mountaintop fir forests in central Mexico.
The decline in the Monarch population now marks a statistical long-term trend and can no longer be seen as a combination of yearly or seasonal events, experts said. But they differed on the possible causes.
Illegal logging in the reserve established in the Monarch wintering grounds was long thought to contribute, but such logging has been vastly reduced by increased protection and enforcement.
The World Wildlife Fund blamed climate conditions and agricultural practices, especially the use of pesticides that kill off the Monarchs’ main food source, milkweed. The butterflies breed and live in the north in the summer and migrate to Mexico in the winter.
Bill covering marketing calls heads to Idaho governor
BOISE – Telephone, cable and other telecom companies would be able to make commercial solicitation calls to their existing Idaho customers even if they’re on the state’s “do not call” list, under legislation that passed the Idaho Senate 29-6 on Wednesday and headed to Gov. Butch Otter’s desk.
The bill, HB 55, proposed by two phone companies, adds those companies to the existing do-not-call exemption for businesses with an existing relationship with a customer. If one of those businesses calls and the customer tells them to stop calling, they can’t call again. Violations could mean a $500 fine.
North Idaho senators were split on the measure, with Sens. Shawn Keough, R-Sandpoint, and Dan Johnson, R-Lewiston, opposing the bill. Sens. John Goedde, R-Coeur d’Alene; Bob Nonini, R-Coeur d’Alene; and Steve Vick, R-Dalton Gardens, backed it. Sens. Sheryl Nuxoll, R-Cottonwood, and Dan Schmidt, D-Moscow, missed the vote.
U.S. senators support plan to boost hydropower output
WASHINGTON – A plan to ease regulations and encourage energy production at thousands of the nation’s nonproducing dams earned the full support of the Inland Northwest U.S. Senate delegation Wednesday.
A companion to legislation proposed by U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers would ease licensing restrictions on small hydropower projects and encourage turbine retrofitting at existing dams. It was introduced with the backing of Washington Sens. Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray and Idaho Sens. Mike Crapo and James Risch. The bill could increase America’s hydropower output by 15 percent and create 700,000 jobs nationwide, according to Energy Department estimates.
American Rivers, a conservation group based in Washington, D.C., helped draft the bill.
Under the law, the Federal Regulatory Commission would conduct two-year pilot studies of hundreds of dams eligible for hydropower retrofitting, including 10 dams in Washington and two in Idaho. The bill would also double the maximum amount of energy a dam can produce before having to reapply for a license.
House OKs Washington Dream Act
SEATTLE – The Washington House of Representatives has approved a measure giving young illegal immigrants eligibility to state college financial aid.
The House approved the so-called Washington Dream Act on a bipartisan 77-20 vote. They amended the bill on the floor to open college aid to all young illegal immigrants.
The bill’s previous version made only young immigrants who had qualified for the Obama Administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program eligible for the State Needs Grant. That federal program provides young immigrants who arrived in the United States as children a legal way to live in the country on renewable two-year stays, if they meet certain age and noncriminal history criteria.
Opponents say the bill promises financial aid while the state struggles to give help to current students.
Supporters say the measure gives a better future to immigrants who came here without a choice.
Comcast TV customers must get cable box
Comcast Corp. is converting its last group of analog TV signals to digital later this month.
The company is contacting about 2,500 customers in Spokane who receive “limited basic” channels through a cable plugged into a TV set.
By April 1, those customers will need a digital cable box as those channels will be switched to digital format, Comcast spokesman Walt Neary said.
“If customers don’t have a cable box, they’ll be affected,” Neary said.
The limited basic group includes channels 2 through 30, 72 to 79 and 95 to 99.
The digital equipment is free, Neary said, and can be picked up by calling Comcast’s Spokane office.
Like other major cable companies, Comcast is making the change in order to increase bandwidth for more channels and services, Neary said.
NYC law protects jobless job applicants
NEW YORK – New York City Council members have passed the nation’s most far-reaching measure to protect out-of-work job applicants from discrimination.
Council members Wednesday overrode a mayoral veto of a measure that bans discrimination against job applicants because they’re unemployed. The city law takes effect in three months.
While measures elsewhere in the country ban help-wanted ads that say applicants must be employed, the New York City law goes further by letting rejected applicants take employers to court and get damages.
Businesses and Mayor Michael Bloomberg predict the measure will lead to baseless lawsuits from disgruntled applicants. They say lawmakers shouldn’t try to dictate how hiring choices are made.
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Firm gain in U.S. retail sales eases concerns
February rise best in five months
Google will double Kirkland campus
Announcement comes amid surge of tech investment in Seattle area
Tax glitch will delay thousands’ refunds
Some seeking credit for education affected
Editorial: Budgets out of both chambers unrealistic
Oldest Iditarod champ
Proposed Appleway Trail draws interest
Nina Culver The Spokesman-Review
Robert Edmund Strahorn, two wives traveled the West
Stefanie Pettit The Spokesman-Review
Pat Munts
Recent conference led by the Kalispels draws hundreds of participants
Cindy Hval The Spokesman-Review
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from The Wenatchee World
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| This 1909 photo by J.D. Wheeler shows downtown Leavenworth when it was the terminal for the Great Northern Railway and the business center for the Lamb-Davis Lumber Company. |
Cantwell introduces bill to boost hydro
Burning planned in Sinlahekin Wildlife Area
Prescribed burning to begin near Entiat
Wilf Woods: Reminders of the costs of war
By Wilfred Woods Chairman of the Board
By Wilfred Woods Chairman of the Board
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