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The coal industry has plenty of paid-for friends in the Senate and House, but has now taken to underwriting shows of support at Environmental Protection Agency public hearings. Big Coal has given a whole new meaning to the phrase: "Polluters Pay." At a recent Chicago hearing on EPA’s proposed carbon standards for new power plants, young men showed up wearing T-shirts with a message: "America Counts on Coal." ‘Turns out they were paid $50 to wear the shirts by one of Big Coal’s "astroturf" (i.e. manufactured grassroots) groups. A now partially deleted Craigslist advertisement contained the following offer. "People needed to attend a public meeting (Tinley Park/Chicago). Looking for people [...]
The 42-year-old man killed Thursday by an errant bullet while driving with his family in the Central District was a software developer from Madrona. Police said he and his family were on their way to a holiday weekend getaway.
Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., in a pre-Memorial Day weekend e-mail to prospective donors, is asking them to pony up money to the Democrats "before you take off for the weekend." It’s one of four increasingly frantic appeals sent out during the past week by the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee (DSCC), which Murray chairs. All of them use as bogeyman former Bush political guru Karl Rove and those described by Murray as "Rove’s people." "If we can raise another $1 million by next week, we can keep pace," says Murray. "Can you help out with $5 before the long weekend begins?" Rove is co-founder of a non-profit "charitable" organization called CrossroadsGPS [...]
Nice try, universe. You missed us again.
Well, you will miss us. I hope I haven't tempted fate now.
Astronomers say a small asteroid will buzz by Earth Monday at a distance of roughly 18,000 miles -- just close enough to make sky watchers wince a tiny bit.
The moon is about 239,000 miles away, as a point of reference. And "small" for an asteroid is about 80 feet in radius.
King County and four cities spent $30 million shoring up the Green River Valley after severe storms weakened the federally-owned Howard Hanson Dam in January 2009 and led to an increased risk of flooding. But the federal government has decided it won’t help cover the costs, ending a two-year long dispute, county officials announced Friday. The county shored up levees, reinforced buildings and relocated the county Election’s Division office after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers warned later that year of a 1-in-3 chance of flooding. King County spent $24 million and sought reimbursement from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which denied the request. FEMA, however, ruled the county’s basis [...]
The Downtown Seattle Association, long the influential voice of local business, is endorsing same-sex marriage and urging support on both human rights and economic grounds. "Marriage equality is an important civil rights issue and it is an important economic issue, because studies show that knowledge workers, creative workers and young workers prefer communities that are diverse, open and tolerant," said Kate Joncas, DSA president and CEO. It’s the second time the Downtown Seattle Assn. has taken a stand for gay civil rights. It supported Referendum 71, the 2009 statewide ballot measure that ratified Washington’s "everything but marriage" domestic partnership law. Ref. 71 passed with more than 52 percent of the [...]
A Seattle business man who accidentally poisoned a teen worker by directing him to pour hazardous chemicals down a toilet has been sentenced to nearly three years in prison.
This is just crazy. Imagine a waterfall. Huge. Taller than Niagra Falls huge. And you decide to go over it in a kayak. Then live to tell about it. Rafael Ortiz did that recently at Palouse Falls in Franklin County in southeast Washington. Red Bull, which sponsors Ortiz, puts the fall’s height at 189 feet. Other estimates vary from 180 to 200 feet. But after awhile, does it really matter? He was only the second kayaker to make the plunge over Palouse. The first, Tyler Bradt, did it three years ago. But unfortunately, Ortiz won’t go in the record books. The force of the fall shot him out of the [...]
Police and fire fighters were called to Vancouver, B.C.’s posh Four Seasons Hotel on Thursday, as demonstrators protesting a mining industry meeting rang an alarm and tossed a bag containing an "extremely smelly substance." The hotel’s public areas were briefly evacuated, and police are treating the incident as a "hazardous materials incident." No arrests have been made. The incident brings to memory this reporter’s experience of how the mining industry sometimes does business in British Columbia . . . and a matter never, to my knowledge investigated. Lake of the Hanging Glacier, in the Purcell Mountains of southeast B.C., is one of the most beautiful places on earth. An exaggeration? [...]
Because it's Friday -- and because this whole judging-other-people's-weddings topic is everywhere since Mark Zuckerberg tied the knot -- I'd like to point out the makers of Uggs are now marketing a wedding line.
The shoes look like this.
America’s most venerable, best-funded, best-connected gay rights lobbying group — the Human Rights Campaign — will endorse Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jay Inslee on Tuesday morning. The announcement is the latest in a string of pro-Inslee happenings by Democratic-aligned interest groups. In recent weeks, Inslee has been endorsed by Planned Parenthood Votes, feted at a PPV luncheon, and received an award from NARAL Pro-Choice Washington. Inslee is an outspoken supporter of the same-sex marriage bill passed by the Legislature in February and signed into law by Gov. Chris Gregoire. Opponents are claiming they have collected enough signatures to force a vote on marriage equality in November. Republican Attorney General Rob McKenna [...]
OK, so there probably wasn't any tiger stalking around Puyallup yesterday . But that didn't stop the traffic jams and Twitter storms from taking all the productivity out of your evening.
A man called police Thursday afternoon to report he saw a tiger in his backyard, and as second call from a neighbor confirmed the sighting.
"I was checking on the corn crop I had planted and I did see a cat -- fairly large -- and they're telling me it's a tiger," Travis Johnson told KOMO TV.
