Kendramama: I'm in a whirl of emotion and confusion right now, scared to death that I'm going to pick the wrong lender, put down the wrong date or amount (like, for instance, when they say, “search for available loans, do it put the exact amount listed on my [...]
OK, I'm a bit late to this party. But I finally understand the Mudgy & Millie thing -- you know the five moose-mice statues that grace our downtown in locations ranging from Tubbs Hill to the library to Sherman Avenue and City Park -- and finally to Independence' [...]
An Oregon National Guard Blackhawk helicopter flies over cloud-shrouded Mount Hood as the search for two missing climbers continues as seen from Timberline Lodge in Government Camp, Ore., this morning. Weather conditions improved early in the day allowing searchers a window of opportunity to search for Anthony Vietti, 24, of [...]
Seattle's favorite taco bus—well, Seattle's only taco bus*—Tacos el Asadero has been shut down by the health department for:
• Poor personal hygiene
• Equipment/utensils not properly sanitized
• Handwashing with no hot water
UPDATE: It is the Tacos el Asadero location at 7300 Martin Luther King Jr. Way S. near Othello [...]
That winter, the cop killer in the woolen jacket gunned down his first two patrolmen near Broadway and Republican on Capitol Hill. Police scoured the city for “the man in the mackinaw.” A couple of cops spotted him downtown at Second and Cherry. They shouted at him to stop. He [...]
AP:
Smoking marijuana is becoming even more popular among U.S. teens and they have cut down on smoking cigarettes, binge drinking and using methamphetamine, according to a federal survey released Monday.... The increase of teens smoking pot is partly because the national debate over medical use of marijuana can make [...]
Recognizing an opportunity to take up a new hobby and make a few bucks, rockabilly music fan Chester D. Adkins set up some recording gear in a small space in the back of his wife’s downtown Coeur d’Alene record shop. Genevieve Adkins had opened Souvenir Records at 215 [...]
Yesterday, I posted about a new NEA survey showing that arts-event attendance was down to its lowest levels since the organization started keeping track in 1982.
I also posted about The A.W.A.R.D. Show!, an experiment in modern-dance competition that's kicking up some controversy—12 companies compete over four days for [...]
I had no idea this existed. Now I that I do, I'm not sure how I feel about it. I do know that I want to give Frances Bay a hug. Probably with tears streaming down my face for no good reason.
A police honor guard salutes the casket during a memorial service for Lakewood, Wash. police Sgt. Mark Renninger at Lehigh University's Stabler Arena in Bethlehem, Pa, this morning. Renninger, who was raised in Pennsylvania, and three other Lakeland police officers were gunned down by Maurice Clemmons as they worked inside [...]
An issue of Editor & Publisher is shown atop newspapers in New York earlier today. The journalism trade journal Editor & Publisher is shutting down after 108 years of publication. Editor Greg Mitchell of Editor & Publisher said he was shocked by the decision to immediately close the magazine's print [...]
In a predictable move, state Rep. Jaime Herrera, R-18th LD, announced she is running for Congress in WA-03 within hours of incumbent Brian Baird’s announcement that he will not run again.
Herrera took office in the 18th after former Rep. Richard Curtis stepped down in the wake of an unseemly [...]
More and more people are waking up to the notion that this Afghanistan war policy is lunacy. Today Tony Blankley writes:
A sense of unreality overshadows our debate on Afghan war policy across the...
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