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Amazon hiring 1,000, Microsoft 1,500…
Oregon adds 2,300 jobs in April, unemployment slips to 8.5%; Summer hiring shows promise…
UPDATE: Mom of 9YO WA school shooter cuts plea deal…
Bill moving through CA Legislature would make tens of thousands of illegal immigrants eligible to receive work permit, legal status…
Out-of-shape wannabe troopers prompt WA State Patrol to try again…
Alaska Airlines unveils ‘Salmon-Thirty-Salmon II’…
NAME THAT PARTY: KingCo Exec acknowledges affair; adviser says no official misconduct…
SnoHo County Fireworks: Council annoyed exec recommending “criminal justice sales tax” to avoid shortfall made obvious last year…
MORE NAME THAT PARTY: Reardon’s push to put a sales tax on the ballot comes after he’s spent months besieged by legal problems and questions about his use of county resources during his successful re-election campaign…
Seattle Mess Transit: Light rail driving up rents in “low wages” Rainier Valley… Seattle could face DOJ lawsuit over police reforms…
WA Education $ At Work: 2 separate audits find Tumwater schools overpaid employees, program as much as $325K…
Washington faith-healing parents acquitted of murder charge; 17-year-old died at home of ruptured appendix…
Spokane council passes new noise ordinance targeting bar performers…
Update: Move to unmask Spokesman-Review commenters going to judge; County GOP Chairwoman claims she was defamed…
Spokane developmentally delayed man in ICU after daylight assault…
Bristol Palin: I’ve received death wishes over comments supporting traditional marriage…
West Coast spike in gas prices tied to refineries…
North Dakota Passes Alaska to Become Nation’s Second-Leading Oil Producer…
Seattle Police: 1/2 hour ‘pooper scooper’ battle ends with attacker on the run…
UTAH OOPS: Teen accused of burglary after leaving homework at crime scene…
U of Washington Study: Some animals won’t survive GLOBAL WARMING… because they can’t move fast enough…
HBO INW: Drywall dust prompts investigation at Spokane federal building…
OOPS: SEIU Threatens Picket; Columbia Willamette Planned Parenthood Cancels Fundraiser… “… The cherry on top: Cecile Richards, the CEO of Planned Parenthood Federation of America is married to Kirk Adams, International Executive Vice President of SEIU!…”
VIA LARS, PORTLAND EDUCATION $ AT WORK: “If 300-thousand dollars for a classroom of 25 isn’t enough to get the job done… its time to find a new superintendent and elect a new school board…”
TAFT UPDATE: Portland State U. Anti Israel Protester Huff-Leaving “Goes Off Without a Hitch”…
Bittersweet budget passed by Portland School Board…
OREGON PRIMARY DAY…
… AG RACE: Holton blasts Rosenblum pot money…
… Romney set to pick up more delegates…
… New poll: Hales, Smith leading PDX mayor’s race…
Idaho voters go to polls in first closed GOP primary…
Oregon PERS retirees to cost half a trillion dollars for next 100 years…
Oregon Justice (?) Update: PSU official/lawmaker sentenced for official misconduct – probation, letter of apology…
Portland City Audit: Police bureau years behind on many plans for improvement…
CHA-CHING! Portland considers higher waste-collection rates…
As state faces $16 BILLION budget hole… California offered piece of the action from Internet poker…
P.C. UPDATE: Portland brewer cancels ‘Kali-Ma’ beer… because of “trivialisation of Goddess Kali”…
3 teens accused of setting 4-alarm fire at Woodburn High School; Family says started w/hand sanitizer, lighter…
Health officials on alert for more meningitis cases after U of Oregon student’s death…
Northwest Couple’s Nightmare Cross-Country Bus Trip: Disabled in Wheelchair, Asked to ‘Pee in a Cup,’ Lawsuit Alleges…
Other Lawsuit Accusations: Not being allowed to exit the bus with other passengers during scheduled stops…
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FBI May Charge George Zimmerman With Hate Crime – Could Face Death Penalty…
DOJ formally launches criminal probe into JPMorgan…
SHAREHOLDERS VOTE – DIMON STAYS ON…
HOPE AND CHANGE:
Tax $ At Work: $1.5 million of Obama stimulus for study “into the erectile dysfunction of overweight middle aged men and the accurate reporting of someone’s sexual history”… Update: LightSquared files for bankruptcy protection… Report: Obama friend who allegedly tried to bribe Rev. Wright gets $5.9 million HHS contract… Federal employee salaries exposed; 1 Ag Dept worker made $241,895 in 2011…
MIDEAST:
US set to take Iranian exile group off terror list… UPDATE: Al-Qaeda Infiltrator was Working for Brits not CIA – Cover Blown for Election Year Politics?… EXAMINER: Obama, Clinton ignore requests to name Haqqani as terrorist group… DEBKA: Series of ‘Unconnected’ Military Movements By US, Israel in Middle East… NATO invites Pakistan to Chicago summit… While shunning Israel …Saudi, Bahrain plan merger culminating in Gulf confederation to counter Iran… U.S. drones deliver ‘major blow’ in Yemen to Al Qaida command structure… Iran Executes Alleged Israeli Spy…
2012:
Poll: Obama Leads By Only 7… in Arkansas Democrat Primary …CBS/NYT: Romney leads Obama 46-43… … Obama campaign: NYT/CBS poll ‘biased’… USAToday/Gallup: Most Think ‘President Romney’ Better for Economy… POLL: ROMNEY LEADS WITH WOMEN… Paul: No Longer Campaigning for GOP Nomination… ANOTHER O’KEEFE EXCLUSIVE: VOTER FRAUD IN NCAROLINA… VIDEO
WHAT BIAS?
MSNBC Panel: Media in the bag for Obama at debates… Donny Deutsch Lauds Obama on Gay Marriage Vs. Romney ‘Bullying’… After Repeatedly Mocking Palin for What She’d Do on ‘Jeopardy!’… Chris Matthews Comes In Last… MORE MATTHEWS: Lectures Black Pastor on Gay Marriage: “I Hope You Evolve”… CNN’s Lemon Bemoans People ‘Injecting’ Religion Into Marriage Debate… NPR ombudsman: It’s OK for reporter to tweet anti-Romney photo… GOOGLE Shuts Down another Conservative Blog …TSA Pats Down… Henry Kissinger… In A Wheelcahir…
Airport Worker Allegedly Used Murder Victim ID To Hide Illegal Immigrant Status…
Ex-NOTW editor Rebekah Brooks charged in phone hackings…
Merkel To Greece: Shape Up Or Ship Out Of The EU… Greek Minister Warns of Civil War…
Democrats ‘Fuming’ After Limbaugh Named To ‘Hall Of Famous Missourians’……
Backlash over NY court ruling to allow viewing of child porn…
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President Obama in Seattle for fundraisers…
WHAT ABOUT THE 99%? $35,800-per-couple brunch; $1,000 ticket for general admission / $5,000 for photo reception; “Expect traffic tie-ups… Convention Place station in the transit tunnel will be closed from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m…”
WA State Patrol: No timetable set on SnoHo Co Exec criminal probe…
GOING AFTER JOE? “America’s Toughest Sheriff” to Face Federal Suit…
Trial begins for WA faith-healing couple accused of murder in son’s burst appendix death…
Retired WA trooper accused of doctoring overtime pay, fixing parking tickets…
WA town council passes panhandling ban…
71-year-old WA man, city battle over windmill…
“… They’ll take my windmill down when they pry my cold, dead hands off it…”
Talk about bad luck: WA man hit by own truck – between carjacking and theft…
Amanda Knox slander trial postponed in Italy…
Alaska man plans year on uninhabited island…
Seattle firefighters free pizza maker from dough machine…
Father of Idaho soldier, captured and held by Taliban-affiliated group, critical of negotiations…
Montana judge rules teen birth control coverage ban unconstitutional…
Idaho sheriff candidate hosts cross burning: ‘It’s a religious symbol’…
2 CA policemen ordered to trial over videotaped beating death…
Car crashes into TVW studios in Olympia…
ANOTHER NORTHWEST MEDIA DEATH: PUBLICOLA, 2009-2012…
U of Washington offers fellowship to blind China dissident…
WA: Opponents of gay marriage say they have over half of signatures needed for R-74…
Update: Official steps down after fraud exposed in WA’s minority contracting program…
WA US SENATE RACE: BAUMGARTNER PULLS AHEAD OF MARIA CANTWELL (ON FACEBOOK) …Divergence: Oregon income falls to 15% behind Washington…
NBA UPDATE (?): Over objections from Port and Mariners, Seattle poised for MOU on new arena…
Montana State Prison inmate files $2.2M lawsuit… over broken toe…
Daily Show comes Idaho to film segment on mutant fish…
HOPE&CHANGE&NEWTONE&BIPARTISANSHIP:
ACORN, MoveOn Go After Oregon Democrat… Who Occasionally Cooperated With GOP… WA Sen Murray: “We can’t take the risk of the Tea Party taking over the Senate – not now, when the economy is just starting to pick up… Don’t let the Tea Party extremists add another member to the Senate…”CA high school students sue federal govt over global warming…
Bill Nye the Science Guy: Climate change more important than economy…
City of Portland debt picture worsens… BOJACK: “… New IOUs for $69.8 million of “urban renewal” play money in the Convention Center area sold yesterday…”
April Poll: 47% think Portland moving in the “right direction”… down 9 points from FEBRUARY…
Portland Mayor Polling: “Sam Adams would have had a hard time winning re-election…”
TriMet Lift operators suspend strike, head back to bargaining table…
Oregon church leader accused of placing camera in women’s bathroom…
Prosecutor: Oregon quadruplet tried to kill brother; 16-year-old charged as an adult with attempted murder…
CREEPY UPDATE: Witness to Breitbart death found…
Days before his sudden death, Breitbart had vowed he and his media organization, Breitbart.com, would do the vetting of Barack Obama which the MSM had failed to do in 2008. More than that, Breitbart said he had “damaging” information on Obama’s past associations, especially with Bill Ayers… “Lasseter saw a band of white blanched skin along Breitbart’s hairline, and that Breitbart’s face was bright red…”
VIDEO
Oregon norovirus traced to reusable grocery bag… Paul Allen: Blazers not for sale, but this season most disappointing he’s had as team’s owner…
Family irate over 18-month sentence in deadly Oregon hit-and-run…
OR Gov withdraws controversial nominee for lottery commission…
Mess Transit Poll: Portland should fix streets, before adding bikeways, streetcars…Update: 43-year-old Reed College nuke reactor license renewed for 20 more years…
NATIONAL/WORLD
Fed Clears China’s First US Bank Takeover…
MIDEAST:
Report: Al Qaeda Bombmaker Designs Bombs to Hide in Cameras, Hard Drives and Pets… US: Yemen terror group may have made more underwear bombs… US police, military trainers, advisers back in Yemen… Multinational force massed on Jordanian-Syrian border… Syria: 55 dead in Damascus suicide blasts… … LIVE UPDATES… Poll: Egyptians Hold Less Favorable View of US & US Aid Since Arab Spring Revolution …‘US drone’ raid kills 8 Qaeda militants in Yemen… Report: Israel-Egypt Peace Agreement Dead… … “Last element in normalization with Israel”… … Israel weighs cyberwar ops… … Muslim Brotherhood Promises to Liberate Jerusalem…
HOPE & CHANGE:
Did Fundraising Problems Force Obama Decision on Gay Marriage?… White House Chef: US’s Greatest Threat Is Fat… Jobless claims at 367K… Trade gap widens… US rate on 30-year mortgage hits record low… Obama: Soldiers ‘Fighting on My Behalf’… Gallup: 1 In 3 Young Adults Underemployed… 324,000 Women Dropped Out of Labor Force in Last Two Months–As Number of Women Not in Labor Force Hits Historic High…
2012:
Report: Romney once forcibly held down high school classmate, cut his hair… Obama: Romney auto bailout claim an ‘Etch-a-Sketch moment’… Poll: Dead heat in Ohio… ICYMI: OBAMA BACK-AND-FORTH STATEMENTS ON GAY MARRIAGE… Ron Paul Votes Against ‘One-Sided’ Bill to Boost US-Israel Ties… Democrats File Complaint Against Scott Brown… Over Half-Court Basketball Shot…
WHAT BIAS?
NY Times on Gay TV: Winning Liberal ‘Saints’, Vanishing Conservative ‘Bigots’… MSNBC MATTHEWS: Obama now embracing your gay children like God did when he created them… MSNBC SHARPTON: “GOP Declared War on Blacks… Want to Roll Back Our Right to Vote…” MSNBC Papantonio: Romney’s A Nuclear Madman… Kos: Evil conservatives are evil! Like Putin and the Taliban!… CNN Welcomes Mourdock to Senate Race: Aren’t You Going to ‘Undermine’ American Unity If You Win?… NPR Publicizes Students’ Campaign Backed By Left Wing Organization… On MSNBC, Sharpton uses kids to bash Romney: “He’s a poopy pants”… VIDEO
Missing words from 9-11 tribunal: CIA and “big-boy pants”…
Russia says it foiled terror plot in 2014 Olympic city…
Tax $ At Work: NJ Taxpayers Footing Bill for Public Employees’ Union Work…
BIRDS OF A FEATHER: Occupy DC gets office space… with money from SEIU…
Education $ At Work: University ‘forced’ to create gender-neutral bathrooms…
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EVERETT HERALD: “Staffer delivered dirt” to Snohomish County Exec Reardon campaign… during work hours…
Seattle Mayor’s Legacy: 28% City Light Rate Increase Coming?…
After a decade of “blue-ribbon commissions, reams of studies and public outreach”… Seattle quietly pulls plug on broadband network…
Mother in WA Amber Alert turns herself in; Ex-boyfriend died over weekend from critical stab injuries…
Man says WA survivalist murder suspect helped him find place to propose…
WA: Body found in trunk of burned-out car…
Steve Powell’s porn-voyeurism trial begins…
Idaho prosecutors want felony for not reporting crimes against children…
TOWNHALL.COM: “How Bill Gates Rips Off Babies…”
KIEFFER: “… Gates is more dangerous to the free markets than President Obama. Why? Because everyone knows that Obama is a socialist who lacks business experience. However, when a billionaire capitalist like Gates advocates socialist policies, Americans will believe those policies are ‘pro-business’, ‘entrepreneurial’, and ‘fiscally responsible’…”
Editors of Seattle Lesbian Magazine speak out after rape threats…
IN TROUBLE? Obama campaign opens office in Portland…
“Isn’t Oregon blue? Do we really have to have a campaign here?” state director of the Obama campaign in Oregon Brandyn Keating asked rhetorically, before answering, “Yes we do”…
Northwest Mess Transit: Columbia River Crossing needs $900 million…
PDX Duplicity: Photographer Told He Must Have Permit to Use Portland Park–The Same One Occupy Uses for Meetings…
ZOMBIE OCCUPY-WRAP:
“Complete pantheon of Communist heroes…” “Decolonize Oakland…” “May Day General Strike…” Multnomah County seeks $2 million in property taxes from the city of Ptld…
Drunk driver arrested in Oregon had 10-year old son drive vehicle…
KATU investigation may prompt new Oregon laws in cosmetic injection world…
CA: 92-year-old who sold ‘suicide kits’ to be sentenced…
Two killed, 3 injured in Portland shootings…
First In The USA: Predator Drone Used to Arrest North Dakota Man…
Whooping cough cases turn up in Portland…
“Even More Evidence Howard Schultz Was a Horrible Owner of the Sonics…”
… Not to be outdone, Schultz followed suit. He gave each employee a Starbucks gift card. One member of the staff–who wasn’t a Starbucks regular–decided to use his card to get some snacks. When he went to pay for his roughly five dollars’ worth of food, he asked how much money remained on the card.
The Sonics employee asked how much had been on the card to begin with.
At the time, we would later learn, ordinary customers couldn’t buy a Starbucks card with a value of less than $5. These were custom $3.50 gift cards…
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MIDEAST:
Update: Officials Say More Al Qaeda Bombs Unaccounted For… … Fear of surgically implanted, non-metallic devices… Earlier: CIA thwarts new underwear bomb plot, on 1-year anniversary of killing of OBL… Report: Syria Moving Long-Range Scuds to Israel, Turkey Borders… Report: US secretly releasing Taliban fighters… Congress’ Intelligence Heads: Taliban Has Grown Stronger Under Obama… Top General: Obama Knew About OBL Hideout in Abbottabad Since Summer of 2010… Clinton: Obama Has Sent Message of Respect For All Religions — ‘in Particular of Islam’ …DEBKA: “Change of French presidents weakens Western front against nuclear Iran…” Iran readies secret salt desert bunkers for clandestine nuclear facilities… Al-Qaida kills 20 Yemen troops after U.S. drone kills top militant… Al-Qaeda Releases Video of US Hostage Warren Weinstein…
HOPE AND CHANGE:
Name That Party: Report Released Shows Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown Had Restraining Order Filed Against Him By Ex-Wife; Alleged Abuse… ‘Real’ Unemployment Rate Remains at 14.5%… Tax $ At Work: Feds Spend $1 Billion to Get Kids to Walk and Bike to School… Photo: Did “Post-Racial America” Obama Campaign Office Violate Civil Rights Act?…
2012:
Poll: Romney With Razor-thin Lead Over Obama… Swing State Poll: Romney, Obama Tied… Poll On Economics: Romney 47, Obama 44… New Obama ad strikes ‘don’t blame me’ tone on economy… … op-ed review 5/5: “Obama has already held more re-election fundraising events than every elected president since Richard Nixon combined…” Charles Barkley To Romney: ‘We’re Going To Beat You Like A Drum’… Name That Party: Obama Donor/School Principal Fired For Creating Phony Facebook Page to Spy on Kids…
WHAT BIAS?
On NBC, Biden Lauds NBC for Moving America Toward Same-Sex Marriage… MSNBC’s Finney: Romney-Ryan Plan Would Kill Women By Their Mid-30s… SNL Scraps Skit Bashing Obama – Run Anti-FOX News Skit Instead… Bill Maher: ‘For the Sake of Black America Obama Needs the Second Term’… CNN’s Candy Crowley: Most People Think GOP Are ‘Conservative White Guys Who Want to Protect Big Oil’… ESPN Columnist Reilly Condemns Nebraska Asst. Coach Brown as Un-Christlike for Affirming Biblical Views on Homosexuality… Socialist Francois Hollande defeats Nicolas Sarkozy in French presidential election…
US stocks under pressure after European elections…
Space weather expert has ominous forecast: World isn’t prepared for truly damaging solar storm…
OBIT: George Lindsey, Goober Pyle on ‘The Andy Griffith Show’, 83…
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