Moscow staff to work with fairground facility’s board on conditions for $1 million pledge. They are using private funds (though controlled by the government). Every seat in the council chambers at City Hall was filled with Palouse Ice Rink supporters, some of them sporting Palouse Youth Hockey Association jerseys at Monday night’s Moscow City Council […]
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Look, Evangelicals: I’m a businessman—a very, very successful businessman—and I got this way by making the greatest deals the world has ever known. I believe in speaking bluntly, as you know, so let’s cut to the chase: I want to make a deal with you, Evangelical Christians of America. A great deal. My offer is
The Adams County Sheriff’s Office has a new body-camera policy following the shooting death of a rancher by two deputies that went unrecorded though both deputies wore the devices. Deputies are now required to activate the cameras for all public interactions while on duty, Sheriff Ryan Zollman said. “If they’re assisting someone walking across the
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Why should taxpayers be funding this? Tony Mangini, vice president of the Palouse Ice Rink board, will try to turn 10 years of talk about a new facility into action when he goes before the Moscow City Council tonight and asks the city to pledge $1 million. Mangini said Palouse Ice Rink has $200,000 in
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Texas will allow concealed handgun license holders to carry their weapons into public university buildings, classrooms and dorms starting today, which is also the 50th anniversary of the mass shooting at the University of Texas’ landmark clock tower. The campus-carry law pushed by Gov. Greg Abbott and the Republican legislative majority will make Texas one
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Northern Hemisphere hurricane-free for the first time since 1977. The hurricane season begins officially on June 1st each year and ends on November 1, and corresponds to the time of year when the waters of the Gulf of Mexico have a sufficiently high temperature to generate these storms. Hurricane Katrina 28 Aug 2005 – Image
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The Washington Times reports The computers of the House Democratic campaign committee have been hacked in an intrusion that investigators say resembles the recent cyber breach of the Democratic National Committee, a spokeswoman for the committee said Friday. The incident added another layer of mystery to the hacking of Democratic Party information that has been
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Via the NY Post: PHILADELPHIA — Hillary Clinton’s campaign is pressuring TV stations across the country to stop airing an anti-Clinton political ad sponsored by the pro-Trump super-PAC Rebuilding America Now. The campaign claims the ad, titled “Outsourcing,” is “directly contracted by evidence in the public record.” The ad claims Clinton went to India and
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Should we give Washington still more power over our lives – or “Take back control”? Independence Day weekend is a perfect time to reflect on personal freedoms and responsibilities. The Magna Carta and Declaration of Independence were about overbearing, despotic kings. Brexit, Britain’s decision to leave the European Union, was much about overbearing bureaucrats in
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This is what’s causing all of our smoke in Moscow. A hot, dry week across central and eastern Washington ended with at least three large wildfires requiring state assistance. In Grant County, the Black Rock fire started around noon Saturday and burned more than 23,000 acres north of Moses Lake. State firefighters began fighting the
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And this is what solar physicists have been saying for 40 years. The arrival of intense cold similar to the one that raged during the “Little Ice Age”, which froze the world during the 17th century and in the beginning of the 18th century, is expected in the years 2030—2040. “These conclusions were presented by
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According to Judicial Watch, analysis of government documents obtained via a FOIA lawsuit against Homeland Security show that flying President Obama’s party to attend Paris COP21 ran up $2,840,896.80 in air transport bills – bring President Obama’s total travel costs to date to $83 million. Obama Travel Cost Taxpayers over $83 million to Date (Washington DC)—Judicial Watch
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Climate change is all-purpose excuse for Big Green and federal misfeasance and malfeasance. In short, whatever “hotter, drier, longer” forest fires we are witnessing today have nothing to do with fossil fuels, plant-fertilizing carbon dioxide, or “dangerous manmade climate change.” They have a lot to do with incompetent forest mismanagement policies and practices. bureaucratsFar too
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Senator Inhofe, a steadfast climate skeptic, has raised concerns about “brainwashing” of kids to convince them to worry about climate change. Via the Washington Post: In his grandchild’s question — ‘Why is it you don’t understand global warming?’— Sen. Jim Inhofe sees ‘brainwashing’ The senator, speaking last week on the syndicated Eric Metaxas radio show, said
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Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is not completely opposed to a carbon tax, her campaign chair said Tuesday. “Right now we’ve not proposed a carbon tax,” John Podesta told an audience Tuesday at a climate change event in Philadelphia during the Democratic National Convention. “We believe we can get the job done. But if Congress wants to come forward with
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These research results on homeschooling. Sources are Kunzman and Gaither’s “Homeschooling: A Comprehensive Survey of the Research” (2013, Other Education: The Journal of Educational Alternatives) and others listed below. First, homeschooling has opposite effects on verbal versus math scores: Given this persistent corroboration across two decades we might conclude, tentatively, that there may be at least a modest
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Some recent examples of fallout from increases in the minimum wage in California (eventually to $15 an hour): 1. Sacramento’s “Almost Perfect Bookstore” is closing its brick-and-mortar store due to rising labor costs from the “Way-Far-From Perfect $15 Minimum Wage Increase” in California, see details here. 2. Iconic LA Diner Pann’s (est. 1958) To Stop Serving Dinner, Cites Rising
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Just as playing the lottery is for people who are bad at math, minimum wage is for people who are bad at economics. From Michael Saltsman and Mark J. Perry: “The Fight for $15 Will Hit North Philly Hard“ in the WSJ: Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders may not be the Democratic presidential nominee in 2016,
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