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  • Wyden’s addition

    Ridenbaugh Press

    It’s being billed as a three-senator deal – Senators Max Baucus, Harry Reid and Oregon’s Ron Wyden – but the history demonstrates that this is Wyden’s baby: A change in the Senate version of the health care bill that would dramatically change the health insurance picture for not just a [...]
    Posted: November 20, 2009, 1:16pm EST
    by Randy Stapilus
  • Crump: Dobbs Cut Teeth In Idaho

    Huckleberries Online

    So now we know who’s responsible for Lou Dobbs. It’s the American Legion. Before announcing his resignation from CNN last week, the Rupert-bred commentator told the Legion that his experience with itsnationwide oratorical contest at Minico High School shaped both his world view and choice of career. Dobbs, [...]

    Posted: November 20, 2009, 1:14pm EST
  • HBO's Inland Northwest -- 11.20.09

    Huckleberries Online

    The Milky Way spreads across the night sky over Mormon Row, an historic settlement, in Grand Teton National Park near Jackson, Wyo., Thursday night. The light in the distance is the city of Driggs, Idaho, on the west side of the Teton Mountain Range. (AP Photo/Jackson Hole News&Guide, Bradly J. Boner) [...]

    Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:38pm EST
  • SL Letter of the Day: Hot & Drunk

    Slog

    I met a guy about two months ago through weird and serendipitous circumstances on my last visit back home to Tucson and he's great in so many ways. We get along really well, have a lot of common interests, his friends and family that I've met so far I like' [...]

    Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:06pm EST
  • Our Lil' Old Theater Scene

    Slog

    Is the subject of a profile in the NYT... travel section? The article doesn't say much about Seattle theater except that it exists, it includes/ed people like Bart Sher, Kurt Beattie, et al.

    Also: "Offbeat delights abound."

    In the "offbeat" category:

    Teatro ZinZanni, for instance, offers a five-course meal and a European-style' [...]

    Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:05pm EST
  • Washington, Seattle top off-year turnout charts

    HorsesAss.Org

    Number of comments: 7

    Vote-by-mail advocates have long argued that the system increases voter participation, particularly in traditionally low-turnout off-year elections, and this recent general election certainly doesn’t provide any evidence to the contrary. Indeed, when compared to other cities, Seattle’s off-year turnout is simply off the charts.

    HA comment thread regular N in Seattle, [...]

    Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:59am EST
    by Goldy
  • All Yours For The Right Bid

    Huckleberries Online

    As you know, I'm deeply indebted for the terrific job that CindyH does filling in for me while I'm on vacation. But saying thanks doesn't seem to be enough. So I figured I'd post this photo (monster hat tip to Sue) of a fundraiser planned by the Festival at Sandpoint. [...]

    Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:14am EST
  • This Week in Music: Foscil

    Slog

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    Dave Segal on Truckasauras' "serious" alter-ego, Foscil:

    All this booze talk may lead you to believe that Foscil's new album, Residential (due out in December as a triple 7-inch as well as digitally via Byron Kalet's Journal of Popular Noise zine), is a boisterous party record' [...]

    Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:58am EST
  • Oprah To Pull Plug In 2011

    Huckleberries Online

    Oprah Winfrey knows how to keep viewers on the edge of their seats. In the last 10 minutes of her show, Winfrey confirmed that she will be ending her syndicated "Oprah Winfrey Show" in September 2011. "After much prayer and months of careful thought, I thought that next" [...]

    Posted: November 20, 2009, 8:47am EST
  • You go, Gov!

    Upper Left

    Go get it from them that got it, that is. Andrew reports… Minutes ago, at Senator Jeanine Kohl-Welles' sixteenth annual post-election analysis fundraiser, Gregoire declared emphatically that cuts cannot be the only answer to the $2.6 billion shortfall the state is facing. "It's not an option," Gregoire said firmly,' [...]
    Posted: November 19, 2009, 8:02pm EST
  • 'Failure Is Not An Option'

    Huckleberries Online

    Have we really come to this? Both the President and the Attorney General have stated, unequivocally, that Khalid Shaikh Mohammad and his co-defendants will be found guilty and executed. What an appalling statement. It's not just the fear a lot of Americans have about these terrorists being brought [...]

    Posted: November 19, 2009, 5:46pm EST
  • Parting Shot -- 11.19.09

    Huckleberries Online

    Soaf tells Huckleberries Online that "I was on my way down to La Barge WY yesterday. As I was headed through the Hoback River Canyon South of Jackson WY,  I came around a corner on the highway and was greeted with the critters in the attached pics standing in the" [...]

    Posted: November 19, 2009, 5:40pm EST
  • CindyH: 'Dreaded Note From Teacher'

    Huckleberries Online

    CindyH: So. I got the dreaded “note from teacher.” Or in this case e-mail. It seems my 10-year-old was sent to the principal's office for “blurting out,” and “talking out of turn several times despite repeated warnings.” He's been sentenced to morning and lunch recess detention. (Keeping an [...]

    Posted: November 19, 2009, 5:36pm EST
  • PM Headlines -- 11.19.09

    Huckleberries Online

    Matt Phillips ( center) gets a skating tip from Disney On Ice professionals Mark Stanford (right ) and Allison Best during an open skating session today at the Riverfront Park Ice Palace. Local Special Olympic Skaters got the opportunity to meet and skate with professionals who are in town for [...]

    Posted: November 19, 2009, 5:09pm EST

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