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April 25th, 2021 - 2:00 pm § in Politics
Is Washington state tax reform finally coming?
Washington’s legislature is fixing to impose a capital gains tax on the “wealthy” to fund early childhood education and childcare programs. The bill has passed both houses, and the governor says he’ll sign it, but differing versions first have to be reconciled. (Read story he[...]
April 25th, 2021 - 11:52 am § in Environment, Science
Are pets destroying the planet?
Do we have too many pets? Are our ravenous companion animals eating and pooping us out of a planetary home? What do they contribute to greenhouse gas emissions and global warming? Do we need to ration dogs and cats to save our own species? Click here to enter cartoon slideshow. Return to The-Ave.US [...]
April 25th, 2021 - 11:41 am § in Foreign Affairs, Health
India’s “horrific” Covid-19 crisis
“A horrific surge in coronavirus cases in India continued on Saturday,” with daily cases soaring, which one commentator described as “not a curve or a wave. It’s a rocket. A straight vertical line.” (Read story here; see graph, click to enlarge.) Overwhelmed hospitals a[...]
April 24th, 2021 - 11:01 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
Update: AG to probe whether Pierce Co. sheriff committed a crime in confrontation with black man
Newly elected Sheriff Ed Troyer (photo below) of Pierce County, Washington, triggered an uproar back in January when he “confronted a Black man driving in his Tacoma neighborhood and called 911 to report the man threatened to kill him …, sending 42 officers, deputies and troopers rushing[...]
April 24th, 2021 - 6:48 pm § in Racism
PHOTOGRAPHY: Police swarm
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What if you were stuck in a cave with 14 other people for 40 days?
Would more than one of you still be alive? By the time the HMS Bounty mutineers were found on Pitcairn Island, only one of them was; and their Polynesian predecessors on that island apparently didn’t fare any better (read about that here). During World War 2, Jewish partisans holed up in close[...]
April 24th, 2021 - 6:03 pm § in Law and Courts
How much free speech are students entitled to?
Kids — and specifically, public school students — don’t have the same free speech rights adults do. In 1969, the Supreme Court ruled that public schools could punish students for disruptive speech (read the decision here) because, as Vox put it (here), “Teachers and school ad[...]