In Brief - April 16, 2008
Around the Northwest
- Governor Christine Gregoire sent a letter to NBA Commissioner David Stern urging him to keep the Sonics in Seattle.
- His Holiness the Dalai Lama wrapped up his 5 day visit to Seattle yesterday, just as Pope Benedict XVI was starting his visit in Washington, D.C.
- In Oregon, Democratic Senate candidates vying to beat incumbent Senator Gordon Smith met last night for a televised debate.
- A new report by the National Toxicology Program of the National Institutes of Health has concluded that there is some concern that fetuses, babies and children could be at risk because of bisphenol A, an ingredient in plastics. Of course the plastics industry had no concerns.
- Social networking sites like Facebook are blurring the employer/employee relationship.
- A Republican state Senator in Florida is working with Democratic colleagues to kill a draconian pro-life bill.
- Hedge fund managers keep getting richer with billion dollar paydays.
- English Prime Minister Gordon Brown, addressing the UN Security Council, said that Robert Mugabe was trying to steal the recent election in Zimbabwe.
- Soviet style politics are alive and well in Russia, with President Vladimir Putin continuing to consolidate power.
- As India's forests diminish, the question becomes tigers or people?
- 1912 - Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly across the English Channel.
- 1917 - Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd from Switzerland to join the Bolsheviks.
- 2007 - A gunman opens fire at Virginia Tech, killing 32 people and wounding many others.
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