In Brief - April 23, 2008
Around the Northwest
- Former Sonics owner Howard Schultz has filed suit against current Sonics owner Clay Bennett, claiming Bennett lied and the sale of the team was "fraudulently induced".
- Despite recent gains, Washington is still behind other states when it comes to childhood immunizations.
- After repealing state law prohibiting it, Idaho has opened its first methadone clinic.
- Liberty Mutual has bought Safeco and plans to make it a privately held company.
- Do you ever wonder why, when you're eating dinner, all you see on TV is direct to consumer marketing for pharmaceuticals? It's because competition from generic drugs has cut into profit margins, for companies like GlaxoSmithKline.
- The New York Times, which had previously endorsed Hillary Clinton for President, issued a blistering editorial on the Clinton campaign's use of scorched earth politics.
- Foreclosures were up 300% in the Bay Area and around California during the first quarter of 2008.
- Iran has agreed with international arms inspectors, to discuss alleged evidence of its nuclear weapons program.
- One statistic not to lead the world in: the U.S. prison population is tops in the world. And the President is fond of saying that freedom is on the march.
- Apparently the Nepalese government is siding with China in its issues with Tibet, as a climber was expelled from Mt. Everest for possessing a "Free Tibet" banner.
- 1661 - Charles II ascends to the crown of England, Ireland and Scotland.
- 1858 - Physicist Max Planck, the founder of quantum theory, is born.
- 1968 - Columbia University students protesting the Vietnam War shut down the university.
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