In Brief - May 1, 2008
Around the Northwest
- With profits down 28%, Starbucks slows its growth in the U.S.
- Tuition is going up for students at community colleges in Washington.
- Idaho Governor Butch Otter, in a Soviet-like move, is consolidating his power over who can talk to the media, including employees of other elected officials.
- Oregon's largest mental health services provider is nearing collapse.
- The economy might be suffering nationwide, but Massachusetts is still doing well.
- The U.S. Capitol gets greener.
- Native Hawaiians advocating sovereignty took over Iolani Palace yesterday. Learn more about this issue and how U.S. imperialists illegally overthrew the legitimate Hawaiian government and made it the 50th state, in this article.
- DNA tests have confirmed the deaths of the last of the missing Romanovs, who were driven out of power in the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.
- The world's longest sea bridge at 22 miles has opened in China.
- Rice-producing countries are considering creating a cartel.
- Today is May Day.
- 1707 - The Kingdoms of England and Scotland merged to become the Kingdom of Great Britain.
- 1884 - American workers demand an 8 hour work day.
- 1960 - U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is shot down over the Soviet Union.
- 1971 - Amtrak is established.
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