In Brief - May 8, 2008
Around the Northwest
- Seattle City Councilmember Richard McIver is the subject of an ethics investigation regarding a no-bid contract.
- Instead of advocating cuts in the gas tax, perhaps candidates should take a page out of Idaho congressional candidate Walt Minnick's book. At least it would be a good public relations move.
- Both Senators Clinton and Obama will be in Oregon this week.
- Wild Sky has become law.
- Coyotes are attacking small children in Southern California.
- Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty has approved a $38 million package to pay victims of the Minneapolis bridge collapse.
- A new report has rated Vermont as the best state for child well-being.
- KBR (think Halliburton) has another sex scandal on its hands in Iraq, this time at the British Embassy.
- The Olympic torch reached the summit of Mt. Everest.
- U.N. relief supplies are finally arriving in Myanmar (Burma), where it is estimated that 100,000 are dead.
- 1429 - Joan of Arc and French troops broke the English Siege of Orleans, during the Hundred Years' War.
- 1861 - Richmond is named the capitol of the Confederate States of America.
- 1886 - Coca-Cola is invented.
- 1984 - The Soviet Union announces its boycott of the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
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