| Excerpt: | After seven days without school for thousands of Tacoma students, Gov. Chris Gregoire has stepped up to mediate talks between Tacoma Public Schools and the Tacoma Education Association. After failing to reach an agreement today, the governor called for school district officials and members of the teachers union to negotiate in her office. Members of […] |
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| Published at: | 4:44 PM on Wednesday, September 21st, 2011 |
| Written by: | Wes Murry |
| Categories: | Education |
| Tags: | WA-Cities, WA-Gov, WA-Local |
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Daily Archives: September 21st, 2011
Governor Gregoire steps up to mediate negotiations to end Tacoma teacher strike
Iran frees Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal — two U.S. hikers it has imprisoned since 2009
| Excerpt: | Iran’s autocratic regime today freed two American hikers that it has held in prison for more than two years in a move it called a “humanitarian gesture”. Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal, both twenty-nine, were allowed to leave Iran’s infamous Evin prison and taken by a diplomatic caravan to an Iranian airport. They were then […] |
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| Published at: | 2:01 PM on Wednesday, September 21st, 2011 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Policy Topics, World Commmunity |
| Tags: | Human Rights |
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Georgia executes Troy Davis after U.S. Supreme Court refuses to halt his killing