Updating this thread from last week: Here's an article about how much longer the joint chiefs nominee thinks we'll be in Iraq. In the article is this projection:The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office provided an analysis for long-term war costs. It estimated that if troops in…
Wait times for patients in other countries is always mentioned in debates about who has the best health-care system.But, fundamentally, the comparisons are unfair. U.S. times for those who are covered are compared with another country's times for those who are covered. That means that…
Item: Tougher state sex offender laws are urged: GOP wants to call special session to address the issue/Levi Pulkkinen and Chris McGann, Seattle PIPro (special session): Hoping to capitalize on outrage surrounding the slaying of 12-year-old Zina Linnik, a handful of Republican state representatives have…
With all the attention on gas prices, we should remove all displayed prices from stations and let the drivers set the price. When an engine is installed at the factory, a chip could be placed in the tank filler neck near the cap. This chip…
Our editorial today talked about the mild controversy in the Spokane Valley because it appears the City Council is going to allow more homes per acre than some are comfortable with. Part of the reason for the controversy? The Valley has always had a rural…
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