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Spin Control archive for Dec. 21, 2011

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 21, 2011

Condon transition team member resigns

The portion of the Mayor-elect David Condon’s transition team devoted to public safety has decided to keep its discussions confidential. Tim Connor, communicaitons director for the Center for Justice, announced in an email to Condon this week taht he resigned from the committee as a…

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A Nativity Scene erected by Hunter Abell of Bothell, Wash., sits on the Washington State Capitol Campus about a half block from a sign put up by atheists. Both are scheduled to be up through Christmas. (Jim Camden)

A way, with a manger, to mark the season

Creche erected on the Capitol Campus. OLYMPIA -- About a half block to the south of the atheists's sign (see below), a Nativity Scene occupies a section of the Capitol Campus to the east of the Insurance Building and the Legislative Building. In past years,…

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A sign marking the Winter Solstice, erected by the Freedom From Religion Foundation, is up on the Capitol campus as part of the annual duel over holiday-time displays. A Nativity Scene is also up, about 50 yards to the south. (Jim Camden)

Happy Solstice from the Capitol grounds

OLYMPIA -- This year's version of the "war over Christmas" is pretty tame. A Nativity Scene and a sign from an atheist organization, the Freedom from Religion Foundation, are coexisting nicely on the lawn in the park to the east of the Capitol and Insurance…

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