WIIIIIIND: Advisories are in effect around the Puget Sound! All the leaves blowing around makes for a pretty Fall scene.
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Feds Find Racial Discrimination at Tukwila School District: The district is adamantly denying allegations, bolstered by an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigation, that the district is hostile to black employees.
Hanford Is A Big Risk: That’s according to both a whistleblower who raised the alarm about safety and design problems at the nuclear site’s waste treatment plant, as well as a new study that says Hanford is more vulnerable to earthquake impacts than previously disclosed.
Drones Against Peace: A CIA drone killed a top Taliban leader in Pakistan on Friday. The country’s interior minister described the killing as a blow to peace talks: “This is not just the killing of one person, it’s the death of all peace efforts.”
Ultra Prestigious Colleges Had Their Hands in the Slave Trade: Including Harvard, Princeton, Dartmouth, and Yale, according to a new book.
There’s a Special Place in Hell: For those who cut food stamps for the poor.
Abortion Clinics Turning Away Patients: Where else? In Texas.
Pepper Spraying the Mentally Ill: Lawyers representing about 30,000 inmates are alleging their clients are routinely pepper sprayed by guards. “The seriously mentally ill are being punished for their mental illness,” they say.
Banksy In NYC: His “residency” is over, his art is all over the city, and he’s still anonymous.
The wind reminds me of this: