Snowe Job: Senate Finance Committee set for final debate and vote on health-care reform bill this morning, and all eyes are on Republican Olympia Snowe, who hasn't indicated how she will vote. If approved, the bill merges with the Senate Health Committee's bill and then proceeds to the full Senate. Insurance lobby attempts to foil the legislation by issuing bogus report.
Filling the Hole: Developer will fill the gaping chasm on 2nd Avenue and Pine Street, where it had planned a luxury tower. Starwood Capital Group insists it's not giving up on the project, just using the site as a parking lot while it waits for economy to recover. Uh huh.
In the Hole: Eyman's I-1033 would starve the Seattle budget of $150 million by 2015.
Big Money: Two Americans win Nobel prize for economics, including first woman to ever receive the award. The Nobel Economics Committee recognized them for seminal analysis of how organizations and people function outside traditional markets.
It Doesn't Steer? App for iPhone will lock car, unclock car, and start the engine.
Vexing Virus: Journal of the American Medical Association reports H1N1 hitting healthy young adults the hardest.
Enviro Ethos: Dow Constantine dings Susan Hutchison's anti-environmental donations at forum in the Aquarium.
The Republican Candidate: NARAL starts running anti-Hutchison TV commercials.
"Susan Hutchison says a woman's right to choose has nothing to do with county government," the ads say. The county funds nine health clinics that provide family planning services for women, the ads note, adding "We can't trust Susan Hutchison to protect these patients."
Disown the Little Witch: Nineteen-year-old woman snitches on her mother for growing one marijuana plant in the living room.
Creepy: Utility workers find human bones outside kid's bedroom in Lakewood.
Stormy: Get used to it.
Born Undercooked: "Rare Wash. rabbits born at Oregon Zoo."
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Schwarzenegger: Enrages Christians and Republicans by declaring day of recognition for Harvey Milk, approving restrictions on ammunition, and allowing $2.3 billion in taxes for health care. He also signed a law that lets people sue paparazzi.
Mayor Bertha Knight Landes: Held the office from 1926 to 1928, making her the first woman elected mayor of a major U.S. city and the only female mayor in Seattle history. Landes campaigned on a platform of "municipal housekeeping," vowing to crack down on nefarious activity and take city ownership of utilities. But she lost her first bid for reelection two years later due to "sex prejudice."
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