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Thursday, January 14, 2010

News The Morning News: The Response to Haiti, the Bedbug Outbreak, and Olympia's Fear of Pot

Posted by Christopher Frizzelle on Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 8:42 AM

Today in Port-au-Prince: "Foreign aid trickled into Haiti’s devastated capital on Thursday morning as survivors of Tuesday’s earthquake, many of them injured and homeless, woke to another morning with no electricity and dwindling water, to search for the missing and claim their dead."

Bill Clinton's Op-Ed on Haiti for Time Magazine: "We need to get as much equipment as we can into Haiti..."

The Pacific Northwest Response to Haiti: Wide-ranging. (Seattle Sounders Steve Zakuani and James Riley are raising money for the Yele Haiti Earthquake Fund at the George & Dragon on Saturday, Jan. 23.)

The Bedbug Outbreak: According to the DPD, the situation in Seattle is on the verge of becoming a crisis.

Fixing the Maurice Clemmons Loophole: "Among the changes gaining traction in the state capital are a constitutional amendment granting more leeway for judges to deny bail, increased penalties for family members who aid criminal suspects, and swifter, more severe punishment for felons who violate the terms of their community supervision."

The N-Word: NAACP "says a racial slur is being covered up in the trial of a former King County sheriff's deputy charged with beating a teenage girl."

Pot Is Popular with Voters: So why won't Olympia touch it?

Does Frank Chopp Think the Tunnel Will Ever Be Built? He refuses to answer.

Oops: UK fugitive gets caught when he crashes his car into a state trooper's on Interstate 5.

Hey Keith, Where'd You Go? An Anacortes man has been missing for a week.

Later, Rob: RealNetworks chief is stepping down.

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Roads are clogged with debris - Clinton is right - must clear roads or relief cannot flow.

This a major crises - OH- Red Cross of America announced a whole fucking ONE million dollars. Such dogs, they have shamed us again.

Posted by Gary Betsome on January 14, 2010 at 8:51 AM

What a coincidence, I just started a start-up called called FakeNetworks. It'll be a hit, our investors say, among the losers at work who comment on blogs because their jobs are unfulfillable or challenging enough to sustain.

Posted by dnt trust me on January 14, 2010 at 8:58 AM

The tragic thing is that many roads in Haiti are impassible on the best of days. But hopefully there are fewer injuries/deaths in those parts of the country than in Port-au-Prince.

Posted by keshmeshi on January 14, 2010 at 9:24 AM

RIP Teddy Pendergrass. You were a smooth motherfucker, man.

Posted by laterite on January 14, 2010 at 9:46 AM

I'm sorry, but who wears giant hoop earrings to court?

Posted by Dee on January 14, 2010 at 9:58 AM

Donate to Medicins sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders) if you really want to help.

They have very low administrative costs and deliver medical services that you know people need.

Delivering food aid will kill off local farming, and the Red Cross already has food supplies prelocated in Miami, so do what they need (doctors) and not what is easy (food).

Posted by Will in Seattle