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Manka maligned, Aberdeen mill fined, local media undermined
Thursday, October 26, 2017
THIS WASHINGTON
ALSO TODAY at The Stand — Shame on state’s corporations for funding false, racist attack ads — Washington state’s biggest companies and corporate lobbying groups — including Amazon, Microsoft and the Association of Washington Business — are paying for false, offensive and racist campaign ads attacking Democratic Senate candidate Manka Dhingra in the high-stakes 45th Legislative District election that will determine which party controls the state Senate. The corporate money is being channeled through a series of PACS run by Senate Republicans to obscure the source of the funds.
LOCAL
► In today’s Seattle Times — Boeing churns out jets and profits, but Air Force tanker’s problems dent earnings — Boeing reported strong profits and cash flow Wednesday, though shares declined on news of a $329 million charge for the KC-46 Air Force tanker. On a conference call, management said Airbus’ surprise move to acquire the Bombardier CSeries jet doesn’t require a strategy shift.
THAT WASHINGTON
ALSO at The Stand — GOP supports slashing Medicaid, Medicare — All four Republicans from Washington state voted “yes” on this budget bill.
► In today’s NY Times — The real reason for Republicans’ silence on Donald Trump (editorial) — Most Republicans in Congress have silently accepted his daily outrages in exchange for policies they’ve always wanted. At his inauguration, Trump said his presidency was about “transferring power from Washington, D.C., and giving it back to you, the American people.” But he and his allies in Congress are transferring power to Wall Street, fossil fuel companies, the chemical industry and other special interests, and are stoking an anti-populist bonfire to incinerate protections for consumers and workers.
► Today’s daily outrage in the NY Times — 10-year-old immigrant detained after agents stop her on way to surgery — The girl, Rosamaria Hernandez, who was brought over the border illegally to live in Laredo, Tex., when she was three months old, was being transferred from a medical center in Laredo to a hospital in Corpus Christi around 2 a.m. on Tuesday when Border Patrol agents stopped the ambulance she was riding in, her family said. The agents allowed her to continue to the hospital, but followed the ambulance the rest of the way there, then waited outside her room until she was released from the hospital.
ALSO at The Stand — Did Sinclair buy KOMO to shut it down? (by Dave Twedell)
NATIONAL
► From AFL-CIO Now — Highlights from Day Four of the AFL-CIO 2017 Convention
► In today’s Des Moines Register — In biggest vote since new law, Iowa public unions overwhelmingly choose to recertify — Thousands of Iowa teachers, snowplow drivers and corrections officers voted overwhelmingly to maintain their union affiliations in a round of high-stakes voting that concluded Tuesday. Results issued Wednesday by the Iowa Public Employment Relations Board showed 436 out of 468 public-sector bargaining units voted to recertify their organizations. Voter participation was 88 percent. The state’s new collective bargaining laws, which took effect in February, instituted a much steeper hurdle for unions to maintain authorization. Public-sector unions must now recertify every time they face a new contract negotiation — typically every two or three years.
► From The Onion’s archives — Woman assaulted by celebrity just needs to sit tight for 40 years until dozens more women corroborate story
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