DAILY NEWS
Honoring MLK | Aggressive ICE | Trump’s shutdown
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
LOCAL
► In today’s Spokesman-Review — Overflow crowd celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. at annual Spokane march
MORE local MLK Day coverage in today’s Bellingham Herald, Columbia Basin Herald, (Tacoma) News Tribune, The Stranger, Tri-City Herald, (Vancouver) Columbian, Wenatchee World, and the Yakima H-R.
► In today’s Spokesman-Review — MLK rally speakers call out Cathy McMorris Rodgers’ hecklers — From the moment Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers took the stage, there was a mix of cheers and heckling.
► From KNKX — Seattle gears up for Women’s March 2.0 — With crowds of more than 100,000 people, last year’s Womxn’s March On Seattle was dubbed the largest protest march in city history. Organizers hope to do it again this weekend. Women’s March 2.0 begins at 10 a.m. Saturday at Cal Anderson Park in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. Saturday is the anniversary of last year’s march and of the inauguration of President Donald Trump.
“We believe taking money from Grays Harbor taxpayers and exporting it out of our community is bad public policy and represents a failure of management to develop the process and training to allow our employees to succeed. We believe exporting jobs and the money they spend in our local economy exacerbates our chronically high unemployment and puts increase stress on local businesses dependent on thier purchases. Many of these employees have loyally worked at GHCH for over a decade and find this devastating.”
► In today’s Seattle Times — Boeing built more jets than Airbus in 2017, and won orders with a higher value — Despite record output, Airbus couldn’t match Boeing’s ramped-up production of jets last year. And though Airbus won more orders, the value of Boeing’s orders was higher. Yet departing Airbus boss Brégier projected the European jetmaker will overtake Boeing by 2020.
► In today’s Yakima H-R — Yakima City Council to consider plan to add firefighters — To help ease overtime costs, the Yakima Fire Department hopes to hire and begin training four new firefighters as early as next month.
THIS WASHINGTON
► From KNKX — Bill would exclude for-profit schools from Washington state financial aid programs — With the abrupt closures of some schools, including ITT Technical Institute campuses in Everett and Seattle, for-profit colleges have gotten more scrutiny in recent years. State Rep. Drew Hansen (D-Bainbridge Island) has proposed excluding for-profit institutions from state financial aid programs.
► In the Columbian — Rep. Liz Pike announces retirement from politics — Rep. Liz Pike (R-Camas) announced late Friday she is withdrawing from the race for Clark County council chair. She will finish her term as representative for the 18th District and retire from politics.
► From HuffPost — Could one state save American democracy? (by Charlotte Hill) — Washington state’s commitment to political reform is a welcome change. While clouds of treason and scandal hover ominously over our nation’s capital, America’s 42nd state embraces one democratic reform after another, painting an alluring picture of what democracy might look like under a better set of political institutions.
IMMIGRATION
► In the Olympian — DOL’s deputy director resigns, and ICE agents will now need a court order for records — The state Department of Licensing announced Monday that it will now require federal immigration agents to provide a court order to access its records. In addition, the agency said that its deputy director Jeff DeVere has resigned. Part of DeVere’s job was to oversee compliance with an executive order that Gov. Jay Inslee issued nearly a year ago that said state officials would do all they could to protect Washington’s immigrants and refugees from discriminatory and deportation efforts.
► In today’s Washington Post — A Michigan father, too old for DACA, is deported after three decades in the U.S. — With two immigration agents hovering nearby, Jorge Garcia pulled his family close for one final hug near security gates at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. His wife and 15-year-old daughter sobbed in his arms. His 12-year-old son stood stoically. Garcia was silent. Soon after, the 39-year-old landscaper from Lincoln Park, Mich., boarded a plane bound for Mexico, deported to his home country on Monday after three decades in the United States. Garcia was brought to the country with an undocumented relative when he was 10 years old.
EDITOR’S NOTE — Are we great again yet?
► In today’s NY Times — Workplace raids signal tactical shift in immigration fight — The Trump administration says that its actions, including raids last week on dozens of 7-Eleven convenience stores, show the price of employing workers illegally. The message is being felt keenly among the workers themselves.
THAT WASHINGTON
EDITOR’S NOTE — Bottom line: President Donald Trump, a racist, is prepared to shut the federal government down because the bipartisan deal to keep it open doesn’t keep enough people of color (from “shithole countries”) out of America.
► From TPM — Uninsured population increases by 3.2 million in Trump’s first year in office — Over the course of President Donald Trump’s first year in office, the number of Americans without health insurance increased 1.3 percent — with 3.2 million more people uninsured, according to Gallup’s latest tracking report published Tuesday. It’s the largest one-year increase in the uninsured population since Gallup began the survey in 2008.
EDITOR’S NOTE — Are we great again yet?
► In today’s Washington Post — Democrats say 50 senators have backed measure to overrule the FCC’s repeal of net neutrality rules — The tally leaves supporters just one vote shy of the 51 needed to pass a Senate resolution that would overturn the FCC’s decision to remove rules that banned Internet service providers from blocking or slowing down websites.
► In today’s NY Times — The president and the porn star (by Michelle Goldberg) — In any other administration, evidence that the president paid hush money to the star of “Good Will Humping” during the election would be a scandal. In this one it has, so far, elicited a collective shrug… Sleeping with a porn star while your wife has a new baby, then paying the porn star to be quiet? That’s what everyone expects of this president.
NATIONAL
► From Reuters — Game of chicken: GM bets on Mexican-made pickup trucks — GM in recent weeks inaugurated a new production line for a 10-speed transmission in the central Mexican city of Silao, and late last year began hiring 600 new staff there, sources said, effectively doubling down on one of the most lucrative offshore production categories for U.S. auto companies.
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