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Tuesday, November 12, 2019
BOEING
► From Business Insider — FAA considered grounding 38 Southwest jets over incomplete maintenance records — The FAA recently considered grounding more than three dozen Southwest Airlines jets, after the airline failed to provide documentation confirming that the jets meet safety standards.
THIS WASHINGTON
► From KUOW — Rash of nursing home closures in Washington prompts proposals to raise Medicaid rates — In response to a rash of nursing home closures in Washington, Sen. O’Ban is calling for an increase in Medicaid reimbursement rates and other steps to stave off additional closures. He has pre-filed legislation for the 2020 legislative session that would require nursing home Medicaid rates to be recalculated annually beginning next year and tied to inflation.
► In today’s News Tribune — Here’s a bad sign for moderate Republicans in Washington: out-of-bounds behavior at UW, WSU (editorial) — Clearly, Republican organizations are unhappy with the direction young Washington conservatives are going, and they’re chartering other students to take up a more moderate mantle at UW and WSU. But if they want students to return to those traditions, they’ll first have to send in some clear-headed role models and be clear about what constitutes acceptable behavior.
LOCAL
► In today’s Seattle Times — After I-976 passage, officials and riders watching how new King County Metro paratransit contractor performs — The county’s new five-year, $424 million contract to operate the buses and run the dispatch center took effect Oct. 26. The private company MV Transportation, which took on 90% of workers from the previous contractors, now provides Access bus drivers and runs the dispatch center, where riders with disabilities call to schedule trips.
► In today’s Seattle Times — Seattle Children’s hospital again closes some operating rooms because of mold — Seattle Children’s has closed three of its operating rooms because of the same fungus that forced the shutdown of all the hospital’s operating rooms earlier this year.
THAT WASHINGTON
► From Politico — DACA finally lands in Supreme Court after Trump’s years-long battle — The Supreme Court is set to wrestle Tuesday with one of the most momentous issues to reach the justices in years: whether to allow the Trump administration to shut down a program that gives work permits and quasi-legal status to about 660,000 foreigners who entered the U.S. illegally as children.
TODAY — In Seattle, DACA supporters will gather for a “Home Is Here” rally at 2 p.m. today outside the U.S District Courthouse, 700 Stewart St. in Seattle. Get details. In Walla Walla, DACA supporters will gather for a “Home Is Here” community vigil for DACA recipients at 6:30 p.m. tonight at 1st and Main. Get details.
► From The Hill — Sanders lands endorsement from nurses union — Democratic presidential contender Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Tuesday announced an endorsement from National Nurses United, the largest union of registered nurses in the U.S. The group cited Sanders’s Medicare for All proposal as one of the reasons it was backing the Vermont senator’s White House bid.
IMPEACHMENT
► MUST-READ/SEE in the Washington Post — An epic ‘Meet the Press’ rant unmasks the real goal of Trump’s lies — This scandal is all about disinformation — about getting news organizations to treat disinformation seriously, to create a miasma of doubt around Russia’s 2016 sabotage and an aura of corruption around Biden. Indeed, as former Trump adviser Stephen K. Bannon has admitted, the way to create this sort of aura is to get the mainstream media to cover such allegations, no matter how discredited, to introduce them into the mainstream discussion and get them treated as representing one side of a good-faith political dialogue.
.@RandPaul tries to “both sides” Trump and Biden, Chuck Todd nods along, and @jahimes just burns it all down. pic.twitter.com/f5ProtBbqR
— Jesse Lee (@JesseCharlesLee) November 10, 2019
MORE SWAMP UPDATES
► From the Hill — The worst thing about Trump’s ‘fake news’ warning (by Bernard Goldberg) — In July 2016, Lesley Stahl says she told Trump that his constant bashing of the media was tiresome… He responded, “You know why I do it? I do it to discredit you all and demean you all so when you write negative stories about me no one will believe you.”
EDITOR’S NOTE — Of course, Trumpers will consider this column “fake news.”
NATIONAL
► From The American Prospect — Payday lenders suffer rare attack of honesty — In Arizona, the industry has a bill that would block minimum wage increases, because when people don’t have money, they need short-term loans.
► From Vox — If you are a unionized journalist, this labor ruling should worry you — America’s top labor law enforcer signaled last week that many unions, including media unions, may be left without recourse if their employer engages in illegal union-busting.
► From the AP — Little Rock teachers to go on strike over district’s control — Little Rock teachers will go on strike for one day this week over an Arkansas panel’s decision to strip their collective bargaining power and complaints about state control of the 23,000-student district, union officials said Monday.
Educators in Little Rock are striking this Thursday against the resegregation of their schools and for local democratic control.
Here’s a powerful video of their recent candlelight rally ❤️❤️❤️
Show your solidarity, please share widelypic.twitter.com/YdJvwfqPyL
— Eric Blanc (@_ericblanc) November 12, 2019
TODAY’S MUST-READ
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