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Sunday, November 12, 2006
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Spokane native is a star in world of architecture
November 12, 2006 in City From North Idaho to North Carolina, and from Barcelona, Spain to Manchester, England, Spokane native Tom Kundig, now a Seattle-based architect, is changing the landscape of our world, one building …
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What’s next
November 12, 2006 in City on Page A1 The Spokane Tribe must navigate several bureaucratic obstacles before it can build a casino on its Airway Heights property, including: 1 Final negotiation of a compact with the staff of …
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Logan’s launch
November 12, 2006 in City on Page A1 Look out O, Elle and Jane. Logan the magazine is here. From her wheelchair, 21-year-old Logan Olson smiles back from the glossy pages of the first issue of the new …
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Congress has tasks before transition
November 12, 2006 in City on Page A1 After months of partisan fighting and no-holds-barred campaigning, members of the U.S. House and Senate return to Washington, D.C., this week with no choice but to work together. They left …
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Tribe pushes new casino
November 12, 2006 in City on Page A1 The Spokane Tribe appears close to completing a gambling compact with the state of Washington, the first step in a long path toward its ambitious development plans in Airway Heights. …
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Group set to rethink Iraq policy
November 12, 2006 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – After meeting with President Bush on Monday, a panel of prestigious Americans will begin deliberations to chart a new course on Iraq, with the goal of trying to …
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New Orleans residents vent via dunking booth
November 12, 2006 in Nation/World on Page A2 NEW ORLEANS – For $5, residents of one of the city’s hardest hit neighborhoods received three tennis balls Saturday – and a chance to vent 15 months of frustration at …
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Candidates’ forces engage in gunfire
November 12, 2006 in Nation/World on Page A3 Gunfire and explosions boomed through Congo’s capital Saturday in a new round of fighting between forces loyal to two presidential candidates awaiting the results of a runoff election meant to …
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Holy Land’s Christian population in decline
November 12, 2006 in Nation/World on Page A3 BETHLEHEM, West Bank – The death threat came on simple white fliers blowing down the streets at dawn. A group calling itself “Friends of Muhammad” accused a local Palestinian Christian …
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U.S. blocks U.N. draft condemning Israeli offensive
November 12, 2006 in Nation/World on Page A3 UNITED NATIONS – The United States vetoed a U.N. Security Council draft resolution Saturday that sought to condemn an Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip and demand Israeli troops …
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Hezbollah quits in Lebanon
November 12, 2006 in Nation/World on Page A3 BEIRUT, Lebanon – Hezbollah and its Shiite allies resigned from the Lebanese government Saturday, plunging the country deeper into political crisis and raising the threat of massive street demonstrations. After …
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Trapped deer frees snout from bucket
November 12, 2006 in Nation/World on Page A4 A deer whose head was stuck in a plastic Halloween jack-o’-lantern for nearly a week has freed itself and will be fine, animal rescuers said Saturday. Two children found a …
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Andy Griffith sues Andy Griffith, over name use
November 12, 2006 in Nation/World on Page A5 MILWAUKEE – Forget the small-town belief in letting bygones be bygones. The star of “The Andy Griffith Show,” who portrayed the sheriff of the fictional town of Mayberry, has sued …
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Feingold won’t seek presidency in ‘08
November 12, 2006 in Nation/World on Page A5 WASHINGTON – Sen. Russ Feingold will not seek his party’s presidential nomination in 2008, the Wisconsin Democrat told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Saturday. “I never got to that point …
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Democrats eye alternative minimum tax
November 12, 2006 in Nation/World on Page A5 WASHINGTON – Democratic leaders in Congress are vowing to make the alternative minimum tax a centerpiece of next year’s budget debate, saying the levy threatens to unfairly increase tax bills …
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Schwarzenegger win came from the center
November 12, 2006 in Nation/World on Page A6 LOS ANGELES – In his victory speech Tuesday night to a confetti-swamped crowd at the Beverly Hilton, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger had a message for the rest of the Republican Party …
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Rove undaunted by election results
November 12, 2006 in Nation/World on Page A7 WASHINGTON – For a man still climbing out of the rubble, Karl Rove seemed in his usual unflappable mood. He roamed around his windowless West Wing office decorated with four …
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Ford set to become oldest ex-president
November 12, 2006 in Nation/World on Page A7 LOS ANGELES – Gerald R. Ford is closing in on a record held by Ronald Reagan – living longer than any other U.S. president. Ford, who turned 93 on July …
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Arctic caribou 1, Halliburton 0
November 12, 2006 in Nation/World on Page A8 WASHINGTON – Combat boots trumped cowboy boots. The election produced winners and losers of all varieties, not all of them as obvious as the footwear of choice for the candidates …
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Rare stamp may be on envelope in sealed ballot box
November 12, 2006 in Nation/World on Page A9 FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – An absentee ballot was mailed with what may have been a rare stamp worth as much as $200,000 – the famous Inverted Jenny – but the …
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Bush praises troops’ bravery
November 12, 2006 in Nation/World on Page A10 ARLINGTON, Va. – President Bush marked Veterans Day by praising U.S. troops for fighting tyranny and oppression, yet touched only briefly on the war in Iraq, where U.S. commanders are …
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Officer who refused Iraq mission ‘at peace’
November 12, 2006 in Nation/World on Page A10 The nation’s first commissioned officer to refuse deployment to Iraq said he was disappointed by the Army’s decision last week to proceed with a court-martial against him but reiterated that …
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Sunni gunmen kill 10 Shiites on buses
November 12, 2006 in Nation/World on Page A11 BAGHDAD, Iraq – Sunni gunmen ambushed a convoy of minibuses Saturday night at a fake checkpoint on the dangerous highway south of Baghdad, killing 10 Shiite passengers and kidnapping about …
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Tests suggest manatees smarter than they seem
November 12, 2006 in Nation/World on Page A12 SARASOTA, Fla. – Back in 1902, a scientist examining the smooth, grapefruit-size brain of a manatee remarked that the organ’s unwrinkled surface resembled that of the brain of an idiot. …
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