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Community Comment archive for March 14, 2009

SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 2009

The Zehm lawsuit 

Good afternoon Netizens...It has taken me awhile to figure out how to upload this PDF copy of the Zehm lawsuit, then to make it accessible, but it does appear I was successful.http://www.spokesman.com/documents/2009/mar/14/zehm-lawsuit/ This represents justice for Otto, the first justice he has had since he…

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Obama focuses on food safety, picks FDA new chief
In this Wednesday, June 2, 2004 file photo, Margaret Hamburg speaks at University of South Florida in Tampa. President Obama named former New York City Health Commissioner Margaret Hamburg to lead the troubled Food and Drug Administration. (Joseph Garnett, Jr. / AP) (The Spokesman-Review)

Margaret Hamburg nominated for Health... 11 

Good afternoon, Netizens...WASHINGTON March 14, 2009, 11:15 am ET · The nation's food safety system is a "hazard to public health" and overdue for an overhaul, President Barack Obama said Saturday as he focused on that task by filling the top job at the Food…

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JESSE TINSLEY THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW (Jesse Tinsley / The Spokesman-Review)

Win one for the Gipper, Tucker... 17 

Good morning, Netizens... Like most citizens reading the history of the Jay Olsen trial, I sat disconsolately in my chair each day watching the testimony unfold like a badly-wounded badger pinned in a corner against the wall. I was not at the scene of the…

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David Horsey,davidhorsey.com,Seattle Post-Intelligencer (The Spokesman-Review)

The late, great days of the Seattle PI...

Good morning, Netizens... In this morning's David Horsey cartoon we have a faux vision of how Seattle must have looked in the 1860's when the Intelligencer newspaper was in its prime, televisions were an unheard-of development and newsprint was still the king of the news…

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