In their words
“It’s the maximum the law allows. Nothing will bring back my son, but I’m satisfied.”
– Karen Overacker, of Wapato, speaking Wednesday in Colfax where Fred Russell was sentenced to 14 years in prison on vehicular homicide charges stemming from a 2001 drunken driving incident that killed Overacker’s son, Brandon Clements, 22, and two other Washington State University students.
“Sometimes you just feel like you want to run and hide.”
– Dr. Maria Yurasek, in a press release issued on behalf of physicians at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Spokane who say plans to stop beefing up VA hospital staffing with doctors, physicians’ assistants and nurse practitioners from VA clinics in the area will harm patients.
“At some point you just get to the point of being tired of litigating.”
– Spokane County Commissioner Todd Mielke, after county officials reached agreement on the city’s annexation of 120 acres of commercial property along North Division in a move Mielke considers a property tax grab.
“It will be a good law to enforce, but tough to catch.”
– Spokane police Officer Glenn Bartlett, saying motorists who send text messages while driving, which is illegal under a new Washington state law, often hold their cell phones out of view.
“I was taught to earn a living through my work, and (work) is what I’m asking for.”
– Panamanian Manuel Vurac, saying he and his brother Miguel would rather enter the United States on work visas than collect the $25,000 they’ve been offered by the family of a 12-year-old Californian whom they rescued following a plane crash.
“It is probably fair to say that most patients assume – unfortunately, incorrectly – that a hospital would be the best place to survive a cardiac arrest.”
– University of Southern California cardiologist Dr. Leslie Saxon, commenting about research findings reported in the New England Journal of Medicine that hospital patients who suffer heart attacks don’t get attention as quickly as they would in airports or casinos.
“I’m sorry that they’re gone. They were my family, too, you know.”
– Murder suspect Joseph McEnroe, quoted by the Seattle Times about the shooting deaths last week in Carnation, Wash., where he and his girlfriend, Michele Anderson, are alleged to have killed her parents, brother and sister-in-law along with her 6-year-old niece and 3-year-old nephew.
“Usually, when an asteroid is headed toward Earth, I’m not rooting for an impact.”
– Don Yeomans, head of the Near-Earth Object Program at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, one of the scientists hoping to see a collision next month when an asteroid the size of a football field is being given one chance in 25 of striking Mars.