The Falls: Top of the Morning — 11/8/07
It’s Thursday, Nov. 8, 2007. It's getting closer to time to call it – wish (probable) Mayor-elect Mary Verner good luck as she gets ready to take over the helm of the city wing of Your Sexy Government. Here's this morning's story on the election tally, and a Doug Clark column on the Curse of the One-Term Mayor.
Today in Your Sexy Government: It takes money to make YSG go. But we don't want to give it any, apparently. Tim Eyman's latest pre-emptive strike on taxes wins big. A sensible proposal to make it easier for schools to raise money falls to the inexplicable hostility and miserly suspicion that exists in a lot of quarters about education. And voters in Spokane County don't seem to want to pay an extra tenth of a cent in sales tax to restore Crime Check. Here's the reports on where things stand with that measure.
There's a lot of room in Manito Park: “If they were camped like this on the South Hill, they wouldn't be there long.”
-- Christina DesChamps, who lives near the homeless tent camp set up in northeast Spokane. More than 30 people are camped out in 24 tents on a private lot at Sinto and Napa. Read Kevin Graman's update on the camp here.
Weather: It's rainy again, with highs forecast in the low 50s. We seem to be turning the corner into winter. Here's the five-day forecast.
Today in History: Sometimes history is all about what didn't happen. On this date in 1939, Adolf Hitler survived an assasination attempt. From history.com
The morning drive: Check the traffic and the most recent gas prices.
In passing: George Kelbell, 89. “After graduating from Coeur d'Alene High School in 1936, he manned the forest service lookout on Colt Mountain for two summers. At the beginning of WWII, he did electrical work on ships being built at Bainbridge Island. Until he was drafted, he helped with the construction of Farragut Naval Base at Bayview, where he later went through boot camp. Honorably discharged from his tour in the Pacific, as Electrician's Mate Third Class, he began his family in Spirit Lake. Over the years he was a construction electrician on local dams, schools, hospitals, mills and missile sites.” For more.
Compiled by Shawn Vestal/The Falls
