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News >  Spokane

Way To Engender More Quality Care Supervision Needed Yahoos With Chain Saws Threaten Beauty

Only God can make a tree, but any Yahoo with a chain saw can destroy one. A proposed tree ordinance in Spokane aims to protect the city's trees from such butchery. The proposal is very narrow in its scope. It applies only to trees in the public right of way - the strip of land between a homeowner's sidewalk and the curb. The proposal would create a public-private partnership to care for the trees that add so much to our lives, to the city and to property values. The ordinance would: Create an urban forestry program.
News >  Spokane

A Backward Step We Shouldn’t Take Myth Debunked Under The State’s Plus Three Program, Most Of Those Hired Are Whites.

Opponents of affirmative action want to you to believe that by passing Initiative 200, workplace and educational opportunities will suddenly be equal for all. They won't be. Initiative 200, patterned after the measure that passed in California in 1996, would abolish affirmative action in state and local government employment, contracting and college admission.