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2025 February Special Election Voting Begins in 32 Counties

January 24, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on 2025 February Special Election Voting Begins in 32 Counties

OLYMPIA—Election offices in 32 counties have mailed ballots to voters who are eligible to vote in the Feb. 11 Special Election.   Approximately 30% of Washington’s 5 million registered voters are eligible to participate in this […]

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Video of Wyden floor remarks today opposing nomination of Pete Hegseth as Defense Secretary

January 24, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on Video of Wyden floor remarks today opposing nomination of Pete Hegseth as Defense Secretary
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Oregon

Prevent Wildfire: Remember To Check Your Burn Piles

January 24, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on Prevent Wildfire: Remember To Check Your Burn Piles

SALEM, Ore. — Due to the extended drying pattern we are experiencing and east winds forecasted for this weekend, the Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) encourages anyone who may have completed a debris or slash […]

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Oregon

TWO INDICTED AS PART OF BURGLARY RING THAT STOLE FROM 100+ PORTLAND AREA BUSINESSES

January 24, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on TWO INDICTED AS PART OF BURGLARY RING THAT STOLE FROM 100+ PORTLAND AREA BUSINESSES

The Multnomah County District Attorney’s office is announcing the arrest and indictment of two members of a burglary ring that investigators believe includes ten or more people and has preyed upon more than a hundred […]

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Oregon

JURY RETURNS GUILTY VERDICT AGAINST ERIC STRIETZEL IN RELATION TO 2023 ASSAULT AND TOW TRUCK THEFT

January 24, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on JURY RETURNS GUILTY VERDICT AGAINST ERIC STRIETZEL IN RELATION TO 2023 ASSAULT AND TOW TRUCK THEFT

Today, the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office announced that a jury found Eric Clayton Strietzel, 38, guilty on multiple charges in relation to a July 2023 incident in which he stole a tow truck and recklessly drove […]

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Thursday 3/12

Challenge your mind and your friends to Random Trivia!

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An amendment to the US Constitution must be ratified by what fraction of all the states?

An amendment to the United States Constitution must be ratified by three-fourths (3/4) of all the states. In the current 50-state union, this requires approval from 38 states for an amendment to become part of the Constitution.

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In what city did Rosa Parks refuse to move to the back of the bus?

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks boarded a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Instead of going to the back of the bus, which was designated for African Americans, she sat in the front. When the bus started to fill up with white passengers, the bus driver asked Parks to move. She refused. Her resistance set in motion one of the largest social movements in history, the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

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Who does Eddie Murphy trade places with in the 1983 movie "Trading Places"?

In the 1983 film Trading Places, Eddie Murphy's character, a streetwise con artist named Billy Ray Valentine, trades places with an upper-class commodities broker named Louis Winthorpe III, played by Dan Aykroyd.

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What is the soft, triangular, fleshy part of the inside of a horse's hoof called?

The soft, triangular, fleshy part on the underside of a horse's hoof is called the frog. This V-shaped structure is located between the heel bulbs and extends toward the toe, typically occupying about 25% to 33% of the hoof's bottom surface.

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Woodrow Wilson kept a herd of what animal to cut the White House lawn?

During World War I (starting in 1918), President Woodrow Wilson kept a flock of sheep to graze on the White House lawn. The flock, which grew to 48 sheep at its peak, was used to save manpower, provide natural fertilizer, and raise over $50,000 for the Red Cross by auctioning their wool.

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