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Up a creek: $5B culvert removal plan appears dead in WA Legislature

April 19, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on Up a creek: $5B culvert removal plan appears dead in WA Legislature

by Jake Goldstein-Street, Washington State StandardApril 19, 2025 A creative plan in the Washington Legislature to raise billions of dollars to pay for the court-ordered removal of fish passage barriers appears to be a pipe […]

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Seattle officers who attended Jan. 6 rally ask US Supreme Court to keep their identities anonymous

April 19, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on Seattle officers who attended Jan. 6 rally ask US Supreme Court to keep their identities anonymous

SEATTLE (AP) — Current and former Seattle police officers who attended President Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” political rally on Jan. 6, 2021 at the U.S. Capitol are asking the nation’s highest court to keep their identities […]

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Renters call on Washington lawmakers to approve rent-control bill

April 19, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on Renters call on Washington lawmakers to approve rent-control bill

SEATTLE (AP) — Disabled veteran and single parent Duana Ricks-Johnson has moved her family five times in the past four years to keep ahead of rising rents — all while fighting at the state Legislature […]

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Ferguson criticizes Democrats’ $12B tax plan as ‘too risky’

April 18, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on Ferguson criticizes Democrats’ $12B tax plan as ‘too risky’

by Jerry Cornfield, Washington State StandardApril 17, 2025 Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson balked at Democratic lawmakers’ latest tax package on Thursday, calling it “too risky” given the budget tumult that actions by the federal government […]

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WA health care expansion for low-income immigrants on track to be maintained

April 18, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on WA health care expansion for low-income immigrants on track to be maintained

by Jacquelyn Jimenez Romero, Washington State StandardApril 18, 2025 Washington began to offer Medicaid-like health care coverage last year for thousands of low-income immigrants living in the state without legal status. Now, with talks over […]

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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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