| Snohomish County voters start to tune in to the campaign
As voters in nearly half the country cast their ballots for the next president Tuesday, Snohomish County residents watched with a mixture of interest and indifference, waiting for their turn to vote.
John McCain surged ahead in the Republican contest, with Democrats Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama splitting wins in several key states.
"I've been glued to it," said Stacey Dunn, scrolling through Super Tuesday coverage on her laptop and listening to results on TV inside the "parent lounge" at the Jonas Brothers concert in Everett on Tuesday night. "This is the biggest election in our country in the last 25 years."
Down the street, at The Flying Pig bar, apathy ruled. A television was tuned to early returns, but only one man was watching.
"I'm just kind of spacing on it," said Dave Olson of Granite Falls.
Ailing retirees aren't only ones shortchanged
GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Kyle Turley and many NFL retired players say union executive director Gene Upshaw is doing a horrible job taking care of the health and pension needs of battered old-timers. ''It's near criminal how some of these guys are being treated,'' an angry Turley said Thursday. .
Call to halt the cowboy surgeons
THE lack of regulation of cosmetic surgery is a national disgrace that allows "shonky" and underqualified practitioners to peddle treatments that can be harmful in the wrong hands. Plastic surgeons and cosmetic physicians are calling for tighter safeguards - including audits of qualifications, facilities and post-operative complications - to protect the public from cowboy operators. Restrictions are so lax that nurses and even beauty therapists are offering treatments such as Botox injections and photo rejuvenation therapy with powerful intense pulse light (IPL) lasers. In one complaint reported to Victoria's health department, a woman had three IPL treatments for hair removal at a beauty salon, but when these were unsuccessful she was advised to return for higher-intensity therapy.
Speedway site confirmed
Bob Edwards of CRASH said: "At long last, we have a real opportunity to put the borough back on the regional, national and international sporting maps. "We have done all we can to get Dudley's most successful and best supported sports team back on its feet and bring the glory days back to the borough. "Now it is down to the council to give us the permission we need to complete the job." .
Two charged in killing of Red WIng man
Two 19-year-old men have been charged with shooting a Red Wing man to death, according to criminal complaints filed Tuesday in Goodhue County District Court. The documents accuse William Jamar Lawton and Martin Todd Griffith of killing Joel Rafael Diaz Albelo, 27, early Sunday in an alley behind a bar on the 300 block of W. 7th Street in Red Wing. Albelo was shot in the chest around 12:30 a.m. while sitting in a vehicle with three other people. Griffith faces charges of second-degree murder, first-degree assault, first-degree attempted aggravated robbery and second-degree assault. Lawton faces the same charges as an accomplice to the crime, complaints said. Police said they believe Albelo and his group had arranged to meet Griffith, Lawton and the 16-year-old to buy drugs, and the others were intent on robbing them.
Daily Planner: February 20
BLOOD DRIVE: Donor hours 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Wednesday. BloodSource, 555 Rio Lindo Ave., Chico. 893-5433. Weekly. PATERNITY WORKSHOP: Order to show cause, establish paternity, child support custody and orders, visitation. 532-7004. Service of Butte County Superior Court. Weekly. TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER CLINIC: 9 a.m. Paradise; 1:30 p.m. Oroville. Free. Victims of domestic violence. Sponsored by Catalyst Domestic Violence Services. 800-895-8476 for times, locations. PARADISE CENTER FOR TOLERANCE & NON-VIOLENCE: 10 a.m.-2 p.m. 6023 Skyway. Support, advocacy for adults, children who have been victimized by harassment, bullying. 877-1856 or online www.pctn.org. Weekdays. BABIES LOVE BOOKS: 9:30-10 a.m. Chico Library, 1108 Sherman Ave. Storytime for newborns to 18 months; Library Playtimes in Children's Room for newborns to age 3.
For an impoverished beauty queen, a stark choice: sex work or no work
What Natasha does on the bed in the dingy room with flaking orange paint so shames her she cannot bring herself to use the word. She calls it "so and so" and sells it here from midday to midnight, six days a week. On a very good day she makes £45. With each 30-minute session earning £2.50 that works out at 18 different men, many drunk, some violent. She tries to forget the very good days. "I don't want to be with a strange man who wants to kiss your whole body. Some suck you up and leave red marks. It's ugly." Natasha shuddered. "Ugly, ugly, ugly." Three years ago she won two beauty contests and was runner-up in another two, including Miss Best Legs, on Nicaragua's impoverished Caribbean coast. With dreams of modelling she boarded a bus for the distant capital, Managua.
Edwards John
America's next President needs fire in his belly. Edwards is on fire. Obama's just on simmer. Friday, January 4: JOHN LORENZ: DEAFENING CORPORATE-MEDIA SILENCE ON EDWARDS GOOD SHOWING IN IOWA IS A DIRECT STAB AT EDWARDS' POPULISM. (7 comments) Noticing how the 'lamestream media' is already trying to marginalize John Edwards Bill Burkett: Edwards Wins Iowa - for Obama (9 comments) Everyone this morning says that change was the victor and the status quo the loser. The pompous, arrogant press and talking heads couldn't wait to say "I told you so!" whistles barely out of their lips. They have anointed a new Democratic champion - or since Oprah pronounced his 'stardom,' they claim it as so. Don Williams: Obama, Edwards wash away Hillary's bogus claim of "change" Friday morning I heard Hillary say this: "When we talk about change, we need somebody who won't just SAY change...
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