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Kausfiles Special Focus Zone: As a reader aid, items that do not concern "comprehensive" immigration reform will be specially marked in color. You may choose to skip these items. ... P.S.: Alert reader S.L. urged me to re-post that Senate contact list and keep it at the top of the page as the Senate considers the immigration bill. Good idea. Here it is. Public journalism! ... ********* Another citizen admaker rises to the challenge with a hit on Lindsey Graham ("Come Home Lindsey") ... It's witty. You can dance to it. But it's not mean enough! Lindsey Graham isn't going to "come home" on immigration. And when he doesn't change his position, do you want him to be able to "come home" by stressing his conservatism on other issues--which is what he's counting on? Or do you want to defeat him? ...
More snow on way for Washington
Road crews applied sand and deicing chemicals on principal roads, but that was not enough to prevent a rash of fender-benders and weather-related traffic snarls in Puget Sound. So much snow fell in Spokane that cars high-centered on snow drifts in the middle of unplowed residential streets and cars skidded into other cars at icy intersections that had been plowed. Spokane city officials closed City Hall and urged residents to stay home to give snowplows a chance to catch up. City and county governments told "nonessential" workers to stay home. Schools were closed in Spokane for the first time since an icy storm in 1996. Students will have to make up the lost time later in the school year. "It's not an emergency," Mayor Mary Verner said.
Aussies, Kiwis stranded on Danger Island
The Department of Port Administration in American Samoa said last week it was awaiting approval from the US Coast Guard for a local vessel, the MV Sili, to sail to Pukapuka in the Cook Islands. The port director, Matagi Ray McMoore, said the New Zealanders and many of the other 100 people stuck on the island had requested assistance to be ferried to Samoa so that they can catch flights home. But the MV Sili does not have a certificate to operate international voyages and the US Coast Guard would have to approve the special sailing. McMoore said he had been told by the office of Eni Faleomavaega, the US Democrat congressman for American Samoa, that picking up the stranded travellers from Pukapuka in the Cook Islands was not an emergency and a request to the Coast Guard was not warranted.
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