Credit: Thurston Talk
*** SELECT REGIONAL NEWS WEDNESDAY ***
+ Thurston Talk: Teamwork Brings Yelm Community Garden to Life, With Veteran Support
+ City of Yelm: COVID-19 Victims and Survivors Memorial Day
+ McClatchy News: Use of deadly force inquiry omits Thurston region because agencies didn’t fill out survey
+ KING-5 TV: Washington forms healthy snowpack after snowiest February in 20 years
+ The Olympian: Thurston, Providence announce clinic for those due for 2nd doses of COVID-19 vaccine – only open to those who got their first dose at the RAC on Feb. 6 and have scheduled an appointment.
+ Office of Gov. Jay Inslee: Inslee statement on Washington’s 5,000th COVID-related death
+ The Seattle Times: Judge orders release of prominent Auburn-area Proud Boy charged in Capitol siege case, pending his criminal trial
+ JOLT News: Pacific Northwest is flooded with illegal fentanyl, DEA says
+ NVN: Mayor Foster Honored With Leadership Award
+ The Museum of Flight: Seattle’s Museum of Flight Reopens March 4. This week marks the 52nd anniversary of Concorde’s maiden flight March 2, 1969. Be sure to see Concorde at the Museum.
+ NVN: An Early Look: Four Council Seats, Yelm Mayor’s Office Up for Reelection This Year
[Ed. note from the story: “Steve Klein, local blogger and former RSE executive who lost to Harding in the 2005 general election, wrote in an email that he doesn’t have plans to run for mayor, adding that he lives outside city limits and is therefore ineligible.”]
*** SELECT NATIONAL NEWS WEDNESDAY ***
NBC News: Plotting March 4 – Extremists discuss plans to ‘remove Democratic lawmakers,’ FBI-DHS bulletin warns
NBC News: D.C. police, FBI on alert ahead of QAnon’s ‘true Inauguration Day‘
UK’s Daily Mail: Cult deprogrammers inundated with requests to help people lost in Trump election, QAnon conspiracy theories
*** SELECT TRUMP NEWS WEDNESDAY ***
The Washington Post: Former [Trump] White House physician Ronny Jackson, now a congressman, bullied staff, made sexual remarks, inspector general finds
Truthout: FBI Has Found No Evidence of Antifa Involvement in Capitol Attack [Jan 6], Says Director [contrary to Trump’s suggestion]
MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes: ‘Starting admission:’ GOP lawyer argues disqualifying votes helps Republicans – When asked by Justice Amy Coney Barrett why the Republican Party was involved in a case about restricting voting rights, a lawyer for the Arizona GOP made a startling admission.
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Somehow, it doesn’t surprise me that Thurston County Sheriff (and other regional Sheriffs) refused to participate in the use of force survey. I hope there are consequences for them.
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