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KENTUCKY
& OREGON
PRIMARIES
City looks at new vehicle fee
Tacoma council might ask for $20 a year to fix roads
CLINTON
OBAMA
OREGON *
42%
58%
17 delegates
Leaders in Tacoma
weigh whether to ask
voters for a new vehicle
fee for roadwork. The
City Council could face
a fight from Tim Eyman.
BY JASON HAGEY
[email protected]
Tacoma City Councilman Mike Lonergan
wants the city to consider asking voters to
approve a new vehicle licensing fee of about
$20 per year as a way to raise money to repair the city’s crumbling streets.
It’s an approach aimed not only at fixing
one of the city’s most expensive problems,
but also one that Lonergan reasoned could
withstand the scrutiny of Tim Eyman, the
anti-tax ballot initiative promoter. Eyman is
responsible for the 1999 initiative giving
drivers “$30 license tabs.”
Eyman has vowed to call attention to any
city or county council that tries to form a
transportation benefit district, a recently updated tool that allows a council to raise taxes
or fees through such methods as vehicle license fees, sales taxes, property taxes or
tolls.
By forming such a district, Tacoma could
impose vehicle license fees up to $20 per year
without a public vote, or up to $100 with
voter approval, Ashley Probart, a lobbyist for
the Association of Washington Cities, told
Please see VEHICLE FEE, back page
25 delegates
KENTUCKY
72%
27%
37 delegates
LONG -SERVING SENATOR ENTERS FIGHT OF HIS LIFE
14 delegates
*76 percent of precincts reporting
H E P R A I S E S H E R FO R T I T U D E
Obama
snares
delegate
majority
The fight’s not over, says Hillary
Rodham Clinton, but opponent
Barack Obama now has the
majority of pledged delegates
after Kentucky and Oregon votes.
BY CARLA MARINUCCI
San Francisco Chronicle
Barack Obama couldn’t exactly throw
the confetti Tuesday after he passed another important political milestone – a
primary victory in Oregon that cemented
his win of the majority of pledged delegates awarded by voters in Democratic
presidential primaries and caucuses to
date.
With three-fourths of Oregon’s votes
counted late Tuesday, the Illinois senator
was winning, 58 percent to
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Hillary Rodham Clinton’s
■ A former
42 percent.
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But that victory was
chaplain
tempered by another latewho was
inning win in Kentucky by
cleared
the New York senator, who
bested him by 45 percentof spying
age points.
charges
The primary was the
will be a
most exciting one Oregon
delegate
has seen in 40 years, and it
from
drew record participation
Thurston
among the state’s DemoCounty
cratic voters. But Obama
for Barack
Obama. B2 marked the occasion in Iowa, where his meteoric political rise officially began with a win in the
nation’s first electoral contest in January.
“We have returned to Iowa with the
majority of the delegates … and you have
put us in reach of the nomination for
president of the United States of America,” Obama said.
Obama said the millions of votes that
have been cast for both Democrats are
evidence of the energy and desire for
change in Washington. He repeatedly
made a link between likely Republican
nominee John McCain, business-as-usual
politics and the policies of President
Bush.
But Obama’s message was clearly one
of conciliation and unity for Democrats,
saying of Clinton, “We have traveled this
road with one of the most formidable
candidates ever to run for public office …
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STEPHAN SAVOIA/The Associated Press
Sen. Ted Kennedy, center, sits with his family Tuesday at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Joining him, from left, are son Patrick Kennedy,
stepson Curran Raclin, son Edward Kennedy Jr., daughter Kara Kennedy and wife Vicki. The senator, 76, has a malignant brain tumor.
EFFECTS OF
DAMAGE TO
PARIETAL LOBE
News of Kennedy tumor
stuns, saddens Senate
Tests revealed that Sen. Ted
Kennedy’s seizure was caused
by a cancerous brain tumor in the
parietal lobe.
After a battery of tests, doctors
diagnose Sen. Ted Kennedy
with a malignant brain tumor.
His prognosis doesn’t look good,
but he remains in good spirits.
Left parietal lobe
Damage to this lobe can result in
difficulty with words, math and hand
and eye coordination.
Sources: Brock University and the
Ontario Brain Injury Association;
National Institutes of Health
BY SUSAN MILLIGAN
AP
The Boston Globe
WASHINGTON – The man who has enraged, impressed, frustrated and inspired his colleagues in both parties for
more than 45 years in the Senate drew
but one bipartisan reaction Tuesday as
the news emerged that he is fighting a
brain tumor: stunned silence, followed
by tears.
Sen. Ted Kennedy has been diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor, his
doctors said Tuesday, and the prognosis
appears uncertain at best for the last
surviving brother of the famed Kennedy
clan and an enormous force in American politics for nearly half a century.
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■ Doctors say Kennedy’s cancer
is difficult to treat. Back page
The announcement was made three
days after Kennedy, 76, had a seizure at
the family’s Hyannis Port, Mass., compound. Doctors conducted a battery of
tests, including a biopsy, and identified
a cancerous mass on the top left portion
Please see KENNEDY, back page
HOT BUTTON
BI K I N I - CL A D E S P R E S S O WO R K E R S O F F E N D S O M E
Bonney Lake wants lids on baristas
Council members in Bonney
Lake are looking for ways they
can legally tell provocatively
dressed baristas to cover
up. A new coffee stand has
prompted complaints.
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BY MELISSA SANTOS
The News Tribune
Baristas in bikinis have been steaming
lattes in the Puget Sound region for the past
few years. But in Bonney Lake, they’re just
starting to stir things up.
The newly opened Cowgirls Espresso stand
on the 21000 block of Highway 410 has
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prompted complaints from citizens and a protest scheduled for this weekend.
The complaints also target the Hot Chicka-Latte stand near the intersection of Highway 410 and the Old Buckley Highway.
The Bonney Lake City Council requested
Please see BARISTAS, back page
THE QUESTION:
Should local governments
get involved in
regulating baristas
whose skimpy
clothing “offends
the public
decency”?
To vote or offer
comments, go to
our Web site.
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