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Thursday, March 21, 2002
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Utility reduces rate rise request
OLYMPIA -- A proposed settlement that would keep electricity rate increases for Puget Sound Energy customers below double-digits was announced Wednesday.
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District officials get earful on cuts
LACEY -- North Thurston Public School officials put a simple arithmetic problem before a room full of community members, parents and staff Wednesday night: The district's expenses will grow to $92.3 million next year, but it expects to have $88.1 million in revenue.
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Push on to spare health benefits
OLYMPIA -- State employee groups and their allies in the Legislature are pressuring Gov. Gary Locke to preserve $8 million in health benefits in the just-passed budget.
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Campaign funding measure approved
WASHINGTON -- Congress approved the most far-reaching changes to the nation's campaign finance system since the Watergate scandals Wednesday, sweeping aside years of gridlock to clear legislation for President Bush's signature.
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State's senators back bill
WASHINGTON -- Democrats Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell joined the Senate on Wednesday as it passed sweeping campaign finance legislation that cracks down on soft money and attack ads, the first major campaign change in 25 years.
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Details emerge for terror tribunals
WASHINGTON -- Terror suspects tried before military tribunals would have many of the legal rights given defendants accused of other crimes, but prosecutors could use evidence that would probably be tossed out of an ordinary court, a U.S. official said Wednesday.
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Remnants of Al-Qaida, Taliban attempt to rally opposition
PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- In a sign the Taliban and al-Qaida are trying to revive operations, pamphlets calling for armed struggle against the United States and its coalition allies have begun circulating among Afghan refugees here and in Afghanistan.
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Psychiatrist for the Taliban talks about his clients
MAZAR-E-SHARIF, Afghan- istan -- They strutted around in black turbans, they drove big pickups, they looked tough. But on the inside, the Taliban were actually a bunch of pretty depressed guys.
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'HAIR' force
OLYMPIA -- To director Jennie May Donnell, the timing of Capital Playhouse's production of "Hair" is impeccable.
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Wet weather wreaks havoc on prep sports slate
South Sound high schools are just looking to catch a break -- in the weather -- to get the spring sports seasons in full swing.
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Center brings neighbors together
LACEY -- Four-year-old Jahnich Saunders leaned against Carmen Reeves' knee as he showed her his stapled booklet of dinosaur drawings.
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Gasoline prices inching up
SOUTH SOUND -- While snow flurries have made late March feel like January, Gas prices are making their usual springtime jump.
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