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Today’s topics: 9-11 artifacts at Veterans Memorial Museum, CA falsely touted as energy efficient, abducted girl another victim of changing society, predicted record oil prices was wrong, self-reliance becoming more important than ever, cool to have solar panels on electronic speed signs, nuclear power plants now box-car sized, highest unemployment in states with most illegal aliens?, video shows need to stop excessive gov’t spending, mothers letting their girls dress too adult too soon, time for full-service gas stations to come back?, don’t blame little girls for sexual assault/abduction.

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Today’s topics: Advertising that lies to us, cell phone use while driving, who will pay the carbon tax?, free healthcare in N.Z. and U.K. means waiting lists, fix potholes on Hwy. 6, income tax revenues to fed gov’t down 25%, how can congress vote without reading bills?, 2011 small car test drive, foam to put out fires instead of water, gov’t mistake in U.K. healthcare service, the pushy manage better in any gov’t program.

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Today’s topics: Counterfeit money being passed in Thurston County, US Supreme Court case limits president’s power, give trains a break because we need the freight, gain sharing for state employees explained, will OPUS start up soon?, cell phone use still strong despite new law, Referendum 71 explanation, why have separate law for cell phone use?, bathrooms changing around the country, breast implants bad idea for youth, Baird’s vote for carbon tax, cell phones no more distracting than conversation.

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Today’s topics: “Void where prohibited”, Vic Bonogofski gives his side of the story, competing groups to represent flood solutions, review of Olympia tea party rally, post-mounted train horns to lower community noise levels?, changes to electoral college vote in WA, limitations on railroad horn technology.

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Today’s topics: Home trashed while occupants on vacation, King Co. dam leaking, prosecutor in CA listening to sentencing, state employees suing over end of bonus payments, efforts to find police liable for train whistle noise, cardboard storage property being seized in preparation for sale, if people obey railroad lights they get no ticket, details about state employee pensions, neighbor gets letter about foreclosure next door, police should sting red light violators instead.

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Today’s topics: Why only tribes sell the good fireworks?, gov’t won’t allow you to have needed medical care, will media treat adulterous governor like adulterous president?, guy blames wreck on taking his dog to the vet, having separate (Indian) nations inside US raises complications, Gregoire should use GoToMeeting rather than fly to D.C., details of Tax&Trade bill, Oregon raises taxes by $1 billion, caller let Baird’s office know how she feels, quick march to socialism and then marxism, can railroad sting be charged with noise pollution?, Tax&Trade is HR2998 and they don’t know what’s in it yet.

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Today’s topics: Police organizing community to paint over graffiti, horse hitching rings installed then removed, “free lunch” teaching kids wrong lessons?, diesel/gas cleaner than biodiesel or ethanol, children don’t appreciate free stuff then always expect it, best of our lives are times we had to do without, fertilizer used to grow ethanol consumes oil, laziness at the basis of poverty, giveaway programs proliferate as long as we don’t object, free lunches are because of farm corporate welfare, how many of us contact our legislators?

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Today’s topics: 1/3 of traffic ticket fines stay locally, Ref. 71 is only about the right to vote on the issue, cigarette companies free speech rights violated, railroad deaths come from pedestrians on tracks, president credited/blamed for what congress does, gov’t doesn’t give us money - it’s our money, New York teachers paid to do nothing, stimulus money spent to improve Rainier Club in Seattle, railroad crossing violators are getting a deadly habit, Jefferson predicted we’d give away our liberties, “free lunches” should be called taxpayer-provided lunches, phone call broadcast over my voice during the show, graffiti spreading - what’s the city doing about it?

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Today’s topics: Theft of 5 foot Buddha statue, railroad crossing sting operation, who is liable if someone is injured during a sting operation?, New York Times hypocrisy on war secrecy, view of ticketed driver at railroad crossing, details in Chronicle story misleading, sting operation staged for publicity, anyone who disregards crossing lights deserves a ticket.

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Today’s topics: PUD now prominently listed in the DEX white pages, two guys caught with $134 billion in US bonds, trailer of fireworks stolen, state employees take zero pay raise?, Canadian driver going backwards on I-5, why is there no activity at the OPUS site?, what happened to the plan to run slow trails through Centralia?, man at Steck lab draws blood well, state employee verifies no raises for two years, 2 drownings in back yard pools so far - be careful, college students can’t spell - not prepared for college, vouchers are the best solution for disinterested parents, state leadership should reduce their salaries/staff as example, we the people elect the politicians who support lousy schools.

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