Blatherskite

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I am a Children’s Librarian living in the Portland, Oregon area. When I am not Children’s Librianing I like to play with cameras and film. I also like playing the ukulele, knitting, sketching, and hiking.

Tag: Spokane

  • More Jimbo

    Well, apparently the Jim West story is breaking wide open in Spokane. I talked to my family about it and they are pissed. Big Brass Blog is covering the story in detail. The sad thing about this, as Christie says, is that it that really stupid people are going to continue to lump being a…

  • from my hometown

    Big Brass Blog For a quarter century, the man who is now Spokane‘s mayor has used positions of public trust – as a sheriff’s deputy, Boy Scout leader and powerful politician – to develop sexual relationships with boys and young men. One man, Robert J. Galliher, claims in a court deposition that Jim West molested…

  • Wash. Judge Nixes Pregnant Woman’s Divorce

    Yahoo! News – Wash. Judge Nixes Pregnant Woman’s Divorce SPOKANE, Wash. – A judge has refused to grant a divorce to a pregnant woman trying to leave her husband two years after he was jailed for beating her, ruling instead that she must wait until the child is born. Shawnna Hughes’ husband was convicted of…

  • City installs 100-block WiFi ‘hot zone’

    MSNBC – City installs 100-block WiFi ‘hot zone’ This is wild! I really had no idea that this was happening in little ‘ole Spokane! I was sitting in the staff lounge, reading the latest discarded copy of Time Magazine (Oct. 18th) and I happened across a gigantic article (with pictures and everything!) about how Spokane…