Bank Transfer Day - November 5th, or, Where to stick it!

 

By Mona Goldwater, Economics Editor

Bank Transfer Day is now set for November 5th.   With Wells Fargo now announcing that they too, along with Bank of America,  will be charging people to take their own money out of banks, Kristen Christian, a 27-year-old Los Angelean started Bank Transfer Day.  As of this morning, 36,447 people are doing it on November 5th.  Here's the Facebook page).

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Blood In The Streets: Seattle Police Backlash

By Mona Goldwater

Seattle Metro Editor

As you know if you live in, or near, Seattle, there have been numerous incidents over the last year of the police allegedly, and actually, over-reacting, sometimes fatally.  This over-reaction may or may not stem from several incidents last year where police were gunned down in cold blood, including the ambush murder of four cops in a Lakewood coffee shop.

People have been reacting in various ways, from protests, to videotaping the police anytime they seem them pull someone over or stop them.  This morning, Kelly O of The Stranger reported on the Stranger blog (The Slog) that "somebody's hijacked a whole bunch of Seattle Times newspaper boxes, replacing the display copies with another copy that looks like this:"

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The Stranger puts the Tucson murders/assassination in a larger perspective

Our local (and great) weekly, The Stranger, will be running this cover by Dan Savage and Aaron Huffmanon in their issue appearing January 13th.   
 

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