Greetings, readers of Pacific Northwest News!
We’ve got a pair of picks to share with you from our early morning speed-read of headlines from online magazines, television stations and newspapers across the Northwest. Read, react and comment — just use your inside voices, please.
We begin with a headline that caught our eye: ‘exploding parking meter.’ For the story about an explosive device attached to an electronic pay station, we send you to Seattle’s KIRO TV:
A man was injured early Sunday
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Greetings, readers of Pacific Northwest News!
We’ve got a pair of picks to share with you from our early morning speed-read of headlines from online magazines, television stations and newspapers across the Northwest. Read, react and comment — just use your inside voices, please.
We begin with a headline that caught our eye: ‘exploding parking meter.’ For the story about an explosive device attached to an electronic pay station, we send you to Seattle’s KIRO TV:
A man was injured early Sunday morning after he was struck and claimed he was passing by a parking pay station where an attached explosive device detonated, according to the Seattle Police Department.
Police said their 911 center received a call around 12:30 a.m. from the emergency room at Swedish Hospital in Ballard of a report that a man had been injured in an explosion.
Authorities believe that the explosion appears to be “an act of vandalism gone awry.”
For our second story, we turn to the Seattle Times, which reports on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, whose early charitable forays in the 1990s were in the area of birth control, namely the expansion of contraceptives and invention of new ones:
Now, after more than 15 years, the Gateses are returning to their charitable roots in a big way.
Earlier this year, Melinda Gates announced that she intends to put birth control back on the international agenda by making it her signature issue and significantly boosting the foundation’s investment. On Wednesday, the Gates Foundationand the British government will convene a summit of world leaders in London with the goal of raising $4 billion to make contraceptives available to an additional 120 million women in the poorest countries.
The move puts the Gates Foundation on a collision course with the Catholic Church and elements of the religious right. A Catholic herself, Melinda Gates is attempting to defuse the controversy by framing her crusade in terms of health and individual choice. In her travels around the world, she has said, reliable supplies of contraceptives are among the things poor women ask for most.