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There has been a shooting in Pullman more in a bit Has been updated.
From Dnews.com:

Pullman police are investigating an early morning shooting on College Hill.

Police report that a man was taken to Pullman Regional Hospital early this morning after being shot in the head by an acquaintance at the Providence Court Apartments.

Pullman Police Cmdr. Chris Tennant said the 22-year-old Pullman resident suffered non- life threatening injuries and was able to lead detectives to a suspect.

A 20-year-old man was taken into custody in Moscow after crossing state lines.

And from the AP:

Pullman Police Commander Chris Tennant said 20-year-old Lewis A. Lawrence was being held in the Latah County Jail as the suspected shooter.

The shooting victim, Michael Fuauu, 22, was recovering in the hospital.

Tennant said police were called to the Providence Court apartments at the bottom of Valley Road for a gunshot wound a little after 12:30 a.m. There they found Fuauu suffering from a shotgun blast to the head.

Tennant said Fuauu had reportedly answered the door and was shot. He said police were told the alleged shooter was an acquaintance of Fuauu’s. Fuauu and witnesses identified the alleged shooter.

A short time later Moscow Police stopped a vehicle and arrested two men, including Lawrence. Tennant said the other man, 21-year-old Rylan J. Wallace, also of Moscow, is being investigated as a possible accomplice.

Tennant said formal arrest warrants were issued out of Whitman County charging Lawrence with three counts of attempted murder and one count of first-degree burglary. Wallace’s arrest warrant is for one count of rendering criminal assistance in the first degree.

Both men appeared in Latah County Magistrate Court Tuesday afternoon and waived extradition. Prosecutor Bill Thompson said they would be transferred to Whitman County within 24 hours.

Bail was set at $200,000 each in Whitman County.

Well our facebook prediction model failed us this year. With the top two tickets only being 100 supporters apart on their facebook groups we knew it was going to be a squeaker (turned out it wasn’t) unlike years past. Congratulations to Derick En’Wezoh and Jay Hendrickson

update:
Here are the numbers
Derick En’Wezoh and Jay Hendrickson 2129 votes 48%

Jake Bredstrand and Molly Aigner 1450 votes 33%

Ryan Mulenga and Sarah Driscoll 862 votes 19%

Interestingly if you check on the candidates facebook group pages all of them have less members then they did just a day ago. Even the winning ticket’s group has less people.

For the last few years Cougster has accurately predicted the winner of the ASWSU election. Along with getting the winners correct we have been predicting the percentage of the vote each ticket will receive pretty well. We make our predictions based on the number people on each tickets’ facebook group page.

Once again here is our prediction for this year.

As of this morning there are combined total of 2476 members of the three tickets’ facebook groups. We divide the numbers of members in each individual group by the total number of members in all the groups so x/2476

Ryan Mulenga and Sarah Driscoll: 381 members = 15.39%

Jake Bredstrand and Molly Aigner: 1100 members = 44.43%

Derick En’Wezoh and Jay Hendrickson: 995 members = 40.19%

Based on these numbers we predict Jake Bredstrand and Molly Aigner will win with 44.43% of the vote.

Of course you never know what is going to happen so you should vote if you have not done so yet.

Here are the websites of the candidates:

Ryan Mulenga and Sarah Driscoll
http://mulengadriscoll.com

Jake Bredstrand and Molly Aigner
http://VoteJakeandMolly.com

Derick En’Wezoh and Jay Hendrickson
http://empoweringyou09.com

Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer thinks the way college is financed currently is crazy. He says the costs are prohibitive for many and proposes using ideas from the likes of Nobel laureates Milton Friedman and James Tobin.

Spitzer suggests students repay a percentage of their income, not set payments.

the concept is simple: Instead of paying upfront or taking loans with repayment schedules unrelated to income, students would accept an obligation to pay a fixed percentage of their income for a specified period of time, regardless of the income level achieved. Suppose a university charged $40,000 a year in annual tuition. A standard 20-year loan in the amount of $160,000 (40,000 times four) would produce an immediate postgraduate debt obligation of $1,228.50 per month, or $14,742 per year, not sustainable at a salary of $25,000 or anything close to it. Under a smart loan program, the student could pay about 11 percent of his income, with an initial payback of $243 per month, or $2,916 per year, which is feasible at a job paying $25,000. If, after five years, the student’s salary jumped to $100,000, payments would jump accordingly and move up over time as income increases. After 20 years, assuming ordinary income increase, the loan would be paid off.

We are sure art and psych majors could get behind this idea.

Over on uwdowgpound they have a list of key legislators who are part of the King County Projects Financing Task Force. This task force reviews King County-specific revenue options for community development in the county. They look at the funding of construction, financing and mitigation of Safeco and Quest Fields and financing of the Kingdome debt.

For Husky Stadium to be considered for any Public Funding, this Task Force must recommend the Project to the appropriate Legislative Committee by December 1, 2008.

These are the members:
• Ross Hunter, Representative (District 48)
• Tracey Eide, Senator (District 30)
• Sharon Tomiko-Santos, Representative (District 37)
• Ed Murray, Senator (District 43)
• Joe Zarelli, Senator (District 18)
• Glenn Anderson, Representative (District 5)
• Marty Brown, the Governor’s Office

Needless to say we know how the posters on uwdawgpound said to their legislators. So if anyone of these is your representative/senator why not give them a quick call or email and tell them how you feel about funding Husky Stadium with tax payer dollars.