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...Monday, 12,127 students had signed up to receive text message alerts from the University in case of a campus emergency, according to University spokesman Joseph Wrinn. [CORRECTION BELOW...
...Joint Terrorism Task Force is busy investigating the Monday fires and on Thursday finished its search for evidence at the crime scene, near Maltby, about 25 miles northeast of Seattle. FBI Special Agent Frederick Gutt told TIME he considers the arsons "potential domestic terrorism" and said this was the fourth such ELF-linked burning of new homes in Washington State since 2004. Other ELF-linked acts in recent years have targeted housing developments in California and New York, and an SUV dealership in Oregon...
...damage in Monday's arson has been estimated at $7 million. The burned Washington housing development, called Quinn's Crossing, was celebrated last summer as part of a "Street of Dreams" promotion that drew tens of thousands of visitors. But it is not exactly a cherished local landmark. Despite its claims of green construction, area activists fought it, fearful that it would upset the delicate environmental balance in an area that contains an important aquifer and streams favored by Chinook salmon...
Maxine Tuerk, who is part of a local group that opposes rural "cluster houses" like the ones torched on Monday, said that if all such developments were to disappear from Snohomish County, the fast-growing area that contains the crime scene, "it wouldn't bother me one bit - that's exactly what we're working for." Tuerk, a 75-year-old retired real estate broker who lives on a quiet 20-acre parcel in a wooded valley outside the city of Snohomish, added that she does not condone the tactic of burning down new homes to protect the environment...
...hostility with which the parties' candidates slugged it out on Monday night may prompt some voters to turn away and throw up their hands in despair. Yet that may be just the point. As PP senior strategist Gabriel Elorriaga recently admitted in an interview with the Financial Times, his party hopes to encourage potential Socialist voters to sit this one out. "Our whole strategy is centered on making Socialist voters waver," he said. "We know they will never vote for us. But if we can sow enough doubts about the economy, about immigration and nationalist issues, then perhaps they will...