Yakima Herald-Republic back issues from May 2000:
Foreword.
May 01, 2000; ... In December, 1993, I was trapped in Manhattan, between flights, roaming a cold and particularly grimy part of the city. I had just finished an extraordinary book by Catharine MacKinnon--Only Words--a book about the way in which words, speech, and texts, help construct inequality.(1) Though ...
Privacy, publication, and the First Amendment: the dangers of First Amendment exceptionalism.
May 01, 2000; ... INTRODUCTION: ANYTHING NEW IN CYBERSPACE? Doctrinal analysis often requires us to reconcile traditional legal principle with modern technological innovation. Nowhere is this task of reconciliation more daunting than with cyberspace, where the speed and spread of information has ...
Freedom of speech and information privacy: the troubling implications of a right to stop people from speaking about you.
May 01, 2000; ... INTRODUCTION Privacy is a popular word, and government attempts to "protect our privacy" are easy to endorse. Government attempts to let us "control ... information about ourselves"(1) sound equally good: Who wouldn't want extra control? And what fair-minded person could oppose ...
Privacy as intellectual property?
May 01, 2000; ... INTRODUCTION Information privacy is a scarce commodity in cyberspace.(1) The technical infrastructure of cyberspace makes it remarkably simple and inexpensive to collect substantial amounts of information identifiable to particular individuals.(2) Once these data have been ...
Uneasy Access for Women in a Free Society.(Review)
May 01, 2000 ... INTRODUCTION UNEASY ACCESS: PRIVACY FOR WOMEN IN A FREE SOCIETY. By Anita L. Allen. Totowa, N.J.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1988. 226 pp. $68.00. A dozen years ago, I published a book about women's privacy, Uneasy Access: Privacy for Women in a Free Society. I have been ...
What the publisher can teach the patient: intellectual property and privacy in an era of trusted privication.
May 01, 2000; ... INTRODUCTION Individuals have long had the desire but little ability to control the dissemination of information about their health. Law has been a weak instrument for such control, given the articulate and powerful interests that insist upon maintaining and enhancing access to ...
Hardware-based ID, rights management, and trusted systems.
May 01, 2000; ... Networked digital technology enables the easy and inexpensive movement of speech and information among persons who are strangers to one another. People may not always find unfettered movement desirable, though. A content producer may want to disseminate information to some recipients, such ...
Information privacy/information property.
May 01, 2000; ... What we offer our advertisers, is an audience delivered with unprecedented precision. An Audience that welcomes your message because we show you how to make it relevant to their interests. An audience that we know intimately because they allow us to follow them wherever they roam on the ...
Resolving conflicting international data privacy rules in cyberspace.
May 01, 2000; ... INTRODUCTION The robust development of the Interact and online services over the last several years represent the most significant era for international flows of personal information since the first wave of computerization in the 1970s. During the early days of data processing, ...
Examined lives: informational privacy and the subject as object.
May 01, 2000; ... <Pre> In the United States, proposals for informational privacy protectionhave proved enormously controversial. On a political level, such proposalsthreaten powerful data processing interests. On a theoretical level, dataprocessors and other data privacy opponents argue ...
What Larry doesn't get: code, law, and liberty in cyberspace.(Review)
May 01, 2000; ... CODE AND OTHER LAWS OF CYBERSPACE. By Lawrence Lessig. Basic Books. 1999. 297 pp. $30.00. The emergence of the vast informational ecosystem we call cyberspace is an event of incalculable importance in the history of human liberty. The diversity and vibrancy of this "never-ending ...
The death of privacy?
May 01, 2000; ... INTRODUCTION Information, as we all know, is power. Both collecting and collating personal information are means of acquiring power, usually at the expense of the data subject. Whether this is desirable depends upon who the viewer and subject are and who is weighing the balance ....
Private property.
May 01, 2000; ... Most Internet scholars--and indeed most people--think we need more privacy online.(1) It is easy enough to find horror stories about data compilation and mining; computers and other devices that report on your files, your whereabouts, and your activities; and so on.(2) Most of the public ...
Free speech vs. information privacy: Eugene Volokh's First Amendment jurisprudence.
May 01, 2000; ... Eugene Volokh's masterful contribution to this symposium examines caselaw, doctrine, and theory to reach the conclusion that "information privacy rules are not easily defensible under existing free speech law."(1) Although permitting a narrow exception for privacy protection through ...
Save the robots: cyber profiling and your so-called life.
May 01, 2000; ... I'm new to the "cyberspace" genre of legal scholarship although not to the issues it raises (I live in the San Francisco Bay Area and work in Silicon Valley, so the phenomenology of the virtual is an ever present part of the popular culture). Much of my work has focused on the legal ...
Trusted systems and medical records: lowering expectations.
May 01, 2000; ... Our world--perhaps especially our academic world--is intensely specialized. Expertise in privacy and the Internet would seem readily transferable to issues of the privacy of electronic medical records, but there is a very real gap. Jonathan Zittrain has taken his knowledge of the possible ...
Privicating privacy: reflections on Henry Greely's commentary.(response to article by Henry Greely in this issue, p. 1595)
May 01, 2000; ... My article in this issue of the Review(1) makes the claim that an appreciation of the power of "trusted" or "privication" architectures could help break political and conceptual logjams suffered within long-running debates over privacy. Trusted architectures include systems of hardware and ...
Radio Fans Band Together -- Fun is the main goal, but ham operators will, with frequency, help folks who need it
May 01, 2000; ... GRANDVIEW - When phones are down, e-mail crashes and the PostalService fails to deliver, there's still network of people who canaid in communication. At least that's the justification amateur radio operators, orhams, give for their hobby. Truth is, while the radios have a ...
Making Visitors Feel Welcome -- Yakima Entrances committee working to make city's entryways more attractive
May 01, 2000 ... Correction: Due to a reporter's error, a plan to beautify anortheast Yakima streetside drainage basin was incorrectlydescribed in a story Monday as "zero scape." The correct term is"xeriscape," from the Greek "xero" meaning "dry," or "xeric,"meaning a dry or desertlike ...
Amateur radio operator Mike Hall KC7VNA helped in the rescue of an injured Boy Scout in Mount Rainier National park. He intercepted the Scout's radioed call
May 01, 2000 ... for help, then called park rangers by ...
Message Finder Enjoys 15 Minutes of Fame -- Joe Roy
May 01, 2000; ... Like a typical kid on a lazy summer afternoon by a river, 10-year-old Erik Larson launched a message in a bottle. But whathappened after that was anything but typical. Despite deep freezes, spring floods, and river rocks, the oldKraft salad dressing bottle floated 50 miles ...
Slice of Yakima -- DSHS Honors 14 Who Help Children
May 01, 2000 ... Fourteen employees of the state Department of Social and HealthServices were honored last week at an awards ceremony for theirwork in children services in 1999. From social workers and foster care licensers to behind-the-scenes support of computer systems and financial services, ...
Yakima People -- Locals Complete Basic Training
May 01, 2000 ... They're up, up and away. Two local men recently graduated from basic military training atLackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. Air Force Airmen David Herzog Jr. from Yakima and Cy Mullen Jr.of Selah successfully completed six weeks of ...
Yakima Speedway -- Kroenberg Wins Legends Main -- Sunnyside's Linder Second in Super Pro
May 01, 2000 ... YAKIMA HERALD-REPUBLIC Showing their rising popularity, the Northwest Legends drew afield of 31 cars Saturday night at Yakima Speedway and Olympia's BobKronenberg captured the featured main event. The field was reduced significantly at the end of the 25-lap mainby several ...
Death Notices
May 01, 2000 ... Avis C. Burrill Avis C. Burrill, 79, of Yakima died Thursday at Providence YakimaMedical Center. Born in Mayville, N.D., she taught school in Minnesota for sevenyears before moving to Yakima in 1953. After that, she taught atWest Valley High School for 23 years before ...
Study: Kids Show No Dangerous Lead Levels
May 01, 2000 ... VASHON ISLAND, Wash. (AP) - None of the approximately 50 childrentested for lead on this island southwest of Seattle were found tohave the mineral in their blood, the Seattle-King County PublicHealth Department said. That was good news to parents concerned after a county ...
State Takes Over Nursing Home
May 01, 2000 ... BELLEVUE, Wash. (AP) - The state Department of Social and HealthServices has taken over a nursing home in this east Seattle suburb,saying staffing shortages had put its 116 residents at risk. The state took action against the Eastside Medical andRehabilitation Center on Friday ...
Teen Giving Portland Mayor Competition in Re-election Bid
May 01, 2000 ... PORTLAND (AP) - Although he couldn't get elected president of hishigh school, teen-ager Jake Oken-Berg is generating the most buzzamong Mayor Vera Katz's record 16 challengers in the upcomingprimary. The 19-year-old drew three television cameras to a midday rallythis weekend in ...
Letters to the editor
May 01, 2000 ... On Religion Hooray for schools that teach history - for the real lesson ofthe English struggle for religious freedom is that it is inevitablylinked to political liberty. Unfortunately, too often the modern version of history is thatfolks who are serious about religion kill ...
CodeCorrect Goes National -- Yakima software firm makes a name for itself by helping health-care providers keep up with billing rule changes
May 01, 2000; ... They've been "flying under the radar" for months. But now it's time to drop their cloaking and show their colors -CodeCorrect.Com Inc., the brainchild of four Yakima entrepreneurs,is not only on the radar screen, it's staked out a claim in thenational marketplace. "We didn't ...
Around the Valley -- Man Hit by Bus Shows Improvement -- Police Busy With Weekend Crashes
May 01, 2000 ... Man Hit by Bus Shows Improvement SEATTLE - The condition of a 58-year-old Yakima man, whose legswere crushed Friday when a school bus ran over him, slightlyimproved Sunday. Darrell Schoonover improved from critical to serious conditionSunday at Harborview Medical Center in ...
Business Briefs: Finance Professionals Start Grant Mortgage -- YVCC Offers Business and Computer Classes -- New Web Site Aids Yakima Valley Visitors --
May 01, 2000 ... Washington CEO Head to Address Trade Group -- Get StateInformation Automatically by E-Mail -- Farm Service Agency Can Helpon Crop Losses Finance Professionals Start Grant Mortgage YAKIMA - Grant Mortgage Inc., a new business specializing inconventional and nonconventional ...
In Basket -- Business Promotions, Moves, Etc...
May 01, 2000 ... Agriculture The Washington Agriculture and Forestry Leadership Program hasnamed Mattawa Concord grape grower Charles Lyall as the firstrecipient of the program's National Grape Cooperative/Welch'sLeadership Fellowship. The Inland-Joseph Fruit Co. has hired Steve King as ...
Editorial -- Real Threat to Parks Is Bent to Shut Out Public
May 01, 2000 ... We keep looking for the crisis that prompted the National ParkService last week to announce a ban on snowmobiling in the nationalpark system.We still haven't found it and wonder if perhaps the agencycouldn't find more pressing business to deal with than harassingsnowmobilers ...
Facts and Records
May 01, 2000 ... Fires Yakima Saturday, 3:43 a.m. - First-aid call to 1200 block Queen Avenue. Saturday, 6:27 a.m. - First-aid call to 5700 block West ChestnutAvenue. Saturday, 8:19 a.m. - First-aid call to 1400 block Cherry Avenue. Saturday, 9:12 a.m. - First-aid call to ...
Political Journal -- Gov. Locke "Got It Done"
May 01, 2000; ... Gov. Gary Locke is a happy camper. With the longest off-yearLegislative session in recent memory completed and a budget done,the Seattle Democrat is basking in the glory of accomplishments thatdefied conventional wisdom. He entered the legislative session with a major budget crunch ...
Northwest Tour On Its Way
May 01, 2000 ... YAKIMA HERALD-REPUBLIC NASCAR's Northwest Tour will make the first of three stops atYakima Speedway next Saturday. The 125-lap race will be the Tour's fourth this season. Saturday night in Portland, rookie John Zaretzke of Marysvillewon his first race, outlasting a ...
Banning of Speaker Stirs Debate at Gonzaga -- Gonzaga president bans Planned Parenthood speaker
May 01, 2000 ... SPOKANE (AP) - Gonzaga University President Robert Spitzer'scancellation of a campus talk by a Planned Parenthoodrepresentative has prompted a free-speech debate at the privateschool. The controversy also has drawn attention from other Catholic- andJesuit-run schools trying to ...
Deputies Search Innards of House -- Robert L. Yates Jr.
May 02, 2000 ... SPOKANE (AP) - Sheriff's deputies returned to the home of RobertL. Yates Jr. on Monday, using a machine to look inside the wallsfor evidence they hope will tie him to Spokane's serial killings. Officials would not say if they found any evidence. Special equipment that can look ...
Enrich Your Life and Reach Out to Others
May 02, 2000; ... MOTHER OF MARY FONTANA The whirlwinds of prom were swirling through our home recently.We have two daughters who went to the dance, and they are asdifferent in personality and outlook as fire and ice. While Mary coolly ferreted out a real bargain of a dress, Clarecame home ...
It's Important to Let Kids Be Kids
May 02, 2000; ... MOTHER OF HEATHER SMITH A woman friend of mine who was in her 90s at the time told me, "Istill feel like I'm the same person I was at 18. I am 18 inside.Sometimes I look in the mirror and am utterly surprised to see anold face." I remember her words well because they felt ...
Around the Valley -- Man Hit by School Bus Improves in Seattle -- Police Arrest Pair on Robbery Allegation -- Grandview Driver Treated After Wreck --
May 02, 2000 ... Playground Symphony Aids Families, Children Man Hit by School Bus Improves in Seattle YAKIMA - A Yakima man whose lower body was crushed under thewheels of a school bus Friday morning remained in serious conditionMonday at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. Darrell ...
Away at School -- Matthias Makes NAIA Nationals
May 02, 2000 ... YAKIMA HERALD-REPUBLIC Aaron Matthias (West Valley), competing for Northwest NazareneUniversity, had a big day in late April, qualifying for twodifferent NAIA national races in two different cities on the sameday and set a school record. Matthias finished 11th in the 1500meters ...
Fumes Kill 3 in Wenatchee
May 02, 2000 ... WENATCHEE (AP) - Three members of a Wenatchee family have diedfrom exposure to carbon monoxide fumes. Chris Virnig, 36, Robyn Virnig, 33, and Kohlbe Virnig, 5, alldied on Saturday, after they were found unconscious in their home. Police are investigating but Sgt. Marty Bryan ...
Street Protest Takes to Streets -- Union Gap residents say city shouldn't have its way on right of way
May 02, 2000; ... UNION GAP - Residents, angry over the city's move to redraw somestreet boundaries, rallied Monday in support of a property ownerthey believe is the first target of the city's policy to takeproperty to widen streets. Protesters threatened to chain and handcuff themselves to a ...
Corrections: Due to a reporter's error, a plan to beautify a northeast Yakima streetside drainage basin was incorrectly described in a story Monday
May 02, 2000 ... as "zero scape." The correct term is "xeriscape," from the Greek"xero" meaning "dry," or "xeric," meaning a dry or desertlikecondition. Due to a copy editing error, the Page One photo credit of Hamradio operator Jack Wren was ...
Davis' Jabari Riggins Signs With Grand Canyon
May 02, 2000 ... YAKIMA HERALD-REPUBLIC Jabari Riggins, a two-year point guard for Davis' boys basketballteam, has signed a letter of intent to attend Grand CanyonUniversity in Phoenix. Riggins, a 6-foot senior, drew the attention of GCU's recruitersduring an all-star tournament in San Diego ...
Being There for Children Is an Important, Worthy Gift
May 02, 2000; ... MOTHER OF SCOTT FRIEND Parenting is an individual thing for each child. What works forone doesn't come close to working for another. We have threechildren - two daughters who have each completed a fine collegeeducation and one son who is a junior in high school. All of our ...
Sports: A Valuable Time for All
May 02, 2000; ... FATHER OF JESSICA BERNFELD This is a plea for balance and perspective in youth sports. As Ireflect on my involvement in youth sports both personally, as abasketball coach and swimming official, and through my children'sexperience, I see mostly positives. We are, or should be, ...
No, Teens Aren't Immortal
May 02, 2000; ... FATHER OF JESSICA BERNFELD As a surgeon for the last 20 years, I have made a startlingobservation: Teens are NOT immortal. When my profession brings me to the emergency room and I seepreventable tragedies, I am saddened. Seat belts really do savelives and reduce injuries ....
Housing Advocate Takes Spokane Post -- Dianne Quast
May 02, 2000 ... SPOKANE (AP) - Dianne Quast, who once got arrested for protestingplans to expand the Washington State Convention and Trade Center inSeattle, is bringing her brand of activism to the Spokane HousingAuthority. Quast will take over leadership of the subsidized-housing agencyJune ...
Strangest Things Strewn Along State's Highways
May 02, 2000 ... VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) - Lingerie and lobsters, dynamite anddentures, dollars, cents and cell phones. The darnedest things flyout of car windows and wind up alongside Washington's roads, say thefolks whose job it is to pick them up. Most of the detritus is thrown. Some falls. Some ...
Children Now and Then: So Much New, So Much the Same
May 02, 2000; ... FATHER OF JACOB BERTRAM We know our children are getting smarter every year. And as teen-agers, they get much of their knowledge from their parents. Theyliterally take the knowledge from us because the smarter they get,the dumber (in their eyes) we get. We asked our son, ...
Diverse Relationship Can Be a Positive
May 02, 2000; ... PARENTS OF MONICA COLGAN Our daughter has the best and worst of two worlds: Her father is51 years old and of Irish and German descent. Her mother is 37 yearsold and of French, Indian and Hispanic origin. Her father is amoderate Republican and her mother is a conservative Democrat ....
Instilling Strong Morals in Teens Start From Day One
May 02, 2000; ... PARENTS OF SCOTT KLEPACH Keeping moral values strong in your teen begins at conception.Cecilia Lasbury wrote, "There are only two lasting bequests we canhope to give our children. One of these is roots; the other wings." For us, it was important to build a foundation for our ...
When Children Have Their Own Children -- Family Weathers Storm of Emotions -- Despite pain, best choice was to support daughter
May 02, 2000; ... FATHER OF SARA MARTIN When my 17-year-old daughter, (Sara) Becca, told me she waspregnant, I felt kicked in the stomach. While it wasn't my "fault,"I was overwhelmed at that moment by the feeling that I had failed asa parent to protect my child from having to confront pain, that ...
When Children Have Their Own Children -- Family Weathers Storm of Emotions -- Trying time has brought mother, daughter closer
May 02, 2000; ... MOTHER OF SARA MARTIN As a parent I have noticed that as my daughter grew older, Iremembered my own growing up vividly. This has helped me through theyears because I could put myself in her shoes, but I also have thebenefit of the experience and knowledge that living longer has ...
Government Wants to Know About Your Diet -- Surveyors will contact 1,000 residents over two months
May 02, 2000; ... Have you eaten your Wheaties today? Interviewers for a government-sponsored health survey will beginknocking on doors today in Yakima County to find out how we eat,what our health problems are, and whether we're getting all ourvitamins and nutrients. The ongoing study, conducted by ...
Letters to the editor
May 02, 2000 ... Graffiti Sequel To the editor - My April 15 letter, "It's Criminal" (in referenceto graffiti and lack of punishment), elicited many favorableresponses. A noteworthy response from Judge Heather Van Nuysresulted in further research and newsworthy information. In response to my ...
Editorial -- Change Institutions Through Informed and Peaceful Protests
May 02, 2000 ... Protest is the American way, but protesting the annual meeting ofthe International Monetary Fund and World Bank is not somethingthat would occur to most people. But, maybe there's just not a lotelse to protest these days. The mass demonstrations in Washington, D.C., recently, ...
Death Notices
May 02, 2000 ... Francisca T. Alaniz Francisca T. Alaniz, 81, of Sunnyside died Sunday at her home. Mrs. Alaniz was born, raised and educated in Mission, Texas. Shemoved to Sunnyside in 1954. Survivors include seven daughters, Thelma Cantu, Olga Cortez andMary Rangel, all of Sunnyside, ...
Facts and Records
May 02, 2000 ... Births Providence Yakima Medical Center LOPEZ - To Jose Lopez and Emily Garcia, Wapato, a son Jose LuisLopez Jr., 7 pounds, 12 ounces, 1:24 p.m., April 20, 2000.Grandparents are Jose and Bernadette Garcia, Teresa Valdez, andManuel and Teresa Lopez, all of ...
Achieving Balance Is No Easy Task - Raising American Indian children in a non-native world can be rough at times
May 02, 2000; ... MOTHER OF JOSEPHINE BUCK Raising children is a lifetime task, especially in today'ssociety. I started 23 years ago and today am still 100 percentactive in this capacity. Reflecting back to the beginning of this major undertaking, Irealize that I, too, was still a child in a ...
Kittitas Considers Appeals Centered on Resort Plan
May 02, 2000; ... ELLENSBURG - Kittitas County officials are mulling how to proceedwith a series of environmental appeals surrounding the proposedMountainStar resort. On Wednesday, county commissioners will hold a public meeting todetermine how to proceed with five appeals, which include ...
Dog Stars Shine at Show -- French bulldog takes top award at 55th Yakima Kennel Club Event
May 02, 2000; ... UNION GAP - She's French by heritage, Italian by birth andAmerican by upbringing, with a face and figure the Venus de Milocould envy, if the Venus de Milo were a dog. "She's to die for,'" said Al "Beep" Lee Jr., planting a big kisson the pug nose of "Obsession Dell'akiris," a ...