Everett Daily Herald, November 21, 2014

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Obama on immigration

An overwhelmed response

The most sweeping changes in the nation’s immigration laws mainly benefit parents and young people — and set off a firestorm from Republicans who are deciding whether to file a lawsuit, shut down the government or pursue impeachment.

A state Senate panel is told that new laws are needed to ensure future disasters are handled more smoothly. By Jerry Cornfield Herald Writer

Nation & World, A12

OLYMPIA — Communities ripped asunder by the Oso mudslide are recovering, one tough day at a time.

Reform draws cheers, jeers

And state resources are still very much needed by families and businesses coping with the emotional and financial toll of the deadly March 22 landslide, civic leaders told a state Senate panel Thursday.

New laws also are necessary to ensure a less bumpy response to disasters in the future than they experienced in those initial hours and days after Steelhead Haven was buried under mud on a quiet Saturday morning. “It was pretty chaotic in the beginning,” Oso fire Chief Willy Harper told the Senate Natural Resources and Parks Committee.

Harper, Arlington Mayor Barbara Tolbert, Darrington Mayor Dan Rankin and Pete Selvig of Darrington each described a system for emergency response that was overwhelmed by the circumstances. Communication went down as most phone service was lost. See SLIDE, back page, this section

Floating their own boat ORCA students no longer have to borrow a research vessel

Local reaction to the president’s immigration changes divides along predictably partisan lines. By Jerry Cornfield and Noah Haglund Herald Writers

EVERETT — For Juliana Perez, the immigration plan that President Barack Obama announced Thursday could help right a longstanding injustice. As a tax-preparer and notary public who works with the Latino community, Perez sees it year after year. While she arrived in Everett legally from Panama 26 years ago, other immigrants didn’t have that opportunity. They toil away in obscurity as undocumented workers. “These are families that are part of our community,” Perez said. “They are working, they have a home. They have children who were born here. Yet the only thing holding them back is the legal status in the country.” The president’s plan promises to benefit not only undocumented families, she said, but employers and the economy. Perez’s appreciation for the president’s action was widespread in Latino communities, but created predictable partisan rifts. “When it comes to fixing our broken immigration system, the American people want a permanent solution, not a quick fix,” said Republican U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Spokane, a member of the House leadership team. “They want the most effective solution, not the most expeditious one.” The plan would give up to

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Ardi Kveven worked on securing a $218,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to purchase the 36-foot-long, custom-built research vessel that she is standing on for Everett Community College’s Ocean Research College Academy.

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The Phocoena, which has a bow door, powered winches as well as a covered cabin and toilet, will be officially christened in a ceremony Saturday on the Everett waterfront.

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Turkey economics That’ll be $5 per person: It’ll cost $49.41 to make Thanksgiving dinner for 10 people this year, 37 cents more than in 2013, the Farm Bureau says (Page A13). The mental health therapy you’ll need after a day of slaving in the kitchen followed by bickering at the Dear Abby. . . .D5 Horoscope . . . E6

EVERETT — Some students at Everett Community College are going to be taking advantage of a new classroom this winter: a 36-foot long work boat custom-built for the school’s ORCA program. ORCA, which stands for Ocean Research College Academy, is a two-year academic program for high school students that emphasizes and incorporates marine studies into the students’ entire body of work, from the sciences to the humanities. The program has 97 students. It also has a new oceanography lab, making it one of the only high school programs

dinner table will cost about $100 an hour. How does it feel? On “Lost Songs: The Basement Tapes Continued,” debuting Friday on Showtime, Elvis Costello and some fellow musicians who also wear sunglasses indoors create new songs from newly discovered lyrics written by Bob Dylan (The

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in the country with both a lab and research vessel, said Ardi Kveven, ORCA’s executive director. The new boat, the Phocoena, was funded with a $218,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. A dedication ceremony will be held Saturday on the pier at the Port of Everett Waterfront Center, 1205 Craftsman Way. Phocoena (which is the scientific name of the genus of harbor porpoises) has a bow door and powered winches, a walk-around deck, a covered cabin and even a toilet. It was built by Bean Marine Fabrication in Clarkston.

Clicker, Page D6). Throw in some incoherent nasal rambling and a bit of harmonica between the verses and “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” starts to sound like a Dylan song. Furry suit gets you in for free: The producer of a TV documentary about Bigfoot says he’ll present compelling Sports . . . . . . . C1 Stocks . . . . . .A14

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evidence of the beast’s existence this weekend, when Sasquatch believers gather at a convention in Ocean Shores (Page A7). Sasquatch conventions differ from other conventions in that participants start saying crazy stuff before they hit the hospitality suite.

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