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6A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2015 T HE D AILY A STORIAN By New York Times News Service Founded in 1873 STEPHEN A. FORRESTER, Editor & Publisher LAURA SELLERS, Managing Editor BETTY SMITH, Advertising Manager CARL EARL, Systems Manager top 1 percent will average - his month, the Pew Research Center released a study that found that most wealthy institution), and thus near- today have it easy because they JOHN D. BRUIJN, Production Manager Water under the bridge 3 percent of a government This can be the view only of those who have not known — or have long consider the cost for cashing a bi-week- ly payroll check and buying about six money orders each month, a household explanations issued by the willfully callous and the haughtily 10 years ago this week — 2005 as James Baldwin put it, a extremely expensive it is to in Friday’s front page article by Sandra Swain, this network of trails would capitalize on Warrenton’s proximity to the Columbia River and other nature - Cities and town that make it easier for citizens to become pedestrians are First, many poor people make enough to move out of poverty — an estimated spent to purchase money orders to pay - tive service fees — substantially more than the expense of a monthly checking ‘Easy’ is a word not easily spoken among the poor. So, as the Pew report pointed out, - Charles Blow This is an infuriatingly obtuse view of what it means to be poor in this country — the soul-rending omnipresence of worry and fear, of times are hard, the work is hard, the Compiled by Bob Duke From the pages of Astoria’s daily newspapers 53 percent of those who never received a Pell Grant had debt, with an average ly eaten alive by exorbitant DEBRA BLOOM, Business Manager SAMANTHA MCLAREN, Circulation Manager seniors who ever received a Pell Grant, 88 percent group reports receiving at least one type likely to be more heavily taxed than the earnings of wealthier citizens, accord- New York Times put it last week: The - ed with a bank, those banks are increasing making loans and high fees on ba- The Times’ DealBook blog requires transportation, which can be another outrageous Leadership Conference on Civil and Hu- man Rights: - - nual income on transportation, including those who live in rural areas, as com- pared to middle-income households, - cious practice that the killing of Mi- the protests that followed — resurfaced was the degree to which some local - partments targeting poor communities, and arrests supported by police actions have a hard time getting The Washington Post put it, the excesses of the subprime boom have led convention- al banks to stay away from the riskiest nonviolent offenses, mostly driving vi- One way to move up the ladder and out of poverty is through higher education, but even that is not without Louis County engage in the ‘illegal and harmful practices’ of charging high court The story continued: - ea public defender group, says in its re- - in March: Grants, most of whom had family more likely to borrow and to borrow The list of hardships could go on for several more columns, but you get the point: Being poor is anything but The snowpack in the Willamette River basin is alarmingly low for this time of year, researchers say, and the situation is not likely to improve any By New York Times News Service 50 years ago — 1965 ast week, several Republican senators, including John McCain, called on President Barack Obama to stop releasing detainees from the prison at Dean Paul Jacobson of the University of Oregon, quoted last week as Their argument was that after prisoners still in Guantánamo should be made to stay right where they are, Want to buy one of the city’s old ornamental street lights, pole and all, for $10? The city council voted Monday night to make these lights available at Tuesday, one of those detain- ees, Mohame- dou Ould Slahi, who was sent to Guantánamo - mains there to this day, is poised to offer a pow- AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta Protesters dressed as Guantanamo detainees gather in front of the White House, Jan. 11 in Washington, during a rally to mark the 13th anniversary of detainees at Guantanamo Bay. ‘A vision of hell, beyond Orwell, beyond Kafka,’ as John le Carré aptly describes it in a back cover blurb — that every American should read. Three years into Joe his detention Nocera — years during which he was isolated, tortured, beaten, sexually abused 75 years ago — 1940 - His manuscript was immediately clas- negotiation by Slahi’s pro bono lawyers to force the military to declassify a re- Guantánamo Diary is an extraordinary aptly describes it in a back cover blurb — Figures showing that Seaside’s population has doubled since 1931, that her tourist trade is growing rapidly, and that it will continue to grow in the lived in Canada and Germany as well as - cion because an al-Qaida member, who had been based in Montreal — where Slahi had also lived — was arrested and charged with plotting to bomb the Los Slahi was questioned about this plot sev- International Committee of the Red Cross via Wikimedia Commons Mohamedou Ould Slahi his captors could do to explain why he he was a key al-Qaida player that he that which most distinguishes us from our enemies, our belief that all people, even captured enemies, possess basic techniques that had been signed off by the secretary of defense, Donald Rums- disheartening that McCain has allied himself with those who want to keep sections of the book that describe his tor- ruled in favor of Slahi’s habeas corpus petition because the evidence against - was so sleep-deprived that he eventual- - - female interrogators rubbed their breasts What was he accused of? Slahi asked this question of his captors often This fact came to light this afternoon when the Finnish Relief Fund re- Before the Finnish Relief Fund began its national drive under leadership of Herbert Hoover, the Knights of Kaleva lodge here had conducted a cam- paign of its own which brought in some $5,000 before the Hoover-headed This, of course, is part of the problem with Guantánamo, a prison where be- ing formally charged with a crime is a tell the truth — that he had no involve- ment in any acts of terrorism — only dog, walks like a dog, smells like a dog, - a powerful speech in which he con- - Does Slahi crack? Of course: To get his interrogators what he thought they - ture doesn’t guarantee that the detainee stop torture, the detainee has to please his assailant, even with untruthful, and - nam, knows this; last month, he made - ties come through in his memoir, which have tried not to exaggerate, nor to un- - - of the book is that he does come across But the quote that sticks with me most is something that one of his guards told him, something that could stand as