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Faced with a lawsuit, the Bellingham Board of Library Trustees last night adopted a new policy banning latex balloons and gloves in the building.Patrick Callahan, whose 9-year-old son Andrew has severe latex allergy, said he is relieved. He has been fighting for three months to get the facility latex-free. "As long as we are in agreement, I will officially drop the case," he told trustees after a meeting in the library last night.Trouble brewed in February after a children's program in the library left balloon sculptures displayed in the building. Callahan said he asked library officials to remove the balloons...

This from a local Tacoma, Washington, "alternative newspaper", The Tacoma Reporter Weekly, in their "Sticks and Stones" (gossip/editorial) column of 12/27/01, regarding an editorial printed in the Seattle Times - a rather liberal, socialist Seattle "news"paper: Clearly, the Liberal media (if you'll pardon the redundancy) doesn't think the American people can be trusted. If any further evidence for the proposition is needed, one need look no further than a recent Seattle Times editorial entitled "Karate at 30,000 Feet." The piece, which ran last Saturday, expressed the newspaper's unease with increased attendance at self-defense and martial arts schools in the wake ...