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Republican U.S. Senate candidates Clint Didier and Paul Akers plan to participate in a telephone town hall forum Thursday night that will include some kind of "important joint announcement." That news - posted on the Didier web site - quickly got some speculating (like the Stranger's Eli Sanders, who noticed the announcement first) that maybe Akers was going to drop out and endorse Didier. (Or vice versa.) I confess I had the same suspicion. It's very unusual for two candidates running in the same race to be doing a joint announcement of any sort. Both Akers and Didier are essentially...

BELLINGHAM,Wash. -- Local businessman Paul Akers has announced his candidacy for the US Senate. He's running for the post currently held by Patty Murray. Akers is president and founder of Fast Cap in Bellingham. He also hosts a talk show Saturday mornings on KGMI radio. He has no previous political experience. Akers says he supports only legislation that "cuts costs, reduces waste and provides value." He says he was not planning to announce his candidacy this early, but national conservative activist Dick Morris broadcast the news on the Sean Hannity radio show Friday.

CINCINNATI -- A volunteer religious teacher has been dismissed in Cincinnati after writing a letter to the editor backing a Roman Catholic nun ordered to stop teaching for supporting women priests.Dr. Carol Egner said she has been told she can longer teach her Old Testament class to sixth-graders at Our Lady of Lourdes parish.The archbishop of the Cincinnati Archdiocese recently banned a nun, Sister of Charity Louise Akers, from teaching at parishes and institutions after 40 years because she supports the ordination of women as priests. Akers says she refused to renounce her support of women priests as a matter...

Sr. Louise Akers / Archbishop Pilarczyk Cincinnati, Ohio, Sep 5, 2009 / 07:55 am (CNA).- The Archbishop of Cincinnati Daniel Pilarczyk, citing his duty to safeguard authentic Catholic teaching, has barred a religious sister from teaching on behalf of the archdiocese after she refused to adhere to Catholic teaching on the ordination of women.Sister of Charity Louise Akers, 66, was listed as an advisory board member for the Women’s Ordination Conference. Her photo and name were also on the site.In April the archdiocese’s Office of Catechesis and Evangelization removed her from its list of approved teachers and speakers for...