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ON INLANDER.COM

• NEWS: Idaho miners are standing a few thousand feet above where they would normally be working. They've been on strike for more than a month, and they're in it for the long haul.

• MUSIC: Festival season is upon us. Your guide to the best music gatherings in the Pacific Northwest this spring and summer.

• KIDS: What happens to kids in Washington state who no one else wants? One boy's three-day journey through three states tells part of the story.

• SEAHAWKS: The NFL draft starts today, and the Hawks have several holes to fill.


IN OTHER NEWS:

• Do you even ceviche, bro?
Man opens restaurant near homeless shelter, complains about homeless people. (KREM)

• Bungled bluff road at the center of lawsuit
The forested land along High Drive Bluff that was errantly dug and scraped into a road is now the center of a lawsuit. The landowner is suing the contractor. (Spokesman-Review)

• Taxman
The winners and losers in President Donald Trump's proposed tax plan (New York Times) and a more comprehensive guide to the proposal. (The Atlantic)

• At death's door
Arkansas is scheduled to execute Kenneth Williams tonight; he will be the fourth man the state kills within eight days. Arkansas had originally scheduled eight executions in the span of a month in order to use up the state's supply of the controversial
sedative drug midazolam before it expires. (The Marshall Project)

A letter written by the 38-year-old Williams, who has killed three people, including a college student and a retired prison warden. He's also reportedly responsible for the death of a fourth person in a vehicle accident.