One-armed bandits robbed: Republican front-runner Donald Trump says he’s hugely wealthy and doesn’t need anyone’s money to run for president, but that hasn’t stopped tens of thousands of supporters from chipping in small donations to his candidacy. Trump’s rate of small-donor contributions is second only to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.
But this poses a business problem for Trump, since now those donors don’t have any extra cash to drop at the casinos that bear his name.
Not making the grade: Washingtonians gave the state a D+ for its transportation system in 2015, a survey says. That’s down from the C- the state got the previous three years.
If that grade plunges any lower, the state Department of Transportation will start getting recruiting calls from NCAA Division 1 college football programs.
Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1814, “The Star-Spangled Banner” was performed in public for the first time.
The 1814 performance differed from today, primarily in that the audience did not start cheering at “O’er the land of the free.”
— Mark Carlson, Herald staff
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