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“Head” on over to the Hyatt in Bellevue tomorrow evening for the McCain pony show, if you can stomach it. Judging by his price list, John evidently thinks quite highly of himself. I hope Dino shows up! John will be doing a show at 5:00, 5:12 and 5:14 p.m., as stamina is a continuing issue. Have fun [...]...
The Vigilant Lens - 1:11 a.m.
Can you imagine a world where a sitting six term Congressman doesn't get the nomination of his party without shooting someone? Rep. Brian Baird could lose his party's official nod if he doesn't turn out the troops to Napavine High School on Saturday, May 17. His opponent, peace candidate Cheryl Crist wrote letters to the Precinct Committee Officers (I'll scan the letter I got tomorrow) in the...
Olympia Time - Mon 9:28 p.m. - 7 clicks 
John McCain is coming to Bellevue tomorrow for a $33,100 per plate dinner. No, that’s not one of my frequent typos… it’s $33,100 per plate. For that kind of money, I expect to eat my dinner off of John McCain’s naked body (or preferably, his daughter Meghan’s.) $33,100. Yet the federal contribution limit [...]...
HorsesAss - Mon 7:41 p.m.
Last Friday I attended the BEX (Building Excellence) Programs Oversight Committee that is supposedly helping oversee the latest construction projects being done by the Seattle Public Schools. I went to correct errors in their meeting notes from a previous meeting. I was graciously given an opportunity to present my concern regarding the lack of public involvement in siting and designing the Ing...
MajorityRulesBlog - Mon 4:36 p.m. - 8 clicks
Historian and author Rick Perlstein will be reading from his new book “Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America,“ tonight at 7:30 PM at Seattle’s Town Hall. Tickets are only $5.00. Even conservative columnist George Will, reviewing the book for the NY Times, calls Nixonland “compulsively readable.” Should be a [...]...
HorsesAss - Mon 11:24 a.m. - 3 clicks
Nickels, Seattle's Green Mayor, believes the levy as proposed has the wrong priorities. "The Council's version has funding for new projects, but nothing for surveillance of the parks we already have," Seattle's Green Mayor said yesterday. Seattle's Green Mayor is considering proposing an alternative ...
Mr_Blog - Mon 7:47 a.m.
"Already, Obama and McCain Map Fall Strategies": Both sides say the states clearly in play now include Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Nevada, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin. Update: For the record, I don't agree with the quote.This is all part of the pre-election Kabuki theater ritual. The opposition said the same thin...
Northwest Progressive Institute Official Blog - Mon 1:01 a.m. - 18 clicks
This report is a little frustration specifically because it lacks some of the most specific stuff: Statistics. Yet the case study details in it are more than compelling. This is a just-out report called (in over-long title) “A Survey of Human Trafficking in the Spokane Region: Conducted by the Inland Northwest Task Force on Human [...]...
Ridenbaugh Press (Washington) - Mon 12:14 a.m. - 13 clicks
Big three-day series in the Seattle Times on Puget Sound launches today. Day one is great. If you're time-pressed, here it is, shorter: Sprawl is the real killer of the sound . Cities--complete, compact communities--are the solution. Fortuitously, that's exactly what Cascadia needs for jobs, health, energy independence, and climate security too. ...
Sightline Daily Score - Sun 7:45 p.m. - 15 clicks
Charlie Pierce, resident cynic, puts it well : More than anything else, the presidential election ongoing is -- or, as a right, ought to be -- about ending an era of complicity. There is no point anymore in blaming George Bush or the men he hired or the party he represented or the conservative movement that energized that party for what has happened to this country in the past seven years. T...
Pacific Views - Sun 12:01 a.m. - 24 clicks
[Front paged: NM] Why are both national and local media censoring the involvement of the Washington Joint Analytical Center (WAJAC) from reports about the resolution of the Seattle ferry 'mystery men' case? UFPPC's Jim O. Madison continues his exploration of the little-known system of "fusion centers" that are sprouting around the country like mushrooms after a heavy rain..... PURSUING THE I...
Washblog - Sat 9:44 p.m. - 23 clicks
If you live in the Washington, D.C., area, you won't find a more interesting free event than the International Assembly of Whistleblowers , May 12-16. I will be attending because I will be a speaker on a domestic surveillance panel, along with Eric Lichtblau, Jesselyn Radack, Babak Pasdar and Michelle Richardson. The IAW is an international gathering of whistleblowers, a forum for them to pub...
DailyKos (Washington) - Sat 1:30 p.m. - 25 clicks
Earlier this week, Lands Commissioner candidate Peter Goldmark unveiled a dramatic visual showing the tremendous damage that can be caused through the complete mismanagement of our forests: Photo courtesy of Peter Goldmark for Lands Commissioner The particular image above shows an area in Lewis County that was damaged in last winter's devastating floods. Notice the line of trees that mark ...
Northwest Progressive Institute Official Blog - Sat 12:00 a.m. - 25 clicks
The inevitable Tim Eyman email will soon arrive on The Cascadia Center email machines. Fast ferry leaders from Port Townsend to Kitsap Transit and the confused representative from landlocked Tenino (OK I kid), met to discuss among other things, ferries and….wait for it, increased car tab fees! Read about it at the Kitsap Sun. Then wait [...]...
The Vigilant Lens - Fri 5:11 p.m. - 30 clicks
I don’t actually disagree with Earling’s analysis of the 8th district race too much. But it reads very squishy, but maybe it’s just the cold medicine running through my head. A Very Bad Feeling That’s what I have about Dave Reichert’s race this year. And I can’t shake it. As usual, in no small part thanks to [...]...
Effin' Unsound - Fri 5:11 p.m. - 25 clicks
In a huge lead the likes of which we've never seen, public radio's talker KUOW smashed the commercial opposition in the Seattle market. Dig it: KUOW 6.1 KUBE 5.2 KRWM 4.8 KIRO 4.1 KOMO 3.8 KING-FM 3.1 KPLU 3.0 KTTH......
BlatherWatch - Fri 5:10 p.m. - 26 clicks
Dave Reichert, along with the rest of the Washington Republican congressional delegation, voted against Mothers Day. ...
Olympia Time - Fri 10:03 a.m. - 17 clicks
…via The Hill . Sen. Barack Obama's (D-Ill.) surprise visit Thursday to the House floor has already paid dividends in the form of a superdelegate endorsement - Rep. Rick Larsen (D-Wash.) That's the first update to the upper left PLEO list in awhile. Here's where we stand... Rep. Brian Baird: Obama. Sen. Maria Cantwell: Clinton. DNC member Ed Cote: Uncommitted. Rep. Norm Dicks: Clinton. Form...
Upper Left - Thu 10:08 p.m.
So says Don Brunell, the president of the Association of Washington Business. Thanks Dino, I mean Don. In other clean technology news, the “slow train of Kuwati death sand” is inching its way to Idaho. This shipment of DU/Lead filled beach sand is worth several million dollars to a Boise based company called, American Ecology. Funny [...]...
The Vigilant Lens - Thu 5:15 p.m. - 27 clicks
The superdelegate score in Washington State just got more even : Rep. Rick Larsen, D-Wash., on Thursday became the third member of Washington's congressional delegation to endorse Illinois Sen. Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination. The no-holds-barred campaign leading up to the North Carolina and Indiana primaries showed that Obama is "tough and resilient," that he can "take...
Northwest Progressive Institute Official Blog - Thu 5:15 p.m. - 27 clicks
Seems like, every time I turn around, someone else has written about the virtues of auctioning carbon permits: not just auctioning some of them, but auctioning all of them. Kevin Drum of The Washington Monthly has the latest examples. ...
Sightline Daily Score - Thu 5:14 p.m. - 22 clicks
At long last, it's official : Washington gets a new wilderness area, the Wild Sky. It's 100,000 acres of streams, forests, lakes, and mountains on the west side of the Cascades. Big congratulations are in order to the hundreds of people who worked to win this designation. The Wild Sky political process was an epic. First proposed in 2002, the nascent wilde...
Sightline Daily Score - Thu 1:53 p.m. - 25 clicks
Around the Northwest Seattle City Councilmember Richard McIver is the subject of an ethics investigation regarding a no-bid contract. Instead of advocating cuts in the gas tax, perhaps candidates should take a page out of Idaho congressional candidate Walt Minnick's book . At least it would be a good public relations move. Both Senators Clinton and Obama will be in Oregon this week . W...
Northwest Progressive Institute Official Blog - Thu 11:05 a.m. - 21 clicks
Gene Mueller in the Washington Times : All this began when the National Marine Fishery Service (NMFS) agreed chinook salmon off the California and Oregon coast were available only in small fractions of their former number. A population crash was occurring, and the NMFS closed the commercial and recreational fishing for chinooks . Then the Pacific Fishery Management Council, realizing something...
Olympia Time - Thu 11:03 a.m. - 17 clicks
Jerry Large : The Orting News had attracted more than 14,000 subscribers by its third week. Subscribers get an e-mail of its headlines, which reminds them to look at the site and the ads it carries. Subscribers don't pay, but advertisers do. The biggest story so far was an attempted abduction. Two strangers offered a fourth-grader candy to get into their car, but she didn't do it. With...
Olympia Time - Thu 11:03 a.m. - 17 clicks
Efforts continue to save 62 old Douglas fir and western red cedar trees at Ingraham High School in North Seattle. The trees are in a grove of about 120 trees on the west side of the high school. The Seattle School District decided to design a new classroom addition to replace old portables on the campus without involving neighbors or others in the community. Instead Ingraham High School Princip...
MajorityRulesBlog - Thu 1:16 a.m. - 21 clicks
Because the national economic failure has nothing to do with republicans like Doc Hastings… REP. DOC HASTINGS, (R) WASHINGTON: Why should American taxpayers who are making their mortgage payments each month or who are paying rent, have to come along and fund billions of dollars in giveaway grants and zero interest loans [...]...
McCranium - Thu 1:15 a.m. - 23 clicks
Around the Northwest Port of Seattle Commissioners approved six construction projects last month despite the projects being over budget. The city of Seattle has settled on four possible locations for a new jail . Areva will be building a uranium enrichment plant near Idaho Falls, to produce fuel for nuclear power plants. The rising use of energy drinks by students has some Oregon e...
Northwest Progressive Institute Official Blog - Wed 9:48 p.m. - 23 clicks
Joel Connelly (Seattle P-I): Sen. Barack Obama has repeatedly failed to come up with a sprint finish to put Hillary Clinton away, but proved Tuesday night that he is a distance runner who can win on a muddy track. With a big victory in North Carolina, Obama set to rest cable TV pundits' clichés that he was exhausted, reeling from his ex-minister's 15 minutes of fame, and that Clinton's gas ...
Northwest Progressive Institute Official Blog - Wed 9:48 p.m. - 21 clicks
Jim McCabe of McCranium writes a guest editorial in The Tri-City Herald pointing out that Dino Rossi's transportation plan is rather one-sided for a guy who hopes Eastern Washington will be a key part of his gubernatorial campaign: Rossi's proposal is to spend $15.5 billion on transportation projects. Just $3 billion - or 15 percent - would be spent on eight projects east of the mountains. ...
Soundly Left on the Left Coast - Wed 7:54 p.m. - 22 clicks
Many burned out liberal boomers and party hacks still don't get it. So let us, once more, point out... "When this campaign began, Washington didn't give us much of a chance. But because you came out in the bitter cold, and knocked on doors, and enlisted your friends and neighbors in this cause; because you stood up to the cynics, and the doubters, and the nay-sayers when we were up and when w...
ArtistDogBoy - Wed 4:08 p.m. - 19 clicks
Dan Miller of the Tobacco Institute of Lies and Huge Payola, Heartland Institute, wrote a poor confused soul in Wenatchee to set him straight about Global Warming. Read it here. Dan used to work for the Chicago Sun-Times. Dan is one of those “journalists” who has been peddling propaganda for a long time. [...]...
The Vigilant Lens - Wed 1:13 p.m. - 31 clicks
[Front paged: NM. Congratulations, Yolanda and Peter Wilson!] All the way to Colorado from Kalama, Washington By Yolanda Wilson Owner: Vanveen Bulbs and How to Garden Host with Video Series on Expert Village We did it! Delegates to the Washington State Democratic Convention! Peter and Yolanda Wilson come on down, you are the next delegates to the Washington State Democratic Convention...
Washblog - Wed 1:12 p.m. - 24 clicks
Via Aneurin comes this report from KXLY out of Spokane: Cody Castagna, the man charged with extorting a former state lawmaker last fall, has won the opportunity to face the star witness in the case. The only problem is that person - Richard Curtis - is nowhere to be found. Defense Attorney Dave Partovi filed a motion late last month requesting that he be allowed to question Curtis in preparat...
Soundly Left on the Left Coast - Wed 7:30 a.m. - 25 clicks
In a press release today, Areva Corporation announced it’s nuclear reprocessing facility will go to Idaho. In a press release today, Doc Hastings blames Democrats… “Idaho welcomed them with open arms while Olympia’s response was lukewarm at best,” Hastings said, adding he fears losing 600 existing Areva jobs in Richland, Wash. Uh huh… I don’t know what H...
McCranium - Wed 1:19 a.m. - 25 clicks
Ahh… the weather is here! Unfortunately… but it’s just a little windy and 70 degrees. Cloudy… but we have officially entered “Deck Season” at Drinking Liberally in the Tri-Cities. We might get chased in side but that’s OK! Indiana Results are still coming in! Drinking Liberally in the Tri-Cities O’Callahans - Shilo Inn 50 Comstock Rd. Richland 7...
McCranium - Wed 1:19 a.m. - 21 clicks
You can read the full text here . You know, some were saying that North Carolina would be a game-changer in this election. But today, what North Carolina decided is that the only game that needs changing is the one in Washington, DC. I want to start by congratulating Senator Clinton on her victory in the state of Indiana. And I want to thank the people of North Carolina for giving us a vi...
Northwest Progressive Institute Official Blog - Tue 11:44 p.m. - 26 clicks
…from PolitickerWA . U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert (R-Auburn) earned a dubious distinction in the pages of Roll Call, the newspaper that focuses on congressional politics. Yesterday, the former King County sheriff was featured in an early edition of the newspaper's "10 Most Vulnerable" House incumbents list. Or, as I like to put it, Darcy Burner is one of the ten challengers most likely to succeed...
Upper Left - Tue 11:42 p.m.
The Pacific Northwest's senior political writer, Joel Connelly, has an excellent post up at Strange Bedfellows admonishing Fox Noise host Bill O'Reilly for unfairly attacking the Seattle Post-Intelligencer after it refused to circulate photos of "suspicious ferry passengers" last fall: O'Reilly sent out an aspiring slayer of straw men, his producer Jesse Walters, to conduct an ambush interview ...
Northwest Progressive Institute Official Blog - May 5 - 26 clicks
Bicycle along Lake Washington Boulevard south of Mount Baker Beach and around Seward Park. Lake Washington Boulevard will be closed to motorized traffic from 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.. Join with friends and neighbors at Seattle’s largest playground for summer fun on Lake Washington Boulevard. 2008 DATES Saturdays - May 10 - June 14 - July 12 - August 9 - September [...]...
My Seattle Online - City fields today! - May 5 - 17 clicks
Last summer Washington State Ferries released photos of two humans who were accused of unusual behavior on a ferry. Seattle newspapers “wrestled” with their journalistic moral compasses, law enforcement went to terrorist alert mauve, ferry workers snapped photos and The FBI investigated. Fortunately for the Homeland, they were just brown skinned consultants. More than likely, they [.....
The Vigilant Lens - May 5 - 19 clicks
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 5, 2008 Contact: Kurt Kutay, 206-719-7098 Military recruiting to be topic at Edmonds School Board meeting Tuesday, May 6, 6:30 PM On Tuesday, May 6 in the Edmonds School District Administrative Center parents, students and members of the communities that make up the Edmonds School District will request the school board to adopt new policies governing military [...]...
My Seattle Online - City fields today! - May 5 - 20 clicks
The brief Seattle Times editorial on executive compensation at Fisher Communications pretty much says it all, but we can’t help pointing it out here. Call it a small, but encouraging, indicator. If others do in fact take enough notice. ...
Ridenbaugh Press (Washington) - May 5 - 15 clicks
Eric Earling on the Governor’s race: Governor’s Race Roundup Get along little Rossi. Recent items of interest: 1) Fundraising Brisk money intake on both sides continues. Christine Gregoire raked in about a $1 million in April, fresh off her Legislative session freeze. Rossi pulled in another $625,000, in-line with the $636,000 average of his previous five full months of [...]...
Effin' Unsound - May 4 - 11 clicks
Began yesterday. Pot bellied drunk white guys in boats across the nation, have begun securing the homelands waterways. No word yet from the glorious Director of Homeland Security on how many terrorists were snatched, detected and or run over and drowned. In local waters, from Port Angeles to Olympia, boat loads full of terrorist watchin white [...]...
The Vigilant Lens - May 4 - 14 clicks
And possible effects of an economic downturn rear their ugly little heads: The Jim Parsley Community Center faces steep cutbacks in its education, recreation and community programs as its major financiers, the city of Vancouver and the Vancouver Public Schools, struggle with projected budget deficits. To brainstorm solutions, city and school district officials will convene a symposium of 80 co...
Soundly Left on the Left Coast - May 4 - 10 clicks
Andrew Sullivan makes the case Very few people in Washington believe that Barack Obama can now be denied the Democratic nomination. Even after the past month, as Hillary Clinton has hung in there, as the scandal about Jeremiah Wright (Obama's firebrand cleric) scandal has battered the post-racial Obama brand, and as white Reagan Democrats have proven resistant to a new young black freshman sena...
Northwest Progressive Institute Official Blog - May 4 - 15 clicks
University District StreetFair May 17th & 18th 2008 For 39 years the University District StreetFair has been the kick-off event for the festival season in the Seattle region. Attracting more than 50,000 people and nearly 400 craft and food booths to the District, the StreetFair is an energetic and exciting celebration of arts and crafts, community, music, [...]...
My Seattle Online - City fields today! - May 4 - 12 clicks
click on image to enlarge: The race is on to fill 7 Democratic Convention National Delegate slots. The election takes place at the 7th Congressional District Caucus on May 17th at North Seattle Community College. 327 voting delegates, who were elected at the legislative district caucuses April 5th, will select the National Delegates which allocates out to be 4 women, 3 male and one male alte...
ArtistDogBoy - May 4 - 9 clicks
Seattle Longshore Local 19? They say end the war. They mean what they say. So they did something about it. Check out some photos and “words”, here. I wonder if Tim Eyman marched on May Day? Nope! Still begging for money. Patty Murray? May Day? Another Nada. She is Bringing home the bacon for struggling asparagus farmers. War [...]...
The Vigilant Lens - May 3 - 13 clicks
This is kind of a shocker: A $13.2 million, five-year grant from the National Math and Science Initiative, designed to add new Advanced Placement teachers, courses and exams for thousands of Washington high school students, has been scrubbed. The reasons? The state’s rule against merit pay for teachers, and top-down inflexibility, said discouraged Southwest Washington program leaders who broke...
Soundly Left on the Left Coast - May 3 - 8 clicks
[Front paged: NM] This week's terror-preparedness drill in the Pacific Northwest involves a lot more than what South Sound papers are reporting, and so far the papers in Seattle are ignoring the exercise all together. An investigation by UFPPC's Jim O. Madison has turned up quite a bit of information about Washington State's little-known "fusion center," WAJAC -- a developing national security ...
Washblog - May 3 - 14 clicks
NARAL Pro-Choice Washington PAC 2008 Power of Choice Luncheon Keynote speaker: Sarah Weddington Power of Choice Award Recipient: Susan Paynter Friday, May 9, 2008 12:00 noon Seattle Sheraton Metro Ballroom 1400 Sixth Avenue, Seattle Champion of Choice: $150 Friend of Choice: $100 Or be a Table Captain! This year marks the 35th anniversary of the landmark Roe v. Wade decision. The Power of Choice ...
My Seattle Online - City fields today! - May 3 - 13 clicks
– posted by thehim Sorry to post something that’s kind of depressing on a Friday afternoon, but I think I have to do this. Seattle Drinking Liberally regulars are likely to know the man behind the tag of RonK, Seattle. I’ve had some disagreements with Ron before, but generally he’s dealt with facts and [...]...
Effin' Unsound - May 2 - 13 clicks
Mark Emmert The theory behind paying those high executive salaries and compensation packages, like the $905,000 for University of Washington President Mark Emmert, usually carries the explanation that top talent needs top pay. Needs it, the theory goes, both as incentive to do a good job (though if they were so good, would such incentive be [...]...
Ridenbaugh Press (Washington) - May 2 - 15 clicks
You are done… The ILWU shut down Seattle cargo operations yesterday. The ILWU shut down the entire West Coast yesterday. These Americans have had enough of the Bush Wars. These Longshoremen did more in one day, than the entire Democratic Congress has been able to pull out of their collective asses…. in two years. To Norm, Patty [...]...
The Vigilant Lens - May 2 - 11 clicks
I wonder whyyyyyyy Washington State can't get such a good deal on construction projects as the People's Republic of China?? It is simply baffling . At least to Michael Ennis at the Washington Policy Center: Can someone explain why China can build a 6-lane, 22 mile bridge for $1.7 billion , but Washington leaders can't build a 6-lane 520 span between 405 and I-5 for less than $4 billion...
Olympia Time - May 2 - 11 clicks
The Columbia River Crossing project is slated to release its Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) tomorrow. From The Oregonian: "This document will help the public, stakeholders and decision-makers understand the trade-offs of the proposed alternatives," said Hal Dengerink, chancellor of Washington State University, Vancouver and co-chair of a task force studying the project. "The inf...
Soundly Left on the Left Coast - May 1 - 11 clicks
…by closing down the docks to end the war. More than 25,000 West Coast International Longshore and Warehouse workers, including many hundred in Tacoma, are taking a day off work today in protest of the war in Iraq. **** ILWU International President Bob McEllrath said the workers are “standing down on the job and standing up for America.” A solidarity shout out to the men and women of t...
Upper Left - May 1
