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There’s a clever Gershwin song Nice work if you can get it which contains the lines: Holding hands at midnight, beneath a starry sky. Nice work if you can get it, and you can...

See Dems plan minimum-wage hike; Senate leader dumps on it. Noisy protesters should target his house in Medina.  I’m thinking of the raw, Seattle area protesters who like to get arrested. I wonder if ...

Actually, the above image could be misinterpreted as implying that I think taxes are too high. In other words, the above image might be used by right wingers. But my meaning is: Washington State’s...

USA Today is reporting “Anti-tobacco efforts have saved 8 million lives in the 50 years since the publication of a landmark Surgeon General report, ‘Smoking and Health,’ a new analysis shows.”

I attended the candidates forum for the chair of the state Democratic Party Sunday (see report), and there was one issue which the candidates did not directly address: As party chair, how would you...

Candidates for state Democratic Party chair spoke Sunday at the IAM union hall in south Seattle. The candidates were Jay Clough, Jim Kainber, Dana Laurent, and Jaxon Ravens. Most of the time was spent...

I bought the domain name leftipedia.org with the idea of making a progressive (and factual) alternative to wikipedia and to conservapedia.com. Some of the politically sensitive articles on wikipedia are edited/hacked by conservatives and...

Via Vandana Whitney and Linda Newton: Rep. Susan DelBene (District 1) has not chosen to sign the Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) and George Miller (D-Calif.) letter to the President regarding Democrat opposition to Fast Track...