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Climate hearing in Seattle this Wednesday with Gov. Inslee 0

Climate hearing in Seattle this Wednesday with Gov. Inslee

Wednesday evening in Seattle there will be a public hearing on strategies to address climate change, under the auspices of the state Climate Legislative and Executive Workgroup.  Governor Inslee is supposed to be there....

Report of waste and waste at Hanford Nuclear site 0

Report of waste and waste at Hanford Nuclear site

The Hanford Challenger newsletter is reporting: As of this date, U.S. taxpayers have paid $40 billion for the cleanup at Hanford. Despite this staggering amount of money not one drop of radioactive high-level nuclear...

Let's fix our regressive tax system 0

Let's fix our regressive tax system

Please sign this MoveOn petition calling on Gov. Inslee to educate Washingtonians about our upside-down tax system. To be delivered to: The Washington State House, The Washington State Senate, and Governor Jay Inslee Petition...

People are too nice 0

People are too nice

The LA Times is reporting today: Air pollution causes lung cancer, World Health Organization says. Not much of a surprise there. It’s been known for years that people who live near major freeways have...

Letter-to-the-editor in the conservative Bellevue Reporter 0

Letter-to-the-editor in the conservative Bellevue Reporter

The Bellevue Reporter is the local freebie weekly newspaper.  It has some real reporting, as well as editorials and letters-to-the-editor.   In the past the Bellevue Reporter has been quite conservative: they ridicule taxes and...

More anti-I-522 propaganda from Big Ag 0

More anti-I-522 propaganda from Big Ag

Yesterday I again got a glossy flier in my mail box containing propaganda against I-522, Washington State’s initiative to require GMO food labeling. At the bottom of the flier, it says, “Top five contributors:...