On the effort to eliminate tax giveaways
The state in the current biennium budget period gave out 176 tax breaks for B&O taxes totaling some $7.5 billion while collecting only $6.5 billion in revenue. The exemptions were 54% of the potential...
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Drones, the C.I.A., and Pakistan
Bush oversaw forty-eight drone strikes in Pakistan during his two terms. Since 2009, Obama as authorized more than three hundred. In Mazetti’s telling, CIA leaders repeatedly pushed Obama for more expansive authority to used...
Feds crack down on medical marijuana dispensaries in Seattle and elsewhere
Feds Ramp Up Crackdowns On Medical Marijuana Dispensaries “In several West Coast cities, federal officials are initiating a new round of crackdowns against dispensaries that are seemingly complying with state medical marijuana law. In...
Countering anti-government propaganda: the case of the Freedom Foundation
If you listen to right-wing AM talk radio, or visit conservative websites, you’ll be subject to relentless propaganda about how government is inefficient and doesn’t produce anything of value. Conservatives just love to hate...
Republicans' clever trick: blame public schools for the blight of poor communities
Republicans and their conservative Democratic allies trashed the economy and bankrupted federal and state governments via reckless deregulation, tax cuts for the rich, outsourcing, union bashing, corruption, privatization, and fraudulent, mismanaged wars. Now they’re...
Bannering May 10 in Seattle against Corporate Personhood
Norm Conrad of MoveOn reports: May 10th is the 127th “anniversary” of the Supreme Court case used as precedent for the absurd notion that corporations are entitled to the birthrights of actual human beings....
The party of dumb
The LA Times is reporting that, despite the overwhelming majority of the public who support tightening gun laws, the failure of Congress to pass gun control in the wake of Sandy Hook may, paradoxically...
On the edge: a poverty-wage story slam
Hosted by noted journalist Sarah Jaffe, a leading writer and commentator on social movements and low-wage work, “On the Edge” is a chance to hear real stories from the lives of poverty-wage workers who...
Canvassing against Rodney Tom
Saturday I canvassed in Bellevue with Fuse Washington, the King County Democrats, and the Win/Win Network to educate people in the 48th LD about Rodney Tom. King County Dems Chair Karl de Jong was...
Resolution in Support of Local-Option Transit Funding
Whereas a key source of funding for King County METRO Transit will expire in mid-2014, resulting in a 17% loss of service hours, and Snohomish County has already cut all Sunday transit service; and...