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Solve the Budget Puzzle. Protect Human Needs— Cut Pentagon Spending Friday Feb. 22, 7:00 p.m. Seattle Labor Temple 2800 First Ave. Sponsors are American Friends Service Committee—NW Region; Church Council of Greater Seattle; Faith...
Health Care for All -Washington reports: The hallways of the O’Brien Building saw state-based universal health care advocates fill a hearing room and overflow into three other nearby rooms set up with audio as...
I’m reading Michael Hastings’ The Operator: The Wild and Terrifying Story of America’s War in Afghanistan. He reports that during the Iraq War “the Pentagon had launched a searching, multi-billion dollar effort to overhaul...
Two House Democrats introduced legislation today that would standardize tax rates for all sales of marijuana. Sponsored by Appropriations Committee Chair Rep. Ross Hunter (D-48) and House Finance Committee Chair Reuven Carlyle (D-36), HB...
See Resolution to Censure State Senators Rodney Tom and Tim Sheldon
The minister at my local Unitarian Universalist church said in a sermon that left-leaning folks should stop calling gun-rights advocates names such as “gun nut” and “moron.” She said that it sure is tempting...
Washington’s Rep. Adam Smith of the 9th Congressional District is the ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee. Smith figures prominently in the Jan 28 issue of the The New Yorker, in the...
“Mr. President, there are two ways to look at your 51 to 48 percent victory. 1. We love you. 2. We like you 3% more than Mitt Romney.” “But it is now the job...
