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State Representative Mary Lou Dickerson has written a timely and eloquent post on the Slog: I am Angry. She says that the state budget cuts will make life miserable for many vulnerable people. She...
If state legislatures from enough states agree, we can do away with the Electoral College and elect presidents by popular vote — thus avoiding the pernicious concentration of electioneering in swing states, as well...
There’s a burn ban in effect in much of the Puget Sound area (http://www.pscleanair.org/airq/burnban/default.aspx), but many of my neighbors ignore it. Often the air is thick with smoke that burns my eyes. So much...
Get The Money Out Of Politics Two Days of Action and Education Move To Amend – Occupies The Courts – Friday People Ignited Against Citizens United – Saturday January 20 & 21 in Downtown...
The Jan 12, 2012 edition of Fortune has this to say about Mitt Romney: The last thing Romney is concerned about is income inequality. “I want to make everybody richer,” he says. “I don’t...
“CNN contributor and Big Journalism editor Dana Loesch cheered on an Internet video reportedly showing U.S. Marines urinating on what appear to be dead Afghans, saying she would ‘drop trou and do it too.’” ...
The following resolution has been submitted for approval to the King County Democrats. Whereas the platforms of the King County Democrats and the Washington State Democrats specifically oppose publicly funded charter schools and vouchers;...
David Horsey, who moved from the Seattle P-I to the LA Times at the beginning of this year, is getting high profile notice. His cartoon and article about Limbaugh freaks as Romney lays claim...
We need transcendent, transformative politics in this country and the world, but the mainstream paradigm remains a struggle between established power bases – one, a social democrat model as epitomized in Scandinavian models and...
