Washington Liberals

In 2012, the Environmental Priorities Coalition will be working with you to protect the things that are most important to Washington’s families – our kids’ health, rebuilding our economy, and maintaining our clean air and clean water. Every year, your voice helps to protect Washington’s environment. I hope to see many of you this Saturday…

I attended a meeting with the Thurston County legislators on Jan 3rd. The three legislators are not firebrands, but as a group, representing a community, they (Reykdal, Hunt, Fraser) are probably about as liberal a group as any one community could send to Olympia to develop Washington State public policy. But there is the problem:…

It’s the only type of trickle down that I’m familiar with.

I think it’s not surprising that Ron Paul is catching a lot of flak, since he is close to becoming a front runner. Part of the deal in the USA is intensifying the scrutiny on any candidate who begins to head towards the front of the pack — a healthy thing, I think, except that…

As the next Congressional fight over payroll tax extensions and unemployment benefits and pipelines gets set up in the next few weeks for either its final chapter or to be kicked down the road a bit farther, one or the other, you’re going to hear a lot from our Republican friends about how much they…

Saturday, January 7th 1:00 – 3:00 pm Unitarian Universalist Church in Downtown Kirkland 308 4th Ave South in Kirkland Directions: http://www.northlakeuu.org/about/directions/ Free and open to the public Sponsored by: The Washington Public Bank Coalition, Northlake Unitarian Universalist Church, Social Justice Committee, Eastside Fellowship of Reconciliation, Washington State Progressive Caucus.

I didn’t feel like putting together a “best of” list to review 2011. It was an unsettling year. The politics of stalemate made it pretty useless and 2012 is an election year, if I am not mistaken, so there is not much chance of legislative action and good public policy in this year (unless an…

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Nearly three years after the P-I ceased print publication and moved online, the quality of news coverage has declined.    Cheap content such as pet and girly photos abound. Now comes news that award-winning political cartoonist David Horsey is leaving the Seattle P-I to work for the LA Times. (source) Veteran columnist and curmudgeon Joel Connelly…

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 Seattle A broad coalition that includes Occupy Seattle, Move to Amend, Free Speech for People and other organizations is initiating two…