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What do you think about the redistricting maps? 4

What do you think about the redistricting maps?

Here are the maps: http://www.redistricting.wa.gov/maps.asp They will appear on the screen in a reduced format.  You can set the size to 100%.  If you scroll to the right there is a Puget Sound map....

Olympia, Safe and Beautiful, Step 2 0

Olympia, Safe and Beautiful, Step 2

So, there is lots of discussion about how scary it is downtown. It’s not just dirty, with houseless people urinating on the sidewalks, it’s just downright scary!! It has been pretty clear for generations...

Quickie: Super-majority requirement for waging war 1

Quickie: Super-majority requirement for waging war

Many states have super-majority requirements (60% or 2/3) for raising taxes.  Some people have proposed that there be super-majority requirements for establishing or extending tax exemptions. I propose that a super-majority requirement of 2/3...

On Obama's fear of a coup 0

On Obama's fear of a coup

According to a scary and eye-popping article, Obama Team Feared Coup If He Prosecuted War Crimes, President-Elect Obama’s advisers feared in 2008 that authorities would oust him in a coup and that Republicans would...

Texas calls for help as wildfires worsen 0

Texas calls for help as wildfires worsen

Texas calls for help as wildfires worsen “Gov. Rick Perry complained about the slow pace of assistance from Washington and Ft. Hood as Federal Emergency Management Agency officials arrived in Bastrop, where 600 houses...