Education and the Future
Washington State is pushing college tuition up as part of the budget cutting stage of the Great Recession. Â This is exactly the wrong way to go, but it is driven generally by free market...
Washington Liberals Blog
Meta-news brief #1: poor Seattle P-I
The home page of the Seattle P-I today is a sad reminder of the decline of a once great newspaper. The main headline today has a photo of a baby tiger, Cute alert! New...
State Rep. Roger Goodman to run againt Dave Reichert
The Kirkland Views reported on Jan 28, 2011 that State Rep. Roger Goodman (D) to Challenge Incumbent Dave Reichert (R) for U.S. Congress What Goodman says on his website seems generic: I am listening...
Poll shows strong support for repealing WA tax breaks to fund Basic Health
From the Democratic Underground: The ElderCare Alliance included a question in the statewide Elway Poll conducted last week with regard to the new proposal to repeal a set of tax breaks and use the...
Drinking Liberally: get local, get real
Monday night I attended the local Drinking Liberally meetup in Newport Hills, Bellevue. DNC super-delegate Sharon Mast made a good case that Democrats need to field more candidates for local positions, such as school...
Apple Nets $12 Billion in 6 Months, Workers Make $1/hr
The Guardian (UK) reported that Chinese workers making iPads and iPhones are being treated “inhumanely, like machines”. According to a guardian.co.uk article, interviewed workers revealed: â– Excessive overtime is routine, despite a legal limit...
Friday the 13th! The Undead Arise and Moan About the Washington State Budget
Be there! or we will eat your brains… It is widely reported in Puget Sound region that the undead are unhappy about the Washington State slash and cut budget. MONSTERMASHBUDGET$LA$H! Friday the 13th! BEWARE!...
Democrats Pass Resolution Opposing “Money as Speech” and Corporate Personhood
Progressives won a victory at the Washington State Democratic Central Committee meeting this past Saturday in Wenatchee. State Committee members from all across Washington State voted to pass a resolution entitled “Amending the U.S....
Sunday Roundup
I was wrong about the rightness of military action in Libya. Military action simply can’t remain defensive. Gaddafi’s son and three grandchildren were killed by a Nato strike. We are killing children. I get...