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 forces, forces for deregulation, bubble economy speculators who understand that the current flattened tax table provides the opportunity of a lifetime…
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 baby at the zoo (photos). The headlines immediately to the right are: LATEST NEWS 11:18 p.m. Report: Teens’ sex act filmed at…
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 so that I can do my best to negotiate those issues most important to you. Like you, I strongly believe in:…
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 money generated to fund the Basic Health Care Program. The question describes the plan contained in House Bill 1847 introduced by…
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 boards, planning commissions, and various tax districts commissions. These positions are unglamorous but they’re the way that activists can get name…
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 of 36 hours a month. One payslip, seen by the Observer, indicated that the worker had performed 98 hours of overtime…
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! ZOMBIES AT THE CAPITAL! ZOMBIE WALKOUT! Noon! Thinking minds will soon be turned to mash thanks to the privatization of higher…
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. Constitution to Reserve Constitutional Rights for People, not Corporationsâ€. (Related platforms and resolutions have been passed in Oklahoma, New Hampshire and…
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 that Gaddafi has to be persuaded to release his powerful hold on Libya’s politics. The military approach only knows one way….