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U.S. Senator John Kerry and other Democrats in the Senate have stated a goal to pass a climate change bill in early spring of 2010 . Members in congress have been steadily working on a new environmental policy bill that aims to reduce global warming and step up green energy solutions. ...
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... Now Progressives are going to have to stop talking about tax hikes and start talking about the value of government. That's right: "the value of government".
Progressives are nice people, they just have the wrong mental model of government. It's Government isn't a charity. It's a vital ...
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Economic Meltdown
We strive to be, if anything, a participatory space around here, and I’ve had a question come to my inbox that is very much deserving of our attention.
To make a long story short, our questioner wants to know why, on the one hand, despite the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment ...
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Stimulus Plan
I just checked out the Seattle Post Globe website where it states that Mike McGinn has three questions to which he would like our input.
There will also be three town hall meetings at the end of the month. See below the fold for the questions and how you can respond.
Also, posted at ...
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Every couple of days or so I come to this site hoping to see something profound regarding progressive politics.
It's been really dry lately. Check out the dribble below this post and you will see what I mean. Pretty much useless stuff by pretty much the same people. Nothing to get excited ...
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Unnoticed by most people (and largely unremarked on at Washblog) Pierce County, which had adopted Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) in 2006, has apparently repealed it in this election. This was Proposed Charter Amendment No. 3 on the ballot.
The campaign was allied (at least on the signs which drew ...
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Democratic National Committee
Accompanying my ballot for the general election was an informational sheet which among other things informed me that
As a response to possible flooding associated with needed repairs at the Howard Hanson Dam, King County Elections has temporarily reloacted all operations to a new [emphasis ...
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Washington voters have accomplished a national first by ratifying a new law that makes state registered domestic partnerships fully parallel to civil marriage. The provisional election result for Referendum 71 is currently 52% to 48% . This story is huge and is already getting some ...
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Washington, D.C
Over the past few days we have been talking about Washington State’s Referendum 71, which was voted on this week. If passed, the Referendum will codify in law certain protections for same-sex couples.
In the first story of our three-part series we discussed Washington’s unusual vote-by-mail ...
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A new King 5 Poll shows Mike McGinn and Joe Mallahan are in a statistical dead heat (as reported at Publicola.net)
Unfortunately for us and the candidates, a report in the 9/3/09 Queen Anne News, states that King County's brand new Diebold/Premier (now ES&S;) ballot scanners fail to record all ...
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Dear readers, we have reached the penultimate chapter of our story Ballot Voyage: An Approve Referendum 71 ballot odyssey !
Chapter 3, in which a ballot signature is validated and the voter is credited with single-handedly saving the Domestic Partnership law from the scourge of hard-hearted ...
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Reverend Joan Montagnes and about 50 members and friends of the East Shore Unitarian Church took it to the streets of Bellevue, Washington Sunday. Rev. Joan said she put out the call for lay leadership, Chris Conkling answered, and the event happened in short order.
Their message: Vote ...
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The traditional historians' joke about the Holy Roman Empire is that it was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire. Once upon a time, the original framers of the public option proposal envisioned a plan that would be open to anybody, and very likely have more than 100 million enrolled--a really ...
