Bill Gates has thrown his support behind Initiative 1631, spearheaded by a coalition that includes the Northwest Progressive Institute.
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Progressive ballot measures won big on Tuesday — and not just in Washington
“Frustrated by a do-nothing Congress, voters took policy matters into their own hands on Tuesday by passing state ballot proposals to legalize marijuana, approve new transportation projects, raise state minimum wages and strengthen gun control laws. That these progressive measures won is an indication that voters are moving left on many issues, despite Donald Trump’s victory,” the New York Times notes.
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Majority of Stranger’s Election Control Board: We believe you should vote NO on Initiative 732
Ansel Herz, Sydney Brownstone, Ana Sofia Knauf and Heidi Groover — four of the seven members of this year Stranger Election Control Board — took to Slog yesterday to explain why they strongly oppose CarbonWA’s I-732. In their powerful commentary, they revealed their votes were overridden by the publisher of The Stranger.
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Sound Transit 3: The opportunity of a generation
Seattle Subway: “Over a century after the first vote for a fast and reliable train system in the Seattle area, it’s finally our generation’s chance
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Joe Fitzgibbon rebuts Reuven Carlyle: Sound Transit’s property taxing authority does not poach education dollars
State Representative Joe Fitzgibbon has responded to Reuven Carlyle’s recent guest post for Publicola opposing Sound Transit 3, saying Carlyle outlined a “false choice” in his piece. “This does a disservice both to our region’s residents who have waited 40 years too long for a regional transit system and our state’s public school children, parents, and educators who have waited 40 years too long for full public education funding,” Fitzgibbon argues.
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It was a very bad week for Tim Eyman
The Stranger’s Heidi Groover recaps Tim Eyman’s very bad, awful, no-good week.
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Tim Eyman declares war on Sound Transit — again
The Stranger talks to NPI and Transportation Choices Coalition about Tim Eyman’s latest destructive initiative, which would wipe out billions in funding for multimodal transportation projects, eviscerating money for transit, bike paths, trails, and infrastructure for pedestrians.
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In a new editorial, The Tacoma News Tribune is urging Washington’s highest court to see to it that Tim Eyman’s hostage-taking I-1366 is relegated to the dustbin of history. “The Supreme Court should leave no doubt that I-1366 is unconstitutional. The sooner, the better,” the paper declared.
LaunchRedmond’s Villeneuve, Eyman file dueling statewide initiatives
Redmond’s Villeneuve, Eyman file dueling statewide initiatives Reporter Newspapers reports on the filing of the Majority Vote Protection Act by NPI founder and Executive Director
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I voted NO. These initiatives are costing us more and more. Eyman banks on the fact that too many people do not know how funding
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Radio Alert: NPI founder Andrew Villeneuve makes the case against Tim Eyman’s I-1366
Heads up, NPI supporters! Tomorrow and Monday, Northwest Progressive Institute founder and executive director Andrew Villeneuve will be appearing on several radio programs to make
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Tim Eyman’s financial machinations all too familiar
“For the sake of argument, let’s presume that [Tim Eyman sidekick Mike] Fagan – Spokane’s champion of vaccine denial and conservative critic of library story time – was completely, totally unaware of these creative maneuvers. He shouldn’t have been,” writes Spokesman-Review columnist Shawn Vestal.
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Time to widen Eyman finance probe
Time to widen Eyman finance probe “The state needs to get to the bottom of this, and a wider look at other initiative campaigns Eyman
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Tim Eyman’s lucrative initiative game
Tim Eyman’s lucrative initiative game Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat ponders the answer to the question, “Is Tim Eyman the problem, or a symptom of
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Initiative 735 volunteers working to make sure ‘the small potatoes matter’
You can call them crazy dreamers, or naive. But I’m rooting for them. It’d be great to call something a “citizens’ initiative” again that doesn’t
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They think $12 is high! Here’s their real choice: They can accept $12 now, or it will be much, much higher. If you’re the Association
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The Washington Alliance for Gun Responsibility, which has been working for months to make background checks universal in the Evergreen State, is having a great
LaunchRepresentative Joe Fitzgibbon laments the apparent defeat of King County Proposition 1
Not my favorite Earth Day present. Life becomes harder for those who can’t afford a car. Much more work to do if we will ever
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