Excerpt: | Sound Transit’s board of directors have selected a contractor to expand Link light rail south from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport to the intersection of South 200th St and 28th Avenue South, the agency announced today. PCL Civil Constructors, Inc. has been awarded a contract to bring Link’s southern terminus into the southern part of SeaTac, with […] |
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Published at: | 5:47 PM on Thursday, September 27th, 2012 |
Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
Categories: | Policy Topics, Public Planning |
Tags: | Transportation |
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Monthly Archives: September 2012
Sound Transit selects contractor to extend Link light rail into south SeaTac
Autumn has arrived!
Excerpt: | Well, it looks like another season has come and gone. As of today, summer 2012 is officially over, and autumn 2012 has begun. The third full season of the year will last almost ninety days, encompassing part or all of four months: September, October, November, and December. Winter will officially begin four days before Christmas this […] |
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Published at: | 1:22 PM on Saturday, September 22nd, 2012 |
Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
Categories: | Elections |
Tags: | Universal Suffrage, Vote Downballot |
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Colorado gets new national monument thanks to President Obama; will Washington be next?
Excerpt: | Earlier today, with the stroke of a pen, President Barack Obama transformed one of Colorado’s most beloved and best known sights — previously protected as Chimney Rock Archaeological Area — into Chimney Rock National Monument, exercising his authority under the Antiquities Act of 1906. The move brings the site one step closer to the coveted […] |
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Published at: | 7:06 PM on Friday, September 21st, 2012 |
Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
Categories: | Our Environment, Policy Topics |
Tags: | Conservation |
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Republicans shamelessly block Patty Murray’s veterans jobs bill in U.S. Senate
Excerpt: | As if we needed further proof that Republicans aren’t interested in helping create jobs and strengthening economic security for Americans, the Notorious G.O.P (which stands for Graveyard of Progress these days) has blocked Senator Patty Murray’s veterans jobs bill from coming up for a vote in the U.S. Senate, effectively killing it for the year: Eager […] |
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Published at: | 8:56 PM on Wednesday, September 19th, 2012 |
Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
Categories: | Economic Security, Policy Topics |
Tags: | Full Employment |
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U.S. Representative Rick Larsen leads the charge to stop voter suppression
Excerpt: | Reacting to laws making aiming to increase the difficulty to vote since conservatives took control of state governments in the 2010 midterm elections, Congressman Rick Larsen, along with 14 other House Democrats, introduced a bill yesterday to “combat voter suppression efforts across the country”. Only two of the current co-sponsors represent a state which has enacted […] |
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Published at: | 10:03 AM on Wednesday, September 19th, 2012 |
Written by: | Patrick Stickney |
Categories: | Civil Liberties, Elections, Policy Topics |
Tags: | Universal Suffrage |
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Wolves’ comeback breeds tensions
Excerpt: | A controversial and divisive figure is rearing its scruffy head in Washington. Absent from our state for at least seventy years, the wolf is making a vigorous comeback. And while Native Americans honor it in story, animal lovers appreciate its ecological role (not to mention its family loyalty and intelligence), many ranchers distrust it because […] |
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Published at: | 1:52 PM on Saturday, September 15th, 2012 |
Written by: | Kathleen Reynolds |
Categories: | Our Environment, Policy Topics |
Tags: | Conservation, Land Use |
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Washington lawmakers should act to abolish executions in the 2013 legislative session
Excerpt: | A few months ago, as spring reached its apex, Connecticut’s Governor, Dannel Malloy, a Democrat, signed a bill outlawing capital punishment. “Connecticut joins sixteen other states and the rest of the industrialized world by taking this action,” he noted as he signed the bill into law. The signs are obvious for anyone who looks. Capital […] |
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Published at: | 6:23 PM on Friday, September 14th, 2012 |
Written by: | Martin Chaney |
Categories: | Civil Liberties, Policy Topics |
Tags: | Justice for All |
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Fallout from anonymously-produced video mocking Islam continues all over Middle East
Excerpt: | Less than one hundred hours after the eleven year anniversary of September 11th, Islamic fundamentalists have seized upon an anonymously-produced video that mocks Islam to fan the flames of anti-American sentiment all across the Middle East… in Libya, Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, Lebanon, and other countries. The U.S. Department of State on Thursday issued travel warnings […] |
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Published at: | 1:44 PM on Friday, September 14th, 2012 |
Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
Categories: | Policy Topics, World Commmunity |
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Seattle Chamber of Commerce announces opposition to AWB and Tim Eyman’s I‑1185
Excerpt: | Great news: Earlier today, the Seattle Metro Chamber of Commerce announced that after careful consideration, it has decided to join the opposition to Tim Eyman’s Initiative 1185, which would reimpose the unconstitutional two-thirds vote requirement to raise revenue on the state Legislature. The decision is significant because the primary financial force behind I‑1185 is the […] |
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Published at: | 4:58 PM on Wednesday, September 12th, 2012 |
Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
Categories: | Economic Security, Elections, Policy Topics |
Tags: | Fiscal Responsibility, Strong Commonwealth, WA-Ballot |
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Terrorist attack in Benghazi kills American ambassador to Libya, two U.S. Marines
Excerpt: | U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher J. Stevens, Foreign Service Information Management Officer Sean Smith and two U.S. Marines were killed yesterday when terrorists attacked the American consulate in Benghazi with rocket-propelled grenades and firearms during a protest by angry Libyans upset with a trailer for an anonymously-produced film that denigrates Islam, the White House has confirmed. […] |
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Published at: | 1:21 PM on Wednesday, September 12th, 2012 |
Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
Categories: | Policy Topics, World Commmunity |
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In memoriam, eleven years later
Excerpt: | Today is the eleventh anniversary of the September 11th attacks, which destroyed New York’s World Trade Center, damaged the Pentagon, and claimed the lives of thousands of innocent Americans. In honor of those who died that day, we’re republishing a poem that we post annually here on The Advocate. Two thousand one, nine eleven Two […] |
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Published at: | 5:46 AM on Tuesday, September 11th, 2012 |
Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
Categories: | Holidays |
Tags: | September 11th |
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Frank Blethen’s Seattle Times tells Supreme Court to bring back Tim Eyman’s I‑1053