Daily Archives: March 16th, 2011

Posted inPolicy Topics, Public Planning

Republicans continue assault on emergency preparedness, even after Tohoku megaquake

by Ken

Read­ers may recall our ire was raised dur­ing the Repub­li­can response to Pres­i­dent Oba­ma’s 2009 State of the Union Address, when Louisiana Gov­er­nor Bob­by Jin­dal dis­missed fund­ing for vol­cano mon­i­tor­ing as a triv­i­al­i­ty. As res­i­dents of the Pacif­ic North­west, we are all too aware of the pres­ence of vol­ca­noes in our region and the destruction […]

Posted inAnnouncements, Events

Join Peter Steinbrueck and Reuven Carlyle at NPI’s 2011 Spring Fundraising Gala

by Andrew Villeneuve

Back in Feb­ru­ary, when we first announced the date for our 2011 Spring Fundrais­ing Gala, we promised that more details about the event were on their way, includ­ing our speak­ing line­up. It’s tak­en some time to put the pro­gram togeth­er, and I want all of our loy­al sup­port­ers to know that we did­n’t make this […]