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Daily Archives: August 2nd, 2011

Marriage equality comes to Washington

Excerpt: Alas, the state of Wash­ing­ton has not yet fol­lowed in the foot­steps of New York by legal­iz­ing same-sex mar­riage. How­ev­er, mar­riage equal­i­ty has come to our state. Yes­ter­day, the Suquamish Trib­al Coun­cil vot­ed to extend mar­riage equal­i­ty to same-sex cou­ples, becom­ing only the sec­ond tribe in the nation to do so. The Suquamish Trib­al Coun­cil vot­ed […]
Published at:7:25 PM on Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
Written by:Ken
Categories:Civil Liberties, Policy Topics
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U.S. Senate approves debt ceiling “deal”

Excerpt: By a vote of of sev­en­ty-four to twen­ty-six, the U.S. Sen­ate has put its stamp of approval on the Barack Obama/John Boehn­er debt ceil­ing “deal”. The roll call from the Pacif­ic North­west was as follows: Vot­ing Aye: Mur­ray, Cantwell, Wyden, Begich, Bau­cus, Tester, Risch, Crapo, Murkowski Vot­ing Nay: Merkley As not­ed above, Jeff Merkley was […]
Published at:10:17 AM on Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Economic Security, Policy Topics
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Support independent game studios by paying what you want for the fourth Humble Bundle

Excerpt: In our view, the big media con­glom­er­ates that own most of the radio sta­tions, tele­vi­sion net­works, and pub­lish­ing hous­es in this coun­try could just as accu­rate­ly be described as big enter­tain­ment con­glom­er­ates. They sell and dis­trib­ute most of the movies, music, games, books, and soft­ware that we buy, often under oner­ous terms and con­di­tions that […]
Published at:9:41 AM on Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Policy Topics, Technology
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