Excerpt: | Washington State’s Public Disclosure Commission will investigate allegations that Tim Eyman and his associates failed to timely register a committee for Initiative 517 and failed to timely report contributions and expenditures for the I‑517 campaign, its Director of Compliance said this week. I‑517 is an initiative to the Legislature that would: double the length of time that […] |
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Published at: | 10:04 AM on Friday, March 15th, 2013 |
Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
Categories: | Announcements, Elections, Legislative Advocacy, Open Government, Policy Topics |
Tags: | Permanent Defense, WA-Ballot |
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Monthly Archives: March 2013
PDC to investigate Tim Eyman, associates for violating our public disclosure laws (again!)
We have a pope! Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio emerges from papal conclave as Francis, first pope from the Americas
Excerpt: | To the delight of many Catholics (including this one!) the one hundred and fifteen cardinals who participated in this year’s just-concluded papal conclave in Vatican City have, at long last, given the Church its first pontiff from the New World. Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina, has just been introduced to the […] |
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Published at: | 1:21 PM on Wednesday, March 13th, 2013 |
Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
Categories: | Breaking News, Events, Policy Topics, World Commmunity |
Tags: | We Have a Pope |
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Returning to 2/3rds rule an attack on our colleges
Excerpt: | Last week when Tim Eyman’s I‑1053 was declared unconstitutional there was much cheering and rejoicing across the state of Washington, not least through the halls of Facebook and Twitter. Many of these voices were students at our universities, who have seen more than 1.4 billion cut from our state higher education system since 2009, increased […] |
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Published at: | 3:26 PM on Wednesday, March 6th, 2013 |
Written by: | Patrick Stickney |
Categories: | Education, Legislative Advocacy |
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Education supporters agree: Restoration of majority rule is an opportunity
Excerpt: | People from who care about kids are celebrating Thursday’s Washington Supreme Court ruling striking down the provision at the heart of Tim Eyman’s I‑601 clones. Parents, teachers and other advocates for great public schools agree that simply cutting funding from other vital public services and reallocating the money to education — the only option on […] |
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Published at: | 11:55 PM on Saturday, March 2nd, 2013 |
Written by: | Kathleen Reynolds |
Categories: | Education |
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Pacific NW Portal 5.5 (Waldport) released