Daily Archives: June 5th, 2014

Posted inBreaking News, Civil Liberties, Elections, Policy Topics, Public Planning

Tragedy strikes again: One dead, several hurt in mass shooting at Seattle Pacific University

by Andrew Villeneuve

Amer­i­ca’s dead­ly gun vio­lence epi­dem­ic has once again vis­it­ed Wash­ing­ton State. Today, at Seat­tle Pacif­ic Uni­ver­si­ty, one young per­son was killed and sev­er­al oth­ers were crit­i­cal­ly and seri­ous­ly hurt by an uniden­ti­fied gun­man who walked into Otto Miller Hall and began shoot­ing at stu­dents ear­ly in the after­noon. The gun­man was tack­led and sub­dued by an […]

Posted inEconomic Security, Elections, Policy Topics

Tim Eyman’s latest slew of initiatives includes scheme to end Seattle’s new $15/hour wage

by Andrew Villeneuve

Hav­ing appar­ent­ly decid­ed that it’s been too long since his ini­tia­tive fac­to­ry received any media cov­er­age, Tim Eyman yes­ter­day used a tried and test­ed gam­bit for drum­ming up pub­lic­i­ty: He filed a slew of ini­tia­tives to the Leg­is­la­ture and then fired  off a pro­mo­tion­al email to what’s left of the state’s polit­i­cal press corps. Two of […]