Monthly Archives: April 2015

Posted inPolicy Topics, Technology, Views & Reviews

NPI to Comcast: Stop spamming us with unsolicited offers for service we don’t want

by Andrew Villeneuve

Edi­tor’s note: The fol­low­ing is an open let­ter to Com­cast CEO, Pres­i­dent, and Chair­man Bri­an Roberts from the North­west Pro­gres­sive Insti­tute. Dear Bri­an: I am writ­ing to ask that Com­cast cease and desist from send­ing us fur­ther “lim­it­ed-time sav­ings vouch­ers” or oth­er solic­i­ta­tions for Com­cast Busi­ness ser­vice. Since last sum­mer, we have received dozens of […]

Posted inElections

Hillary Clinton makes it official, finally: She’s running for President in 2016

by Andrew Villeneuve

End­ing years of spec­u­la­tion, gos­sip, and when is she going to announce talk, for­mer First Lady, Unit­ed States Sen­a­tor, and Unit­ed States Sec­re­tary of State Hillary Rod­man Clin­ton declared in a video mes­sage that she will seek the Demo­c­ra­t­ic nom­i­na­tion for Pres­i­dent of the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca in 2016. Clin­ton’s video opens with a […]

Posted inElections

Newly-filed reports show Tim Eyman received another massive cash infusion in March

by Andrew Villeneuve

Last night, as we were hold­ing our sev­enth Spring Fundrais­ing Gala on Mer­cer Island, Tim Eyman’s trea­sur­er was fil­ing his cam­paign com­mit­tee’s month­ly reports with the Pub­lic Dis­clo­sure Com­mis­sion, as required by law. The new reports show that Eyman has raised near­ly a mil­lion dol­lars for his lat­est and most destruc­tive ini­tia­tive, I‑1366, which would wipe […]

Posted inElections

State Senator Jeanne Kohl-Welles confirms she’ll run for King County Council, District 4

by Andrew Villeneuve

This after­noon, State Sen­a­tor Jeanne Kohl-Welles made it offi­cial: She’s run­ning to suc­ceed Lar­ry Phillips as the coun­cilmem­ber for King Coun­ty’s 4th Dis­trict, which encom­pass­es neigh­bor­hoods on the Puget Sound side of North Seat­tle, includ­ing Bal­lard and Green­wood. And she is doing so with Phillips’ sup­port. “It’s been an incred­i­ble priv­i­lege, hon­or and plea­sure representing […]

Posted inHolidays, Spirituality

Happy Easter 2015!

by Andrew Villeneuve

For your read­ing plea­sure on this joy­ous East­er Sun­day, here is an account of the Res­ur­rec­tion of Jesus Christ from the Gospel of Mark: When the sab­bath was over, Mary Mag­da­lene, Mary, the moth­er of James, and Salome bought spices so that they might go and anoint him. Very ear­ly when the sun had risen, on the first […]

Posted inBreaking News, Elections

King County Councilmember Larry Phillips won’t seek reelection, will retire at year’s end

by Andrew Villeneuve

King Coun­ty Coun­cilmem­ber Lar­ry Phillips, long a fix­ture on the state’s largest coun­ty’s leg­isla­tive body, announced today he has decid­ed not to run again in Novem­ber and will retire at the end of the year, when his cur­rent term expires. “It has been an hon­or and a priv­i­lege to serve the peo­ple of King County […]