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Monthly Archives: July 2015

Netroots Nation Panel: Student Debt Crisis

Excerpt: This pan­el dis­cuss­es the issues around stu­dent debt. The pan­elists are Robert Cruick­shank, Natalia Abrams, Melis­sa Byrne, Angela Peo­ples and Kay­la Wing­ber­muehle. Some of the main issues: Wealth trans­fer prob­lem. Wealthy stu­dents can afford col­lege, not go into debt, and not have to work a part-time job, so they can con­cen­trate more in class­es, do bet­ter, […]
Written by:Rennie Sawade
Categories:Civil Liberties, Economic Security, Education, Live Coverage
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A major day of progress for Sound Transit

Excerpt: Near­ly six years to the day after Cen­tral Link opened to the pub­lic, crews work­ing on behalf of Sound Tran­sit have fin­ished two major phas­es of con­struc­tion on forth­com­ing bad­ly-need­ed exten­sions of our light rail system. In SeaT­ac, Angle Lake Link got one step clos­er to com­ple­tion with the hoist­ing of the last thir­ty-five ton […]
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Policy Topics, Public Planning
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Washington State Legislature adjourns Sine Die, again (for real this time!)

Excerpt: Hav­ing reached agree­ment on the specifics of an oper­at­ing bud­get, trans­porta­tion pack­age, and plan for delay­ing imple­men­ta­tion of last year’s ini­tia­tive to low­er class size, the Wash­ing­ton State Leg­is­la­ture today adjourned its third spe­cial ses­sion sine die, with exhaust­ed law­mak­ers and leg­isla­tive staff breath­ing a sigh of relief. The Leg­is­la­ture began its 2015 ses­sion a […]
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Legislative Advocacy, Our Environment, Policy Topics, Public Planning
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Have your say; help shape Sound Transit 3!

Excerpt: Read­ers, Sound Tran­sit would like us to remind you that this Wednes­day is the last day to weigh in on the next phase of Sound Tran­sit 3 plan­ning. Our region­al tran­sit author­i­ty wants to know what you think should be part of next year’s like­ly vote to bring light rail and improved bus ser­vice into […]
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Policy Topics, Public Planning
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The Declaration of Independence, two hundred and thirty-nine years later

Excerpt: In accor­dance with tra­di­tion, we are post­ing the text of the Dec­la­ra­tion of Inde­pen­dence here on The Cas­ca­dia Advo­cate for your enjoy­ment. The Dec­la­ra­tion was pri­mar­i­ly authored by our third pres­i­dent, Thomas Jef­fer­son, who drew heav­i­ly on the think­ing of Enlight­en­ment philoso­phers such as John Locke to per­sua­sive­ly lay out the case for the inde­pen­dence […]
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Holidays
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This Independence Day, don’t get burned: Let the professionals set off the fireworks

Excerpt: Inde­pen­dence Day is almost here, and as the cel­e­bra­tion of Amer­i­ca’s found­ing has inched clos­er, fed­er­al, state and local offi­cials have become increas­ing­ly vocal about the dan­gers posed by set­ting off fire­works, par­tic­u­lar­ly with con­di­tions so dry this year. Author­i­ties are emphat­i­cal­ly urg­ing peo­ple to go see a com­mu­ni­ty spon­sored, pro­fes­sion­al­ly run fire­works show instead […]
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Holidays, Policy Topics, Public Planning
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Tim Eyman turns in signatures for I‑1366 as opposition coalition roster continues to grow

Excerpt: This morn­ing in Olympia, Tim Eyman showed up at the Sec­re­tary of State’s Elec­tions Annex to turn in sig­na­tures for I‑1366, his lat­est and most destruc­tive ini­tia­tive yet, more than four hours ahead of the 3 PM appoint­ment that he had sched­uled. In a depar­ture from tra­di­tion, Eyman decid­ed not to hold a press con­fer­ence […]
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Elections
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Washington State House passes amended transportation revenue bill; Senate concurs

Excerpt: It took until the wee hours of the morn­ing, but the Leg­is­la­ture has final­ly reached agree­ment on the rev­enue com­po­nent for a new trans­porta­tion package. By a vote of fifty-four to forty-four, the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives vot­ed to send an amend­ed ver­sion of Sec­ond Engrossed Sub­sti­tute Sen­ate Bill 5987 (2ESSB 5987) over to the Sen­ate. […]
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Legislative Advocacy, Policy Topics, Public Planning
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