Daily Archives: October 5th, 2015

Posted inElections

Tacoma resident notices similarities between Pam and Dan Roach’s pro-I-1366 op-eds

by Andrew Villeneuve

This past week­end, as many read­ers may already know, The Seat­tle Times and The News Tri­bune of Taco­ma each pro­vid­ed space on their op-ed pages for a dis­cus­sion of Tim Eyman’s I‑1366, which is appear­ing on this year’s gen­er­al elec­tion bal­lot. The Times ran an edi­to­r­i­al and two columns — one for the ini­tia­tive, signed […]

Posted inPolicy Topics, World Commmunity

Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations completed in Atlanta, says White House

by Andrew Villeneuve

Nego­ti­a­tions on the Trans-Pacif­ic Part­ner­ship, an unprece­dent­ed trade pact that has been devel­oped in secret by diplo­mats rep­re­sent­ing eleven nations as well as lob­by­ists for large, multi­na­tion­al cor­po­ra­tions, have final­ly been com­plet­ed, the Oba­ma admin­is­tra­tion announced this morn­ing. “This part­ner­ship lev­els the play­ing field for our farm­ers, ranch­ers, and man­u­fac­tur­ers by elim­i­nat­ing more than 18,000 […]