Excerpt: | Every year since 1976, Michigan’s Lake Superior State University has released a thoughtful and humorous “List of Words Banished from the Queen’s English for Misuse, Overuse and General Uselessness”. Here is the 2017 (and forty-second annual) edition, for your reading enjoyment on this New Year’s Eve: YOU, SIR - Hails from a more civilized era […] |
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Published at: | 8:00 AM on Saturday, December 31st, 2016 |
Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
Categories: | Holidays |
Tags: | Banished Words, New Year's |
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Monthly Archives: December 2016
Banished Words for 2017
Obama administration strikes back at Putin regime for interfering in 2016 U.S. elections
Excerpt: | It’s a start: President Obama struck back at Russia on Thursday for its efforts to influence the 2016 election, ejecting 35 suspected Russian intelligence operatives from the United States and imposing sanctions on Russia’s two leading intelligence services. The administration also penalized four top officers of one of those services, the powerful military intelligence unit […] |
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Published at: | 7:58 PM on Thursday, December 29th, 2016 |
Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
Categories: | Policy Topics, Technology, World Commmunity |
Tags: | Diplomacy & Conflict, Hacking, Hardening |
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Thanks, Tim Eyman, for reminding us you’re incapable of comprehending our Constitution
Excerpt: | Notorious initiative profiteer Tim Eyman has been active in Washington State politics a very long time — around twenty years, in fact. And as readers of the Cascadia Advocate are well aware, Tim has made selling destructive right-wing initiatives his full time occupation… to the detriment of Washington State. The majority of the initiatives Eyman has […] |
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Published at: | 2:21 PM on Thursday, December 29th, 2016 |
Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
Categories: | Elections, Party Politics, Public Service |
Tags: | Appointments, Permanent Defense, WA-Leg |
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Tim Eyman quietly abandons I‑869 and resumes explicitly fundraising for himself
Excerpt: | Tim Eyman has thrown in the towel on his most recent attempt to defund Sound Transit and Amtrak Cascades, even if he isn't ready to overtly say so yet. |
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Published at: | 12:12 PM on Tuesday, December 27th, 2016 |
Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
Categories: | Elections |
Tags: | Permanent Defense, WA-Ballot |
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Go Jay Inslee! Governor proposes $3.9 billion in new revenue for our K‑12 public schools
Excerpt: | Declaring that we have a duty to follow our Constitution and provide a quality education to every child in our state, Governor Inslee today unveiled a bold plan to fully fund our state’s K‑12 public schools and end the McCleary litigation. “We face an opportunity — and an obligation — in this upcoming session to […] |
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Published at: | 2:12 PM on Tuesday, December 13th, 2016 |
Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
Categories: | Education, Policy Topics |
Tags: | Budgeting, Fiscal Responsibility, School Funding, Strong Commonwealth |
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WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!!!! Seattle Sounders FC win 2016 MLS Cup, defeating Toronto FC
Excerpt: | Break out the blue and green victory banners — the MLS Cup is coming to Seattle! After many years of coming up short in the playoffs, the Seattle Sounders FC have finally won it all, defeating Toronto FC on their home turf in Canada’s largest city to bring home their first championship. It was a […] |
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Published at: | 8:35 PM on Saturday, December 10th, 2016 |
Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
Categories: | Unscheduled Programming |
Tags: | Championships for Seattle, Soccer |
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Republican Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-05) said to be Trump’s Interior Secretary pick
Excerpt: | If news reports are to be believed, Donald Trump is on the verge of naming Republican Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers as his choice for Secretary of the Interior. McMorris Rodgers has represented Eastern Washington in Congress for nearly ten years, having been elected and reelected five times. Ms. McMorris Rodgers, the highest-ranking woman in the House […] |
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Published at: | 10:40 AM on Friday, December 9th, 2016 |
Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
Categories: | Breaking News, Elections, Party Politics, Public Service |
Tags: | Nominations, WA-05 |
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Starting in 2017, WA initiatives will require an additional 13,250 valid signatures to qualify
Excerpt: | Beginning in 2017, the number of signatures required to secure a spot on Washington’s statewide ballot will be increasing to nearly 260,000, the Secretary of State’s office announced in an advisory today, The increase is a consequence of turnout in the Washington’s 2016 gubernatorial election. The Washington State Constitution says that the signature requirement for initiatives […] |
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Published at: | 11:45 AM on Thursday, December 8th, 2016 |
Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
Categories: | Elections |
Tags: | Signature Requirements, WA-Ballot |
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Tim Eyman pal Michael Baumgartner prefiles amendment to repeal “paramount duty” language in Washington State Constitution
Excerpt: | In a fairly blatant attempt to get some attention for himself and steer public discourse away from fully funding our public schools, extremist right wing Senator Michael Baumgartner of Spokane has prefiled a constitutional amendment that would repeal the memorable opening words of Article IX of the Washington State Constitution (“It is the paramount duty […] |
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Published at: | 8:17 AM on Tuesday, December 6th, 2016 |
Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
Categories: | Education, Policy Topics |
Tags: | School Funding, Strong Commonwealth |
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LIVE from Seattle: Special nominating caucus to replace Pramila Jayapal in 37th underway
Excerpt: | Good evening from Seattle. I’m here at the Rainier Arts Center, where the Democratic precinct committee officers of the 37th Legislative District are gathered to draw up a list of candidates to succeed U.S. Representative-elect Pramila Jayapal, who has submitted her resignation effective December 11th, 2016. Because Pramila is heading to the Other Washington to represent […] |
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Published at: | 7:00 PM on Monday, December 5th, 2016 |
Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
Categories: | Elections |
Tags: | Special Nominating Caucuses, WA-Leg |
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Tim Eyman’s brutal 2016