| Excerpt: | New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has decided to become a presidential candidate, apparently figuring there isn't any downside. |
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| Published at: | 8:20 PM on Thursday, May 16th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Ruairi Vaughan |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | US-Pres |
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Monthly Archives: May 2019
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio enters the crowded 2020 Democratic presidential field
BOOK REVIEW: “A Prophet of Peace” and Juan Cole’s New Historicism
| Excerpt: | I sometimes attend the Seattle Atheist Church on Sundays, and despite the many virtues that group has an organization and positive argument it makes by example for secular humanism, the fact that the “Four Horsemen” of the New Atheism movement were four white Anglo-American men reflects accurately the biases you’ll find in the atheism movement […] |
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| Published at: | 6:28 AM on Wednesday, May 15th, 2019 |
| Written by: | David A Johnson |
| Categories: | Views & Reviews |
| Tags: | Book Reviews |
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Trump team turns to conspiracy theories to attack Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden
| Excerpt: | Donald Trump and his cronies have begun vociferously attacking former Vice President Joe Biden, who they believe could be their opponent in 2020. |
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| Published at: | 6:54 PM on Monday, May 13th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Ruairi Vaughan |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | US-Pres |
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Last week (May 6th-11th) in Congress: How Cascadia’s U.S. lawmakers voted
| Excerpt: | Happy Mother's Day! Find out how our region's United States Representatives and Senators voted with our new recurring feature, Last Week in Congress. |
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| Published at: | 12:00 PM on Sunday, May 12th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Voterama in Congress |
| Categories: | Legislative Advocacy |
| Tags: | Last Week In Congress, U.S. House Roll Call Votes, U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes |
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Sound Transit, partner agencies should retain express bus routes after Link extensions open
| Excerpt: | Should express bus that parallel forthcoming light rail lines be scrapped when Sound Transit's Link expands? NPI says no. |
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| Published at: | 3:49 PM on Friday, May 10th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Public Planning |
| Tags: | Transportation |
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Fracking now banned in Washington; Jay Inslee drops support for dirty gas projects
| Excerpt: | Governor Jay Inslee has signed a bill to ban fracking in Washington and dropped his support for two dirty gas projects, further burnishing his green credentials. |
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| Published at: | 12:14 PM on Thursday, May 9th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Our Environment |
| Tags: | Climate Crisis, Energy & Power |
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NPI’s Gael Tarleton: Persistence and patience key to state’s big clean energy breakthrough
| Excerpt: | Founding NPI boardmember Gael Tarleton led the way in making Washington's new one hundred percent clean electricity bill a reality. Read her bill signing remarks. |
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| Published at: | 1:14 PM on Wednesday, May 8th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Gael Tarleton |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Our Environment |
| Tags: | Climate Crisis, Energy & Power, Pollution |
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Five landmark pollution fighting bills signed into law by Washington Governor Jay Inslee
| Excerpt: | Caring for the Earth, our common home, is a value people across Cascadia share. The State of Washington has affirmed that value by committing itself to a one hundred percent clean electric grid by 2045. |
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| Published at: | 6:16 PM on Tuesday, May 7th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Our Environment |
| Tags: | Climate Crisis, Conservation, Energy & Power |
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Stacey Abrams is running (sort of)
| Excerpt: | Former gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams has decided not to run for the United States Senate in Georgia, but that doesn't mean she isn't running for high office. |
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| Published at: | 5:27 PM on Friday, May 3rd, 2019 |
| Written by: | Ruairi Vaughan |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | US-Pres |
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Last week (May 13th-17th) in Congress: How Cascadia’s U.S. lawmakers voted