| Excerpt: | Democrats and Republicans in the Granite State's House and Senate came together to override a gubernatorial veto, abolishing the death penalty in New Hampshire. |
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| Published at: | 3:15 PM on Thursday, May 30th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Core Encyclopedia Topics |
| Tags: | Criminal Justice, Nondiscrimination |
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Monthly Archives: May 2019
Death penalty legislatively abolished in New Hampshire by bipartisan supermajorities
Frontier Communications to leave Cascadia; PNW assets sold to WaveDivision Capital
| Excerpt: | Nine years after taking on debt to buy Verizon's assets in the Pacific Northwest, Frontier Communications is offloading those same assets in a $1.35 billion sale to Kirkland-based WaveDivision Capital, which must be approved by regulators. |
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| Published at: | 12:04 PM on Thursday, May 30th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Public Planning, Technology |
| Tags: | Critical Infrastructure |
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Fourth annual Rooted in Rights Film Festival puts disabled storytellers front and center
| Excerpt: | Read NPI's recap of the 2019 Rooted in Rights in Film Festival, where several groundbreaking films created by people with disabilities were screened. |
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| Published at: | 6:15 PM on Wednesday, May 29th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Bobby Aiyer |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Core Encyclopedia Topics |
| Tags: | Nondiscrimination |
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Washingtonians unhappy with Donald Trump, want to replace him with a Democrat in 2020
| Excerpt: | Most Evergreen State voters disapprove of Donald Trump and say they'd support his Democratic opponent if the 2020 election were being held now, a new NPI poll finds. |
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| Published at: | 12:15 PM on Tuesday, May 28th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Announcements, Elections |
| Tags: | Research Poll Findings, US-Pres |
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Last week (May 20th-24th) in Congress: How Cascadia’s U.S. lawmakers voted
| Excerpt: | Find out how our region's United States Representatives and Senators voted in this installment of our recurring feature Last Week in Congress. |
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| Published at: | 7:30 AM on Sunday, May 26th, 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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Guy Palumbo resigns from the Washington State Senate, effective immediately
| Excerpt: | Guy Palumbo is out. The one-term Democratic state senator has resigned from office, effective immediately. Three successors must now be nominated by the Democratic Party. |
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| Published at: | 9:52 AM on Friday, May 24th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Breaking News, Legislative Advocacy |
| Tags: | Resignations, State Legislative Appointments |
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Court penalizes Tim Eyman and associates as state wins two successive default judgments
| Excerpt: | Disgraced initiative promoter Tim Eyman and his friends now owe the taxpayers a lot of money after not bothering to defend themselves against lawsuits alleging they violated Washington's public disclosure laws. |
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| Published at: | 8:19 PM on Thursday, May 23rd, 2019 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Litigation |
| Tags: | Permanent Defense, State of Washington v. Tim Eyman |
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SIFF Documentary Review: Our Bodies Our Doctors is a timely reminder of the importance of reproductive rights
| Excerpt: | Read NPI's review of Our Bodies Our Doctors, a film about reproductive rights that's being screened at the 2019 Seattle International Film Festival. |
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| Published at: | 6:11 PM on Wednesday, May 22nd, 2019 |
| Written by: | Theresa Curry Almuti |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Healthcare, Media & Culture, Views & Reviews |
| Tags: | Film, Reproductive Rights, Seattle International Film Festival |
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Candidates other than Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders vie for traction ahead of first debates
| Excerpt: | Candidates like Kamala Harris and Beto O'Rourke are trying to figure out how to gain traction with the Democratic electorate ahead of the first debates in Miami. |
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| Published at: | 8:53 PM on Monday, May 20th, 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
| Excerpt: | Find out how our region's United States Representatives and Senators voted in this installment of our recurring feature Last Week in Congress. |
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| Published at: | 7:30 AM on Sunday, May 19th, 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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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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Senators call on NBC to make climate justice the focus of the first presidential debate