Excerpt: | NPI's liveblog of the September 29th, 2020 faceoff between Democratic nominee Joe Biden and Republican nominee Donald Trump. |
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Published at: | 5:00 PM on Tuesday, September 29th, 2020 |
Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
Categories: | Elections, Events, Live Coverage |
Tags: | Presidential Debates, US-Pres |
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Monthly Archives: September 2020
Liveblogging the first presidential debate of 2020 from the great Pacific Northwest
Scramble for the Senate: Can Al Gross topple Republican Dan Sullivan in the Last Frontier?
Excerpt: | Senate Democrats are backing a quintessentially Alaskan doctor who is running as an independent in the hopes that he can pull off an upset win. |
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Published at: | 5:00 PM on Friday, September 25th, 2020 |
Written by: | Ruairi Vaughan |
Categories: | Elections |
Tags: | 2019-2022 Coronavirus Pandemic, AK-Sen, Scramble for the Senate |
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Kim Wyman may disavow party politics, but her record shows she’s a partisan Republican
Excerpt: | Washington's incumbent Secretary of State is telling editorial boards that the position she holds should be nonpartisan, while zealously practicing party politics. Here's the evidence. |
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Published at: | 9:30 AM on Friday, September 25th, 2020 |
Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
Categories: | Elections |
Tags: | WA-Exec |
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Book Review: Brian Stelter’s “Hoax” offers a fresh look at how Fox corrodes democracy
Excerpt: | Read Joel Connelly's review of a 2020 book examining the destructive influence of Rupert Murdoch's right wing cable channel, in the tradition of Outfoxed, The Republican Noise Machine, and Murdoch's World. |
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Published at: | 5:27 PM on Thursday, September 24th, 2020 |
Written by: | Joel Connelly |
Categories: | Media & Culture |
Tags: | Books, Future of Journalism, Television |
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British Columbia to hold snap general election on October 24th, 2020, premier announces
Excerpt: | British Columbians will head to the polls to decide the future of their province just ten days before the United States holds its epic 2020 presidential election. |
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Published at: | 4:42 PM on Monday, September 21st, 2020 |
Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
Categories: | Elections |
Tags: | BC-Assembly |
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Last Week In Congress: How Cascadia’s U.S. lawmakers voted (September 14th-18th)
Excerpt: | The week's major votes included the confirmation of Franklin U. Valderrama and House passage of legislation to require accommodations for pregnant women in the workplace. |
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Published at: | 7:30 AM on Sunday, September 20th, 2020 |
Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
Categories: | Legislative Advocacy, Series & Special Reports |
Tags: | Last Week In Congress, U.S. House Roll Call Votes, U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes |
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Read tributes to the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg from national and regional leaders
Excerpt: | A collection of statements from senators, governors, nonprofit leaders, and former presidents honoring and celebrating the life of one of the greatest Supreme Court Justices in U.S. history. |
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Published at: | 9:30 PM on Friday, September 18th, 2020 |
Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
Categories: | Appreciations & Remembrances |
Tags: | Tributes |
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg: 1933–2020
Excerpt: | Read the Northwest Progressive Institute's obituary of a true legend, one of the finest people ever to serve our country as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court. |
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Published at: | 8:48 PM on Friday, September 18th, 2020 |
Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
Categories: | Appreciations & Remembrances |
Tags: | Obituaries |
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Scramble for the Senate: Can Steve Bullock pull off a win in deep-red Montana?
Excerpt: | Governor Bullock's presidential bid was a dead end, but his odds back home in Montana's U.S. Senate race are pretty decent. |
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Published at: | 5:00 PM on Friday, September 18th, 2020 |
Written by: | Ruairi Vaughan |
Categories: | Elections, Series & Special Reports |
Tags: | MT-Sen, Scramble for the Senate |
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A smokescreen and a big lie: Trump, climate deniers try to explain away our record fires
Excerpt: | Climate fires are destroying property and taking lives in Washington, Oregon, and California, putting a face on the climate crisis. Right wing pundits have been reduced to lamely claiming there's no connection. |
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Published at: | 2:45 PM on Wednesday, September 16th, 2020 |
Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
Categories: | Our Environment, Policy Topics |
Tags: | Climate Crisis, Pollution |
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Last Week In Congress: How Cascadia’s U.S. lawmakers voted (September 7th-11th)
Excerpt: | The week's major vote concerned the question of whether or not to advance a pathetic excuse for a coronavirus relief package offered by Republicans, which was defeated by the Senate. |
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Published at: | 7:30 AM on Sunday, September 13th, 2020 |
Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
Categories: | Legislative Advocacy, Series & Special Reports |
Tags: | Last Week In Congress, U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes |
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In memoriam, nineteen years later
Excerpt: | In honor of those who died that day, we’re republishing a poem that we post annually here on The Cascadia Advocate. |
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Published at: | 5:46 AM on Friday, September 11th, 2020 |
Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
Categories: | Holidays |
Tags: | September 11th Remembrance Day |
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Fueled by hot and windy weather, fires rage out of control up and down the Left Coast
Excerpt: | Firefighters report that they are stretched thin and simply don't have the humanpower or the resources to properly fight the destructive blazes. |
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Published at: | 10:35 PM on Wednesday, September 9th, 2020 |
Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
Categories: | Our Environment, Policy Topics |
Tags: | Climate Crisis, Conservation, Pollution |
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Trump went to Cleveland not to debate Biden, but to destroy another U.S. civic institution