Pastor Carey Anderson, a Democratic candidate for State Representative in the 30th Legislative District, was shot at close range by a BB gun Thursday evening.
Monthly Archives: July 2022
Wild Olympics’ prospects rise thanks to inclusion in 2022 national defense funding bill
A decade in gestation, the Wild Olympics Wilderness and Wild and Scenic Rivers Act would protect 126,500 acres as wilderness – portions of Olympic National Forest surrounding the namesake national park – while extending Wild and Scenic River status to nineteen rivers and tributaries.
SurveyUSA validates NPI’s finding that most Washingtonians want an assault weapons ban
The validity of NPI’s assault weapons ban research has been affirmed by an entirely separate poll backed by KING5, The Seattle Times, the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public, and Washington State University’s Murrow College of Communication.
Seattle City Council’s move to put RCV on ballot reflects widespread voter enthusiasm
Voters in the Emerald City will get to decide whether to try out ranked choice voting in addition to approval voting in the November 2022 election. NPI’s research has previously found that two-thirds of Seattle voters support ranked choice voting.
Poll Watch: SurveyUSA finds Patty Murray ahead of Tiffany Smiley by eighteen points
51% of five hundred and ninety-six likely voters interviewed online from July 6th through July 10th by SurveyUSA expressed support for Murray, while 33% backed Smiley and 16% were undecided. It’s the best spread Murray has gotten in public polling this year.
COVID-19 Update: Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 variants may make for a difficult summer
The newest variants of COVID-19, BA.4 and BA.5, are highly transmissible and creating new waves of COVID-19 infection as we enter summer.
Donald Trump promotes Sarah Palin, trashes Lisa Murkowski in rare visit to Alaska
Biden’s predecessor came to the 49th State in quest of revenge against Murkowski, the lone Republican senator to vote “present” on Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation, and one of seven Senate Republicans who voted to impeach Trump after the January 6th, 2021, insurrection at the United States Capitol.
Pandemic-era initiative drought continues as no measures qualify for statewide ballot
July 8th, 2022 was the deadline to turn in signatures for initiatives to the people for 2022, and no campaigns made appointments to submit signatures, Secretary of State Steve Hobbs’ staff told the Northwest Progressive Institute.
Grand settlement agreed to by the parties in Tim Eyman’s Chapter 7 bankruptcy case
A grand settlement backed by the estate’s court-appointed trustee and agreed to by all the parties involved in the right wing activist’s Chapter 7 case has been submitted to Bankruptcy Court Judge Marc Barreca for final approval next month, records recently filed with the court and examined by NPI show.
Boris Johnson forced out as Prime Minister of the U.K. after predictably disastrous tenure
The former tabloid writer and Brexit bandwagoner was forced to submit his resignation to Her Majesty the Queen after most of his remaining enablers unceremoniously abandoned him.
The race to succeed Premier John Horgan is on. Who will be the BCNDP’s next leader?
The New Democrats’ leadership race will see climate, resource and environmental issues at play. Of greatest import, however, who will be the face of the party as it tries to hold power?
Six murdered, dozens wounded by sniper at July Fourth parade in Highland Park, Illinois
At least six people were killed and more than two dozen were hospitalized by a sniper with a high-powered rifle on the rooftop of a building along a parade route in downtown Highland Park, Illinois, a lakeside suburb north of Chicago. Among the casualties were between four and five children.
The Declaration of Independence, two hundred and forty-six years later
This Fourth of July, take a few minutes to read the Declaration of Independence.
Canada Day revelation: Amtrak Cascades to resume service to B.C. in September
Regularly scheduled train service between British Columbia and the rest of the Pacific Northwest will be resuming in the fall, rather than in the winter, the Washington and Oregon Departments of Transportation announced today.