Negotiators representing American railroad workers have reached an agreement with the nation’s biggest railways on a new contract that will keep the nation’s railways open and avoid a strike that could have raised prices and hurt the economy.
Monthly Archives: September 2022
Posted inElections
26th District hopefuls Adison Richards and Spencer Hutchins square off in Gig Harbor
Swing districts are where the “rubber meets the road” in politics — where statewide majorities are made or lost. While Washington’s 26th Legislative District has not elected a Democratic candidate to the State House since 2012, Adison Richards’ performance in the Top Two suggests that could change this year.
Posted inPolicy Topics
New poll finds huge support for affordability-focused solutions to Bellevue’s housing crisis
NPI, Complete Streets Bellevue, the Sightline Institute, Eastside For All, and the Housing Development Consortium (HDC) teamed up in the summer of 2022 to ask Bellevue residents about their views on the housing market and housing policy. Read our initial findings from that groundbreaking survey.
Posted inLegislative Advocacy
Last Week In Congress: How Cascadia’s U.S. lawmakers voted (September 6th-9th)
The week’s major votes consisted of Senate confirmation of ohn Z. Lee to be a judge on the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and Andre Mathis to be a judge on the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Posted inHolidays
In memoriam, twenty-one years later
In honor of those who died that day, we’re republishing a poem that we post annually here on The Cascadia Advocate.
Posted inPolicy Topics
Pacific Northwest grapples with an increasing number of wildfires as summer’s end nears
The skies above many areas of the Pacific Northwest grew smokier Saturday as the number of wildfires plaguing the region increased in number and severity, leading to a fresh round of highway closures and property evacuations with only days left until the end of summer and the beginning of autumn.
Posted inElections
Many local Republicans either back Donald Trump’s attacks on democracy or are giving them a wink and a nod in the 2022 midterms
Many Republican candidates in the Pacific Northwest have either done a duck dive on Trump’s attack on democracy or voiced “reservations” in such a way as to appease the MAGA cult and avoid Trump’s wrath.
Posted inElections
Desperation time: Republicans fervidly pitch Tiffany Smiley as Senate takeover hopes dim
With an increasing chorus of pundits and journalists assessing that the Republican Party’s hopes of recapturing the United States Senate this year are dimming, national and state Republicans are engaging in a big coordinated push to try to construct and sell the narrative that Washington State is in play for the Republican Party this year, despite a lack of evidence supporting that contention.
Posted inPolicy Topics
Republicans reaffirm their tight embrace of fossil fuels during a sweltering summer
The summer of 2022 has seen a disconnect between Republican politicians of the South, Midwest and Mountain West, and the sweltering, drought-stricken states they represent in Washington, D.C.
Posted inElections
Jaime Herrera Beutler lost because WA-03 is becoming a more normal, nationalized district
Herrera Beutler is a victim of the fact that the Republican coalition in her district became increasingly rural. She became reliant on pro-Trump voters who saved her in 2018, and as a result, when she broke with and then continued to criticize Trump, she scared them away and no longer had enough votes to win.
Posted inElections
Poll Watch: Trafalgar tries to bolster Tiffany Smiley’s longshot challenge to Patty Murray
Subjective organizations are perfectly capable of carrying out objective research, but it appears that Trafalgar’s goal here (given their decision to publish these unsupportable figures) is to bolster Smiley’s longshot candidacy, rather than making a credible contribution to the body of public opinion research in this race.
Posted inElections
Democratic congressional hopeful Marie Perez: We can beat Joe Kent, win WA-03
“In an initial head-to-head ballot test, before voters are primed with any additional information, Gluesenkamp Perez leads Kent, 47% to 45%, with eight percent of voters undecided,” Gluesenkamp Perez’s campaign said in a release.