Category: Appreciations & Remembrances

The for­mer First Lady of Wash­ing­ton State went far beyond ren­o­vat­ing a man­sion, embrac­ing a woman’s right to make her own repro­duc­tive health deci­sions, and pur­su­ing an array of inter­ests and good works.

Trans­fixed with pow­er, Kissinger had lit­tle regard for small coun­tries or peo­ple per­ceived as get­ting in the way.

Read NPI’s obit­u­ary of con­trib­u­tor Don Bonker, a for­mer Unit­ed States Rep­re­sen­ta­tive from Wash­ing­ton who served in Con­gress with dis­tinc­tion for many years. 

Har­ry Reid served thir­ty years in the Sen­ate. His biggest achieve­ment for his state was arguably killing the U.S. Depart­ment of Ener­gy’s plans to use Yuc­ca Moun­tain as a repos­i­to­ry for “spent” but high­ly radioac­tive fuel rods from the nation’s nuclear pow­er plants — which he did almost single-handedly. 

One of Wash­ing­ton State’s best, most dis­tin­guished jurists has passed on. Read NPI’s appre­ci­a­tion of Jus­tice Mary Fairhurst, who served the peo­ple of Wash­ing­ton for decades on the Supreme Court.

The death of Flem­ing at eighty-three has evoked Baby Boomer mem­o­ries of when the Dawgs upset favored foes two New Year’s Days in a row, and of the first African-Amer­i­can to serve in the State Sen­ate and cham­pi­on of such caus­es as the Mar­tin Luther King holiday.

Read NPI con­trib­u­tor Joel Con­nel­ly’s remem­brance of for­mer Repub­li­can pres­i­den­tial can­di­date and Sen­ate leader Bob Dole. 

Read NPI’s appre­ci­a­tion of the late Vice Pres­i­dent Wal­ter Mon­dale, a stal­wart pro­gres­sive leader from Min­neso­ta, authored by Joel Connelly. 

Read NPI con­trib­u­tor Joel Con­nel­ly’s cel­e­bra­tion of the life and accom­plish­ments of Jay Pear­son, who for decades worked to help elect Democ­rats and empow­er them to gov­ern well once in office.