Category: Appreciations & Remembrances

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. 

There are few peo­ple in Amer­i­can his­to­ry who lived their lives as coura­geous­ly and con­sci­en­tious­ly as Geor­gia’s best known mem­ber of Congress. 

On Novem­ber 4th, 2018, NPI lost one of its strongest sup­port­ers: Priscil­la O’Leary. Read about Priscil­la’s life and her con­tri­bu­tions to pro­gres­sive causes. 

For­mer Demo­c­ra­t­ic Ida­ho Gov­er­nor and Unit­ed States Inte­ri­or Sec­re­tary Cecil Andrus, a pil­lar in the con­ser­va­tion move­ment, has died of com­pli­ca­tions of lung can­cer, his daugh­ter Tra­cy con­firmed this morn­ing. He was eighty-five. Andrus lived a ful­fill­ing life and leaves behind a lega­cy worth appre­ci­at­ing. Raised in Ore­gon, he lat­er moved to Ida­ho and became […]

A key fig­ure in the Wash­ing­ton State Sen­ate’s Repub­li­can cau­cus has died after bat­tling a recur­rence of lung can­cer, his col­leagues and fam­i­ly divulged today. Sen­a­tor Andy Hill (R‑45th Dis­trict: Red­mond, Kirk­land, Sam­mamish, Wood­inville, Duvall) has been the Sen­ate’s chief bud­get writer since late 2012. He assumed the chair­man­ship of the Sen­ate Ways & Means […]

Edi­tor’s Note: Respect­ed and wide­ly beloved Seat­tle com­mu­ni­ty activist Ruth Woo died this week at the age of eighty-nine.  News of her pass­ing has sparked an out­pour­ing of trib­utes.  “Over many, many years, Ruth Woo was a won­der­ful friend and men­tor to count­less Wash­ing­to­ni­ans. She was a trust­ed leader with a remark­able tal­ent for bringing […]