Editor’s Note: This month and this week, NPI is celebrating its tenth anniversary. This is the inaugural post in a seven-part series reflecting on NPI’s first decade. Each installment will be penned by one of NPI’s board members. As I reflect on NPI’s tenth anniversary, I find myself thinking back to where we were as […]
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Pacific NW Portal 5.5 (Waldport) released
On behalf of the NPI team, I’m pleased to announce that we have completed work tonight on a new release of Pacific NW Portal — Version 5.5, codenamed Waldport. Waldport is a maintenance release – the fifth in the Newport series. In other words, there aren’t any new major features… just bug fixes, updates to the […]
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A point of personal privilege
As 2012 draws to an end and I head into my second decade as a progressive activist, I want to take a moment to publicly say thanks to a number of people who have helped me and helped NPI get to where it is today. First, thanks to everyone who supported and donated to NPI this year. […]
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Congratulations, Gael!
Last night, as the first election results were released, one of our own learned that she will almost certainly be the next freshman state representative from Washington’s 36th Legislative District, which encompasses neighborhoods like Magnolia and Ballard as well as much of Queen Anne. On behalf of all of NPI’s other board members and all of NPI’s […]
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Permanent Defense celebrates ten years
Today, we at NPI celebrate a milestone like no other in our history to date: the ten year anniversary of the founding of Permanent Defense, NPI’s oldest project. For a decade, Permanent Defense has stood as a bulwark against Tim Eyman’s initiative factory, responding to anti-government propaganda, reframing the debate around taxes, pushing for direct […]
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Happy seventh birthday, Pacific NW Portal!
One of our most important projects, which we’ve been investing a lot of energy into lately, is turning seven today: Pacific NW Portal, first launched on January 31st, 2005, has now been online for a grand total of eighty four months. Since the day it launched, it’s helped to bring the netroots of Washington, Oregon, […]
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Big vote on marriage equality tomorrow
In a matter of hours, Washington’s Senate is set to take up Ed Murray’s bill, SB 6239, to make marriage equality the law of the land across the Evergreen State. At least twenty-five senators (including some Republicans) have already committed to vote in favor of the bill, so it is expected to pass. However, if you […]