Category: Series & Special Reports

Posted inMeta, Series & Special Reports

Ready for a new decade: NPI to begin its next ten years with a capable, committed board

by Martin Chaney

Editor’s Note: This month and this week, NPI is cel­e­brat­ing its tenth anniver­sary. This is the sec­ond post in a sev­en-part series reflect­ing on NPI’s first decade. Each install­ment will be penned by one of NPI’s board mem­bers. NPI has come a long way in ten years.  I moved to Wash­ing­ton State in 1997, but […]

Posted inMeta, Series & Special Reports

From opposition to proposition: NPI is working to make the defeat of Tim Eyman’s initiative factory a beginning — not an end

by Robert Cruickshank

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 […]

Posted inElections, Our Environment, Policy Topics, Series & Special Reports

B.C. Journal: Liberals hold telephone town hall to connect supporters to leader Clark

by Andrew Villeneuve

With less than one hun­dred hours to go until the polls close in British Columbi­a’s 2013 provin­cial elec­tions, par­ty lead­ers Christy Clark and Adri­an Dix are keep­ing busy sched­ules. As I report­ed ear­li­er today, Adri­an is spend­ing most of his Sat­ur­day in the Van­cou­ver sub­urbs. He was in Coquit­lam this morn­ing for the pan­cake breakfast […]

Posted inElections, Our Environment, Policy Topics, Series & Special Reports

B.C. Journal: David Eby says challenging Christy Clark is like running against “a ghost”

by Andrew Villeneuve

British Columbi­a’s New Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty (NDP) may be lead­ing in the polls ahead of this Tues­day’s provin­cial elec­tion, but in order to actu­al­ly assume pow­er and become the major­i­ty par­ty in the B.C. Leg­isla­tive Assem­bly, the NDP has to cap­ture at least half a dozen rid­ings cur­rent­ly rep­re­sent­ed by Lib­er­als or inde­pen­dents, plus hold onto […]

Posted inHolidays, Series & Special Reports

Banished Words for 2013

by Andrew Villeneuve

Edi­tor’s note: This post was orig­i­nal­ly pub­lished on Decem­ber 30th, 2012, and repub­lished on New Year’s Day 2013. Every year since 1976, Michigan’s Lake Supe­ri­or State Uni­ver­si­ty has released a thought­ful and humor­ous “List of Words Ban­ished from the Queen’s Eng­lish for Mis­use, Overuse and Gen­er­al Use­less­ness”. Here is the 2013 (and thir­­ty-eighth annu­al) edi­tion, for […]

Posted inSeries & Special Reports

Looking Back at 2012: Republicans and conservatives in their own words

by Andrew Villeneuve

Remem­ber these quotes? Take a stroll down Mem­o­ry Lane: “What does it say about the col­lege coed Susan Fluke [sic], who goes before a con­gres­sion­al com­mit­tee and essen­tial­ly says that she must be paid to have sex? What does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a pros­ti­tute. She wants to […]

Posted inElections, Series & Special Reports

Ad Watch: Gubernatorial air war gets more intense; more campaigns go up on television

by Andrew Villeneuve

Wel­come back to Ad Watch, our newest spe­cial series, which is run­ning week­ly from now until elec­tion week. The pur­pose of this series is to attempt to cat­a­log, or index, the many cam­paign ads that are going up on tele­vi­sion (and some­times radio) to influ­ence elec­tions in the Pacif­ic North­west. In each install­ment, we’ll briefly […]

Posted inElections, Series & Special Reports

Ad Watch: Obama/Biden 2012 turns infamous Romney gaffe from secret video into an ad

by Andrew Villeneuve

Wel­come back to Ad Watch, our newest spe­cial series, which is run­ning week­ly from now until elec­tion week. The pur­pose of this series is to attempt to cat­a­log, or index, the many cam­paign ads that are going up on tele­vi­sion (and some­times radio) to influ­ence elec­tions in the Pacif­ic North­west. In each install­ment, we’ll briefly […]

Posted inElections, Series & Special Reports

Ad Watch: Our Washington goes after Rob McKenna, says he’s not who he says he is

by Andrew Villeneuve

Wel­come to Ad Watch, our newest spe­cial series, which will run week­ly from now until elec­tion week. The pur­pose of this series is to attempt to cat­a­log, or index, the many cam­paign ads that are going up on tele­vi­sion (and some­times radio) to influ­ence elec­tions in the Pacif­ic North­west. In each install­ment, we’ll briefly describe […]

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Flashback to the Bush Error: In 2001, Paul Ryan defended budget-busting tax cuts

by Andrew Villeneuve

Today, we’re begin­ning a new series on The Advo­cate called Flash­back to the Bush Error that will fea­ture new install­ments on Fri­days each week through Elec­tion Day. The pur­pose of this series is to doc­u­ment and explore Paul Ryan and Mitt Rom­ney’s sup­port for the failed poli­cies of George W. Bush dur­ing the eight years […]

Posted inElections, Series & Special Reports

Filing Week 2011: A look at who’s filed in key races as of Thursday afternoon

by Andrew Villeneuve

June and the 2011 fil­ing peri­od for elect­ed office are upon us. All this week, elec­tions offi­cials around the state will be accept­ing for­mal dec­la­ra­tions of can­di­da­cy from Wash­ing­to­ni­ans who have decid­ed they want to run for office. Through­out the week, we’ll be keep­ing watch on who has filed in key races in King County […]

Posted inElections, Series & Special Reports

Filing Week 2011: A look at who’s filed in key races as of Wednesday afternoon

by Andrew Villeneuve

June and the 2011 fil­ing peri­od for elect­ed office are upon us. All this week, elec­tions offi­cials around the state will be accept­ing for­mal dec­la­ra­tions of can­di­da­cy from Wash­ing­to­ni­ans who have decid­ed they want to run for office. Through­out the week, we’ll be keep­ing watch on who has filed in key races in King County […]

Posted inElections, Series & Special Reports

Filing Week 2011: A look at who’s filed in key races as of Monday afternoon

by Andrew Villeneuve

June and the 2011 fil­ing peri­od for elect­ed office are upon us. All this week, elec­tions offi­cials around the state will be accept­ing for­mal dec­la­ra­tions of can­di­da­cy from Wash­ing­to­ni­ans who have decid­ed they want to run for office. Through­out the week, we’ll be keep­ing watch on who has filed in key races in King County […]