| Excerpt: | In an extreme decision, the United States Supreme Court has gutted almost fifty years of precedent and removed recognition of an important right supported by a majority of Americans. |
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| Published at: | 11:02 AM on Friday, June 24th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Civil Liberties, Healthcare |
| Tags: | Privacy, Reproductive Rights |
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Alito court overturns Roe v. Wade, allowing states to criminalize reproductive rights
After decades of inaction, U.S. Senate passes modest bipartisan gun safety package
| Excerpt: | "This bipartisan legislation will help protect Americans. Kids in schools and communities will be safer because of it. The House of Representatives should promptly vote on this bipartisan bill and send it to my desk," said President Joe Biden. |
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| Published at: | 10:03 PM on Thursday, June 23rd, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Civil Liberties |
| Tags: | Secure Firearms Ownership, U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes |
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Sound Transit Board unanimously hires Julie Timm as its new Chief Executive Officer
| Excerpt: | “I am profoundly grateful to join the Sound Transit team’s work to transform lives across the Puget Sound region for generations to come," Timm said in a prepared statement. |
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| Published at: | 5:28 PM on Thursday, June 23rd, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Public Planning |
| Tags: | Transportation |
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Book Review: It Was Vulgar & It Was Beautiful relates how art helped combat AIDS
| Excerpt: | Lowery chronicles the art installations by the collective Gran Fury, including Kissing Doesn’t Kill and All People With Aids are Innocent, while also describing the tragic consequences AIDS was having on the members themselves. |
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| Published at: | 4:30 PM on Saturday, June 18th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Alexa Moormeier |
| Other Categories: | Healthcare, Media & Culture, World Commmunity |
| Tags: | Books, Combating Diseases, Global Health |
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Bipartisan group of U.S. Senators announces deal to advance modest gun safety package
| Excerpt: | Considering that the Senate has done pretty much nothing to protect Americans from the scourge of gun violence for decades, this is indeed a breakthrough. It is far from enough, but it is a start... and we have to start somewhere. |
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| Published at: | 3:31 PM on Sunday, June 12th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Civil Liberties, Legislative Advocacy |
| Tags: | Safe Neighborhoods, Secure Firearms Ownership |
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House Select Committee lays out definitive case that Trump incited January 6th attack
| Excerpt: | As summed up by Republican Liz Cheney of Wyoming: “President Trump summoned the mob. President Trump assembled the mob and lit the flame of this attack.” |
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| Published at: | 4:30 PM on Saturday, June 11th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Other Categories: | Open Government |
| Tags: | Accountable Leaders, January 6th Attack on the Capitol |
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Patty Murray urges Republicans to stop blocking gun safety bills in the U.S. Senate
| Excerpt: | Washington State has shown what can be accomplished even in the face of strident opposition from the gun lobby, but Congress has not, because Senate Republicans have sadly blocked any and all progress to date. |
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| Published at: | 9:45 AM on Saturday, June 11th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Alexa Moormeier |
| Other Categories: | Civil Liberties, Public Planning |
| Tags: | Safe Neighborhoods, Secure Firearms Ownership |
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Most Washington voters strongly support a ban on military-style assault weapons
| Excerpt: | A majority of likely 2022 voters in Washington State support a ban on military-style assault weapons like the AR-15 rifle, with over fifty percent expressing strong support, NPI's most recent statewide survey has found. |
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| Published at: | 12:00 PM on Friday, June 10th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Civil Liberties |
| Tags: | Research Poll Findings, Safe Neighborhoods, Secure Firearms Ownership |
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Sound Transit announces that search team’s pick for new CEO is Julie Timm of Virginia
| Excerpt: | Timm is currently CEO of Greater Richmond Transit Company, where her more than four hundred employees operate successful regional bus routes serving the Richmond, Virginia area. |
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| Published at: | 6:17 PM on Friday, June 3rd, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Public Planning |
| Tags: | Transportation |
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau offers new legislation to prevent gun violence
| Excerpt: | While the U.S. Senate once more strives to come up with a watered down gun safety bill, the government of Canada is preparing decisive action to cap gun culture and get military-style assault weapons out of Canadians’ hands. |
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| Published at: | 8:30 AM on Thursday, June 2nd, 2022 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Other Categories: | Civil Liberties |
| Tags: | Safe Neighborhoods, Secure Firearms Ownership |
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Proposed Pebble Mine looks kaput, this time for good, as EPA moves to protect Bristol Bay
| Excerpt: | The EPA’s action represents a win for the tenacity of Senator Maria Cantwell, D-Washington, who began fighting the Pebble Mine project in 2011 and pushed the federal agency into a three-year study of the project’s impacts. |
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| Published at: | 9:30 AM on Saturday, May 28th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Other Categories: | Our Environment |
| Tags: | Conservation |
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Republicans lament slaughter of kids and teachers in Uvalde, but make it clear they’ll do nothing to stop it from happening again
| Excerpt: | Republicans cannot go against the NRA and the groups aligned with it, not even after the slaughter of schoolchildren and their teachers in a Republican-run state. |
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| Published at: | 12:32 PM on Wednesday, May 25th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Civil Liberties, Public Planning |
| Tags: | Safe Neighborhoods, Secure Firearms Ownership |
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Fifteen slaughtered in Uvalde, Texas by gunman who targeted elementary school
| Excerpt: | The shooting is the country's deadliest so far this year, and horrifically similar to a shooting from almost ten years ago, in which a gunman attacked Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. |
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| Published at: | 4:16 PM on Tuesday, May 24th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Civil Liberties, Public Planning |
| Tags: | Safe Neighborhoods, Secure Firearms Ownership |
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Patty Murray, Kim Schrier release new ads in wake of Alito court’s Dobbs decision