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Tag Archives: Obituaries

The airbrushing of the late Rush Limbaugh: A mocking, racist demagogue is depicted as shy, private, and “enormously generous”

Excerpt: For decades, Rush Limbaugh heaped abuse on people as a syndicated practitioner of hate speech. Now he's gone. His contemporaries in right wing media are now trying to memorialize a Rush who never existed.
Published at:8:00 PM on Thursday, February 18th, 2021
Written by:Joel Connelly
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Jay Pearson, 1948–2020: Mellow manager of Democrats’ victories and comebacks helped build Washington’s governing party

Excerpt: 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.
Published at:12:30 PM on Sunday, November 22nd, 2020
Written by:Joel Connelly
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg: 1933–2020

Excerpt: 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.
Published at:8:48 PM on Friday, September 18th, 2020
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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John Lewis: 1940–2020

Excerpt: There are few people in American history who lived their lives as courageously and conscientiously as Georgia's best known member of Congress.
Published at:10:00 PM on Saturday, July 18th, 2020
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Elijah Cummings: 1951–2019

Excerpt: Rest in power, Chairman. We'll miss you. But we'll always remember you, and try to live up to the good example that you set for us.
Published at:10:43 AM on Thursday, October 17th, 2019
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Priscilla O’Leary: 1958–2018

Excerpt: 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.
Published at:1:29 PM on Monday, November 5th, 2018
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Paul Allen: 1953–2018

Excerpt: Tech pioneer and philanthropist Paul G. Allen, who amassed one of the largest fortunes in the world after co-founding Microsoft with Bill Gates, has died due to complications of cancer, his family has announced.
Published at:3:46 PM on Monday, October 15th, 2018
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Cecil Andrus: 1931–2017

Excerpt: 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 […]
Published at:11:11 AM on Friday, August 25th, 2017
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Andy Hill: 1962–2016

Excerpt: 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 […]
Published at:8:16 PM on Tuesday, November 1st, 2016
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Ruth Woo: 1926–2016

Excerpt: 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 […]
Published at:8:23 PM on Friday, July 15th, 2016
Written by:Gael Tarleton
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Beau Biden: 1969–2015

Excerpt: For­mer Delaware Attor­ney Gen­er­al and Delaware Army Nation­al Guard Major Beau Biden, the son of Vice Pres­i­dent Joe Biden, has died after suc­cumb­ing to brain can­cer, the Vice Pres­i­den­t’s office has announced. He was only forty-six. “It is with bro­ken hearts that Hal­lie, Hunter, Ash­ley, Jill and I announce the pass­ing of our hus­band, broth­er […]
Published at:9:32 PM on Saturday, May 30th, 2015
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Father Gerald F. Lovett: 1935–2015

Excerpt: May the road rise to meet you, May the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, The rains fall soft upon your fields. And until we meet again, May God hold you in the palm of his hand. — Tra­di­tion­al Irish blessing We may still be in the midst of Lent as spring […]
Published at:9:56 PM on Saturday, March 21st, 2015
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Lauren Bacall: 1924–2014

Excerpt: This week cer­tain­ly is off to a pret­ty bad start. First, we lost the great Robin Williams, who trag­i­cal­ly took his own life after suc­cumb­ing to depres­sion. Now we’ve lost Lau­ren Bacall, one of the finest tal­ents of the last cen­tu­ry and a stal­wart progressive. “With deep sor­row for the mag­ni­tude of our loss, yet […]
Published at:8:02 PM on Tuesday, August 12th, 2014
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Robin Williams, a legend: 1951–2014

Excerpt: It was with great sad­ness this after­noon that I learned that today we lost Robin Williams, one of the great­est come­di­ans and actors of his gen­er­a­tion, who was one of my favorites grow­ing up and remains so today. Williams, six­ty-three, was found dead in his San Fran­cis­co area home after hav­ing appar­ent­ly tak­en his own life. […]
Published at:10:13 PM on Monday, August 11th, 2014
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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