The Cascadia Advocate is written by the staff, board, and contributors of the Northwest Progressive Institute, a netroots powered strategy center working to raise America's quality of life through insightful research and imaginative advocacy.
NPI was founded in August 2003 and is based in Redmond, Washington.
| Excerpt: | The Washington State Supreme Court made mincemeat out of a motion filed by Tim Eyman's friends to intervene in the case against Eyman's initiative to defund multimodal transportation infrastructure. |
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| Published at: | 11:00 PM on Wednesday, December 4th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections, Litigation |
| Other Tags: | WA-Ballot |
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| Excerpt: | The Washington State Supreme Court has decided that Tim Eyman's most recent initiative will remain paused while its constitutionality (or lack thereof) is determined. |
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| Published at: | 5:54 PM on Wednesday, December 4th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | WA-Ballot |
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| Excerpt: | "The state will take a fiscally prudent approach by effectively continuing to act as if the initiative is still in place from a state spending perspective," Inslee says. Local governments are not obligated to follow suit. |
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| Published at: | 3:55 PM on Wednesday, November 27th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | WA-Ballot |
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| Excerpt: | The disgraced initiative promoter's scheme to deprive the state, Sound Transit, and cities of billions in bipartisan, voter approved transportation investments has been stayed. |
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| Published at: | 10:34 AM on Wednesday, November 27th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections, Litigation |
| Other Tags: | WA-Ballot |
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| Excerpt: | The disgraced initiative promoter is furious that his measure to gut bipartisan, voter-approved transportation improvements might not go into effect on December 5th, 2019. |
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| Published at: | 9:46 PM on Tuesday, November 26th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Litigation |
| Other Tags: | WA-Ballot |
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| Excerpt: | The office is required by law to defend initiatives the voters pass. It is making its best effort, but its arguments cannot, in NPI's view, save the initiative. |
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| Published at: | 9:34 AM on Tuesday, November 26th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections, Litigation |
| Other Tags: | WA-Ballot |
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| Excerpt: | After saying as recently as two weeks ago that he didn't want to be a candidate for any office, Tim Eyman is running. For governor. |
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| Published at: | 11:24 PM on Monday, November 25th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Elections, Open Government |
| Other Tags: | WA-Gov |
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| Excerpt: | The disgraced initiative promoter intended to gut Sound Transit like a pig with Initiative 976, but due to his incompetence, it appears the measure won't adversely affect Sound Transit at all. |
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| Published at: | 8:30 AM on Friday, November 22nd, 2019 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Elections, Litigation, Public Planning |
| Other Tags: | Transportation, WA-Ballot |
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| Excerpt: | The right wing KIRO Radio host is falsely trying to argue that the impact of Tim Eyman's latest initiative could be offset by privatizing the Evergreen State College, cutting salaries, and laying off public workers. |
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| Published at: | 7:30 AM on Thursday, November 21st, 2019 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | WA-Ballot |
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| Excerpt: | Most of the measure is scheduled to take effect on December 5th, 2019, causing what plaintiffs assert would be "immediate, devastating, and irreparable impacts statewide". |
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| Published at: | 7:09 PM on Tuesday, November 19th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections, Litigation |
| Other Tags: | WA-Ballot |
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| Excerpt: | In this analysis, NPI takes apart the language that voters saw on their ballots for Tim Eyman's 2019 initiative, explaining how it misrepresents the initiative's provisions and leaves out key facts. |
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| Published at: | 12:19 PM on Thursday, November 14th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | WA-Ballot |
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| Excerpt: | The plaintiffs include King County, the City of Seattle, Amalgamated Transit Union, Intercity Transit, Association of Washington Cities. |
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| Published at: | 4:33 PM on Wednesday, November 13th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections, Litigation |
| Other Tags: | WA-Ballot |
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| Excerpt: | Get up to speed with the latest developments in the Washington State 2019 general election. |
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| Published at: | 6:00 PM on Friday, November 8th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | WA-Ballot |
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