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Remembering Margo Adair
Margo Adair, author of the groundbreaking book Working Inside Out: Tools for Change, died September 2, 2010 in Seattle, after struggling with pancreatic cancer since last November. Margo’s work in politics, spirituality, and applied meditation touched the lives of thousands of people. For more than three decades, she was both a theoretical leader
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Stopping the Maury Island gravel mine – again
From our friends at People for Puget Sound and the Backbone
Disarm Now defendants arraigned
The five long-time anti-nuclear activists arrested last year for entering the US Navy’s nuclear weapons storage depot at Bangor nuclear sub base
US health care system kills
A new Columbia University study that should get a lot of attention–but probably won’t, especially on the network TV evening “news”
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Paint By Numbers
A city’s budget is a painting, in dollars and sense, of the priorities and visions of the document’s authors. What we can learn from the proposed 2011
Don’t Let the Russ Feingolds Go Down For the Sins of the Blanche Lincolns
In trying to get one-time Obama supporters to volunteer for the November election, I often hear this refrain: “The Democrats have sold us out. I’m
2010 Initiatives: The Best Government Money Can Buy
The legislative process has always answered primarily to money: the big money needed at the federal, state, and even city level to win election and re-election.
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Nature & Politics: The Soros Syndrome
George Soros announced a few weeks ago that he is giving $100 million to Human Rights Watch—-conditional on the organization to find a matching $100
Nature and Politics: Obama’s Dud Svengali
Obama is losing his strong right arm. Dark days lie ahead, in which the president will lose traction with Congress, needlessly offend key constituencies,
October 4, 1971: Beacon Hill, Before Amazon
The grand and distinctive Art Deco building that looms over Downtown Seattle from the northern edge of Beacon Hill, thereby serving as a landmark for that
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History
Reclaim Our History: October 1-15
| Oct. 1, 1866: 3,750 acres of Chehalis Indian Reservation returned to public domain by Executive Order. They weren’t really using it, anyway. 1970: Clallam tribe awarded $400,000 by Indian Claims |
Reclaim Our History: Sep. 16-29
| Sep. 16, 1925: Birth of blues great B.B. King, Indianola, Mississippi. 1933: Emperor Jones, starring Paul Robeson as Brutus Jones, released by United Artists; Robeson’s first starring movie role |
Reclaim Our History Sep. 8-15
| Sep. 8, 1925: Birth of film comic Peter Sellers. His role in Being There (1979) anticipated George W. Bush to near perfection. Sep. 9, 1964: Dynamite blast attributed to the Ku Klux Klan rocked the home |