Washington’s two top candidates for governor talked to AARP-Washington members in back-to-back town-hall meetings this week. Neither Democrat Jay Inslee nor Republican Rob McKennadropped a bombshell in the telephone call-ins, and both said they want to see the federal Affordable Care Act put into [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Washington State’
July 16th, 2012 - 8:33 am § in Politics
A Rational Comment on the Burner v. Delbene race in WA 1st.
Burner vs. DelBene, Donald A. Smith From Washington Liberals Blog. In her 2006 and 2008 campaigns for Congress, Darcy Burner did not stake out strongly progressive views — presumably because she needed to appeal to conservatives in the southern part of the old 8th CD. This year Darcy is soundi[...]
July 11th, 2012 - 8:43 pm § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
Leroy Searle: The conviction that universities should do so is as time-honored and legitimate as the conviction that we should teach students to think, to read, and to write. But the way we are doing it now surely is not sustainable.
This is a very thoughtful post by Leroy Searle. Dr. Searle was responding to a long stream of UW emails about a 5% pay raise the faculty union at Western Washington had negotiated with their administration. Most of thread was woven out of the usual angst about why UW faculty does d not ha[...]
The Washington Post: U.S. pushes for more scientists, but the jobs aren’t there
The Canary in the Mine: a frightening insight into the US Economic future. Based in part on Washington Post article, “U.S. pushes for more scientists, but the jobs aren’t there“ Here in Washington state, Ed Lazowska , the Bill and Melinda Gates Professor of Comp Sci at UW, is a very fo[...]
June 28th, 2012 - 11:50 pm § in Uncategorized
WASTATE: McKenna issues non-statement on health care ruling
OLYMPIA – Today the US Supreme Court upheld the 2010 Affordable Care Act. In a close decision, with multiple opinions, the Court ruled that the federal requirement to purchase health insurance—specifically a plan dictated by government regulators – does not violate the Constitution. The state[...]
June 16th, 2012 - 9:43 am § in Politics, The Ave Scene
GOOD NEWS, PUBLICOLA lives on, news is still (somehow) surviving.
As the traditional media die, a major side effect has been the precipitous loss of reporters .. you know the pad wielding, camera carrying guys and gals who gave us Watergate. the Pentagon papers and all those juicy sex scandals? When papers can’t sell ads, they also do nto pay even the tradit[...]
June 13th, 2012 - 3:32 am § in Politics
UPDATE: Republican easily won the first debate!
UPDATE: I did get to listen to yesterday’s debate in my car. Frankly, there was nothing new. The questions were great, but Inslee and Ferguson lost badly. Neither of them took advantage of their biggest weapons .. the association of McKenna and Dunn with an extremist, radicalized Republica[...]
Washington State Republican Convention, No cheer in Tacoma!
I was a Republican. At least my fellow delegates kept asking me if I was a Republican. This lasted the four days of their state convention. Apparently my credentials had been questioned. I was worried about how many of my fellow delegates were carrying guns, and the chair did tell the audience tha[...]
BREAKING NEWS: Ross Hunter endorses Suzan DelBene
It seems to me that in re BURNER VS. DelBene, Burner brings a committed group of progressives but likely can not win. DelBene brings the endorsements of every major Democrat and organized labor . It is likely that Suzan can win and will hold that seat for a very long time. She also brings a [&he[...]
Inslee and McKenna take very different positions on higher education
After experiencing THE GRIM, ANTI-ACADEMIC ATMOSPHERE OF THE STATE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION, I am becoming utterly confused by the governor’s race. I am very troubled and want to ask myself what Thomas Jefferson would do? Is this another choice between centrist conservatives .. like Washingto[...]