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In a blow to House Republicans who had made him one of their favorite targets of scorn and derision, U.S. Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) died today at age 77 of complications from gallbladder surgery.Although he d earned wide renown amongst D.C. insiders fo...

topics: committee, democrat, elected, politics, republican

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The Cannabis Defense Coalition has now received the second and third bundles of documents from the Department of Corrections in response to their public disclosure request. Following the first set of documents the CDC received, I posted about how At...

topics: attorney-general, elected, government

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In a decision that should come as a surprise to absolutely no one, King County Superior Court Judge John Erlick ruled today that the state has failed to meet its paramount duty to make ample provision for the education of all children, as require...

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The good news for Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn is that only 34% percent of Seattle voters surveyed disapprove of his job performance thus far. The bad news is that only 40% approve of his performance& that according to a KING5/SurveyUSA poll of 500 Seat...

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Nobody wins elections they re not running for like Dino Rossi.After losing an excruciatingly close race to Christine Gregoire in 2004, Rossi went on to win multiple gubernatorial opinion polls in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2009, as well as several head to ...

topics: christine-gregoire, election, republican, republicans

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Well, sorta. The Academy Award nominations came out today, and The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner was nominated in the category of Documentary, Short Subject. The film chronicles our former governor s Initiative 1000 campaign, in which vot...

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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee in favor of dropping the armed forces 16-year-old don t ask, don t tell policy, and for the fir...

topics: campaign, clinton, committee, obama, political

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The Seattle Times is earning well-deserved kudos for its three-part expos of abuse and neglect at adult family homes& which is kinda ironic considering how vociferously its editorial board has opposed an initiative that would require adequate scree...

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Friday s post on Kemper Freeman Jr. generated quite a few angry responses from apologists who insisted it was unfair of me to brand the Eastside real estate mogul with his own shameful family history. But if Freeman insists on wielding his wealth a...

topics: bellevue, campaign

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Speaking of investigative reporting, Michael Hood s got the first of a two part series up on BlatherWatch, exposing former KVI host Peter Wiessbach s exploitive janitorial business.It s an insight into how sleazy operators like Weissbach use illegals...