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I was forwarded an email today from a conservative friend of mine. While I might not agree with the Tea Party folks, I think this is encouraging. I privately rant about the so called tea party movement being co-opted by opportunistic organizati...

topics: conservative, democrat, government

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I wrote in my last post about Larry Haler and his position about what I m going to start calling Marijuana Reform being a bit perplexing. Now with all bills off the table in the Wa Legislature (of which I m pretty certain Larry s will be too), Le...

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With little time I don t write much anymore so here s a dump on some of the latest&I ll start local.Larry Haler&I don t know what has happened with our local Washington State Legislator Larry Haler (R-8th). Once upon a time we had a reasonable, per...

topics: committee, congress, democrat, democrats, elected

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For nearly seven months it seems that the City of Pasco has had to deal with a small group of pro-life constituents (and many non-constituents) who opposed Planned Parenthood s plans to open a new clinic in Pasco. Planned Parenthood, noting an incr...

topics: city-council, demonstrators, political, republican, supreme-court

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I really appreciate Michelle Dupler from the Tri-City Herald. She's a straight on young reporter and seems to be filling in the shoes of the Herald's political beat quite well. It may be kind of dull politics around here but when Speaker Chopp sh...

topics: political, politics, senator

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Man Yakima Yet another reason I don't like to go there. Yet another reason people laugh at you. And I always wondered why people called Yakima the Buttcrack of Washington .By Associated Press YAKIMA, Wash. The Yakima City Council...

topics: city-council, mayor

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It probably isn't a first (but it's the first I've witnessed), but the online news blog, for lack of a better term, Pubicola, has been bought into by private invester and green developer Greg Smith. Aside from being giddy about the prospect that it...

topics: government, politics

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If you are a Republican in Franklin County Washington and weren't at the last central committee meeting, you probably should have been. Your county party has been officially hijacked! At the last meeting, word is the overly-zealous-anti-everythin...

topics: committee, democrat, government, representative, republican

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I once went to a St. Patty's day party in a very small conservative town in Indiana where I was nearly accosted by a patron who, for some strange reason, brought his own green food coloring turn his beer green. Unfortunately, for him, the more he d...

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Now you too can apologize to Rush Limbaugh!I wish republican leadership would toss Rush to the curb. They will have to at some point so why not now? They need ideas and strategy and Rush embodies neither. Neither does O'Reilly. Watching repub...

topics: republican, republicans