Trump has set up a situation in which no one who opposes him can win a victory that his supporters consider legitimate. He has said before both his Presidential races that he could lose only if the election was rigged. (Heads I win, tails you cheated.)
If we’re going to revisit the world-changing early decades of nuclear weapons, people should recognize the historic importance of eastern Washington’s Hanford nuclear site, and that our government exposed thousands of its own citizens to radiation from airborne waste and the fallout from nuclear tests.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul warned that “the Supreme Court could rule that domestic violence survivors today deserve only the protections they had in the 18th century — a time before most women could own property or work outside the home, let alone vote.”
The Biden administration’s approval of the Willow Project on the North Slope may have felt like it came out of the blue, but of course it didn’t. It had plenty of history. And plenty of bogus predictions.
A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit has stayed U.S. District Judge Richard Jones’ May order that would have shut down the Southeast Alaska troll fishery for chinook salmon. More legal challenges will follow.
A May 2 U.S District Court decision looks like the best thing that has happened to Southern Resident Killer Whales – aka Puget Sound orcas -- in the nearly half-century since people stopped trapping them for display at Sea World and other marine parks.
Maybe we need a two-or-more-tiered system in which different kinds of public speech get different levels of protection. That would solve a number of problems, but it would also create others. Just exactly which kind of speech should get more or less protection?
Acceptance of mass timber is obviously growing. The state
Department of Commerce says that “cross-laminated timber is one of the fastest-growing segments of [Washington’s forest products] industry.”