Joel Connelly

I worked for Seattle Post-Intelligencer from 1973 until it ceased print publication in 2009, and SeattlePI.com from 2009 to 6/30/2020. During that time, I wrote about 9 presidential races, 11 Canadian and British Columbia elections‎, four doomed WPPSS nuclear plants, six Washington wilderness battles, creation of two national Monuments (Hanford Reach and San Juan Islands), a 104 million acre Alaska Lands Act, plus the Columbia Gorge National Scenic Area.
Politics

Trump Class Coin: Dear Leader Everywhere

As our democracy celebrates its 250th birthday, Donald Trump is thrusting himself at us. Our new Gilded Age is taking on indisputable tackiness.
Politics

Blue Wave Building? Ohio’s Amy Acton

Amy Acton, former director of Ohio’s Department of Health, is campaigning about restoring health to the Buckeye State’s Democrats, who have lately fallen on hard times.
Politics

Bondi Buh-Bye: Too Crooked for the Constitution, Too Clumsy for the King

The 47th president sacked AG Pam Bondi not because she displayed any independence, but because she was inept.
Politics

A New Deal (and a New Leader) for Canada’s New Democratic Party

The NDP has opted for a bold social democratic and environmental agenda, advocating for cross-country limits on rents, taxing the rich, and building an energy economy rooted in renewables.
Environment

David Suzuki: Still Fighting for the Planet at 90

The renowned geneticist, who studied the fruit fly, has grown increasingly pessimistic about the fate of the earth. He speaks to the climate extremes afflicting his country, and ours, and we need to hear him out.
Politics

How Washington went Deep Blue

The Grand Old Party, in Washington, is far from grand these days.
blog

Seattle’s Father Ryan Reports on his Meeting with Pope Leo XIV

During a lengthy tenure, unusual in the Seattle archdiocese, Fr. Ryan refurbished St. James, banished guitars at Mass, brought in a women’s’ choir, and GLBTQ activists took the pulpit at the Catholic cathedral to read scripture.
Politics

The Rise and Fall of Joe Kent

Such views helped to qualify Kent for a top counterterrorism posting in the topsy turbulent territory of Trumpland. But this week he walked away, reasoning that we are buying oil from people we are bombing.
Politics

Dynamic Duo: Washington’s Two Senators

Murray is 75, and Cantwell is 67. Looking to 2028, when Murray is up, the partnership may well come to an end.
Politics

Sock It to ’em, Hillary

Hilary Clinton would have made a better president than her spouse. She had the opportunity to shatter the glass ceiling.
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