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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.
Books

How America Survived the ‘Peril’ of an Enraged Donald Trump

One little-noticed incident in the book describes what Seattle Rep. Adam Smith heard from the insurrectionists on the plane returning to SeaTac. Scary, anti-Semitic stuff.
Environment

How You Protect the Olympic Peninsula Wilderness

About the only place you can still see “No Wild Olympics” signs are beside Trump for President yard signs on the south shore of Lake Quinault.  The south shore is a redoubt of property rights activists with a history of adversarial relations with the National Park Service.
blog

Grrr: Attorney General Bob Ferguson Versus the Growlers

As the AG took questions, Ferguson was interrupted by a sudden earsplitting roar. A Growler jet passed low overhead.  The jet circled south, made a pass over the Naval Outlying Landing Field, just south of Coupeville, and came around again.
blog

Hung Jury: Justin Trudeau’s $600 Million Election Gamble Results in Status Quo

The Trudeaus, pere et fils, have won seven of eight national elections they have contested dating back to 1968 (three years before Justin was born).  They have shown a ferocity whenever their hold on power was threatened.
Politics

A Moment of Truth Arrives for Biden and the Democrats

Rep. Jayapal, in one of the safest Democratic districts in the nation, may chair the Congressional Progressive Caucus, but Reps. Suzan DelBene and Derek Kilmer, D-Wash., head the larger, more mainstream New Democrat Coalition.  Unlike Jayapal and AOC, many of its members represent swing districts. 
blog

Pope Francis To US Bishops: Stay Out of Politics!

The Pope had a long chat with reporters during a return flight from Slovakia to Rome. He was asked about the communion flap in the United States.
blog

Biden’s EPA Finds a New Weapon in the War Against Alaska’s Pebble Mine

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is moving to permanently block the proposed Pebble Mine project, which would locate a mile-square copper and gold mine between two of the most productive river watersheds supporting the salmon fishery of Alaska’s Bristol Bay.
Politics

Canadian Election Surprise: Trudeau is in Serious Trouble

The most likely scenario now, with two weeks until the Sept. 20 election, is for another “hung” parliament in which no party wins a majority.
Environment

Climate Change Is Melting Permafrost on the Road to Denali

Alaska is changing fast. All told, according to climate records kept by the Matanuska Experimental Farm near Anchorage, the average yearly temperature has jumped by 6.9 degrees during the past century.  The annual number of frost-free days measured at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport has grown by 17 days.
Environment

The Melting Signs of Climate Change on Northwest Glaciers

We are used to life in a region surrounded by envy. As such, we have underestimated the speed at which impacts of climate change would arrive.
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