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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.
Business

Whoops! Canadian Pipeline Project Burns Through Mountains of Cash

“Megaprojects” are a part of Canada’s development psyche. Some have proven visionary, such as the big James Bay hydro project in Quebec. Others have become fiascos, such as British Columbia’s attempt to build fast ferries, or B.C.’s $16 billion Site C dam project on the Peace River.
Environment

Skeptical of Climate Change Skeptics

Skeptics are of various stripes, but they seem united in the view that dangers of global warming are being exaggerated – often deliberately. They specialize in explaining that each climate catastrophe is not caused by climate change. Some go further into celebrating all the positive properties of carbon dioxide.
Politics

Tom Foley: Remembering the Man from Spokane

“He was inclusive, bipartisan and committed to cooperation, comity, evenhandedness, and institutional effectiveness of the legislative process.” Foley did so in the face of growing “partisan polarization and political attacks.”
blog

Jill Biden Heads to Mercer Island for You-Know-What

The money flows only one way. Joe Biden held two fundraisers here soon after announcing his bid for the White House in 2019, but his campaign spent only about $600 on the Evergreen State’s 2020 presidential primary. (He beat Bernie Sanders anyway.)
Politics

Rep. Gluesenkamp-Perez’s Not-So-Secret Weapon: Inhabit the District

Gluesenkamp-Perez narrowly defeated MAGA Republican Joe Kent, after Kent ousted six-term GOP Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler in last year’s primary. Kent took controversial stands, saying that Dr. Anthony Fauci should be tried for murder. Now Kent is running again.
blog

Biden Cancels Trump’s Oil Leases on the Alaskan Arctic Coast

Biden moved to resolve a half-century of conflict in favor of conservation, saying: “As the climate crisis warms the Arctic more than twice as fast as the rest of the world, we have a responsibility to protect this treasured region for the ages.” Biden
Politics

All About the Language: Ohio Votes on a Right to Abortion Amendment

The Catholic church has already given $900,000 to Protect Women Ohio, which is opposing Issue 1. In a “letter to the faithful,” sent out last month, Cincinnati Archbishop Daniel Schnurr explained: “The church must not remain on the sidelines when confronted with such a clear threat to human life and dignity and the primacy of the family.”
Religion

Pope Francis Versus His Church’s American “Backwardists”

Some American bishops can look like the MAGA movement at prayer.
Environment

Failure to Persuade? Even after this Summer’s Disasters, Two-Thirds of Republicans are Unconvinced on Climate Change

A new poll lays out how the nation’s political divisions have settled like a stagnant air mass over the environment. 
Politics

Attack of the Gas Price Billboards

The billboards, directed at U.S. Reps. Kim Schrier and Marie Gluesenkamp-Perez, D-Wash., are an exhibit of the NRCC’s cookie-cutter approach to politics. They use the same words, and make the same allegations, regardless of a House member’s record or what place in America he or she represents.
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