SUBSCRIBE
FREE NEWSLETTER
Try "researchers"

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.
blog

A Last-Gasp Effort to Resurrect a Mine in Bristol Bay

The state of Alaska has taken its case directly to the U.S. Supreme Court in an 11th hour effort to resurrect a giant, open pit copper and gold mine, proposed for a location in western Alaska that flanks two of Bristol Bay’s renowned salmon spawning watersheds.
Politics

GOP Culture Warriors’ Next Target: Young Voters and Colleges

The Democrats have given us America’s oldest president, but they are far more in sync with younger voters.
Books

Understanding Martin Luther King, Flaws and All

On the national stage for just 13 years, King combined conviction with enormous skill as a tactician. He mastered what biographer Jonathan Eig calls “the politics of respectability,” leading demonstrations characterized by a disarming dignity and restraint.
Politics

Show Pony? Jayapal Backpedals while Workhorses Quietly Get Things Done

It was a second public stumble by Jayapal, chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, quite recently heralded by CNN and MSNBC commentators as a rising power in the House.
Politics

Pramila Jayapal calls Israel a “Racist State”

Jayapal’s remark generated instant blowback. Seven Democratic House members, who are Jewish – and come from competitive districts – drafted a letter with a blunt message: “We will never allow anti-Zionist voices that embolden anti-Semitism to hijack the Democratic Party and country.”
Environment

35 Years Later: The Northwest Is Paying for Climate Change

When I was walking the dog at Cape Lookout, and George H.W. Bush was promising to become “the environmental president,” there was a clear window for pro-active response to the looming climate crisis. The window is closing fast.
Politics

Reichert Runs: Does he have a Shot at being Washington’s Next Governor?

The onetime King County Sheriff appears as the great hope of Washington’s more traditional, conventional Republicans. The reception of the MAGA crowd is less welcoming.
blog

End of an Era: National Geographic Lays Off The Last Of Its Writers

Of course, in a press release, NatGeo tried to present a rosy picture on its staff cutbacks, saying: “Staffing changes will not change our ability to do this work, but rather give us more flexibility to tell different stories and meet our audience where they are across our many platforms." That assertion is highly questionable.
Environment

The Doorstep of Canada’s Carbon Economy: A Mega-Pipeline Threatens

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is implementing a controversial carbon tax and has committed Canada to what he calls a low carbon economy. Ironically, at the same time Trudeau is the chief architect of TransMountain expansion.
blog

Pride Month: The Washington Story

In Olympia, our first LGBTQ legislators, Cal Anderson and his successor Ed Murray, worked in increments – hospital visitations, inheritance rights, anti-bullying, legalization of civil unions. Marriage equality followed.
1...789...36Page 8 of 36

Latest

Seattle, Washington

Contact: Editor@postalley.org