Tag: Seattle Times
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Collapse of the Local Free Press: Stopgap Legislation Urgently Needed
Seattle Times publisher Frank Blethen writes that our democracy has become fragile, and that “the major fault lines are evidenced by significant inequity in education, health care, public safety, wealth, and age.” He alerts us to an even more serious threat—a threat to the means by which we know about, respond to, and deal with…
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“This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.”
— Said by the gun-runner character Jackie Brown in the book by George Higgins, The Friends of Eddy Coyle (1970). For us to stay smart, our communities need a vigorous, healthy, local free press. See my synopsis of the 2021 year-end message from the publisher of The Seattle Times, about saving the country’s local free…
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Candidates Endorsed by the Seattle Times Editorial Board
The final election endorsements for Washington State mid-term elections are in. See them at “Editorial board endorsements for Nov. 8,” The Seattle Times, 6 Nov. 2022, Print, D3, or online at https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/editorials/seattle-times-editorial-board-endorsements-nov-8-2022-general-election/ The Seattle Times interviews candidates and then endorses some. To read the endorsements and the full editorials (the why for the endorsements) for…
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More Election News: Debates and endorsements by The Seattle Times
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Washington State’s election season is upon us.
Our awareness, knowledge, involvement, and votes during the political process determine whether our environment and nature are conserved. Please see the political endorsements for Washington State candidates made by The Seattle Times and others at https://mrmconservation.com/legislation-politics-and-democracy/
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America Surrenders on Climate Change
24 July 2022 Jon Talton, “Surrender on Climate Change Bakes Catastrophe Into the Planet’s Cake,” The Seattle Times, 24 July 2022, Print, C5 and C10; 22 July 2022, Web, https://www.seattletimes.com/business/surrender-on-climate-change-bakes-catastrophe-in-the-planets-cake/ My synopsis of this article: President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better agenda, with its many climate-action initiatives, would have launched the United States on a…
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Candidates endorsed by The Seattle Times
The Seattle Times endorsements were published in the 17 July 2022 (Sunday) issue on p. D3 and can be accessed at https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/editorials/seattle-times-editorial-board-endorsements-aug-2-2022-primary/ (e-published 8 July 2022 and updated 21 July 2022). My Comments:I’m glad I live where a free and healthy press still exists and where newspapers publish their recommendations on which candidates to vote…
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