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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.
Environment

Republicans Taking an Ax to our Forests

Tthe Trump Administration is embarked on a tawdry stewardship of National Forest lands.
Politics

Cleanup Milestone: Nuclear Waste at Hanford is Finally Being Turned into Glass

“After decades of design, engineering and construction, Hanford workers are finally beginning to immobilize millions of gallons of toxic waste into glass."
Religion

In a Divided Church, Pope Leo Sides with Compassion

The progressive voices of Catholicism have taken heart at words from Dilexi Te, Leo’s first teaching document: “In a world where the poor are increasingly numerous, we paradoxically see the growth of a wealthy elite, living in a bubble of comfort and luxury, almost in another world compared to ordinary people.”
Politics

107 Days: Why Kamala Harris’ Campaign Fell Short

Harris has always been difficult to pin down on policy. She’s had one foot in the party’s moderate ranks — a self-described “tough prosecutor” — the other foot being that of a Berkeley-bred progressive.
blog

A Debt of Gratitude for the Late Bob Lynette, a Conservationist Leader

Bob took his skills and applied them to potential oil spills and consequences to Puget Sound. The result, pardon the pun, was Sound risk assessment. It raised alarm about the spill potential of single-shell tankers.
Politics

Where we Are: The Politics of Coercion and Retribution

We used to watch World War II movies of evil Gestapo agents snatching people off streets, even violating the confessional in Catholic Churches. Yet, within the past week, masked ICEmen in an unmarked vehicle picked up an “illegal” outside Horizon House on First Hill.
International

British Columbia Versus Trump

BC Premier David Eby recently declared: "“We’re a clean energy powerhouse, a stable and dependable partner with an abundance of natural resources. We will be the economic engine of the new Canadian economy.”
Journalism

Cascade PBS Jettisons its Reason for Existing

The real loser is the community when a news organization jettisons its investigative unit or in-depth reporting.
Politics

Cowed and Neutered: CBS News and the Washington Post

As Edward Murrow pointed out on his first McCarthy broadcast more than 70 years ago, dissent is not disloyalty. Only a would-be authoritarian would think otherwise.
Reflections

How my Mom Learned about the Advantages of Diversity

My mother garnered a close-up appreciation of affirmative action. Not as a racial quota system, but as a way to provide opportunity that would otherwise be lost.
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