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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.
Politics

“Their Own Civil War”: Kim Schrier Talks about the Chaos in the House

“Now Ukraine funding is hanging in the balance, and we have a war thrust on Israel,” lamented Schrier. “Now, at a precarious moment, we have chaos in the House.”
Environment

Should Grizzlies be Reintroduced to the North Cascades?

The Park Services proposes to introduce three to seven bears a year to the North Cascades over the period of a decade, to areas with “no confirmed evidence of a grizzly bear presence.”  Careful monitoring is promised.
People

Much “Up Go”: Remembering Dianne Feinstein

I encountered “DiFi” on a hotel balcony, two weeks into a 1978 fall trek to the base of Cho Oyu and Mt. Everest, on leave from my newspaper job and strengthened by what our Sherpa guides described as “much up go, much down go.”
blog

New Book Remembers a Model First Citizen, Jolene Unsoeld

Unsoeld rankled men in Congress by such remarks as, “When I was in Congress, women tended to be problem solvers and to be issue-oriented. Men tended to be interested in acquiring power and moving up the leadership ladder.
Politics

Second GOP Debate: Donald Ducks and Feeling Dumber

Reagan authored the GOP’s famous 11th Commandment: “Thou Shalt Not Speak Ill of any Fellow Republican.” It was disobeyed dozens of times last night. Ex-New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said of frontrunner Donald Trump, who deliberately skipped the debate: “He put $7 trillion on the national debt and he should answer for that.”
Books

New Book: Dark Brandon’s Masterclass in the Old Ways and Getting Things Done

The old way of doing things has recently yielded results, although you’d never know it through the braying hatred and ridicule of right-wing media and the bed-wetting tendencies of liberal commentary.
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.)
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