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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

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.
Elsewhere

British Columbia’s New Normal: Battered by Wildfires and Floods

“The new normal” in Beautiful British Columbia now means fires consuming forests, vast beetle kills, evacuations, and smoke which pays no respect to the 49th Parallel. Hundred-year fires are being fought in one night.
Politics

The Veep Comes to Town

With the 2024 election approaching, Harris has been set loose. Washington is a good place to display the message and messenger. 
Politics

Pedal to the Metal: GOP Elects Culture Warrior as State Chairman

While losing elections, the state party has moved relentlessly to the right, even as Democrats have locked in control of the levers of government.
Politics

Go West : Biden and the Democrats Pan for Gold

With the once-“Solid South” now solidly Republican, picking up support in Western states has become essential for Democrats to win the White House, and to hold (barely) the Senate, and to fill campaign coffers.
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