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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.
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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.
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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.
Politics

New Poll: Cantwell way out in Front for a Fifth Term

Cantwell won a narrow 2,229-vote over Gorton in 2000, which was the last Senate race decided in the country. She has since enjoyed three easy races. If reelected in 2024, she and Patty Murray will be poised to serve together for 28 years – the same joint tenure as the duo of Sens. Warren Magnuson and Henry Jackson, seatmates from 1953-81.
Politics

Unpopular City Council Births a Brood of Would-be Replacements. Fun Summer to Ensue

The turnover at City Hall will have consequences, given the current council’s unpopularity and left-leaning ideological bent. A recent poll, done for the Downtown Seattle Assn., asked 500 likely voters to grade the City Council. Two-thirds of those surveyed gave the Council a D or F.
Environment

Smoke Signals: Climate Change and Canadian Forest Fires

What we’re witnessing, on all continents, is no joke. Smoke is getting into our eyes, but should also be on our minds.  
Cities

How Bellingham Went from a City to Flee to a City to See

“Bellywash,” my mother’s nickname for the town, has begun to pop up on lists of America’s best places to live, learn, work, and retire.
Politics

Early Poll In Washington State’s Governor’s Race: Ferguson Leads

A poll is a snapshot in time, and voters have until August of next year to sample the candidates and make up their minds. The Northwest states of Washington and Oregon have the longest Democratic party winning streaks in America. This state has not elected a Republican governor since John Spellman’s 1980 win.
People

Remembering Congressman Don Bonker: Just Look Around

Bonker successfully pushed to add Point of Arches and Shi Shi Beach, crowning glory spots of the Pacific Coast, to Olympic National Park. It wasn’t easy.
Environment

How Justice Alito Became Environment Czar

By imposing his own definition of the federal Clean Water Act, enacted 51 years ago under the Nixon Administration, Alito has followed a rule defined by onetime Jersey City political boss Frank Hague: “I am the law.”
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