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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.
People

Other Ways to Serve: Remembering Peter Jackson

As ex-Seattle Mayor Charley Royer posted, “I always thought Peter should have run for office. Didn’t need to. He found other ways to serve.”
Politics

Failure to Meet: What’s Wrong with Washington’s US Senators?

Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., has held no town halls in recent years, and is reticent about schedules where voters can catch up with her.
Politics

Cynical Descent: Senate Republicans’ Tortured Smear of Ketanji Brown Jackson

Of the three Republican senators who are voting for Judge Jackson’s confirmation, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Georgia, Tweeted on Tuesday: “Collins, Murkowski, and Romney are pro-pedophile.”
Politics

She’s Baaack! Sarah Palin Joins the Stampede to Succeed Alaska’s Don Young

Fifty one candidates. Fifty-one(!) have filed for the special election to fill Alaska's lone Congressional seat.
Cities

First Hill Mega-Project: St. James Cathedral Makes Deal with “Visionary” Developer

"I like the thought that the development of the neighborhood will not distract from the Cathedral’s presence but will point to and enhance it.”
Politics

Locking up the Left: Justin Trudeau Strikes a Deal to Remain Prime Minister

Canada will have a stable government and no national election for the next three years – at least. 
blog

Rebate to Nowhere: British Columbia’s Feckless Fuel Folly

While governments put money in peoples’ hands, they tend to reach into taxpayers’ pockets.
Politics

Don Young of Alaska, the Nation’s Longest-Serving GOP Congressman, is Dead at 88

Of one highways bill, Young boasted: “I stuffed it like a turkey.” Colleagues nicknamed him “the alpha wolf” – a wolf skin decorated the wall of his office – a nickname Young embraced.  “I AM the alpha wolf,” he once told me in an interview.
Health

Canada Drops Its Vexing, Burdensome Border-Crossing Requirements

Vaccination rates in Canada have been higher than in America. But Canada still imposed vexing requirements for those crossing its borders. No more -- unless you are unvaccinated.
Politics

A New Book Revisits Watergate and Asks the Big Question: Why Did They Do It?

In Graff’s view, all investigative books, as well as apologias penned by Nixon's inner circle, have left unanswered one fundamental question. “Why did you fellows break into the Watergate?”
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