SUBSCRIBE
FREE NEWSLETTER
Try "researchers"

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.
blog

British Columbia Locks Down — COVID Variants Surge

The Great White North has experienced little of the protest and defiance against COVID-19 measures experienced in “the States.” But that is starting to change.
blog

“Mask Bullies”: Kooky Alaska State Senator gets herself Banned from Airline

Sen. Reinbold has angered even (very) conservative Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy with her strident criticism of COVID-19 mitigation measures. “It is lamentable that the good citizens of Eagle River and Chugiak are deprived of meaningful representation by the actions of the person holding the office of senator,” Gov. Dunleavy said in a recent statement.
Books

Debunking the Marcus Whitman Mythology

The bogus myth was used to spur settlers to come West, to raise money for struggling Whitman College, and to prompt Justice Douglas to place a Whitman statue in the U.S. Capitol (now removed).
Politics

While Congress gets Nowhere on Gun Laws, States (Like Washington) Make Progress

Gun safety measures are stalled in Congress, but states like Washington have found the tactics to pass legislation.
Books

Street Fighter: When Nancy Reagan ran the White House

Karen Tumulty is a Washington Post columnist and was for years a hardworking reporter on the presidential campaign trail, not one of the repetitive ones you see on Cable TV. The Triumph of Nancy Reagan is her first book. It is the best treatment of the Reagan years since Lou Cannon’s President Reagan: The role of a lifetime nearly three decades ago.
Politics

Canada’s COVID Politics: Trudeau Ascendant

Canadians remain wary of opening their American border. As well they might be: British Columbia has recorded 5,108 new cases of the coronavirus over the first five days of April. While the pace is stepping up, vaccination has had a slower start north of the 49th Parallel.
Religion

Catholic Church’s Mixed Easter Message to Same-Sex Parishioners

The strongest response to the stern Vatican directive came from Bishop Johan Bonny of Antwerp, who pronounced himself “ashamed for my Church . . . I mainly feel moral and intellectual incomprehension. I would like to apologize to all for whom this responsum is painful, incomprehensible. The pain the Church has caused them is today my pain.”
Environment

Saving the Land that Saved Canada’s Trumpeter Swans

The Edwards clan, who saved the Trumpeter swans from extinction, is long gone from Lonesome Lake, its farm buildings destroyed by a long-ago forest fire. A “re-wilding” has taken place at the lake, surrounded by the wilderness of Tweedsmuir Provincial Park. What a wild place it is!
blog

Microsoft Protests Georgia’s New Voter-Discouragement Law

Microsoft's Brad Smith: “We hope that companies will come together and make clear that a healthy business requires a healthy community. And a healthy community requires that everyone have a right to vote conveniently, safely, and securely.”
blog

Short-Circuited: BC Premier Declares “Circuit Breaker” COVID Lockdown

Vaccination has had a relatively slow rollout, with just under 700,000 shots administered and just 87,000 B.C. residents fully immunized. Hence, a circuit breaker is now required until April 19 to break the chains of transmission.
1...323334...41Page 33 of 41

Latest

Seattle, Washington

Contact: Editor@postalley.org