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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.
Environment

Kickstarting 30X30: Look to Alaska

Biden, in an executive order on climate policy signed last January, directed Cabinet secretaries to set the stage to “achieve the goal of conserving at least 30 percent of our lands and waters by 2030.” The same executive order spoke of creating a Civilian Climate Corps modeled after FDR’s successful Civilian Conservation Corps which built much of the West’s recreation infrastructure.
Politics

Where did the Mom in Tennis Shoes Disappear to?

KING TV released a statewide poll last week in which voters by a 47-31 percent margin said they do not want Patty Murray to seek a sixth term in 2022.  The findings suggest that fewer people know of Murray and what she’s doing.
Books

Humiliation to Triumph: The Japanese-American Heroes of WWII

Having put them behind guard towers, the U.S. government asked the young Japanese-American men to volunteer and fight for the country. They debated, most enlisted, and many proved to be superlative soldiers.
Politics

At High Cost — Our Lack of Civil Debate

The tenor now is to attack, ridicule society’s compromises, make it personal, and accuse the other side of seeking to destroy America. Onetime House Speaker Newt Gingrich is ceaselessly vicious on right-wing media. Rudy Giuliani responds to prosecutors’ investigations of his dirty tricks by doubling down on Hunter Biden.
blog

Canada loses a Legal Giant who served the Cause of Indigenous People

Why should we note Tom Berger’s passing on this side of the 49th Parallel? Because past mistreatment of Native peoples knew no boundaries, and redress in the form of empowerment and justice came in the 1970s on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border.
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.
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