This is the grave of Dixy Lee Ray. One of the weirdest governors in a weird era of American politics, Ray was born Marguerite Ray in 1916 in Tacoma. When she was 1930, only 14 years of age, she changed her name legally to "Dixy...
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This is the grave of David Clough. Born in 1846 in Lyme, New Hampshire, he grew up poor on a farm that relied on a lot of logging. He went.
I just find regrets by white voters for Trump doing precisely what he said he would do on ethnic cleansing infuriating. From Pacific County, Washington: Named after a character in.
As this story on Washington demonstrates, one of the many sad ironies of the election is that the counties most reliant upon the ACA for health care are also the counties most likely to vote for the fascist Trump.
Since the Trump Administration is going to SAVE COAL!!!, I wonder how it will respond to the western states refusing to allow coal development in the ports required to ship.
I am really frustrated with the entire state of the post-election debate, whether it is liberals hating Bernie Sanders, the left gloating, or especially the dismissal of economic anxiety as.
One policy many voting reform advocates like are top-two primaries. But they are terrible because they don't actually give voters choices. What you often see is the situation we now have in Washington, where the top two primary winners for the office of state treasurer...
If you are in Washington and you want to buy marijuana with the union label, you can thanks to UFCW Local 367, who represents workers at a processing plant. Union.
One of the most interesting genres of books one finds on Gutenberg is old children's books. I first found these interesting when in doing some research, I had to read.
Stephen Greenhouse on the new right-wing effort to crush unions: astroturf door-to-door campaigns. For several months, Shawna Murphy, a home-based childcare provider in Seattle, had received a stream of emails, letters and robocalls – some two dozen of them – telling her she had the...
Faculty at the University of Washington are considering unionizing, the only sensible move for faculty around the nation. Unsurprisingly, the Seattle Times is opposed to it. Unfortunately, from what I.
Jake Blumgart has an interesting piece on how Seattle has created its own labor office with more inspectors per capita than the Department of Labor or the state of Washington..