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• Don’t let Trump and his enablers blow up the presidential debates
• Guarantee future funding for Washington’s forest-health crisis
• Grocery workers: Shame on Kroger
• Picking up trash is but a start to Little Saigon rescue plan
• Law & justice: Stop enforcing parking violations
• Biden fails pandemic-hero test
• Seattle’s gun-violence epidemic
• Don’t use tragedy to reduce public records
• Education: Progressive, equitable
• Concrete strike: Affordable housing
• Automation: Workers’ transition
• Building costs: Alternative materials
• Free Press roundup: Antitrust cases heating up
• Keep Alaska’s pristine wild lands free of poisonous industrial mining
• Trump isn’t responsible for Iran’s aggressive behavior

Don’t let Trump and his enablers blow up the presidential debates Posted: 21 Jan 2022 08:01 AM PST It was only when the Commission on Presidential Debates — an independent, nonprofit entity with a bipartisan board of directors — assumed control that debates became a reliable and much-anticipated feature of the presidential, and vice presidential, campaigns.

Guarantee future funding for Washington’s forest-health crisis Posted: 20 Jan 2022 02:15 PM PST Thinning, harvesting and treating forests with controlled burns are the only meaningful tools we have to reduce the occurrence of catastrophic fires.

Grocery workers: Shame on Kroger Posted: 20 Jan 2022 02:14 PM PST Re: "Fred Meyer, QFC workers struggle in Washington to make ends meet, new report shows" [Jan. 19, Business]: The majority of my shopping is done at these two stores. It is insane that Kroger's CEO Rodney McMullen makes $22 million a year (what does one do with that much money?) while his workers often cannot […]

Picking up trash is but a start to Little Saigon rescue plan Posted: 20 Jan 2022 02:12 PM PST Seattle Public Utilities expanded cleaning trash and illegally dumped garbage in Little Saigon last month, but more sanitation improvements must be implemented. It would bring some degree of order to the chaos.

Law & justice: Stop enforcing parking violations Posted: 20 Jan 2022 02:09 PM PST Seattle has announced it will stop prioritizing low-level traffic violations because they place an undue financial burden on low-income people ["Seattle police will no longer enforce some minor violations, including biking without a helmet," Jan. 14, Local News]. Does that mean the city will also stop enforcing parking violations which impose a similar burden? I […]

Biden fails pandemic-hero test Posted: 20 Jan 2022 02:30 AM PST The chaos of this monster is frightening Americans. Will the president step up and strike at the heads of this beast?

Seattle’s gun-violence epidemic Posted: 19 Jan 2022 03:47 PM PST In 2021, gun deaths, gun injuries and shots fired in Seattle all surged to the highest levels in a decade. And it has not stopped in 2022.

Don’t use tragedy to reduce public records Posted: 19 Jan 2022 03:31 PM PST Washington's legislators ought to reject House Bill 1408 despite its bipartisan support. A 2018 murder should not drive the Legislature to the misstep of exempting juvenile 911 calls from being public records.

Education: Progressive, equitable Posted: 19 Jan 2022 03:28 PM PST The Legislature needs to amend these bills to make them progressive and equitable.

Concrete strike: Affordable housing Posted: 19 Jan 2022 03:27 PM PST Re: "Construction slows, workers laid off as Seattle concrete strike drags on" [Jan. 14, Business]: Those waiting for housing, including seniors and homeless families, are ill-served by the delays to affordable housing caused by this strike. Is there not a way for the concrete companies and the striking workers to serve essential housing projects? Come […]

Automation: Workers’ transition Posted: 19 Jan 2022 03:25 PM PST Re: "Economists pin blame on tech for rising inequality" [Jan. 13, Business]: Without government regulation, companies will continue to automate and import foreign skilled and unskilled labor instead of training workers and investing in STEM domestically. It's cheaper. However, not all automation is bad since many mundane, exhausting and dangerous jobs would be better performed […]

Building costs: Alternative materials Posted: 19 Jan 2022 03:23 PM PST Chuck Fowke complains that high home building prices are in part the result of the Biden administration's "failure to act decisively," dump the tariffs and open U.S. public forests to more logging ["Tariffs on Canadian lumber are driving up home prices," Jan. 13, Opinion]. What have his home building brethren done to utilize alternative construction […]

Free Press roundup: Antitrust cases heating up Posted: 19 Jan 2022 03:15 PM PST Newspapers' evolution toward new and sustainable business models is hindered when two companies monopolize and manipulate digital ad markets to their advantage, as alleged in state, federal and private antitrust cases.

Keep Alaska’s pristine wild lands free of poisonous industrial mining Posted: 19 Jan 2022 03:01 PM PST The proposed Ambler Road — a 211-mile industrial corridor proposed by multi-national companies — would cut through the Gates of the Arctic National Park, BLM and state land, as well as the backyards of Alaska Native villagers, changing this land forever.

Trump isn’t responsible for Iran’s aggressive behavior Posted: 19 Jan 2022 02:30 AM PST It isn't hard to imagine how much more harm Hezbollah or the Houthis would have done, or be capable of doing, if they had more cash and advanced weaponry from Tehran.

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