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The Seattle Times has taken up the cause of legalizing marijuana. First, in its own editorial : Marijuana should be legalized, regulated a...

Via the inimitable Dave Weigel , parliamentary procedure gets exciting in Wisconsin. A few notes: 1. Some Americans are going to consi...

I was going to blog extensively about Glenn Greenwald's recent visit to South Puget Sound Community College, but I see that Berd beat me...

I've been staying out of the political fray this season, since I'm far too busy with far more pressing things. (Today in Debate: a ...

Cameron Seib, a leading debater for Capital High School, will dine over hash browns and coffee with the talkingest politician who ever talke...

It's one thing to believe stupid things when you're young. It's another to publish them for all the world to see. It's ano...

This Monday afternoon found the legislature in special session. Sign things will wrap up quickly: on a warm March day, the Capitol parking ...

The Olympia Education Association's Candidate Interview Team recently interviewed the three candidates running for election to the Olymp...

Re-reading The Scarlet Letter means re-reading " The Custom-House ," its windy (in both pronunciations) preface. (If you skipped ...

In the Olympia School District, we won't be in school on Tuesday when President Obama delivers a speech to the nation's students. Ne...

Via Jon DeVore , it turns out that Brian Baird has changed his mind and will now host real, live, town halls this summer. His constituents s...

I had been working on a great big post about medical ethics and the health care debate--which, at least on the television, is more like the ...

Don't believe in God? You are not alone. Apparently, this sentiment offends the Governor of Iowa. Gov. Chet Culver weighed in on the con...

If there's an excuse for plagiarism, Seattle mayoral candidate James Donaldson is going to find it: Seattle mayoral candidate James Don...

If you needed more evidence that the Town Hall Shout-Ins of '09 are an example of Left and Right flipping the script, try Byron York...

Local Democrat Brian Baird won't be hosting any town halls this summer, blaming protesters who've been interrupting town hall meetin...

The Tacoma News-Tribune's Joe Turner runs down the list of legislative feats from the 2009 session . Excerpted, some of the educational...

Lynn Kessler (D-Hoquiam) said something today for reasons I can't fathom. Asked about the now defunct special session , which would have...

[via Ed Brayton ]

We'd been hearing about it for weeks, and even received an email from District higher-ups warning that it was about to happen. Still, t...