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  • Up on the roof

    Turkey on the roof/Linda Watkins When this old world starts getting me down And people are just too much for me to face I climb way up to the top of the stairs And all my cares just drift right into space - The Drifters (Gerry Goffin/Carole King) Picture by Linda Watkins, taken in the hills [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 1:48pm EST
    by Randy Stapilus

  • Filling the gap

    Bruce Hanna There are a number of candidates, and some variety of candidates, in the running for governor of Oregon next year. But there’s a vacancy: While Democrats have a couple of major names (John Kitzhaber, Bill Bradbury) who logically appeal to the mainstream of that party, Republicans have had in [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 7:01pm EST
    by Randy Stapilus

  • Closing ranks

    Two years ago, Oregon saw a seriously contested primary contest in its U.S. Senate race (Republican Gordon Smith was defending) between two Democrats, House Speaker Jeff Merkley and activist Steve Novick – they were competitive and the outcome was not foreordained. Partway through, leadership of the Democratic U. S. Senate [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 2:20pm EST
    by Randy Stapilus

  • Where a tax increase is coming from

    The last Washington legislative session was something remarkable: Facing a time of tax revenue shortfalls, a heavily Democratic state legislature opted to slice state government, in a big way, rather than raise taxes. (Their counterparts in Oregon chose otherwise.) In the next Washington session, however, making cuts sufficient to balance the [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 2:06pm EST
    by Randy Stapilus

  • A religious charter

    This one looks just about ready to blow up. The Nampa Classical Academy is an Idaho charter school, running grades 1-9, which emphasizes, to a great extent, a traditional “classical” education – they note, “very strong in phonics, classical literature, grammar, composition, mathematics, “modern” sciences, history, geography, and rhetorical analysis and [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 5:29pm EST
    by Randy Stapilus

  • Substantially completed

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    Idaho Statehouse reconstruction/YouTube There was some concern, expressed publicly during the last legislative session, that the reconstruction work at the Idaho Statehouse might not be done in time for the next session. But evidently it is, or just about. A press release from the state Capitol Commission says that “Capitol restoration construction [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 3:20pm EST
    by Randy Stapilus

  • Wyden’s addition

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    It’s being billed as a three-senator deal – Senators Max Baucus, Harry Reid and Oregon’s Ron Wyden – but the history demonstrates that this is Wyden’s baby: A change in the Senate version of the health care bill that would dramatically change the health insurance picture for not just a [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:16pm EST
    by Randy Stapilus

  • A Northwest Nobel option?

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    Linus Torvalds Former Vice President Al Gore’s visit to Portland today and tomorrow has prompted some Nobel Peace Prize thoughts, and in Oregon the idea of nominating a Northwesterner. The prospect shot around the Portland-area Linux circles (drawing some debate as well as approval as it did), starting with this email [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:17pm EST
    by Randy Stapilus

  • A clinic in Pasco

    The Pasco City Council has approved a new medical clinic in town – not one, it should be noted up front, that offers abortions. It has been the subject of demonstrations and protests, though, because it will be run by Planned Parenthood. There’s an overview in this post at McCranium, which [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 11:12pm EST
    by Randy Stapilus

  • Whitopia

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    A book we’re going to track down and check out: From a black scholar writing about race relations in a different way, “Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America.” Usually, we’d wait to read it before writing about it here, but this is an unusual case [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 9:37pm EST
    by Randy Stapilus

  • An Olympic freezeout

    An excellent Seattle Times report details where the Vancouver Olympics tickets, which are supposed to number about 1.6 million, actually are slated to go. About a third go in-house, to the “Olympic family,” and of the rest just 35,000 originally were slated to be available to the general United States [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 10:42pm EST
    by Randy Stapilus

  • Kitzhaber/McCall: Running parallels

    Tom McCall In our nation’s history, just one president, Grover Cleveland, got elected to the job in two separate runs, with someone else (Benjamin Harrison) serving in between. It’s an uncommon thing for governors, too, a point somewhat relevant now since a former Oregon governor, Democrat John Kitzhaber, is running in [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2009, 4:17pm EST
    by Randy Stapilus

  • Precinct mapping – Boise and Spokane

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    For the true polisci junkies, a couple of posts with precinct maps – of how the elections went in Boise and Spokane. In Spokane, Jim Camden’s Spin Control blog contains a series of maps from the last Spokane elections – tracing voter turnout, population, fire bond results and so on. Nothing [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2009, 7:37pm EST
    by Randy Stapilus

  • Wilbur out

    This could be a transition to note. Kirby Wilbur, a conservative talker in KVI radio in Seattle since 1993, is out, effective yesterday. The KVI statement says that “Since 1993, Kirby’s voice has been heard on KVI and part of its conservative talk line-up. His introduction to KVI listeners came as [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2009, 11:15pm EST
    by Randy Stapilus

  • The November Oregon Digest

    Our November 2009 Oregon Public Affairs Digest is out, with reports on Wyden’s actions in health care, unemployment developments, in Oregon political races (including the local government races coming to a head), congressional actions and much more. There’s a substantial list of state rules and regulations just out, along with [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 5:18pm EST
    by Randy Stapilus

  • The November Idaho Digest

    Our November 2009 Idaho Public Affairs Digest is out, with reports on the changes in dairy country, in Idaho political races (including the local government races coming to a head), congressional actions and much more. There’s a long list of state rules and regulations just out – October this year [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 10:36pm EST
    by Randy Stapilus

  • And Labrador in?

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    Raul Labrador Was the last post a little premature? Maybe, or maybe not . . . Within a couple of hours after state Representative Ken Roberts said he was out of the Idaho 1st District Republican congressional race, another Republican state Representative, Raul Labrador, said he plans to enter. According to a just-out [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 4:50pm EST
    by Randy Stapilus

  • Idaho 1st turns to the general

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    Ken Roberts When Democrat Walt Minnick was elected to Congress from Idaho’s 1st congressional district about a year ago, one of the scenarios for his re-election campaign went like this: Republicans would be crowding the field to take on this unlikely Democrat in 2010. The large field would mean, as happened [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 11:26am EST
    by Randy Stapilus

  • Sports guys

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    Is there some reason longshot races in Washington and Oregon seem to be drawing the interest of pro sports figures, as Republican contenders? . . . Albeit two very different candidates. Clint Didier There’s the new report in Washington of – finally, very late in the cycle – a candidate against three-term [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 11:23pm EST
    by Randy Stapilus

  • The November Washington Digest

    Our November 2009 Washington Public Affairs Digest is out, with rundowns of the conviction of Tacoma judge, pre-election activities, developments in Congress, health issues and much more. There’s an except on the efforts to pull ballots from younger voters. And the usual rundown of important court decisions, regulatory actions, calendar [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 2:09pm EST
    by Randy Stapilus

  • Minnick’s split

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    Walt Minnick One more obligatory note, political, on the health care votes last night on the U.S. House floor. It was the occasion of one of Idaho Democratic Representative Walt Minnick’s tougher votes, and what he did may have some significant political repercussions. The votes may simply have been votes of [...]
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    Posted: November 08, 2009, 6:38pm EST
    by Randy Stapilus

  • The incumbent rout

    Among the various major national returns on Tuesday, one of the more notable and less-discussed is the close re-election win by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He has been popular (at least according to polls and surveys), widely regarded as competent, setting policies that have been widely acceptable in town. [...]
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    Posted: November 08, 2009, 5:52pm EST
    by Randy Stapilus

  • Pungent

    The problem with getting so many tweets on Twitter (hold your comments for a moment, please) can be that you miss a lot of the periodic good stuff for the dross. Had missed, for example, Representative Earl Blumenauer’s tweets about this weekend’s health care voting activity. There was “Trial Lawyers [...]
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    Posted: November 08, 2009, 11:17pm EST
    by Randy Stapilus

  • McGinn the activist

    Mike McGinn Well, now. For a second time, the attorney and environmental activist Mike McGinn has edged past businessman Joe Mallahan in the race for mayor, and this time it seems likely to stick: After several days of leading by only a few hundred votes, with the returns in today (giving [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 4:34pm EST
    by Randy Stapilus

  • A report on 50 Meds

    Just a link to a newspaper report on our new book, 50 Meds: for a Sick Health System (more about which, look to the column to the right). The lead: “In the midst of the national tussle over health care comes a book by a local author who has taken [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 10:50pm EST
    by Randy Stapilus

  • Bradbury, Gore – and Kitzhaber

    It may be that no one in Oregon’s campaigns in this next cycle gets a bigger national drawn than Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bill Bradbury has: former Vice President Al Gore. Gore will be doing a fundraiser for Bradbury in Portland on November 19. There’s some background involved these two, of course. [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 4:24pm EST
    by Randy Stapilus

  • WW at 35

    Lots of interesting stuff in this week’s Willamette Week, which is celebrating 35 years on the news stand. There’s a lot of comparison between 1974 Portland and PDX 2009. A good deal of it should provoke some thoughts. Dig in. [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 7:23pm EST
    by Randy Stapilus

  • Angles on R-71

    As of this afternoon, the vote on Washington Referendum 71 – whether to sustain the state law providing “everything but marriage” for same-sex domestic partnerships – continues close but has been holding steady, at 51% yes, 49% no. The potential for a flip remains, but the odds are growing that [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 3:19pm EST
    by Randy Stapilus

  • ID: The partisan/non-partisan thing

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    There might be some useful lessons drawn (for both parties, really) from the first paragraph of this post today from Spokane Spokesman-Review reporter Betsy Russell: After the Idaho Republican Party took the unusual step of passing a central committee resolution backing party involvement in non-partisan city races, one county’s GOP central [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 3:00pm EST
    by Randy Stapilus

  • ID: A Pocatello shocker, non-surprises elsewhere

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    So far as we can see, there’s one big shocker in Idaho elections today: Two-term Pocatello Mayor Roger Chase ousted by newcomer Brian Blad. The margin was around 53%-47% – not large, but enough to decide. That we didn’t see coming. On a recent visit to Pocatello, the word from [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 12:05am EST
    by Randy Stapilus

  • WA: Tales of two issues

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    We’ll make that recurring pitch again: Washington, do what Oregon does and require that ballots be at the courthouse on election day, not merely postmarked. You’d save a lot of blood pressure that way, among other things. Indications so far are that Washington voters (1) decisively are rejecting the severe tax [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 11:39pm EST
    by Randy Stapilus

  • WA: As alliances become clearer . . .

    For a while, conservative-under-wraps Susan Hutchison seemed to be pulling off enough of a play-to-the-middle campaign to hang on to enough votes to win as King County executive. But in liberal King County, it was always a tall order, and in the end the task was too much, and the [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 10:51pm EST
    by Randy Stapilus

  • Power savings

    There’s a tendency to think that conservation is something that helps only at the edges, if there. But it can amount to more than that. What’s more surprising is how much it evidently has amounted to already. From the Northwest Power & Conservation Council, which recently oversaw a study on electric [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 8:48pm EST
    by Randy Stapilus

  • ID: Watching for Tuesday

    Tuesday will be an election day in Idaho, but not a big election day. When the most interesting elections in the state are apt to be city council races, you know you’re scratching. The top rank races in a sense will be mayoral. But Boise’s mayor isn’t up this year, and [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 10:41pm EST
    by Randy Stapilus

  • WA: Watching for Tuesday

    Tuesday will not be a big political day in Oregon; only a few scattered local races, few of much significance, will get attention, and then not much. Tuesday will be an election day of a little more import to the north and east, though, most notably in Washington. The real importance [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 10:13pm EST
    by Randy Stapilus
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