A visit from national League of Conservation Voters president Gene Karpinski is expected next week. Sources hope he can talk some sense into the Washington environmental movement. read more »
Sound Transit is hard at work trying to convince King, Pierce and Snohomish Counties to expand light rail by ballot measure in 2008 - they've hired not one but two public relations firms to push poll the issue, while willfully ignoring the results of last year's Proposition 1. read more »
Pierce County Executive and State Attorney General candidate John Ladenburg (D-Tacoma) told the TNT's Political Buzz today that, as a member of the Sound Transit board, he is considering withholding a ballot initiative to bring light rail to Tacoma. The last plan, an $18 billion roads-and-transit proposal for King, Pierce and Snohomish Counties, failed at the ballot box.
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"He didn't feel that Washington State had the right to tell him that he had to continue to suffer. He asked me to promise him that I would change the law."
--I-1000 campaign worker Nancy Niedzielski on Wednesday, speaking to assembled supporters and protesters about her late husband Randy's views on assisted suicide.