Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Politics

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Politico

· Boehner 'shocked' by stimulus
· Kaine pick sends ripples across RNC
· House Dems outline $825B recovery plan
· 44 Buzz: Shinseki's vow
· Geithner's risky advising with Citigroup
more

Blogs

Strange Bedfellows
P-I staff on Seattle politics
· Local leaders head to inaugural
· Port's truck smog reduction plan
· Moving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict forward

David Horsey's Drawing Power
P-I editorial cartoonist David Horsey on politics and more
· Can Obama measure up to Abe and FDR?
· On to the inauguration
· The day the globe stood still

Seattle Traffic Watch
The latest transportation issues, traffic jams, construction schedules and transit changes
· Third runway noise meeting
· Changes propsed for regional bus and rail
· How much to build the 8 viaduct replacements?

The Big Blog/Seattle 2030
Join a discussion, including City Council candidates, about Seattle's future.
· Dress Fever: Running of the Brides
· Spring shows headed to the Crocodile Cafe
· Meetup in D.C. for Inauguration-bound Seattleites

Reader blog: Northwest Law
Attorney Rand Koler on law, the courts and legislation
· Pending Federal Bills Against Employment Discrimination
· Increasing Fines for Oil Spillage
· Criminal Probe of Bush Administration?

Reader blog: America Befutzed
A wickedly satirical view of politics and elections
· Election 2008
· Chapter 6
· Chapter Five

Reader blog: Muslim Perspectives
Casting light onto Muslim perspectives on issues ranging from doctrinal to sociopolitical
· Taking the Right Approach to Islam and Terror
· Link between Religion and Terror
· Mumbai Terrorist Attacks

Reader blog: Finding Clarity
A Seattle-area Conservative's Blog
· Merry Christmas from Finding Clarity and Leaning Straight Up
· Show the troops the support they deserve
· Out of the mouths of babes: Waking up to the fractured world we call politics

Press releases

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Primary Election

Candidate profiles, articles, P-I endorsements and more

THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 2009
Gregoire starts 2nd term urging unity
Gov. Chris Gregoire officially launched her second term Wednesday with an inaugural speech that called for bold government reform, a new commitment to volunteer work.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2009
Lawmakers start session facing a challenging year
Washington lawmakers returned to the state capital on Monday, charged with fixing a budget gap some think could reach $7 billion in the coming months.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 2009
Goldmark inherits shellfish ruling
Outgoing state Lands Commissioner Doug Sutherland is leaving to his successor the controversial decision whether to allow the state's largest shellfish growers to profit from shellfish illegally planted on state-owned land.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 2009
Nickels aside, Seattle's mayoral race is wide open
With Richard Conlin's announcement Wednesday that he won't run for Seattle mayor, the race for the city's top job remains wide open. No candidates have emerged yet to face incumbent Greg Nickels.

Senate Democrats back off on barring Burris from seat
WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats beat a hasty retreat Wednesday from their rejection of Roland Burris as President-elect Barack Obama's successor, yielding to pressure from Obama and from senators irked that the standoff was draining attention and putting them in a bad light. Burris said with a smile he expected to join them "very shortly."

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 2009
Time to plow away bureaucratic snow defenses
A Key to Snow Response: Plow Away Bureaucratic Defenses

CNN reporter considered for surgeon general
WASHINGTON -- President-elect Barack Obama has approached CNN's chief medical correspondent, Sanjay Gupta, to be the next surgeon general, the cable network said Tuesday.

111th Congress opens; Senate bars Burris
WASHINGTON -- Roland Burris failed to capture President-elect Barack Obama's old Senate seat Tuesday in a wild piece of political theater, but the Democrats' opposition cracked when a key chairwoman said seating him was simply the legal thing to do.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 2009
Gregoire's cuts mirror Rossi's
After winning re-election Gov. Chris Gregoire has proposed balancing the next state budget with the same types of cuts championed by her Republican opponent, Dino Rossi.

Seattle citizens give city's storm response a failing grade
City Council members questioned Monday whether Seattle's top leaders were engaged enough during last month's snow storms that shut down parts of the city and severely affected bus service.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 2009
Democrats plan to delay seating Senate appointee
WASHINGTON -- Senate Democratic leaders plan to grant few if any privileges next week to Roland Burris, the man picked by Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to represent the state in the Senate, even if Burris arrives on Capitol Hill with the proper credentials.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2008
Council, let public speak first about storm
Memo to Seattle City Council: Before you hear from bureaucrats, listen to citizens.

Defiant governor makes pick
CHICAGO -- Gov. Rod Blagojevich exercised what is left of his power Tuesday with a stunning but probably futile move: appointing someone to the U.S. Senate seat federal prosecutors accuse him of trying to sell.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2008
More flak for Caroline Kennedy
ALBANY, N.Y. -- Caroline Kennedy's latest trip under the spotlight as a Senate hopeful didn't get much better reviews than her first.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2008
Kennedy repeats big mistake of Palin's
Joel Connelly is taking the day off. In place of his regular column, here are two of his recent postings on Strange Bedfellows, the Seattle P-I's political blog.

Mrs. Bush, Rice defend president's tenure
WASHINGTON -- The two most influential women in President George W. Bush's White House -- first lady Laura Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice -- are strongly defending the president's legacy against critics who are calling his administration one of the worst in history.

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