Monthly Archives: November 2007

George Fearing gets a nice story about his campaign today in the Yakima Herald.

There seems to be a theme in the last couple weeks of elected officials (or people who are about to be elected officials) using this two month period between election day and taking office to thumb their nose at voters. … Continue reading →

The Tri-City Herald has an interesting opinion piece entitled: “Washington Voters In No Mood For More Spending”. The headline should be “Washington Voters In No Mood For More Spending Without Accountability”. I am not one of those democrats that is … Continue reading →

According to today’s Columbia Basin Herald: “Classified staff in the Moses Lake School District voted Wednesday to authorize Public School Employees union leaders to strike. Union Spokesperson Rick Chisa said the union has no immediate plan to strike. “We want … Continue reading →

The classified employees of the Moses Lake School District are frustrated. They are frustrated because the school district has treated them like second class citizens. Jody Trowbridge, the co-president of the Public School Employees said in the Columbia Basin Herald: … Continue reading →

Sorry Janea. Your quest to shortchange our kid’s education has failed. According to the Seattle Times: “The ballot measure that would allow school levies to pass with a majority vote pulled ahead for the first time Tuesday with a 7,000-vote … Continue reading →

The Yakima Herald takes Rick Ensey to task for FINALLY saying that his wife was the lying blogger and FINALLY apologizing. Here’s what they say: It will be most interesting to see what he does to rectify the situation, because … Continue reading →

The folks at Evergreen Politics take the time to do an interview with George Fearing: our challenger against Doc Hastings. It’s a good read and you can find it here.

The absentee ballots are still coming in and the Simple Majority initiative is only down by 11,000 votes. The Seattle Times expects about 206,000 more votes to be counted. Most of the votes come from King County where the initiative … Continue reading →

The Yakima Herald currently has an online poll going asking whether blogs should be anonymous. It’s clear that Rick Ensey was out of line.