Author Archives: eleanor

Mr. Hastings voted for the 2012 Budget that the House passed last week. The Ryan plan, as this budget is called, does not run a budget surplus until about 2040. Here is what David Stockman (R) wrote about it today: … Continue reading →

Your Personalized Receipt This is a government website. You do not need to identify yourself. Just enter numbers for your income tax, social security and medicare payments. You will get a detailed list of where your money goes. Print it … Continue reading →

The Senate Majority Leader says it was the riders. The House Speaker says it was the money. One of them is being disingenuous. Republican leaders initially asked for $33 billion of cuts and negotiated an agreed $38 billion by this … Continue reading →

Much like I posted last week, except by an authoritative figure, this was posted on Joe Romm’s climate progress blog. It is by Tom Kenworthy, a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress. On March 31st, the House Natural … Continue reading →

If you received the latest newsletter from Mr. Hastings you should know that his timing is impeccable for stealing credit from the Interior Department. Four permits for deep water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico have been issued in recent … Continue reading →

Last weekend I read the Department of Ecology’s updated Hazardous Sites List, published on March 1, 2011 – http://www.ecy.wa.gov/pubs/1109042a.pdf It is a simple list of solid waste facilities, welding shops, battery shops, tire piles and the like, arranged by county, scored … Continue reading →

by George Fearing, 4th Congressional District Democratic Committee Chairman The right to collectively bargain is recognized through international human rights conventions. Article 23 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights identifies the ability to organize trade unions as a fundamental … Continue reading →

Tomorrow’s hearing on the coal port permit has been canceled. Yesterday the Office of the State Attorney General began working on a settlement with the parties (I suppose that would be Earthjustice and Ambre Energy) and those negotiations are ongoing. … Continue reading →

Jacob Lew said that the 2012 budget is a downpayment. I interpret that to mean that he is working on the entitlements problem. Benjamin Bernanke testified before Paul Ryan’s committee that he thinks it is too soon to withdraw stimulus, … Continue reading →

Wisconsin is on the menu. Here’s the recipe: get conniving people in places of power, stage a media-driven diversion and make off like bandits while no one is paying much attention. Today the cooks are about to eat. Here is … Continue reading →