Category Archives: Government

Barack and Michelle: Scenes From a Marriage

Posted on December 4, 2020 by Jim deMaine

by Tim Egan in the NYT He walks too slowly, a languorous Hawaiian ambler. She’s a get-to-the-point woman, in gait and gab. He’s a politician. She has no use for the type. He gets tangled up in fancy talk. She … Continue reading →

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Pope Francis: A Crisis Reveals What Is in Our Hearts

Posted on November 29, 2020 by Jim deMaine

In the NYT: In this past year of change, my mind and heart have overflowed with people. People I think of and pray for, and sometimes cry with, people with names and faces, people who died without saying goodbye to … Continue reading →

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When wine should be thrown out

Posted on November 23, 2020 by Jim deMaine
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Letter to the editor – The Senate election runoff in Georgia determines the balance of power

Posted on November 17, 2020 by Jim deMaine

It was a relief to many of us that Jo Biden prevailed on Nov 3.  Since then there have been many articles, including one on the blog, praising Biden for his intelligence, empathy, knowledge of government and his integrity.  Those … Continue reading →

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How Republican Kim Wyman keeps winning in blue Washington state

Posted on November 11, 2020 by Jim deMaine

by Melissa Santos from Crosscut Eight years ago, Kim Wyman wanted to be the first county auditor in Washington state to issue a same-sex marriage license.  Then the auditor in Thurston County, Wyman created a plan to give 10 same-sex … Continue reading →

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The 2020 experience and the President

Posted on November 10, 2020 by Jim deMaine
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Far from broken

Posted on November 8, 2020 by Jim deMaine
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Trump Could Still Break Democracy’s Biggest Norm

Posted on November 8, 2020 by Jim deMaine

From the Atlantic in June 2020 by Peter Nicholas: Say Joe Biden wins the presidential election in November. On the morning of January 20, Donald Trump will enter the Oval Office and leave a handwritten letter to Biden on the Resolute … Continue reading →

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JOE BIDEN DEFEATS DONALD TRUMP

Posted on November 7, 2020 by Jim deMaine

The Associated Press declares Joe Biden the winner. The win came after the AP called Pennsylvania and its 20 electoral votes for Biden.

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Fact Check Ambassador Program

Posted on November 4, 2020 by Jim deMaine

Thanks to Barb W. Thank you for expressing interest in joining AARP Washington, BECU and the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public (CIP) in supporting the new Fact Check Ambassador Program to help identify misinformation in social media … Continue reading →

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Five Great Things Biden Has Already Done

Posted on October 30, 2020 by Jim deMaine

by David Brooks in the NYT Many of our best presidents have been underestimated. Truman was seen as the tool of a corrupt political machine. Eisenhower was supposedly a bumbling middlebrow. Grant was thought a taciturn simpleton. Even F.D.R. was … Continue reading →

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Crosscut begins a series on trustbusting – focusing on Amazon

Posted on October 25, 2020 by Jim deMaine

by Katie Wilson at Crosscut It’s been a long time since America has thought very much about trustbusting. The phrase still calls to mind a grinning, cartoon Teddy Roosevelt, swinging his big stick at Standard Oil. But as of this … Continue reading →

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Age Friendly Seattle Updates

Posted on October 14, 2020 by Jim deMaine
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So much to say about the fly!

Posted on October 10, 2020 by Jim deMaine

Thanks to Mary Jane F. for reach out to RBG!

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Trump Sent a Warning. Let’s Take It Seriously.

Posted on September 30, 2020 by Jim deMaine

By Thomas L. Friedman in the New York Times President Trump has made it unmistakably clear in recent weeks — and even more crystal clear at the Tuesday debate —that there are only two choices before voters on Nov. 3 — … Continue reading →

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FA(ke)CT – which is which?

Posted on September 8, 2020 by Jim deMaine

Thanks Mary Jane F.

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We must protect the U.S. Postal Service

Posted on August 20, 2020 by Jim deMaine
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What’s a Canadian

Posted on August 4, 2020 by Jim deMaine

Thanks to Mary Jane F.

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The danger of traffic patrol – 300 MPH approaching!

Posted on August 4, 2020 by Jim deMaine

Thanks to Jim S. for finding this story!

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Let’s Finish the American Revolution

Posted on July 4, 2020 by Jim deMaine

by Tim Egan from the NYT (thanks to Mary Jane F. for sending this) As baffling as it is to find statues of traitors, slaveholders and killers of Union soldiers ensconced in many a prominent square, consider the historical discordance … Continue reading →

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David Brooks: The national humiliation we need

Posted on July 4, 2020 by Jim deMaine

by David Brooks – thanks Donna D. for sending this. We Americans enter the July 4 weekend of 2020 humiliated as almost never before. We had one collective project this year and that was to crush COVID-19, and we failed. … Continue reading →

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