Selected Stories on Washblog by Noemie Maxwell, 2005-

2008-

  1. Conversation with Eldon Vail, Secretary of State Department of Corrections, Washblog, 5/21/08. Also on Osculatrix.
  2. National Significance of Washington's 3-Strikes Law, 4/6/08. In original form on Osculatrix.
  3. Conversation with Rob Holland: Prosperity Populism, Local Authentic Politics, Get-out-the-Caucus
    Washblog (published version including any comments): 2/1/08
  4. Bonneville International Stomps on Local Radio Programming, 1/31/08
  5. "We cannot build prisons fast enough: WA Dept. of Corrections on prison transfers
    Washblog (published version including any comments): 1/30/08
  6. "Very Scary": A Major State Expenditure Bill with no Known Opposition (Local Food), 1/29/08
  7. Incarcerex: Are you an elected official suffering from political fear?, 1/28/08
  8. Port of Seattle Advances Climate Action with First Ever Greenhouse Gas Inventory for SeaTac Airport, 1/24/08
  9. Structural Healthcare Reform is on the Table in Washington, 1/22/08
  10. "From a WA 3-Striker: May God's Mercy Upon the Downtrodden Soften the Hearts of the Authorities, 1/15/08
  11. Washington State has Great Geothermal Potential, 1/4/08
  12. New Public Hospital District Commissioner Questions Need for Public Hospital Districts
    Washblog (published version including any comments): 1/6/08
  13. INTRODUCE THIS! Submitting Resolutions at WA's Presidential Caucuses (3-Strikes Reform)
    Washblog (published version including any comments): 1/3/08
  14. To Those Who Have Shown Notice to Cruel and Unconstitutional Laws in Washington State, by Joseph Scott Wharton. Washblog (published version including any comments): 1/1/08

2007-

  1. Guest post from WA State Reformatory: These crimes do not merit life imprisonment, by Stevan Dozier
    Washblog (published version including any comments): 12/30/07
  2. Washington's Presidential Caucus and Primary: Access, Relevancy, Democracy
    Washblog (published version including any comments): 12/27/07
  3. A Washington Christmas Letter: Public Campaign Funding for Safer Children, Lower Health Costs
    Washblog (published version including any comments): 12/24/07
  4. Life in Prison without Parole for Low-Violence Crimes: Can Washington Find Redemption?
    Washblog (published version including any comments): 12/11/07
  5. Seattle FCC Hearing: Democracy is in their hands: What are they thinking?
    Washblog (published version including any comments): 11/9-10/07
  6. Sustainable Aviation in Cascadia
    Washblog (published version including any comments): 11/4/07
  7. Should the Election of Dan Satterberg be Voided?, 11/7/07
  8. PDC Complaint on Transfers of Cash to Satterberg Campaign, 11/5/07
  9. King County Attorney Race: Satterberg Accepts Huge Sums of Dirty GOP Money, 11/4/07
  10. Big Legal Judgment Not the First for Valley Medical's Roodman: Challengers Offer Improved Oversight*
    Washblog (published version including any comments): 10/20/07
  11. Interview with Richard Pope, Candidate for King County Council
    Washblog (published version including any comments): 10/20/07
  12. Breathing Rights, Voting Rights & the King Co. Prosecuting Attorney Race
    Washblog (published version including any comments): 10/10/07
  13. King County Elections Forges Ahead with Election Plan Against Multiple Recommendations,
    Washblog (published version including any comments): 10/1/07
  14. Interra's Community Loyalty Card: Business-Consumer Organizing at the Point-of-Sale
    Washblog (published version including any comments): 9/23/07
  15. Anti-Immigration Tension in Snohomish Erodes Safety and Trust: The Community Responds
    Washblog (published version including any comments): 9/21/07
  16. Ray Peretti of Renton and the $7.7 Million Campaign to Cheat Washingtonians
    Washblog (published version including any comments): 9/11/07
  17. Gonzalez' Resignation, Burner's "Burn Bush", and the Bellingham Farmer's Market
    Washblog (published version including any comments): 8/26/07
  18. Seattle Port Vote of Conscience: JACK BLOCK, JR. YES! (Tarleton, please no!)
    Washblog (published version including any comments): 8/04/07
  19. The Mainstreaming of Climate Action: R U Blinking While Yr World's Redefined?
    Washblog (published version including any comments): 7/18/07,
    Federal Way Mirror: State's Climate Goals Need Your Help, 8/3/07
  20. "Sometimes Vote Suppression is as Important as Vote-Getting": Cleaning up WA Voter Rolls
    Washblog (published version including any comments): 7/18/07
  21. Lucky Us! House Call from Alec Fisken, Port of Seattle Commissioner
    Washblog (published version including any comments): 7/29/07
  22. We are Here as a Voice of Conscience, Crying out for the Displaced
    Washblog (published version including any comments): 7/24/07
  23. Transit & Roads Ballot Proposal Endorsed by Environmental and Business Organizations
    Washblog (published version including any comments): 7/23/07
  24. Rodney Tom Announces Candidacy for US Congress: We are Resilient, We Will Bounce Back
    Washblog (published version including any comments): 7/29/07
  25. Labeling and Limiting Artificial Fats in King County Restaurants
    Washblog (published version including any comments): 7/17/07
  26. Our Buildings Ourselves: Connecting Human, Community, and Ecological Health
    Washblog (published version including any comments): 7/13/07
  27. Preserving Urban Edge Farming in WA: 31st District Democrats Forum
    Washblog (published version including any comments): 7/2/07
  28. Cantwell staff meet with Southend Neighbors for Peace & Justice on Iraq
    Washblog (published version including any comments): 6/24/07
  29. "Death Star" Trade Deal: Real Progress or Fast Track to Betrayal?
    Washblog (published version including any comments): 6/18/07
  30. Interview with David Donnelly: Clean Elections "Architect" will Keynote in Seattle
    Washblog (published version including any comments): 6/5/07
  31. Is Bob Ferguson Really the Democrats' Anointed Candidate to Succeed Maleng?
    Washblog (published version including any comments): 6/3/07
    Federal Way Mirror, 6/6/07
  32. The Time is Now! To End the War on Drugs
    Washblog (published version including any comments): 5/28/07
  33. Less Time in Hospitals, More Time in School: Home Visits for Children with Asthma
    Washblog (published version including any comments): 5/21/07
  34. Photos and Stories from NW Progressive Conference: Eastern WA,
    Washblog(published version including any comments: 5/15/07
  35. Are we Closing the Primary Door too soon in the 8th CD?
    Washblog (published version including any comments): 4/30/07
  36. Seattle Port Commissioner Recall: What will it Take?
    Washblog (published version including any comments): 4/26/07
    Related stories
    Petition Filed for Recall of Port of Seattle Commissioner Davis, 5/9/07
    King County Superior Court Okays Recall Petition for Seattle Port Commissioner, 5/19/07
  37. How your Ballot can be Tracked to You: San Juan Island County
    Washblog (published version including any comments): 4/25/07
  38. Step It Up: Reduce Carbon 80% by 2050 (photos from Seattle march)
    Washblog (published version including any comments): 4/15/07
  39. Port candidate: $25,000 to GOP, $0 to Dems ... but he's not partisan
    Washblog (published version including any comments):4/4/07
  40. Hidden Conservation Election: Interviews with the 2 Candidates
    Washblog (published version including any comments): 3/13/07
  41. Tacoma Stryker Protests: Important Direct Action Against the Occupation
    Washblog (published version including any comments): 3/9/07
  42. Visionary Asthma Project Helps Children Breathe and Learn
    Washblog (published version including any comments): 2/25/07
  43. Partial Merger: WA GOP and Attorney General’s Office
    Washblog (published version including any comments): 2/19/07
  44. Democratic State Reorganization Photo Journal
    Washblog(published version including any comments): 1/29/07
  45. Pictures from Olympia Peace Rally and News from Democratic Reorganization
    Washblog (published version including any comments): 1/27/07
  46. Live Blogging from the Citizen’s Hearing on Iraq
    Washblog (published version including any comments): 1/20/07
  47. WISER Commons: A WA Slice of the Largest Movement the World has Seen
    Washblog (published version including any comments): 1/2/07

2005-2006

  1. Joseph Schuler’s King County Farm: Laws are not Enough to Protect it
    Washblog (published version including any comments): 11/30/06
  2. I-933: Outsiders Feed on Washington's Pain, 10/30/06
  3. Religious Right wants Stephen Johnson on WA Supreme Court, 10/25/06
  4. WA Supreme Court Candidate to 5th graders: "I'd get rid of all the Democrats", 10/18/06
  5. Stephen Johnson and BIAW Team up to Reshape Washington's Supreme Court, 10/10/06
  6. Looters First Rule: I-933 is a Kick-Me Sign on Washington State, 10/13/06
  7. Elway: I-933 Significantly Losing Ground, 10/3/06
  8. Northwest Community Radio Network: A New Media Force for Democracy
    Washblog (published version including any comments): 10/2/06
  9. I-933 Will Cost Taxpayers $7-$9 Billion, Says WA Office of Financial Management, 9/20/07
  10. Buying Justice and Lying About it: Building Industry Association of Washington
    Washblog (published version including any comments): 9/7/06
  11. Religious Right and Developers are Stacking WA's Supreme Court, 8/23/07
  12. Strategic Investment in Local Washington Food, 8/17/06
  13. I-933 Opponents are Insane: Official Stance of Citizen's Alliance for Property Rights?, 8/16/06
  14. I-933 Property Rights Advocate Urges Property Theft on a Yahoo Group, 8/8/07
  15. Gravel Mines, Stolen Water, Stinking Carcasses, Tricked Voters: I-933, 8/6/06
  16. Washington Tax Fairness Coalition: "Hold Big Oil Accountable!", 8/4/06
  17. Happy July 4: It is Our Right It is Our Duty, 7/4/06
  18. Washington's Biggest Travesty: Special Interest Money in Campaigns, 7/2/06
  19. DeLay Associated Group Spends $200,000 to Moot out WA's Laws, 6/13/07
  20. 1st They Ignore You Then They Mock You Then They Punish You Then You Win, 6/7/06
  21. Clean Elections, Clean Donations, Clean Campaigns: No More Jesse James, 5/30/06
  22. Radical Right Illinois Group Single Largest I-933 Donor, 5/21/06
  23. Alternative Energy, Democratic Technology and the Human Scale
    Washblog (published version including any comments): 5/5/06
  24. 25 Grassroots Democrats Swung a Local Election and Changed Washington, 4/23/06
  25. The Gold Rush is on in Washington: Alternative Energy, 4/20/06
  26. Renewable Energy's Promise, 3/27/06
  27. Developers' Loophole Initiative: Key Hearing this Week, 3/12/06
  28. Evergreen Freedom Foundation's Public Distrust Campaign, 2/22/06
  29. WA Farm Bureau misrepresents facts to support ballot Initiative
    Washblog (published version including any comments): 2/17/06
  30. Literary, Cultural, and Identity Theft: A Washington Story, 2/7/06
  31. ALEC, CPA, PLAN, and the Battle for Washington's Soul, 1/24/06
  32. Truly Dirty GOP Tricks: Nothing New, 1/23/06
  33. Martin Luther King Day: An Answer to Denial, 1/16/06
  34. Angry Initiatives, 1/13/06
  35. Reichert: His Votes Contradict his Moderate Rhetoric, 2/6/05
  36. Washington's Progressive Blogosphere and the "Emerging Progressive Infrastructure", 1/5/06
  37. Evidence-Based GOTV
    Washblog (published version including any comments):1/9/06
  38. Double Johnson Darling-of-the-BIAW Trouble, 12/15/05
  39. A Call to Action: King County Climate Change Conference, 10/31/05
  40. Another dirty trick -- this one by Washington Medical Association, 9/4/05
  41. Pat Davis, Port of Seattle, and Stevedoring Services of American, 8/26/05
  42. von Reichbauer Caused an Awful lot of Anguish, 8/24/05
  43. COPS Plotz, 8/12/05
  44. Medical Malpractice: I-330 Disputes Insurance Commissioner Findings, 8/8/05
  45. A Case for Urban Rural Collaboration, 7/7/05
Links/Guides
  1. Washington Climate Links
  2. Election Deceit
  3. Washington Peace and Anti-Iraq-Occupation Groups

Interviews

  1. Environment as a Nonpartisan Issue: Conversation with Jim DiPeso of Republicans for Environmental Protection, 12/28/04
  2. Conversation with Ali-Salaam Mahmoud: Economic Foundations for Peace, 10/25/05
  3. Conversation with Darcy Burner, 1/16/06
  4. Interview with Ed Crawford, Candidate for 47th LD Senate, 3/25/06
  5. Progressive Phase Change: A Conversation with Don Hopps, 5/2/06
  6. Roz Jenkins on Outreach: What Would it Mean to get What We're Asking For?, 5/25/06
  7. Claudia Kauffman for State Senate: Serving the Community, Matching Resources to Needs, 6/2/06
  8. Rose Ehart: Politics, Environment, Social Justice, Religious Faith, 6/11/06
  9. Peter Goldmark, Citizen Statesman -- 5th Congressional District, 6/18/06
  10. Bill Sherman: Washington is at an Energy & Environmental Choicepoint, 8/21/06
  11. Place, Ownership, Community, I-933: A Conversation with Sightline's Alan Durning, 10/23/06
  12. Hidden Conservation Election: Interviews with the 2 Candidates, 3/13/07
  13. Interview with David Donnelly: Clean Elections "Architect" will Keynote in Seattle, 6/5/07
  14. Interview with Richard Pope, Candidate for King County Council
    Washblog (published version including any comments): 10/20/07
Community Conversations
  1. Return to the Commons: Community Economies in our Times, 9/7/06
  2. Community Conversation: Biofuels in the Northwest, 7/24/06
  3. Community Conversation on Sustainable Farming, Peak Oil, and Local Markets, 5/22/06