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Climate march change, digital union cards, debating issues…
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
LOCAL
► From the Seattle P-I — Seattle, used to protests, will witness a different kind of climate march on Wednesday — The environment/climate change movement, in Seattle and across the country, has long reflected roots that are upper middle class, outdoorsy, white and academic. The Wednesday afternoon Climate Justice March, part of a nationwide series of demonstrations, has its origins elsewhere. It marks a coming together of groups that used to be on opposite sides of nuclear plant battles and controversies over car emissions, ranging from the Sierra Club and Climate Solutions to Teamsters Local 117 and United Auto Workers Local 4121.
ALSO at The Stand — Climate march, TPP protest Oct. 14 in Seattle
► In today’s Seattle Times — Parent donates $70,000 to keep teacher, protest school funding — Brian Jones isn’t a politician. He says he’s just a parent who’s angry about public-school money problems. So over the weekend, after hearing that Seattle Public Schools plans to reassign teachers as a result of lower-than-projected enrollment, he donated $70,000 to help keep one teacher in place — and not at his own child’s school.
BOEING
STATE GOVERNMENT
► In today’s Spokesman-Review — Where does Washington rank? It depends — Some state business groups released their latest measure of Washington’s well-being on Monday, and like all such rankings, much depends on what numbers are sliced and diced.
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
► In today’s NY Times — Latest unease on the right: Paul Ryan is too far left — Far-right media figures, relatively small in number but potent in their influence, have embarked on a furious Internet expedition to cover Rep. Paul D. Ryan in political silt.
EDITOR’S NOTE — The guy who wants to privatize Medicare and Medicaid while slashing food stamps and other programs to assist the poor is too far left? Is this once-proud party really being steered by the braintrust of Matt Drudge, Andrew Breitbart, and other delusional bloggers? Which brings us to…
CAMPAIGN 2016
► From Think Progress — Media outlets want you to know Democratic debate will be boring because it will focus on policy — So far, the campaign for the Republican presidential nomination has focused on exciting issues like the merits of Carly Fiorina’s face, the height of the new wall between the United States and Mexico, and whether the Jews were responsible for the Holocaust. The Democratic debate scheduled for Tuesday night, meanwhile, is expected focus on issues like climate change, criminal justice reform, and zzzzzzzzzzz… Major media outlets would like you to know that it will probably be a snooze-fest.
► In the NY Times — Clinton criticizes Trump outside his hotel — Hillary Clinton joins Trump International Hotel workers trying organize a union, “You have a right to safe working conditions, you have a right to a living wage, and you have to say yes to all of that and you have to say no to efforts to prevent you from organizing. And that means saying no to Donald Trump.”
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