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Social Policy

  • Blogs

    March 27, 2012

    Rob McKenna's Role in Supreme Court Case Portrayed as Two-Faced

    Health care activists are planning on marching to state Attorney General Rob McKenna's office this morning to demand that the Republican gubernatorial candidate "drop" the Obamacare lawsuit that is now being debated by the U.S. Supreme Court. The lawsuit is not exactly his to drop; 25 other attorney ... More >>

  • News

    November 30, 2011

    Mas Dinero, Mas Problemas

    The more money spent on immigration enforcement, the worse it gets.

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2011

    Border Patrol Spending Cuts Urged by Groups from Washington to Texas

    Senator Patty Murray and her Congressional Supercommittee have failed in the attempt to craft a bipartisan plan for spending cuts. But that doesn't mean people are out of ideas. One that's gaining momentum: Slash what one group calls "the gaping fiscal black hole" that is immigration enforcement.

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2011

    Deportation Drop May Be Linked To New Judges, Not Less Enforcement

    ​Immigration lawyers were puzzled late last month when news came out that, contrary to what was happening in the rest of the country, the number of deportations had dropped dramatically in the Pacific Northwest. "That doesn't quite comport with what we're seeing," Jorge Baron, executive direc ... More >>

  • News

    July 27, 2011

    Nowhere-Near-the-Border Patrol in Forks

    How a flush government agency found trouble in the coastal home of Twilight.

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2011

    Chay Ixcot, Guatemalan Immigrant, Waits 22 Years to Find Out Whether He'll Be Deported

    Image source​The wheels of justice turn slowly. That maxim has never been truer than in the case of Chay Ixcot. A 44-year-old native of Guatamala, Ixcot was arrested on February 13, 1989 almost immediately after he crossed the border near Tijuana. He gave a false name, lied about his age, and ... More >>

  • News

    December 22, 2010

    Return to Sender

    What would comprehensive immigration reform look like if the Feds got off their duffs?

  • News

    December 1, 2010

    FAIR-y Tales

    Russell Pearce and other illegal-immigration populists rely on misleading right-wing reports to scapegoat immigrants and terrify penny-pinching Americans.

  • News

    December 1, 2010

    Mexican Macro-Economics

    Do undocumented migrants steal jobs from American workers?

  • News

    September 15, 2010

    Rob McKenna Says After Obamacare, Feds Will Next Mandate We Buy Chevys

    Also, the attorney general warns against water fluoridation.

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2010

    Rob McKenna's Lawsuit to Get Obamacare Overturned Looks Likely to Proceed

    ​McKenna missed oral arguments this morning as the U.S. Department of Justice attempted to shut down a lawsuit he filed along with 19 other state Attorneys General to overturn Obamacare. But after being briefed by a staffer who listened in, McKenna told reporters by phone, "I think it's obviou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2010

    Patty Murray Campaigns on Health Care Reform While Other Democrats Back Away From It

    ​With national polls showing lukewarm support for the huge health care reform bill passed into law this year, incumbent Democrats on the campaign trail are downplaying their role in their party's historic achievement. Indeed, several Dems are broadcasting their votes against the bill, The New ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 25, 2010

    More Education Cuts Could Mean a Contempt of Court Ruling, Warns Lawyer

    ​On Monday, Superintendent of Public Instruction Randy Dorn sounded the alarm about further potential cuts in state education funding. A couple weeks prior, given a dismal revenue forecast, Governor Chris Gregoire asked all state agencies--including OSPI--to come up with ways to slash 10 perce ... More >>

  • News

    August 11, 2010

    Seized: Inside the Brutal World of America's Kidnapping Capital

    ​On Monday, Superintendent of Public Instruction Randy Dorn sounded the alarm about further potential cuts in state education funding. A couple weeks prior, given a dismal revenue forecast, Governor Chris Gregoire asked all state agencies--including OSPI--to come up with ways to slash 10 perce ... More >>

  • News

    July 14, 2010

    Welcome to Mi Pueblito, Washington

    The small-town, family-farm lifestyle that we love to celebrate is being preserved—thanks to Mexican immigrants.

  • News

    July 7, 2010

    Rossi's Way With the Jobless

    If you're out of work, Dino might not be your best friend.

  • Diversions

    May 19, 2010

    Hop into the Hot Comal Time Machine

    SPECIAL POTPOURRI EDITION

  • News

    April 21, 2010

    Downed by Law

    Immigration attorney Antonio Salazar's clients got more than they bargained for—namely, deportation.

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2010

    With Lots of Questions Raised by ObamaCare, Governor Appoints New Health Care Cabinet

    Gregoire will direct her new cabinet to weigh the fate of the Basic Health Plan.​As a press conference with Governor Chris Gregoire made clear today, the president's sweeping health care bill may be signed but there are still lots of decisions that Washington state has to make. For instance, t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2010

    Maria Cantwell, Citing Questionable Figures, Announces "Rescue" of Washington's Basic Health Plan

    The feds may help the Basic Health Plan, but with far less money than Cantwell suggests.​State officials said last week that ObamaCare isn't likely to bail out the cash-strapped Basic Health Plan--at least not until 2014, when the bill's major provisions kick in. Yesterday, however, Senator Ma ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2010

    'Nation Under God Headquarters' Exerting Intense Health-Care Pressure on Brian Baird and Adam Smith Via Fax

    Beware "the homosexuals, lesbians, Human Rights Campaign, and MoveOn.org!"​There's something atavistic about the sound of a fax machine. The hum and whir is a retro token of life before the Internet, or its early days, like the old AOL dial-up tone. So it's fitting that my fax machine just spa ... More >>

  • News

    March 3, 2010

    Health-Care Baird

    For a lame-duck Democrat, there's no risk in voting for Obama's plan.

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2010

    Brian Baird Seen as Crucial Swing Vote for Health Care Reform

    Is Baird, who is resigning from Congress, now freed up to vote yes or no on the plan?​Does health care reform rest largely on Brian Baird's shoulders? It's looking that way, according to analysts quoted yesterday in The New York Times. As the president and Congressional Democrats try to forc ... More >>

  • News

    February 3, 2010

    ICE-d Over

    Homeland Security’s increased oversight may not go far enough.

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2010

    Ninth Circuit to Hear Case Against Officers Who Detained a U.S. Citizen, Veteran for Seven Months

    Kevin P. CaseyRennison Castillo kept telling officers that he was a U.S. citizen​Imagine you, as an American citizen, were plucked from normal life and taken to a detention facility for illegal immigrants. Now, imagine that it took seven and a half months for immigration officials to figure ou ... More >>

  • News

    December 30, 2009

    Hang on for Obamacare

    Just don’t get sick for four years.

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2009

    If Christine Gregoire Takes Away Your Healthcare, The Feds Will Save You... in 2014

    Cantwell and her fellow senators are building a health care safety net. Unfortunately, it might not be ready in time.​Under the 2010 budget proposed earlier this month by Gov. Chris Gregoire, 65,000 people will be kicked out of the state's Basic Health Care plan. The plan covers families who e ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 2, 2009

    T.R. Reid

    Cantwell and her fellow senators are building a health care safety net. Unfortunately, it might not be ready in time.​Under the 2010 budget proposed earlier this month by Gov. Chris Gregoire, 65,000 people will be kicked out of the state's Basic Health Care plan. The plan covers families who e ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2009

    Obama's Immigration Policy May Look to Bellingham

    The immigrant rights group OneAmerica kicked off a campaign for immigration reform at a City Hall press conference today, setting the stage for a package of initiatives expected by the Obama administration. One speaker at the event was Leandro Barranco-Morales, a worker detained in the raid at Yama ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2009

    Reliable Ol' Jimbo

    There are some local figures whose reliability is a source of comfort. It feels good to know that Nate Robinson will send a shout-out to the 206 when the camera goes in for a close-up, Pat Cashman will live up to his name and remain a presence in our lives by signing an endorsement deal with Taco Ti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 6, 2009

    Will the Real School Funding Bill Please Stand Up?

    Early this week, the Washington Education Association sent out an e-mail hailing "the school funding bill that actually funds schools" --a reference to legislation just proposed by Sen. Rosemary McAuliffe and a not-so-subtle dig at a sweeping education reform bill introduced the week before by Sen. ... More >>

  • News

    August 13, 2008

    Detainees Refute Northwest ICE’s Denials of Abuse

    A report alleges inadequate medical care, lack of due process, and physical abuse at the Tacoma facility.

  • Diversions

    July 2, 2008

    Love Thy Neighbor, Even Immigrants

    A report alleges inadequate medical care, lack of due process, and physical abuse at the Tacoma facility.

  • News

    November 7, 2007

    Health Officials Want to Track HIV Patients' Partners With Less Red Tape

    AIDSNET Council is drawing up a proposal to send to the state Board of Health.

  • Blogs

    August 16, 2006

    Immigration Hearings, Round Two

    AIDSNET Council is drawing up a proposal to send to the state Board of Health.

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2006

    The Mystery of Immigration Law

    AIDSNET Council is drawing up a proposal to send to the state Board of Health.

  • News

    May 3, 2006

    A Protest That Works

    Why immigration marches get attention and anti-war rallies don't.

  • News

    April 26, 2006

    They Could Be Citizens and They Might Be Deported

    The government has jailed family-supporting, lifelong U.S. residents who seem as American as the next person—but can't prove it.

  • News

    December 1, 2004

    HIV: Criminal Intent

    Anthony Whitfield was recently convicted in Olympia in one of the nation's worst HIV assault cases. But his prosecution raises serious questions about who is being charged with spreading the AIDS virus and reveals the problems of trying to police private behavior for the public good.

  • News

    October 13, 2004

    Penny Whys

    There's something for everyone in the billion-dollar, 1-cent sales tax increase for education. Is that such a good idea? Few are asking.

  • News

    August 11, 2004

    Election Test

    The debate over high-stakes testing dominates this year's race for superintendent of public instruction.

  • News

    September 10, 2003

    The Big, Bad Border

    Iraq might be ground zero for Bushs terror war, but at home, one front line is our 5,000-mile border with Canada. Since 9/11, the U.S. has poured resources and manpower into Mexicanizing one of the worlds most peacefuland porousborders. But critics suggest that strategy wont work, and it could even ... More >>

  • News

    July 17, 2002

    The Safety Net Stays

    Welfare's five-year limit is effectively over, but that's not what recipients are being told.

  • News

    November 7, 2001

    Shove off

    State cuts programs that help people on welfare find jobs.

  • News

    October 3, 2001

    Does this Family Deserve Welfare?

    Despite all the reforms, maybe Dolores Wilson should stay a welfare mom.

  • News

    August 1, 2001

    Welfare clock ticks

    Will people on welfare actually be kicked off?

  • News

    May 30, 2001

    Defending my life

    "So now I'm told that while my illness was recently described as terminal, I can, perhaps, be saved. . . . I'm left with one of those too-simple questions: How much is the extension of a life worth? The answer, we learn from childhood: It depends. It depends on who I am. It depends on the accidental ... More >>

  • News

    January 17, 2001

    Scrap this cabinet

    "So now I'm told that while my illness was recently described as terminal, I can, perhaps, be saved. . . . I'm left with one of those too-simple questions: How much is the extension of a life worth? The answer, we learn from childhood: It depends. It depends on who I am. It depends on the accidental ... More >>

  • News

    January 20, 1999

    Letters

    'Weekly' whiners

  • News

    November 11, 1998

    Brand new party

    'Weekly' whiners

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