Top 10 tips for celebrating Mother’s Day 2017
Mother’s Day is Sunday. Are you ready? If not, here are some last-minute suggestion for your mom’s big day. Wondering what gifts are hits for moms and which to avoid? Visit “Top 10 Tips for Buying...
View ArticleState passes nation’s first net neutrality law
With Gov. Jay Inslee’s signature Monday, Washington became the first state in the United States to pass a law to protect net neutrality. In 2015, the Federal Communications Commission developed rules...
View ArticleFood summit to focus on growing healthy, sustainable food
The Food Tank, a think tank for food, will offer its first Seattle Summit, “Growing Food Policy,” March 17 at the Seattle Pacific University campus. The one-day event will feature more than three dozen...
View ArticleKOMO-TV is ‘required’ to air biased news that leans to the right by its owner
It surprised me last week to hear Sharyl Attkisson, host of the weekly news program “Full Measure” on KOMO-TV, announce that she was going was to do a program on how terrible government regulations...
View ArticleTop tips for celebrating Easter 2018
Have you completed your Easter preparations yet? If not, here are some suggestions to consider: Looking for information on church services, Easter egg hunts, and other community events? For information...
View ArticleInslee, Ferguson criticize Trump’s replacement for Clean Power Plan
As air quality in Washington states continues to be degraded due to wildfires, Gov. Jay Inslee and Attorney General Bob Ferguson criticize the Trump administration’s plans to roll back the federal...
View ArticleToday is National Voter Registration Day
It’s just two weeks until the Oct. 8 deadline for convenient online or mail-in registration to vote in the Nov. 6 General Election. Today is National Voter Registration Day. Eligible Washington...
View ArticleCheckbook magazine: How to choose auto body shops, fitness centers, home...
Need to select an auto body shop after a fender-bender? Want to finally go to a gym, but don’t want to spend lots of money? Need to figure out if you really need a home security system? If so, the Fall...
View ArticleGoogle, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook pay $350 million for campaign...
The “Big 4” tech companies – Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google – have spent nearly $350 million on lobbying and campaign contributions to influence lawmakers over the past eight years, according to a...
View ArticleAir pollution gets worse in big cities across America under the Trump...
The number of unhealthy air days in nearly three dozen cities soared in the first two years of the Trump administration, according to an annual air pollution report of the U.S. Environmental Protection...
View ArticleAction to stop robocalls: Attorneys general and telecommunications industry...
Fifty one attorneys general and 12 phone companies announced an agreement Thursday aimed at fighting illegal robocalls across the country. The 12 companies have agreed to adopt eight principles that...
View ArticleStates seek to breakup Facebook in antitrust lawsuit
Forty-eight attorneys general filed an antitrust lawsuit against Facebook Tuesday alleging the company formed an illegal social network monopoly. The company formed the monopoly by buying or...
View ArticleHow’s your Valentine’s Day going?
When I was reading through my blog posts recently, I came across an article I wrote last fall about how disappointing it was to not be able to go out and walk around my house 20 times daily due to...
View ArticleBest wishes on International Women’s Day
International Women’s Day is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity. For...
View ArticleState launches firearm safety and violence prevention program
In Washington state, a person is killed with a gun every 14 hours, nearly half of all suicides are from firearms, and more people are killed with guns than die in car accidents. A new program, the...
View Article
