On Wednesday evening, Al Gore appeared at the Keller Auditorium to promote his new book and raise funds for gubernatorial candidate Bill Bradbury, and I didn’t go, having just attended another event the previous evening, and not thinking it would be particularly newsy. Well, it was. The night before, the auditorium was vandalized by teabaggers [...]
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UPDATED BELOW: More Democracy news… or its opposite. In a stunning victory for the plastics industry that funded the initiative, Seattle voters yesterday voted to overturn a twenty cent surcharge on plastic bags previously passed by the city council. Thus, a product so intrinsically crummy that it’s incapable of holding a box of cereal or [...]
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