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The ghost of Mike Lowry
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By Knute Berger : May 28, 2008 : Crosscut
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| One impression of the recent U.S. 7th District Democratic caucus in Seattle lingers: youth supplanting age. Part of that may be the change-driven politics of Sen. Barrack Obama's campaign -- and Obama supporters dominated the caucus. But it is due in to the fact the Democratic party has morphed into a more grassroots operation than in the old days. The people who looked most out of place at the caucus were some of the few, gray, eminence politicians who attended: Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels, U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott of Seattle, and former Gov. Mike Lowry, who also once held McDermott's seat in Congress. The delegates were generally young and highly diverse, racially and ethnically. The warhorses were older, white males who smelled like yesterday's news. |
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More than four bucks a gallon
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By Keith Vance : May 23, 2008 : Seattle On The Hill
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| The oil industry pulls in somewhere between $15 billion and $35 billion a year in government subsidies. At the gas station on 10th Avenue East and East Roy, the cheap gas is $4.11 a gallon. So-called energy industry experts are claiming that the $135 a barrel price is the result of a bubble, like the dot-com bubble and the housing market bubble. Paul Krugman, an economist who writes a column for the New York Times wrote that the high cost of oil is not the result of a mystical bubble in the market; it's simply basic economics in which the demand for oil is outpacing the supply. |
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Obama's Democratic Party?
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By Ronald Walters : May 21, 2008 : The Seattle Medium
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| With Barack Obama about to foreclose on the Democratic Nomination for President, he will also end 16 years of Clinton leadership of the Democratic party and should he go on to win the White House, he will strengthen his control. In effect, the nomination struggle has partially been about is who would control the party apparatus that is responsible for carrying its agenda, helping to elect Democrats at other levels of government and seeding its members into the national governmental structure. |
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