Vote-by-mail ballots are on their way out for the upcoming election in Washington. It’s time to look at some of the issues to be decided. Again, we are looking mostly at issues that have clear choices. In the latest legislative session, the Washington Legislature decided correctly to expand the rights of domestic partners in the [...]
For those of you who follow Cascadia Journal, you are certainly a patient bunch, considering that my posting frequency has been low due to other recent commitments. Thank you for being here. To everyone, I would like to introduce another blog project that I am working on. It will not replace this one. I will [...]
In a recent news story covered nationwide, a gay Texas couple who had been married in Massachusetts, but are now Texas residents, wanted to file for an amicable divorce. The Family Law Court judge in the case ruled that she would hear the case for the divorce. In Texas, there is one of those recently-enacted [...]
Regular readers know that I am not particularly a fan of fireworks. Actually, I rather enjoy the large displays that are staged by municipalities throughout the United States on the fourth day of July each year. However, I simply detest the nuisances caused by my neighbors who insist on lighting the small fireworks that boom [...]
Yes, it’s getting close to Summertime here in beautiful Cascadia. It’s that time of year when we start saying that it’s hot, even though people in some parts of the world would consider today’s mid-80′s temperatures to be fairly mild and just getting started. So predictably, about this time every year, the lovely lady Katt [...]
On Tuesday, the California Supreme Court upheld Proposition 8, the November referendum that took the right to marry away from California gays and lesbians. As a small consolation, they did not invalidate the legal marriages of around 11,000 couples that were already married. Proponents had based their support of the taking of rights from their [...]
According to a recent news story in the Oregonian, a 36-year-old PCC writing instructor, Ann Marie Selby, was detained by police for suspicion of prostitution. She has claimed that she was on the street, well known as a place to pick up a street walker, because she was catching a bus. She was booked by [...]
It has taken me a couple of days to get the courage up to write this. The day that the Seattle P-I published it’s final newsprint edition forever on Tuesday, I admittedly had a fairly emotional reaction to the whole thing. In fact, it took me until the next day to actually open it up [...]
It’s March 17 again, a particularly important day in the calendar, as judging from another increasing in the advertising and promotion around this date. It is, of course, on this date that we celebrate the feast of Ireland’s most important saint, St. Patrick. St. Patrick is, of course, the patron saint of Ireland, New York, [...]
As a follow up to last week’s report on predatory towing companies acting as bounty hunters and the need to regulate them, I would like to share another article, this one from today’s Oregonian. This is another story of a tow truck driver who took matters into his own hands and towed an allegedly illegally [...]
