Joel Connelly

Senator-for-Life Stevens faces own 'Last Hurrah'

By JOEL CONNELLY P-I COLUMNIST AMERICAN MAGAZINES love to make fun of African and Asian potentates, profiling onetime liberation leaders who have become rulers with palaces, enriched tribute-bearing friends, and Mercedes...

Gay rights supporters: Think strategy

By JOEL CONNELLY P-I COLUMNIST HOMOPHOBIA IS the malaria of societal diseases: It appears to be on the wane but then re-emerges in full fury. At the polls 30 years ago, Seattle became the first major American city to reject a...

Happy 30th to a unique park

By JOEL CONNELLY P-I COLUMNIST COUPEVILLE -- As an eagle rode the air currents above us, and the wind created a funhouse romp for our family's standard poodle, I tried to explain the Ebey's Landing National Historical Reserve...

Search for the first pooch is no joke

By JOEL CONNELLY P-I COLUMNIST "This is a major issue," our president-elect quipped Friday. Ron Reagan, Seattleite and son of the 40th president, believes on several fronts that the first dog search is no joke. "It's a way to...

Wrecked GOP must abandon extremism

By JOEL CONNELLY P-I COLUMNIST WHEN GLOBAL WARMING skeptics demand proof of humans emitting noxious gases into the atmosphere, a quick supply of supporting evidence comes from pundits in books forecasting a "permanent...

Obama's campaign was the easy part

By JOEL CONNELLY P-I COLUMNIST THE 2008 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN re-engaged the American people and raced the blood of democracy, while Washington's nasty gubernatorial race worked mainly to stimulate the bile. As results came in...

I-1000 wins year's 'Sheer Gall Award'

Two can play this game. An ad for Initiative 1000, which would legalize assisted suicide, condemned a "small group" of "out-of-state religious leaders" for trying to buy the election, impose their will and defeat "Washington's...

Assisted suicide initiative wins 2008 'Sheer Gall Award'

Two can play this game. An ad for Initiative 1000, which would legalize assisted suicide, condemned a "small group" of "out-of-state religious leaders" for trying to buy the election, impose their will and defeat "Washington's...

Culture of Death Imperialism: Washington I 1000 Not From the WA Grass Roots

Washington citizens didn't clamor for assisted suicide in their state. They were minding their own business when it was brought to them by the international euthanasia movement, aided and abetted by their super rich former...

Planting blue flags on red soil

Unlike such past campaigns as the Kennedys -- where advance men and organizers bossed locals -- Obama has applied a two step approach: Ambitious targets come down from the top. Local activists are given wide latitude in meeting...

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