Senator Murkowski to Campaign as Write-In Candidate: “Perhaps it’s time they met one Republican woman who won’t quit on Alaska,” quips Murkowski.

Worse than the Tea Party: 2500 candidates are vying to fill 249 seats in the Wolesi Jirga, Afghanistan’s parliamentary body. The fragile democracy faces its biggest test since the disputed Presidential elections as rocket attacks and Taliban patrols disrupt election day.

But More Progressive than Congress: Afghanistan’s gender quota system for parliament gives substantial power to female politicians.

Winners Go to Heaven: High School Quarterback throws touchdown pass, collapses and dies.

B.A.T. Sounds Good to Me: Greenwood-Phinney residents worry that improvements to Aurora, including expanded bus rapid transit services, will drive more traffic to neighborhood streets.

Tsunamis: Report finds that the West Coast is still not prepared six years after the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami.

Living on Mercer Island is Bad Enough: Northwest Yeshiva, Washington’s only Jewish High School, was defaced Thursday night. “It is quite substantial,” said Rabbi Bernie Fox, head of the school.

Business as Usual: DelBene goes for the jugular in first television ad.

11 replies on “The Morning News”

  1. Dearest intern, “defaced” is not an inaccurate euphemism for the graffiti at Northwest Yeshiva School, but you might draw readers by mentioning they were SWASTIKAS.

    I have a soft spot for that place – my first ever car sex happened in their lovely secluded parking lot.

    (And why is DelBene salting her attack with wingnut economics? Argh.)

  2. I don’t really care about increased so-called “cut-through” traffic in Phinney-Greenwood, even though I live here (I like a little traffic), but I do question whether dedicated bus lanes on Aurora where the parking used to be can really be considered “pedestrian improvements”, seeing as how those (mostly imaginary) pedestrians will now be walking inches away from huge vehicles traveling 40+ MPH. If they really gave a crap about pedestrians on Aurora, which they absolutely do NOT, there would be parallel parking at all times on both sides.

    What they really care about, though, is moving as many cars through there as possible. The bus lanes are more about getting the buses out of the way of the cars than they are about speeding up the buses.

  3. Earmarks bad for Reichert, good for Murray? It is business as usual in Washington. Same old election season ads. It doesn’t matter who they are for or against.

    First part of ad was good, second part could have been from a Rossi ad.

  9. Oh for God sake. Will someone please tell Eastern Washington that their entire region is one big earmark? If it weren’t for the Bonneville Power Administration and Grand Coulee irrigation canals (which werr decried by the Rossi’s of the day as wasteful make-work) everything over there would have literally dried up.

  10. @1, 7, 8, intern: yeah, that was a straight-up hate crime. Drawing swastikas and writing “gas chambers” on a Jewish school during the High Holy Days is hate speech and should be prosecuted as such.

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