Slog - Comments on Opening Day: Animated and Paranoid http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/opening_day I'm at the opening session of the new legislature in Olympia. It's all boring formalities, but there were some loaded moments. On the Senate side they swore in former GOP Rep. Rodney Tom as a Democratic State Senator (D-48, Eastside Seattle Suburbs). The Democrats now have a 32-17 advantage in the Senate after picking up six seats. I also saw former Rep. Ed Murray (D-43, gay marriage gay marriage gay marriage), get sworn in as a State Senator—sworn in by anti-gay marriage anti-gay marriage anti-gay marriage WA. Supreme Court Chief Justice Gerry Alexander. On the House side I watched them... Copyright 2008 Mon, 08 Jan 2007 13:48:50 -0800 Tue, 09 Jan 2007 08:26:34 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Archimedes O.T. (sort of):

I hear lots of hand-wringing about how far behind the civilized world we are with transit, but no one posting on SLOG comes right out and advocates for the ST2 and RTID joint ballot measure.

I've got problems with ST2, and I've got concerns about RTID. What would the STRANGER think of hosting some kind of threaded newsgroup or something where a designated hitter for RTID/ST2 (that TCC flack Johnson perhaps) responds to a few questions from Joe Public?

I've got a couple of questions I'd like that guy to address. The devil is in the details with these things, as SMP proved.

My credentials: Cressona took some cheap shots at me, I responded to Cressona's questions and asked a few of my own about RTID. Cressona then disappeared into the ether. That suggests my questions were good ones.

]]> Archimedes http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/opening_day#c585660 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/opening_day#c585660 News Mon, 08 Jan 2007 18:29:08 -0800 Comment by Sean If Goodman is feels so strongly against prisons, what does he want to do, execute everyone?

]]> Sean http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/opening_day#c585916 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/opening_day#c585916 News Mon, 08 Jan 2007 21:40:08 -0800 Comment by Joseph Wheeler Wow. I'm a New Yorker and I had no idea how lopsidedly Democratic WA state government is. With a Dem governor and huge majorities in both houses, why hasn't WA passed some gay marriage/civil union type legislation?

]]> Joseph Wheeler http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/opening_day#c586048 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/opening_day#c586048 News Tue, 09 Jan 2007 08:26:34 -0800