posted from Seattle, WA on Jan 30, 2026. This ad will appear in the A-section of the Seattle Times on Sunday, February 1, 2026. There's a mass deportation going on in America now that is all built on a one-word foundation: "Undocumented." This word has been accepted...
Posted from Seattle December 20, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBM2FBAbr7E This Progressive Conservative wants us to clean up our language Using the word “undocumented” to describe immigrants is an unforced error for anyone who is opposed to the current deportation cruelty. Nor should the word undocumented be used by those who...
Liberals keep losing the biggest, most crucial battles of our times. (footnote: Marriage Equality a rare exception, more on that later). Is it because conservative arguments tend to reduce more efficiently to sound-bites? Do conservative arguments tend to seem more like common sense? Is there some...
Posted July 27, 2025 from Seattle, WA. “Stocks are surging,” reported NPR this morning. While the article contained a strong (and wise) caution that what goes up could perhaps go down, it listed only various strong economic indicators to explain why the Market might be going...
Posted from Seattle, WA on December 17, 2024 One Seattle is a terrible plan that will not achieve much density but will succeed in wiping out the remainder of Seattle's urban tree canopy, already ranked low among the great American cities. Northwest Buldings have mostly been dwarfed...
by Ed Newbold posted from Seattle, WA, Dec. 27, 2024. Bill McKibben, a person with immense accomplishments, a stellar individual who cares as much about this Earth as anyone on it--this is not personal! (Photo by Gage Skidmore courtesy of Wikicommons.) DISCLAIMER--this is not an...
posted from Seattle, WA on May 22, 2024 Most of us live in cities and don't see a creek in our day-to-day lives. Seattle was plumbed in 1903 and though there has been some laudable daylighting, most of the water is piped to Westpoint to create...
By Ed Newbold posted from Seattle on March 15, 2024 Adapted from a Blog originally published in 2013, when Seattle still had many Swallows All photos and paintings by Ed Newbold unless otherwise noted Barn Swallow, painting by Ed Newbold In 2013 I wrote: Seattle lost its Nighthawks before anyone...
posted November 18, 2023 from Seattle, WA The weight of the Environmentalist movement appears so far to have been thrown almost unanimously on the side of the plan to slowly reintroduce Grizzly Bears into the North Cascades National Park. And the plan appears to be becoming...
Posted on January 6, 2023 from Seattle, WA, USA. I’m running an ad in the Seattle Times Sunday edition January 8, 2023 in an effort to bring attention to the stunning accomplishment of Brian Pendleton and Darchelle Worley in observing 376 species of birds in Washington...
Posted from Seattle, WA on Jan 6, 2022; edited and rewritten on Jan 7, 2023 Posted January 6, 2022 from Seattle WA (edited Jan 7, 2023) Links to two articles have been posted to Tweeters, Washington state’s birding chatline, that challenge birders to not drive so often...
Carroll Dwayne Littlefield Carroll Dwayne Littlefield 1940-2019 Wildlife Biologist, Sandhill Crane defender and author Carroll Dwayne Littlefield passed away unexpectedly on May 28 of a heart attack at his home in the Peloncillo Mountains of New Mexico. While C.D. had receded from public life over the past 17 years, his memory...
Posted from Seattle Nov. 7 2018 I'll be running the above ad in the Seattle Times on Sunday Nov. 11 A-section. What follows is not the most concise and cogent argument on the subject. That might be at this link to the Seattle Nature Alliance.org's post on...
Posted from Seattle WA on Jan 15, 2018 I am running an ad in the Seattle Times on Tuesday, January 16, A-section, that makes a nonpartisan plea to America to take the wall off the table, essentially calling it an unacceptably unpatriotic idea that insults the...
Posted from Seattle, WA on December 11, 2017 I am running an ad in the Seattle Times A-section on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017 that is critical of the per mile tax. Here is the wording: The Gas Tax is a carbon tax and it’s not broken Per Mile tax...
Posted from Seattle, WA on November 13, 2017 I am running another ad in the Seattle Times November 14, 2017 against the Trump Wall, shown above. Also, I visited the border country in the lower Rio Grande valley in 2015. Here is the blog I did, “We...
Posted Nov. 20, 2015 from Seattle, WA I’ve heard “Don’t mess with Texas” my whole life. If I took it seriously, I would probably go to Florida, Hawaii or California to find subtropical birds in the US, rather than “messing” with Texas. But Delia and I...
Posted Nov. 12, 2015 from Seattle, WA Ed is expecting that the above ad will run in the A-section of the Seattle Times on Sunday, November 14, 2015. The painful, awful thing about politics is taking a stand that you know will annoy wonderful & good people...
Posted from Seattle May 24, 2014 Brian Pendleton and I got back last night from our GREAT MIDWEST WARBLER SAFARI. We landed in Chicago on May 16 and birded beginning Saturday May 17 through yesterday May 23 at 3 pm in Indiana. No, make that 5...
posted Jan 28, 2013 from Seattle On Tuesday, Jan 20, 2013, the small ad shown below will be running in the A-section of the Seattle Times. The Jan/Feb 2013 Utne Reader has published an excerpt from Lester Brown’s new book Full Planet, Empty Plates. Brown recaps two recent,...
posted Jan. 10, 2012 photo by Nicholas Heyward Monica Newbold Shay Jan. 10, 1953 -July 3, 2011 No brother ever had a better sister. Monica, you were the greatest. You taught me so much and I was in awe of you always. I will love you and miss you until...
Posted November 14, 2011 from Seattle, WA. I’m running the tiny ad shown here opposing the Keystone Pipeline in the Seattle Times this Tuesday the 15th. It will be in the A-section. The ad is half the size of my normal ads as an experiment to...