Posted from Seattle WA on October 6, 2018 I am running the above ad in the Seattle Times A-section for Sunday, October 7, 2018. What inspired me to run yet another ad against the Wall was this: An article in the National Wildlife Federation's magazine confronts the damage...
Posted from Seattle, WA on April 23, 2018. An ad I'm running in the Seattle Times A-section on Sunday, April 29, opposes the First Avenue Streetcar. Here is the ad, which is pretty self-explanatory. I compare the Streetcar to the 56 year old Monorail and find the...
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 October 2, 2017 from Seattle, WA The ad shown above is scheduled to run in the Seattle Times on Tuesday, October 3 2017, A section. (Ads have much longer timelines than news stories. There is anguish on my part over the tragic event in Los Vegas...
Posted from Seattle, WA on Sept. 4 2017 I'm running an ad in the Seattle Times Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017 that attempts to draw attention to the fact that the border wall is predicated on a mischaracterization. It's not on the border, it's far on the...
Posted from Seattle, WA on August 14, 2017 I'm running an ad in the Seattle Times Tuesday, August 15, 2017 that attempts to draw attention to the massive land giveaway that is the border wall. It also makes a note of the wall's collision with the...
Posted from Seattle, WA on May 19, 2017 I will be running the ad shown above in the Seattle Times A-section on Tuesday, May 23, 2017. If I were reading the ad the first thing I would like to know is where the citation for the opening...
Posted from Seattle on Nov. 29, 2016 The text of the ad reads: In an often-repeated unconstitutional property-rights abuse, the Dakota Access pipeline owner was gifted with the kingly power of eminent domain to take land from unwilling Americans. This subsidy unlevels the playing field, & distorts...
Posted October 9, 2016 from Seattle, WA I’m running an ad for Initiaitive 732 on Sunday, today in the A—section of the Seattle Times. For more information on I-732, here is the campaign’s website: Yes on I-732 YES ON I-732 Act NOW on climate change...
Posted September 8, 2016 from Seattle, WA I’m running an ad for Initiaitive 732 on Sunday, Sept. 10 in the A—section of the Seattle Times. For more information on I-732, here is the campaign’s website: Yes on I-732 YES ON I-732 Act NOW on climate...
Posted from Seattle,WA on August 15, updated August 18 & 25, 2016 The ad shown below should appear in the Sunday, August 25th A-section of the Seattle Times. It advocates a yes on I-732 as a "middle path." I ran the following ad tomorrow Tuesday August 16...
Posted May 23, 2016 from Seattle, WA I’m running a low-rise ad, shown above, in the Seattle Times on Tuesday May 24, 2016 that should appear in the A-section. The ad singles out Oregon but is implicitly critical of the movement of DoTs nationally, including US...
Posted May 8, 2016 from Seattle, WA “Tolls are here to stay” wrote the Editors of the Seattle Times last Saturday, May 7. I say: Don’t be so sure! Tolls have made their spectacular advance partly because we the public and our leaders haven’t really thought them...
We tend to think of atrocities against Native Americans as tragic but mostly a thing of the distant past, but they are happening in real time right now in Latin America, particularly Honduras where the eloquent and tireless Native Lenca-tribal leader Berta Caceres was killed on...
Posted March 14, 2016 from Seattle, Washington My ad shown above should appear in the Tuesday March 15 A-section of the Seattle Times. It is meant to help draw more attention to the murder of Berta Caceres on the night of March 3, 2016, who was an...
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...
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Posted Sept. 21, 2015 from Seattle,WA; updated Oct 5, 2015 I ran an ad in the A-section of the Seattle Times on Tuesday Sept. 22, 2015, that presents my belief that the green position on the upcoming Seattle Transportation Levy is No. I'm running it again...
Posted from Seattle August 12, 2015 The Atacama Desert in SW Peru gets the same total of rainfall every year: none. With no rainfall lately-- (Newsflash: Until today right now at noon!!! A thunderstorm no less! PS.: at 1 pm: It didn't produce rain here on Beacon...
Proofreading error in March 31 Seattle Times ad: The hole should be no bigger than 7/8". Sorry! Posted March 30, 2015 from Seattle, WA. A bit ahead of schedule, like everything else this spring, the Violet-green Swallows are now arriving in Seattle. The Barn Swallows should follow suit in...