Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Politics

On-line, illegal marijuana home delivery services are undercutting Washington’s voter-approved legal marijuana market, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray and City Attorney Pete Holmes said in a statement late Tuesday. “. .More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

After hearing arguments Tuesday, and spending a weekend studying briefs, King County Superior Court Judge William Downing will rule Thursday on the legality of Tim Eyman’s “gun to the head” initiative, which would slash a penny from the state sales tax in April if the Washington State Legislature doesn’t put an Eyman-backed constitutional amendment on

Two big, established environmental lobbies — the Sierra Club and League of Conservation Voters Action Fund — are backing Democratic U.S. Sen. Patty Murray’s bid for a fifth term. The endorsements signal that “big green” groups that once endorsed candidates of both parties have become a virtual functioning arm of the Democratic Party, in Washington

The lawmakers in Britain’s House of Commons have a low opinion of Donald Trump, but a three-hour debate at Westminster produce no great support for banning the Republican presidential candidate from the United Kingdom.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

The federal government will stop issuing new coal leases on federal lands, mainly in Wyoming and Montana, as the Obama administration reviews coal’s impact on climate change as well as the price that big coal companies are paying America’s taxpayers.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Using the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), Planned Parenthood is suing the anti-abortion activists who produced heavily edited, secretly made videos that accused the women’s health provider of trafficking in fetal tissue.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

The independent Inspector General of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has found no evidence of bias in an exhaustive EPA study that found that a huge proposed open pit copper and gold mine would have potentially devastating impacts on the salmon fishery of Alaska’s Bristol Bay.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

The last State of the Union speech of Barack Obama’s presidency was a hit with listeners, while South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley was taking hits for an undisguised shot at Donald Trump in her Republican SOTU response.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

The Fox News channel and newspapers owned by 84-year-old Australian-born media mogul Rupert Murdoch are forever fretting at the loss of America’s traditional values, the degrading of culture, and alleged wars being waged against both Christmas and Easter.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Arch Coal, the nation’s second-largest coal producer, and a partner in a big proposed coal-export terminal in Longview, filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday.  Its filing means producers of 25 percent of America’s coal are now in bankruptcy.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share