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PubliCola was off and running. In June 2009, PubliCola hired another award-winning journalist, super-sourced Seattle city hall reporter Erica C. Barnett.

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On Other Blogs Today: Rossi Signs Tea Party Contract

Politics   July 28, 2010 at 6:15 pm Josh Feit

1. The Rainier Valley Post has some exciting news about the Columbia City Farmers Market.

2. The PI’s Strange Bedfellows has an interview with U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell about the Democrats’ $30 billion small-business aid package.

3. A bus driver blogger at Puget Sound Operators Blog takes on the Washington Policy Center re: bus driver salaries.

4. PubliCola’s favorite newsie, Jordan Schrader at the TNT’s Political Buzz has the news that Dino Rossi signed on to a 10-point “Contract with America” that’s being promoted by Tea Party groups.

5. Krist Novoselic makes a weird endorsement in the U.S Senate race over at Seattle Weekly’s Daily Weekly.




  • LindaEAverill

    Take on the Washington Policy Center? Right on to the bus driver blogger who did it. WPC is an Andrew Breitbart lookalike. Take the facts, mangle them to serve your own rightwing ends and pretty soon lies become the truth.

  • Jeff Welch

    Ennis is at it again, demonstrating a lack of interest in facts. Publicola got it right. I'm a “bus driver blogger”. Ennis on the other hand calls Puget Sound Transit operators a “union blog” and me a “union leader”. He's wrong on both counts, and violated the PSTO Terms of Use in making those false claims.
    http://washingtonpolicyblog.typepad.com/washing…

  • Nohero80

    What ever happened to the Puget Sound Transit Operators’ blog?

  • Anonymous

    On hiatus to due to low participation, overwhelming negative feedback, and the desire to focus on personal issues close to home demanding my energies.