Sunday, October 12, 2003

The Alaskan Way Viaduct The Seattle PI has an interesting editorial about the RTID. IF the Alaskan Way Viaduct is to be replaced it must be out of site. The myriad of transportation projects that need to be addressed must improve the multimodal aspect of the Puget Sound transportation system. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2001763785_duff12.html This article in the Seattle Times goes a long way to explain how the RTID dollars should be spent. 1:34:25 PM    comment [] trackback []

IFPTE17 Avoid Wal-Mart or "Go Union" The United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) has been trying to unionize Wal-Mart for years and have been unsuccessful because of the vicious tactics of the chain including eliminating in-store meat cutting and wrapping after butchers in Texas voted to organize. The company was recently found guilty of firing a union supporter and had to restore him with full back pay. The UFCW argues that Wal-Mart's "bargain basement wages" are driving down wages for all of their employees. While shopping at a union store is preferable, the UFCW asks that if you still choose to shop at Wal-Mart (or Sam's Club owned by the same company) that you "go union". Wear union buttons, badges, shirts, or pins and talk to the employees about why you are in a union. 9:25:32 AM    comment [] trackback []

Iraq Letters The Daily Olympian refused to publish these "form letters" from Iraq. Is this another deception by the Administration? Are they now deceiving our troops as well as the people in the United States? Do these little "deceptions" show a continuing thought pattern so evident in the President's State of the Union address? Question authority! So we said in the '60s. 9:05:34 AM    comment [] trackback []