Revised: Oil Transportation Safety
My bedroom window overlooks the Auburn valley where the BNSF rail yard is sited. I often hear them switching the trains at night. If you’ve ever heard a mile-long train change direction, you’d remember the sound: a long, low boom. I’m worried that one day soon, I might hear an…
Koch Brothers and Climate Change Awareness
Every one of us in the Western world has contributed to climate change. – Bill McKibben Recently, I organized a couple of events with the goal of showing people how their choices and actions can make a real difference in the effort to end our dependence on fossil fuels like…
Resolution to Restore GED Fairness in Washington State
WHEREAS more than one million students attend public schools in Washington State, comprised of about 80,000 students at each grade level and WHEREAS only 60,000 of theses students graduate from Washington high schools each year, leaving about 20,000 students annually who do not receive the help they need to graduate…
Resolution to Keep Control of Education at the State and School District Levels
WHEREAS not being enumerated in Article I, Section B of the U.S. Constitution, education has historically been left to each State per the 10th Amendment to the US Constitution; WHEREAS the copyrighted Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are a set of controversial academic standards that were created for the whole…