Slog (Free subscription) | 11/15/2008
"This is huge. March stretches up Pine from Westlake to at least Bellevue Ave. I'm stopped at 6th and Pine. Westlake already at capacity?"
Slog (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
And when he talks national politics, the SECB listens. New Mexico just went down.
Metroblogging Seattle (Free subscription) | yesterday
photo by taylor hain [flickr] via our group pool [#]. Eli Sanders tries to understand why the [student-funded] Daily is publishing offensive, right-wing, poorly reasoned, ill-informed, anti-gay editorials. [slog] Let’s try to not cynically compare the number of comments between that one, and this pro-Prop 8 one published the same [...]
Slog (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
As Eli Sanders posted on November 14 (for some reason our search engine is giving me a 404 error when I try to go to the post, so I can't link it right now), among the Seattle Times staffers to be let go is Sheila Farr, art critic. Farr is one of many writers at the paper to take the buyouts, but it was more than a simple voluntary buyout. Farr explained in an email: The newspaper is eliminating...
Political Animal (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008
MADELYN DUNHAM'S VOTE.... Eli Sanders reports on an interesting question: Madelyn Dunham, Barack Obama's grandmother, died yesterday, but she voted early by absentee ballot. Does her vote count? Sanders tracked down Kevin Cronin, chief election officer for the state of...
Salon.com (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008
The Stranger's intrepid reporter Eli Sanders was worried that the vote of Madelyn Dunham, Barack Obama's grandmother who passed away in Hawaii early Monday, might not be counted. So he made a call down to the elections office and confirmed that her vote, cast absentee, will count. Though Hawaii is not a swing state, it is fitting that, despite sadly dying just hours short of seeing her grandson's...
Slog (Free subscription) | 10/28/2008
In 2003, Eli Sanders went to the Gaza Strip to report on the death of Rachel Corrie, the Evergreen student and anarchist who became an accidental martyr after she was killed during a protest. Photos by Joel Sanders The bulldozer's advance, according to ISM activists who witnessed it, pushed up a mound of dirt that Rachel came to be standing atop, so that she was looking straight at the...
