State election officials have released the first of a new format of daily updates for the closely watched Referendum 71 signature checks. The late Tuesday recap, reflecting only the batches that have been fully vetted by checkers and reviewed and revised by master checkers… Read more
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- Mount Rainier National Park.
The snow just above Paradise in Mount Rainier National Park has melted, and the famous and beautiful wildflowers there are in full bloom.
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State election workers have now checked over 35,000 Referendum 71 signatures, including 5,926 during the Friday day-shift. The daily rejection rate was 12.91 percent, which was higher than the newly revised cumulative error rate. R-71 backers, hoping to force a public vote this fall on the state's new "everything but marriage" domestic partnership law, need 120,577 valid signatures to earn a ballot spot. They submitted 137,689, and Friday was the sixth day of checking by election crews.… Read more
State election officials continue posting fresh numbers in their closely watched check of signatures for Referendum 71, with the latest complete numbers for Thursday now showing 6,483 checked and 935 rejected, for a cumulative daily error rate of 14.42 percent. The previously announced rejection rate for the day-shift check was running a bit higher, almost 15 percent. Thursday was the first day the Elections Division used two shifts of checkers. At the new rate, the verification process… Read more
Referendum checkers, beefing up their efforts to determine whether R-71 gets a place on the statewide ballot, have processed another 3,831 signatures, bringing the total to over 27,000 checked so far. The latest daily count reflected an rejection rate approaching 15 percent. The state Election Division crew rejected 573 signatures, mostly because the signers weren't registered Washington voters, for a daily error rate of 14.96 percent. That was the highest daily error rate recorded in the… Read more
Image Mount Rainier's summit, Muir Snowfield - Submitted by Janet.
Each year, thousands of mountain climbers and day-hikers travel up the snowfield to Camp Muir, which sits on the mountain's south side at nearly 10,200 feet above sea level. This isn't an activity for the unprepared. The hike from Paradise is about nine miles round trip, with an elevation gain of about 4,700 feet.… Read more
State Election workers processed another 6,140 petition signatures for Referendum 71 Wednesday, the attempt by Protect Marriage Washington to secure a statewide vote this fall on the "everything but marriage" law expanding rights and responsibilities for state-registered domestic partners. Checkers rejected 872 signatures for various reasons, for a daily error rate of 14.2 percent. By the numbers: The error rate was similar to the 14.4 percent the previous day. Overall, 23,457 signatures… Read more
Volume 5, August 6, 2009 for the WSL Updates mailing list
Topics include:
1) NEW WSL SPECIAL COLLECTIONS WEB PAGES
2) JOB ANNOUNCEMENT – TECHNOLOGY CONSULTANT
3) BROADBAND STIMULUS FUNDING WIKI
4) GALE ACADEMIC DATABASE GROUP PURCHASE RENEWAL
5) WLMA CONFERENCE IN OCTOBER
6) FUNDS FOR NATIVE LANGUAGE PRESERVATION PROJECTS
… Read moreElection officials have processed another 5,815 Referendum 71 signatures, rejecting 14.4 percent.
Image Rounding out the third day of R-71 checks, 17,317 signatures have now been processed, with a total of 15,067 accepted so far. It takes 120,577 valid voter signatures to gain a place on the statewide November ballot. Sponsors, a conservative social-action group called Protect Marriage Washington, turned in137,689 names on July 25, and the… Read more
[caption id="attachment_1663" align="alignright" width="101" caption="Eliza Spalding Warren"] Image [/caption] Perhaps the most poignant accounts of both life and death on those remote mission stations come from the women who were most intimately involved. In Memoirs of the West: the Spaldings, Eliza Spalding, the daughter of Rev. Spalding, looks back at an idyllic childhood… Read more
[caption id="attachment_1656" align="alignleft" width="108" caption="Rev. H. H. Spalding"] Image [/caption] For decades after the tragedy at the Whitman Mission, writers, preachers and others sought to place blame for the event itself and for the underlying causes. Resentments against the Hudson’s Bay Company and religious prejudices often colored narratives, and led to charges of cowardice or malice.
Square in the middle of these disputes was… Read more[caption id="attachment_1646" align="alignright" width="240" caption="Sketch of the mission"] Image [/caption] The Whitman Massacre of November 29, 1847 provides a painful window into a time of conflicting cultures, priorities and prejudices. Piecing together what happened from contemporary accounts can be both frustrating and fascinating. Were the Cayuse Indians misguided, evil, deceived, or somewhere in between all of those? Were the missionaries… Read more
These media mentions are compiled by Brian Zylstra, Deputy Communications Director for the Office of the Secretary of State, and passed along to us.
The following links cover Media Clips provided July 02, 2009 – July 27, 2009.
Don't let dream of Heritage Center fade away (Olympian… Read more
Most of the time working in a prison library does not feel like a prison. However, this can no longer be said for those working at the Washington State Penitentiary, East Complex Library. For years staff have been asking for an office to be built in the library that will allow staff to have a computer with Internet access readily available to use. Over the years road blocks have jumped up at every turn, this is no longer the case. East Complex Library now has an office in the library, but… Read more
