Gallery: Joel in action through the years
Recent posts on NPI’s Cascadia Advocate and Post Alley
- Seattle’s Father Ryan Reports on his Meeting with Pope Leo XIVby Joel Connelly on March 20th, 2026 at 1:06 PM
During a lengthy tenure, unusual in the Seattle archdiocese, Fr. Ryan refurbished St. James, banished guitars at Mass, brought in a women’s’ choir, and GLBTQ activists took the pulpit at the Catholic cathedral to read scripture.
- The Rise and Fall of Joe Kentby Joel Connelly on March 19th, 2026 at 12:46 PM
Such views helped to qualify Kent for a top counterterrorism posting in the topsy turbulent territory of Trumpland. But this week he walked away, reasoning that we are buying oil from people we are bombing.
- Dynamic Duo: Washington’s Two Senatorsby Joel Connelly on March 18th, 2026 at 12:58 PM
Murray is 75, and Cantwell is 67. Looking to 2028, when Murray is up, the partnership may well come to an end.
- Sock It to ’em, Hillaryby Joel Connelly on March 11th, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Hilary Clinton would have made a better president than her spouse. She had the opportunity to shatter the glass ceiling.
- Opportunity for Democrats in Alaska and Montana?by Joel Connelly on March 7th, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Pundits’ bleary eyes may focus on the Pacific Northwest and Alaska this November in the national slugfest for control of Congress. If Democrats win, they could wrestle the nation’s agenda from the small hands and outsized ego of President Donald Trump. An A-list House race appeared this week on political radar screens with news that U.S. Rep. Ryan