Long Time Reporter Joel Connelly Retiring

The Cascadia Advocate reports veteran Seattle P-I political reporter Joel Connelly will pack up his  pen and pad and retire on June 30 of this year.
Connelly is the last on the staff who worked for the P-I when it put out a daily print edition.  The paper went online only 11 years ago and the rest of the staff from that time have retired or left for other projects.
Connelly has been with the P-I since 1973 when he covered the reelection campaign of Seattle Mayor Wes Uhlman.
We wish him well.

NPI Calls Out Rodney Tom

Rodney Tom is one of the area's more interesting politicians. A Republican member of the state house of representatives from Medina representing the 48th LD, he switched parties from Republican to Democrat.  It was no a surprise since he seemed a little more Liberal than most of his party members. 

He was elected to the state senate as a Democrat, however, he earned the wrath of the Democratic party when he joined a coalition of Conservative Democrats and Republicans to give control of the senate to the Republicans, while becoming Senate majority leader.

He then declined to run for a second term.  

This year, he has returned to run for his old senate seat and the NPI blog has found that Tom has two brochures describing two different Rodneys.   

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