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Author: Paul Luvera

Plaintiff trial lawyer for 50 years. Past President of the Inner Circle of Advocates & Washington State Trial Lawyers Association. Member American Board of Trial Advocates, American College of Trial Lawyers, International Academy, International Society of Barristers, the American Trial Lawyers Hall of Fame & speaker at Spence Trial College
Alberto Gonzales is Only The Tip of the Problem of The Bush Administration

Alberto Gonzales is Only The Tip of the Problem of The Bush Administration

There has been so much already written about the resignation of Alberto Gonzales as Attorney General that I hesitate to even add a comment. However, as pointed out by Representative Louise Slaughter in her blog entitled "Restore justice to the justice department," what does bear further comment is the issue of the total lack of integrity the Bush gang has brought to our government. As she correctly points out his resignation is the product of a pattern we have seen…

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A big D for the Bush Administration Report Card

A big D for the Bush Administration Report Card

Jeffrey Simpson is a syndicated columnist in Canada who wrote a recent article about what he called "the three D’s." He said: "The United States under (Bush’s) leadership, spends more than it raises in taxes, imports more then it exports and uses more energy than the country can produce domestically." He went on to point out that if report cards were being issued, Mr. Bush would get three D’s: a fiscal deficit, a trade deficit and an energy deficit. Mr….

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PEOPLE I WISH I HAD KNOWN

PEOPLE I WISH I HAD KNOWN

From time to time I read about people and I stop and think, "I wish I had known that person." A recent obituary in the Seattle P.I. struck me that way. It showed a picture of a older couple. The obituary started out "Bill and Gladys Willams passed away within a day of each other" which immediately caught my interest. It went on to say the couple had been born only a month a part and met in Eastern Oregon…

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Good Riddence to Bad Rubbish – Karl Rove Leaves the Whitehouse

Good Riddence to Bad Rubbish – Karl Rove Leaves the Whitehouse

"Bush’s brain" has left the building. Karl Rove, the paid consultant to Phillip Morris and propaganda minister to the Bush Whitehorse, resigned before the ship of state sank. I admit I have contempt for this man’s morals and ethics as well as for his total lack of character. I’ve commented about Rove lots of times, (3/17/07) but it’s to be remembered that this man continued as a paid consultant for the tobacco giant Phillip Morris even while acting as an…

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Phil Rizzuto a Baseball Great

Phil Rizzuto a Baseball Great

Phil Rizzuto died at age 89 years on Tuesday. I remember him when he played with the other famous Yankee’s of that era. He was a great New York Yankee short stop who ended up in the Hall of Fame. Known as "the scooter" he played for the Yankee’s during the 1940’s and 1950’s. He played in five All-Star games and was a flashy player who played alongside people like Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle. He had tried out with…

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Our Spinless Democrats in Congress

Our Spinless Democrats in Congress

Letters to the Editor in the New York Times of August 8th captured my feeling of disappointment in Congressional Democrats as having no backbone at all when it comes to Iraq and the continued intrusion into America’s right of privacy by this administration. As letters in the Times put it: "To their shame, sixteen Democrats in the Senate and forty one in the House voted to hand the president monarchial powers that the signers of the Constitution had withheld. The…

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Rising from the Rails Comment

Rising from the Rails Comment

Seattle attorney Jan Peterson sent me a note about my post involving Black Porters which I thought I should share with you: Paul, I read with interest, as usual, your piece on Rising from the Rails.  My family on my father’s side were railroad people and as a result we had a pass to ride on the trains whenever we wanted.  Even as late as my early childhood in the forties I remember Pullman porters.  They were all black men…

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Paul Luvera Sr & Say Hello to Your Dad

Paul Luvera Sr & Say Hello to Your Dad

When I was growing up in the small town of Anacortes, my dad, Paul Luvera, Sr., was a prominent figure in town as well as the West side of the State of Washington. He operated our neighborhood grocery store at the same location, 7th and Commercial, for many years. He had been active in every community club or town activity for years. He had even served one term in the State Senate. He was very well known and was prominent…

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Boston & New York Travel Report

Boston & New York Travel Report

I’m back from Boston by way of New York after attending a meeting for the Inner Circle of Advocates, a national plaintiff lawyer’s professional organization. Unfortunately, I saw little of Boston because I arrived late Saturday and had meetings all day Sunday and Monday. I then left early on Tuesday to meet my wife Lita in New York. We spent Tuesday night in New York where we attended the musical Wicked and left early Wednesday for Seattle. When we left…

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Boston Massachusetts

Boston Massachusetts

I leave for Boston early Saturday for a meeting of a professional law group I belong to, the Inner Circle of Advocates. So, it seems appropriate to share some information about the city and state. The city of Boston is also known as "Beantown" or "The Hub." It’s population is nearly 600,000 people. It is the largest city in Massachusetts and New England (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut), and the capital of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts….

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