I hate gratuitous political mission statements, like the kind Greg Nickels attaches to public works signs. With the election nigh, I attended a dinner of political junkies and in going through the...
Retiring from his post next January, Seattle City Council member Peter Steinbrueck has virtually closed the door on running for Mayor in 2009. Instead, he's going to be taking a job in the private...
A magazine with the annoying title of 02138 (that being the zip code for Cambridge, Mass, around Harvard) grew a little testy about how elite Harvard is, even though the magazine is aimed squarely at...
It isn't very sporting to point out that Portland had the foresight to plan miles of rail corridors in less time than it took Seattle to reach consensus on that all-important question, "Should Pine...
Time to stop the teeth-gnashing at City Hall. SLUT is here to stay. Without an ounce of forethought, Seattle has stumbled onto one of the hallmarks of a proper big city: a memorable mass-transit name...
PR Newswire, that busy source of tips and announcements that fills our e-mail boxes just as press releases used to fill those wire in-baskets, has some highly relevant-to-blogging content.
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