Flimsy allegations of hanky-panky aside, the probing into Sen. John McCain's background and associates is continuing, and it's starting to go to the heart of his claim for being above reproach. He...
Seattle and Portland have a good rivalry in many regards, mostly liveability contests. But how's it going in terms of donability? Who gives the most in the presidential races, and to whom?
Thanks to...
Stanford University has announced, in keeping up with the Harvards, that parents earning less than $100,000 will no longer pay tuition. Families earning below $60,000 don't have to pay for room and...
Today's New York Times'expose on John McCain is rightly criticized, by Slate.com and others, for its curious thinness of evidence about his supposed political and perhaps amorous coziness to a...
We sometimes think that Seattle alone has "the Seattle malaise," meaning long-drawn-out disputes over development that often end in stalemate or ugly compromises. We are not alone.
Consider this...
I recently wrote about two new downtown highrises ("Genuflecting to the High Rises"), and the article prompted this interesting email from a San Francisco reader, Charles M. Marsteller, who identifies...
Amid the Obamamania, allow me to insert two contrarian thoughts. Both are by way of arguing that the change mantra will have to, er, change. And soon.
A first reason is that other politicians...
Slate.com is out with its annual list of the top 60 American philanthropists, and there's a surprise for the mega-wealthy Northwest. Only one person from the region makes the list, Phil Knight, the...
Seattle City Councilmembers Richard Conlin, the new president of the Council, Tim Burgess, Bruce Harrell, Nick Licata, Tom Rasmussen, and Richard McIver have endorsed Barack Obama for president.
The...
