Once again, The Washington Post has published the winning submissions to its yearly neologism contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternative meanings for common words. These are hilarious...
Seattle's churning theater scene has managed to find a new managing director for ACT Theatre, the respected veteran Kevin Hughes, and now comes the search for an executive director to replace Laura...
Chris Bayley, the former King County Prosecutor, today is giving a talk welcoming Dan Satterberg to the job Bayley once held. Bayley defeated Charles O. Carroll, who had held the job for 22 years, and...
Nothing like a close election to focus the mind of political leaders. The best current example is Gov. Chris Gregoire, stung by defeat of Proposition 1 and the still-unresolved Viaduct and 520...
Arts circles are abuzz over a long, prominently played New York Times investigation of the Seattle Symphony, which was published Sunday and reprinted Monday in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Not...
Darius Rejali, a professor of political science at Portland's Reed College, has a new book out, Torture and Democracy. His disturbing thesis is that democracies, not dictators, have done the real...
Mercer Island state representative Fred Jarrett's decision to defect to the Democrats as he attempts to move up to the state Senate, is well recounted in Postman on Politics. The story is important as...
Politicians are poking their heads up from the foxholes a little bit, when it comes to keeping the Sonics in the region. King County Councilman Pete Von Reichbauer, who often plays honest broker in...
