I've never watched Robert Redford's Sundance Channel but an ad caught my eye for Season 3 of a series called Iconoclasts. The show features pairings of famous people hanging out and sharing their...
Defeat Proposition 1, as happened last week, and you leave a lot of taxing authority on the table. Not surprisingly, local governments are pouncing. Their greediness perhaps got out of hand this week...
The people have a right to know if their next president is a flip-flopper, and in an interview with Tim Russert, our Flip Side candidate denies flip-flopping, denies denying he flip-flopped, and...
As the sun went down on Wordstock, Portland's sprawling annual book festival, none of the event-goers were slowing down. If anything, the readers, writers and teachers who attended all four days...
Former Seattle Mayor Charles Royer pens an interesting think-piece in Sunday's Seattle Times, urging us to pay more attention to the squeeze on middle class housing in high-cost Seattle. The essay is very diplomatic, as befits a former mayor, but it scores some valuable direct hits on local politics.
Gingerly, Royer calls for a "conversation" about this topic, using a word that normally suggests that the proposer of some strong medicine doesn't really want to be candid. What he's saying is that the city has done a fair job in building low-income housing, going from 8,000 subsidized units to 21,000 today. But what about the middle class?
Large gatherings of writers are normally not fun. More than two in a room are enough to make one wish for an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting instead, where more of the stories are true and no one asks...
