Joel Connelly has a good column in today's Post-Intelligencer, inveighing against Tim Eyman's Initiative 960, the latest legislative straightjacket from the populist tax-cutter.
Connelly takes aim...
We're trying an experiment to see if the wisdom of the crowd can be tapped to predict the outcome of a few measures and races in the Nov. 6 election.
This is not an opinion poll. It's a predictive...
A strange thing happened to religion on its way to extinction. It may turn out that declaring God is Dead may be premature. Very weak, certainly, but not yet a goner.
The most interesting development...
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...
