Here's a great moment in American educational ignominy (and no, I'm not talking about the WASL, that's a couple of paragraphs further down). In March, the U.S. Postal Service is releasing a group of...
Second in a series: Week two for supporters of Barack Obama who are preparing for the Feb. 9 caucuses in the Seattle neighborhood. Nationally, their candidate is not exactly cruising to the nomination...
News that Oregon Health & Science University is looking to lay off up to 300 of its 12,000 employees has Portlanders either aghast, steaming – or, in the case of one legal-eagle blogger, both.
Last Thursday, Jan. 17, I traveled to Olympia to support a University of Washington branch campus for my luminous, blue-collar City on a Hill, otherwise known as the "Athens of Puget Sound." I speak...
Mossback has begged for some Old Testament-style whuppin's for timber thieves, like the one who cut a grove of 700-year-old cedars in Wenatchee National Forest. While harsh punishments are elusive –...
Saturday, Jan. 19, found me housebound in Raleigh, N.C.. While a rare snow-sleet-storm took place outside, I periodically checked in on political developments nationally and in the Nevada presidential...
Back in the 1960s, Ralph Nader got rid of all the pointy instruments inside cars and nagged automakers into adding seatbelts. (Mom sold the Corvair.). Next, cops got huffy if you had one little beer...
