Beyond the pettiness of the campaign just ending lies the potential emergence of a whole new mood in Seattle-area politics. It would start with a muting of the cultural wars that have bedeviled...
So, just what is the carbon footprint of a climate summit? I refer, of course, to the U.S. Conference of Mayors gathering in Seattle this past week. Over 120 city leaders from around the country came...
Conceived a century ago as a check on government power and corporate cronyism, initiatives and referenda have more often than not been co-opted by those in power. It's also an easy out for elected...
Preaching to the choir may be better than not preaching at all -- and it's a start. On Saturday, the National Day of Climate Action as Step It Up 2 calls it, rallies will let people in Seattle...
It's hard to upstage Bill Clinton and Al Gore when it comes to the topic of climate change. But Michael Bloomberg did just that this afternoon in Seattle.
The U.S. Conference of Mayors, which has...
Paul Krugman, rock-em sock-em liberal columnist for The New York Times, was at Town Hall last night, peddling his new book and taking on three dragons. One was a bad head cold. The other was all the...
Seattle Times political blogger Dave Postman wrote about hints that Republican Dino Rossi might try a more populist tack in his 2008 campaign for governor. Postman cited Rossi's campaign announcement...
