Each fall there is a compelling ritual at Seattle City Hall, known as the City Council budget hearing. About 100 folks line up on each of two nights, carefully signing in hours before, to have their...
Neil Peterson, the man who built the downtown Metro bus tunnel, recounts how he got the disruptive idea for urban car-sharing and built a little company, which is now part of a nationwide firm.
More sales pitches have arrived in the mailbox regarding the Proposition 1 roads-and-transit measure. This time they are pro-Prop 1. Both were paid for by Keep Washington Rolling. I rate these pieces...
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...
