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...
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...
Allied Arts threw one of its highly enjoyable Beer and Culture events last week, and the topic was what to do about the expanded 520 bridge as it comes crashing through the Arboretum. There's a design...
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.
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...
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...
Last year, after 13 years of performing Renaissance choral music, Seattle's Tudor Choir announced it was going into semi-hibernation. That was sad news, for the choir is very good, led by a true...
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...
