Something wonderfully ironic happened last week at the state Capitol: a sales tax increase of 3/10 of one cent was…
Something wonderfully ironic happened last week at the state Capitol: a sales tax increase of 3/10 of one cent was…
You very likely have heard about, if not seen, the remarkable video of a 47 year-old Scottish woman named Susan…
Changing our name to Bellevue College, from Bellevue Community College, required only a minor edit. Yet the change embodies a…
I love the Internet. I don’t miss the days when one had to go to the bookstore or the library…
My next-door neighbor recently told me that he began to ‘horripilate’ while watching local TV news last week. I said,…
Leave it to Wall Street to turn a good idea inside out and come up with an investment product that…
Is our society safer or less safe because of guns? On “60 Minutes” last Sunday, Leslie Stahl focused on the…
Since September, when the shadow of depression crossed over the world, when banks and companies, large and small, began to…
The pending decision by the Legislature to axe the state’s Adult Day Health program is going to cause tremendous harm…
Cow poop is changing the world – or at least making it a little greener. Every time ol’Bossy messes up…
My byline appears at the head of this essay. It’s also the name that’s on all my important papers and…
I once spent five days living, sleeping and eating with the homeless. I talked to Metro bus drivers, the homeless…
What’s the most overused word in government? My nominee is “investment”. In the real world an investment is when you…
Parents often wonder when they should sit their kids down to talk about drugs and alcohol. They may be surprised…
To understand the soul of any society, listen to its music. I grew up listening to what is commonly referred…
