Larry Weis, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray’s nominee to become the next CEO and general manager of Seattle City Light, pictured on Nov. 18 in Seattle (Ken Lambert/The Seattle Times). The Seattle City Council should confirm Larry Weis for the top job at Seattle City Light. By Dave Gering, Special...
The Governor’s new plan to ease traffic congestion on Interstate 405 was announced February 16 with an odd caveat from Jeff Merrill, president of the Washington State Patrol Troopers Association. Merrill warned that in some key spots the new 405 plan fails to provide enough...
If you want to bring back shop class, Randy Dorn is your guy. As the elected Washington State Superintendent of Public Instruction, he helped launch the Core Plus learning initiative based on industry-validated career skills. For this, Dorn should be remembered fondly by thousands of students,...
Stephen Hawking is the brilliant scientist who wrote the best seller, A Brief History of Time. James Lovelock’s scientific resume is so long and lofty he used to work with Hawking’s dad, Frank. They met in the 1940s at the British National Institute for Medical...
Topic? SODO traffic. Location? Corner of 1stAvenue South and Edgar Martinez Way. A TV news crew was conducting the interview when a cargo truck sideswiped a car in a nearby lane, forcing the car up over the curb and across the sidewalk where one tire...
Less volume and more listening might help Seattle learn something from the kayactivist kerfuffle over Arctic Drilling. Contrary to the commercial jetliner fly-in by out-of-town activists to portray Seattle as a portal to climate change perdition, our region has a very good track record for green...
Wonder what a mirror has to do with it? If so, join us for a spin through the Evergreen State and the Emerald City to learn about the benefits, challenges, and hallucinations induced by our collective consumption of Arctic Oil. City Councilmembers and the Mayor of...
Sally Jewell is a former CEO for Seattle’s homegrown company that sells top flight outdoor gear, REI. In that role, her work for conservation causes earned her the Rachel Carson Award in 2009 from the national Audubon Society. [caption id="attachment_234" align="alignleft" width="214"] Sally Jewell[/caption] When President Obama...
Nordstrom. The Boeing Company. The UW Athletic Department. The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. The Republican Party. The Democratic Party. Former Governor Chris Gregoire. Current Governor Jay Inslee. Former US Senator Brock Adams. These are among the luminaries in our universe who found reasons over the...
During Seattle’s debate about the minimum wage, the University of Washington published a report that included compelling data that never seeped through the sloganeering. In 2012, according to state records cited by the UW report, 75% of all Seattle employers had fewer than 10 workers each....