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Might we have a new House Speaker in the next Legislature?

While the leadership aspirations of April Berg, (D-Mill Creek), had been widely rumored Berg jokingly blamed us for the current kerfuffle), Laurie Jinkins dragging them out pulls a contest that at least nominally won’t happen until late in the year into the present.

Mayor Katie Wilson: Learning on the Job?

After six months on the job Mayor Katie Wilson is still learning. Although she campaigned as a democratic socialist, Wilson initially allayed concerns when...

Postcard from Italy: When the Extraordinary Becomes Ordinary

Suddenly it hit me like smack in the face. During the more than forty years of visiting Italy on holidays or business trips, my...

Post Up: This Week’s PNW in Review

Sound Transit conceded what it can no longer afford to build. Mayor Wilson lost the lead advisor on her shelter expansion. Meta laid off 1,400 Seattle-area workers on the same day Mark Zuckerberg's yacht pulled into Lake Union.

Pope Leo’s “Magnificent Humanity” Caution in the Age of AI

What dehumanizes us ultimately results from a misguided relationship to technology and economics — a ‘tendency to let the logic of efficiency, control and profit alone shape personal, social and economic life.’

Not Abundant: And thus SoDO Housing dies a quiet death

“Shame on (the council) for denying up to 1,000 homes, all those jobs and spaces for small businesses,” she said. “We have a housing affordability crisis going on. I just can’t understand.”

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