Wilson’s speech spent much time describing challenges, less so on solutions. She is going slow, emphasizing “hope” as a mantra and a long-term strategy.

The Catholic Church refuses to look the other way in the face of Trump’s roundups of emigrees and refugees, despite justifications from Vice President J.D. Vance, a Catholic convert.

Here's the paradox: the current political assault on institutions may be the best thing that ever happened to the case for rebuilding them.

Rick Steves’ presentation in Edmonds was about his new book, "On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer." The book is an edited version of his journals of 1978, when he set out with his friend Gene Openshaw to travel the Trail through Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India to the fabled city of Kathmandu, Nepal.

I was not very good at spelling, until I discovered that if I spelled the word backward, as well as forward, I would have it perfectly.

The main problem for Seattle Schools has been rapid turnover of the superintendents, as well as key board members.