“This is not a story about those who endured the fallout. t’s about those who helped set it in motion, because that’s where the responsibility lies, and where the lessons remain.”

We know now that Oregon was a big KKK state, and that Governor Walter Pierce (yes, Pierce Library at Eastern Oregon College was named after him) was a big sympathizer if not a member.

The local results are more mixed than the national Blue Wave. That probably translates into more instability in Seattle leadership (now four so-so  mayors old), but a new generation is definitely coming, particularly if Wilson decides to seek a City Council seat and keeps up her pressure on the Mayor to perform better.

This limited election showed what the polls also say, that a majority of Americans are not on board for Trump’s wannabe king act, and secondly that good candidates who run good campaigns win.

The contested local races could almost be calibrated by their distance from Trump’s objectionable policies.

To judge from our experience and from neighborhood sites like “Next Door” a lot of people in Seattle experience a crime problem, one that has eroded the quality of life in a city once known for it.