David Brewster

Will the election be the start of a pendulum swing back to pragmatic moderation, or the consolidation of the city as a leftist bastion? Voters, unions, and independent expenditures hold the keys.

In the past, Boeing would set a high bar for corporate participation, with other companies finding their proper levels below. Microsoft now orchestrates such efforts.

Portland had been transformed into a distinctively Europeanized city, but now it is afflicted by a chronic anarchism that the politicians seem unable to stop.

Down ballot races are now contested as an aspect of identity politics, more than the public-policy issues.

"In the final days of the $3 million Black Brilliance Research Project, the wheels came off the wagon. King County Equity Now, the organization that fought for and spearheaded the project, found itself on the outside looking in,"

Mostly, the heady moment of alternative/urbanist/radical culture which gave birth to city weeklies in almost all large cities, couldn't survive economic downturns, social media, and the fading of the 1960s.

A prediction: Council winners will be Mosqueda and Brianna Thomas, cementing the current council status quo. Such an outcome would make life very difficult for a Mayor Bruce Harrell. A Mayor Gonzalez would complete the ideological takeover of city hall by the progressive-agenda council.

Big lies have the media advantage of gaining further coverage by being attacked as false, so they are two-fers.

Plan-averse Seattle's plan is not to plan but just to wait for the vaccines to bring back the boomtimes. Very risky. And there are some good ideas for building back better.

Wanting to play badminton one day in his Bainbridge back yard, but lacking a shuttlecock, Joel Pritchard substituted a whiffle ball and fashioned some small wooden rackets.