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Jean Godden

Jean Godden wrote columns first for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and late for the Seattle Times. In 2002, she quit to run for City Council where she served for 12 years. Since then she published a book of city stories titled “Citizen Jean.” She is now co-host of The Bridge aired on community station KMGP at 101.1 FM. You can email tips and comments to Jean at jgodden@blarg.net.
Histories

Standing Strong: America has been Built by Immigrants

Immigration to America has strong ties to innovation. A stunning 44 percent of the nation’s medical scientists are foreign born, as are 42 percent of software developers.
Books

Notes on a Different Kind of Leadership: Jacinda Ardern’s New Zealand

The best-selling book is a page-turner filled with confidences and self-effacing humor.  Awarded dual fellowships at Harvard, Ardern continues to teach there and advocate for a new kind of leadership -- one she calls “both caring and effective.”
People

A Shamefully Neglected Park: No Way to Honor a Local Hero

His battle on behalf of the houseboats restored Pettus’ reputation and made him into a hero. Mayor Charles Royer designated March 7,1982 as Terry Pettus Day. The city set aside the street end just south of the houseboats as Terry Pettus Park in 1985.
Books

A Northwest Graphic Novelist Charts Her Long Journey Home

The author came to believe that to find peace, she’d have to return home and face her ghosts. Just months past her 30th birthday, she began her emotional expedition into her family’s past. It took Tessa nearly ten years to research and tell the story of her family’s three generations.
Cities

New Energy: Georgetown Steam Plant as a New Creative Center?

Like a diamond in the rough, the plant brings with it not only its awesome past history but an imagined present.
Food

Care and Feeding: Writing about Food has Never been more Mainstream

It is into this sensuous food era that Laurie Woolever takes us with her memoir. An aspiring food writer, she takes a job co-authoring a cookbook with celebrity chef/bad boy Mario Batali.
Politics

And They’re In: Who’s Filed to Run in This Year’s Local Elections

When filing closed last week, voters received a look at candidates for this year’s local elections; none appeared far from the mainstream. Ballots will be sent July 18 for the Aug. 5 primary.
Politics

Baby Boomer: Trump’s Plan for us to Procreate

If increasing births is a Trump aim, it is hard to imagine worse incentives for having babies than the contradictory actions of the Trump administration, slashing pro-family spending.
Books

Melinda Gates’ Next Chapter

Chances are that many who rushed out to buy Melinda French Gates’ new book, The Next Day: Transitions, Change and Moving Forward expected to learn gossipy details about her...
Politics

Democracy Vouchers: Will Voters Renew the Experiment?

The “Honest Elections” promise of “keeping big wealth out of politics” was thus not fully realized. It fell victim to the Citizens United decision that permits PACs to spend unlimited amounts.
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