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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.
Cities

Should the Steinbrueck Park Totems be Returned to the Market?

Whether those poles will be returned to the park as originally promised is now open to question.
Politics

Growing Chasm: How Men and Women are Voting

Gen Z young women are not alone in their leftward move. Polling shows an older set of women – Baby Boomers and Millennial women among them – are beginning to move left.
Journalism

Micro-casting Radio: SPACE101 for the Community

Community radio has become a wonderful resource, a way of communicating that we’re most fortunate to have.
Politics

1883’s Comstockery Rises Again

George Bernard Shaw coined the term “comstockery” and said that it had made America the laughing stock of Europe. In return, Comstock raided a Shaw play and derided the playwright as “an Irish smut dealer.”
blog

Unique Seattle: The Quirks That Won’t go Away

It isn’t fair to say that adding density is going to wipe out Seattle-ness. There are many other Seattle Uniques: places and objects that define this city’s character. Here's a list.
Cities

Upzone: Mayor Harrell’s Plan to Grow Seattle

The mayor’s plan is being sold as encouraging density sufficient to accommodate city population growth for the next 20 years, with Seattle projected to increase by 200,000, and to prepare for an estimated 1 million population by 2050.
Food

All Hail, Caesar!

Many years later Caesar salad finally arrived in the provinces. In my case, I would first savor a Caesar salad during a 1970s family reunion in Powell, Wyoming.
Reflections

Old, A Concept

“Old” is also described in the OED as “great, plentiful, abundant” and “existing from an earlier period; long established, associated with a classical time.” Shakespeare used “old” to mean “rare.”
Health

“Incurring the Wrath of a Holy God”: Alabama Court Redefines “Children”

The court’s ruling, which rattled reproductive medicine practitioners across the country and shut down in vitro fertilization (IVF) operations in Alabama, is not only unscientific but absurd.
Books

Kristin Hannah’s New Novel: The Cost of Being a War Heroine

This book is arguably local author Hannah’s finest of the more than 20 historical novels she has authored.  In her latest work, the reader closely follows a 20-year-old nursing graduate intent on serving her country in Vietnam.
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