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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.
Politics

Liz Cheney: Standing Up for the Republic

The rock-ribbed Wyoming conservative has written a compelling first-hand account of the January 6 assault on the U. S. Capitol and the investigation that followed.
Cities

Fort Lawton: A Troubled Housing Project Comes Down to the Wire

There's an adopted plan for more housing at surplus Army land, but it keeps getting delayed -- by the Great Recession, the pandemic, and neighbors' lawsuits.
People

We Women Demand: Pocket Parity

Why can men enjoy up to 24 pockets (number found in some three-piece suits) and women seldom have even one?
blog

The Time I Met Rosalynn Carter

Mrs. Carter was going to Japan on behalf of Habitat for Humanity, the global nonprofit housing organization that works across states and countries. She would be “working as a volunteer, helping to build housing.”
Politics

A City Council Primer: How to Council

Politics, above all, is knowing how to enlist and trust others and learning how to count votes.
blog

See You Later, Jeff Bezos

Bezos wasn’t asked -- nor did he comment -- on allegations that the state’s new capital gains tax was a factor in his move.
Politics

I Just Got Elected. Now What?

This new book by Sen. Keiser, who has been responsible for much progressive legislation including mandatory paid sick leave and expanded health care protection, stresses the need to build pipelines to help women and people of color run and win so they can help pass landmark laws.
Food

Ephemeral Tastes: Picking Seattle’s Best Restaurants

Surprising is the number of Seattle’s “25 best” located in small and even tiny quarters. One locale selected -- Off Alley -- is a Rainier Avenue restaurant that serves continental dishes including fried pig head with preserved cherries and Walla Walla onions, in a 6-by-4-foot room with only 12 seats.
Cities

Does Seattle Need Gunshot Location Detection Technology?

ShotSpotter -- like a persistent door-to-door salesman -- keeps coming back to pitch Seattle. In his proposed budget, Mayor Bruce Harrell included a $1.8 million surveillance pilot centered on the controversial gunshot-location-detection system.
Books

A Coming-of-Age Story: Cassidy Hutchinson Takes the Stage

Mark Meadows said he’d take a bullet to get Trump back in the White House and asked Hutchinson if she too would take a bullet for Trump. Cassidy joked, “Perhaps in the thigh.”
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