Students and Parents Brace for an Unknown 2021-2022 College Year
The second academic year of COVID begins. What does it hold for those on adult's launchpad?
Students: Don Your Masks, Evidence Be Damned.
Why must those least at risk be deprived of the most? Mask mandates reduce opportunities for enjoyment and fulfillment at school, yet they don't even show compelling evidence they work.
Who is Endorsing Whom in Seattle’s 2021 August 3rd Primary?
Catching up with the latest organizational endorsements for the August 3rd, 2021 Primary for Seattle
Seattle’s Grand Rock-Throwing Experiment: Will Our Actual Virtue Exceed Our Desire to Signal It?
If you wanted to design a real-life test to figure out if a civic leader's actual virtue exceeds their desire to signal it, you could hardly do better than the life-and-death experiment playing out on I-5 right now.
The Stranger’s Political Endorsements Have Been Disastrous for Seattle
The Stranger's recommendations have occupied the key policy setting positions in Seattle, other than mayor, for quite some time. They're no longer the outsiders; they're the insiders. If you love the Seattle City Council, you should follow The Stranger's endorsements yet again.
Ten Reasons I’m Not Voting for Lorena González as Seattle’s Next Mayor
When major outcome indicators are all moving in the wrong direction, and the process which generates these outcomes remains utterly broken for years, and even political allies describe the body one leads as dysfunctional, one should not get a promotion to an even higher position of responsibility.
Internet Consensus Is Not Truth
How do you know what's true? Do you have enough healthy, respectful dissent in your information diet?
Regulated Capitalism Wins Again
Thought experiment: Should neo-Marxists be forced to wait until a Socialist economy delivers a vaccine?
Seattle, Open The Schools.
It's time to put kids first. We need to have more urgency. We are imposing massive harm on an entire generation of school kids. We are inflicting the most harm on the least vulnerable to the virus, and to the most disadvantaged communities.
$3 Million in Spending… For What, Precisely?
What's happened to the $3 million that City Council allocated for research to feed into participatory budgeting?