Part II in a three-part series, in which I ask questions of the eight campaigns in the Seattle November 2nd General Election and hand the microphone to them. Today’s question: Should Seattle essentially end criminal prosecution for misdemeanors, including shoplifting, property destruction and misdemeanor assault?
In this three-part series, I’m taking a close look at 3 key issues at the heart of the 2021 Seattle November 2nd General Election. Today’s post focuses on residential zoning.
Looking for a fun make-it-yourself project? Why not build a photo booth for your next party? I share a few updates on a #Maker post I made a couple years ago.
The second academic year of COVID begins. What does it hold for those on adult’s launchpad?
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.
Catching up with the latest organizational endorsements for the August 3rd, 2021 Primary for Seattle
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 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.
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.
How do you know what’s true? Do you have enough healthy, respectful dissent in your information diet?