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?
Thought experiment: Should neo-Marxists be forced to wait until a Socialist economy delivers a vaccine?
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.
What’s happened to the $3 million that City Council allocated for research to feed into participatory budgeting?
Wordpress users: Are you thinking about moving to a so-called “headless” Content Management System? Here’s a quick rundown of the experience.
Super techie post, but if you’re using Angular, there’s finally a way to deliver fast-loading pages with great SEO. Use the great prerendering framework Scully in your build/deploy pipeline.
I’ve written previously about the Class of 2021, a unique cohort that’s had to adapt the most important moment of their young lives to totally new conditions. They’ve had little normalcy, nor semblances of junior and senior year as most of us know it. I’ve got a son in the high school Class of 2021,…