The Stranger’s Political Endorsements Have Been Disastrous for Seattle

Jul 15, 20217 min read

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…

Ten Reasons I’m Not Voting for Lorena González as Seattle’s Next Mayor

Jul 13, 202127 min read

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…

Internet Consensus Is Not Truth

May 28, 202128 min read

How do you know what’s true? Do you have enough healthy, respectful dissent in your information diet?

Regulated Capitalism Wins Again

Feb 28, 20216 min read

Thought experiment: Should neo-Marxists be forced to wait until a Socialist economy delivers a vaccine?

Seattle, Open The Schools.

Feb 23, 202114 min read

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…

$3 Million in Spending… For What, Precisely?

Feb 9, 202125 min read

What’s happened to the $3 million that City Council allocated for research to feed into participatory budgeting?