Peter Jackson is the former editorial-page editor of the Everett Herald. Follow him on Twitter @phardinjackson
Last Thursday, Jan. 17, I traveled to Olympia to support a University of Washington branch campus for my luminous, blue-collar City on a Hill, otherwise known as the "Athens of Puget Sound." I speak, of course, of Everett, Wash. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everett,_Washington] Doubters and diletta
Snohomish County's new elected sheriff is African-American, which is worth noting, hopefully, only for a moment.
In Sunday's Everett Herald, columnist Julie Muhlstein pays tribute [http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20071230/NEWS01/696550696/0/NEWS] to the recently razed 25th Street Market, a quasi-Third Place and community landmark. Muhlstein's vivid portrait throws into relief the 25th Street Market's apparent
A big new idea takes hold with NW lawmakers. An update on what happened since a proposal was first published in Crosscut.
What's in a name? For one, the formerly elegant "Katrina" has been purged from those names-for-your-baby books (and "Pete," alas, is reserved exclusively for three-legged dogs). That's what's in a name. All the more reason for The Seattle Times to revive its U.S Weather Service-sponsored name-that-s
