A distinguished Asian observer sees U.S. leadership that is craven in its refusal to ask the public for sacrifice. Amid all the economic challenges, the real test may be one of national character.
Seattle, long linked to the development of modern China, hears from a visiting scholar on the life of China's most important leader, Deng Xiaoping.
Seattle races and ballot measures turned into ratifications of the present course, for a variety of structural and political reasons. Want the real drama? Look along the railroad corridor to Bellingham and along the Sound Transit corridor on the Eastside.
The costs are high enough to require tax credits. But the legislature's record on the issue this year was one of misses rather than hits, even when lawmakers decided to do something.
The Rotunda could hold a crowd of citizens, who would have a chance against corporate lobbyists.
