The McGinn administration is turning its considerable talents for organizing community support toward a youth and families initiative. The School District is wary, especially since Mayor McGinn campaigned on having the city possibly take over the school district.
The flap about smoking in parks illustrates how we've turned public spaces into morality plays.
Obama has shifted back to his campaign approach on working with Republicans, but prospects for success at the Health Care Summit this week are modest.
The House, leaning toward a temporary boost in the sales tax, is diverging from the governor and the Senate's approach of a menu of tax boosts.
President Obama missed his self-imposed one year deadline for closing Guatanamo's detention facility. Even when that is settled, the larger issues of handling terror suspects will require the kind of serious study being done in a UW class.
