When I recently wrote about Washington state’s landmark paid family leave legislation [/social-services/13118/Washington+stumbles+toward+landmark+paid+family+leave/] (only the second in the nation), Crosscut readers’ responses were striking. Two-thirds of comments expressed the same feeling: The leg
Flip Side: With apologies to Dr. Seuss and Maureen Dowd.
As Barack Obama takes North Carolina and Clinton narrowly wins in Indiana, it's time not for celebration or a victory concession but a look ahead at months of stalemate.
Let's see if primary voters buy Hillary Clinton's line that respect equals pandering, that if you really feel people's pain, you appeal to their ignorance. The recent to-do over Clinton's — and McCain's — proposal for a federal gas tax holiday [http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/transportation/361912_gas
"I never thought I could get the Norwegian government interested in the Mississippi primary," quips Wegger Chr. Strommen, [http://www.norway.org/Embassy/Skjult+Embassy/WCS_bio.htm] Norway's Ambassador to the U.S. "There isn't one Norwegian in Mississippi."
