It is fairly certain that Olympia (meaning Speaker Frank Chopp) is going to stiff Seattle (as usual) [http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/basketball/354732_arena13.html]over the plan to save the Sonics by saving KeyArena. That means a missing $75 million from the $300 million package. Back to you, Seattle
Spotted at 12:45 p.m. over the Washington state Capitol in Olympia: A single engine plane pulling a banner that reads "Save Our Sonics: Next Year is Too Late," with a TV helicopter in hot pursuit.
The showdown in Olympia over the Sonics is much more than a shoving match between Speaker Frank Chopp, a populist who likes to defy bailouts for sports owners, and the Seattle establishment, which wants the team to buttress Seattle Center and tourism interests and for reasons of civic pride. A bigge
There's so much the federal government could be doing to make life easier, namely: Stop taking an hour away from us every spring and start moving blocks of time to more civilized and useful hours of the day.
Barack Obama won Saturday's Wyoming caucuses handily and should win Tuesday's Mississipi primary as well. Depending on which tally you believe, that will leave Obama somewhere between 110 and 125 delegates ahead of Hillary Clinton in the Democratic presidential nominating contest, with only a few mo
