Seattle City Councilmembers Richard Conlin, the new president of the Council, Tim Burgess, Bruce Harrell, Nick Licata, Tom Rasmussen, and Richard McIver have endorsed Barack Obama for president. The councilmembers join Mayor Greg Nickels in endorsing Obama, who visits Seattle Friday. The letter sign
Flip Side: Crosscut is projecting that the Democratic and Republican candidates with the most votes will win tomorrow.
I've been fascinated with presidential campaign buttons all my life--or at least since I was a tyke who ran through the house wearing an Eisenhower flasher hollering "I yike Ike!" in 1956, a campaign junky at age three. Every four years, I find myself scrutinizing TV coverage of campaign victory (an
The standard complaint from those who think Washington state spends too little on public services, (roads, transit, universities, schools, etc.) is to blame it on Tim Eyman and his initiatives imposing tax limits. That's true, but there's another villain: giving away surpluses through tax breaks. Bi
One of Portland's fertile bloggers is Rick Seifert, whose thoughts on all manner of things [http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/Content?oid=387969&category=22101] turn up in all manner of places, starting with The Red Electric [http://theredelectric.blogspot.com/]. The blog is named for an inter
