Barack Obama styles himself as a post-baby boomer leader and the media is lapping that up. His image as an agent of change hinges on the assertion that he is not part of the politics of the past, which he sees as a intra-generational scrimmage that's been destructive to the country. As he wrote in h
Since Iowa, everyone's a change agent, but New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is discussing the need for a new tone in presidential politics. Of course, that's easy for him to say. He's got the money to be taken seriously and the inspiration of Robert Fulghum-style simplicity.
Washington Governor Chris Gregoire, a Democrat, announced late Thursday that she will join California in suing the Bush Administration over tailpipe emission standards. Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski, also a Democrat, is hinting he'll do the same.
Chris Bayley, the former King County Prosecutor, today is giving a talk welcoming Dan Satterberg to the job Bayley once held. Bayley defeated Charles O. Carroll, who had held the job for 22 years, and after Bayley left the position he held from 1970-78, Norm Maleng held the post until his death this
Mercer Island state representative Fred Jarrett's decision to defect to the Democrats as he attempts to move up to the state Senate, is well recounted in Postman on Politics [http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/davidpostman/index.html#020824]. The story is important as another indication of the ab
