Former state Transportation Secretary Doug MacDonald fills Joel Connelly's P-I column [http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/connelly/338956_joel09.html] this morning, and you can read it as the opening salvo of Transpo War II, or Who Lost Transit? MacDonald makes it clear why he wore out his welcome in Gov
The battle over Proposition 1 now moves to the governor's race, where Gov. Gregoire has a new problem on her hands, the issue of her effectiveness in solving big issues. Strike one, the Viaduct. Strike two, the Sonics. Strike three, the roads and transit measure. Whether she can slip the blame, and
Bill Clinton was in Seattle last week [/mudville/8744/], at the U.S. Conference of Mayors' climate summit. He reframed the discussion about coping with global warming by saying it was a golden opportunity to make money. One week earlier, Seattle business leaders were hearing the same siren song at t
Preaching to the choir may be better than not preaching at all -- and it's a start. On Saturday, the National Day of Climate Action as Step It Up 2 calls it, rallies will let people in Seattle, Portland, and elsewhere across the country urge their federal representatives to do something serious abou
Paul Krugman, rock-em sock-em liberal columnist for The New York Times, was at Town Hall last night, peddling his new book [http://www.salon.com/books/review/2007/10/15/paul_krugman/index_np.html] and taking on three dragons. One was a bad head cold. The other was all the talk about climate change e
