There's an interesting guest column in today's edition of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer [http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/378136_firstperson08.html]. It's written by Gov. Chris Gregoire's driver during the Democratic National Convention, a Colorado State Trooper and lifelong Republican, who sa
I've been tracking the City of Seattle's proposal to update the neighborhood plans since March in the series There Go the Neighborhoods [/authors/peggy-sturdivant/]. You wouldn't think I'd be caught unawares before the only currently scheduled public hearing before City Council's Planning, Land Use,
I saw this coming. Last night after John McCain's GOP convention speech, the hall was blasted with the sounds of Seattle band Heart [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_(band)]'s rocker "Barracuda [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barracuda_(song)]," which became the convention's theme music for Sarah "B
You've no doubt noticed our site has been sluggish or even inaccessible the past few days. It's because we posted a wildly popular article by a woman in Alaska about Gov. Sarah Palin's days as mayor [/2008-election/17341/] of Wasilla. Her essay, which originally was an e-mail to friends, has been qu
It's a sad day for state journalism. Seattle Times chief political reporter David Postman, the author of the ever-popular Postman on Politics [http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/davidpostman/], announced today that after some 14 years at the paper, he will leave to join Vulcan Inc. [http://blog.s
