The 2008 Washington legislative session hasn't even reached the halfway mark. But it's not too early to look to the 2009 session. Majority Democrats are taking a slow-and-careful approach to this election year session. Republicans - less charitably - call it "punting." So what's being kicked to nex
I took my daughter to my precinct caucus this afternoon. Four years ago, it never would have occurred to me. But this year, something was different. As I reflect back on what got me into a church on Queen Anne Hill on a Saturday afternoon with hundreds of other people, I realize it was my fellow mom
It's not the youth who are speaking today in Ballard, but citizens there are speaking loudly for Sen. Barack Obama. The crowd at Calvary Lutheran in Seattle was mainly the over-30 set, representative of this neighborhood of single-family homes. The pews were packed; Calvary Lutheran — which a neighb
I got a sense of just how crowded today's Democratic Caucus would be when I stood outside Laurelhurst School and got that unmistakeable whiff of humidity from too many people in a room too small. Two generations ago, this neighborhood sat around and listened to a young Dan Evans make his pitch for t
At precisely 11:30 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 8, a TV viewer with picture-in-picture options could watch simultaneous broadcasts featuring perhaps the two most famous American blonde women with Ivy League connections. NorthWest Cable News had Hillary Clinton (Yale Law) speaking to a campaign crowd in Taco
