More movement this week on the Alaskan Way Viaduct - literal, not political. State engineers said yesterday, Jan. 23, that the elevated waterfront freeway has sunk another one-eight of an inch since the last check six months ago. In all, it's settled more than 5 inches [http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Proje
Here's a great moment in American educational ignominy (and no, I'm not talking about the WASL, that's a couple of paragraphs further down). In March, the U.S. Postal Service is releasing a group of stamps honoring American scientists. One is Gerty Cori, a Nobel Prize-winning biochemist. She is show
Second in a series: Week two for supporters of Barack Obama who are preparing for the Feb. 9 caucuses in the Seattle neighborhood. Nationally, their candidate is not exactly cruising to the nomination – at once discouraging and motivating.
News that Oregon Health & Science University is looking to lay off [http://sanantonio.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2008/01/14/daily33.html] up to 300 of its 12,000 employees has Portlanders either aghast, steaming – or, in the case of one legal-eagle blogger [http://bojack.org/2008/01/ohsu_money
Last Thursday, Jan. 17, I traveled to Olympia to support a University of Washington branch campus for my luminous, blue-collar City on a Hill, otherwise known as the "Athens of Puget Sound." I speak, of course, of Everett, Wash. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everett,_Washington] Doubters and diletta
