My neighborhood has been blanketed with anti-Prop. 1 literature. I received two door-knob hangers from the Sierra Club. One shows a worried-looking polar bear with the headline: "Make our politicians come up with a new plan that doesn't make global warming worse." They could have used the old Nation
In Seattle, election messages have been sharpened for mailboxes, and not just any mailboxes. Here's how a direct-mail campaign works – or how it's supposed to work.
Or perhaps a high-school stadium. In any event, the University of Washington has a football program in trouble, and has been for a long time, and venue would seem to be the least of the school's problems.
Seattle is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to renovate schools – and they need renovating. But the resulting extravagance seems out of scale given the basic challenges today of simply educating kids.
With lots of big controversies out there, this season's campaigns are light on issues. Instead, it's all life stories, all the time. What gives?
