Yes, we live better lives – in some cases much better lives – because of technology. But when does a…
Here’s some happy news: most felonies are going down in King County. The one glaring exception: burglary, where the increase, while small, defies this downward trend.
Bradwell elementary school in Chicago has announced that 44 of its 77 students will not pass eighth grade this year,…
When it comes to politics, do voters around here still want change? We’ll know later this summer, specifically Aug. 18….
When do you know that a crime is serious? When it is seriously punished. A convict doing life without parole…
Connecticut Firefighter Frank Ricci and President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor, have never met. But their lives are about to collide.
It used to be difficult for an employer to know whether or not they were hiring illegal residents, but that…
Gen. Colin Powell is the walking embodiment of the American Dream. Raised in the Bronx, the decorated Vietnam veteran served as President Reagan’s national security adviser, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under the first President Bush and Secretary of State for the second President Bush. Many people think he would have been the country’s first African American President had he run in 1996 against Bill Clinton.
Bob Herbold became famous at Microsoft for noticing things others overlooked. He chronicled some of those observations two years ago…
Legislators have just staggered away from the state Capitol having made cuts (actually, reductions from increases) nobody expected six short…
Something wonderfully ironic happened last week at the State Capitol: a sales tax increase of 3/10 of one cent was…
On “60 Minutes” last Sunday, Leslie Stahl focused on the “gun show loophole” that supposedly makes it easier for gangsters…
What’s the most overused word in government? My nominee is “investment.” In the real world an investment is when you…
A couple of weeks ago I attended a town hall where a trio of eastside legislators warned darkly about the…
The facts have to be sanitized for a family newspaper. But if people knew what Cal Brown really did to Holly Washa there would be no ambivalence about the death penalty.
There’s an old expression still used when someone falls short of a goal while giving it their all: “Give him…
A few weeks ago I alerted readers to a startling state Senate proposal that would erase the life terms of…
When the ribbon was snipped on a new floating bridge connecting Montlake to the eastside in 1963, a toll was…
By JOHN CARLSON At year’s end, an intriguing political irony has emerged: The Democrats won the national and local elections,…
Why are old expressions old? Because human experience keeps validating them. A few timeless slogans explain why what happened, happened in the 2008 elections:
