Anthony B. Robinson

A regular contributor to Crosscut.

Bio:
Anthony B. (Tony) Robinson is President of Seattle-based Congregational Leadership Northwest. He speaks and writes, nationally and internationally, on religious life and leadership. He is the author of 10 books. Crosscut readers may particularly enjoy Common Grace (Sasquatch Books). His blog, "What's Tony Thinking?", is at his website, www.anthonybrobinson.com.

Active since May 2009

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Hi, my name is Washington, and I have a revenue problem

Posted Tue, Jan 17, 5 p.m.

This is a helpful piece, Dick, thanks. What I wonder is where we would be now on revenue and budget if the measure to place an income tax on the highest earners had passed? What would have been the effects both on the revenues and also on the overall picture ...

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Two big shockers for Seattle schools and cops

Posted Mon, Dec 19, 8:38 a.m.

This is a very helpful analysis and overview David. There's a repeated pattern in Seattle. We do national searches and bring in much-heralded leaders from elsewhere. They run into a combination of localism, entrenched (often veiled) power and a dis-empowering suspicion of leadership. The outside professional/ reformer/ leader is either ...

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Trustless in Seattle Schools

Posted Fri, Mar 4, 9:32 a.m.

Good piece, Skip, thanks. You rightly point how elusive, though much sought after, trust seems to be. And you're right, I think, to suggest that given the nature and multiplicity of issues bearing down on a school superintendent, it's very, very difficult to gain and sustain trust. Is it impossible? ...

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Alice Ripley's singing aside, 5th Avenue's 'Next to Normal' is smart, darkly buoyant

Posted Sun, Feb 27, 8:40 p.m.

Excellent piece Judy. As people who have experience of mental illness in our family we went with a combination of interest and apprehension. We found "Next to Normal" powerful and insightful on many levels. Like you we had trouble sorting the words in Alice Ripley's singing.

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Should online comments carry real names? Why not?

Posted Mon, May 31, 10:56 a.m.

Ted,thanks for this. I too have gathered a share of the extremely angry, caustic respondents who specialize in the ad hominem argument, especially when at the P-I. Occasionally I would invite them out for a cup of coffee. My invitation was always declined. I thought that telling. I favor people ...

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Burgess's Safe Streets package is far more than a 'crackdown'

Posted Fri, Feb 26, 5:04 p.m.

Nice job, Judy, going after journalistic laziness and an over-worked metaphor (crack down). Recourse to this reminds me of another unhelpful metaphor, "war" on terrorism. In my biz the saying goes, "Nothing worse than a metaphor that has done its work." Thanks. Tony Robinson

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