Posted Fri, Jan 20, 8:17 p.m.

Lets not model ourselves after the Romans,better the Greeks who valued pedagogery, constructive rhetoric, and the marvel of democracy. In the Roman world bad news attracted attention and dark forecasts achieved importance without being tested by logic and reason. The Romans were more modern than the Greeks but their organized ...

Posted Tue, Nov 29, 8:16 p.m.

Kieth, I get your point. Well said. My interest is that we keep representative examples of material culture from important moments in our history regardless of how they compare aesthetically with the present. There is a certain conceit in the now and we shouldn't depend too much on current fashion ...

Posted Tue, Nov 29, 12:01 p.m.

@kieth But what if banal, in your judgement, is exactly what the designer was going for in the 1950's? Warhole's soup can was mundane, Walter Cronkite's delivery was monotone and America's post war sensibilities were for the most part monotonous. Its the way things were and if we are looking ...

Posted Fri, Apr 29, 12:56 p.m.

I'm with John Stewart. I hope he runs. Pleeze run

Posted Mon, Apr 18, 1:42 p.m.

Let's watch the Seattle/King County Governor's derby handicap deepen over the next few months and let's see how long the AG can keep out of the tunnel initiative question. The Governor wouldn’t pull the State’s head attorney into the fray knowing she’s not running and he might would she?

Posted Mon, Apr 11, 10:22 a.m.

@crossrip It’s hard to tell at this point because tea party types have only worked through three states so far. The potential is practically unlimited and if a few more States kick in we might get the whole line for free. Actually, you pose the political question that has damaged ...

Posted Thu, Apr 7, 2:10 p.m.

Whether you call it storytelling or full disclosure the notion that we convert environmental impact discoveries into clear public information is unarguably smart. The idea also lines up nicely with the access we all have to better storytelling tools and technology. Like the podcasts of BBC’s brilliant “History of the ...

Posted Wed, Jun 9, 9:30 p.m.

I think we are losing sight of the point here-to divert reusable material from the waster stream and landfill. I'd much rather have public employees recovering and reselling dumped material than just processing it for hauling to eastside landfills.We all pay the wages of waste in our community.New ideas about ...

Posted Wed, Jun 9, 3 p.m.

I'm thinking that if cost is the driver on eliminating the Geographic Names Board they could become self supporting by selling naming rights to geographic places. As a nod to history we could limit changing names of existing places but as new locales are found or created the Board and ...

Posted Fri, Apr 30, 10:31 a.m.

Just after the First World War, Rep. Albert Johnson from our state ascended to the Chairmanship of the House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. His steering of federal immigration policy in the 1920's, fueled by his fascination with the pseudo science of Eugenics, led to the system of quotas and ...

Posted Thu, Apr 22, 2:01 p.m.

Before you folks go too far with your dismissive review of Knut’s article you might want to check out what Main Street has done for our state. It isn’t a silver bullet but smart ideas like connecting buy local ethics to authentic neighborhoods and historic places is a pretty good ...

Posted Wed, Apr 14, 11:10 a.m.

A word of appreciation to Craig Holstine's smart awareness of where we hide our most revealing history. Don't you love the way cold war sensibility is interwoven into the transportation infrastructure we continue to use. Its a brillant reminder that President Eisenhower used civil defense and the need to move ...

Posted Fri, Apr 2, 8:07 p.m.

Listener supported media continues to be a bold invention that defies business logic. Its crazy, subversive, and perhaps the best survival tactic culture builders have come up with in the last half century. Ms. Bullitt’s words confirm an intuitive sense that this is the right thing to do.

Posted Tue, Mar 30, 10:45 a.m.

Smart provocative piece. Always interesting to see how far back we really can see. I think my favorite tale of the distant past has to do with Dead Man's Point in Bellingham where early settlers found Spanish helmets and armor burried in the sand. The story emerged from native oral ...

Posted Tue, Feb 16, 1:38 p.m.

It’s hard to disagree with Donovan Rypkema on the White House's dissing of preservation. Word out of Congressman Norm Dick's office was that “We will be getting SAT back" and that the glass is still half full (of saltwater presumably) on Washington's Maritime Heritage Area. That however, was before John ...