Posted Wed, Dec 21, 7:50 a.m.

More about "West of Here" If You've Been to Port Angeles - Read This Book Janathan Evison encapsulates what nobody I have met has been able to describe - 21st Century Port Angeles, Washington. This book is for readers craving to make sense of the funeral pyre that is rural ...

Posted Thu, Jul 7, 6:46 a.m.

Terry Moe!?! Dick, this guy is the poster boy for school vouchers and privatization of public schools. He has this bizarre idea that technology will save U.S. schools. But, you've got to let him speak for himself. Also, note he sees technology as the pathway to breaking teacher unions. Here's ...

Posted Sat, Jul 2, 9:22 a.m.

Snoqualman…I wasn’t going to respond to your post until two front page articles appeared in the Times and P.I. about a grizzly sighting in the North Cascades. My article, however, was about the Pasayten, and its culture, history and geology. The point I made about grizzlies is based on these ...

Posted Mon, Jun 13, 8:08 p.m.

Lynx habitat in the Okanogan region has another enemy...the pine beetle. Vast swaths of forest are dying under the onslaught of this menace. Fire and cold winters are the pine beetle's enemies, but we need more of both to eradicate this hearty habitat consumer. The Tripod Complex fire in the ...

Posted Mon, Apr 25, 9:34 p.m.

It is my understanding the the US Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im) has been heavily involved with this deal to ship Crosscut.com jobs overseas. Through loan guarantees and insider finance deals the Brewster cabal has assured investors that the principals of Crosscut will receive lucrative stock buyouts (Petrodollars?). Meanwhile, the majority of ...

Posted Fri, Mar 4, 8:40 a.m.

The replacement of Maria Goodloe-Johnson with Dr. Enfield (as interim Superintendent) was Seattle's equivalent of the Hobson's Choice - there are lots of potential candidates to choose from, but you have to take the one closest to the stable door. Dr. Enfield is a competent Chief Academic Officer, yet this ...

Posted Thu, Feb 24, 1:33 p.m.

What concerns me here is that the School Board is about to go into executive session on this matter prior to a complete investigation by legal authorities. Multiple state and local enforcement agencies are on this case. And, Silas Potter is missing. Nobody can seem to locate him. How will ...

Posted Fri, Feb 4, 4:23 p.m.

Soundsalmon: There are new Washington State Standards for Science. This year's MSP will be the first test of your and my teaching to those standards. We all try to teach to the standards. You supplement your NSF kits with materials from the Seattle Aquarium. I supplement with machines I (or ...

Posted Thu, Feb 3, 12:28 p.m.

MikeSea...I have been accused of being a Constuctivist in the past. The problem I have with that suggestion is that educational jargon is, by its nature, self-limiting. I consider myself nothing but a middle-aged metal tradesman teaching kids to enjoy school. I am decisively unorthodox and that may make me ...

Posted Mon, Jan 3, 7:36 p.m.

Blue Dog Democrat (Adam Vogt) speaks! He tells me that I should take a pay cut when the last three pay increases I have had as a teacher in this state dissolved into the ether of reduced benefits and increased health premiums. Net gain = Zero (negative actually). Maybe I ...