Posted Mon, Jun 7, 9:52 a.m.

Ok, let the conversation resume: The last time I dived into this issue, which was some years ago, I started out in favor of dam removal, but changed my mind. Here's why: True,those dams should never have been built in the first place. They came when all the best dam ...

Posted Wed, Feb 3, 1:37 p.m.

Nice piece, Knute. Seattle can learn good stuff by comparing itself now and then to Portland and Vancouver, two cities of comparable size with similar geography, climate and economy. The main differences are historical, and political. I've heard the explanation that Portland was settled earlier and by stable New Englanders, ...

Posted Sun, Nov 22, 10:39 a.m.

Important perspective, Sam, from a thoughtful journalist who covered those ancient transitions. One important difference is that Uhlman, and to a lesser extent Royer, came into City Hall when Seattle was still a two-party town and the City Council included some moderate and even conservative voices like Bruce Chapman, John ...

Posted Fri, Nov 6, 11:36 a.m.

Thanks, Ivan, for proving my point: Tribalism thrives on both extremes.

Posted Fri, Nov 6, 9:53 a.m.

For the record, I'm confident that when Malkin referred to Seattle's "constipated leaders," she was not referring to Charley, nor to Ammons, neither of whom has ever been accused of constipation. --Ross

Posted Thu, Nov 6, 5:19 p.m.

Rats! I blathered on without listing the people who continue to do terrific journalism – political and otherwise. Danny Westneat has become Seattle’s best columnist, and he’s at his best when he’s trying to make sense of the political landscape. And there’s the late great David Postman. And there’s Crosscutters ...

Posted Sun, May 25, 10:10 a.m.

Who knows?: Over the past, say, 30 years, the consensus as to what's wrong has shifted repeatedly from overfishing to urban sewage to heavy metals to hydroelectric dams to nonpoint pollution from suburban sprawl to ... whatever. Scientists expect this kind of uncertainty; it is the nature of the universe ...

Posted Wed, Apr 30, 7:05 p.m.

entitled?: Not sure I'm following you. I believe Chapman, like you and I, is entitled to that opinion whether or not it is well reasoned and defensible. In fact, in this age of the blog, the majority of opinions I read are neither of the above, but their owners remain ...

Posted Wed, Apr 30, 7 p.m.

thanks: Thanks for the attaboy. How can you get more topical than the question of who the hell we are and how we got here. As for Chapman as Divine Confidant, I certainly agree that most of the ID movement speaks for Him, but Chapman is, ironically, the exception; for ...