Posted Mon, Dec 19, 1:32 p.m.

Seventy percent of use of force incidents involve persons who are mentally ill or under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Is it possible that the need for force is explained by the person's behavior? We need more information. I say take it to court. Here's a question: would the ...

Posted Mon, Oct 10, 8:57 a.m.

I think there is a big difference between the prohibition movement and the movement to decriminalize or even legalize drugs. Naturally, the main question in drinking and drug use is to what extent does society have to regulate individual conduct? But the lesson from Prohibition is one in political science ...

Posted Sun, Jan 9, 10:12 a.m.

I worked for the state and the U.S. governments for thirty years and this article is spot on. Government will spend $100 so someone doesn't lose or steal $10. There is no percentage for the employee who thinks on his or her feet. That's why bureaucrats get a bad name. ...

Posted Fri, Sep 10, 7:40 a.m.

I have always noted how the U.S. seems to celebrate its defeats more than its victories. I number among the "Custer buffs" who can't get enough of that episode and cannot explain entirely the fascination (other than Grandma's uncle was killed there). Custer attached a village of civilians who were ...

Posted Wed, Aug 4, 7:40 a.m.

If someone wants to weigh in on an established media site I say they can register as we do here. Our identification is concealed and confidential, but not anonymous. What good is an anonymous comment anyway?

Posted Sat, Jul 17, 7:47 a.m.

The B-29 prototypes were built and tested at Plant 2, but production was in Renton, Omaha, and Wichita.

Posted Sat, Mar 20, 8:39 a.m.

City Light has always been a child of politics. In the 1920s, the City Council tried to redesign the Skagit River hydro project. In 1931, Mayor Frank Edwards was recalled by voters and rate payers for firing Department of Lighting Superintendent J.D. Ross. For the next 35 years, City Light ...

Posted Fri, Dec 19, 10:49 a.m.

In the 1920s and 1930s making a living as a writer was much harder even though there were weekly magazines buying up fiction and nonfiction. Research, composition, editing, and submitting were not virtual. Wordsmiths pecked out their copy on manual typewriters to produce one manuscript - one. Add copy paper ...

Posted Wed, May 7, 12:34 p.m.

And old story: This discussion about a municipal cable system echoes the controversy over 100 years ago with the establishment of a water department, a municipal lighting plant, and the Port of Seattle. Residents of Seattle and the Northwest found the privately-owned operations to be lacking such as when the ...

Posted Thu, Jan 10, 7:41 a.m.

Not the first: The celebration leaders in Tukwila claim too much. The first American settlers in King County, the family of Luther Collins, built on the site of a Duwamish village at what became Georgetown, later Seattle. http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=5390 http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=1750 Collins figured prominently in civic affairs http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=3525 http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=3521