Posted Sat, Nov 1, 7:54 a.m.

How good of a person is Ty Willingham? I was raised by Cougars - raised to hate the Huskies - and I was rooting for him. I wanted him to succeed even though it meant that UW would win games. That he didn't succeed on a timeline that satisfied the ...

Posted Mon, Oct 27, 4:47 p.m.

When I was growing up, we took the P-I in the morning and the Bremerton Sun in the afternoon. Because newspaper companies pretty much either folded or converted afternoon papers, they subtly changed readers' news consumption habits. That might be part of the problem. Another part is that, for several ...

Posted Wed, Aug 20, 9:38 a.m.

Big magazine distributors: I publish a regional wine magazine, and the larger magazine distributors make it impossible to do business with them. You're lucky if they pay you within 180 days, and their distribution is spotty at best. I much prefer to work with the smaller distributors, who actually care ...

Posted Thu, Aug 14, 11:06 a.m.

Doesn't like our Rieslings?: Oh well. More for us. Tell him to say that to Ernst Loosen face to face.

Posted Wed, Aug 13, 9:49 a.m.

RE: MSM ignored 2004 election skulduggery: Bloody misleading, Mr. Editor. It's only misleading if you take it out of context by leaving out the first paragraph of my comment (which you did). Look at any political blog, big or small, and tell me where the vast majority of its links ...

Posted Mon, Aug 11, 12:36 p.m.

Trashing the media: It always cracks me up when bloggers trash the media. Yes, both of these political sites have done some original reporting. Good on them. We need more citizens like this taking interest in the world around them. Yet the vast majority of blog posts on every legitimate ...

Posted Fri, Jul 18, 8:41 a.m.

Reformed wet-sider: I just marked my 19th year living in Eastern Washington after spending my first 24 years in Kitsap and Whatcom counties. Though I live in one of the more populous regions (Tri-Cities), I don't have to drive more than 10 minutes to find the wide-open places you described. ...

Posted Mon, Jun 16, 12:28 a.m.

Super train: One would think good coffee and good music would be enough to solve Seattle's traffic problems, but people just really love their cars.

Posted Mon, Jun 2, 12:45 a.m.

Fearing's chances: A Republican would have a better chance of taking Ted Kennedy's seat than Fearing has of beating Hastings.

Posted Mon, May 26, 10:20 p.m.

One more nonsource: • Guys on Crosscut who think they're funny.

Posted Wed, Apr 9, 11:13 a.m.

History of dailies in Washington: Excellent article. One tiny nit: You mentioned the J-A was the first new daily in Washington for 60 years or so. In fact, the Tri-City Herald launched as a daily newspaper in November 1947 (out of the weekly Pasco Herald). Additionally, I'm not sure when ...

Posted Thu, Feb 28, 8:49 a.m.

Buckley: Perhaps interestingly, I arrived at Western in the early '80s as a Reagan Republican who had no real memory of Vietnam but who had a copy of William F. Buckley's Up From Liberalism in my back pocket. Gotta tell you, that didn't play well at Fairhaven College. As I've ...

Posted Sat, Feb 23, 9:58 a.m.

Saving Seattle: I grew up in Kitsap County in the '60s-'80s but spent a lot of time with my grandparents, who lived in Seattle's Mount Baker District. I recall walking through the neighborhoods and enjoying all those great old houses. Even as a child, I appreciated their architecture. We had ...