Posted Tue, Apr 10, 9:14 a.m.

Sherry Carr, Michael DeBell, Harium Martin-Morris, and at times, Kay Smith-Blum have demonstrated, time and time again, that there is no outrage they won't tolerate, no incompetence they will not ignore, and no bureaucratic imperative that they will not further or rationalize, all in the interest of "stability." I have ...

Posted Mon, Mar 12, 5:40 a.m.

"McKenna, along with a few GOP moderates who are clawing back to power, come from the pre-1994, suburban-based party that put education first, was willing to fund it, and hoped to find the money by scaling back spending on social services that the Democrats stoutly defend." -- This is the ...

Posted Thu, Feb 16, 9:04 a.m.

Perennial, edible tree and shrub crops are not "gardening." Nobody's access to this space should be compromised.

Posted Thu, Feb 16, 5:44 a.m.

This is one of the most exciting and significant stories I have read in Crosscut since its inception. Thanks to Robert Mellinger for writing it, and thanks to Crosscut for publishing it. The followup -- the community organizing effort that this project will require to maintain, nurture, and expand the ...

Posted Thu, Feb 2, 10:41 a.m.

The Times story contains this little gem: " 'Even as we disinvest in higher ed, jobs requiring a baccalaureate or associate degree are going unfilled because of the lack of qualified applicants, while jobs requiring only a high-school education are swamped with multiple applicants,' Seattle Times publisher Frank Blethen said ...

Posted Fri, Jan 27, 9:19 a.m.

No, David, I'm not jesting one damn bit. The residents and the school community wanted the school, and the students therein, to be lit by the sun. 65-foot buildings block that, just as effectively as 665-foot buildings would. If you want to quibble over how high a building has to ...

Posted Fri, Jan 27, 8:35 a.m.

Today's Crosscut is so rich in irony that just reading two articles probably caused a spike in my cholesterol count. In Floyd McKay's article, we read about the heroic residents of Bellingham who are trying to prevent big money interests from ramming a coal port down their throats, and who ...

Posted Thu, Jan 19, 1:24 p.m.

Oh come off it Gordon. Ever follow public school politics in any other big city? What goes on here is small potatoes indeed. New York? LA? Chicago? Philadelphia? DC? School politics in those cities are virtual war zones compared to here. People are angry because public education is the life ...

Posted Thu, Jan 19, 11:37 a.m.

David, all you have done, ever since Marty McLaren and Sharon Peaslee were elected, is discredit them, demean them, dismiss them, and write them off as "activists" and "insurgents." You never once have given them credit for having connected enough with the voters to unseat the two entrenched incumbents whom ...

Posted Thu, Jan 19, 10:45 a.m.

Now you're just talking nonsense. One whole hell of a lot of kids are getting a high quality education in Seattle Public Schools, and it's just plain fraudulent, and manifestly dishonest, to define an entire school system by its weakest links. When you address the multiple layers of bureaucracy at ...

Posted Thu, Jan 19, 10:21 a.m.

Well I oppose getting rid of the school board, and I will bet you that mine is the majority position, by far.

Posted Thu, Jan 19, 9:26 a.m.

Hahahaha, David_Smith, you make me laugh. Maria Goodloe-Johnson was EXACTLY the kind of superintendent you wanted, and she had EXACTLY the kind of board you wanted. How did that turn out for you? Maybe graft, corruption, rigging of data, appointing and rewarding cronies, conflicts of interest, and closing perfectly functional ...

Posted Thu, Jan 19, 7:29 a.m.

I'm guessing, David, that you have never regarded yourself as an object of ridicule. But this screed is so ridiculous that it approaches the Frank Blethen level. Let's begin, please, with "proposed new procedural rules meant to limit board meddling with the next superintendent's prerogatives." Has it not sunk into ...

Posted Thu, Jan 12, 7:09 p.m.

Seattle Public Schools have "alternative" schools that have the options that you seek in curriculum and school governance. My daughter attended one, Salmon Bay in Ballard. Others were Summit K-12 in Lake City, before Goodloe-Johnson closed it. Nova, Orca, Alternative School 1, and Center School are others that come to ...

Posted Thu, Jan 12, 3:59 p.m.

@Snus Junction: Whereas the state Supreme Court has just ruled -- unanimously -- that the Legislature is not funding public education adequately as it is, and therefore is shirking its Constitutional duty, now you want, on top of that, for the taxpayers to line the pockets of charter pimps, so ...

Posted Tue, Jan 10, 8:37 a.m.

Dick Burkhart says: "We certainly need tolling – to encourage more efficient use of our roadways and to encourage transit or other arrangements." -- Speaking for myself and not presuming to represent anyone else -- although I suspect that a critical mass of voters share my views -- I refuse ...

Posted Mon, Jan 9, 4:29 a.m.

Be very, very careful before making statements like this: "The start of tolling on SR 520 followed by less than two months the voters’ rejection of Tim Eyman’s I-1125 attempt to slam the door on modern tolling in our state." Because it has not necessarily led to this: "It’s important ...

Posted Tue, Dec 20, 3:36 p.m.

Ditto to everything Mannix says, and one more thread to add. While campaigning for Marty McLaren, I would ask people directly if they weren't damned sick and tired of downtown and Eastside corporate suits wanting to run Seattle Public Schools through their proxies on the School Board. The answer was ...

Posted Tue, Nov 22, 6:45 a.m.

Roger and Blue Light sitting in a tree Talking about cred-i-bil-i-ty. -- Here in a nutshell are the two sides of Crosscut's tired old worn-out idiot coin: the clueless intellectual elitist and the willfully ignorant gomer. Now, in the next cage, ladies and gentlemen . . .

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

Brill is a fraud and a huckster, and he hardly speaks for "earth." The "reforms" he is pimping, along with his book, would have the effect of removing citizen control over our public schools. That the League of Education Voters, a wholly owned and controlled subsidiary of the Gates Foundation, ...

Posted Wed, Nov 9, 6:48 a.m.

Sometimes I wonder what planet Crosscut writers are living on. The Families and Education levy is no more a "win" for McGinn than the car tab measure was. Families and Education would have been approved if the mayor was Ted Bundy, or Martin Pang.

Posted Fri, Nov 4, 11:55 a.m.

People vote for or against candidates and initiatives for widely varying reasons. I voted against I-1125 because I think there should be light rail into downtown Bellevue, and because it's Eyman. But if the only provisions in that initiative had been to ban variable tolling, and to limit any tolls ...

Posted Thu, Oct 27, 4:33 a.m.

"The reason why I voted “yes” on Proposition 1 comes down to my standard, does this measure make it harder to drive and easier to live without a car." -- You insufferable fool. That is why this measure deservedly will go down in flames. -- "I feel that it isn’t ...

Posted Sun, Oct 9, 4:16 p.m.

Errors mean dick, Mike. Beltre got to balls that mortal third basemen didn't get to, and made plays they didn't make. That makes way up, and then some, for four additional errors over a 162-game season. Statisticians have gone so far beyond fielding percentage and raw numbers of errors as ...

Posted Thu, Oct 6, 2:17 p.m.

We'll leave aside for the moment the fact that Beltre's 2004 offensive statistics were totally out of line with any season he has had before or since, and wonder what in hell Mike Henderson is smoking when he says Beltre's defense fell off when he came here. I have seen ...

Posted Tue, Oct 4, 8:09 a.m.

The noblesse oblige is so thick around here you need a chain saw to cut it.

Posted Mon, Sep 19, 10:49 a.m.

Crosscut really needs to get a grip. Having this guy cover zoning and land use issues is like having Fred Phelps cover gay politics. Valdez' assertion that "most notably is the belief among the locals that only they should be able to determine the outcome of the decisions" is the ...

Posted Sat, Sep 17, 6:55 a.m.

I want the smart person at Crosscut who described Miloscia as a "conservative Democrat" to explain what exactly makes him "conservative."

Posted Tue, Sep 13, 11:20 a.m.

I share the road, because it's the law, and I do not hate bicyclists, because hate is counterproductive. But I have little use for people like GaryP and natehc who think bicyclists' sh*t doesn't stink. When Hugo can write, presumably with a straight face, that "You can slip down an ...

Posted Thu, Sep 1, 7:10 a.m.

Outstanding. The best single piece I have read in Crosscut all year.

Posted Fri, Aug 26, 6:39 a.m.

Tong is becoming quite the flack for the reformies, I see.

Posted Fri, Aug 26, 6:38 a.m.

What coolpapa said. Little surprise that Liv Finne likes it.

Posted Wed, Aug 17, 7:05 a.m.

I'm moving on from Roger Valdez fatigue.

Posted Thu, Aug 11, 8:34 a.m.

I'm with Sucher.

Posted Tue, Aug 9, 7:25 a.m.

seattlelifer makes an important point. Nevertheless, a good article, one of the better ones on education "reform" Crosscut has run. I'm not so sure we should be calling it "reform" anyway. Follow the money and look at who profits from it, and more to the point, who profits FIRST, and ...

Posted Mon, Aug 1, 4:54 a.m.

Fine for Vancouver but this has nothing to do with Seattle. Seattle needs through highways because Vancouver, among other population centers, is north of Seattle. There is no Vancouver north of Vancouver. "Mobility will survive" is an "I got mine and to hell with you" statement if ever there was ...

Posted Sun, Jul 17, 4:34 a.m.

Dear Collin: You say: "While I did work briefly for the Alliance for Education fifteen years ago, my article does not reflect a particular bias towards the organization or other individuals interviewed." I am sorry to tell you that statement does not pass the smell test. Your article is in ...

Posted Wed, Jul 13, 6:53 a.m.

Bla bla bla. Bla bla bla. You going to vote for him, John? Thought not.

Posted Thu, Jul 7, 3:19 p.m.

So apparently, when Terry Moe says “teachers unions are not in the business of representing the interests of children. They are unions. They represent the job-related interests of their members, and these interests are simply not the same as the interests of children.” he is saying that teachers are in ...

Posted Tue, Jul 5, 4:48 a.m.

Dear Tim Burgess: David Brooks is a hack and a clown, and his credibility is nil. Just because Brewster thinks he's great doesn't mean you have to.

Posted Sat, Jun 11, 5 a.m.

@Wilbur: Teachers acquire certification through training and degrees in education because the payoff to students and school communities does not come in the first or second year of teaching, but afterward, just as it is in any line of work. Teachers have told me -- with hardly any disagreement -- ...

Posted Fri, Jun 10, 3:23 p.m.

Roger Valdez is to Mike McGinn what Lou Guzzo was to Dixy Lee Ray: A tone-deaf, knee-jerk, fabulist flack for our state's most inept, incompetent elected official in a generation. Dixy didn't get through her re-election primary. You might not count on the fingers of two hands anyone today who ...

Posted Fri, Jun 10, 9:59 a.m.

Isn't it as plain as day that this is all about the Benjamins? Wendy Kopp is cutting a fat hog off TFA, and when public pressure forces Stritikus to resign for the embarrassment he has caused UW (soon, please, and take Goldhaber with you), he will only go from there ...

Posted Wed, Jun 8, 3:20 p.m.

I was a parent in SPS until June 2010, and for my daughter and her classmates, the system worked quite well. My daughter attended Salmon Bay and Nathan Hale, and found them both to be safe, friendly, and nurturing environments -- not without glitches, but by and large very positive ...

Posted Wed, Jun 8, 10:39 a.m.

But coolpapa, Southshore couldn't POSSIBLY be a model for what Gates and his flack Lilly want -- the teachers there are (booga booga) UNIONIZED.

Posted Wed, Jun 8, 4:38 a.m.

Lilly goes on to say, in parentheses, as if it was just a throwaway: "That she did seriously damage the district and had to resign was just a coincidence that had nothing to do with her Broad training." Now reasonable people might disagree on many things, Dick, but this is ...

Posted Wed, Jun 8, 4:14 a.m.

When asked her opinion of Ayn Rand's fantasy novel "Atlas Shrugged," Dorothy Parker is reported to have said: "This is not a book to be put down lightly. It should be hurled, with great force." So it is also for this stupid idea. These are OUR schools, not Bill Gates' ...

Posted Wed, Jun 1, 6:38 a.m.

Turn 99 over to the city? With this mayor in office? Are you daft?

Posted Wed, Jun 1, 5:40 a.m.

Sucher is spot on, of course, but see, the Spokane Street Viaduct doesn't run along the waterfront, and as such it doesn't offend the Wright Runstads and GGLOs of the world, or Allied Arts, or the "design community," or the car-hating McGinn Green Taliban. No option would give us more ...

Posted Fri, May 27, 9:12 a.m.

The assumption that there was a problem to solve is about as "fact-free" as it gets.

Posted Fri, May 27, 7:21 a.m.

Dear Rep.Deb Eddy (debo): I will not attack you personally like you attacked John Burbank, but as you know, I have as little regard for pathological centrism as I do for right-wing rapacity. The business interests who pushed this bill, and the Democrats who enabled it, do not appear to ...

Posted Tue, May 24, 5:03 a.m.

Given that Gates is now funding Crosscut, is there even one good reason to read this piece?

Posted Sat, May 14, 6:41 a.m.

"No one has heard of" only if they don't read. To whatever lackwit at Crosscut wrote that headline: Don't assume that your readers are as ill-informed as you are.

Posted Fri, May 6, 6:13 a.m.

Thanks, Hugo! It's on my list!

Posted Fri, Apr 15, 9:52 a.m.

Quit engaging BlueLight; he's just a troll with time on his hands. As for Vance, ignore him, too. If he looked outside and saw that it was raining, he'd fill up a column for Crosscut on why THAT was good for the Republicans.

Posted Fri, Apr 15, 9:49 a.m.

How gullible do you think we are, David? Gregoire and Durkan have been BFFs for years, are practically joined at the hip, and have been promoting each other's careers right down the line. This is puff journalism, states the obvious, and adds nothing in the way of new information. Totally ...

Posted Thu, Apr 14, 1:53 p.m.

No.

Posted Tue, Apr 12, 10:43 a.m.

"Contributions" from Roger Valdez and Richard S. Davis are not "quality local journalism." They are screeds by propagandists.

Posted Mon, Apr 4, 9:14 a.m.

Let's kiss the asses of the rich and the super-rich some more, because heaven knows we don't do enough of that around here.

Posted Wed, Mar 30, 10:11 p.m.

Right. Because "old guys" never went to college.

Posted Tue, Mar 29, 7:39 p.m.

Hey, Roger, why don't YOU run for City Council? I need a good laugh.

Posted Tue, Mar 29, 7:23 a.m.

Somebody left out the words "paid advertisement."

Posted Tue, Mar 29, 7:21 a.m.

Doug: The answer to your question is not no, it is HELL NO! Thank you.

Posted Mon, Mar 21, 3:55 a.m.

"Urbanist thought leader" is about the best triple oxymoron I expect to see all year.

Posted Fri, Mar 18, 5:30 a.m.

I take my business where I park for free. Period.

Posted Thu, Mar 17, 8:56 a.m.

To PJS: "I don't like it because I don't like it" is as high a level of discussion as elitists such as you are deserve.

Posted Wed, Mar 16, 9:07 a.m.

Here's my "logic," Mr. Smart Guy: Any politician who votes for tolls loses my support and incurs my active opposition forever. Just because "the rest of the world" does it doesn't mean I am forced to accept it as either necessary or desirable. If that's what the majority wants, then ...

Posted Tue, Mar 15, 8:37 a.m.

Well, I'll be damned! I'm with Cameron.

Posted Wed, Mar 9, 2:19 p.m.

I used to go in there and shoot the breeze with Zev all the time. Those guys had to sell themselves in addition to the coffee. Look at the job they did!

Posted Tue, Feb 22, 1:48 p.m.

Sorry, Adam, that's bogus. Nobody is claiming that pensions, wage increases, and job protections in labor agreements are "rights." They are benefits and provisions that have been BARGAINED, and what is bargained today may be bargained away tomorrow if tomorrow is a period of fiscal crisis. For evidence of that, ...

Posted Tue, Feb 22, 10:22 a.m.

Thanks to Dick Nelson for providing a voice of sanity to this discussion. Note to Brewster: When bylined commentary on Crosscut is so bizarre that I find myself in agreement with the usual right-wing critics, maybe it's time that Crosscut stop giving its author a forum, and thereby damaging this ...

Posted Thu, Feb 10, 8:38 a.m.

Hell must have frozen over, this morning, because I agree with Cameron. Crosscut must be hard up for copy to publish this drivel. Here's a clue for you Roger: Pompous, presumptuous, and pontificating is not sustainable.

Posted Sat, Jan 22, 6:15 a.m.

"Investigative journalist?" "With the Evergreen 'Freedom' Foundation?" ROTFL!

Posted Sat, Jan 15, 2:58 p.m.

@normfox: What you call an "attack" is a rejoinder from a public school parent who is sick and tired of hearing BS, and not so inclined to tolerate it. "Going through the motions?" What qualifies you to make that judgment? Are you the principal? Is a teacher "not challenging" your ...

Posted Thu, Jan 13, 7:39 a.m.

@normfox: Your eyes must have glazed over the part where I said "I make no claim that seniority is always fair; it has its tradeoffs like every other method." Let's see you and pianoboy identify some "bad teachers," and let's see you explain to us what makes them bad. "Everybody ...

Posted Tue, Jan 11, 3:14 p.m.

Maybe you two should ask yourselves how those seniority provisions got into teacher contracts in the first place, because it's clear that neither of you has a clue, about that or much else. They aren't meant to "protect bad teachers." They're meant to protect GOOD teachers. They're in there because ...

Posted Fri, Jan 7, 11:54 a.m.

Connelly speaks for me, David. You don't. Her education proposal is flat unconstitutional, and it's appalling that this is coming from a former two-term attorney general. Would she put in a Department of Justice czar, and demand that McKenna report to that person? Would she do that to Insurance Commissioner ...

Posted Tue, Jan 4, 8:14 a.m.

Adam Vogt is no Democrat. Period.

Posted Mon, Jan 3, 8:36 a.m.

My life experience and my study of history have taught me two things that I know for sure: 1) When people's supply of drinking water is threatened, they will fight to preserve it. 2) Other people, whose supply of drinking water is not threatened, will call them NIMBYs for doing ...

Posted Tue, Dec 21, 8:18 a.m.

People are being cut off Basic Health and THIS is what Crosscut is putting up front?

Posted Fri, Nov 5, 3:20 p.m.

Well done, Hugo. You and Chasan are holding Crosscut up all by yourselves.

Posted Wed, Nov 3, 8:45 a.m.

Wrong on all counts. Dems should ask instead what FDR or Huey Long would have done. They had principles, too. Uninformed, shallow, superficial claptrap like this article is why I find myself coming to Crosscut less and less.

Posted Sat, Oct 23, 7:45 a.m.

Well, DUH! Of COURSE a YES vote for R-52 and a NO vote for I-1107 is the correct position. How much "nuance" does anyone need to understand this? Are we to allow our public schools to fall into even worse repair when we could be removing asbestos from them and ...

Posted Wed, Sep 29, 9:41 a.m.

Right-wingers hate unions and living wages for working people. YAWN! Tell me again, Brewster, why I should support Crosscut when it continues to recycle these tired, worn-out positions.

Posted Tue, Sep 28, 9:36 a.m.

"The idea that we need a downtown tunnel in order to hide traffic, instead of, say, a new soaring elevated that could be inspiring on its own, seems both foolish and expensive. We shouldn't be paying extra to bury our lack of imagination." -- You know, Knute, that's heresy to ...

Posted Mon, Sep 27, 10:17 a.m.

@PennyBuddy: I'd say this piece is about worthy of Crosscut, and about as credible, as the recent anti-1098 screed from Judith Runstad.

Posted Mon, Sep 27, 7:06 a.m.

I'm with Deb.

Posted Sat, Sep 4, 7:05 p.m.

I'm sorry to break it to you, seattlecenter, but you really haven't gotten what you appear to think you have gotten. The superintendent hasn't made any changes, and the changes she has sought are far from "desperately needed." What's more, if the changes in this contract turn out to be ...

Posted Sat, Sep 4, 7:44 a.m.

Ichiro did not hit a grand slam off Mariano Rivera in the ninth inning. There was one man on base, Mike Sweeney, who had doubled. There's no need to make stuff up.

Posted Fri, Sep 3, 6:24 a.m.

Once on TV I saw a boxer get knocked out with a perfect punch. He was out cold before he hit the canvas, and the referee stopped the fight without a count. Interviewed afterward, he said "What? You're telling me I got knocked out?" Yes, David, that's what we're telling ...

Posted Mon, Aug 23, 7:24 a.m.

Hear me clearly, Tim, because you know I don't mince words: If we substitute the word "neighborhoods" for the words "public schools" and the words "police officers" for the word "teachers," then by your logic, we should should be using crime statistics in given neighborhoods to determine the salaries, job ...

Posted Thu, Aug 19, 7:09 a.m.

In which Berger becomes Ted Van Dyk. Can Lou Guzzo status be far behind? What a pile of dreck this column was.

Posted Wed, Aug 18, 9:18 a.m.

Cry me a river, Rabel.

Posted Wed, Aug 4, 10:14 a.m.

I can predict one thing with certainty; Sooner or later, someone will claim that their point of view is the only "true progressive" one. When somebody can tell me what is "progressive," and who is to decide, I'll read further. But I'm not holding my breath till that happens. Until ...

Posted Mon, Aug 2, 10:01 a.m.

Tell you what, Hugo. If that skimpy little piece of meat in the photo is an entree and not an appetizer, I don't imagine these guys will have very many customers to "enrich in subtle ways."

Posted Fri, Jul 30, 3:05 p.m.

Chris Van Dyk says: "The first stadium vote, because it was binding on King County, at least forced the legislature -- elected officials -- to defy voters as they moved forward with Safeco Field. That decision many legislators have since regretted, not because of what was built, but because of ...

Posted Fri, Jul 30, 8:53 a.m.

Mud Baby speaks for me, except for his solution. Retrofit the sucker, I say.

Posted Mon, Jul 26, 11:19 a.m.

It is an insult to the intelligence to characterize Dino Rossi as either a "nice guy" or a "country-club moderate." Dino is a hard-wired, hard-right conservative who cut 23,000 poor kids off Basic Health when he was in the state Senate, and he hasn't changed one iota since then. Just ...

Posted Sat, May 15, 7:16 a.m.

I can only imagine the kind of column Van Dyk might have written on the slavery issue in the 1850s, or on the rise of Hitler in the 1930s. Hear me clearly, Ted. There is no compromise with racism. Go hide under your bed if you can't stand the heat. ...

Posted Mon, May 10, 3:27 p.m.

Peter: It's Blaise N-k-u-f-o, not Nfuko Blaise. I'll be watching him in all of Switzerland's games. Thanks.

Posted Tue, Feb 23, 9:22 a.m.

Bill: Doug Henderson, not David. Thanks.

Posted Sun, Feb 14, 6:27 p.m.

I certainly don't disagree about the topheaviness of administration and central staff, and how that affects the teacher-student ratio. That has been one of my pet peeves. Surely we can move forward in agreement on that issue.

Posted Sun, Feb 14, 1:46 p.m.

I see, Judy. According to you, only charter school advocates think. Those of us who oppose them do so without thinking. Here's a clue. Alternative schools in the Seattle School District already do "what good charter schools do well." There's innovation to burn, individualized instruction, team learning, peer review, etc., ...

Posted Sun, Feb 14, 6:59 a.m.

I am at a loss to understand what I might have written that "scared" anybody "a bit." Also, I'd like to know what EVIDENCE there is that "Burien doesn't want what's left of us." I'd say the trend appears to be in the opposite direction. Brian Bennett, an up-front annexation ...

Posted Fri, Feb 12, 6:51 a.m.

"Tiptoe Tommy" gives a whole bunch of opinion and wishful thinking, and tries to spin it as fact, which it isn't, and then says he hopes I will join him in supporting City Council elections by district. Come out from behind your alias, pal, or we have nothing to talk ...

Posted Thu, Feb 11, 4:18 p.m.

Here's the link. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-charters5-2010feb05,0,3300930.story?track=rss

Posted Thu, Feb 11, 4:18 p.m.

Well, Judy, that shouldn't be surprising, when you consider that Washington voters have rejected charter schools three times in statewide voting, twice by approximately 60-40 margins, as you yourself acknowledge. Here is some food for thought, in this LA Times story about a UCLA study that indicates that one effect ...

Posted Thu, Feb 11, 4:12 p.m.

Jordan Royer writes at the top of his opinion piece: "But there are good reasons to hope the diverse neighborhood of White Center joins the city." And then proceeds to not name a single one, or even to come close. Shorter Royer: White Center should join Seattle because it should. ...

Posted Tue, Feb 9, 8:55 a.m.

People DO have a say in the matter. It's why we elect our state legislators. This is a representative democracy. It's what the founders set up when they wrote the U.S. Constitution. Live with it.

Posted Mon, Feb 8, 7:53 a.m.

Ditto what R on Beacon Hill says: "What a load of crap from lorenbliss." In my experience as a Seattle Public Schools parent, the math teachers were more hamstrung by the stupid, idiotic, touchie-feelie Discovery curriculum than they were by any union contract. As for the efficacy of "trained mathematicians," ...

Posted Fri, Feb 5, 2:16 p.m.

Enough! Build it! These people could talk e. Coli to death, and they will never be satisfied.

Posted Fri, Jan 29, 8:37 a.m.

Another great job, Hugo. I rely on this feature to provide me with good information and eating pleasure. But one fix, please: Lynnwood is not in "this part of King County." Lynnwood is in Snohomish County. Thanks.

Posted Wed, Jan 6, 9:25 a.m.

I will continue to read and buy books in book form for as long as I am alive. I have never bought one single thing through Amazon and I hope I never will. I am hardly a technophobe. I order books online direct from dealers, and I read public domain ...

Posted Thu, Dec 31, 4:01 p.m.

She has no chance, Chris, in this or any other "atmosphere," she is not a credible candidate, and you are not a credible commentator. Look, it's OK to be a Republican, it's OK to be a conservative, and it's OK to be a cheerleader for Republicans and conservatives. Really it ...

Posted Wed, Dec 30, 2:55 p.m.

Breneman, you might want to check your facts, because you need to, big time. In 2004, Murray won every county west of the mountains except for Lewis County and Clark County. That's a hell of a lot more than just Seattle. Nethercutt at least was from Spokane, and had represented ...

Posted Thu, Dec 17, 8:54 a.m.

Thanks again, Hugo. Your reviews have shot to the top of the list of "must read" Crosscut offerings. Please keep them coming.

Posted Fri, Nov 27, 10:23 a.m.

Good for you, Johann, for speaking the truth. The right-wing trolls will attack, so get your flak jacket on. The case for right-to-work laws is based, plainly and simply, on "them as has, gets." The corporations, having achieved "personhood," and the economic leverage that goes with being the principal or ...

Posted Thu, Nov 26, 12:32 p.m.

I'm thankful that I can read contriubutions by Himanee on Crosscut and not just more of the same tired old people.

Posted Thu, Nov 26, 8:37 a.m.

Nothing original here, just the same old "drown the government in the bathtub" crapola from the Evergreen "Freedom" Foundation and its wingnut welfare funders, this time delivered by a young lady with a pretty smile.

Posted Tue, Nov 17, 5:57 a.m.

I am not from West Seattle, and people who describe my comments as "mean-spirited" appear to have a higher tolerance for fools and liars than I do. This is indeed the "Seattle disease." Somehow we're supposed to enable the most ridiculous people, the most ridiculous statements, and the most ridiculous ...

Posted Mon, Nov 16, 8:20 a.m.

Credibility eludes you altogether, David, and rather you earn whooping, guffawing, knee-slapping ridicule when you try to sell us the right-wing wackadoodle Susan Hutchison as a "solution-seeking moderate." The voters rightly rejected the dishonesty, mendacity, and sheer fraudulence of Hutchison's entire camapign -- except, apparently, for you and the far ...

Posted Fri, Nov 6, 12:17 p.m.

Thanks, Ross, for proving Dante's point: "The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who, in a time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality."

Posted Fri, Nov 6, 10:58 a.m.

She was never about "ideas," and she never had a "plan," so wondering about what was never there is a fool's errand. She's all about the Benjamins, and always has been.

Posted Fri, Oct 23, 4:39 p.m.

I used my real name, Mister Bagman.

Posted Thu, Oct 22, 8:55 p.m.

PJS -- Stop your nonsense. Dow Constantine has been putting his record and his performance on the line before the voters for the past 13 years now, in election after election. He has been returned to office overwhelmingly each time. Some of his strongest support comes from the business community ...

Posted Thu, Oct 22, 5:50 p.m.

Ted Van Dyk says: "I've tried to make quite clear in my piece the reasons I voted for some candidates and not others. Really not much to add to what was written." -- You haven't made anything clear in your discussion of the County Executive race. You haven't presented any ...

Posted Thu, Oct 22, 9:04 a.m.

This article was written by Lou Guzzo, under the pseudonym of Ted Van Dyk.

Posted Mon, Oct 19, 8:59 a.m.

Nice work, Michele. It's a jungle out there. Welcome to Crosscut.

Posted Tue, Sep 8, 4:25 p.m.

Well, he's going to be your next County Executive, whether you like it or not. And whereas you wouldn't like him if he perforned miracles or walked on water, there's no reason for him to give a rip what you, or losers like you, think.

Posted Tue, Sep 8, 11:19 a.m.

He's not the Executive. He's one of nine Council members. You're not fooling anybody with your display of ignorance of County government.

Posted Tue, Sep 8, 9:47 a.m.

Fred Jarrett, being an intelligent person, a dedicated public servant, and an engineer who wants things to work correctly, not only is correct to question the basic assumptions behind county government, but to demand a reasonable measure of experience and competence from the next Executive. Dow is perfectly capable of ...

Posted Tue, Sep 8, 7:10 a.m.

1. The entire discussion will be moot unless Tim Eyman's odious Initiative 1033 is defeated. If this passes, there will be no chance to "re-engineer" anything in King County, which will be unable to provide much of any service to anything or anybody. 2. Pay no attention to pathetic little ...

Posted Mon, Aug 17, 9:33 p.m.

Hey Cameron, he's going to be YOUR County Executive, and there isn't f--- all you can do about it, except to rage in your impotence on some comment thread.

Posted Mon, Aug 17, 6:41 a.m.

Good report, Dan. Some of our "leaders" did NOT make themselves scarce. Dow Constantine and our 34th District state legislators, most notably Rep. Sharon Nelson, battled tooth and nail for years against this hideous project. Rep. Jim McDermott and Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell opposed it vigorously. They all ...

Posted Tue, Jul 28, 5:16 a.m.

benjamincm says: "The surface + I-5 + transit alternative helps deal with climate change and energy scarcity, costs billions less, will support the recovery of our regional ecosystems (at a minimum will do less damage than the tunnel) and will provide some real mobility options." It will not "provide some ...

Posted Mon, Jul 27, 11:41 a.m.

Above ground options are not acceptable in terms of traffic mobility. What about the cost expectations of current Viaduct users? Is their time not worth money? McGinn and O'Brien are telling these people to go p*ss up a rope. Is that your position? I say that's unacceptable, and that even ...

Posted Mon, Jul 27, 11:18 a.m.

Livia: People will demand and will use personalized transportation whether I "propose" it or not. That toothpaste is out of the tube, whether YOU like it or not. Yes, by all means build alternatives to single-occupancy vehicles. That was the entire point of my first post in this thread. I ...

Posted Mon, Jul 27, 10:51 a.m.

In reply to LiviaRyan, who asks: -- It is only 1.7 miles of roadway people! We are spending BILLIONS. Why can't we have something progressive in its place? Something that reduces air pollution, not makes it worse? -- The answer is to build nonpolluting cars, and to enforce that at ...

Posted Mon, Jul 27, 8:38 a.m.

Any poor gullible fool who buys O'Brien's claim that the "surface transit option" will move traffic through downtown better than the tunnel would had better put down that crack pipe. This position alone should disqualify O'Brien and his Sierra Club buddy McGinn from public office -- unless, that is, you ...

Posted Fri, Jun 19, 5:48 a.m.

eddiew says: "The Legislature should begin tolling all the limited access highways soon, both to control congestion and to raise funds for maintenance." Any legislator who votes for that will be replaced. Stick your tolls where the sun don't shine.

Posted Thu, Jun 18, 9:07 p.m.

Thunderbolt? More like a nerf ball.

Posted Wed, Jun 17, 9:04 a.m.

David, your feeble and transparent efforts to use a push poll to create a buzz for McGinn don't even reveal his true position. I actually wrangled out of him at a candidate interview, in front of witnesses, the admission that given a choice between a tunnel and a retrofit, he ...

Posted Fri, Jun 12, 9:34 p.m.

The problem with this entire thread is that we are discussing the effects instead of the causes of the woes that afflict our public schools. This "I'm a liberal, but . . ." crap, followed by teacher-bashing, makes me want to puke. Teacher layoffs are occurring because a Democratic governor ...

Posted Fri, Jun 12, 10:13 a.m.

Maribago's comments reflect utter ignorance of labor-management relationships. Like it or not, teachers have organized for the purpose of collective bargaining, and both the District and the teachers are bound by the resulting labor agreement, which, like all labor agreements, has the force of federal law behind it. So no ...

Posted Fri, Jun 12, 6:34 a.m.

Give me one good reason why the terms of evaluations should not be bargained collectively. My daughter's TEACHERS, not school administrators, are the ones who interact directly with her -- and with me. As for using "objective testing data from OSPI" for merit-based layoffs, i say no way. I am ...

Posted Thu, Jun 11, 12:45 p.m.

I am a Seattle Public Schools parent, too, tiresias, and I am every bit as concerned about getting my daughter the best education my tax dollars can buy. Unfortunately, when teachers have to be laid off, seniority is the best of a sorry lot of options. CPPS has chosen the ...

Posted Thu, Jun 11, 11:43 a.m.

He doesn't have any data. You have to remember that St. Clair is on the payroll of the Evergreen "Freedom" Foundation, which has a core mission of destroying public employee unions, especially teachers' unions. Therefore anything he says on the subject of education must be seen through this filter. I ...

Posted Tue, Jun 2, 6:20 a.m.

I lived under that bridge for 10 years. Sometimes we had a jumper a month. That bridge was there, and people were jumping off it, long before Quadrant, Adobe, and the Burke Gilman Trail showed up. We have fished them out of the water and all the rest of it. ...

Posted Fri, May 22, 10:56 a.m.

As long as I am alive I will oppose tolling of any kind on any of our state's highways, and I will make it a litmus test of support for any elected official.

Posted Mon, May 18, 2:24 p.m.

Who says no "young leaders" are emerging in this city? That's baloney. Who needs "institutes" or formal programs, when day-to-day neighborhood issues and political party activity produce plenty of top-flight young talent. We are blessed with two such candidates for City Council from West Seattle -- David Ginsberg and Dorsol ...

Posted Sat, May 16, 4:04 p.m.

According to "bigyaz" we should "set aside our feelings about Blethen." I might be willing to do that if his incompetence hadn't put the state's largest newspaper, which was self-sustaining and heavily in the black before he became publisher, into a state of unsustainable debt. The Times would have been ...

Posted Thu, May 14, 8:56 a.m.

I appreciate Dave's comments, and no one should minimize his point about "our country's interest in a free and unfettered press." But in this case, we are rewarding the publishers of the Times and the Columbian for bad, stupid, shortsighted, and just plain greedy business decisions. Nobody should forget the ...

Posted Sat, May 9, 1:59 p.m.

No dive in Seattle can match the sleaze standard set by the China Doll in Everett. Just sayin'.

Posted Thu, May 7, 2:03 p.m.

We don't want a new library, fredf. We want the one that's there now, right where it is. And we don't fear change. We reserve the right to be discriminating about it. Most of us *want* the K2 site developed. We just don't want the library there. So please quit ...

Posted Thu, May 7, 7:05 a.m.

I care. I use the library often. I want it kept right where it is. Do you hear that, Ptacek? Great job as always, Dan. Thanks.

Posted Mon, May 4, 7:55 a.m.

That's just what your candidate, said, you pinbrain, and just what you rightards have been repeating over and over again, as if repetition somehow confers credibility. The voters didn't buy what you lot were selling, and they aren't buying it now. Brewster is absolutely spot on with this article. The ...

Posted Thu, Apr 16, 6:23 a.m.

This is just more of your typical and oh-so-tiresome elitist crap, David. Those people are our EMPLOYEES, and they will jolly well do the public's business IN PUBLIC.

Posted Fri, Feb 27, 1:39 p.m.

I'd rather help Dow Constantine win this election.

Posted Fri, Feb 27, 11:46 a.m.

Sure thing, pal. Just be sure to mention that I am also a rural landowner who thinks the CAO is just fine, and that Constantine's and Phillips' support for it will be a plus, and not a minus, in this election. If the results of the election for County Elections ...

Posted Fri, Feb 27, 11:11 a.m.

Susan Hutchison? Oh please run, Susan! PLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASE run. Both Dow and Larry will turn out the Democratic vote like crazy. It will be so sweet to see a Republican fail to make it through the Top Two primary. Cameron and his land-raping hillbilly friends will find out what a tiny ...

Posted Wed, Feb 25, 5:11 p.m.

Peddle your right-wing crap elsewhere, steptoe.fan. Nobody here is buying what you're selling, except for the few dittoheads like yourself who find their way here. I'm not ignoring the environment my student is "leaving behind" because she isn't leaving it behind at all. She is very much a part of ...

Posted Wed, Feb 25, 7:54 a.m.

Running Start gets my daughter two years of transferable college credit for free, thanks to the state of Washington. Does the author somehow consider that to be a trivial consideration in today's economy? So far she is getting straight A's at the community college level, and she is benefiting from ...

Posted Tue, Feb 10, 5:10 a.m.

No, pal, the Evergreen "Freedom" Foundation, and St. Clair's presence on its payroll, *is* the issue. It taints anything he writes about public sector employees, and renders it mere propaganda, ill-disguised as reporting. Who gives a rip if you have known him for 24 years? Just what does that say ...

Posted Mon, Feb 9, 3:20 p.m.

That was then, Scott. This is now. Benedict Arnold started out fighting for the good guys, too. Then, like you, he got bought off.

Posted Mon, Feb 9, 9:59 a.m.

Just to see what anti-union propaganda he can come up with next, I guess. St. Clair is bought and paid for by economic royalists who think working people are not fit to kiss the hems of their betters -- among whom St. Clair numbers himself, of course -- much less ...

Posted Mon, Feb 9, 8:29 a.m.

Why does Crosscut even print this drivel? St. Clair by his own admission is a paid propagandist for an organization whose sole purpose is to destroy public employee unions in this state. Calling him an "investigative journalist" is like calling Hannibal Lecter a gourmet.

Posted Fri, Feb 6, 4:36 p.m.

I will go to any lengths to oppose this nut case's candidacy. Anybody who thinks we won't need new and improved highways *in addition to* rail and other rapid transit is not fit to hold any public office.

Posted Tue, Dec 30, 7:02 a.m.

"multiple studies have cited public privacy as a major public concern." -- DUH! You THINK?

Posted Tue, Dec 16, 2:05 p.m.

You don't push an agenda? You're a liar, Scott, and not even a good one. Every single thing I have ever read from you online is pushing your agenda.

Posted Sun, Dec 7, 8:10 p.m.

Ted: Regarding the Allentown trolley, I think you are spot on.

Posted Fri, Dec 5, 3:07 p.m.

Hey Ted, If they're all so inept and you're so smart, so experienced, and so well-connected, why don't YOU run?

Posted Wed, Nov 19, 10:04 p.m.

Sean and I agree about ECB.

Posted Wed, Nov 19, 11:29 a.m.

Ted Van Dyk: I am not anonymous. I use my real name. Chuck Taylor will tell you who I am. My number is in the book if you have a problem with anything I say. Quit boring me to death and quit stating the obvious, and I might let up ...

Posted Wed, Nov 19, 4:48 a.m.

bkochis: I stand behind what I wrote and make no apology for it. If Ted Van Dyk (I worked for Magnuson so I know more than you do) meets your journalistic needs, I'm happy for you. Some of us like to think we set a higher bar.

Posted Tue, Nov 18, 10:13 a.m.

BarryM: "The very unhappy Ivan?" Sounds like a healthy dose of projection there, pal. I have very little to be unhappy about. Brian Myrick: "antidote to a polarized society?" What a laugh! That's Crosscut's problem exactly. This society is growing ever more polarized and fragmented, and all the king's Crosscuts ...

Posted Tue, Nov 18, 8:43 a.m.

To Sean: I know thoughtful and intelligent writing when I see it. Or did you miss my praise for Chuck Taylor, Dan Chasan, and Casey Corr? Bill Dietrich should be available soon.

Posted Mon, Nov 17, 5 p.m.

Crosscut is stodgy, David, and you set the tone. You've made a career out of relentless, bloodless, passionless, almost pathological centrism, and your stable of dull, boiring writers reflects it -- especially yourself. Lose the worn-out Berger, the clueless Henderson, the unfunny Clifford, and above all, the painfully obvious VanDyk. ...

Posted Mon, Nov 17, 8:13 a.m.

I quit reading after he said he voted for McKenna.

Posted Thu, Nov 6, 3:28 a.m.

We're laughing at you, Lainie, because laughter is civilized people's proper response to ignorance, bigotry, and hatred.

Posted Tue, Oct 28, 4:12 a.m.

I see one pig is "squeeling" already.

Posted Sun, Oct 26, 6:34 a.m.

If Washington state is tending toward "one-party rule," it's because the alternative, as exemplified by Cameron, becomes less palatable with every one of his nasty, ignorant, substance-free postings. I am a Democratic Party hack and proud of it. I want the people whom the Camerons of the world support rooted ...

Posted Sat, Oct 25, 11:53 a.m.

Nice try, Cameron, but you FAIL as usual. She has been elected twice since being appointed in 2001.

Posted Sat, Oct 11, 7:54 a.m.

Brewster can't move off the middle: to save his soul, and he hasn't for decades. There is no "golden mean," David, none of the sacred "balance" you so fervently wish for. If you care at all about long-term planning for this state's economic and fiscal future, your meter should be ...

Posted Sat, Sep 27, 4:40 a.m.

Silly, superficial, inaccurate reading of history: Jackson was our nation's first and greatest populist president for reasons totally unrelated to the trivialities that Alben mentions here. Jackson was every bit as experienced politically as Adams was. He was, and remains, the only president in our history who had served in ...

Posted Thu, Sep 25, 7:46 a.m.

The "design community?": The "design community" does not give a rip about traffic capacity or mobility and never has. The "design community" is hereby invited to place its collective lips upon my nether parts. We need a through highway, separated from grade, that maintains existing capacity and mobility, in this ...

Posted Mon, Sep 22, 2:28 p.m.

Pathetic, Brewster, just pathetic: How many years is it now that you have been twisting yourself into knots, in public, in this town trying to be "fair and balanced" to Republican kleptocrats? Even the right-wing diehards on (un)Sound Politics didn't think Rossi got the better of this debate. Quit boring ...

Posted Mon, Sep 15, 1:07 p.m.

No, it's worse: She said we can't afford another New Deal. Here's a clue, lady. We couldn't afford the Great Depression that conservatives brought us, and that liberals got us out of. We always clean up the messes that conservatives bring us. Conservatism has always failed us and always will. ...

Posted Wed, Sep 3, 6:04 a.m.

You're EXCITED? Over THIS?: This bimbo can't even run a car wash. And this is AFTER she became governor! At the federal executive level, I hope it is still "mainstream" to expect competence, even after eight years of Bush. You don't know what competence is, Scott, except for competence in ...

Posted Tue, Aug 26, 1:03 p.m.

RE: Huh?: Why all the carrying on? Maybe it's because we still, last time I checked, have the right to decide for ourselves how much is enough, and for our own reasons.

Posted Tue, Aug 12, 12:48 p.m.

RE: I see no difference: Gee, when I read the headline I thought it was about the fetus fascists like Lainie who think they will EVER be able to use the coercive power of the state to interfere in indiviuals' medical decisions.

Posted Thu, Jul 31, 5:58 a.m.

The Mariners' management has no balls: And neither do you. This is a management that won't let you wear a "Yankees suck" T-shirt in OUR ballpark, harass gay women who kiss each other, and frisk you at the gate because you might -- heaven forbid -- have water in a ...

Posted Wed, Jul 9, 7:05 a.m.

Well, big whoop!: Well, that's just great, flack. You monitor the MEDIA, so you KNOW! Well, here's a clue. You can't go a day in THIS country without hearing yet another horror story about the system WE have. Maybe you can tell me why the greatest costs in our system ...

Posted Tue, Jul 8, 8:49 a.m.

"He works for a regional healthcare system": Translation: Don Glickstein is the flack for Group Health. No wonder he rails against single-payer and its most outspoken advocate. Nice try, flack. Nice try, Crosscut. Nice try at redefining "progressive." When the "progressive" case against Jim McDermott is presented by profiteering parasites, ...

Posted Sat, Jun 28, 9:34 a.m.

Brilliant!: The best way I know of to get Crosscut readers to advocate for public financing of local elections is to first create a cogent, well-thought-out post like the first one, and then to plant a fake post from a fake conservative, knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing troll, give him a cute name ...

Posted Mon, Jun 23, 8:28 p.m.

I'm white and over 60: and I'm for all the light rail we can get, and for taxing people till their eyes bleed to get it. We need to build additional rights of way, do you people get it? And light rail runs on electricity and not on diesel, do ...

Posted Wed, May 28, 8:45 a.m.

This is reporting? This is commentary?: Yeah, times change. Wow, that's profound. In other news, rain is wet. I was at the 7th CD caucus from beginning to end, and this pathetic article clearly is not describing what I saw and experienced. I worked the floor ceaselessly for our two ...

Posted Thu, May 15, 1:51 p.m.

RE: Blow the team up: Willie sucks. He can't hit, he never has hit, and he never will hit. He's here because he's "scrappy," whatever the hell that means, he's white, and he's from Port Orchard. Jason Ellison couldn't hit, never had hit, and never will hit. He was "scrappy," ...

Posted Thu, May 15, 8:39 a.m.

A fish rots from the head down: A new manager or a new general manager will not save this team. Can anybody seriously tell me why Chuck Armstrong has a job here? Armstrong and Howard Lincoln have run this team into the dirt with their odious, stupid, dated marketing approach ...

Posted Fri, May 9, 8:09 a.m.

Picture this: My bank, which shall for now remain nameless, wanted to charge me $1.50 every month to return my canceled checks. I told the manager "Up yours! I want you to waive that fee, now and forever, or I'm taking my business -- and my money -- elsewhere!" They ...

Posted Sun, Apr 27, 7:20 p.m.

Nobody believes your crap either Niles: Factor in $6 per gallon gasoline and watch how fast people move to rail. Look, I voted for Prop 1 because I thought it struck the best balance we could get. I am just as angry with the pave it over guys like you, ...

Posted Sun, Apr 27, 5:12 a.m.

Memo to Crosscut: Van Dyk and Peter Jackson are not worth any informed citizen's reading time.

Posted Fri, Apr 25, 8:17 a.m.

Lay off Joni!: Joni has a mortgage to pay and kids to send to college, just like the rest of us. She is stuck in a dysfunctional, visibly failing company owned and run by an incompetent, impotent, paranoid clown, and her livelihood depends on her writing what her boss tells ...

Posted Tue, Apr 8, 7:15 a.m.

How many management jobs were cut?: That's where the "fat" is.

Posted Mon, Apr 7, 7:31 a.m.

I'll gladly help Jim: I have contributed to his Legal Defense Fund already and I'll do it again, gladly. Jim needs advice from you like he needs anthrax. Your "commentary" on this site is quickly and inexorably approaching the Lou Guzzo level.

Posted Tue, Mar 4, 1:19 p.m.

All I do is rage?: Don't you wish? Actually, I organize politically, I raise money, and I lobby in Olympia. Sometimes I win and sometimes I lose, but that's life. We're already paying gas taxes, and unlike Timmy Boy, I want to see the return of the motor vehicle excise ...

Posted Tue, Mar 4, 8:23 a.m.

Don't go out on a limb, there, Knute!: -------------------------- If tolls are implemented and they turn out to be higher, more widespread, or permanent, and if the benefits are not readily visible, there could be trouble with voters who are already in a sour mood. --------------------------- Sour mood? "Could" be ...

Posted Fri, Feb 29, 11:52 a.m.

How quaint!: Some people still say "an historic."

Posted Wed, Feb 27, 9:53 a.m.

To Victory Heights: You can't say on the one hand that the parties should pay their own way -- we already do with the caucuses -- and then force them to hold primaries. It doesn't work. It isn't legal. If we're paying our own way we get to do it ...

Posted Wed, Feb 13, 9:06 a.m.

How about some NEWS?: This is the kind of trivial crap that renders Crosscut irrelevant.

Posted Mon, Feb 4, 9:44 a.m.

OK, so you did mention it: I was hasty. But it matters a lot to me.

Posted Mon, Feb 4, 9:42 a.m.

Pretty lame puff piece, Casey: with nary a mention of the abominably low pay that Black's employees get while he poses smiling on his big yacht.

Posted Mon, Jan 21, 12:02 p.m.

Eyman is a punk: And self-serving media hacks like you only enable him further, because, after all, he's "good copy." One after the other, his policy objectives, when their effect is judged in the light of fact -- or by their constitutionality -- will fall by the wayside, and you'll ...

Posted Thu, Jan 17, 7:48 a.m.

Pigs have flown and I agree with Tooley: Michael Bloomberg is a rich boy who wants to continue enriching himself and his rich buddies at your expense. This Unity 08 business is a scam, this bogus "bipartisanship" is a scam, and this whole article is a scam.

Posted Fri, Nov 30, 11:01 a.m.

Oh, Ted, spare us!: Anyone who can write something like this, presumably with a straight face: "But its nominally nonpartisan city offices were no longer graced with the periodic Republican mayor or City Council members who had helped provide balance." can't expect to be taken seriously in this day and ...

Posted Tue, Nov 27, 8:52 a.m.

RE: It has DRM, for Pete's sake!: David Sucher says: "It's interesting that so many people proudly proclaim that they will never use an ebook reader...that they love "real" books...that they are "linear" (which I assume means that they never consult a dictionary when they run across an unfamiliar term) ...

Posted Sat, Nov 24, 6:32 a.m.

It has DRM, for Pete's sake!: That would disqualify it from consideration right there, even if it wasn't from anti-union Amazon, which I boycott as a matter of course, and which has never received one thin dime from me. I read plenty of (public domain) books on my HP IPAQ ...

Posted Thu, Sep 13, 8:25 a.m.

RE: Chuck, you forgot: Ivan, turn on your cookies and you'll only have to do that once. Sorry, their copy isn't even that valuable to me.

Posted Thu, Sep 13, 5:38 a.m.

Chuck, you forgot: That the stupid stupid stupid stupid Oregonian continues to insist that you enter your zip code, your year of birth (i.e., 1965), and your gender before allowing you to proceed. I just got sick and tired of entering "12345,""1965,"and "F" (which in my mind stands for something ...

Posted Tue, Jul 17, 7:38 a.m.

Who cares, Casey?: She's a talking head on TV like tens of thousands of talking heads on TV. If this is news, my name is Frank Blethen. If this is the best you can do, I give Crosscut till the end of the year.

Posted Thu, Jun 14, 9:05 a.m.

Glacier, Glacier, GLACIER!: No Sound cleanup program will be worth a pitcher of warm spit if it allows Glacier Sand and Gravel to strip-mine Maury Island, with their dock in the middle of a designated Marine Reserve, and barge the gravel to who-knows-where. Even by Glacier's own spillage projections, scientists ...

Posted Mon, Jun 4, 2:36 p.m.

RE: ead Egan free: Chuck: The problem is that bad journalism costs money to create, too, and the NY Times charges plenty for bad journalism (the bumbling Brooks, the execrable Tierney, the clueless Kristof, the superficial Dowd, and the abominable flat-earth Friedman). Why would any thinking person subsidize a financial ...