Posted Mon, Dec 27, 3:11 p.m.

Dick, you're going to have to place perhaps 200,000 people from eastern washington over into a west side district somewhere, as the House districts will be about 670,000 people each.

Posted Tue, Jan 5, 10:54 a.m.

Obviously you haven't spent enough time around Greek men

Posted Tue, Jun 16, 9:03 a.m.

Ten Things a Spokanite Can't Say in Seattle 1, My friggin' commute is 12 minutes of each day I'll never get back. 2, Forget Californians, it's those Montanans who are really pains in the rear. 3, Actually, northern Idaho is quite lovely, except for the Seattlites building McMansions on the ...

Posted Tue, Jun 9, 2:32 p.m.

this has been a truly excellent discussion by people who really understand the issues. My two cents is that the mass media of the future will be highly partisan and very rough-and-tumble, with liberal and conservative organs demonizing their opposites and providing their target audience exactly what it wants to ...

Posted Thu, Jun 4, 8:08 a.m.

anyone who thinks seattle is ``punished'' in the Legislature is not paying close attention. Money follows political power, always has and always will. If you study the appropriation of unencumbered money, Seattle and King County always get their fair share and usually much more. It is only in the area ...

Posted Wed, May 13, 7:42 a.m.

dear cousin mdhays, can't believe we have to belabor the obvious. in 2007, spokane was the 4th busiest destination for flights from sea-tac, with 8,632 flights, one step behind portland. that same year, there were 5,180 flights from sea-tac to vancouver. That's just one measure. any large puget sound businesses ...

Posted Tue, May 12, 6:47 p.m.

Simple tourism (i.e. I see pretty things in another place) would be the lowest use of a bullet train. The biggest users of mass transit are people traveling on business and people traveling to visit family and friends. Spokane (which is in a metro area of 600,000 people, about triple ...

Posted Tue, May 12, 9:41 a.m.

I'm guessing you'd have quite a bit more passenger traffic on a train between seattle and spokane than a train between seattle and vancouver, b.c. The family and business connections are quite a bit more developed across the state than they are across an international border. For instance, just imagine ...

Posted Tue, Mar 3, 1:11 p.m.

As one who has lived in this region a long time, I'd expand the notion of Seattle Nice into a more general ``Northwest Nice.'' The same polite but standoffish attitude described in the article is present in Eastern Washington, northern Idaho and Montana. I always attributed it to a social ...

Posted Thu, Feb 19, 12:52 p.m.

When I use the term diversity, I am speaking about people from different ethnic, racial and socio-economic backgrounds. Debbalee seems to be operating from an outdated view of central Washington, which in the 2010 census will become majority-minority. That is diversity. I'm not sure how ``inclusiveness'' can be measured, and ...

Posted Thu, Feb 19, 9:06 a.m.

Kimberly, the comments about whiteness really extend throughout the Northwest, and this one major reason that our ``progessiveness'' really seems more like an affectation than reality. It's telling that the only parts of Washington and Oregon that are truly diverse are the Yakima and Columbia valleys of Washington, where the ...

Posted Mon, Feb 9, 1:37 p.m.

all together now: seattle sucks! a content spokanite.

Posted Fri, Feb 6, 8:50 a.m.

Knute, a defender of the suburbs! You never cease to amaze me. I've lived on the north side of Chicago and in the distant suburbs of Sacramento and i would maintain that the people and experiences were largely the same in both places. Inner city snobs like to put down ...

Posted Sat, Jan 31, 2:12 p.m.

anytime you see the letters ``C-E-O'' attached to someone's name, you can be pretty sure they care about nothing but their own amusement and advancement.

Posted Thu, Jan 29, 3:11 p.m.

We clearly are headed to a post-journalism age when truth and objectivity will be diminished in value and sensationalism and pandering will be everything. We've been heading this way for a long time, and there is no sign that the general public objects. Reporters will likely end up in advocacy ...

Posted Tue, Jan 27, 2:45 p.m.

I'm thinking that renaming Rainier as Mount Bush Iⅈ might put us on the cutting edge, and do away with all that British stuff. And the state of Washington should definitely be renamed. We could continue with the presidential theme and try Lincoln. Or we could proclaim our business friendliness ...