Posted Wed, Feb 8, 5:20 p.m.

McKenna did a lot of damage to his reputation with "soft Democrats" by signing onto the lawsuit against the healthcare bill. It will be interesting to see if he recovers from that. For me personally it will likely boil down to how far the the right he is from me ...

Posted Sat, Jan 15, 9:14 a.m.

So ivan once again you both miss and prove the main point of this piece. I never said or insinuated that the “union exists to protect incompetents”. I said it was an unintended consequence of using seniority as the only metric when deciding on a RIF. I am well aware ...

Posted Thu, Jan 13, 6:49 a.m.

Wow ivan and eyesopen way to just go and fully illustrate the kind of irrational response Jordan laments. Why the attacks on seniority? Because while no one honestly believes that the seniority provisions were put in place to protect bad teachers that is one of the consequences. Every school has ...

Posted Tue, Nov 23, 11:05 a.m.

I would hardly describe setting minimum standards and requiring full participation as "running the show". So dbreneman please elaborate.

Posted Tue, Nov 23, 9:01 a.m.

Harris, I think a big part of the problem is that Crosscut pretty much leaves it up to the reader to distinguish which pieces are "News", "Analysis", and "Opinion". When you couple that with the perception that any piece which doesn't conform to one's world view is "biased" it's understandable ...

Posted Thu, Nov 11, 9:25 a.m.

I can't help but think that Rossi's biggest mistake was in challenging the close 2004 election. Rather than graciously accepting defeat in an election, which was overseen by a Republican Secretary of State, and coming back for a rematch he chose to cry foul and engage in a lengthy court ...

Posted Thu, Nov 11, 8:49 a.m.

Nice Eulogy Mike and well said Knute. Not only did Niehaus "love the damn game" he did so in a way that was infectious. After the unpleasantness of the 94 season, I swore off baseball forever. Not being able to quit cold turkey I still listened to games on the ...

Posted Wed, Oct 27, 1 p.m.

I know it's almost Halloween, but please stop with the BS scare tactics. Unless you've got data that shows states without state liquor stores have statistically significant higher alcohol related incidents you're just blowing smoke. If the revenue loss turns out to be as bad as expected raising the tax ...

Posted Tue, Oct 26, 8:25 p.m.

btburger, how much of that markup gets eaten up by the overhead from running the state stores?

Posted Sat, Oct 23, 3:49 p.m.

jwglantz makes a great point. I buy a lot of stuff at Costco, but I don't buy wine there. I buy ~95% of my wine from a small shop in the neighborhood. The owner knows my palate and is always happy to recommend something new. While I'm sure his prices ...

Posted Sat, Oct 23, 3:09 p.m.

Um guys is this the best you can do? Really? Rather than printing the pro and opposition statements verbatim, why not do a little digging and provide your readers with some information we can't get from the voter's guide. For example, how much if any savings on utility bills are ...

Posted Sun, Oct 17, 4:47 p.m.

--Re Cell Phones The guys at 583 blogging for the ny times had a fairly interesting take on this. http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/14/bypassed-cellphones-biased-polls/ I've also wondered about under reporting due to cell phones and just general disinterest. We still have a land line but never pick up the phone unless we recognize the ...

Posted Sun, Oct 17, 3:20 p.m.

I can't help but think that the varied results for Washington's races are mostly a result of how likely voters are decided and what if any adjustments are made to each polling firm's formulas to reflect the fact that much of the state votes by mail. My gut feeling is ...

Posted Sun, Oct 17, 9:58 a.m.

It's interesting that you bring up the problem with the debt without even mentioning the Bush Tax cuts or the $700 billion we could save by allowing the cuts for the top two brackets to expire. Instead you decide to go after the home mortgage deduction with a zeal that ...

Posted Sat, Sep 4, 10:50 a.m.

@Rhonwyn I couldn't agree with you more about the district's new "Math" program. Please remember that it was the school board as much if not more than Goodloe-Johnson who brought this on us. The vote was as Follows: Voting for the "Discovering Math" series: Peter Maier, Cheryl Chow, Steve Sundquist, ...

Posted Fri, Sep 3, 11:42 a.m.

Why can't MOHAI just tell McGinn to STFU? I'm sure they would have the support of the taxpayers and a good bit of the Council if they did. They negotiated the deal with the state and will be doing their own fund-raising for the move, so I'm missing what leverage ...

Posted Wed, Aug 11, 7:19 a.m.

This has all the appeal of cable television's business model. For a high fee I can get a ton of garbage I don't want (shopping channels, public access channels, expensive studies to find out if garbage stinks) and then I have to pay extra fees to get anything decent (HBO, ...

Posted Sat, Aug 7, 2:41 p.m.

Yes but that 'sabotage' can backfire. Point in case I know several people who, despite thinking that Nichols was the least offensive candidate in the last mayoral race, voted for McGinn in the primary. Their rational was that a Nichols/McGinn race would pull Nichols away from "the developers". While there's ...

Posted Wed, Mar 17, 4:05 p.m.

And finally a whopping 64 percent believe lawmakers "should not suspend obstacles to raising taxes such as the supermajority requirement because taxes should be difficult to raise." Gee whiz! What a shock! Next you'll be pointing out that vast majorities believe beer and pizza shouldn't make you fat. Making it ...