Posted Thu, Mar 15, 11:23 a.m.

"The 9/11 terrorist attacks, which led many to conclude that religion was the culprit." Led many to conclude?

Posted Sun, Jan 22, 4:51 p.m.

The aftermath of the most widespread power outage in recent memory seems an odd time to point out the failures of printed media -- and the ultimate usefulness of electronics. Chances are all those folks sitting in the dark for a couple days were grateful for the redundancy.

Posted Thu, Dec 8, 10:40 p.m.

...standing and cheering for what Gabowker said.

Posted Sat, Nov 19, 8:47 a.m.

Clearly you could say the same about most laws. My point is simply that the Bham law is being widely hailed, in this piece and others, as a successful, publicly accepted solution to a problem, when in fact it's not even close to being implemented yet, and there's no telling ...

Posted Fri, Nov 18, 8:38 p.m.

It's worth noting that the supposed "model" Bellingham plan isn't even in effect yet. It'll be interesting to see how much "buy-in" from the community is actually evident next year, when the law actually does go into effect and people realize -- most of them for the first time -- ...

Posted Mon, Oct 10, 3:39 p.m.

Good grief.

Posted Mon, Jul 4, 1:47 p.m.

Pythagoras: Eloquently put. Seneca: I hope you're wrong. I fear you're right.

Posted Mon, Jul 4, 8:57 a.m.

"If it ain't broke?" Are you serious? Kudos to the writer for having the guts to examine the root problem with America today. Throw in a tossing out of the elitist electoral college and add campaign finance reform and new restrictions on lobbyist, and perhaps America could claim something closer ...

Posted Fri, May 27, 4:59 p.m.

Mud: I feel your pain. iTunes is a trainwreck on PC, at least on my several. There's no amount of cool in any Apple gadget that overcomes that giant roadblock to functionality. Forcing people to use that dysfunctional bloatware to make use of a device is the ultimate in engineering ...

Posted Sat, Apr 16, 1:03 p.m.

Dr. Lemming: Right on.

Posted Sat, Mar 19, 1:45 p.m.

I'd never pay a dime for anything that has to be synced with -- or even billed to -- iTunes, the most dysfunctional glob of bloatware on the planet. It would be more efficient to drive to New York and buy a copy of The Times from a newspaper box. ...

Posted Sat, Mar 12, 5:27 p.m.

You can find academic studies arguing both ways about the silly accident-rise phenomenon. Another study shows accidents increasing when the the clocks fall back in the fall. And in any case, any change in accident rates probably has more to do with people driving (either a.m. or p.m.) in darkened ...

Posted Wed, Mar 2, 2:31 p.m.

Crankyoldlady: Are you honestly suggesting that large campaign donations made by private interests to pursue their own goals through the political process are NOT being made today? Sounds like it. Also, it's ironic that you choose the minimum-wage earner to portray the common man's victim of the purported Big Labor/liberal ...

Posted Thu, Feb 3, 2:51 p.m.

Gee, I dunno. I think the words WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY being part of the logo itself give a subtle hint that it represents a university. I'm going to write the Alumni Association a check for 100K right now. Problem solved.

Posted Thu, Feb 3, 10:20 a.m.

What dkb said. As far as public-institution logos go, this one is pretty good. BTW, Old Main and environs used to appear on a WWU logo back in the 80s, I think. They've been-there, done-that.

Posted Wed, Feb 2, 3:37 p.m.

"This is money that, if the legislature chose to do so, could be spent on our ravaged child protective and health services or even K-12 and higher education." ...or build a Seattle sports stadium that voters rejected. Or pay a state ferry engineer triple whopper secret overtime, along with his ...

Posted Sat, Jan 29, 9:03 p.m.

The water doesn't taste terrible at my house.

Posted Fri, Nov 12, 8:03 a.m.

Won't argue any of these other points, but what a great headline.

Posted Tue, Nov 2, 3:58 p.m.

And when you get tired of searching for timely, comprehensive coverage from heavyweights like FOX TV in that "representative" list, you can always fall back on newsrooms that actually know how to cover elections, and do it better than most online: www.seattletimes.com for local and www.nytimes.com for national.

Posted Thu, Oct 7, 4:30 p.m.

So to "make it work" for a common day-to-day task, you're adding a keyboard (probably powered by a second non-replaceable battery) and a pointing device (do we hear three?) Hey: Maybe you could find a way to hook it all together, with, say, a hinge connecting screen and keyboard, and ...

Posted Thu, Sep 9, 10:02 a.m.

Nicely put. I visted the site a couple years ago for the first time and walked away with similar impressions. It's one of the NPS's better attempts at keeping history alive through a historical site. (Yes, that's a fairly low bar, but still...) Something about the place speaks to you. ...

Posted Fri, Aug 13, 10:01 p.m.

Well, it was news, a long time ago. Your contenion that the wifi hotspot feature is limited to Droid X phones is false. The Palm phones sold by Verizon have the exact same capability and have for a long time. Haven't checked lately, but Verizon a few months ago was ...

Posted Thu, Aug 12, 11:17 a.m.

As to journos deleting posts they disagree with or find offensive: Not sure about PI.com, but it's not possible at the Seattle Times, where writers have no access to the comments section. We not only can't delete comments, we can't see the email addresses that generated them -- even if ...

Posted Mon, Jun 28, 8:13 p.m.

Blackie nails it. Also: What Richards said.

Posted Sun, May 9, 8:34 p.m.

It's just like Berger to help unleash the demon-flood of tyrannosauric malevolence.

Posted Wed, Apr 7, 5:25 p.m.

Have to agree with Steve and Trevor on the "brake on our worst impulses" argument. Clearly in some instances that has been the case, but in others, getting the sign-off by tribes these days too often seems like nothing more than a classic shakedown. Witness the current situation in Whatcom ...

Posted Mon, Dec 28, 5:04 p.m.

Who gives a rip where your tree seller comes from or goes to? You're buying a shrub, not courting a spouse, for God's sake. It's great that you have such passion for your wire-and-plastic bastardization of a tree. But please spare us the plastic-tree-is-environmentally sensitive tripe. Unless you're really concerned ...

Posted Wed, Oct 28, 1:04 p.m.

What happened to the "Red Ink by the Barrel" graphic? Did they take it away when the official nonprofit papers were signed? I sort of miss it.

Posted Mon, Sep 7, 9:42 a.m.

Nice. Pulling a quote from the paper, reading a column and a Web site, and psycho-analyzing the motives of striking workers from your own bubble -- without any apparent knowledge of the previous labor history in the district, which might have played as great a role in the strike as ...

Posted Fri, Jul 31, 10:31 a.m.

What's the source for the story teaser's conclusion that algae blooms in Lake Whatcom are "created by shoreline development?" From what I've read, it might be caused by runoff into the lake that's development-related. And it might be simply the freakish hot weather.

Posted Mon, Jan 12, 1:04 p.m.

The fact that the story drew nary a comment on the Bellingham Herald is more of a comment on the rampant lack of interest in the Bellingham Herald than the football program. A story in the Seattle Times -- a publication where most student athletes at Western hail from -- ...

Posted Fri, Aug 24, 8:31 p.m.

Dunno. What's yours?: "DJ": This is a lot to ask, but please read what I wrote. No sane person is denying the drop in market value of newspapers. The point is that a number assigned by a minority, non-controlling interest as the value of that non-controlling interest has only limited ...

Posted Tue, Aug 21, 12:40 p.m.

Puffing it up: Heath is correct. Relevant facts are there in the original piece, but they in no way support the sky-is-falling lede, let alone justify the smarmy, they're-not-telling-you-the-truth-about-themselves insinuation that somehow seems to be required to drip from every one of these Richards pieces. It's great to have a ...