Posted Thu, Apr 26, 3:47 p.m.

One expects a judge to be more articulate, and to present more convincing reasons justifying his conclusion. But he has life tenure.

Posted Fri, Apr 13, 12:19 a.m.

Ah Judy, you still have a driver's license, right? You share a car with your partner/housemate. If one of you conspicuously didn't renew the license and expected the other to do all the driving, how would that be? I drive, I transport others sometimes. Better when they are competent and ...

Posted Wed, Mar 28, 9:18 p.m.

Roger -- From whom should your developer friends borrow, if not from large banks? Surely developers are well represented among the "1%" -- how should THEY combat their greed? Preach ON!!!

Posted Thu, Mar 22, 1:01 p.m.

The study doesn't measure stress. It identifies the causes of stress and subjectively quantifies the unmeasured stress which they create. Whether the people in Cleveland are actually less stressed than we in Seattle wasn't addressed at all. This is merely an inference from some statistics. Would YOU be less stressed ...

Posted Tue, Mar 13, 3:01 p.m.

Had he resigned a few days earlier a special election would have been possible. Instead he did his best to make sure that his constituents will be represented by NOBODY for the next ten months. Partisan rants aside, that was tacky.

Posted Tue, Mar 13, 1:23 p.m.

The analogy is flawed. Inslee timed his resignation carefully, so that his post would remain vacant until December -- the Constitution forbids selection of House members other than by election and Inslee waited until after the deadline for a special election. When Palin resigned, her successor replaced her. Inslee timed ...

Posted Mon, Mar 12, 6:37 p.m.

When Sarah Palin resigned as governor of Alaska, someone else succeeded her. Alaska had a governor at all times. When Jay Inslee resigned, he waited until there could not be a special election to succeed him. Had he cared about his district he would have resigned a day or so ...

Posted Sat, Feb 25, 10:18 p.m.

If Obama sincerely believes that DOMA is unconstitutional, why is Edie Windsor suing the federal government? Edie was forced to pay $350,000 in estate taxes for property she inherited from her wife. (They had married in Massachusetts.) Federal estate tax law doesn't tax property inherited by a spouse. Mrs. Windsor ...

Posted Sat, Feb 4, 2:55 p.m.

The poorest Washingtonians spend most of their money on rent and groceries, which are exempt from the sales tax. Sure our cigarette taxes are among the highest, is lower tobacco taxes the reform which Mother Jones and its readers seek? Should taxes on gasoline be reduced so that the poor ...

Posted Thu, Jan 12, 2:19 p.m.

This is disappointing, but will it be evaluated in context? Four years ago, Senator Barack Obama allowed his words, even his voice to be used in robo-calls supporting Proposition 8 against marriage equality. Will the partisans who castigate McKenna acknowledge Obama's infamous participation in the California campaign?

Posted Tue, Dec 27, 9:30 a.m.

@eddiew -- Nickels never created a "Bikes and Buses" lane like the ones on 15th Ave. W in Interbay. The post-Road Diet 2-lane Dexter Avenue is unparalleled. What of those odd green paved spaces? Nickels earned his 2009 third-place finish. Maybe McGinn will do as well in 2013.

Posted Mon, Dec 26, 1:24 p.m.

Widespread generalized antagonism to militant cyclers began with "Critical Mass" lawlessness and has risen steadily throughout the term of the current overreaching Mayor. If his successor embraces a more balanced transportation policy, attitudes will moderate. Seattle will never be as flat as Copenhagen nor as poor as Maoist Beijing and ...

Posted Tue, Dec 20, 4:53 p.m.

This is such a generic argument, it seems the author was familiar with none of the specifics of the Roosevelt fight. There is no concept of the "Demand" component of "supply and demand" which is more dynamic than Valdez implies. The only part of this article which couldn't have been ...

Posted Sun, Dec 4, 12:22 a.m.

Read the story. When tolls went from $6 to $8 in 2008 there was also a decline in car traffic. "But that decline was temporary. PATH ridership also rose after the toll increase, but fell in 2009, largely because of the economy, before rebounding somewhat in 2010." We should expect ...

Posted Thu, Nov 24, 2:43 p.m.

Kitzhaber on Capital Punishment: "In my mind, it is a perversion of justice. I refuse to be a part of this compromised and inequitable system any longer." This issue impacts a handful of people. His subordinates continue to enforce cannabis prohibition, which is also "a perversion of justice. . . ...

Posted Tue, Nov 22, 7:39 p.m.

@afreeman -- Be careful! Seattle (unlilke London) already has miles & miles of streets without sidewalks, mostly without painted pavement. Those who live there don't like it much. But you're on to something. Hans Monderman (linked from your link) believed that too much signage and pavement paint distracts drivers from ...

Posted Tue, Nov 22, 2:57 p.m.

GaryP -- Local taxes like those you've posted are an incentive for employers to move and for employees to lie. Transit riders (as such) pay a mere fourth of the system's operating costs, none of the capital costs. Who else is subsidized to such an extent?

Posted Wed, Nov 16, 9:04 p.m.

So much of Ballard has been paved in the past several years, in the name of Density. Rain gardens in areas with hardpan soils, which includes much of Ballard, are unsuitable for these because they don't percolate. There has been a high incidence of failure, standing water (good for mosquitoes, ...

Posted Sun, Nov 13, 4:06 p.m.

The principal beneficiaries of tearing down the Viaduct are owners of proximate downtown real estate? Who would have guessed?

Posted Thu, Nov 10, 12:39 a.m.

Ohio Governor John Kasich issued a statement late Tuesday night, which read in part, "Though I would have preferred a different outcome tonight, the people of Ohio have spoken and I respect their decision. This is from a Cincinnati TV station, at http://www.local12.com/news/local/story/Ohio-Voters-Overwhelmingly-Reject-Issue-Two/2ymromy-CE-vw-CBVV-_iQ.cspx The subject was the vote by Ohio ...

Posted Mon, Nov 7, 5:47 p.m.

Capital gains income is the most volatile component of federal income tax revenue, booming in the good times and tanking during times like these. State revenues are already too sensitive to the economic climate -- this would yoke them to the stock market. Hasn't this also been the experience of ...

Posted Tue, Nov 1, 7:11 p.m.

@joolian -- they could have run a property tax increase, like Bridging The Gap. Not the fairest solution, but better than the $60 Car Tabs "flat tax". After a NO vote this will be back as an option.

Posted Sat, Mar 19, 9:56 p.m.

I, too, am willing to pay for the New York Times. When it was only a paper product, and now, I could buy one. I'm happy to do this again, on-line, but the subscription-only pricing scheme is offensive. Newspapers rose to prominence by making their products widely and cheaply available ...