Stories for Jan. 22, 2008

Would lobbyists lobby against a requirement that they be called lobbyists?

Last Thursday, Jan. 17, I traveled to Olympia to support a University of Washington branch campus for my luminous, blue-collar City on a Hill, otherwise known as the "Athens of Puget Sound." I speak, of course, of Everett, Wash. Doubters and dilettantes guffaw, but I won't cease comparing Everett to Athens until Olympia's 964 registered lobbyists stop calling themselves "The Third House."

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Seattle is home to one of the nation's best film critics

A couple of nights ago, I saw There Will Be Blood, a grim, and undeniably powerful movie about a California oil man. It stars Daniel Day-Lewis. I always measure the power of a movie if I wake up the next day and think about it. And when that happens, I often seek insights from the Post-Intelligencer's William Arnold. I wasn't disappointed.

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