This is "Sunshine Week," a nationwide effort to focus on open government — or the lack of it. The perfect emblem for the issue was posted by Seattle Times political reporter David Postman: a heavily redacted document from Gary Locke's office in 2004. Reminds me of the stuff I used to see in Rick Anderson's in-box at Seattle Weekly.
Me, I don't really get March Madness. I mean, I get it as a journalist and armchair shrink, but I don't get it. But I'm happy to feed your madness. Here's a quick guide to Northwest teams and coverage.
It's an awkward time in the energy business. Coal is plentiful, but coal-gas generation is carbon-spewing, and the body politic won't tolerate that. Wind is promising but might not be enough. In the midst of this transition is Energy Northwest, the public-utility consortium whose customers are still paying for nuclear plants that were never built.