Stories for Dec. 28, 2009

Publisher's Page: Thanks for helping in 2009

Mon, Dec 28, 10:24 p.m.

Happy New Year! We very much appreciate your help in our year-end drive. Even if you missed the tax deadline for 2009, please consider making a tax-deductible donation and becoming a charter member. Also, some news about changes in staff and for the coming year.

Best of 2009: Here's what schools accountability looks like

Mon, Dec 28, 9:42 p.m.

By Dick Lilly

It's time to put some teeth into one of education's over-used buzzwords. What's needed are proper testing and real consequences for failure.

Best of 2009: If sturgeon could talk

Mon, Dec 28, 5:41 p.m.

By Daniel Jack Chasan

A short history of Lake Washington, as told to our author by one very long fish

In praise of 'Rotten Old Supermarkets'

Mon, Dec 28, 11:04 a.m.

By Feliks Banel

As Wallingford's signature neon sign rises anew at QFC, a short reflection on the glory days of post-war grocery shopping.

Best of 2009: Peter Donnelly and the Seattle way of arts

Mon, Dec 28, 6 a.m.

By David Brewster

We've followed the have-it-all mode for building the arts rapidly, with many gains and tradeoffs. What will it be like After Donnelly (A.D.)?

Best of 2009: The 'socialized medicine' red herring

Mon, Dec 28, 6 a.m.

By Tom Luce

An experienced user and administrator of the British health care system predicts that nothing like government-run health care is likely to come to the U.S., nor should it. If anything, our reform model might better imitate France's.

Best of 2009: Ted Kennedy and the perils of liberal fundamentalism

Mon, Dec 28, 2 a.m.

By Hubert G. Locke

If liberalism dies with its great champion, it will be because of many liberals' self-righteous demand for purity in policy. Kennedy's life taught us otherwise.

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