Obama's bipartisan commission on the deficit provides a blueprint for how the state could deal with its serious funding problems in a comprehensive, pragmatic way.
His calling of the game was often better than the Mariners' game itself. If he had broadcast in a major market, he might have been a Hall of Famer sooner.
The president tends toward a centrist, pragmatic approach to politics, but he also was schooled by the hard-knuckled pols of Chicago. So which Obama will come foward as he deals with the newly victorious Tea Party insurgents?
A look at new Census data shows the effects of gentrification and new urbanist planning for the region, with families and poor people fleeing to the south of Seattle.
A survey done with the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce finds that far more companies here expect to add jobs than make cuts, and most of the new opportunities will be with mid-sized companies.
Republicans are planning to give the president an exercise in trial by congressional hearing. A poll question seemed designed to go along with their premise that his administration has run amok.