Rhododendrons? Sure.
‘Just a minute, I’ll ring the president for you.” Those words from the White House operator serve as introduction to a pair of fascinating (to me, anyway) bits of Washington state political history discovered among the hours of recordings made by former President Lyndon Johnson.
I was ready to produce the annual tradition known affectionately as “The Winners and Losers List” back in December, when Gov. Chris Gregoire first directed the Legislature to respond to the annual tradition known affectionately as “The Budget Crisis.”
It isn’t a surprise that the Seattle Mariners oppose sharing the South of Downtown neighborhood with a proposed basketball-hockey arena.
Just because state senators are elected doesn’t mean they can do whatever they want. So when Sen. Pam Roach repeatedly abused and harassed staff members she was sanctioned.
I’m not sure Joe Zarelli would think it is such a good idea to have members of the state Senate sit in alphabetical order rather than by party, as former Sen. Bill Finkbeiner suggested this week.
It’s a buzz phrase that all sides of the education reform debate have now, that any changes must be “research-based.”
Washington’s frustrated governor says she will employ a new strategy to pressure state lawmakers to finish the budget and get out of Olympia.
Here’s how it is supposed to work.
What does Matt Lauer have that we don’t have?
The origin myth for one of the world’s most famous city landmarks involves a place mat and a doodle. Knute Berger, author of “Space Needle – The Spirit of Seattle,” to be released next month, said hotel exec Eddie Carlson indeed had his "Restaurant in the Sky" moment in Germany. But Berger discovered that the idea of a tower and even a restaurant had been in the air for a while.
I’ll take gains where I can find them. Like when the University of Washington Tacoma decided to change the name for its plan to reclaim the swath of the old railroad tracks through campus.
At what point does our need to understand the horrific acts attributed to Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales deteriorate into a need to absolve?
Can one person take on the state’s governmental and political establishment over the recent redrawing of the state’s legislative and congressional boundaries?
I’ve nothing against Derek Kilmer.
While anti-school reform elements among teachers and parents have been winning the rhetoric battle, they’ve been losing the legislative war.
If you don’t know by now that daylight-saving time started this morning, you are already late for church.
The thing about bloodless coups like the one that swept through the state Senate last week is that they jostle one of the underpinnings of a legislative body – the unwritten rule that once you join a team you stay on that team.
Every two years a new Republican candidate would step forward, convinced they could knock off the giant if only the voters knew the truth.
Today we feature so-so answers to your super questions about supermajorities, Super Tuesday and SuperSonics.
Like bikes? There’s a plate for that.
If they ever make a movie about Washington’s use of tax dollars to attract movie makers to the state, it should be a vampire movie.
Congratulations Seattle, you’re now Oklahoma City.
When it comes to its relationship with the federal government over education policy, Washington state responds better to sticks than carrots.
The increasingly rare “old-timers” often lament the decline of bipartisanship.
Come March 3rd – the good Lord and Rick Santorum willin’ – Washington state Republicans could be somebody in 2012 presidential politics.
This was not a Tacoma City Council agenda that developers of a new building next door to the downtown Elks Lodge wanted to be a part of.
Democrats who control the Washington Legislature have denied that bills to recognize same-gender marriage have been a distraction.
It probably wouldn’t be fair to say that the University of Washington Tacoma is backpedaling on designs for its portion of the Prairie Line Trail (even though the pun is pretty darned tempting).
After watching a presentation Monday by architects and designers from the international firm Atelier Dreiseitl, I guess I was supposed to echo the oooohs and aaaaahs of University of Washington Tacoma staff.
It was a challenge worthy of the PBS series “History Detectives.”
The snow is gone for now, except perhaps for the parking lot piles that will likely remain until Easter ... of 2013.
Americans for Prosperity Washington has very good lawyers. So good, in fact, that it found nearly every loophole in state campaign disclosure law to allow the conservative group to conduct a stealth attack against 13 Democratic legislators just before the 2010 election.
Newt Gingrich has accomplished something I didn’t think was possible.
Last week’s hearing on House Bill 2251 didn’t take long, a few minutes to explain that it was a simple bill to repeal a law ruled unconstitutional nearly four decades ago.
When the project was put into motion, there were no budget problems in the City of Tacoma. There were no threats of layoffs of police officers and fire fighters. No plans to dissolve four engine companies, to close two fire stations, to reduce service in two others.
Democrats and self-described progressives who don’t like the initiative process don’t know their history.
I guess when you’re more than three years into a period of economic doldrums, all of the easy analogies have been taken.
What’s worse than a major college football team having a defensive coordinator who makes more than $650,000 a year?
Call it the fool us once, fool us twice section of Washington Supreme Court Justice Debra Stephens’ opinion in the landmark case known as McCleary.
If there’s one thing regular folks know about post-census redistricting, it’s that gerrymandering is bad.
Like any other professional group or secret society, the Washington Legislature has its own terminology.
And now, for the attention-span challenged, the year just finished in 660 words.
Here’s one guy’s chronological list of the top 10 political stories of 2011 (with two of them suggesting that 2012 won’t be as compelling as it could be).
Clearly I misunderstood.
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