Washington’s tax system is broken. Ever since a plan to collect revenue more progressively backfired in the 1930s – when…
Alaska’s self-destructing political firecracker, Sarah Palin, generated plenty of buzz — and even more head scratching — during the July…
Here’s some happy news: Most felonies are going down in King County. The one glaring exception: Burglary, where the increase,…
Bradwell Elementary School in Chicago has announced that 44 of its 77 students will not pass 8th grade this year,…
Voting shouldn’t be hard. That simple four word sentence is a complaint I repeatedly hear from people when I ask…
So long, Washington Mutual, also known as WaMu. Over the past few weeks the familiar yellow and blue WaMu signs…
A chance to change King County When it comes to politics, do voters around here still want change? We’ll know…
When do you know that a crime is serious?
When it is seriously punished. A convict doing life without parole obviously did something more serious than someone doing 90 days in county lockup.
With summer just around the corner, there are many reasons to celebrate. Redmond schools just recently saluted the Class of…
Graduation is right around the corner, marking the time when Redmond’s talented teenagers will enter the “real world.” But as…
This November, voters in King County have a very important choice to make: Who should succeed Ron Sims as the…
Teens today face a problem that is hard to see, but completely tangible. At Redmond High School, money seems to…
Monday is a special day. It’s Memorial Day, when we pause to honor those who died in the nation’s service.
The press around the state has been on Gov. Chris Gregoire’s case recently. From the Seattle Times to the Everett…
The budget axe fell hard in the Lake Washington School District (LWSD), but it did not hit any of the 1,000-plus teachers working in the district.
Bob Herbold became famous at Microsoft for noticing things others overlooked.
He chronicled some of those observations two years ago in one of the better business books of the decade, “Seduced by Success” (McGraw-Hill), which regrettably was not required reading at General Motors and Washington Mutual.
The changing face of downtown will soon be getting a solid boost from the state.
The state will dole out $2 million to pay for needed infrastructure toward the Redmond Central Square city park project as part of its two-year construction budget, which was approved by the Legislature last weekend.
Something wonderfully ironic happened last week at the State Capitol: A sales tax increase of three-tenths of one cent was formally proposed by leading legislators on April 15.
Twittermania is hitting the nation, or should I say, the World Wide Web, by storm.