This year posed some unexpected challenges. After being chosen for the two-year position of council president, I immediately faced hiring an outside investigator to review our department's management-employee relations. That the council president…MORE
Opinion
Answer the people
Tue, 01/02/07
Sally Soriano may have made the most inportant statement of her career as a member of the Seattle School Board when she said the district needs to chage its "window dressing process" of dealing with the public.
The process she is talking…MORE
Op-Ed - 'Bodies' exhibit is unethical
Tue, 01/02/07
When I drove into West Seattle, one of the billboards made me throw up a little, in the back of my throat. Maybe you've seen it? It's the one for Bodies, the Exhibition and it flaunts having "real human bodies."
Now, I didn't almost throw…MORE
Op-Ed - Seattle case before high court
Tue, 12/26/06
What could possibly be the connection between school desegregation and the mystifying phrase "Bong Hits 4 Jesus?" Something critically important, it turns out. Both have spurred legal battles that have risen to the U.S.
MOREOp-Ed - Let's do something about Darfur
Tue, 12/26/06
Today, we are witnessing yet another genocide unfold. In Sudan, the Islamist government based in Khartoum has slaughtered nearly 400,000 black Africans in the country's western Darfur region. Over 2.5 million people have been driven from their…MORE
Other Voices - Do we care about a Darfur solution?
Tue, 12/19/06
Today, we are witnessing yet another genocide unfold. In Sudan, the Islamist government based in Khartoum has slaughtered nearly 400,000 black Africans in the country's western Darfur region. Over 2.5 million people have been driven from their…MORE
Community service awards go to many
Tue, 12/19/06
OK, I was warned but I let bad weather and an earlier commitment get in the way and I missed the Ballard Community Service Awards session last week. I had no idea that this would be one of the events of the year.
There were a lot, like a…MORE