Culture
A love story rooted in the unthinkable
Saccharine greeting cards, gut-binding chocolates. There's a contrived feel to Valentine's Day. Instead, I picture a
Peter Jackson
Peter Jackson is the former editorial-page editor of the Everett Herald. Follow him on Twitter @phardinjackson
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My brief career as a spy with John McCain in China
The senator and presidential candidate comes to Seattle for a fundraiser, prompting barstool memories of the time when an Everett, Wash., kid met up with McCain in 1979 in the Gobi Desert.
Politics
The farm bill: Great news, but hold your nose
"Legislative Victory for Land Conservation," reads the alert from the Land Trust Alliance [http://www.lta.org/]. The e-mail reports sweet news for anyone chafing under the Los Angeles-ization of the Evergreen State: the re-establishment of tax incentives for donated easements to conserve sensitive l
Politics
It's Presidents Day in Washington: So whom can we claim as ours?
Presidents Day evokes a chafe-inducing question: The Northwest has produced a president or two, yes? The reflexive answer – that we're too authentic to churn out presidents and, by the way, California ex-pats hail from Nixon country – is too 20th century. It's time we adopt a president as One of Ou