Midday Scan: Police dodging; Legislature pockets school funds; Newt and NW
Do the police understand? A question, perhaps. But no question that the Washington Legislature knew what it was doing when it rerouted federal money for teachers' jobs.
Peter Jackson
Peter Jackson is the former editorial-page editor of the Everett Herald. Follow him on Twitter @phardinjackson
Latest work
Midday Scan: Special session flickers out; Bipartisan medicare reform?; The Barefoot Bandit's PTSD
The special session ends - not with a bang, but a whimper; Sen. Wyden, D-Ore., proposes a (gasp!) bipartisan Medicare plan; Psychologists diagnose Colton Harris-Moore with a shopping list of problems.
Midday Scan: Boeing's early Christmas present; Seattle Schools' debt crisis; Oregon's newest celebrity
Boeing scores big with its 737 MAX; Seattle Schools gets caught with its hand in the $50 million cookie jar; Oregon goes gaga over a studly young gray wolf.
Politics
Midday Scan: Inslee's inconvenient truth; Locke tells truth in China; school's junk food policy doubted
The election is nearly a year away, but the Inslee campaign for governor already looks like a sure loser against Rob McKenna. Should Inslee quit Congress to try to pull it out? And, there is almost equal doubt about the effectiveness of the Seattle Public Schools' stance against junk food in high sc