Peter Jackson is the former editorial-page editor of the Everett Herald. Follow him on Twitter @phardinjackson
In Sunday's Everett Herald, columnist Julie Muhlstein pays tribute [http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20071230/NEWS01/696550696/0/NEWS] to the recently razed 25th Street Market, a quasi-Third Place and community landmark. Muhlstein's vivid portrait throws into relief the 25th Street Market's apparent
Snohomish County's new elected sheriff is African-American, which is worth noting, hopefully, only for a moment.
Last Thursday, Jan. 17, I traveled to Olympia to support a University of Washington branch campus for my luminous, blue-collar City on a Hill, otherwise known as the "Athens of Puget Sound." I speak, of course, of Everett, Wash. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everett,_Washington] Doubters and diletta
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
