Peter Jackson
Peter Jackson is the former editorial-page editor of the Everett Herald. Follow him on Twitter @phardinjackson
Latest work
Microsoft, Yahoo, and betrayal in China
The two companies have been walking a not-so-fine line as they tap into an enormous but ethically challenged mainland Internet market. Yahoo, especially, has been deferential. Maybe their merger should have conditions.
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
The Lazy B's blue funk descends
In the Jet County, they're expending a lot of energy bemoaning Boeing's failure to win a big Air Force contract. There's not much locals can do about that. But a university, that's another matter.