The roads-and-transit measure, expensive and flawed, is politically reasonable and pulls together the region. Defeat it and you have the same folks who cooked up this one producing Proposition 2. It's hard to see how a wiser expenditure of money is going to be formulated and approved.
Will not run for Seattle mayor in '09. He chooses Harvard over City Hall.
Seattle's blown snowstorm response has revived as a major political issue. It could have been forgotten already, but facts are stubborn things (and it's an election year).
The recent DUI arrests of two politicians reminds us that sooner or later, you screw up and it's time to make amends. But be careful: A badly-handled mea culpa can make things worse.
The latest on Seattle-area politicians in trouble with the law.
