Who is Endorsing Whom in Seattle’s 2021 August 3rd Primary?

Catching up with the latest organizational endorsements for the August 3rd, 2021 Primary for Seattle
Jul 25, 2021

Seattle’s Grand Rock-Throwing Experiment: Will Our Actual Virtue Exceed Our Desire to Signal It?

If you wanted to design a real-life test to figure out if a civic leader’s actual virtue exceeds their desire to signal it, you could hardly do better than the life-and-death experiment playing out on I-5 right now.
Jul 20, 2021

The Stranger’s Political Endorsements Have Been Disastrous for Seattle

The Stranger’s recommendations have occupied the key policy setting positions in Seattle, other than mayor, for quite some time. They’re no longer the outsiders; they’re the insiders. If you love the Seattle City Council, you should follow The Stranger’s endorsements yet again.
Jul 15, 2021

Ten Reasons I’m Not Voting for Lorena González as Seattle’s Next Mayor

When major outcome indicators are all moving in the wrong direction, and the process which generates these outcomes remains utterly broken for years, and even political allies describe the body one leads as dysfunctional, one should not get a promotion to an even higher position of responsibility.
Jul 13, 2021

Internet Consensus Is Not Truth

How do you know what’s true? Do you have enough healthy, respectful dissent in your information diet?
May 28, 2021

Regulated Capitalism Wins Again

Thought experiment: Should neo-Marxists be forced to wait until a Socialist economy delivers a vaccine?
Feb 28, 2021

Seattle, Open The Schools.

It’s time to put kids first. We need to have more urgency. We are imposing massive harm on an entire generation of school kids. We are inflicting the most harm on the least vulnerable to the virus, and to the most disadvantaged communities.
Feb 23, 2021

$3 Million in Spending… For What, Precisely?

What’s happened to the $3 million that City Council allocated for research to feed into participatory budgeting?
Feb 9, 2021