In Washington alone, it's estimated tax credits could provide help for 60,000 children, with checks averaging $423 per family each month.

Similarly, breaking the tech giants into pieces, particularly Google and Facebook, would allow innovators to emerge from among the pieces to create new products and new technologies -- precisely what followed AT&T’s breakup.

Delta has expert COVID-watchers pacing uneasily. Here’s why: it appears to have done the best job yet of stitching together higher transmissibility and greater vaccine evasiveness.

What is the big Paris-size vision for a new Seattle -- for a city that works better, spreads its wealth more equitably and is built to thrive during the challenges ahead? And more important -- where is the leadership -- people who aren't just selling themselves as mitigators, but who have a vision for the extraordinary region this can be?

We embarked on what we envisioned as a lark; an exotic adventure. It turned out to be far more.