David Brewster

The latest setback in this long saga happened earlier this month when an effort to modify the legislative permission to impose a 0.1 percent increase in sales taxes died in the House Finance committee.

One of the ways to assess a State of the City address is to note the dogs that didn't bark.

Guterson's first novel in 10 years. As usual, he sets his story close to his heart and lived experience.

Rather than seeing these three departures as a sign of abandoning city hall reporting, the reality is there is a lot of churn in local media.

It's an encouraging sign that a wealthy tech person as successful and energized as Jonathan Sposato would wade in and return an important media product to local ownership (he says he will include future investors). But the heyday of regional lifestyle magazines may have passed.

Steeped in D.C. Democratic politics, Biden seems more intent on serving various interest-group causes, if only in speeches and kitchen-sink legislation that can't make it to his desk.

Things are a-changing in the City...

A Conservative columnist gloats: "It turns out that Jayapal’s master plan, which endeared her to progressives at the time, was a disaster of epic proportions for the Democrats."

Civic organizations once grew in clusters as Seattle aspired to be a modern, pace-setting city. Can that happen again?

Reviewing a later book, the journalist Michael Kinsley (a Morris-like sensibility), noted Morris's neoconservative aspects "but with generosity and good will." There are always lots of "saints and sinners" in his histories.