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Eric Scigliano

Eric Scigliano has written on varied environmental, cultural and political subjects for many local and national publications. His books include Puget Sound: Sea Between the Mountains, Love War and Circuses (Seeing the Elephant), Michelangelo’s Mountain, Flotsametrics and the Floating World (with Curtis Ebbesmeyer), The Wild Edge, and, newly published, The Big Thaw: Ancient Carbon and a Race to Save the Planet.
Politics

Of Presidential Shootings and Iconic Images

That defiant Trump image seems bound to haunt an already tumultuous campaign season, tilting prospects even further in Trump’s favor.
Trump-Biden Debate

Ten Observations About Where we go After the Debate

If Biden pulls out, qualms about age and decrepitude immediately turn, like Elmer Fudd’s shotgun, back onto Trump. He’s not aging well either.
Trump-Biden Debate

Frail? Certainly. But Command of the Facts

I was pleasantly surprised (starting from very low expectations) how much he recalled and how cogently he recited it. The downside to all the prepping is too much detail and no zingers.
International

What Would a “Serious” Country do about Ukraine?

Run out the clock long enough and there will be no problem, and no independent Ukraine, to worry about. This is at the very least not a serious Republican party. But there is a Democratic component as well.
Business

Hi, I’m Julie, and I Want to Buy Your House: The Institutional Investors Buying Up America’s Homes

Hedge funds, institutional investors, sovereign wealth funds, even Alaska’s state fund have piled into the American housing market, joining and outbidding traditional smaller landlords.
Humor

Your Car’s Too Big!

Don’t want you ’cause your car’s too big. Can’t use you ’cause your car’s too big. I really hate you ’cause your car’s too big!
Politics

An Open Letter to Jill Biden

I’m talking of course about The Question: Should Joe run? Or, Why on Earth is Joe running? In the latter formulation, it’s a question you might be better able to answer than anyone else. And, to put it crudely, you may be the only one who can talk him back from this abyss.
Environment

Saving Seattle’s Heritage Trees (But at the Expense of Losing Many Others?)

Seattle has long tried to preserve its grand old trees. One ironic outcome is that the Heritage Tree Program is now up in the air. We may have saved the largest trees at the cost of thousands of others.
Environment

How Developers Helped Shape Seattle’s New Tree Ordinance

Whether or not park canopy is as threatened as claimed, the new ordinance’s in-lieu fees will provide more funding for planting in parks and along streets, especially in undershaded, underprivileged neighborhoods. Its stringent limits on cutting by homeowners should boost canopy on plots that don’t get redeveloped.
Journalism

Staring into the Abyss: The Seattle Times’ Kafkaesque Subscription System

I tried to give the Times a break. I told its circulation people to switch my daily sub to online-only and save a few bucks on printing and delivery. Oh no, they said, that would kick you up to the (higher) full online rate.
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