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Fred Jarrett

Currently enjoying retirement after a life of public service and a long career, Fred’s been an active participant in our region’s political life for more than five decades. Most recently, Fred led the executive branch of King County government, the King County Executive Leadership Team and the Executive’s Best Run Government Initiative. Previously a state senator, he served four terms in the state House of Representatives, after stints as Mercer Island Mayor and as a city council and school board member. Mr. Jarrett has also had a 35-year career at The Boeing Company.
Politics

Advice for our new King County Executive: Opportunities Abound

The King County Executive owns a bully pulpit in one of the richest and largest jurisdictions in the United States. Go for it!
Politics

The Age of Reason: When Serious People Made us Better

Now our governments remain in the mid-20th Century while our communities, economies, and the world left that century behind decades ago, creating the need for public sector reform.  Our unserious civic culture and political class proved unable to respond.
Cities

Rainier Club: Where Social Engagement has Powered Civic Progress

When our founders established The Rainier Club in 1888, Seattle was still taking shape.
Politics

Lessons from My Five Years on the Public Disclosure Commission

Over the last five years, I’ve watched the agency continue making great strides in transparency for campaign finance through upgrades to online filing, expanded training and outreach capabilities, and clear strategic planning.
Politics

Depressed About our Polarized Country? We’ve Figured it out Before.

It’s not a battle between democracy or authoritarianism.  It’s a contest between two alternative views of how democratic a society should organize itself and the compromises inherent in each.  
Politics

Getting Tough on Repeat Offenders of Public Disclosure Laws

The Public Disclosure Commission has spent the past several years ramping up its enforcement efforts for delinquent filers.
Politics

Making Jazz: How Our Politics Once Worked

There were norms beyond the written constitutions, laws and rules about how politicians interacted to govern a society. 
Books

Meacham’s Lincoln: An Oft-Told Story, Refreshed

Frederick Douglass on Lincoln: “He never shocked prejudices unnecessarily.  Having learned statesmanship while splitting rails, he always used the thin edge of the wedge first – and the fact that he used it at all meant that he would, if need be, use the thick as well as the thin.”   
blog

Sunlight: Making the State’s Public Disclosure Commission Work

The overriding goal is to provide a more complete picture of the activities that affect public policy on everything from public safety to environmental protection.
Politics

How to Make Governments Better Deliver Services

Our current system of budgeting public services is ridiculous. It takes too long and it focuses on spending levels not the quality of the deliverables.
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