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Jean Godden

Jean Godden wrote columns first for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and late for the Seattle Times. In 2002, she quit to run for City Council where she served for 12 years. Since then she published a book of city stories titled “Citizen Jean.” She is now co-host of The Bridge aired on community station KMGP at 101.1 FM. You can email tips and comments to Jean at jgodden@blarg.net.
Books

A Northwest Graphic Novelist Charts Her Long Journey Home

The author came to believe that to find peace, she’d have to return home and face her ghosts. Just months past her 30th birthday, she began her emotional expedition into her family’s past. It took Tessa nearly ten years to research and tell the story of her family’s three generations.
Cities

New Energy: Georgetown Steam Plant as a New Creative Center?

Like a diamond in the rough, the plant brings with it not only its awesome past history but an imagined present.
Food

Care and Feeding: Writing about Food has Never been more Mainstream

It is into this sensuous food era that Laurie Woolever takes us with her memoir. An aspiring food writer, she takes a job co-authoring a cookbook with celebrity chef/bad boy Mario Batali.
Politics

And They’re In: Who’s Filed to Run in This Year’s Local Elections

When filing closed last week, voters received a look at candidates for this year’s local elections; none appeared far from the mainstream. Ballots will be sent July 18 for the Aug. 5 primary.
Politics

Baby Boomer: Trump’s Plan for us to Procreate

If increasing births is a Trump aim, it is hard to imagine worse incentives for having babies than the contradictory actions of the Trump administration, slashing pro-family spending.
Books

Melinda Gates’ Next Chapter

Chances are that many who rushed out to buy Melinda French Gates’ new book, The Next Day: Transitions, Change and Moving Forward expected to learn gossipy details about her...
Politics

Democracy Vouchers: Will Voters Renew the Experiment?

The “Honest Elections” promise of “keeping big wealth out of politics” was thus not fully realized. It fell victim to the Citizens United decision that permits PACs to spend unlimited amounts.
Politics

America is Losing its Superpower: The World’s Trust

People are angry at Trump’s leadership. Polls confirm that dissatisfaction, showing his numbers headed down. The same is true about public confidence in government. The trust that holds our democracy together is threatened as never before.
Books

Review: Facebook’s Careless People

Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg are the Careless People who call to mind The Great Gatsby’s Tom and Daisy who “smash up things and creatures and then retreat back to their money and vast carelessness and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
blog

Should You Flee America?

The truth is that the opposition can only win if it remains fully in the game. This, of course, brings up the question: what can the average individual do besides shudder?
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