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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.
Politics

How #MeToo Morphed into #BalanceTonPorc

Part of the backlash against #MeToo comes from virtue exhaustion. Democrats are sick of holding party members to standards that Republicans feel no necessity to meet.
blog

To Have a Democracy, You Have to Let People Vote

State laws are being proposed under the guise of curbing voter fraud. Yet reliable studies have shown there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud. Voter fraud essentially is an illusion, an excuse to clamp down on ballot access and make voting more difficult, especially for minority voters and for young and low-income voters.
People

Women Who Have Shaped Our Region: Let Me Add to the List

The Legacy Washington list of notable women is a most impressive group but the list is far too short. There are dozens who should have also been included, so I’d like to nominate a few.
Books

How to Hand-Publish a Book: A Women’s Writers’ Group Bonds

"Writing While Masked," is well-timed, arriving during Women's History Month. The bad news is that it may be difficult to locate a copy, even though more are being printed.
Books

Tough and Caring: New Book on “Kamala’s Way”

Politicians who make it in San Francisco, know how to win. It's no coincidence that some of the nation's toughest current and former players, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Gov. Gavin Newson, former Sen. Barbara Boxer and Kamala Harris, all have San Francisco roots.
blog

Northwest Congressfolk Team Up to Keep Federal Archives in Seattle

It was a rare display of bipartisan cooperation uniting all but one of the region's congressional representatives. If successful, a reversal would prevent a sale of the building and land and keep precious historical records nearby.
Politics

Women in Government: Progress, but Still a Struggle

welve of President Biden's 28 cabinet and senior adviser picks are women; seven of them minorities, and gender equity doesn't stop there.
Books

New Bio: Eleanor Roosevelt, the “People’s Proxy”

Family ties initially brought Eleanor to Seattle. Anna, her only daughter, and her husband John Boettiger lived and worked here after he was appointed Seattle Post-Intelligencer publisher in the mid 1930s. Anna served as the paper's Women's Page editor.
Cities

How Seattle City Light Made it Through a Texas-Sized Windstorm in 2006

In that Hanukkah Eve windstorm, we heard sad stories about cancelled events and ceremonies, about disabled customers who, without electricity to power elevators, were trapped in dark, heatless multi-storied buildings. Before power was fully restored, 13 people in the region died, mostly by carbon monoxide poisoning .
Humor

S’no Joke: Weather Comes to Seattle

Seattleites have long had a love-hate relationship with snowy weather, just as they did over the weekend when the region was blanketed with shovel-loads of the white stuff. Some Seattleites...
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