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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

Comeuppance Time for Incumbents

Of the three Seattle City Council seats up for election, Position 9, the at-large seat currently held by council president Sara Nelson, seems most threatened. Challenger Dionne Foster, a city policy advisor, scored 54 percent to Nelson’s 39 percent.
blog

Does this Flood of Political Mailers Make any Sense?

The mailers are a sure way to reach voters but, given escalating prices of postage and printing, those flyers don’t come cheap.
blog

Garbage In, Garbage Out: a Thank You for Good Service

Somehow you, the intrepid garbageman, must navigate this difficult couple of blocks in an over-sized truck.
Politics

The Epstein Swamp Trump Is Caught In

If ever a politician shared in a debacle of his own making, it is Donald Trump. The man who managed to escape time after time, has landed in a...
blog

What You Need to Know About the August 5 Primaries

The most contentious primary race is likely the contest for Seattle city attorney. Incumbent Ann Davison, who once ran for state office as a Republican, is falling behind three challengers in fundraising.
Histories

Standing Strong: America has been Built by Immigrants

Immigration to America has strong ties to innovation. A stunning 44 percent of the nation’s medical scientists are foreign born, as are 42 percent of software developers.
Books

Notes on a Different Kind of Leadership: Jacinda Ardern’s New Zealand

The best-selling book is a page-turner filled with confidences and self-effacing humor.  Awarded dual fellowships at Harvard, Ardern continues to teach there and advocate for a new kind of leadership -- one she calls “both caring and effective.”
People

A Shamefully Neglected Park: No Way to Honor a Local Hero

His battle on behalf of the houseboats restored Pettus’ reputation and made him into a hero. Mayor Charles Royer designated March 7,1982 as Terry Pettus Day. The city set aside the street end just south of the houseboats as Terry Pettus Park in 1985.
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.
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