Jean Godden

This new book by Sen. Keiser, who has been responsible for much progressive legislation including mandatory paid sick leave and expanded health care protection, stresses the need to build pipelines to help women and people of color run and win so they can help pass landmark laws.

Surprising is the number of Seattle’s “25 best” located in small and even tiny quarters. One locale selected -- Off Alley -- is a Rainier Avenue restaurant that serves continental dishes including fried pig head with preserved cherries and Walla Walla onions, in a 6-by-4-foot room with only 12 seats.

ShotSpotter -- like a persistent door-to-door salesman -- keeps coming back to pitch Seattle. In his proposed budget, Mayor Bruce Harrell included a $1.8 million surveillance pilot centered on the controversial gunshot-location-detection system.

Mark Meadows said he’d take a bullet to get Trump back in the White House and asked Hutchinson if she too would take a bullet for Trump. Cassidy joked, “Perhaps in the thigh.”

Most commentators doubt the elderly Rupert’s apparent step down. Politico senior opinion writer Jack Shafer had only one word for the notion Rupert would resign control: preposterous.

If a metaphor were needed for a culture of disrespect for others, we’re likely to return to that hollow, mocking laugh on the Seattle Police Officers Guild audio. It underscores the imperative to promote respect for all people in the community in order to achieve what we have been seeking: an accountable police force we can respect. 

The low-key Lee doesn’t dress the part of big-time developer. Most days she could easily be mistaken for one of her less-provident tenants. Explanation for her advocacy may lie in her interesting biography.

Those were days when almost every major newspaper had a staff cartoonist. Sad to say that is now only a distant memory. In last Sunday’s column, Horsey noted that in July alone, the McClatchy chain laid off three Pulitzer-prize-winning cartoonists in a single devastating day (Jack Ohman of the Sacramento Bee, Kevin Siers of the Charlotte Observer and Joel Pett of the Lexington Herald-Leader). Contrary to a subsequent mealy-mouthed news release lauding their work, the three cartoonists were dumped mainly because the hedge fund put profits above the community journalism it dishonestly professes to serve.

One wonders how much fun Will Shakespeare would have had with Ron DeSantis, the bowdlerizing autocrat and his “vaulting ambition” and his rictus-like “smile and smile and be a villain.”

Once again, it was progress, backlash, and repeat again. What occasioned some mid-century breakouts were two things: war – when men left, women flooded newsrooms – and money (since women were paid a fraction of male salaries).