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Bruce Ramsey

Bruce Ramsey was a business reporter and columnist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in the 1980s and 1990s and from 2000 to his retirement in 2013 was an editorial writer and columnist for the Seattle Times. He is the author of The Panic of 1893: The Untold Story of Washington State’s first Depression, and is at work on a history of Seattle in the 1930s. He lives in Seattle with his wife, Anne.
Journalism

Misjudgments All Around: Seattle Times fires Columnist after First Column.

The editors gave him an entire section front in the July 9 paper. That’s an indication of what they thought of him and what he wrote. Then Volodzko made his mistake: “I posted the column on Twitter and compared Lenin and Hitler.” He added, “It’s the kind of topic that you can debate among trusted friends over drinks or dinner.” Not with anonymous nitwits on Twitter.
Arts

Leaning in to Lenin: In Defense of Fremont’s Bolshevik Statue

“Here is a classic symbol of overwrought totalitarianism, dropped in the middle of an anarcho-libertarian neighborhood, available for all to mock and ponder the horror of,” writes one of the Times’ readers. “He gets a yellow rubber duck on his head for Easter,” writes another.
Business

Never Seen a Labor Market Like This: Will Low Unemployment Ease Inequality?

Economist Jacob Vigdor argues that Americans may be looking at “the emergence of a ‘seller’s market’ for labor, which may in fact prove to be the ‘new normal’ in the United States” — which will bring about “a 40-year reduction in income inequality.”
Environment

We Asked for High Gas Prices? — We Got ’em

The people who invented “cap and trade” wanted the oil companies to pass on the cost to consumers. The program’s purpose is to prod people into using less fossil fuel, and ultimately to switch to electric cars and trucks. If the program isn’t raising the price of gasoline and diesel, it’s not working.
Politics

Crime and Therapy: Seattle City Attorney Brings Back the Punishment

It didn’t matter if the criminal defendant had been referred to Community Court a dozen times before, and blown it off each time. Always the system offered another slice of social services.
Journalism

State of the State: Washington State Standard comes to Olympia

States Newsroom now has 33 news operations, each with a different name —Alaska Beacon, Daily Montanan, Nevada Current, Oregon Capital Chronicle, Idaho Capital Sun, and so on. The Washington State Standard is named in honor of a newspaper that covered Olympia in the era before statehood.
Travel

Making DC’s National Airport More “National”

Why restrict flights to D.C. National from Western cities? “Political reality,” says Alliance spokesman Brian Walsh. Any change has to pass Congress. “This is not going to pass just by members from the West,” he says.
Politics

Fixing Social Security, A Primer

With the help of a calculator, I cut benefits by 50% and raised Social Security taxes by 48%. Congress will have to make such choices by 2033.
International

Frontline’s ‘America and the Taliban’: “Not in the Public Interest”

In Afghanistan and Vietnam, the United States wanted a modern, pluralistic government more than the people there wanted such a thing. The government we supported was, in local terms, an exotic and alien species. In each case, a flood of U.S. dollars watered a hothouse of urban wealth and a rot of dependency and corruption, especially in the country’s army.
Cities

City Light’s Long Covid: Delinquent Customer Accounts

City Light suspended disconnects in March 2017. By 2020, when Covid hit, it still hadn’t resumed disconnects. For household accounts, disconnects were not restarted until last October.
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