The old way of doing things has recently yielded results, although you’d never know it through the braying hatred and ridicule of right-wing media and the bed-wetting tendencies of liberal commentary.

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.

Put simply, the current Navy, the older Navy, is less operational every year. And efforts to replace the ships are foundering.

What will it take for the political pendulum swing back to a new, more inclusive version of effective regime politics?

“It’s well documented what ESPN has done to try and get our league into where it’s at,” said Coach Dickert, offering out loud the part never addressed by insiders -- the Disney-owned network dictates terms and conditions for nearly everything in the industry.

I’m getting real tired of Seattle progressives who assert that anyone who disagrees with them on this topic is a “denier.”

In an earlier day, the trip to the trailhead was itself an adventure.  Voyageurs, missionaries, mountain men, and intrepid explorers hacked and bushwacked their way through dense forests to “reach the other side.”

We can consider national media as being divided into four conduits. Television and social media are solely digital, which receive the most attention from the political parties. The primarily non-digital ones are radio and print media, which have not received the attention or the wrath from either party for being biased. However, both mediums have experienced an increase in the concentration of ownership. Has that development moved public opinion to support "small government?" 

It’s not just an individual problem when people hold on too long. It goes deeper. It betrays a lack of faith. Or a lack of faith in the future, of possibilities we cannot foresee, of people we do not yet know.

Unlike its neighbors, Libya and Algeria, Tunisia has a stable government, although the actions of an increasingly authoritarian president are causing increasing concern. The streets are safe, transportation is cheap and accessible, and food options range from street fare to fine dining. The people are warm and friendly.

“Megaprojects” are a part of Canada’s development psyche. Some have proven visionary, such as the big James Bay hydro project in Quebec. Others have become fiascos, such as British Columbia’s attempt to build fast ferries, or B.C.’s $16 billion Site C dam project on the Peace River.

Wine Enthusiast mag’s annual list of the year’s Top 100 Best Buys has just been published. Understandably this is one of the year’s most widely-read issues.

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. 

Billboards went up recently painting Brown and Betsy Wilkerson, a city council member running for council president, as soft on crime. 

Walter Isaacson tells a good story in this biography, and he strikes the right tone, respectful but honest. And Musk respected him enough to let him write his book and not demand to read it.

I’m talking of course about The Question: Should Joe run? Or, Why on Earth is Joe running? In the latter formulation, it’s a question you might be better able to answer than anyone else. And, to put it crudely, you may be the only one who can talk him back from this abyss.

The original sin, according to some Hawaiian activists, was committed by the “colonialists,” including the sanctimonious New England missionaries whose descendants prospered mightily from sugarcane.

Skeptics are of various stripes, but they seem united in the view that dangers of global warming are being exaggerated – often deliberately. They specialize in explaining that each climate catastrophe is not caused by climate change. Some go further into celebrating all the positive properties of carbon dioxide.

Trump has set up a situation in which no one who opposes him can win a victory that his supporters consider legitimate.  He has said before both his Presidential races that he could lose only if the election was rigged. (Heads I win, tails you cheated.)

The Kremlin leader has burned through Russia’s arsenal of sophisticated missiles in the 18 months since he launched his “special military operation” to conquer Ukraine. He now must rely on barter with impoverished Soviet-era allies to resupply his stalled war machine.

“He was inclusive, bipartisan and committed to cooperation, comity, evenhandedness, and institutional effectiveness of the legislative process.” Foley did so in the face of growing “partisan polarization and political attacks.”

The Oregon Wine Board reports that European immigrants began planting grapes here as far back as the 1840s. In 1852 (some sources say 1854) settler Peter Britt planted a vineyard at his home in Jacksonville that included a wide variety of Vitis Vinifera grapes, among them some ‘Franc Pinot’ that may have been Oregon’s first planting of Pinot Noir.

It looks like a crowd on the leftward edge of the race that would seem to benefit Kevin Van De Wege, who figures to be the choice of timber industry interests who would prefer more industry-friendly management of the state’s forests.

Because he has a passion for the Arctic and a capacity for epic endurance, Kruger came upon a novel way to experience both. Over the past two summers, through some of Earth's most remote wilderness, he has paddled west to east atop the Arctic Ocean nearly 1,000 miles. Alone. No support boat. Few contacts with humans, and almost no chance for rescue in the event of, say, walrus.

The factors in these big switcheroos were: the Civil War, racism, economic realities, and religion. Notable was the change of the Solid South as a Democratic base to a Republican stronghold.

We’re are not out of the Trumpian/MAGA woods yet. Thinking that Biden/Harris can do it again in 2024 may be wishful thinking.

There ought to be a serious, substantive, energetic candidate entering the mayor's race. Right now. A candidate with strong ideas needs to start early, raising money, getting known, and getting educated about city issues.

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.

The money flows only one way. Joe Biden held two fundraisers here soon after announcing his bid for the White House in 2019, but his campaign spent only about $600 on the Evergreen State’s 2020 presidential primary. (He beat Bernie Sanders anyway.)

The latest tangle of words comes from Councilmembers Andrew Lewis and Lisa Herbold who want exceptions that - let’s be clear - will essentially mean no change at all.