By JEFF JOHNSON (Sept. 2, 2016) — Sisters and Brothers, I want to wish you a great Labor Day weekend and to thank you and your...
By DAVID GROVES (Sept. 2, 2016) — Labor Day is a time to reflect upon the contributions of the people who make this nation work. And...
By KATIE GARROW (Aug. 26, 2016) — When I was 16 years old, I routinely missed volleyball practice after school because I got called in for...
By JOHN BURBANK (Aug. 25, 2016) — If you work in downtown Seattle, you can’t ignore the construction. Eight years ago construction ground to a halt,...
By REP. JOE FITZGIBBON (Aug. 17, 2016) — Last week, state Sen. Reuven Carlyle (D-Seattle) wrote an op-ed at PubliCola criticizing November’s Sound Transit 3 expansion...
By DAVID GROVES (Aug. 16, 2016) — Today’s edition of The Seattle Times features an opinion column, “Raising minimum wage would drive out youngest workers,” written by...
By JOHN BURBANK (Aug. 10, 2016) — Back in 1932, Washington citizens jettisoned the Republican State Treasurer and voted in a Democrat for the job of...
By LEO W. GERARD (Aug. 2, 2016) — As what the press has dubbed, “Hillary Clinton’s Blue Collar Bus Tour,” travels across Pennsylvania and Ohio, I...
By JOHN BURBANK (July 28, 2016) — We are in the season of party conventions. You may have watched the Republicans in Cleveland last week and...
By MARK McDERMOTT Jim’s brother and no relation to Joe (July 13, 2016) — Forty-four years ago I was a poor, recent college graduate and antiwar...
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