By STAN SORSCHER (Jan. 6, 2015) — The other day, President Obama spoke to 100 top CEOs from the Business Roundtable. He was asked about two...
By JOHN BURBANK (Jan. 5, 2015) — The stock market is going great guns! That’s supposed to be the good news for this new year. It...
By JEFF JOHNSON (Dec. 19, 2014) — “Councilwoman Walker’s son, Michael, works for me at the Seattle Center. Michael is a great worker. I like Michael....
By JOHN BURBANK (Dec. 18, 2014) — When is a law not a law? That seems to be the question taken up by The (Everett) Herald’s...
By LEO W. GERARD (Dec. 16, 2014) — Under billions of tons of imports, the American dream is suffocating. The American people have lost faith. They...
By JOHN BURBANK (Dec. 5, 2014) — Thanksgiving is in our wake, and Christmas is upon us, with a vengeance of catalogs, push e-mails, to-do lists...
By JONATHAN ROSENBLUM (Dec. 2, 2014) — “There can be no separate peace.” If you spent any time with Tyree Scott, you probably heard him say...
By JOHN M. REPP and CINDY COLE (Dec. 1, 2014) — An exciting proposal is being considered that could liquidate Seattle’s $4 billion debt, while creating...
By JOHN BURBANK (Nov. 20, 2014) — The elections that just concluded helped to resolve nothing in our state. We will have a small Republican majority...
By CELESTE DRAKE In January 2014, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, responding to the introduction of the latest “Fast Track” legislation, said, “It is past time for...