It has taken me a couple of days to get the courage up to write this. The day that the Seattle P-I published it’s final newsprint edition forever on Tuesday, I admittedly had a fairly emotional reaction to the whole thing. In fact, it took me until the next day to actually open it up [...]
OK, so I didn’t save a lot of interesting stuff this week, but I’ll give you a few things from the files: Winners Americans. Whether you like or dislike Barack Obama, he is at least jumping in with both feet and starting to get to work. Hopefully, the results will match the hype. Hikers and [...]
Another week has gone by — it’s time to go over a few of the stories that made it more colorful: Supporters of the University of Washington Football Team are behind a plan to spend $300 million on renovating the 88-year-old Husky Stadium. Half of the money would be raised by the University from among [...]
This week I am starting a project that I have wanted to do for a while. There are lots of stories out there that I would like to comment on, but don’t quite seem to measure up to needing a whole blog entry at the time. Besides, I wanted a way to make sure I [...]
A couple of weeks ago, there was an unusually large amount of snow on the ground all over Cascadia. That in itself is not news. We were all inconvenienced, but we all collectively made it through without too much damage. A few weeks later, we are all doing just fine and the big accumulation of [...]
Freightliner Trucks have been produced in the Portland area since 1947. So when I heard that the company would be naming their latest truck model the “Cascadia” I was thinking about just how appropriate that was. A great new model of truck, named after the great region where it is produced. This recently came back [...]
By now, most of us in Cascadia are experiencing some of the worst Winter weather since any of us can remember. I would normally be at work right now, so the experience is something like the rare day when we didn’t go to school because of the snow. Even though you have been at home [...]
I have always been fascinated with the history of the Pacific Northwest. There is so much that has gone on in our region both before and after the appearance of European settlers that is truly interesting. Over the course of time, we have exploited the resources of our area, and in some ways, we have [...]
Thanks to a recent Seattle P-I article, we now have some facts and figures on the roadblocks being set up by the US Border Patrol on Washington State highways and at ferry terminals. From the beginning, the justification made by the Border Patrol for using this technique of stopping everyone to make them prove their [...]
I have reached a point in my life where I am starting to subtract my age from my expected lifespan. It’s not that I feel so old. It is more that it is striking me just how far technology has come in the first 46 years of my life. Then I look like a kid [...]
