Sticky Narratives: The Real Story of MIZ, and the Non-Profit Housing Industrial Complex
I was never a huge fan of the show X-Files although I did watch it and I am familiar with the two lead characters, FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully. Agent Mulder believes in aliens and other spooky things. Agent Scully is more of a skeptic. Many of the shows are about something unusual […]
Election Advice: Don’t Support Any Candidates Yet!
I sent this out as an email earlier this week. Events have changed things significantly since current Mayor Ed Murray has announced since I sent this he won’t be running for reelection. What’s likely to happen is more people will enter the race before filing ends on the 19th of May. I don’t think we […]
Correction: Murray Did Not Bring ‘Developers and Housing Advocates to the Table.’
As the local press, the closest thing we have to historians of our city’s unfolding story, busily writes the obituary of Mayor Ed Murray, they are already embedding in that narrative basic falsehoods, what historian AJP Taylor in his important and controversial history of World War II, The Origins of the Second World War calls “legends,” things […]
