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 […]
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 […]
I was listening to some really old recordings on my phone and I found one from a public meeting with Councilmember Mike O’Brien back on April 12th, 2011. That’s a long time, right. I mean back then we were still fighting against the tunnel, Mike McGinn was Mayor (his first go at the job), I was […]