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John Carlson | Who to vote for in August elections
Baseball season traditionally opens in early April. Football season starts in mid-September. And Washington’s political season traditionally begins…
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John Carlson | Feedback from readers
Columnists love feedback. It means their work is likely encouraging conversation in the community. A few times a…
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John Carlson | Race and hypersensitivity
It’s being called a “teaching moment”. But the lesson being learned is not what people thought it would…
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John Carlson | Is your son TOO high tech?
Yes, we live better lives – in some cases much better lives – because of technology. But when…
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John Carlson | The REAL choices ahead for King County
Underfunded or poorly run? Two wildly different pictures about King County government are being painted by the current…
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John Carlson | A chance to change King County
When it comes to politics, do voters around here still want change? We’ll know later this summer, specifically…
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John Carlson | Who says guns are dangerous?
When do you know that a crime is serious? When it is seriously punished. A convict doing life…
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John Carlson | Frank, Sonia and civil rights
Connecticut Firefighter Frank Ricci and President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor have never met. But their lives…
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A good general’s bad advice
General Colin Powell is the walking embodiment of the American Dream. Raised in the Bronx, the decorated Vietnam…
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John Carlson | How to get better health care for less
Bob Herbold became famous at Microsoft for noticing things others overlooked. He chronicled some of those observations two…
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John Carlson | Is it time to tax casinos?
Legislators have just staggered away from the state Capitol having made cuts (actually, reductions from increases) nobody expected…
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John Carlson | The real meaning of the Tea Parties
Something wonderfully ironic happened last week at the state Capitol: a sales tax increase of 3/10 of one…
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John Carlson | The Real meaning of the Tea Parties
Something wonderfully ironic happened last week at the state Capitol: a sales tax increase of 3/10 of one…
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John Carlson| Are more guns better for us?
Is our society safer or less safe because of guns? On “60 Minutes” last Sunday, Leslie Stahl focused…
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John Carlson | Brian Sonntag: A good man under attack in Olympia
What’s the most overused word in government? My nominee is “investment”. In the real world an investment is…
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John Carlson | Is the state budget really that bad?
A couple of weeks ago I attended a town hall where a trio of Eastside legislators warned darkly…
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John Carlson | Why we need the death penalty
The acts have to be sanitized for a family newspaper. But if people knew what Cal Brown really…
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John Carlson | SB 5292: Free the prisoners?
A few weeks ago I alerted Reporter readers to a startling state Senate proposal that would erase the…
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John Carlson | No new bridge? No tolls
When the ribbon was snipped on a new floating bridge connecting Montlake to the Eastside in 1963, a…