InspireSeattle invites YOU to join our future socials:            Saturday, May 31, 2014 at 6:30pm *  Main discussion topic for this evening: Obamacare, Disruptive Innovation and the Future of Health *To receive InspireSeattle invitations, click here to provide us with an email address. The Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. Obamacare, a.k.a. ACA) seems to have more lives…

Senator Elizabeth Warren will be speaking at Pastor Rich Lang’s University Temple Methodist Church near UW (1415 NE 43rd Street), at 7 PM Thursday May 29. Tickets at $34.90 are available via Brown Paper Tickets. This price includes admission, fees and a copy of her book “A Fighting Chance.” Buy Tickets

The Keep Seattle Moving campaign has decided to suspend signature-gathering for Initiative 118, and the Mayor is expected to announce a ballot measure to save Metro bus service this Tuesday, May 13. Stay tuned… Thank you to everyone who has been out collecting signatures already! You are invited to our Volunteer Thank-You Party this Friday,…

The Bellevue Reporter published my letter-to-the-editor about King County voters’ recent rejection of Proposition 1. With gas prices at $3.75 a gallon, the cost of filling up a tank of gas ranges from $63.75 for a Toyota Corolla (gas tank capacity 17 gallons) to $116.25 for a Chevy Suburban (tank capacity of 31 gallons). But…

On Tuesday I was invited to be on a King 5 News ” climate debate” with Paul Guppy of the free-market Washington Policy Center, and what stands out for me from our discussions on and off camera (video here) is how much common ground there was. In some ways this is not suprising—Paul’s colleague Todd…

Boeing is at it again, eating its own in Puget Sound. The company will be laying off engineers in Washington and building a new model with dispersed “centers of excellence” around the country and the world, which is corporate-speak for hiring workers at lower salaries, no union protection, and less understanding of the intricacies of…

Photo by George Frey The radical right here in America now boasts two fresh heroes: Cliven Bundy and Donald Sterling. With their eager penchant for plainspoken hypocrisy and outright bigotry, they ought to be a swell choice for the Tea Party/Republican presidential nomination come 2016. First, good old boy Cliven Bundy rode heroically onto the…

Yesterday, we got a response of sorts: Governor Inslee signed an executive order that has been described as everything from “a big leap forward” to “underwhelming”. Our view is that it falls well short of what we asked for in our open letter: instead of a detailed policy proposal there’s a “Carbon Emissions Reduction Taskforce”…

InspireSeattle Invites YOU to join us at our Social Forum: Saturday, May 3rd at 6:30PM. Main discussion topic for this evening:  Can Surveillance Technologies Be Tamed? Video surveillance cameras are far different from the technology of a few decades ago. They now allow remote control, with pan, tilt, and zoom features; the images obtained are…