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This morning's Seattle Times offers an article on a recent survey of Washington teachers regarding the soon-to-be-obsolete WASL. An unf...

If you read only one thing on the Internet today, make it Tim Sandefur's eulogy for his grandmother Elsie.

"Beat the heat," everyone keeps saying, offering tips to stay cool as the mercury climbs. I've tried to avoid heat-blogging, m...

Majestic stuff. [via Slate's Twitter feed ]

Add one more faculty to the crow repertoire: the ability to recognize and remember human faces. As the video shows, though, the face is al...

If you ever thought, You know, someday I might like to run for city council , think again. The jalopy of democracy can't run without th...

At long last, it appears we have an explanation for the roof collapse at Capital High School this past winter, The Olympian reports. OLYMP...

Drove to Mount Rainier today, hiking up Rampart Ridge in expectation of a lovely view of the peak. The trail, though steep, is almost entir...

For a late father's day gift, I took Dad to yesterday's game at Safeco. Dad summed it up best. "I feel like I had a night on ...

Via Robert Whitlock at Olyblog, an interesting quiz by the ACLU on Washington's marijuana laws. I wish it were longer, and had includ...

From the too little, too late department: Hi Jim, We do not have a confirmed opening date on our neighborhood Olympia, WA Trader Joe's ...

The Olympian has the official story. That is all.

Vashon Island dads are baring it all to keep their local school district from cutting staff. No, this is not my attempt at pitching a script...

I commute through downtown Olympia every (school) day, driving 'round two roundabouts as I head up 4th/Harrison toward Capital High Scho...

Back in February, Slate's Fred Kaplan had argued that it was time for Congress to stop ordering new F-22 Raptors , later providing reas...

Dear Trader Joe's, It pains to write this, but I feel spurned and neglected by your corporation. Not because it's taken you so long ...

When the FIFA World Cup came to America for the first time , I was 15. I knew nothing about the sport, except that everyone else in the wor...

1. Atlanta retired Greg Maddux's number on Friday night , honoring the right-handed pitcher I'd name as the best of his generation, ...

Ryan at I Thought a Think explains why merit pay is never a simple matter . So, who is your Most Valuable Teacher? Is it Teacher A, who adde...