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Taking a stand for civility in our public dialogue
Our friend Tim Eyman, not pictured above, forwarded one of his frequent blast emails to all legislators the other day. The email, written by one of Eyman’s supporters, said the following: “I am...
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Looking in the window
Last month I parked across town for a meeting, used the city’s street parking payment system and came back 45 minutes later to a $35 ticket on the windshield. The parking sticker had fallen off of the...
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The discomfort of the status quo from Cairo to Olympia
As the rush of relatively trivial legislation swirls around us in Olympia, it’s hard not to be impacted by the events in Egypt. The cry for freedom in the square that ousted a regime seems more than a...
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Wisdom, knowledge, humility and success through failure.
State government–like any institution–has an ‘inside’ game and and an ‘outside’ game. The private, internal dynamics of the House of Representatives and Senate, personal relationships with the...
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Are we asking too much of full time volunteers on the Seattle School Board?
Part time citizen legislators in Washington earn $42,000 a year. By comparison full time legislators in California earn $120,000 a year. There is something idealistic and even romantic to the noble...
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Expect more.
As the 2012 national and state campaign season kicks into gear, the announcements are coming fast and furious as to who is ‘in’ and who is ‘out.’ The horse race headlines crowd out the deeper dialogue...
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Come back July 11 for more exciting, thrilling posts about life, love,...
After two very long two legislative sessions and a busy month back at my regular day job, I’m taking some down time with my family. I’m turning off the iPhone, iPad, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, TV and...
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The march of radical innovation
Eighteen years ago, fresh from completing my two-year master’s degree in public administration from the Kennedy School at Harvard and bursting with student loans, I began my private sector career as...
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Why I joined the lawsuit on I-1053
In July of last year ago I wrote a blog post that outlined my views of representative democracy, supermajority rules, 10th Amendment and related issues. I am reposting those comments–it’s the first...
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100,000 hits! Today my blog reached a big milestone thanks to you!
It’s an honor to announce that between January 2009 and today this blog has received 100,000 visits. (No, my own visits don’t count!) As I’ve mused as a husband, father, entrepreneur and citizen...
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A repost of one of my first blog entries: Reflections
Below is one of my first blog entries from 2009. I was reflecting on my seven years as a member of the Washington State House of Representatives recently and found it interesting to look back at how...
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