A few days after our first child was born, our pediatrician commented at a check-up, “Isn’t it funny that last week you’d never even met Penelope, and now you’d lay down in front of a bus for her?” I recalled this as I followed the tragic story of 10-month-old Charlie Gard who suffers from a […]
US healthcare problems—universal healthcare is not the solution
Shortly after Bernie Sanders’s recent and weakly argued Twitter pic in support of universal healthcare, I photoshopped it into a similarly weak counter-argument and Tweeted back. However, it’s a serious topic and deserves a more thorough response. It goes without saying that the U.S. healthcare system is far from perfect. But the focus should be […]
National Geographic chooses spin over science
National Geographic recently created an infographic entitled “Seven things to know about climate change”. For a publication that professes to believe “in the power of science”, it’s created something more unscholarly than scientific. For starters, there are actually fewer than seven things in its list. Let’s review some of them: Number one: “The world is […]
The potential of partnerships to save our community centers
In its 2016 Community Center Strategic Plan, Seattle Parks and Recreation (SPR) identified the Green Lake community center and pool to pilot a partnership aimed at expanding operating hours and addressing capital needs. This sort of model is common, with many examples in our state, across the country and indeed around the world. Communities have […]
Goodbye Seattle Public Schools
We were wrong about Seattle Public Schools. Moving our daughter to a private school was not our plan. Two grandparents were public school teachers, as was my mother. My wife, our siblings and I are products of a public education. In New Zealand, where I grew up, the best public schools were as good as […]
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