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 […]
The other passion of Sir Douglas Myers – public policy
Sir Douglas Myers was one of a kind and he leaves New Zealand business and public policy markedly better for his having been here. The tributes that have been written in recent days rightly note the beer baron’s business successes. But other than noting that he was involved in the New Zealand Business Roundtable, few, […]
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 […]
Transgender policy – another Democratic loss
Many people are disappointed with the Trump administration rescinding Obama’s guidance on transgender students in public schools. But the reaction is over the top and missing the big picture. Some people are asking how what the Trump administration has done is supposed to work, even suggesting there’s some new law in place. That gets the […]
Trump and our divided country
<The following are edited comments that I shared with a friend on Facebook who asked conservative friends and family to have a dialog about Trump and his first week.> Let me preface my comments. First, I didn’t support Trump, but I’m an optimist, and like Obama, Clinton and others said following the election, I think […]
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