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[Note: John Miller is the immediate past chairman of the board of directors at Discovery Institute. He left the Institute to take his position mentioned below.] From the In the Northwest column On a trip to Europe in more innocent times, four Seattle buddies walked wide-eyed through Amsterdam’s red light district. We made out the shapes of ladies of the Read More ›

Olympia, Washington, March 13: Proponents of enabling legislation to create charter schools in Washington State succeeded today in passing a supportive bill in the state senate, by a vote of 26 to 23. Three Democrats joined all but two Republicans on the winning side. When charter schools were first proposed in Washington in the mid-1990s, the idea was novel, but Read More ›

When the big-picture types at the Discovery Institute think about Seattle’s future, they see a subterranean, multi-modal transit center under Benaroya Hall. The dream is to connect light rail, commuter rail, monorail, buses and ferries at Second Avenue and University Street. Welcome to the Mid-Town Transit Hub. On the hub’s lowest level, commuters could catch Sounder trains traveling in the Read More ›

[Note: John Miller is the immediate past chairman of the board of directors at Discovery Institute. He left the Institute to take his position mentioned below.] Imagine an event akin to the fall of apartheid, a human-rights breakthrough that for millions of black Africans could mean an end to massacres, ethnic cleansing and enslavement by a despotic regime. Imagine, too, Read More ›

Original article From the Industry Wrapups column The Puget Sound Private Ferry Coalition is seeking federal and state funding for a pair of studies to help support the development of private-sector ferry systems in Puget Sound. Bruce Agnew, director of Discovery Institute’s Cascadia Project and a coalition founder, said one of the studies will look at how private ferries could Read More ›

PEOPLE for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has finally and unequivocally come off the rails. Attempting to convince us to become vegetarians, the anti-human advocacy group has mounted a new public relations campaign asserting that the eating of meat is the equivalent of the torture and slaughter of Jews by the Nazis.This odious message isn’t insinuated subtly between the lines. Read More ›

The Federal Communications Commission’s February 20 ruling on telecom competition policy is truly beyond satire. Writing into the night like a high school student cobbling together a term paper just before semester’s end, cutting and pasting a 400-page monstrosity, forming a majority by clandestine negotiations behind the chairman’s back, is crazy enough. But then add the two Democratic commissioners, gifts Read More ›