This summer, many business leaders traded their offices for classrooms to mentor high school students at Washington Business Week. For me, it was the first time I was a company adviser since the early 1980s, and boy did I learn a lot.
It’s being called a “teaching moment.”
Nothing qualifies a person to be the final arbiter of good taste like youth – tinged with just a bit of sarcasm, an early taste of higher education and an ever-expanding view of the world and everyone’s place in it.
Underfunded or poorly run? Two wildly different pictures about King County government are being painted by the current King County executive and one of the contenders who wants to succeed him.
As lawmakers continue to debate solutions to revive our ailing economy, a pillar of recovery that must not be forgotten…
Recently, the Associated Press reported that hundreds of New York City public school teachers accused of offenses ranging from insubordination to sexual misconduct are being paid full salary with benefits to sit around all day playing Scrabble, surfing the Internet or just doing what they please.
Nothing qualifies a person to be the final arbiter of good taste like youth – tinged with just a bit of sarcasm, an early taste of higher education and an ever-expanding view of the world and everyone’s place in it.
Underfunded or poorly run? Two wildly different pictures about King County government are being painted by the current King County executive and one of the contenders who wants to succeed him.
As lawmakers continue to debate solutions to revive our ailing economy, a pillar of recovery that must not be forgotten…
Recently, the Associated Press reported that hundreds of New York City public school teachers accused of offenses ranging from insubordination to sexual misconduct are being paid full salary with benefits to sit around all day playing Scrabble, surfing the Internet or just doing what they please.
Phew! Or maybe I should say pee-yew.
If you’ve read these columns for any length of time, you surely realize I’m quite fond of Seattle. It may not be as magnificent as New York or as charming as New Orleans, but Seattle seems preferable to most other American cities that come immediately to mind, including San Francisco, which has its appeal, and Los Angeles, which I detest. And who can spend more than a few days in a gaudy fire-drill like Las Vegas?
Yes, we live better lives – in some cases much better lives – because of technology. But when does a wired world become a little too wired?
