Category: politics

• July 6, 2022

  How the West Coast became the “Left Coast”

  

  Happy 4th of July! I hope you are out there enjoying yourself and celebrating being an American. But it seems like that is harder for some folks to do these days. Just this weekend, I saw articles in the paper questioning, what can bring America together?  Can we really say we are “E Pluribus Unum”? […]
• May 25, 2022

  Leadership when the boss is indicted

  Jan Jutte steered the Washington State Auditor’s Office through a major crisis when the then-elected State Auditor Troy Kelley was charged with federal financial crimes.
• January 26, 2022

  A New Civil War and the Compass of Power

  

  Is America ;in a new civil war?  Are we headed there? In this episode, I take on the question posed by Politico recently: “We are in a new civil war … about what, exactly?”
• January 27, 2020

  Our Politics Aren’t As Red vs. Blue as You Might Think

  

  Massachusetts and South Carolina represent the seed beds of the two most dominant of those cultures, the former founded by priggish Puritans, and the later by slave-holding planters from Barbados.