Jonah Spangenthal-Lee of Publicola has an interesting crime report posted at the end of last week. Police Evict Occupy Seattle Protesters From Central District Home is its title. The meat of the story is as follows:
Seattle police have begun cracking down on small bands of Occupy Seattle protesters who have begun Occupying vacant homes around the Central
Back in November. I had former US Attorney General for Western Washington John McKay speak at our University District Rotary club about ‘the AG purge.’ At one point when we were discussing my work, he confirmed with me that a boundary dispute is rarely about the boundary line – at least not in the city. Instead, he suggested it is
Last year, I suggested that people might consider taking over a small gift to the neighbors here. This year, I will go a step further and suggest that you invite your neighbors to your holiday party. Why?
Well, perhaps the late Philadelphia reporter Franklin P. Jones said it best.
Nothing makes you more tolerant of a
I did a Rotary make-up at the University Sunrise Club of Seattle this morning. The guest speaker was Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna who of course is running for Governor in 2012.
Toward the end of the meeting and after a considerable preamble in which after acknowledging that it was a federal question; that
Erica C. Barnett of PubliCola has offered their readers a news alert that I would like to echo. In a piece titled Council Committee Raises Heights in Roosevelt, she explains:
The city council’s land use committee just voted to raise maximum building heights on three blocks adjacent to Roosevelt High School to 65 feet,
In preparing for conference seminars that I will be giving early next year for the Land Surveyors Association of Washington (“LSAW”), I found a quote in a Washington Supreme Court decision that is perfectly apt for any type of boundary dispute case.
In Hudson House, Inc. v. Rozman, 82 Wn.2d 178, 179 509 P.2d
The American Bar Association Journal this last week – along with indicating a case in which the judge declared that a house was “haunted as a matter of law” [though not fact] – also provided the following couple of tragically comedic case thumbnails:
• A Florida woman sued her neighbor for defamation, harassment and emotional distress because
Earlier this month I wrote a post titled Game Theory and the Art of Settlement. Well, this morning I took a few moments to open up the September 3rd – 9th 2011 paper edition of The Economist and discovered an article within “The Economist Technology Quarterly” called Game theory in practice on page 19 [of that
In November 2007 while still living in China, I published an article in the Ningbo Guide titled Game Theory and Guanxi. Guanxi may be translated to mean personal connections. But a straight definition is illusive for many reasons not the least of which is that Western society is based largely on the individual whereas
Ten years ago our world changed … forever. Like many, I lost someone that day. The person that I lost was a friend. His name was Gordy Aamoth.
I want to reflect on Gordy’s life; what his loss has meant for me; and where, now that I am working in essentially the peace brokering business, I
