Posts by Bill Lyne

For those of you out there in blogland who still think that bestowing Western Governors University with the title of Washington’s Seventh Public University is a good idea, check out this from our friends over at The AVE: UPDATE: A Response to OpEds on GWU The comments from people claiming to be WGU employees are…

At the end of the day, politics is about counting.  Here in Washington, for example, folks in Olympia and beyond are counting, counting, and recounting.  The house and senate budget writers at the eye of the storm are counting how many dollars they’re going to cut from where.  Every time they do a new budget…

Here at the blog, we weren’t raised by wolves, but we did grow up in the white, upper middle class suburbs.  Our schools had large gymnasiums and clean swimming pools and our PTA parents were quick to rebuke any teacher who didn’t realize how special we were.  We never rode the city bus.  No teachers…