After a misspent summer of slumming with politics and task forces, the UFWS Blog is back. Not much changed while we were gone. Just as classes began last week, Washington’s state universities took another 6.3% cut to their state appropriations. For those keeping score at home, that brings the average cut to state appropriations for…

Read More

  Here at the blog, we still remember that ad in the back of 1970s issues of Rolling Stone (when it was still on newsprint and still about music) that invited readers to send five dollars to the Universal Life Church and become an ordained minister, fully empowered to perform weddings, funerals, etc. So we…

Read More

Here at the blog, our political education has come fast and furious. We still have a lot to learn, but there are two things we know for sure: 1. Stuff that is pure bullshit if it’s said enough in enough of the right places takes on the obduracy of sacred writ, and becomes very hard…

Read More