Michael van Baker

Back in February, the Seattle Times editorial board decided to come out in favor of the legalization of marijuana, and two days later they got a call from Gil Kerlikowske, current U.S. "drug czar" and former Seattle police chief, asking for a meeting. Bruce Ramsey says the visit, which happened last Friday, was cordial and laid back. 

In another Times story, though, Kerlikowske didn't leave much doubt where he stood on the issue: "If legalization is a way to fund the country and states and cities, I think we're making a significant mistake when we think it's just a benign drug." He also alluded to a public backlash against medical marijuana. Previous SPD chief Norm Stamper, an advocate of legalization, popped up to say that Kerlikowske was "being less than honest with us, but that's in his job description."

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Legalization, despite the apparent failure of Mary Lou Dickerson's bill, H.B. 1550, to make it out of committee, remains a hot topic, even at the Times. They get letters, and they also created a Rewind live chat debate, with two pro and two con, and Ryan Blethen moderating. 

Over on the Seattle City Council, ex-cop Tim Burgess says, "on the legalization of marijuana I say 'yes,' it should be legal, regulated and taxed." On his blog he argues that the criminalization of marijuana and the bankrupting policy of mass incarceration are linked. Besides the actual costs of incarcerating millions of people, prison has longer term consequences, argues Burgess:

Those consequences are tied directly to the stigma of being a convicted felon—lower chances of finding a meaningful and family-supporting job, lower chances of finding housing, lower chances of becoming an active participant in our democracy.

He says he gave everyone on the Council a copy of Michelle Alexander's book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. From the sound of things, he won't have to do much persuading. On the Slog, Dominic Holden writes, "Every officeholder at City Hall—from the mayor and city attorney to each member of the Seattle City Council—is now on the record supporting legal pot."

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Spectrum Dance Theater - Mother Of Us All • Preview from Spectrum Dance Theater on Vimeo.

Here is a message from the American Red Cross about Africa, from today: "ARC increased its support for the unrest in North Africa, sending $100,000 to assist people fleeing, three disaster specialists, and 25,000 blankets." 

Is that what Africa has come to mean, African aid? Or do you think of 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai? Do you think first of Egyptians crowding into the streets for protests? Maybe you read that James Fallows Atlantic article about China's inroads in Africa. Maybe you were at Intiman's production of Ruined, and saw its depiction of how the war in the Congo has blighted women's lives.

Spectrum Dance Theater's exploration of Africa, The Mother of Us All (through March 5 at the Moore Theatre) does not pretend to speak for, or with expertise about, Africa. Choreographer Donald Byrd takes up a more phenomenological position, delving into points of view for signs, I think, of life, of authentic engagement with the complexity of life. The result is too much for any single person; it's a work that demands not only an audience to watch, but also to share what they've seen. 

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So, how do you dance a phenomenological investigation? The show opens with what feels like "The Dance of the CIA Factbook on Africa"--a voiceover describes the ways in which Africa, for all of its civil and interstate wars, dictators, and droughts, makes claims on U.S. interests as far more than a charity case. And it's true, from rare earths to oil, Africa has the post-colonial world over a barrel. To the extent that stable governments replace despots eager to negotiate natural resource exploitation, and to compete with China's interests, the U.S. must learn to talk about "partnerships." 

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The dancers climb out of a light-emitting trap door at the back of the stage, and perform under graphs and maps projected onto the stage, while introducing Africa as a list of nations. (Spectrum has switched to placing risers on the three sides of the stage, rather than keeping you out in the auditorium, and it's a vast improvement on connection to the dance.) At the beginning and close, their movements are mainly atomistic; they career about the stage, kicking, wriggling, and rolling on the floor. It's an intentional helter-skelter with no center or privileged perspective. 

Byrd writes on his blog that, "I have a choreographic tool, or rather a method that I call ‘intentional progressions’ that guides my choices when I work (play) and helps me to figure out how to stick it all together." Here his motivating impulse was to explore the fertility or fecundity of Africa (and/or our concepts of Africa), and he directed his dancers to focus on expressing their reproductive centers. The result is not pelvic thrusts, but dance that keeps to the ground. The dancers explore their personal space through arm and leg extensions, and those wriggles and tremors I mentioned earlier emanate from their cores, rising upward or downward.  

A trio of women (Amber Mayberry among them), each with a microphone, perform virtuosic monologues about democracy in Africa, while dancing at full speed--some audio processing distorts their voices and adds noise, and your mind can't quite keep up as they tumble and pirouette, and swap the mic from hand to hand as needed. War in the Congo is reported on as another trio struggle, entwine, and collapse into a heap of bodies, eventually dragged back to be dumped into the trap door. Byrd is sometimes literal, sometimes not--hearing about Obama's visit doesn't bring a motorcade, but the Nairobi slums summon up two trios that dance down each other, with a combination of steps and body slaps.

Other moments seem more about the juxtaposition of narrative (both recorded and also read by Marsha Nyembesi Mutisi) and dance, and while you could make an argument of sorts for the tricky balances and partnerings reflecting something about "growing concern over Chinese labor practices," it's also possible to respond to the awkwardness of Kylie Lewallen's hop onto the back of Ty Alexander Cheng, or his unusual rotation of Lewallen's thigh as she perches one-legged, as referencing the sheer difficulty of movement to cope with the flood of strategic rationalizations. Byrd keeps the readings open, solicits them. Perhaps you see Africans laboring to working together under a steady rain of officialese, perhaps you just like the one-footed, hopping kicks of Vincent Lopez because they look cool. (Byrd has fielded an almost frightening array of intense dancers--I haven't even mentioned Tory Peil, Kelly Ann Barton, Bonnie Boiter-Jolley, Michael Bagne, Sarah Poppe, and Meaghan Sanford yet, and each of them deserves it.) That said, I was surprised that when recent events in Tunisia and Egypt didn't manifest in a united ensemble--it felt a little perverse. Was Byrd skirting the anthemic moment in dance? Was the return to disparate, chaotic (when viewed from outside) intention a commentary? 

The surreal, CNN-gone-wild scenic and lighting design by Jack Mehler is joined to a score by Byron Au Yong, with live performance on the kora by Kane Mathis. The kora is an old, old instrument, and Au Yong has it almost vanish within a river of electronic, industrial sonic artifact, only to reappear here and there, never completely overwhelmed. The score is perfectly suited to what you see. Byrd says his goal is that the work will spark in viewers a curiosity in Africa, our de facto "container" so long for the the disempowered and revolutionary, as Africa, here and there, finds its way to a middle class existence (at the same time as the U.S. middle class increasingly finds itself under new strains). Au Yong took that to heart, so there's none of the Afro-pop percussion you might expect (again, an emphasis-shifting elision that effaces a cultural mode that has been reasonably important to Africans, at least). This music, this dance, is more tectonic, filled with subsidences. At the end, you realize that one reason the dancers have tried so strenuously to maintain contact with the ground is that it's moving beneath them.

Bill Gates was at TED the other day, giving a talk on education. But instead of speaking on the Gates Foundation's somewhat controversial support for teacher-testing and enhanced online learning, he reached directly for the third rail: "In this fiery talk, Bill Gates says that state budgets are riddled with accounting tricks that disguise the true cost of health care and pensions and weighted with worsening deficits--with the financing of education at the losing end."

The slide titled "Enron would blush," gives you some idea of his opinion on state accounting practices. Gates has a big stake in the states' larger economic situation because, on the face of it, education spending is the big budget item that is already being pared down--or slashed. This leaves nowhere for Gates' teacher performance incentives to go--his reforms are a non-starter unless this long-term deficit growth can be addressed. 

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After name-checking Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson (approvingly, it would seem), Gates noted the irony that after their warnings on behalf of fiscal austerity, another round of "tax cuts made the situation even worse." Pension costs are a big news item these days, with talk of trillions in unfunded obligations, but as Ezra Klein argues, to a great extent their "unfundedness" depends upon what you think the stock market will do.

Health care costs have yet to be reined in, but I didn't hear Gates take up a position pro or con on the repeal of the national health care bill. Admittedly, he only had ten minutes, but I'm left with the impression of sound and fury and some kind of accounting reform, rather than the outlines of a substantive policy proposal.

Photo courtesy of our Flickr pool's Yani Nation.

Last night I was down at the Moore Theatre on Second Avenue. I was taking in a post-show Q&A when I got this text from tipster Troy: "A friend just called and said she heard six gunshots and saw a dude running down 2nd Ave with a gun. Keep your eyes peeled for crazy gun show."

My regular Twitter stream let me down on details, but a simple search on "Belltown" reveals that Belltown residents were all too aware of the gunfire. While some of the responses show a Belltown bravado, two women tweeted, "I need not to live here," and "I'm thinking I should move." 

The SPD Blotter details the incident as arising from a fight between two men at Second and Bell, initially without guns in evidence. While units were on their way, shots were fired, and the 19-year-old, gun-toting pugilist took off on foot westbound on Bell Street. He was found and taken into custody; police noted that "[t]wo parked cars and a window at a business, however, were damaged from bullet strikes." Gang Unit detectives assisted with the investigation.

The incident provides a sobering coda to the self-organizing impulse of the Belltown Business Association's "Take Back Belltown" event held in late February. While Seattlepi.com's Belltown blogger said "the resounding answer was, "Yes we can!", the commenters on that post were divided about who was taking what back from whom. 

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One asked, "What happens when the original residents of Belltown band together to 'take it back' from the yuppie nimbys?" Another accused "the overwhelming number of low income apartments and social service agencies now located in or near the neighborhood" for the crime rate, with a secondary sore spot being dog owners who don't pick up their dog's poop. A third asked, "Can you convince the condo dwellers to stop feeding the neighborhood drug market?"

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On belltownpeople, Jesse exhorted neighborhood residents to stop waiting for the situation to solve itself: "It’s time for the citizens and business owners of this neighborhood to make a stand for the place they live and do business in. If we see a problem, we all have a responsibility to start helping one another out to solve it." 

Last night's events demonstrate that Belltown's shooting problem is not going to go quietly, but they also should give Belltown residents heart. After all, the police were already on their way to the altercation, and that responsiveness led the suspect's capture just minutes later. There are other parts of the city that would dearly love to see that kind of police presence (in fairness to the SPD, the Rainier Valley is of a significantly different size than Belltown).

If someone is spraying bullets outside your window, it may be hard to see that silver lining, granted. But the incident, arising as it did from what in earlier days might have been "nobody's business"--two ne'er-do-wells slugging it out on a corner--captures how citizen engagement can, slowly, gradually, make a difference. 

Special to The SunBreak by Charles Redell, who also posts at Greenfab News & Media.

Let me tell you the story of two people who've been fighting uphill battles around climate change. One of them is Peter Byck, director of Carbon Nation, which opens at SIFF Cinema on Friday. The other is my 20-year-old nephew, living outside Mobile, Ala. 

Byck's uphill battle is getting climate change deniers to put aside the dubious science and outright lies long enough to see that reducing the world's carbon emissions is just smart business. Carbon Nation, he says, is "a climate solutions movie that doesn't even care if you believe in climate change." That's not entirely true, but the movie does a good point and, if shown to the right audiences, could make a difference.

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Byck says he believes that we need better story tellers if we're going to get non-believers on board with energy efficiency and CFLs. So he uses humor, inspiration, fast cuts, and a lot of graphics to tell the stories of entrepreneurs in Alaska, forward thinkers at the Department of Defense, and a one-armed wind and cotton farmer in West Texas, who are all trying to change the way things are done. 

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Is this enough for him to win his battle? Byck says it is. During filming his uncle sent him numerous articles and studies denying climate change,  Byck told me. Now that his relative has seen the movie though, he's a convert, according to Byck.

Which brings us back to the Alabama nephew. Win's uphill battle is that he wants to get involved in some kind of sustainable business. Living in south Alabama though, he has few job options and even fewer inspirational mentors to keep him on that path. Carbon Nation isn't going to be for everyone, but at its best, Byck's film is an excellent vehicle for reaching those younger Americans who want to do something about climate change and maybe even have an idea they want to put into action but don't know which way to turn.

Will it convince those climate-change deniers not related to Byck? I have my doubts about that since one does need to accept the basic tenet that the climate is changing to buy into the rest of Carbon Nation. Byck also spends too much time explaining ways we can reduce the amount of fossil fuels we use to power the world. That, by definition, requires one to believe that fossil fuels are a problem. Had he spent more time on the idea that other nations are making changes--and money--regardless of what the U.S. believes and does, his point about making money from all this would have been much stronger.

Those already in the know about sustainability are likely to be a bit bored by the standard facts about the importance of weatherizing buildings and the financial windfall that wind farms can be for farmers. But those of us who have been fighting uphill battles with non-believers and those of you itching to get in on the fight will find inspiration in Carbon Nation. After only viewing the trailer, Win's been filling my Facebook feed with all sorts of information on the subject of climate change and businesses trying to fix it. 

I tell ya, that good ol' boy is inspired.

"Can Susan Enfield deliver as interim superintendent?" is the question posed by the Seattle Times Twitter account this morning, following the school board's (right) unanimous decision to dismiss previous Seattle Public Schools superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson last night. 

Don Kennedy, the chief financial and operations officer, was also let go, in the wake of a scandal over the alleged misuse of district funds.

Let's rephrase that question: "Will Sisyphus get that damn rock to stay put?"

West Seattle Blog has video of the cheering of the decision to dismiss Goodloe-Johnson, but it is hard to shake the impression that this exact process--played out in public to the cheap seats--illustrates what's organizationally dysfunctional about Seattle Public Schools. 

Let's turn to Twitter once again, and at-large SunBreak contributor Dylan Wilbanks, for a succinct summary of why: "The last 4 Seattle Schools superintendents: Died, resigned amid scandal, resigned amid controversy, resigned amid scandal. I see a problem." Dylan also gives this diagnosis: "The whole system is sick. Mealymouth board, no oversight in administration, parents alternatively demanding and passive."

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From the evidence, Seattle Public Schools is locked into a cycle that oscillates between "waiting for Superman" (not an endorsement of the documentary), and subsequent scapegoating. In this case, it's hard to argue the scapegoating. Goodloe-Johnson has been out of town, looking after her mother, who is ill, since the Seattle Times broke the scandal story, and has been tried both in absentia and in the media. 

The school board aided and abetted the circus, apparently mistaking a reactive, ill-considered response to the seriousness of the charges and their implications for the deliberate action deserved. It is still, for instance, not clear what the board knew and when they knew it.

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Board member Peter Maier now says he did get a copy of the investigatory Sutor report that the board has previously said it knew nothing about. In fact, the board has based the dismissals less on the financial misdealing than a "breach of trust"--which breach now appears to be that Goodloe-Johnson didn't successfully sweep the problem under the rug, as promised.

At last night's public beheading, reports the West Seattle Blog, one speaker likened the events to "a media quasi-lynching [...] I don’t know if the superintendent has done what she is accused of, but you don’t know either," and people hissed at him.

Hissing is a good response in the context of a Gold Rush ghost town's melodrama for the tourists, but outside of that it's an indicator that nothing all that rational is preoccupying people. As evidence of that, consider that the scandal in toto involves some $1.8 million. Because it's said to be difficult to fire the superintendent and CFO for cause, the two will receive severances of $264,000 and $87,500, respectively. That is, the board has just agreed to tack on 20 percent to the $1.8 million to "protect taxpayers."

This is both relevant and ironic because the school district's advisers also told management that it would be difficult to fire Silas Potter, the alleged "con man" at the center of scandal, for cause, when an investigation revealed serious problems with the way Potter was awarding contracts. Does this sound like a problem solved, to you?

Stepping back, consider that the head of a $560-million organization was just dismissed by seven people who, as Danny Westneat points out, "work for per diem only—a max of $4,800 a year. The seven-member board has just two helpers, who mostly do scheduling and office support." Is that the basic structure you would like to see deciding the leadership of the company you work for? 

None of this is an argument for or against Maria Goodloe-Johnson retaining her position. It's just that it should be clear that if a school district seems to be running around like a chicken with its head cut off, the solution is not to sew a new head back on and call it good. Compare and contrast, for instance, the Seattle Times story on our new interim superintendent, Susan Enfield, with the Seattle Times welcoming Goodloe-Johnson. Can you stand more irony?

"Her courage to honestly speak the truth about issues that have lingered since the Civil War gives us great hope for the lessons we can learn from her experience," Board President Cheryl Chow said.

"I'm convinced that she has a really deep understanding of the issues that we face," said School Board Vice President Michael DeBell, who praised her flexibility and creativity.

If you remove the board president's names, it becomes difficult to tell one candidate from another. All you can see in these statements is the board's desire to move, again, reactively, "forward" in any direction that leads away from the last debacle. People who are trapped in cycles of dysfunctional behavior are fond of clean breaks with the past, and moving forward. Having to sit down and work through the latest mess disheartens them.

So long as anyone thinks this latest problem about "leadership," I think we can rule out anyone having learned a lesson. What is wrong here is not simply "culture," but organizational structure. And no per-diem group of seven is likely to exert much of an influence on that. 

"Frommer's picks top 10 airport restaurants," reports USA Today, and the good news is that Ivar's came through for us.

This is serious stuff, people. Only two airport restaurants from the West Coast made it into the top ten--Encounter at LAX, a "hip and kid-friendly restaurant inhabiting a wacky outer-space-themed building" was the other Pacific-side pick. We can't tell you anything about that, but with Ivar's, Frommer's picked a local hero: 

Ivar's has been dishing up chowder and seafood since 1938, and while the airport spinoff doesn't have the fishy ambience of the original, it's probably the best restaurant in Seattle-Tacoma airport.

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Back when Link light rail first started running to the airport, the SunBreak Airport Lunch Team took a ride down to experience, vicariously, a little of the glamor of heading off into the wild blue yonder, and to get an over-priced lunch. Without naming names, we easily negotiated the over-priced part, but were left wanting when it came to glamor or even good taste. 

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Since the SunBreak Lake Union Waterfront Lunch Team often pulls up a seat at Ivar's Salmon House on Northeast Northlake Way, choosing Ivar's at Sea-Tac should have been a no-brainer. Sadly, it's in the Central Terminal, protected by security, and we didn't have any tickets. But if you're a real traveler, we can easily join with Frommer's in recommending Ivar's. 

The airport location is open from 4:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., with breakfast served from 4:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. ("Our breakfast menu includes Cinnamon Roll French Toast, and fresh, hot-off-the-grill breakfast sandwiches with fresh egg and cheese and your choice of sausage, bacon, Dungeness crab, smoked salmon, or bay shrimp.") The rest of the menu (pdf) makes me hungry for second lunch: True Cod fish & chips (4-piece, $7.99), halibut, salmon, prawns, calamari, scallops, clams, chowders, and made-to-order salads. Only two items exceed $10: the grilled halibut caesar ($10.29) and halibut & chips ($11.99). 

Webcam view of First Beach near Forks

The mighty wind that UW meteorologist Cliff Mass was talking about is in full swing out at the coast. It's gusty in Seattle as well, just take a look at the 520 webcam, but a buoy off Westport is reporting 22-foot waves. Another farther out, northwest of Aberdeen, has registered 30-foot waves. Wave heights jumped ten feet, from 20 to 30 feet, between 7 and 8 a.m. this morning.

The Tatoosh Island weather station has seen gusts of 80 mph. The aptly named Hurricane Ridge is seeing gusts of almost 100, with an average of 50 mph (I think it's mph, the raw data doesn't seem to indicate).

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Mass explains that this is known as a midlatitude cyclone, and while most of its force will be spent out at the coast, we are still under a National Weather Service High Wind Advisory until 2 p.m., with gusts of up to 50 mph expected.

West Seattle and Shoreline are reporting power outages already; here is Seattle City Light's outages map, which is updated every 15 minutes. For even more timely information, follow them on Twitter. Especially if your bus runs on electricity, you might also want to keep an eye on Metro for reroutes.

Elsewhere, KIRO TV reports, "Puget Sound Energy said there were scattered outages in the Eastgate and Woodinville areas of the Eastside as well as Whatcom and Skagit counties." 

Graph: Washington ESD

"Big job gains push Wash. unemployment rate down to 9.1 percent," reports Seattlepi.com. "State's monthly job results good, as unemployment drops," puts in the Seattle Times. The AP? "Wash. State Jobless Rate Drops; 11,000 Jobs Added."

A slightly more accurate, and less attention-grabbing formulation came from HeraldNet.com: "State jobless rate down slightly in January." December's unemployment rate of 9.3 percent "returned" to 9.1 percent, which is about where it has been for the past year and a quarter.

When you read that the unemployment rate has plunged or climbed by tenths of a percent, you should know that, nationally, the polling method's margin of error is plus or minus a tenth of a percent. On a state level, it's less precise. "Washington’s unemployment rate in December 2010—9.3 percent—was accurate within a range of 8.5 percent to 10.1 percent," points out The Columbian. In effect, every single single story you've read about Washington's unemployment rate for the past year has been a story about statistical noise.

Virtually everyone is quoting Employment Security Commissioner Paul Trause's statement: "It's unusual to have job gains in the middle of winter, so this is another positive sign that the recovery is under way." It's hardly bad news that "Between December 2010 and January 2011, Washington state added 11,000 jobs on a seasonally adjusted basis," but the unusual is not necessarily a sign of recovery. It might also represent a shocky volatility. In any event, these are "seasonally adjusted" jobs.

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"We're certainly seeing positive news," Dave Wallace, chief economist for the state Employment Security Department, told AP. "My instinct is to be somewhat cautious and see what the revisions will be in the coming months." Wallace explained to the Seattle Times that, in absolute terms, the state lost 47,000 jobs between December and January, due to seasonal hiring. "In a very real sense, we lost jobs," Wallace said, it's just that, "we lost fewer jobs than we normally would at this time of year."

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Another thing to consider is that these 11,000 jobs are not individual people--if people are working two or even three jobs to make ends meet, those two or three jobs are each counted. This is noteworthy because Washington's fullest measure of underemployment and unemployment (the U6 category) shows us leading the national average: the U.S. is 16.7 percent, and Washington is at 18.4 percent.

As the employment report goes on to explain, it's looking like the "ranks of discouraged workers, marginally attached workers, and those working part-time involuntarily in Washington have risen even more dramatically than the number of unemployed." That increase has been steady since January 2010, so when you learn that the state added 20,500 jobs between January 2010 and January 2011, it's important to remember this U6 background--it's an alarming longer-term trend, masking as it does stresses on workers.

The professional and business services sectors, and education and health care sectors, saw what growth there was. Construction saw a loss of 9,900 jobs, and government, a loss of 3,800 jobs, over the year. Gallup's latest poll on job creation nationally shows this same kind of improvement, but they qualify the news thusly: "Job market conditions are better now than they have been over the past couple of years, but they are no better than they were during the recessionary period of September-October 2008." Adjectives of choice are "weak" and "anemic."