Richard Sprague

The Seattle Times today points out that Washington State ranks fifth in the country for Melanoma (skin cancer), right up there with other n...

The latest New Republic repeats an idea I first saw in the Atlantic Monthly in March :  the cool people are moving out of the suburbs and b...

It's dangerous to vote if you don't know what you're doing, and it can be hard to get facts if you're a normal person.  You...

Washington state Governor Christine Gregoire poured huge amounts of new money into education in the past four years:  about $2.46 Billion. ...

The new August 2008 issue of Wired describes the Personal Genome Project, an upcoming ambitious attempt to collect DNA and more from 100,00...

Sixteen years ago this week, I was traveling in my family's ancestral home of Panevezys, Lithuania.  A New York Times travel writer vis...

Mike Cero, always looking for cost-effective ways to help the environment ,  invited me to help test drive an electric car now available for...