PubliCola Adds Life
This Week's Guest Host, Sandeep Kaushik
Erica and I are both on vacation this week. But PubliCola will continue to post. [pullquote]We'll be publishing a series of essays that address the question: How has Seattle changed?[/pullquote]
For starters, Sandeep Kaushik is filling in as guest host this week. He’ll publish one column a day. Kaushik, who like Erica and me has a long history working as a reporter at alternative newsweeklies (he also did time as a stringer for the mainstream Boston Globe), co-founded PubliCola in January 2009. He has since moved on and has his own political consulting firm now, Sound View Strategies. Kaushik will stay far away from writing about anything his firm is working on (such as the alcohol initiatives), and will err on the side of disclosing anything that could be perceived as a conflict of interest.
Sandeep Kaushik at home in Phinney Ridge
Kaushik has a particularly keen editorial eye for national politics, and I’ve asked him to focus his literary wit on President Obama and the livelier-than-we-thought crew of Republicans who are taking the field for 2012. I wouldn’t be surprised if Sandeep also turned his poisonous pen to local politics, though. Frankly, I don’t know how he can resist.
If I may: Kaushik is one of the most insightful and erudite political writers I’ve ever worked with. If you’re not familiar with his perspicacious writing, you’re in for a treat.
We've also lined up a bunch of other great content.
We'll be publishing a series of essays this week that address the question: How has Seattle changed? The troupe of guest writers was asked to interpret the question any way they saw fit. How has Seattle changed for the better? For the worse? How has it changed in the last 10 years or in the last two weeks? How has it changed politically or culturally? How has it changed on a grand scale—or personally? We're kicking off the series today with a piece by outgoing Seattle Channel civic affairs host C.R. Douglas.
And there’s no way we’d let a week go by without your daily Morning Fizz. Expect a different sort of Morning Fizz over the next five days, though. Fizz is usually culled from the newsy and gossipy odds and ends Erica and I pick up in our daily reporting. Since our notebooks are officially closed this week, look for more commentary, analysis, humor, and soothsaying about the morning’s big headlines than the regular insider roundup. We’re not at liberty to say who’s compiling Fizz this week (it’s not Kaushik). But again, I think you’re in for a treat.
ThinkTank Tuesday is also in the queue. This week we’ve got dueling editorials lined up from Seattle City Council incumbent Bruce Harrell and his election opponent Brad Meacham. Finally, we’ll be posting a series of Q&As with this year’s Seattle City Council candidates.
Same ground rules in the comments threads. We know our guests are going to hit with lively and thoughtful content, and we expect the same from Cola readers. Be courteous and honest with our guests and with each other.
See you in a week. And enjoy.
For starters, Sandeep Kaushik is filling in as guest host this week. He’ll publish one column a day. Kaushik, who like Erica and me has a long history working as a reporter at alternative newsweeklies (he also did time as a stringer for the mainstream Boston Globe), co-founded PubliCola in January 2009. He has since moved on and has his own political consulting firm now, Sound View Strategies. Kaushik will stay far away from writing about anything his firm is working on (such as the alcohol initiatives), and will err on the side of disclosing anything that could be perceived as a conflict of interest.
Sandeep Kaushik at home in Phinney Ridge
Kaushik has a particularly keen editorial eye for national politics, and I’ve asked him to focus his literary wit on President Obama and the livelier-than-we-thought crew of Republicans who are taking the field for 2012. I wouldn’t be surprised if Sandeep also turned his poisonous pen to local politics, though. Frankly, I don’t know how he can resist.
If I may: Kaushik is one of the most insightful and erudite political writers I’ve ever worked with. If you’re not familiar with his perspicacious writing, you’re in for a treat.
We've also lined up a bunch of other great content.
We'll be publishing a series of essays this week that address the question: How has Seattle changed? The troupe of guest writers was asked to interpret the question any way they saw fit. How has Seattle changed for the better? For the worse? How has it changed in the last 10 years or in the last two weeks? How has it changed politically or culturally? How has it changed on a grand scale—or personally? We're kicking off the series today with a piece by outgoing Seattle Channel civic affairs host C.R. Douglas.
And there’s no way we’d let a week go by without your daily Morning Fizz. Expect a different sort of Morning Fizz over the next five days, though. Fizz is usually culled from the newsy and gossipy odds and ends Erica and I pick up in our daily reporting. Since our notebooks are officially closed this week, look for more commentary, analysis, humor, and soothsaying about the morning’s big headlines than the regular insider roundup. We’re not at liberty to say who’s compiling Fizz this week (it’s not Kaushik). But again, I think you’re in for a treat.
ThinkTank Tuesday is also in the queue. This week we’ve got dueling editorials lined up from Seattle City Council incumbent Bruce Harrell and his election opponent Brad Meacham. Finally, we’ll be posting a series of Q&As with this year’s Seattle City Council candidates.
Same ground rules in the comments threads. We know our guests are going to hit with lively and thoughtful content, and we expect the same from Cola readers. Be courteous and honest with our guests and with each other.
See you in a week. And enjoy.
