Seattle Mayor Bertha Landes
1926-28
After 91 years, Seattle has finally elected its second female mayor, Democrat Jenny Durkan:
Heaven help her, with our homeless crisis, skyrocketing cost of living, out-of-control development and traffic nightmares.
I see on the news this morning that the Democrats won in other key elections, which gives a glimmer of hope after the most dreadful year of politics I can remember. And I've been around for a while. Well, maybe 1968 was worse, but we won't go there.
We're slowly working our way through Ken Burn's "Vietnam" PBS series on these long dark evenings. John recorded all 17 hours of it-- epic even by Ken Burns standards. Watching history is both disheartening (things never change) and encouraging (this too shall pass.) Politics grinds on with all its deception and corruption, just change the names.
But what makes this program so interesting are the interviews with ordinary people who opposed the war and fought in it, including the Vietnamese combatants from both the North and South. The battles scenes and suffering is difficult to watch, but this is must see TV.
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