BTC is off to a wedding Friday in Kansas City, where he'll try to find the improvisational soul of Charlie Parker. Times reporter Jim Brunner has graciously agreed to fill in.
The name's funnier than the content, but funny nevertheless.
Here's some reader response to Washington's new primary system, in which you can only vote for candidates of one party or the other.
Karen Fischer: "You bet we are angry. Our independence and liberty are at question here. As a voter, I look at the individual running for an office first,
before the party is considered. It isn't the party I am voting for."
Kathryn Ulland: "Imposing this new system at a time when this country desperately needs a change to restore our right to freedom and respectability in the world as we knew it prior to 2000 is certainly a disservice to the Washington voters and the candidates who are running for office."
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