Donna Gordon Blankinship joined the editorial board in 2016 after 12 years covering education, state government, health care, science and breaking news for The Associated Press in Seattle. She has lived in the Pacific Northwest for more than 20 years and currently makes her home in Bellevue. She studied journalism at the University of Illinois and worked in Wyoming, North Carolina, New Jersey and New York before coming to Seattle.
Seattle Times editorial columnist Donna Gordon Blankinship writes: Not every dollar spent to combat homelessness is going to bring people inside, but no public program...
The youth are ready for their parents and grandparents to step aside and let them lead on the gun debate.
Some proven education reforms really do help close the achievement gap between children from different economic and ethnic groups.
Everyone at the annual reunion of people involved in the McCleary education funding lawsuit seem to have grown a lot more frustrated as the 2018...
I worry too many people are wasting their energy protesting the U.S. Secretary of Education and not spending enough time putting pressure on the state...
Washington doesn’t need simply equitable school funding. The state needs ample enough funding so every child has the opportunity to succeed in life, no matter...
Why are Sound Transit and Metro diverting buses from downtown Seattle to address traffic congestion? Buses should stay and cars should be diverted.
Free speech and protest are at the core of our political system, no matter if the words are yelled or whispered. But the First Amendment...