Editorials / Opinion

The Times’ recent praise of a state Supreme Court decision that effectively prohibits redaction of innocent tenants’ names from an online court index was misguided [“Open-court issues in the spotlight,” Opinion, July 26]. Two faultless tenants have an eviction lawsuit filing on their permanent records even though the lawsuit against them was dismissed…

Justice Jim Johnson in 2006 (Seattle Photography, Inc.). Thank you for stating an often overlooked fact in your editorial “The loss of Supreme Court justice Jim Johnson’s lonely, conservative voice” [Opinion, March 21]. Without the voice of dissent we are left with a herd mentality for solving important issues facing local, state and federal governments….