The kitchen table debates

His and hers campaign signs: A Bremerton City Council member who had filed for re-election was surprised to learn that his wife also is running for his seat. Roy Runyon said his wife, Kim Faulkner, as a citizen has every right to run for office.

A word of advice for any incumbent who doesn’t want to face a spouse on the ballot: Make the time to keep your honey-do list up to date, or your spouse may help you find the time.

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Going to have to sell the Picasso: The average CEO was paid $13.5 million in 2014, 373 times the average worker’s $36,134 salary. But that disparity is less than what it was in 2000 when CEOs made 525 times what workers made.

We know; we felt bad for the CEOs, too. Should we start a GoFundMe account?

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Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1937, the House and Senate chambers of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., were air-conditioned for the first time.

It was a simple and inexpensive job and one that remains in use today; they just vented all the hot air to the outside.

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