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Dan Evans

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2012

    New Slade Gorton Biography: Arrogant, Fascinating and Always Contrarian

    ​Throughout his long political career, Slade Gorton was often characterized as aloof and arrogant, impatient, out of touch. His cocky certainty on seemingly every issue of the day made people furious, though they admired -- were even awed -- by the sheer intellectualism that guided him as a th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 10, 2011

    Gov. Al Rosellini, 101, Dies; Democrat Kingpin Lobbied for Social Change and Political Dollars

    Big Al Rosellini, the two-term governor remembered for his support of medical and educational causes in the state and who later became a money middleman caught up in Seattle's 2003 Strippergate scandal, died this morning at age 101 in his retirement condo on Capitol Hill, his family reports. He was ... More >>

  • News

    September 28, 2011

    The Evolution of John McKay

    How a Republican aristocrat and loyal Bush soldier turned into a marijuana activist and public pot-stirrer.

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2010

    Can This Be The End Of Dino Rossi?

    ​Do three losses in six years a political obituary make? What does the future hold for Dino Rossi? Two weeks after losing his latest bid for U.S. Senate, the questions are easy to ask but harder to answer.

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2010

    Governorpalooza: Wall-to-Wall Pols for Big Al's 100th

    Al Rosellini and his 100-candle cake​"Hello governor," Congressman Dave Reichert said, walking in Saturday morning. "And governor, governor, governor..." There were six in all - Mike Lowry, John Spellman, Dan Evans, Booth Gardner, Gary Locke, and Chris Gregoire. At the Skyline assisted-living ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 27, 2009

    The Reasonable Man Behind the City Gun Ban Lawsuit

    Bob Warden and his .40 caliber glock moments before being turned away from a community center.​The legal term pro se (meaning someone who forgoes a lawyer in order to represent themselves in cour) is normally a handy way of identifying a kook. Someone who's crazy. A person usually only goes pr ... More >>

  • Film

    January 30, 2008

    New on DVD: Local Teacher Conquers Florida Gunslinger!

    Bob Warden and his .40 caliber glock moments before being turned away from a community center.​The legal term pro se (meaning someone who forgoes a lawyer in order to represent themselves in cour) is normally a handy way of identifying a kook. Someone who's crazy. A person usually only goes pr ... More >>

  • News

    January 2, 2008

    The Bremerton/Bainbridge Divide

    Separated by less than a mile of water, the Kitsap communities couldn't be further apart.

  • News

    October 10, 2007

    Does Venus Velázquez Have a Race Problem?

    Or does Seattle?

  • News

    July 25, 2007

    "Ichiro With a Subpoena" Is Alive and Well—Politically, at Least

    Candidates for prosecuting attorney wrestle with a giant shadow.

  • News

    August 16, 2006

    The Rat Patrol

    Candidates for prosecuting attorney wrestle with a giant shadow.

  • Diversions

    June 21, 2006

    When Phinney Was Funky

    Thirty years ago in Seattle Weekly.

  • Diversions

    May 3, 2006

    Scoop's Last White House Bid

    Thirty years ago in Seattle Weekly.

  • Diversions

    March 29, 2006

    Born With the Kingdome

    Thirty years ago in Seattle Weekly.

  • News

    June 22, 2005

    Red, Blue, and Green City

    Thirty years ago in Seattle Weekly.

  • News

    June 15, 2005

    Blue City Conservatives

    Meet Seattle's biggest closet cases: the Republicans next door.

  • News

    May 18, 2005

    The Monkey Wrench Trial

    Dino Rossi's challenge of the 2004 election is on shaky legal ground. But if he prevails, watch litigation become an option in close races everywhere.

  • News

    January 12, 2005

    Mossback's Guide to the Governors

    Dino Rossi's challenge of the 2004 election is on shaky legal ground. But if he prevails, watch litigation become an option in close races everywhere.

  • News

    January 5, 2005

    Retabulation 2004, Health Care, Business

    Dino Rossi's challenge of the 2004 election is on shaky legal ground. But if he prevails, watch litigation become an option in close races everywhere.

  • News

    December 29, 2004

    Mossbacks to Remember

    An annual farewell to folks who helped shape life in our neck of the woods before they left us.

  • News

    October 13, 2004

    Raise Above It All

    It's a million-dollar monorail campaign, with both sides raking in big bucks.

  • News

    September 15, 2004

    Moderate Landslide

    Contrary to fears—or hopes—Washington's new partisan primary didn't much help the candidates on the far left or the far right.

  • News

    September 8, 2004

    Partisan Dickering

    This year's new primary format is terrible. But it's still important to vote. Here's for whom.

  • News

    September 1, 2004

    The Leadership Race

    The gubernatorial campaigns take a detour, revisiting the 1960s civil rights movement.

  • News

    August 18, 2004

    The New Ralph Nader?

    Libertarian presidential candidate Michael Badnarik wants his party to be a player in 2004.

  • News

    June 2, 2004

    Papering It Over

    Monorail planners deny there are problems and defend costly, uninformative advertising.

  • News

    March 31, 2004

    The Return of Mr. Civility

    Former City Attorney Mark Sidran, the Democratic bane of the left, wants to be attorney general. But he has smart competition in both parties.

  • News

    March 3, 2004

    Monoreality

    The monorail project's board signs off on the alignment this month. But is this the train we voted for?

  • News

    February 11, 2004

    UW, Media, and Quote

    The monorail project's board signs off on the alignment this month. But is this the train we voted for?

  • News

    July 30, 2003

    Media, State Government

    The monorail project's board signs off on the alignment this month. But is this the train we voted for?

  • News

    July 30, 2003

    The Rainmaker

    Thirty-eight years after Albert D. Rosellini left the governor's mansion, he's still working all the angles. And his latest moves, at Seattle City Hall, have landed him back in the news.

  • News

    July 23, 2003

    Locke Out

    Happily, the governor decides to move on. The challenge, now, is for real Democrats to show they can do better.

  • News

    April 30, 2003

    Big Gamble

    Should we plug the states budget hole by expanding casino gambling beyond the reservations? A proposal in Olympia is tempting legislatorsand teachersto do just that.

  • News

    February 12, 2003

    After Further Review

    The public-private deal with Paul Allen to build Seahawks Stadium was a lose-win situation. Guess who won.

  • News

    January 22, 2003

    TV Star

    The Democrats have chosen someone to respond to the State of the Union address, and that person is our Republican governor.

  • News

    January 15, 2003

    Brain Damage

    The billing scandal at UW Medical is far from over, and the penalties could be in the tens of millions of dollars.

  • News

    August 21, 2002

    All Politics Is Local

    Political Food Fight

  • News

    March 21, 2001

    News Clips— Riot canceled; film at 11

    Political Food Fight

  • Arts

    February 21, 2001

    The gorilla of growth

    How to live with the beast that is Boeing.

  • News

    February 14, 2001

    "...he clearly imagines himself to be writing to sympathetic, amused readers who admire his frenzied attempts to 'get laid.'"

    How to live with the beast that is Boeing.

  • News

    February 7, 2001

    Missing the bad old days

    A sanitized, transparent government can't make the necessary compromises.

  • News

    January 17, 2001

    Locke 'n' roll

    Fresh from electoral triumph, a new and slightly scary Governor Gary.

  • News

    September 27, 2000

    Last stand for Cyanide Slade?

    An ambivalence about power may be Cantwell's electoral ally.

  • News

    February 23, 2000

    The McCain mutiny

    A fallen Republican works a strategy to stop Boy George.

  • News

    February 9, 2000

    Rough and Rudy

    Tough-talking educator Rudy Crew has returned to Washington to save primary education, but how long will he stick around?

  • News

    February 2, 2000

    Unpopular populist

    Hell-raising Democrat Deborah Senn wants to kick Slade Gorton out of the Senate. Why isn't her own party behind her?

  • News

    June 23, 1999

    Cool house

    Hell-raising Democrat Deborah Senn wants to kick Slade Gorton out of the Senate. Why isn't her own party behind her?

  • News

    April 28, 1999

    PROGRESSIVES' PARADISE LOST?

    How did the political pendulum swing so far to the right in the former'Soviet of Washington'? And is it swinging back?

  • News

    October 14, 1998

    Filling Patty's Shoes

    With the consummate timing of a successful politician, Patty Murray has missed the rain.

  • Arts

    September 30, 1998

    A Season of Hard Western Truths

    This may be the best post-Stegner year yet for books about the West.

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