Subject:

Larry Gossett

  • News

    May 25, 2011

    He Killed Edwin Pratt

    A key source in the civil-rights crusader's murder says police have solved Seattle's coldest case.

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2011

    Ed Pratt Assassination: Solved, Says Get-Away Driver's Ex, 'It Was a Monumental Hate Crime'

    Ed Pratt.​Seattle Urban League director Ed Pratt was 38 when shot to death in the doorway of his suburban Seattle home Jan. 26, 1969. It was a tumultuous racial period in the city, and President Richard Nixon eulogized Pratt as "the Martin Luther King of the Northwest." But 42 years later, the ... More >>

  • News

    April 20, 2011

    Freedom Denied

    Why Dawud Malik won’t be getting out of prison anytime soon.

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2011

    Freedom Denied: Dawud Malik Declared Unfit for Release By State Prison Board

    ​Dawud Malik has spent nearly 44 years behind bars, making him the third-longest serving inmate in Washington. In 1967, when he was 19, Malik was convicted along with 17-year-old Leodis Smith of taking part in a violent crime spree in Seattle that included two murders, four armed robberies and ... More >>

  • News

    March 2, 2011

    Is Dawud Malik the Wrong Man?

    44 years after being sentenced for murders he says he didn't commit, freedom might come with a cost: ignoring his innocence.

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2011

    Video: Larry Gossett Describes Jail With Dawud Malik on the Day MLK Was Shot

    ​In this week's feature story "The Wrong Man," Larry Gossett, chairman of the King County Council, describes a very memorable day he spent in jail with Dawud Malik in 1968. Here's a short video clip of Gossett telling us how he relied on Malik -- then on death row after being convicted of two ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2010

    What Would It Take for a Group of Immigrants Surrounded by Cameras to Get a Rise Out of the SPD Right Now? A Whole Lot More Than Today's Traffic-Blocking Demonstration

    Larry Gossett (in beret) and Pramila Jayapal (in purple cap) block access to immigration courtrooms.​What if you held a civil disobedience protest and the cops refused to arrest anybody? That's exactly what happened today when immigration reform advocates planned on getting 40 people arrested ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2009

    African-American Legislative Day: Pols Abound, and Tom Carr and Pete Holmes Coexist Peacefully

    Carr (far left) and Holmes (far right) bookend public defender Katie Hurley and Gerald Hankerson. Saturday's NAACP-sponsored African-American Legislative Day featured no shortage of elected officials and aspiring elected officials--nor of ordinary folks either. Some notes: -Mayoral candidates Jam ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2009

    Rights Groups' Rally at Council Meeting Pays Off

    Carlos Marentes (in the suit, on the right) addresses the group before entering chambers. Filling King County Council chambers with supporters appeared to get the job done for a coalition of labor, civil rights, and immigrant advocacy groups, as Councilmembers assured them movement on their stalled ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 18, 2009

    Phillips Does the Endorsement Dance

    (Jan Drago, with Larry Phillips in background.) Like Bonnie Raitt observed, "I can't make you love me."You may remember all that "hot rhetoric" between Larry Phillips and Ron Sims during last year's budget process, when Phillips was considering a run against the then-executive, culminating in a frig ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2009

    Exec Candidates: Your New Super-Needy Boyfriend

    You're making it hard not to.A few years back I was totally crushing on this guy I'd see once every couple of months when I sang with a local classical music group. He was tall, handsome, seemed a little distant and aloof--totally swoon worthy. I just about passed out one spring day when he walked o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2009

    She's Not the Incumbent but Bagshaw Will Be Hard to Beat

    Behind that grandmotherly smile lies a very formidable candidate. Right from the outset, Sally Bagshaw declared that she would seek the fourth City Council position, currently held by Jan Drago. Bagshaw says that while Drago hasn't yet formally endorsed her as successor, Drago recruited her to run ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 24, 2009

    Will Sims' Legacy Lifeboat Float Or Will Taxes Sink It?

    The battle for King County's lifeboat got under way today with a hearing in the House Finance Committee. Rep. Ross Hunter, D-Medina, introduced a 12-page bill created specifically to solve King County's budget crisis last week. Currently $10.5 million in county programs from mental health court to t ... More >>

  • News

    November 26, 2008

    Is Sims Already Gone?

    The county executive insists he’s up for another four years atop a county in crisis. But some say his head’s in the clouds.

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2008

    King County Budget Smackdown

    The county executive insists he’s up for another four years atop a county in crisis. But some say his head’s in the clouds.

  • News

    March 26, 2008

    Did Ron Sims Play Favorites With Cabbies?

    Drivers are crying foul and filing suit.

  • News

    March 12, 2008

    Moneytree CEO Wants You to Rethink His Business

    With targeted philanthropy, and close attention to ethics, Moneytree CEO Dennis Bassford is achieving the unthinkable: overcoming prejudice against the payday lending industry.

  • News

    March 5, 2008

    ACLU Stays Surprisingly Neutral on Anti-Gang Bill

    NAACP says it could lead to racial profiling.

  • News

    December 19, 2007

    You Bought King County Council a Prius

    You'll find it in a council member's driveway.

  • Blogs

    December 13, 2007

    Ridin' Clean

    You'll find it in a council member's driveway.

  • News

    July 4, 2007

    Mike Young’s Claim That He’d Field Republican Candidates in All Council Races Turned Out to Be Wishful Thinking

    His loan horse hates nude art. That's it.

  • News

    November 22, 2006

    Primary Killer

    Be afraid, be very afraid: IRV has infiltrated a major Washington county—and may quickly spread here.

  • News

    June 14, 2006

    Seattle's Bold Bioneers

    "[M]ooching a ride accomplishes what the city has been attempting to do for years...which is to get more than one butt in the car."

  • News

    June 7, 2006

    Bright Man's Burden

    What will it take for Seattle's black political community to get behind a candidate like Darryl Smith?

  • News

    April 19, 2006

    This Earth Is Our Earth

    What will it take for Seattle's black political community to get behind a candidate like Darryl Smith?

  • News

    February 22, 2006

    Democracy Meets Theology

    What will it take for Seattle's black political community to get behind a candidate like Darryl Smith?

  • News

    October 26, 2005

    Replace the Viaduct, Kill the Monorail

    Keep the gas-tax increase by voting no on I-912. Stop the monorail by voting no on Proposition 1. Plus, our wisdom about all the other measures and every contested race.

  • News

    October 20, 2004

    Oct. 20-26, 2004

    Keep the gas-tax increase by voting no on I-912. Stop the monorail by voting no on Proposition 1. Plus, our wisdom about all the other measures and every contested race.

  • News

    September 8, 2004

    The Leadership Race

    Keep the gas-tax increase by voting no on I-912. Stop the monorail by voting no on Proposition 1. Plus, our wisdom about all the other measures and every contested race.

  • News

    June 18, 2003

    Make Their Day

    When SPD brought a semiautomatic assault rifle to a downtown protest, what were they expecting?

  • News

    March 12, 2003

    Strike the Law?

    The state House is considering changes to Three Strikes and You're Out.

  • News

    December 4, 2002

    Bleeding-Heart Conservatives

    The state House is considering changes to Three Strikes and You're Out.

  • News

    July 17, 2002

    Budget Hell

    Jail or health care? That really is the question.

  • News

    June 26, 2002

    Who's Destroying the Lillian?

    The city, or Paul Allen's Vulcan Inc.?

  • News

    May 22, 2002

    Street heat

    Shooting prompts King County Council member Larry Gossett to advocate civilian review of officer misconduct.

  • News

    October 24, 2001

    Santa Greg

    Despite the hard times ahead, Nickels keeps promising more goodies.

  • News

    October 24, 2001

    A mule or a leader?

    The debate over Greg Nickels' ability to be mayor.

  • News

    August 1, 2001

    Where's Nate?

    The debate over Greg Nickels' ability to be mayor.

  • News

    June 13, 2001

    Funeral rights

    The debate over Greg Nickels' ability to be mayor.

  • News

    March 14, 2001

    Redemption walk

    "May the blood that is here today rise up and redeem us all."

  • News

    February 7, 2001

    The man in the Irons mask

    King County Council member David Irons gets a surprising report card after a year in office.

  • News

    March 22, 2000

    Chemical cops

    Critics charge too little is known about the health effects of the tear gas and pepper spray used by Seattle police during the WTO demonstrations.

  • News

    March 1, 2000

    Off the track

    Critics charge too little is known about the health effects of the tear gas and pepper spray used by Seattle police during the WTO demonstrations.

  • News

    January 19, 2000

    Nurse Ratchet ascends

    Critics charge too little is known about the health effects of the tear gas and pepper spray used by Seattle police during the WTO demonstrations.

  • News

    January 12, 2000

    M. L. King-maker

    Can Larry Gossett's plan for a new county logo make it in the post-695 world?

  • Diversions

    October 6, 1999

    Notorious namesakes

    King County isn't the only local place name with an unsavory past.

  • News

    June 9, 1999

    Letters

    "The Weekly's review of The Phantom Menace was not only stupid, but actually a display of the real problem with the movie: the audience, the critics, and the media."

  • News

    May 12, 1999

    A sad lot

    Seattle's new impound law is enriching the city while stripping the poor of their cars.

  • News

    August 12, 1998

    The Happy Martyr

    Why Mark Sidran loves to be hated.

  • News

    July 22, 1998

    Terms of enforcement

    A state senator comes to town to examine Seattle's drug-abatement ordinance.

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