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Washington, DC

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2012

    Why Gilles Nicault of Long Shadows Vintners Has the Best Job in Washington Wine

    As the resident winemaker at Long Shadows Vintners, Gilles Nicault nimbly curates a unique collection of Washington wines: the concept being to bring the best winemakers in the world to Washington to make the best wine with Washington grapes. This assignment may be a lofty one but Nicault wears it w ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 23, 2011

    Wale & Friends

    As the resident winemaker at Long Shadows Vintners, Gilles Nicault nimbly curates a unique collection of Washington wines: the concept being to bring the best winemakers in the world to Washington to make the best wine with Washington grapes. This assignment may be a lofty one but Nicault wears it w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2011

    Comment of the Day: 'Please Tax My Income!'

    ​Happy Friday, everyone! Today's Comment of the Day winner found an old post and spruced it up with a new, Warren Buffett-style idea.

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2011

    Hanford Downwinders' Suit 'Baseless,' Says One of the Attorneys Who Billed U.S. $50 Million

    J. Craig SweatCarole Means.​Somewhere along the middle of this century, cleanup at the Hanford nuclear reservation may be complete. That will be more than 60 years after the last plutonium was produced at Hanford, some of it originally used to arm the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped in 1945 on Jap ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2011

    State Rep. Norma Smith Wants DUI Convicts to Drive With "Special" License Plates

    ​The Puritans had it right. When some scandalous young lassie shacked up with a man out of wedlock, they slapped a scarlet letter on her chest, so everyone could point, snicker, and otherwise feel better about themselves. State Rep. Norma Smith wants to recreate that festive atmosphere of sham ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2010

    Seattle Ranked 10th Best Business City in Nation, Was 31st Last Year

    ​Suck it, rest of the nation. While ya'll have been wallowing in your recession sorrows, Seattle has been adding jobs and moving up in the business world. Granted we're not at the top of the list and there are plenty of unemployed folks who will find little comfort in this news, but according ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2010

    Four Loko Set to Be Banned by Day's End

    ​By the end of business today, Washingtonians will finally know whether they can still march into their nearest beer and wine outlet and order up as much heart palpitating, seizure simulating alcoholic energy drinks as their credit lines will allow. The Washington State Liquor Control Board wi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2010

    More Change? Already? No, Thanks

    Krist Novoselic's column on music and politics runs every Tuesday on Reverb. Check back on Friday when he writes about what he's been listening to.​In 2008, the political atmosphere was about change. Voters wanted something new and the Obama For America campaign promised a political transforma ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 4, 2010

    The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

    Krist Novoselic's column on music and politics runs every Tuesday on Reverb. Check back on Friday when he writes about what he's been listening to.​In 2008, the political atmosphere was about change. Voters wanted something new and the Obama For America campaign promised a political transforma ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2010

    Vintage Boeing Plane Crashes With Reporter On Board (Video)

    ​It was supposed to be just a little PR stunt. To celebrate the release of its aviation-history-spanning movie, "Legends of Flight," Boeing had eight vintage planes buzzing around Washington, D.C. But when the 1940s-era Stearman PT17 biplane came in for landing at Reagan National Airport, an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2010

    Norm Dicks' Earmarks Pay Campaign Dividends

    Norman, stormin' earmarks​As mentioned the other day, Rep. Norm Dicks is running another stealth campaign, relying in great deal on free media coverage about the latest appropriations he's doling out. Many of them of course are earmarks, hated by budget watchdogs, loved by recipients. It now ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2010

    Details Announced for Top Chef Washington D.C.: Eric Ripert For President

    Change I can believe in​Bravo has finally released the vital details on their new season of Top Chef, and this time around the whole show is going to be centered in Washington D.C.--certainly an interesting and cosmopolitan destination, food-wise, and a perfect excuse for the producers to snag ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2010

    HSUS Takes on Big Ag Over Animal Welfare

    This week's feature story, "Down on the Farm," chronicles an increasingly heated national battle over "factory-farmed" food. On one side: a phalanx of corporation- and family-owned farms across the country. On the other: the Washington, D.C.-based Humane Society of the United States.Caught in the mi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2010

    Sleep Country Amphitheater: Officially the Worst Name Of Any Venue On Earth

    Hello, Sleep Country! Jack Johnson plays the Sleep County Amphitheater on October 3.​Sleep Country USA! Why See a Concert Anywhere Else!?!? Somehow I missed this news at the end of last month. Most Washingtonians are blissfully unaware of what used to be known as the Amphitheater at Clark Cou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2010

    Reader: What if Health Care Reform Really Is Unconstitutional?

    You know what relic of the past needs to make a comeback? Quill pens.​Reader Ross Farr responds to Why Is Rob McKenna Challenging ObamaCare? "I read many spiteful posts condemning McKenna's actions as some form of a disservice to Washingtonians, but none of those commentators displays the cou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2010

    Washington State Supreme Court Justice James Johnson: Civil War-Era Minors Had the Right to Bear Arms, Why Not Today's Youngsters?

    Things were so much better when 16-year-olds could go to war,amitrite?​Pain in the ass though they might be, there is a definite value in having at least one strict constructionist on your high court. Who the better to remind those misguided legal relativists to give the text of the Constituti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2009

    Election Night '09: Ken Hutcherson, Larry Stickney, and a Former Hippie Tell Me Why R-71 Should Go Down in Flames

    Larry Stickney addresses the press.​Party: Reject R-71 Location: Holiday Inn, Everett Mood: Cautious. R-71 was winning by a pair of points Drink of Choice? That's a good question. Larry Stickney walked out of the Reject R-71 effort's party -- off limits to members of the media -- and told rep ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 14, 2009

    ZZ Top Cancels Seattle, But Soldiers on Elsewhere

    ​As I feared, ZZ Top has officially had to cancel their Seattle date. Industrious fellows that they are, however, they've rescheduled dates down the rest of the west coast and back to the east, dubbing the impromptu itinerary revisions the "Necessity is a Mother Tour." Sadly, it was just too d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2009

    If Al Franken Can Be a U.S. Senator, How 'Bout J.P. Patches?

    The NYT and everyone else is reporting the Minnesota Supreme Court decision finally granting former SNL funnyman Al Franken the critical 60th seat for Democrats in the U.S. Senate. There, he'll join our state delegation of Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray, neither of whom is particularly witty or quo ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 18, 2009

    King & Snohomish County Spelling Bee

    The NYT and everyone else is reporting the Minnesota Supreme Court decision finally granting former SNL funnyman Al Franken the critical 60th seat for Democrats in the U.S. Senate. There, he'll join our state delegation of Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray, neither of whom is particularly witty or quo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2009

    Sen. Murray on the Stimulus Package

    The U.S. Senate passed its version of the stimulus package as pushed by the Obama Administration. It was no surprise that both of Washington's Democratic Senators voted in favor of the $838 billion measure. The House version of the bill is $19 billion less and the difference between the two will be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2009

    Should Revamped KeyArena Be Part of Federal Stimulus Package?

    It's not as far-fetched as you might think, writes Henry Abbott: "The [Sacramento] Kings are reportedly losing a lot of money. And they are trying again to find a plan to finance a new arena that will help them be profitable. Meanwhile, in Washington D.C. politicians are talking about 'shovel ready' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2009

    Neko Case Is Also Skipping Seattle On Her Next Tour

    Neko Case at Bumbershoot 2008. Photo by Renee McMahonI have to admit, this is something like poetic justic for me: After being flippant about Death Cab for Cutie not playing a show in Seattle as part of their next tour the other day, I just found out that Neko Case's tour in support of her upcoming ... More >>

  • News

    January 28, 2009

    Patty Murray’s Unlikely Hill Climb

    The rise of the Senate’s original soccer mom.

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2009

    Arts News Roundup

    There's more to life than politics (no matter how fabulous those inaugural balls and concerts in Washington, DC). In our local arts news, the Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs announced today eight new members for its Seattle Arts Commission. The mayor appointed four: SAM curator Sandra ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 26, 2008

    Supremes Say: Lock 'n Load!

    There's more to life than politics (no matter how fabulous those inaugural balls and concerts in Washington, DC). In our local arts news, the Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs announced today eight new members for its Seattle Arts Commission. The mayor appointed four: SAM curator Sandra ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 25, 2008

    Task

    There's more to life than politics (no matter how fabulous those inaugural balls and concerts in Washington, DC). In our local arts news, the Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs announced today eight new members for its Seattle Arts Commission. The mayor appointed four: SAM curator Sandra ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 23, 2008

    Mariachi Madness

    Saturday, April 26

  • Blogs

    February 29, 2008

    It's Just a Bill, Yes It's Only a Bill, But...

    Saturday, April 26

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2007

    Krist Novoselic: Democracy in Transition

    Saturday, April 26

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2007

    Krist Novoselic on The Progressive Movement, The Grange, and William Morley Bouck

    Saturday, April 26

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2007

    Morel Madness

    Saturday, April 26

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2007

    Gold Star for Baird, Murray takes Silver

    Saturday, April 26

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2007

    What The Kids are Watching

    Saturday, April 26

  • News

    January 3, 2007

    Pea-O'd

    This land is your land? Not when pitted against the squatter's rights of a rogue garden.

  • News

    July 19, 2006

    Happy to Play Nanny

    Sen. Margarita Prentice is behind the controversial state crackdown on online gambling. But what kind of hand is she really playing?

  • News

    January 4, 2006

    Strongman of the North

    Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens is, by his own account, a 'mean, miserable SOB.' He's also a powerful SOB who has effectively become Washington's third senator. He wants to drill in ANWR and see more tankers cruising Puget Sound, but his overreaching may be a godsend for Maria Cantwell in 2006.

  • News

    December 14, 2005

    Clean-Energy Frenzy

    As the Northwest struggles with soaring fuel and electricity prices, corporate executives and entrepreneurs are joining politicians and activists to develop cleaner, smarter, and self-reliant energy sources.

  • News

    March 2, 2005

    To Love, Honor, and Be Gay

    How the state's highest court will decide whether gay marriage is legal.

  • News

    November 10, 2004

    Dinocracy in Action

    Forget the conventional wisdom about Washington's low religiosity, which way young voters lean, and who ran the sharpest gubernatorial campaign.

  • News

    September 29, 2004

    Citizen Microsoft

    It's time we stopped acquiescing to the behemoth in Redmond, because what's good for big business isn't necessarily good for Washington.

  • News

    August 25, 2004

    The New Abolitionists

    Freeing 'sex slaves' is now at the top of the human rights agenda, thanks to Christian evangelicals, the Bush administration, and two former Washington politicians, Linda Smith and John Miller. How did the anti-trafficking crusade evolve, and is it being overhyped?

  • News

    September 17, 2003

    Let Freedom Ride

    An unlikely road trip from Seattle to the East Coast is intended to put a human face on the problems of immigrants of every status.

  • Diversions

    April 30, 2003

    They Want You

    An unlikely road trip from Seattle to the East Coast is intended to put a human face on the problems of immigrants of every status.

  • News

    August 7, 2002

    Why Morning-After Drugs Are Still a Hard Sell

    Washington state set national precedents with progressive policies offering women "morning-after" pills. Despite grassroots PR—and legislation—many women still don't know of the drugs or how to get them.

  • News

    March 6, 2002

    Who Said It?

    Washington state set national precedents with progressive policies offering women "morning-after" pills. Despite grassroots PR—and legislation—many women still don't know of the drugs or how to get them.

  • News

    October 24, 2001

    Anthrax 101

    Washington state set national precedents with progressive policies offering women "morning-after" pills. Despite grassroots PR—and legislation—many women still don't know of the drugs or how to get them.

  • Food

    July 18, 2001

    Side Dish

    Washington state set national precedents with progressive policies offering women "morning-after" pills. Despite grassroots PR—and legislation—many women still don't know of the drugs or how to get them.

  • News

    October 14, 1998

    The Beltway's Worst Nightmare

    A look at Linda Smith

  • News

    October 14, 1998

    Filling Patty's Shoes

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

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