It was last January when I first talked to the engaging Tim Eyman, the cocreator (with car dealer Martin Rood) of Initiative 695, which would… Continue reading
Judging by the initiatives that get filed and passed, the most dire menace facing the good people of this state and country is . .… Continue reading
Toll phobia and rural preservation block a cleaner, cheaper way to operate highways.
NEGLECTING MOTHER Nature at the start just costs you more later on. That's what Dubya's fiercest opponents and some of his best friends are trying… Continue reading
How often do you hear folks howl about how we've been blindsided by growth—taken unawares by surging population, sprawl, and traffic? But that wasn't for… Continue reading
Amazon's new campus would look great—if it didn't hide Seattle's last great architectural icon.
Sake is the soccer of beveragesardently appreciated everywhere but America, yet always on the verge of making it stateside. Breakthrough seemed imminent back in the… Continue reading
Seattle gets set to ban performing animals while Ringling Bros. tries to show a kinder, gentler circus.
Backers of failed transportation Referendum 51 regroup—without greens who turned against their highway-heavy plan.
"I can finally sleep at night," says Don Hennick, the Seattle sculptor and Good Samaritan who was charged with purse-snatching in the Pike Place Market… Continue reading
Could disasters loom as more and more pipeline operators switch to Windows NT?
THE GOOD NEWS: Thanks to safer sex, needle exchanges, and new drug therapies (not to mention death), the incidence of AIDS in King County has… Continue reading
WHERE I WENT to school, everyone had to read the same books, so I was thrilled when local lit-booster Nancy Pearl got all of Seattle… Continue reading
It seems a little retrograde, now that the markets have recognized Amazon.com as the e-world's Wal-Mart (or Nordstrom), to talk about the way it sells… Continue reading
WAR HAS COME to the post office, and some East Coast media operators are hiding from the carrier the way they formerly hid from bill… Continue reading
WHAT'S LOFTILY called "the national conversation" is more like a simmering pot of soup. Weighty matters and nutritious morsels sink to the bottom, out of… Continue reading
WE DIDN'T REALIZE it then, but when I last embarked on a column like this—on media, politics, popular culture, and the things they do to… Continue reading
