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A chronicle of sprawl foretold
How often do you hear folks howl about how we’ve been blindsided by growth—taken unawares by surging population,…
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Gunning amok
After Lonnie Davis’ bloody rampage two weeks ago, I’m waiting for the NRA to cop a new slogan:…
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Vikings, then and now
Welcome to ethnic consciousness, postmodern/premillennial-style. Last Thursday Kennewick man, the world’s most notorious bag of bones, finally arrived…
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Voodoo science
LAST YEAR, federal wildlife biologists were caught seeding the habitat they inventoried with lynx hair. Last week, Nature…
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That was the year that will be
Forget all this millennium hype. First we’ve got to get through 1999. We’ll be so obsessed with entering…
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You gotta love it
Every time someone talks about how great SoDo—er, Safeco—Field looks, I remember Thomas Carlyle, the cantankerous Scottish author…
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Sic transit media
Small schools howl as newly wired big districts pull the plug on the region's pioneering media library.
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The tracks of their fears
Sound Transit jettisons Northgate, Southcenter, and North Capitol Hill, and passes a cautious rail plan. Maybe we don't…
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All together now
WHERE I WENT to school, everyone had to read the same books, so I was thrilled when local…
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Bad Rep
If she's so 'committed to public service,' why is Jennifer Dunn eyeing the private sector?
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Taking a powder
“AMERICANS SHOULD watch what they say” took on new meaning last week, after Seattle police responded to a…
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Daredevils
Didja hear the news brief about the septuagenarian officials of a town back East who promised to jump…
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The Westlake Serbs
As Westlake Park rabble-rousing goes, this was barely a peep. The eight or so Serbo-Seattleites who turned out…
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One more highway
LIKE A BAD PENNY, like Richard Nixon, like hope springing eternal, the idea just keeps coming back: to…
