The creator of ‘Li’l Abner’ was a character straight out of the funny pages.
Burma, sanctions, and the attorney general.
Something about Initiative 696, the “Ban All Nets” measure on November’s ballot, must cloud people’s minds. Like mine: Two weeks…
Save any funeral flowers you were going to send to the Speakeasy Cafe, Seattle’s seminal cybercafe and alternative performance space…
“I can finally sleep at night,” says Don Hennick, the Seattle sculptor and Good Samaritan who was charged with purse-snatching…
Whoever heard of a government body saying, “No, don’t give us the money, here’s something better to spend it on”?…
Backers of failed transportation Referendum 51 regroup—without greens who turned against their highway-heavy plan.
A neglected loophole in the state tax code.
Picking up pebbles on the Big Island, and other blasphemies.
Talk about an ounce of prevention matching a pound of cure. As of a week ago, the salvage and cleanup…
Newspapers take what’s variously called the “flag,” “nameplate,” or “masthead”—the way their names appear atop the front page—very seriously, and…
The Coe School blaze leaves no answers—just new questions and a shake-up in Seattle’s arson investigations.
How could the city go wrong picking an architect whose name sounds like “cool house”? But I’m still amazed that,…
Hold onto your history books; the US Postal Service (with help from its faithful fans) has delivered the latest installment…
Feds say no, but their own findings give reason to list local orcas as endangered.
Puncturing conspiracy theories about the Makahs.
What a week. At the 10th anniversary celebration of the fall of the Berlin Wall, George not Dubyuh) Bush was…
How often do you hear folks howl about how we’ve been blindsided by growth—taken unawares by surging population, sprawl, and…
After Lonnie Davis’ bloody rampage two weeks ago, I’m waiting for the NRA to cop a new slogan: “Guns don’t…
Welcome to ethnic consciousness, postmodern/premillennial-style. Last Thursday Kennewick man, the world’s most notorious bag of bones, finally arrived at University…
