Don’t count the cross-Cascade fuel pipeline out just yet. Officials of the Olympic Pipe Line Company, which runs the north-south…
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic,” said Stalin, who understood such things too well….
YOU HAVE TO wonder if the anthrax attacks are the work of homegrown far-right wackos rather than bin Laden brigades….
You’ve probably received a plug for this latest bit of e-mail rabble-rousing by now; four weeks before the event, I’d…
Seattle gets set to ban performing animals while Ringling Bros. tries to show a kinder, gentler circus.
What a week, again. On Monday, Port Commission President Pat Davis received the World Affairs Councils “1999 World Citizen Award”…
Yeah, yeah, I know, the last thing you want to hear is any more chin stroking about the Columbine High…
Another elephant-beating scandal, this time over Baby Hansa.
THE GOOD NEWS: Thanks to safer sex, needle exchanges, and new drug therapies (not to mention death), the incidence of…
The boys of sumo descend on Vancouver, in a hokey, glorious cross-cultural match.
Surviving summer by the grace of local brewmasters.
For nigh on three decades, picturesque Victoria, BC, and its neighbors in the Capital Regional District have been dumping their…
LIKE THE BLETHENS, the Scigliano clan cherishes its Maine connection. The difference is, we gather at the Penobscot family manse…
And you thought tuna and swordfish were toxic mercury bombs? Next time in Tokyo, avoid the whale and dolphin sashimi—creepy…
Experts doubt high-tech monitoring can save Seattle from bioattacks.
WE DIDN’T REALIZE it then, but when I last embarked on a column like this—on media, politics, popular culture, and…
The Seattle Times‘ new mantra is . . . “It’s in the P-I.” The talent, that is. Just as the…
The scarce, elusive Cascade grizzlies go to court for a little respect—and room.
IT’S BECOMING a familiar spectacle around here: A ship steams into port with a once-magnificent fin whale wrapped around its…
Sake is the soccer of beveragesardently appreciated everywhere but America, yet always on the verge of making it stateside. Breakthrough…
