Two years in the life of a redwood-hugger.
PUBLIC RADIO HAS money. Lots of it. It’s a big business these days—a business worth supporting, but still a useful…
The most popular citizens ballot measure in state history has been struck down, and we shouldn’t be surprised.
Unions are scaling back protests against free trade and the WTO.
Any number of questions remain after the Memorial Day weekend rampage by Lonnie Davis, culminating in the Shoreline standoff with…
Philip Thiel stands in the hall, alone, shaking his head. “They’re arranging deck chairs on the Titanic!” he grumbles. In…
IN 1998, WITH Clinton’s sex scandal, the award for most overrated story can safely be retired for posterity. Even if…
This past weekend, two groups of people who care very much about radio assembled in Seattle, separated only by about…
IT WAS A MOMENTARY story on the evening news, a photo in the paper, and then gone: last week’s student…
LAST WEEK, our evening news focused on the drama—or lack of it— as congressional Republicans guided George W. Bush’s massive…
Web sources for what’s missing from network news.
IT’S NOT JUST THOSE wacky tree-huggers and Dubya-haters who are howling that the Bush/Cheney energy “plan” is, in a word,…
EVERY GENERATION has its 8 Mile, the widely acclaimed new movie by rap star Eminem. Mine was Purple Rain, a…
I’ve always been a little bit ambivalent about the animal rights movement. On the one hand, I view all life…
The city is considering a new system for watch-dogging the police. It could be a national model, but the temptation to compromise may prove irresistible.
DEAR PRESIDENT BUSH, I write as a proud American and a resident of one of its many great cities: Seattle….
I’m glad I’m a columnist. In Impolitics, I don’t have to pretend. One of the great myths of news reporting,…
Planning to boycott Microsoft? Get in line.
THE RACE FOR SEATTLE’S most powerful elected job is already excruciating. Three moderate men of the establishment—Greg Nickels, Mark Sidran,…
Excuse me while I barf. I’m in no mood to join the joyful eulogies upon the passing of Ronald Reagan—remembrances…
So “Boeing” is “leaving” Seattle. Good. Amid all the mawkishness about the loss of part of Seattle’s soul, the ghost…
The Butterfly has landed. Julia “Butterfly” Hill, 25, became an instant media celebrity last month when an agreement with Pacific…
During the slowly unwinding prosecutorial wake of Fat Tuesday, Seattle police in late March asked prosecutors to consider invoking hate…
