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Operation This Is Pretty Stupid
It’s been an amazing sight this month: two decades’ accumulated public distrust of government and nearly a year’s…
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Shutting down Seattle
The World Trade Organization's talks are scheduled to be held in free trade-friendly Seattle this fall. So is…
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A legend reclaimed
FIFTY YEARS AGO this week, an internationally renowned star stood on the back of a flatbed truck in…
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Cut taxes, now!
TIM EYMAN has become an inexplicable blight on our state government. His minuscule shadow terrifies our lawmakers. He…
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Political education
Very quietly, multibillionaire Paul Allen is buying another statewide election. Allen, you’ll remember, found himself in 1997 with…
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God’s work
Last week, liberal, atheistic Seattle finally joined in the important debate over President Bush’s “Faith-Based Initiative.” At UW’s…
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President Kerry
A COUPLE OF weeks ago, in assessing the now all-but-certain nomination of John Kerry, I wrote, “Bush would…
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The Electors
IT WAS JUST ANOTHER night on the campaign trail. Seattle City Attorney Mark Sidran (vying for mayor) and…
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Who is Jim McDermott?
When I moved back to Seattle in 1990, I was scoping out the local political scene at about…
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Airport in a Storm
For several years in the 1980s, I lived in Houston, a city with two airports. Invariably, when I…
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The Reptile House
It’s been getting warmer these days. And, as anyone who’s lived in a desert knows, that means reptiles…
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Is This What Failure Looks Like?
Five years after the Battle in Seattle, results are mixed. Third World delegates have gridlocked the WTO but…
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Cops and renters
The revolution is dead. Long live the revolution. That’s the lesson—one of them—to be gleaned from HB 2155,…
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Run, Someone, Run
EVEN FOR AN ELECTORATE accustomed to having to hold its nose and choose between two unappealing candidates, this…
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It’s raining shoes
WHEN, LAST FALL, the Enron story shifted from Disintegrating Company to Disintegrating Ponzi Scheme, economists uniformly predicted that…
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Protesting everything
This week, the continent’s roving antiglobalization protest party—the one begun so memorably in Seattle last fall—alights in Calgary,…
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Cleaning Up Hanford
Whatever happened to I-297? That was the initiative approved a year ago by nearly 70 percent of state…
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What Moral Values?
History is written by the winners, and so the instant history that’s written about this year’s presidential election…