What such issues have in common is a passive school board.
EVERY NEWS DEPARTMENT gets besieged with press releases, promotional packets, and other, sometimes extraordinary gimmicks, all sent with only one…
The days of cheap gas prices are gone forever. That doesn’t mean oil companies aren’t getting rich off the trend…
Important service center for drug users faces a hostile new mayor and eviction.
OLYMPIC MANIA is upon us. For a two-week period, people are gathering around their TV sets and rooting for people…
IF I READ OR WATCH or hear one more story about one or another message The Voters purportedly sent, I’m…
Celina and Marcus went to Burger King for lunch. Celina ordered a Whopper with cheese, one order of onion rings,…
PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL is, like other major men’s pro team sports, virtually a taxpayer-subsidized entity, with shiny new stadiums like Safeco…
Omari Tahir-Garrett wants an African-American Heritage Museum, wants it badly enough to struggle for it for 15 years. James Fearn…
Back in mid-Clintontime, it was the fervent hope of liberals, appalled by welfare reform, botched health care, and other ills,…
It’s the most remarkably effective political protest in memory. Three weeks ago, Cindy Sheehan was just another mourning mom who…
ESPECIALLY GIVEN the tight budgetary times, it’s not too surprising that Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels’ sudden proposal for a $45…
THERE’S NO QUESTION that the United States, and the rest of the world, needs to take forceful steps—not just to…
ABOUT A MONTH AGO, I spent part of a column—in the context of the Seattle School District’s reported backdoor negotiations…
A COUPLE MONTHS ago, I was lunching with a Democratic state representative who shall remain nameless but who is fairly…
IF IT WEREN’T for the fact that the past week’s headlines have been deadly serious, they’d be awfully funny. First,…
Ho, ho, ho, my ass. It’s not that I don’t want to be in the Christmas spirit. Quite the opposite….
Witnesses question initial descriptions of U District killing.
On Tues., March 7, Aaron Dixon announced his candidacy for the Green Party nomination for this year’s campaign for Maria…
EIGHT MONTHS AGO, tens of thousands marched in Seattle, and so did tens of millions around the world, hoping to…
