FOR MANY Americans, “May Day” brings to mind images of phalanxes of Soviet soldiers goose-stepping through Red Square behind massive…
The Puget Sound dodged a bullet last week. On Friday, Oct. 7, the U.S. House of Representatives narrowly voted 212-210…
It’s our worst nightmare: Clarence Thomas chose the president. While it’s ironic that Al Gore’s enthusiasm as a senator for…
I KNEW TYREE SCOTT, but this, in itself, was not remarkable. Over a civic history that touched five decades, almost…
ACROSS THE STATE, commentators have hailed the Legislature’s astonishing passage last month of a compromise transportation package that includes a…
Looking for the left after 9/11.
As the mayor still endeavors to wipe the twin eggs of the $9 million WTO and the embarrassing cancellation of…
This week, the Seattle School Board did what all modern school boards love to do: attend a retreat and listen…
Welcome to the 48th annual Training Seminar of the Law Enforcement Intelligence Unit (LEIU), a roving event coming this year…
The noted artist shares his thoughts on peace, poetry, and Dubya’s literacy gap.
Everyone saw this one coming. But that doesn’t make it easier to take. President Bush’s 2006 budget proposal, unveiled in…
Last Friday, the nuclear submarine USS Alaska quietly pulled into Bremerton’s Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, beginning the largest military project…
THE TRAGIC DEATH last week of Minnesota Sen. Paul Wellstone is convulsing liberals and progressives all out of proportion to…
A LITTLE-NOTICED local story last week provided a troubling, if not downright chilling, glimpse into just how far government will…
Even more than usual, there was a lot of nonsense in mainstream US media this year; silly stories from Florida…
In a stunning ruling on the eve of the biggest gift-giving season of the millennium, a secret Geneva panel of…
The medical center wants to turn all nurses into supervisors—nullifying their union status.
It’s been an amazing sight this month: two decades’ accumulated public distrust of government and nearly a year’s worth of…
The World Trade Organization’s talks are scheduled to be held in free trade-friendly Seattle this fall. So is “the Protest of the Century,” as WTO opponents gather to give the ruling class a kick in the groin.
FIFTY YEARS AGO this week, an internationally renowned star stood on the back of a flatbed truck in Whatcom County…
