TIM EYMAN has become an inexplicable blight on our state government. His minuscule shadow terrifies our lawmakers. He can’t write…
Very quietly, multibillionaire Paul Allen is buying another statewide election. Allen, you’ll remember, found himself in 1997 with the need…
Last week, liberal, atheistic Seattle finally joined in the important debate over President Bush’s “Faith-Based Initiative.” At UW’s Evans School,…
A COUPLE OF weeks ago, in assessing the now all-but-certain nomination of John Kerry, I wrote, “Bush would cream Kerry.”…
IT WAS JUST ANOTHER night on the campaign trail. Seattle City Attorney Mark Sidran (vying for mayor) and City Council…
When I moved back to Seattle in 1990, I was scoping out the local political scene at about the time…
For several years in the 1980s, I lived in Houston, a city with two airports. Invariably, when I had a…
It’s been getting warmer these days. And, as anyone who’s lived in a desert knows, that means reptiles become more…
Five years after the Battle in Seattle, results are mixed. Third World delegates have gridlocked the WTO but in the U.S. anti-globalization organizers have struggled to convert street heat into policy.
Totally clean — nonexistent. His driving record, not so clean.
The revolution is dead. Long live the revolution. That’s the lesson—one of them—to be gleaned from HB 2155, the short-lived…
EVEN FOR AN ELECTORATE accustomed to having to hold its nose and choose between two unappealing candidates, this one’s a…
WHEN, LAST FALL, the Enron story shifted from Disintegrating Company to Disintegrating Ponzi Scheme, economists uniformly predicted that other shoes…
This week, the continent’s roving antiglobalization protest party—the one begun so memorably in Seattle last fall—alights in Calgary, Alberta, for…
The American public is turning against the war in Iraq.
Whatever happened to I-297? That was the initiative approved a year ago by nearly 70 percent of state voters. It…
History is written by the winners, and so the instant history that’s written about this year’s presidential election is that…
The spirit of the magical nonviolent protest that infused WTO week will go back to cities and towns around the…
It might be the most insincere “retraction” in the history of modern journalism. Newsweek had little choice but to disavow…
I felt bad about coming down so harshly on Patty Murray a couple of weeks ago in this space. Really,…
