Remarkably, last month, our Legislature passed a transportation bill, a long-stalled package that will provide for money to replace the…
LAST WEEK, Seattle activist Trevor Baumgartner was near death because of a two-week-old hunger strike while in Israeli Army custody…
In Ukraine, they know how to respond to a rigged election.
FINALLY, AND FAR too late, national media are discovering that the Bush administration’s case for invading Iraq was a combination…
MAYBE IT’S THE contrarian in me. But I’m finding the enormous brouhaha this past week over Tim Eyman’s profit-sharing plan…
The CEO and founder of Adelphia Communications has been convicted of looting his company of hundreds of millions of dollars….
THE FAITHFUL still believe. But does anyone else care? Ralph Nader came through town last week, hawking his new book…
This week, demonstrators gather in Los Angeles to protest the Democratic National Convention and the coronation of Al Gore. Protesters…
HUNGER IS HAUNTING this year’s Thanksgiving. Before U.S. bombing began, respected food aid groups—Oxfam, the International Red Cross, the Red…
I WASN’T THE ONLY person in the room mentally rolling my eyes. This was a couple of weeks ago—I was…
EVERY YEAR, I SURVEY some of the year’s most overhyped and underreported stories. But this year, along with the perennial…
Death, the family farm, and the death of the family farm.
It doesn’t happen very often that I completely agree with Skeletor, but Slade Gorton is absolutely right this time. Gorton,…
BAD NEWS travels fast. It also travels a really long way. So I’m sitting on the back deck of a…
I WANT a list. I want a full accounting of every weapon in the country. Not Iraq. I could give…
The FBI targets Seattle’s Independent Media Center.
LAST WEEK, at least 60 reporters and other wielders of symbolic megaphones crowded into the mayor’s conference room to hear…
It’s not illegal to be poor in Seattle. Well, actually, yes, it is. Sometimes. The impound law that, at the…
The WTO is coming! The WTO is coming! Get ready for traffic jams, the “protest of the century,” SWAT teams,…
Mind if I take two-thirds of your property? I thought so. Which explains why rural King County landowners are up…
