AT LAST, SEATTLE’S love affair with the World Trade Organization has ended. Last week, Phil Condit and Bill Gates, official…
It’s still there, lurking under the surface of the political waters, a daily fact of peoples’ lives in the Seattle…
Argh! The Bush administration has done it again. It has nominated to a high position yet another key player in…
THIS IS THE EIGHTH year I’ve compiled the most overhyped and underreported stories of the year. Every year, the gulf…
It is an exercise almost everybody who lives in the Pacific Northwest has engaged in, however fleetingly. Find a spot—a…
Patrick Guerriero is the pink elephant in the room.
LAST FRIDAY, a jury determined Seattle police officer Craig Hansen was not at fault when he struck and killed bicyclist…
Two writer/activists discuss strategies for coping with the postelection world and the importance of activism.
AFTER ANTI-WTO PROTESTERS won a months-long battle for a rally permit, attendees Friday expected a quiet, uneventful celebration of their…
THERE’S A PARTICULAR image that conveys sharply, for Americans, the soul-deadening oppression of what life was like under the Taliban,…
THE GENERAL ELECTION is a mere 286 days away, and the relentless daily need for news outlets to say something…
We need watchdogs, not enablers. Its time to retire the senator from Boeing.
Trouble over a WTO teach-in at Seattle Central.
The killing of Olympias Rachel Corrie in a Palestinian refugee camp illustrates the strengthsand limitsof placing oneself in harms way.
You’d never know it, but there’s an election coming up. A rather important one, actually. Especially if you ever ride…
Ya wanna know what the problem is? I’ll tell ya what the damn problem is. Here we have, in Washington…
At its meeting April 22, the friendly and ultracompetent new regime running Sound Transit reached consensus, sort of, on a…
It was straight out of the movies. A tough, purposeful mayor strides to the podium and delivers his Big Decision….
DEAR GARY, OK, we know you’re up for reelection this fall. And so far you’ve been pretty popular, owing to…
LAST WEEK, Mayor Paul Schell became the first mayoral candidate to unveil ads for this year’s campaign. In an unusual…
