I had a terrifying dream the other night: A great, unseen power operated an amusement park. Those who followed instructions…
Pride At Work, a gay labor organization, holds its national convention in Everett.
SOMETIMES, even with a national story, I can know with certainty that public figures or media reports are full of…
I was surprised the other day to hear an election commercial on the radio for something that’s not on the…
Will a vote for Nader really build a progressive third party?
Margaret Larson spent 25 years in local and national television news, including working as a domestic and foreign correspondent for…
Washington needs more road capacity, now.
A number of revelations have cast a disturbing shadow over both the steelworkers’ cancellation of the Kaiser aluminum plant demonstration…
Industrial hemp is a cash crop that can be used in a stunning number of ways—fiber, paper, building materials, cosmetic…
The puffed-up threats from Mayor Schell and the Seattle Police Department to heavily arm the cops and arrest anyone demonstrating…
While pundits thrashed about desperately during Election 2000 to inflate microscopic differences between Gore and Bush, one of the most…
The biggest surprise of a not-very- surprising election this year was the voters’ rejection of Initiative 912, leaving in place,…
SUDDENLY, SOMEHOW, the geniuses who emerge every couple of years to tell us (for a fee) how to fix public…
Once again, residents of an aggrieved Seattle neighborhood are facing off against a city bureaucracy.
In 2005’s waning days, Washington, D.C., Beltway developments pointed to 2006 as a pivotal year for American democracy. The most…
A few months ago, members of my household came home with a dog from the shelter. Little did I suspect…
LIKE A SOLID MAJORITY of the Puget Sound area’s residents, I wasn’t born and raised here. As such, I suspect…
Remember the “Vietnam Syndrome”? If the term sounds to a later generation like some sort of disease, it’s because wanting…
UP TO 30 ACTIVISTS crowded into and briefly occupied Sen. Maria Cantwell’s Seattle office last week to protest her votes…
PUBLIC RADIO HAS money. Lots of it. It’s a big business these days—a business worth supporting, but still a useful…
