The buzz surrounding the 9/11 commission’s final report will fade, and then we are left with—what, exactly? Considering the magnitude…
LAST WEEK, in a vote that meant nothing and everything for policing in Seattle, the Seattle Police Officers Guild gave…
Tim Eyman, the initiative guru liberals love to hate, is back. After a lackluster 2004, during which he backed a…
Last week was Global Warming Week in Seattle. On Friday, March 27, former Vice President Al Gore was in town,…
The overt military phase of the War on Terrorism has begun. And so, too, have the demonstrations, both in the…
HOWARD DEAN WAS right, and his Democratic presidential opponents were crassly wrong for criticizing him, when he said that the…
MEMBERS OF THE media (me included) are most often caught up in what’s wrong with the world and with Seattle….
The Dec. 26 earthquake and tsunami in South Asia and Africa is a particularly nasty example of how humans can…
An interesting battle is shaping up this summer in the Seattle City Council over a pot of money and who…
An interview with former ambassador to Iraq Joseph Wilson. He’s down on our foreign policy but upbeat about America.
If you want a fat-laden, rain forest-chomping McBurger, you still won’t be able to get it in the International District,…
Neighbors busted on Wright Runstad’s construction site at Amazon.com’s headquarters.
For more than 40 years, MIT professor Noam Chomsky has been one of the world’s leading intellectual critics of U.S….
Anci Koppel would have objected to being compared with royalty. She didn’t have a nonegalitarian bone in her body—politically, that…
Last year at Thanksgiving, candidate/President George W. Bush scored a PR coup by making a surprise, unannounced visit to troops…
FOR NEARLY THREE weeks now, I’ve been trying, unsuccessfully, to have U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft stop by my office…
THE CITIZENS OF the city of Seattle and its civic elite have a fundamental ideological disconnect, and this gap has…
LAST WEEK’S State of the Union address was, I have to admit, pretty good. Beyond the ritual mirror-cracking invocations of…
On Nov. 26, four activists of the Christian Peacemaker Team (CPT)—Tom Fox of Clear Brook, Va.; Norman Kember of London;…
Cranky voters could transform the Seattle School Board overnight.
