For the ninth year, here’s my list of the most overhyped and underreported stories. Given the amount of hype and…
Hey, Eugene punks, stay away from my revolution.
IN LESS THAN a month, on Feb. 7, Washington Democrats will hold caucuses across the state to determine who state…
NOBODY KNOWS, or has any way of knowing, what sequence of events caused the space shuttle Columbia to disintegrate. But…
The most appalling police news of the week wasn’t the alternately aggressive and nonexistent response to drunken, obnoxious Mardi Gras…
Another victory in the war on youth: The Speakeasy has been murdered. The news this month that Belltown’s Speakeasy Cafe…
The pirates are coming! The Federal Communications Commission’s recent decision to license noncommercial low-power FM or “pirate” radio stations heralds…
SEATTLE WEEKLY COLUMNIST Geov Parrish sat down this summer for an in-depth interview with the headline-generating, semi-disgraced initiative king Tim…
Mercifully, there’s been very little this season in the way of millennial retrospectives (“Top sports moments of the past thousand…
GREG NICKELS and Mark Sidran were probably ecstatic, after the Sept. 18 primary, to think that they had eliminated a…
On July 4, while much of the country is celebrating that ancient, radical rant about all men being created equal,…
For the last three years, a new protest movement has swept college campuses across the country: the effort to end…
Green libertarian and ex-Seattleite John Hoff elected in North Dakota.
On the eve of Ronald Reagan’s death, something remarkable in the world of political progressives was taking place in Washington,…
I HAVE TO ADMIT, it’s been pretty entertaining to watch the meltdown of the Pentagon’s so-called “Office of Strategic Influence”…
You may not have noticed—not many people off campus did. But with the University of Washington’s proposal late last month…
The National Missile Defense—the newest name for Star Wars, “the Peace shield,” the “nuclear umbrella,” or “Brilliant Pebbles,” the fanciful…
Anti-WTO activists have backed off from their ambitious plans to blockade Microsoft on February 7. Instead, the groups will be…
Three years since, and America’s obsession with 9/11 shows no signs of abating. Sure, we’re not obsessed in the sense…
A media day of infamy.