Damn those late absentee ballots! Here it is a week after the election, and we’re all sitting around wondering who…
Open those checkbooks a little wider, folks—those city office candidates want more money. By a 5-4 vote, the Seattle City…
Will someone please change the destination signs on the monorail to read “purgatory?” That’s where this train is bound after…
About 120 people showed up for an anti-corporate-welfare protest at Westlake Center last Friday, timed to coincide with the Nordstrom…
Star Wars: Rogue Planet by Greg Bear (Del Rey, $26) WITH ROGUE PLANET, Greg Bear becomes the second noted Seattle…
Reform may finally be on the way for Seattle’s teen dance ordinance, a 1985 law aimed at separating that matches-and-gasoline…
A burglary at School District offices fuels critics’ fire.
Is Seattle radio station KVI replacing its traditional “hot talk” with smart talk?
IS BILL GATES working to preserve historical photographs—or hiding them away? That’s the question The New York Times asked in…
Washington Conservation Voters target their key races for this year’s election.
In Seattle’s newspaper strike, both management and labor learned from Detroit’s five-year-long labor dispute.
The county has a great idea for Seattle neighborhoods.
ONLY THE MAYOR can declare a civil emergency, according to Seattle’s city charter. But City Council member Peter Steinbrueck wants…
While residents of Tent City 2 were appealing to the City Council on July 6 not to clear their homeless…
SPICEgate
ALL THE MEDIA LOVES A disaster, and the massive Ash Wednesday Earthquake made Seattle the darling of the national press….
Who’s got the money? That’s the question of the hour—every hour—during City Hall budgeting season. Some people think the budget…
Quick quiz: Name the Republican politician who challenged King County Executive Ron Sims in 1997. Don’t remember? Yet, once again,…
“I love these meetings where the public turns out,” said ever-cheery Seattle City Council member Judy Nicastro on the elevator…
Its organizer, City Council member Richard McIver, called it a brown bag forum; City Attorney Mark Sidran dubbed it a…
