Sidran and Nickels bring different strengths to the mayoral race.
How citizen outrage stormed the electronic barricades at City Hall.
Want to see Seattle politicians get all misty-eyed? Invoke the mighty “Forward Thrust,” that 1968 ballot-clogging package of bonds and…
The city’s PacMed keeps losing millions.
THE WORLD IS watching Paul Schell’s retirement party. The stunning primary elimination of Seattle’s incumbent mayor was profiled in the…
It’s finally become clear what people want from government. Actually, there’s two items on the wish list: 1) People want…
Having experienced nothing but trouble over the years dealing with parking garages, the Seattle City Council faces yet another vote…
Technology + politics = fizzle.
Judy Nicastro’s Cinderella victory suggests new life for an anti-establishment coalition.
HARD TIMES MAKE for a tough budget process, as Seattle’s mayor and City Council are finding out. And Mayor Paul…
Schell’s Mardi Gras panels produce yet another crisis at City Hall.
What a week! First, it turns out that public-private partnerships are a great idea after all, and then John Carlson…
King County Republican Party chair Reed Davis doesn’t mince words. When in-party critics departed his rebel GOP county convention last…
In summer, a young person’s fancy turns to thoughts of muscle cars and cruisin’ the strip.
Last week, Greg Nickels woke up and realized that he’s the only declared challenger for the office of Seattle mayor….
Civic Foundation administrator Brian Livingston is best known by local media types as a tireless promoter of his organization—maybe this…
Few people ride; here’s why.
What if they held a stakeholders meeting and nobody staked? That’s the situation city officials face now that representatives of…
Out of time.
SEATTLE TIMES PUBLISHER Frank Blethen and his continuing battle against the estate tax are in the news again—although he probably…
