THE SAME WEEK that many voters ignored last month’s primary election, a court ruling quietly threw onto the November ballot…
Marijuana arrests are on the rise.
At home stumping for and against Social Security reform, U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell and U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert show vulnerability as first-termers. And opposing parties are eyeing their seats. But don’t write them off.
Seattle will forever be remembered in the annals of rock history as the city that launched the alternative rock movement….
And now, a very special Compton Report . . . Jim’s running. That’s right, former KING 5 commentator Jim Compton…
SANTA PHOTO COTTAGE If you haven’t read David Sedaris’ uproarious essay “The Santaland Diaries,” you may still harbor feelings of…
STREET OUTREACH Services (SOS) is still in business—for now. The nonprofit agency’s drop-in center for current and former drug users,…
Democracy doesn’t get much worse than the Pierce County auditor’s race.
Paranoia gets played up at a Seattle conference and at a futuristic housing development in Renton.
The pluses and minuses of Safeco Field add up to an enormous and telling symbolic system.
Grip on pot In response to “Washington’s war on pot,” 8/17: This is the only statement I will make regarding…
Last month, in Eugene, Oregon, anarchist Rob Thaxton received an astonishing sentence after being convicted of throwing a rock at…
Our consumer culture says, ‘Follow your heart,’ and Mary Kay LeTourneau did. Oops.
DID THE SNOQUALMIE INDIAN TRIBE make a play to put a casino on a site it has long claimed as…
Led by renowned “visionary” George Gilder, Seattle’s Discovery Institute is hard at work making sure the future stays in the hands of good ol’ white boys.
Some are just fun, but more and more, robots will actually do work for you.
A major archaeological find forces an Olympic Peninsula town to re-examine the past and the future.
The percent of Americans now categorized as overweight, according to government statistics. From 1988 to 1994, 55 percent of the…
