The percent of Americans now categorized as overweight, according to government statistics. From 1988 to 1994, 55 percent of the…
The crowd is shocked as team owners pitch for more money.
Reflective, but Defensive As a protester before, during, and after the WTO, I read Nina Shapiro’s article [“A Good Cop…
Where to start? I have been flirting off and on with “Deb” for over three years, and the only thing…
Jack Aubrey is Reagan, no Clinton, no Truman, no . . . more political projections on a sea story for our times.
From a Jan. 7 memo by Seattle Times Publisher Frank Blethen, in which he assesses 2002 and explains the locally…
Best of Seattle, 2000
Before we get started this week, a plea from your Betty Ford-ready correspondent: Two dozen home-baked cookies in REWARD to…
Call me woefully naive, but I just don’t see a downside to last week’s disbursement from the Gates Foundation’s Santa…
TODAY, BIOTECHNOLOGY dominates the high-tech headlines, grabbing the attention computing and communications dominated over the last 20 years. But if…
Fight! Three brawling participants at the July 7 Fight Party square off.
At Western State Hospital, a hundred patients are in mental health purgatory. They should be freed, but the bureaucracy won’t budge.
I hope you respond to this e-mail, because I am going through an emotional crisis. My boyfriend of two years…
An update of Paul Allen’s world: pipelines, insurance, and maybe some bankruptcy.
There are still relics of the Cold War in Seattle. When I worked for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, I…
SEATTLE RADIO STATIONS are doing very well in the brave new world of broadcasting over the Internet. According to figures…
Also: Movement on the affordable-housing fee to be charged downtown developers.
Accused of uncharitable acts of discrimination, a troubled Millionair Club pays off ex-workers.
Judging books (and CDs) by their attention-getting covers.
Singular selections for the indie-hearted
