Putting People First A global influenza pandemic is one of the greatest and most likely threats to human health. We…
Ron Sims’ spending plan hits a snag.
SEPTEMBER IN SEATTLE: Bumbershoot. Golden autumnal sunshine. And lawsuits by initiative backers. In 2000, the monorail boosters behind Initiative 53…
Environmentalists spar with West Seattle over parking garages.
Is there an area code for Walden Pond?
Someone very wise (my colleague James Bush) wrote, at the height of Charlie Chong’s glory circa 1996, that neighborhood politics…
Best Seattle slide area In the sodden city, there are many candidates: Capitol Hill above the freeway, Queen Anne along…
IF YOU WERE a hardworking manager of a state agency, you were rewarded last week by getting to hear Gary…
The local underdog of department stores steps ahead with a new interior look.
The whole world is marching. American activists love to abuse the rhetorical device of the “International Day of Protest.” On…
How Microsoft hopes to route your phone calls through NT.
Virgo (Aug. 23–Sept. 22)Like you, I’m a major multitasker. I like surfing the Internet while watching television while playing with…
On The Boards’ Board of Directors’ Press release, issued May 28, 1999.
Longtime reader, first-time writer, and I don’t really have any advice to ask for, but I just had to say…
The term-limits movement declares war on one of its own—Congressman George Nethercutt.
I’ve got the solution to our transportation problems—we’ll finance our light-rail system by selling SOUND TRANSIT ANTACID TABLETS. To find…
Politicians struggle to solve an energy crisis they helped create.
Hanging together or hanging separately: secession and politics in the struggle for Ecotopia.
I’m a 27-year-old woman about to leave my job. There’s a 21-year-old intern at the company who’s just adorablelike a…
