TRANSPORTATIONU.S. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., and King County Executive Ron Sims were all smiles at a press conference Monday, July 7, when the U.S. Department… Continue reading
TRANSPORTATIONLast week, Mayor Greg Nickels got $3 million more to fulfill his desire named streetcar. Nickels convinced Sen. Patty Murray to include $3 million in… Continue reading
TransportationThe Elliott Bay waterfront is buzzing about the impending demise of the George Benson Waterfront Streetcar Line, officially known as King County Metro Transit Route… Continue reading
TransportationThe transportation plans of Mayor Greg Nickels and billionaire Paul Allen for the South Lake Union neighborhood keep advancing, despite glaring flaws. On Monday, Nov.… Continue reading
The city's new arts czar steps into a firefight between the mayor and council.
Those subjected to the morass of our pop culture in recent months must be feeling like they're about to implode. Things have gone frighteningly awry,… Continue reading
Whatever possessed the editors of the Post-Intelligencer to devote nearly half their November 3 op-ed page to a turgid, tendentious, and blitheringly naive (or else… Continue reading
Where do you go after pissing Courtney off? Many places . . .
Seeking vistas, camaraderie, and even romance as a Metro sightseer.
Question: What place would you most like to go back to? What's the last place on earth you'd ever want to see again?
Down and out and playing hopscotch in Hong Kong's seediest quarter.
Under apartheid, a white traveler might share a 'black bus.' But the ambulance was another story.
Picking up pebbles on the Big Island, and other blasphemies.
In a dictatorship like today's Burma, you learn to watch your back.
We love travel, we love trouble
I've been carrying on something of a long-distance relationship with this girl I met online about three years ago. It's not exclusive, we tell each… Continue reading
I prefer men who are kind and treat me with respect. I believe most women feel the same. Even though I am convinced of this,… Continue reading
Here are seven places to get pampered without breaking the bank.
Environmentalists are embracing a new strategy for saving the forests: cut 'em themselves.
IN THE HEROIC iconography of America's good wars, our government asked its soldiers to fight in trenches, and they risked (and often lost) their lives… Continue reading