Seattle Symphony conductor and music director Gerard Schwarz broke his left leg and ankle last Thursday in a skiing accident. He faces surgery later this week, the SSO reports, with full recovery...
I'll be interviewing Tom Brokaw on stage at Town Hall this evening, talking about his new book, Boom: Voices of the Sixties. We'll also talk about media with the former anchor of NBC Nightly News...
Is Washington state going to be rid of the spate of initiatives anytime soon? Not likely, for the simple reason that it's become a steady and lucrative business for initiative-pushers like Tim Eyman...
Regionalists are trying to put Humpty Dumpty back together again, after the defeat of Proposition 1, which was a blow to the effort to think regionally, act boldly. One key figure is Pierce County...
In announcing the big salary increase for University of Washington President Mark Emmert, making him the top-paid president of public universities, UW Regents pointed out that Emmert could make a lot...
Does Washington state count for much in the presidential campaigns? It's taken itself out of the primary contests, though the state is a good grazing pasture for contributions. But come November might...
The transit proposal du jour is for light-weight, single-car diesel trains running from Snohomish to Renton, along the old BNSF Railway's tracks. Those are the tracks the county and the Port want to...
