Environment The carbon cost of building and operating light rail The light-rail tunnel through Beacon Hill. (Sound Transit) by Emory Bundy / July 24, 2007
Culture This week's bicycle news, peddled from Portland Or, "Who's gonna pay for all this stuff?" by Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett / July 24, 2007
Culture Is Seattle a 'two-dollar whore'? Some more thoughts on, and an opportunity to discuss, the city's soul. by Knute Berger / July 24, 2007
Politics Critters don't care what country they're in, but it makes a difference The southern portion of a conceived U.S.-Canadian wildlife corridor. (Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative) by Daniel Jack Chasan / July 22, 2007
Culture If you are trans-fat fat, you might have a trace-elements imbalance Copper, part of a healthy diet. by Steve Clifford / July 22, 2007
Culture The finest Northwest arts organization you never heard of David Shifrin, artistic director of Chamber Music Northwest. by David Brewster / July 18, 2007
Culture Using Machiavelli to sell congestion pricing One way to make widespread road tolling popular could be the old political trick of spreading the money around. But in car-centric Seattle, that might not be enough. First of two parts. by Knute Berger / July 17, 2007
Culture The reign of the rich trickles down on us all And that's why tax breaks for the wealthy are a hedge for us all. by Steve Clifford / July 15, 2007
Culture Seattle is a city flush with forgetting The Pike Place Market (top) and nearby Victor Steinbrueck Park (bottom), surrounded by progress. (Chuck Taylor) by Knute Berger / July 15, 2007
Culture Miracle: A mainstream newspaper sheds the pretense of detachment A recent installment of "A Prayer for Gloria" and <i>Seattle Times</i> columnist Jerry Brewer (inset). by William Echols / July 12, 2007