The annual tango over the Seattle City Budget has followed the usual dance-steps manual, with the City Council making a few minor tweaks in Mayor Greg Nickels' budget, and declaring a sweeping victory...
A century later, a war of semantics engulfs the World War I-era banishment of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire. The urge to purge arose again, of course, on the U.S. West Coast during World War II. And...
Opening statements by the three attending members of the Federal Communications Commission at tonight's hearing in Seattle on media ownership (all PDF files): Michael Copps, Jonathan Adelstein, and De...
Why is it that when a Tim Eyman initiative is thrown out by the courts, as happened this week with I-747, our spineless leaders immediately say they'll abide by Eyman's bad law anyway?
Whatever you...
Former state Transportation Secretary Doug MacDonald fills Joel Connelly's P-I column this morning, and you can read it as the opening salvo of Transpo War II, or Who Lost Transit?
MacDonald makes it clear why he wore out his welcome in Gov. Chris Gregoire's cabinet, for he is incisively critical of the Proposition 1 measure that the governor tepidly endorsed, and lays the main blame for the transportation meltdown on the head of elected leaders.
Not everyone is glum about the outcome of Tuesday's election, but you would hardly know that from some of the analysis. John Arthur Wilson is right, I believe, that there is no sign of a large...
David Brewster makes a good catch on the "private entities" reference in Gov. Christine Gregoire's comments on life after Prop 1. In talking with both House Speaker Frank Chopp and King County...
