Opinion
Predicting a backlash election in Seattle this year? Remember 2019
With a departing mayor and low approval ratings for the city council, expectations are high for a change election. It's not clear that will happen.
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Seattle police had a chance to prove abolitionists wrong. They didn’t.
The department's inability to change over the past year has shown that its problems are hardwired into policing, and reform is not working.
Environment
Sniffing out truffles in Washington’s woods
The state hosts a bounty of truffles for enterprising gourmands — but finding them requires a dog’s superpowered nose.
Opinion
Reforms aren’t enough to end ‘us vs. them’ policing in America
Confronting modern policing’s roots in medieval England and American slavery will do more to make us all safer.
Culture
From art to infrastructure, the New Deal shaped Seattle’s future
Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan takes inspiration from the massive public works effort that helped shape the Emerald City, and America, for generations.