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Op-Ed: Consideration of Approval Voting Initiative Deserves a Fair Shot with City Voters

Logan Bowers and Troy Davis - July 9, 2022

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The Cost of Solving Homelessness: Dones Calls the Bluff

Kevin Schofield - February 27, 2023

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What the Polls Say (and Don’t Say) About Abortion

Linda Kramer Jenning - May 25, 2022

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107 Days: Why Kamala Harris’ Campaign Fell Short

Joel Connelly - October 12, 2025

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Paul Queary - October 9, 2025

Where we Are: The Politics of Coercion and Retribution

Joel Connelly - October 6, 2025

Trump Outrage Watch: Shut it All Down

Mort Kondracke - October 2, 2025

Harrell Campaign Opens a Wide Lead in Donations

Paul Queary - October 1, 2025

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Seattle’s City Budget is Broken. Here’s Why

Kevin Schofield - September 27, 2025

The “Slow Boring of Hard Boards”: Why it’s Counterproductive To Cry Fascism

Anthony B. Robinson - September 24, 2025

Jimmy’s Back. But the Threat to Free Speech hasn’t Passed

Bruce Ramsey - September 23, 2025

Cowed and Neutered: CBS News and the Washington Post

Joel Connelly - September 23, 2025

Is Seattle’s Mayoral Race Already Decided? Not so Fast…

Jean Godden - September 20, 2025

Trump Outrages: A Well-documented History of Violence Rhetoric

Mort Kondracke - September 18, 2025

Fascists Under Every Rock (But What does that Mean?)

Nick Licata - September 18, 2025

Adding up the Money in the Seattle Mayor’s Race

Paul Queary - September 17, 2025

Deep in the Republican Brain: The Politics of Fear

Dick Lilly - September 12, 2025

Olympia Update: Guns and Gas

Paul Queary - September 12, 2025

Should Democrats Shut Down the Government?

Anthony B. Robinson - September 11, 2025

So Here’s a Strategy: Seattle-as-Hellhole

Joel Connelly - September 11, 2025

Double-Barrel Outrage Watch: The Dismantlements of MAGA and MAHA

Mort Kondracke - September 10, 2025

Epstein Survivors: Release the Files!

Jean Godden - September 7, 2025

In Chaotic Hearing, Senators Grill Robert Kennedy Jr. on Chaos in America’s Healthcare Agencies

Joel Connelly - September 4, 2025

The Art of Misdirection: Trump Invades Cities to Quash Epstein Fever

Nick Licata - September 4, 2025

What if Both Factions of the Democratic Party Prevail?

Joel Connelly - August 30, 2025

A Busy Week in Trump Outrages

Mort Kondracke - August 29, 2025

Could Seattle be Trump’s Next Takeover?

Joel Connelly - August 26, 2025

How did we get to this Dysfunction? Post-Modernism

Anthony B. Robinson - August 22, 2025