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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

“It’s one of those public policy issues that cuts across a whole bunch of dimensions and not in ways that are simple."

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Pragmatism Wins but the Blue Wave Fails to Sweep Seattle’s Election

David Brewster - November 5, 2025

Trump Loomed Large over this Election: So what are the Lessons?

Anthony B. Robinson - November 5, 2025

Seattle Mayor: Bruce Harrell’s Charmed Life

Jean Godden - November 5, 2025

Dead Heat: New Poll in King County Exec Race

Joel Connelly - October 30, 2025

Money Watch: Where Last-Minute Campaign Money is Landing

Paul Queary - October 29, 2025

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A Busy Busy Week in Trump Outrages

Mort Kondracke - October 29, 2025

Much Needed: Rise of the Feisty Centrists

Anthony B. Robinson - October 26, 2025

Campaign Report: Port Commission, Sara Nelson and the County Exec Race

Paul Queary - October 22, 2025

Cleanup Milestone: Nuclear Waste at Hanford is Finally Being Turned into Glass

Joel Connelly - October 22, 2025

Two Steps Back: Pete Hegseth bullies the US Military into a Culture War

Nick Licata - October 20, 2025

Success by Association? Harrell Ad Piggybacks on Mariners

Paul Queary - October 15, 2025

Trump Outrage Watch: Amid Sinking Polls, Going to War Against American Cities

Mort Kondracke - October 15, 2025

107 Days: Why Kamala Harris’ Campaign Fell Short

Joel Connelly - October 12, 2025

Builders Weigh in for Balducci; Late Money for Wilson

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

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