The King County Executive owns a bully pulpit in one of the richest and largest jurisdictions in the United States. Go for it!

As The New York Times characterized it, this is a case of threats to national security vs protection of free speech.

Despite growing scientific evidence that imbibing any amount of alcohol is unhealthy, I’m betting that champagne corks were popping over at the Institute for...

Office workers are to downtown city life what salmon are to the ecosystems of the Pacific Northwest–a foundational species. Their continuing absence is driving a collapse in property values, steep reductions in revenue for city government and our transit operators.

Bob took his skills and applied them to potential oil spills and consequences to Puget Sound. The result, pardon the pun, was Sound risk assessment. It raised alarm about the spill potential of single-shell tankers.