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Six Months In: Mixed Reviews for Seattle’s Mayor

Politics Jean Godden - July 27, 2026 3

With Mayor Katie Wilson’s honeymoon period over, Seattleites are grading her six-month performance as the city’s mayor. Opinions range from a few sour remarks...

People

Inspired Mayhem: The Life and Lunacy of Adman Terry Heckler

Kathy Cain - July 26, 2026 4

Arts

An Epic Odyssey: Who Gets to tell What Story When

Sally J. McMillan - July 25, 2026 9

Crime

Security Cameras in Seattle’s High-Crime Districts Work. Why Turn them Off?

Tim Burgess - July 24, 2026 11

Technology

Datacenters over America: The Power Dance with AI (Part II)

Tom Corddry - July 23, 2026 2

Technology

Datacenters over America: Enormous Bets on Needs Unmet (Part I)

Tom Corddry - July 22, 2026 4

Politics

Trump Outrage Watch: Fraudulent Election Fraud Claims, An Attorney General Confirmation, And More ICE Killings

Mort Kondracke - July 21, 2026 0

Politics

Six Months In: Mixed Reviews for Seattle’s Mayor

Jean Godden - July 27, 2026 3

With Mayor Katie Wilson’s honeymoon period over, Seattleites are grading her six-month performance as the city’s mayor. Opinions range from a few sour remarks...

Trump Outrage Watch: Fraudulent Election Fraud Claims, An Attorney General Confirmation, And More ICE Killings

Mort Kondracke - July 21, 2026 0

Legislature Update: Minimum Wage and Family Home Workers; A Plan to Boost Student Aid

Jonathan Martin - July 17, 2026 0

Trump Outrage Watch: Saving us from SAVE

Mort Kondracke - July 16, 2026 0

Trump Outrage Watch: Blame it on the Democratic Socialists!

Mort Kondracke - July 13, 2026 2

More Politics

An Epic Odyssey: Who Gets to tell What Story When

Sally J. McMillan - July 25, 2026

Review: The Seattle Symphony Takes on Mahler Seven

Theodore Deacon - June 23, 2026

Is Trump’s Wreckage of the Kennedy Center an Opportunity for Something Better?

Douglas McLennan - June 4, 2026

LACMA’s New Museum: What’s the point of Art in a Museum?

Douglas McLennan -

The Once and Future Kennedy Center: An Architectural Story

Paul Kidder -

When “Better Than” meets “Good Enough”

Douglas McLennan -

More Arts

PULSE

Review: The Seattle Symphony Takes on Mahler Seven

Theodore Deacon - June 23, 2026 2

Post Up: Finally the Games 6.11

Post Alley - June 13, 2026 0

Seattle’s Father Ryan Reports on his Meeting with Pope Leo XIV

Joel Connelly - March 20, 2026 5

Washington’s Women Trailblazers

Jean Godden - March 10, 2026 0

Seattle Mayor Wilson Makes Her First Serious Misstep in City Light

Jean Godden - March 6, 2026 24

Six Months In: Mixed Reviews for Seattle’s Mayor

Jean Godden - 3

People

Inspired Mayhem: The Life and Lunacy of Adman Terry Heckler

Kathy Cain - 4

Crime

Security Cameras in Seattle’s High-Crime Districts Work. Why Turn them Off?

Tim Burgess - 11

Arts

An Epic Odyssey: Who Gets to tell What Story When

Sally J. McMillan - 9

Transportation

Is Lime taking Seattle for a Ride?

Doug MacDonald - 34

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Technology

Datacenters over America: The Power Dance with AI (Part II)

Tom Corddry - July 23, 2026 2

Some in the industry have suggested that datacenters could be using 50 percent of today’s total electrical energy generation capacity by 2040.

Datacenters over America: Enormous Bets on Needs Unmet (Part I)

Trump let Nvidia Sell Advanced Chips to China. Here’s How Chinese Citizens are Reacting

Clock’s Ticking: Six Reasons Why TikTok Shouldn’t be Banned

The Big Sort: How Will AI Affect Submissions to Magazines?

Health

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By the Numbers: More Babies Than Ever are Homeless

Barry Mitzman - February 7, 2026 2

Based on data gathered by the University of Michigan, SchoolHouse Connection estimates that homelessness among infants and toddlers in the U.S. increased by 23 percent between 2021 and 2023.

How Governments have Caused Homelessness

Michael Caplow - 3

A New Book: Autism and a Fulfilling Life

Joe Martin - 2

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Is Creating Havoc in Public Health

Joel Connelly - 2

A Happy Pooper is a Healthy Pooper

Barry Mitzman - 1

More Health

Salish Sea Tribes say they want to take Control of National Wildlife Refuges

Al Bergstein - June 25, 2026

Oil Crisis? How about we Reduce Demand? Here’s How

James S. Russell - May 5, 2026

David Suzuki: Still Fighting for the Planet at 90

Joel Connelly - March 27, 2026

A Cryin’ Bloody Shame: DOGE and Storm Pummel Our Public Forests

Joel Connelly -

The Data: Breathing May Be Hazardous to Your Health

Barry Mitzman -

Reckoning with Northwest Flooding: We need to think about this Differently

Sydnee Chapman -

Dam it All: The Intractable Knots in the Snake River

Dan Chasan -

Cities

SODO Housing Battle takes a New Turn

Mike Merritt - July 17, 2026 1

The deck seems stacked against opening the area around Seattle’s sports stadiums to housing.

Surveying Trump’s Damage to the National Mall

James S. Russell - 0

The Homelessness Blame Game: Let’s Challenge That

Walter Hatch and Mark W. Garrett - 53

Seattle’s “Pit from Hell”: Will we ever fill it in?

Jean Godden - 10

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People

Inspired Mayhem: The Life and Lunacy of Adman Terry Heckler

Kathy Cain - July 26, 2026 4

Terry Heckler died on May 5 this year, a little less than a year after his friend and former business partner Gordon Bowker passed away. Their era is over but their legacy of inspired lunacy lives on.