Shenzhen has become more like Hong Kong economically as a financial and technology hub, and also as home of the EV giant BYD. Hong Kong has gone the other way, losing free speech and independence.

I had no such deferments, so I refused induction. Twice. My objection was not to the military, nor to the draft. I wanted nothing to do with the Vietnam war. In retrospect, I regret that decision.

The trial courts are the backbone of the American legal system. They are the places where harassment petitions go to die.

We are trashing the planet with trash. The stuff is lethal to life in our oceans, killing perhaps a million seabirds each year.

The far left is losing support. There is no sharp right turn — Democrats dominate the urban vote — but rather a center-left trend.

Facing a budget crunch, the county offered to keep employees at their current rate of pay but require one day of less work per week. Employee satisfaction is very high.

Dimes, beers and beans are not the coins of this realm. Especially after the news of last week.

On Dec. 10, a group of Hiroshima survivors will finally receive the Nobel Peace Prize. It will be a well-deserved recognition of their critical work in keeping the world from nuclear catastrophe, and a significant milestone for the estimated 114,000 remaining survivors.

After more than half a century of tyrannical rule, Syria’s Assad dynasty has come to an end following a lightning 10-day offensive that sent...

Our lives are run by computer technology. Along with the ubiquitous presence of smartphones, smart watches, talking cars and refrigerators that remind you that...

About the famous "Waiting for the Interurban" in Fremont, Rich suggested that his somber, patiently-waiting passengers represent a kind of protest "of what automobiles have done to our urban scene."

Our most recent unexpected adventure blossomed from a completely mundane errand to events that unfolded throughout most of the day.

The upshot is that travel, like a lot of things in the land of the free and home of the brave is short on grace and graciousness.

City Councilmembers have a duty to protect the distinct but fragile neighborhoods they represent.

For me, the magic struck years ago when I began traveling to the Southern Oregon Festival, one of a group of eight women theater buffs intent on a Shakespeare fix.

A torrid tech bromance with blue urban America, with the companies bringing jobs as well as campaign cash to back mostly Democratic candidates ignited cities. But the honeymoon phase of the relationship didn’t last long.

Headstrong business bigshots have talked big when taking government posts in the past. They’ve usually made a mess of their task and sullied their reputations.

Just because. One of the pleasures of life's daily peregrinations is the happy discoveries along the way, the little finds that cumulatively add up to a well lived life.

Our old approaches to planning, including transit-oriented development, assume that we separate our days between home and work, and for many people on many days, that is no longer true. One third of the workforce in Bellevue doesn't regularly travel to work.

It was conductor Yamada's calm manner that made the edgy Takemitsu Requiem a remarkably effective prelude to Fauré's more familiar, soft-edged lament for the departed.

In the wake of the election, I’ve been trying to focus less on Trump himself (delegating that, so to speak, to a legion of others), and more on those who voted for him, many of them new in his camp as of this election.

Lucy Shelton, an 80-year-old singer and a newcomer to opera who built her career on avant garde music, gave the kind of detailed interpretation only a life-long lieder singer could realize.

In its combination of quiet boldness, reticence when called for, and lack of self-consciousness, the term “masterpiece” does not seem to apply. It’s pretty satisfying though, and worth celebrating.

For those of us in Seattle and adjacent suburban areas the star players have been the crews that worked day and night restoring power to customers.

The legal/political battlefield between Gov. Ferguson and the Trump administration may turn out to be the Hanford cleanup of nuclear waste.

Whether Tulsi Gabbard has all the abilities needed to be director of national intelligence I don’t know. She does have the sharpness and independence of mind to question “talking points” — our adversaries’ and, especially, our own.

It’s hard to know what planners were thinking when they began to encourage development of luxury housing with light industrial and commercial uses in the Bel-Red area. More high-density housing is likely, squeezing out low-margin businesses.

Yesterday's Port Ludlow was an important Chemakum Native village and burial site.  Later it became one of the Pacific Northwest's largest sawmills. Today it has evolved into a luxury resort.

‘Tis better to give than... you know the rest. So here is a list of ideas to get you going.

To bolster its new vision, OSF has brought on key personnel with years of experience in regional theater promotion.