Voters rejected all three initiatives on Tuesday, affirming Governor Inslee's legacy and setting the table for a more progressive agenda in Olympia in the future, even as the nation re-embraced Donald Trump as president. 

Deadly flooding in Spain and multiple hurricanes in the Southeastern U.S. in recent weeks were made worse by the rise in ocean temperatures associated with climate change. In addition to lives lost and direct economic costs of such disasters, climate change is pushing up the cost of insurance. And the medical profession has raised alarms about other health effects.

“There has to be a benefit to Canada for this person to be here."

Our fear and trepidation are eased to some degree because we are not fretting alone. Our Italian friends understand, at least in the broad strokes, the global impact of this election cycle.

As candidate for Commissioner of Public Lands, Republican Jaime Hererra-Beutler has consistently asserted that, according to “the science,” it’s necessary to log our legacy...

"New York" was the first settler name of "Smaquamox" for the Denny, Low, Boren, Terry, and Bell families.  John Low and Lee Terry, native New Yorkers, believed that ambitious name would augur a bright future for their little encampment.

One thing that has always stood out to me about Rooney is her unique prose, which is at once laconic and ornate. She writes with great restraint—there’s nothing showy about her prose—but at the same time with remarkable beauty and a comforting rhythm.

Mayor Bruce Harrell’s proposed 2025-2026 would close a shortfall by taking $287 million from an unexpected windfall of payroll tax receipts. He rejected calls for new taxes.

As I see it it’s no different than flying first class or buying front row seats to Taylor Swift. But what I see among the slackers I hang with is the opposite. Uncounted, unknown, unreachable stacks and jumbles of boxes of wine, purchased who knows where or when, and piled in a dusty corner of an unfinished basement.

The Conservatives swept rural interior B.C., where timber, mining, and natural gas are the economic base. The New Democrats took Vancouver, Burnaby, and Vancouver Island, centers of environmental concerns.

As America has become a more secularized society, politics has emerged as a "replacement" religion for more traditional religions.

Orchestras have choices; they are not neutral. Maintaining the status quo is just as much a political act as addressing the pressing political issues of the day. Orchestras are part of the larger arts and entertainment community and have a historic opportunity now.

Let’s not go overboard here. The Post is not endorsing Trump. (That would be a journalistic H-bomb.) The Post is declaring that it will not be endorsing any candidate, now or in the future.

Trump’s law firms don’t need to win their lawsuits; they only need the court to kick the final decision over to the state legislature.

Cantwell and seatmate Sen. Patty Murray have now served together for 24 years. Cantwell is a shade to the right of Murray.

Owners claim ordinances passed by the left-wing majority on the city council from 2018 to 2021 have “functionally commandeered” their property for use by too many people who don’t pay rent.

To say young Donald is an innocent empty vessel that Cohn fills with venom is to give Trump one more pass in a lifetime of indulgences. 

In the course of her life, Gies has held a lot of jobs, from managing an asparagus-packing plant to driving taxi. In one hilarious chapter Gies gets a taste of show biz.

Anyone who paints – watercolors, acrylics, oils, whatever – understands the importance of blending colors. It’s where technical skills combine with the soul of the artist. I believe you can make the same connection with wine.

Management was fully responsible for Boeing’s near-death experience, but reviving a diverse, healthy, and innovative industrial sector, while worthy, will not succeed until the profits-only zeitgeist is addressed.

Some historians think the ensuing trade war triggered the Great Depression.  Others think that it at least made the Depression a good deal worse. 

People aren’t feeling it because while certain types of violent crime are down, a different category — social disorder — is up. What falls under “social disorder”?

Dave Reichert’s tactic can be viewed as a 2024 version of Republican Dino Rossi’s attempt to finesse this issue when he ran for governor 20 years ago.

The voice calling to “get the money out of politics” is quiet now, but we will hear it again. That voice originates from the candidates themselves, particularly the ones who are struggling.

The real story Woodward wanted to tell in War is how Biden dealt with Putin before and after the Ukraine invasion, and with Netanyahu following the Oct.7 Hamas attacks. The author focused on how Biden “has kept the homeland safe” through a chaotic three and a half years.

For Fisch to follow a non-competitive conference loss with the suggestion that UW's financial position is somehow complicit is outlandish. Does that condition help explain how UW lost the Apple Cup to a Washington State program that was orphaned after the Pac-12's demise?

The original river differed sharply from ours.  Its watershed heading in the Cascades and flowing west and north to the Sound.  This was the DKHW duw, “Place where [it goes] inside,” a Lushootseed description of a legendary homeland for the Duwamish.

The Pope when asked about candidates for the American presidency, he replied: "Both are against life, the one that throws out migrants and the one that kills children. Both are against life."  What should a citizen do? "Vote, and one has to choose the lesser evil."

Upon Father Prefontaine's death he left a bequest of $5,000 to the city for the construction of a public fountain.  Today that blue-tiled pool rests at the junction of Yesler and Third, not far from the site of the young priest's $6 a month clapboard room and chapel.

Overall, the drop in women congressional contenders this cycle is significantly greater among Republicans. Only 17.6 percent of the Republican House candidates are women.