A recently released city study and comments from Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan have stirred up a conversation about whether our public golf courses should...

Sunday afternoon, Ludovic Morlot concluded eight seasons of imaginative programming and fine music-making with the Seattle Symphony. But perhaps the most notable thing about...

So, the Democratic debates are nearly upon us, and it looks like a wildly uneven set up between the two nights. The first night...

Guess Who Won? Republicans and Democrats playing ball together? As unlikely as it seems these days, on June 19 the Democratic and Republican women of...

KING-FM, Seattle's listener-supported classical music station, will be moving early next year to new digs in the new Opera Center (formerly Mercer Arts Arena,...

Boston and Seattle have a lot in common: politics that pushes to the left, booming economies, smart citizens, and two Irish pols as mayors....

Has ever so dreary a car tunnel been constructed as the one we just built to replace the Seattle waterfront viaduct? The two-and-a-half-mile tube...

Fifty years ago, this June, the Students for a Democratic Society held its last united National Convention. It was torn apart by ideologically driven factions,...

Editor's note: A new group, People for Seattle, has been formed to push for new and more pragmatic members of the Seattle City Council....

Urban planners are either praised or criticized for designing our cities. Planner Samuel Stein’s Capital City – Gentrification and the Real Estate State, falls in...

The city of Seattle is slow-walking the decision process on what to do with the venerable music venue, the Showbox, at First and Pike,...

Democrats and critics of President Trump have accepted a false premise that has blinded them to his actual wrong doing. By focusing on “collusion”...

The media, perpetually mesmerized by ideologues and charisma, have virtually anointed radical leftist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as the future of the Democratic Party. In fact, it...

After spending three days going through the 2019 "Point in Time" report, I have come to the conclusion that not only is there little reason to believe the claim that homelessness decreased in King County, but there are also good reasons to view much of the data in the report with skepticism.

Let's stipulate up front that Trump's a bad guy and a disaster as president. But there are more and more stories these days that...

I had a note from a reader last week about an event that had been scheduled for Ballard’s Peddler Brew Pub but which was...

Willie Nelson famously crooned, "roll me up and smoke me when I die." Maybe the 86-year-old legend should move to Washington state. On May 20,...

Town Hall Seattle on First Hill, after two years of full renovation, has opened again for some early programs. This past Tuesday, Joshua Roman...

I commend this article from The New Republic, which discusses the rise of Democratic Socialism in the nation, particularly the Democratic Socialists of America,...

In 1932 a famous argument took place between the brothers Niebuhr, Reinhold and H. Richard, in the pages of The Christian Century.  The issue at hand was...

Theme music for a radio show is like graphics and fonts and paper format for a magazine. Music establishes the neighborhood, telegraphs what's going...

The Stranger's Charles Mudede offers this provocative idea: that Tacoma might eclipse Seattle as an arts town: "My point: As the arts...

The new UN report on global biological changes points to a neglected area: the rapid decline of our oceans. Normally, fingers point at climate...