Springing up like chanterelle mushrooms after an autumn rain are myriad global and regional certifications trumpeting Organic, Biodynamic, LIVE, Salmon Safe, Sustainable, Natural, LEED, SIP, Demeter, Vegan and still more eco-friendly credentials.

How did it almost come about that no Democrat qualified for the November ballot in the race for Commissioner of Public Lands? Crowded field of Dems, and a mischievous endorsement by the Seattle Times.

Banter, which lightens life and friendship, has gotten a bad reputation. Beware Banter!

These people are serious. They have taken the Republican Party on a 180-degree turn from the familiar small-government conservatism.

The bombings in Gaza, like Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, have been on the mind of survivors and other residents of both Nagasaki and Hiroshima.

“We are seeing women athletes do things that they’ve been told they can't do or that have never been done before, but should be the norm,”

Paine Field’s commercial service got off to a promising start in 2019, when passenger volume hit one million passengers. But then COVID-19 hit, and the airport has struggled since.

Josh Shapiro may have won Pennsylvania for Harris, and he still may, but Tim Walz can help carry those three Great Lake states much better than Shapiro. 

Baldwin wrote: “In short, we, the Black and white, deeply need each other here if we are really to become a nation."

It’s worth repeating that the term old vine is unregulated, and any label making claims about old vines should include specifics. When and where were the vines planted? Are these still the original bearing vines, or were they grafted onto older roots?

In one fell swoop, he managed to alienate one-sixth of the voters. It apparently was his clumsy attempt to paint the GOP as the pro-family party and smear Democrats as anti-family, anti-child radicals.

Walz argued that if voters aren’t buying what the Democrats are selling, that’s not on the voters.

The point of the opera is that Art imitates life. Our entertainment, especially the commedia del’arte and its related forms, show us comic archetypes that frequently reveal brutal truths about human nature.

While I held that job in New York, I oversaw the planting of thousands of trees.

State Sen. Emily Randall, D-Bremerton, pulled off the upset of the night in Washington's open 6th Congressional District, besting Hilary Franz.

I use cutting edge technology and mnemonic methods to compensate for age-appropriate memory loss.

Icelanders settled in large numbers in the Point Roberts area in the late 1800s.

Seattle’s apartments are smaller than San Francisco’s — even smaller than Manhattan’s.

A friend of Ellis once told me that this civic paragon often started out with the wrong idea but then, by analysis and conferring with many others, got himself to the right position (often too late).

Deficiencies of Trump as decision-maker are nowhere more apparent than in his selection of a vice-presidential nominee.

The large, ambitious Poke in the Eye exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum (through Sept. 2) is an exercise in historical revisionism, making the case that Northwest artists have been unfairly excluded from the Funk Art movement, historically associated with the Bay Area.

Puget Sound orcas spend a lot of time in other waters, swimming along the coast from California to Canada.  Wherever they go, they prefer to eat Chinook.  And wherever they go, the Chinook are in trouble.

True to form, they seem to have made middling acquisitions at the trade deadline Tuesday. Then again, so did most every team in MLB.

The Republican party now faces a new challenge—a surge in enthusiasm for a Democratic candidate that did not exist with Biden.

The 2024 election bears on the future of two endangered political species – main  street conservative Republicans and Democrats from rural, Trump-leaning districts.

A columnist writes: “Looking anew at Harris, I see something different from what I once did: a person who stumbled as a candidate and vice president but who kept fighting anyway."

Trump is sending a signal: No national abortion ban. In essence, what he’s saying to the right-to-lifers is, You wanted abortion law to revert to the states. Be satisfied with what you got.

It was the largest and most complex prisoner exchange between Washington and Moscow since the end of the Cold War. President Joe Biden hailed the release of the Americans and Russian opposition activists as evidence of the importance of U.S. leadership and allied unity.

But if “campaigning as fun” was one of Royer’s strengths, governing initially came off as less than fun, fraught with errors and false starts.

Charley needed his sense of humor—and his diplomatic skills—to meet the challenges that confronted Seattle in the mid-1980s, when money was short and dreams were large.