The idea, practice, and until a year ago, city policy, was to assemble a number of nine-square grids of three by three 400-foot-square blocks, leaving the buildings in place while taking through traffic off the streets and routing it around the blocks.

Commissioner Sam Cho argues that too heavy-handed an approach would simply lead cruise lines to shift operations elsewhere, such as Canada, with less stringent conditions.

My purpose on these visits is not to slam through as many wines as possible; but rather to spend quality time with winemakers and winery principals to get a clear understanding of their personal and business goals.

The extortionist attack struck the Seattle Public Library on Memorial Day weekend, affecting its on-line systems, threatening data leaks and demanding an exorbitant sum of money.  

The Democratic Party has long been telling us that a possible Trump Restoration constitutes a State of Emergency. But they don’t really mean that. It was, apparently, mostly just talk.

Does anyone really believe that the Framers, having rid themselves of one king, had any intention of creating another?

A new poll suggests the race for Public Lands Commissioner is about to see a major plot twist as Big Timber takes stock of its friends.

By the end of 1943 Hanford had stealthily risen from the Columbia Plateau.  Hanford had been founded in 1906 on the south bank of the Columbia River by the Hanford Irrigation and Power Company, named after Seattleite Judge Cornelius H. Hanford.

Fires have consumed vast tracts of land, especially in Siberia and Canada’s Northwest Territories. The Arctic Icepack is shrinking, endangering the polar bears who hunt seals from the ice.

The book goes a long way toward explaining why Seattle was so unprepared for what happened. (To be fair, no city could have properly prepared for an invasion on this scale—some 50,000 demonstrators.) 

Biden can avoid a brokered convention by shifting his focus from being the presidential candidate to being the ultimate negotiator who successfully brings people together. 

Ezra Klein observes, “Democrats tried to play it safe and failed. It is time to open themselves to risk."

James Carville is right that the Democratic Party, having lost trust of voters by pretending that Biden was hale and hearty, needs to be especially careful about restoring trust in the contest, avoiding a coronation.

It would almost be easier if these Mariners were like the teams of the 1970s and '80s, which were hapless. Today's Mariners are, well, hap. Or maybe that should be half. As in half good. They can hang, but participation ribbons are faint recompense.

Adam Smith has reason to fear, the country has reason to fear, Trump's once more becoming commander-in-chief. Congressman Smith is right to ask: Is a diminished 81-year-old up to rescuing democracy?

A palpable sense of relief swept France and much of Europe as Sunday’s surprising results showed the success of the New Popular Front’s strategy of uniting parties from far left to center.

Marketing studies have shown that casual wine shoppers in particular buy on price and label. How does your label design attract or repel them? How much useful information does it convey? What does it say about the care and concern for quality that has gone into making the wine?

“Don’t speak to your opponent but to the audience. First impressions matter, the candidates’ early statements are the ones that stick with viewers. Style towers over substance.”

Aren’t we getting a little too old to be behaving like this? The problem we’re dealing with is not age; it’s infirmity. It’s also pride and vanity, but let’s deal with one problem at a time. Both candidates are old.

Although a civil war of sorts in this country is already underway, I hope there is time to avert the potential horrors, bloodshed, and civic rupture of a real civil war.

Here’s how the DNC could produce a riveting “show” and a strong nominee over the next eight weeks.

Despite its reputation for crazy drivers, Italy takes its traffic code seriously. So, we now know the answer to a common FAQ: Can you live in the Italian countryside without a car?

"My lies are good lies. I lie to preserve democracy. Trump’s lies are bad lies."

Author of "Of Time and the River, "Look Homeward, Angel," and other examples of the most descriptive prose in our time, Wolfe toured the Western National Parks in June of 1938 in the back seat of a Ford sedan as he entered Washington State.

The right wing populism infecting American politics has moved north across the 49th parallel. For the second time in 40 years, Canadians are getting tired of a Trudeau.

Let’s be grateful for the Rahimi decision.  And hold our breaths for what comes next from the Supreme Court.

If Biden pulls out, qualms about age and decrepitude immediately turn, like Elmer Fudd’s shotgun, back onto Trump. He’s not aging well either.

What I offer you here, filtered through my own palate, are many of the most interesting wines I’ve tasted so far this year.

A key problem for the Biden team and for the Democratic Party is Kamala Harris. If Biden decides to not seek a second term, it is almost certain that Vice President Harris will be the shaky nominee.

Was Chipotle guilty of a skimpy-servings scandal? Enter the Tik Tok Influencers to make things worse.