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.

In response to these post-Covid trends, and also to Sound Transit’s rail expansion, Metro says it will “restructure bus service rather than restore service to pre-pandemic conditions.” It plans “a targeted, income-based approach to fares."

There can be no more American story than the story of how this gun, powered by politicians and marketers, became the high-performance weapon of choice by evildoers around the world.

The festival orchestra has attracted some of the best first-chair players from around the country.

The symmetry was inescapable: As the fires swept into Jasper, consuming one-third of structures in the town, our planet was recording the warmest day in recorded history.

Some pure forms of Native language still exist.  For example, the elementary school at Taholah, on the Quinault Reservation in Washington State, teaches Quileute to youngsters.

Although it has been ten years coming, time now is up for small businesses (less than 500 workers) to comply.

The horseshoe theory was considered simplistic by serious political scientists, some of whom even called it nonsense, but it can be illustrative and fun.

As good as wines can be right upon release, they have just made the transit from vineyard to fermenter to aging vessel(s) to bottle to warehouse to… wherever. They’re exhausted!

Protect Progress, a political action committee backed by cryptocurrency billionaires—some of whom also back Donald Trump—plowed $1.4 million into an independent campaign in support of Democrat Emily Randall.

Harris leads Trump by 14 points in a new poll, and Bob Ferguson leads Dave Reichert by 9 points in the gubernatorial contest.