The wine business is almost as rumor and fear-driven as the entertainment industry.

Protestors are motivated by legitimate outrage at the government’s actions. If there is little or no response, over time, impatience sets in. And for a growing number of protestors, the push for a perfect solution overshadows more achievable solutions.

Unlike in academia, where the best conversations in fields like history or the sciences had been nuanced and complicated, working journalists were being schooled mainly by critics on Twitter who griped when we “platformed” voices they didn’t like. 

Professor Robert Parham first expresses a concern for the spiritual/ mental health of his students, who are deeply pessimistic about the world and the future and often told they are responsible for the mess.

The 6th is traditionally a safe Democratic Congressional district, so the victor of Franz vs. Randall in the August primary will likely cruise past Republican state Sen. Drew MacEwen in November. Labor votes and labor money could be the deciding factor.

Who was Chief Sealth, whose name was pronounced See-alth or sometimes See-attle?

With the completion of the Northern Pacific Railroad in the 1890s, refrigerated fresh fish was shipped to eastern markets.  This activity made the Pacific Northwest fishing industry famous throughout the world.

Gen Z young women are not alone in their leftward move. Polling shows an older set of women – Baby Boomers and Millennial women among them – are beginning to move left.

In the new state program EV customers will not have to verify adjusted gross income. To say their income qualifies — “attest” is the state’s word — will be good enough. No clawback when caught lying, by the way.

I began to understand that Seattleites respond to irony with deadpan humor by pretending that they don’t get the joke. They best your irony with a prevailing irony.

About a week ago I was escorted up and down and around the steep, rocky terrain of the most unlikely, challenging and uniquely beautiful vineyard I’ve ever seen.

The latest cause – it is now 13 years old – is the Wild Olympics campaign. It would create 126,661 acres of' new wilderness protection on Olympic National Forest land, which surrounds the national park like a donut.

The newly renovated Town Hall Seattle revealed excellent acoustics for live performance of music. That means we now have three such venues.

In a four-way race, according to the new PPP poll, Ferguson registers at 35 percent, Reichert at 28 percent, while Bird trails with 11 percent while Mullet barely registers with just 4 percent.

As you may have surmised by now, a pattern has emerged. Nothing about the current Mariners has gone to standard baseball form. They are as predictable as puppies under a blanket.

The language of Fox pundits can sound like recordings of Mafia brass talking about a snitch. "He looks like a rat," Greg Gutfeld said of Cohen.

All these usual forces have so far failed to bring Trump to account — but he has been undone by an adult film actor and director, yes, “a porn star.”

"I’m proud of how we’ve brought women into the newsroom: All our top editorial positions are women now. Since I was raised by a single mom, I never did understand why women weren’t more prominent in high-paying significant positions."

Scheppelmann frequently fields complaints of politically motivated programming. “Art has always been critical of the status quo,” she says, “and opera has always been political."

Community radio has become a wonderful resource, a way of communicating that we’re most fortunate to have.

If the Supreme Court majority wants practical grounds to rule in favor of Grants Pass regulations, it won’t have to look far.

Peter Miller Books has been around now for 45 years and his shop has survived Amazon’s assault on bricks-and-mortar bookstores, the 2008 recession, Covid-19, and Seattle’s years-long waterfront project.

Aiden Kelly says he can “almost hear how the old analogue machines are thinking. You can look at it and see how it is operating.” He works with dial-up modems and enjoys “the iconic sound of connecting to the internet. I like the idea that these two computers are singing a song to each other.”

Robert Brittan is among a handful of Napa Valley émigrés whose knowledge and experience are transforming the way in which Willamette Valley wines are grown and made.

In 1893 a regional historian with a penchant for hyperbole described King County as "emphatically one of the great, if not the greatest, counties of the Northwest . . ."

The result of her efforts is a great gift to historians. It is by turns inspiring, instructive, revealing, astonishing, shocking, and—when considered in contrast with present-day politics—almost unbearably depressing.

Putin’s bellicose rhetoric lands on sympathetic ears in Moscow, far from the Ukraine battlefields and the remote Russian areas where its fighters are recruited. But his resurrection of Stalinist-era repression is likely to eventually backfire as the reality of the Ukraine war’s toll on a generation of men becomes apparent.

Our nation's presidents and aspirants have learned to expect nothing less than mediagenic protests from stopovers in this corner of America's "left coast." A tradition of rough receptions dates back more than a century.

“At one point, the janitor remembers ‘looking up and I noticed the cameras are covered.’ It made him think: ‘This was definitely planned.’

In Seattle during the Progressive Era, the central institution was a small elementary school, incubators of the city's urban neighborhoods.