In Dumpty v. King’s Horses Et. Al., Humpty sued for medical malpractice including misdiagnosis, surgical errors, administration of improper medications, premature discharge, and failure to recognize multiple fractures. The jury awarded Dumpty $36.7 million.

Over the three years of this federal windfall, excess spending in the state compared to the trend totaled $5.4 trillion (2025 dollars). This surge in federal spending largely explains the surge in state tax revenues in fiscal years 2021, 2022, and 2023.

Author Rauch now sees Christianity, particular in the historic Protestant varieties that dominated America at its founding, as having been a “load-bearing wall” for American life and democracy.

In a move likely to prove popular with Elon Musk haters, House Democrats passed a tax on the sale of zero-emission vehicle credits, which will fall almost entirely on Tesla in the short term. 

"What a breath of fresh air he was to our Church, coming at a moment when we needed him so badly,” Fr. Michael Ryan, pastor of St. James Cathedral, wrote in a letter to parishoners.

In fairness, any NFL GM in the job 15 years likely has a knucklehead selection or two. And Schneider gets credit for the creation of the Seahawks' Super Bowl teams of 2013 and 2014

The “Honest Elections” promise of “keeping big wealth out of politics” was thus not fully realized. It fell victim to the Citizens United decision that permits PACs to spend unlimited amounts.

President Donald Trump has apparently decided that bringing peace to Ukraine is just too hard. Even giving Russian President Vladimir Putin carte blanche to dictate...

An 1853 edition of the Columbian, the newspaper of record at that time, reported that "fourteen sawmills" were in operation on Puget Sound, most of them run by waterpower from nearby streams and rivers.

Join journalists Kari Mar and Post Alley editor Douglas McLennan at Folio this Wednesday for a discussion ablout how outlets like Post Alley and the La Conner Community News are new models for local news.

The political cleavage in Canada is a mirror of U.S. divisions. The Liberals are an urban-suburban party, a party of the educated but also immigrants. A trio of great cities —Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver — are bastions of Liberal support.

It was May, 1967 and I was near the end of a troubling, challenging, and ultimately most wonderful ten months of teaching the sixth grade at a Brooklyn, New York elementary school.

Trump had a small but well-funded right-wing think tank help him turn our justice system on its head.

People are angry at Trump’s leadership. Polls confirm that dissatisfaction, showing his numbers headed down. The same is true about public confidence in government. The trust that holds our democracy together is threatened as never before.

“Isn’t it strange that with our proud heritage as a democracy and with the values enshrined in our Bill of Rights, Americans we are now willing to elect as a President a man who neither understands nor respects any of that?”

Lawmakers are creative in finding ways around Gov. Ferguson's opposition to taxing the wealthy.

By the early 1920s Alonzo Victor Lewis's fame was recognized throughout the Pacific Northwest and beyond.  His mostly somber herculean statues loomed in many parks, nooks and street-corners. 

The Tesla I was so excited about in 2000 became, in 2025, “swasticars” to their critics. The once apolitical libertarian allied himself with “drill-baby-drill” Donald Trump, the longtime scourge of electric vehicles and windmills.

Turnout everywhere exceeded expectations earlier this month when people across the country took to the streets to tell Trump & Gang “hands off” our...

It’s not politics at all. Oh, there are people around Donald Trump using the power of politics to satisfy or pay off various political...

As travel increases, airport managers must referee the heated competition among airlines for more space, even as they pressure the airport to keep costs low.

I recently spent a pleasant weekend in Ancona, the capital of our region of Marche in east-central Italy, where I enjoyed a concert of...

This week, it was extreme volatility—and uncertainty— on tariffs that might raise prices, crush markets and savings, cost jobs and alienate allies and perhaps bring on a recession; new threats to free speech, and firing of top national security officials on the say-so of a wild conspiracist.

The Denny-Terry-Lander deeds stipulated that the 10-acre site downtown on Universty Street was to be dedicated forever to educational purposes.  That stipulation was met.

The obvious explanation was that these six Pike Market stores were conspiring against me. That is why I threatened them with a tariff.

Another thing we are short on these days is adults. Or maybe we’re unclear about what being an adult means.

Nobuyuki Tsujii, who is blind from birth, is unique among concert pianists in that he learns by ear. Colleagues record segments of a work, each hand separately and at intelligible tempi, then Tsujii works to memorize and synthesize the parts into a whole.

That ultimate fact-checker is going to have to be …you. Not on every story that comes across your social media, but definitely the crucial stories that matter. Here are a few tips on how to do that.

The Congresswoman's tactics have come up short beyond Seattle boundaries and sometimes within.

It was a surprising defeat for the Port of Seattle and its longshore union allies, who had turned back housing and commercial development there for about 20 years, as well as stopping Hansen’s basketball arena project.