What began as a small radical right-wing Republican bloc in the U.S. House of Representatives opposed to further aid to Ukraine has expanded in the chaotic aftermath of former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s ouster two months ago.

A week before New Year's Eve,  FBI Director Louis Freeh called Mayor Schell, telling him they would have to cancel the Space Needle events for New Year's Eve. Schell could not explain the reason, and so took the fall.

The original goal of goosing KCTS into a television channel of strong public impact has been lost in the maze of new media opportunities and priorities. 

In my view, the only way Biden could eke out a victory in 2024 is to make this a “choice” election (as opposed to a referendum on Biden's first term), emphasizing Trump’s craziness and plans for a second presidency.

There's an adopted plan for more housing at surplus Army land, but it keeps getting delayed -- by the Great Recession, the pandemic, and neighbors' lawsuits.

Salmon canneries opened at Point Roberts in 1890s, and a paddlewheel steamer from Seattle made regular stops. The tiny area also became the end of the trail for Icelandic immigrants.

In all these ways, religious, seasonal, and secular Christmas music answers deep and persistent needs during times of darkness. 

On Monday, Strategies 360, which is one of the largest public affairs and communications firms in the West, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

No matter how many wines are entered, the bar is set so low to begin with that the results are essentially meaningless. Any really good wine that may sneak in is likely to be smothered in mediocrity.

For CRT, it’s all about, and only about, power. This results in some pretty reductive readings. Don’t bother reading the Bible for truth about God. It’s all about the social construction of power. Same for Shakespeare, and God help “the canon of western literature.”

Seattle City Light has long claimed that its Skagit River hydroelectric dams had little effect on salmon spawning grounds that the tribes say were blocked by Gorge Dam. But now the dams need federal approval for relicensing.

Lists like this one are built on a rickety foundation of caveats and qualifications, the most important being that musical taste is a curious impulse. Unlike film, unlike novels, it’s almost impossible to diagnose our musical ideals.

You can also think of Taylor Swift as an international economy. The current Eras tour will play at least 151 concerts on 5 continents. The concert film has grossed more than $250 million globally, according to Variety.

Why can men enjoy up to 24 pockets (number found in some three-piece suits) and women seldom have even one?

“We will never laugh again,” columnist Mary McGrory told her friend Daniel Moynihan, to which he replied, “Mary, we will laugh again but we will never be young again.”

Sixty years have passed since John Kennedy’s death in Dallas, and it is entirely appropriate to reflect on what America has seen and become in those six decades. Politics doesn’t have to be the way it has too often become. Mike Mansfield proved that. 

What the Huskies have done is Marvel Comics movie-grade preposterous.

The consequences of this major expansion of a Port pod will result in a cascading failure of the estuarine ecosystem, up to and including commercial crab and salmon species, eulachon, already endangered southern resident killer whales, as well as migratory and other shorebirds.

Republican challengers are already lining up to oppose Mary Peltola in Alaska and Marie Gluesenkamp-Perez in Washington state, two Blue Dog Democrats in Republican strongholds.

Our Italian guests are often perplexed by the placement of all the food on one large plate.

The guidance being provided by the Department of Commerce is coming from architects and planners, and it focuses on design issues. Almost nothing is being said about middle housing as a business.

Responding to the cancellation of his shows in London, New York, Paris, and Berlin, the outspoken Ai Weiwei, characteristically, had more to say.

The Navy has never been able to fulfill its post-Cold War plan for a permanent aircraft carrier presence in three hubs—the Western Pacific, the wider Middle East, and Europe.

They were not an unruly lot but so many of them were bleeding afresh from their foreheads, it was not a scene I had ever seen before, it was certainly not Old Saybrook.

Major advertisers have announced they are pulling away from X in response to owner Elon Musk’s support of antisemitic posts. Their announcements ring hollow, however.

Saving a UW shell house, where history has alliteration, in this case Pocock, partners, persistence, and place.

"Today’s rich, their wealth largely preserved through the Great Recession and the Covid-19 pandemic, have opposed reforms aimed at tapping their resources to fund mitigation policies of all kinds. This is a historically exceptional development."

Hong Kong’s political struggle is a David-and-two-sGoliath story in which Goliaths won. A new book Among the Braves, tells the story from the protesters’ point of view. The “braves” of the title are the radicals who fought with police — and lost.

Joe Horowitz has for several years been touting the orchestra and its music director Delta David Geier as an example of what American orchestras should aspire to be. So I went to see.

'Mr. President, in public, you should not make the statement that "Hu is Xi"