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.

Stock market plunges in every major index have prompted prominent economists and central bankers to warn a recession is looming for the European Union, the United States and most other countries of the developed world.

Before the election Donald Trump promised to fix inflation, which included big voter concern about the cost of housing. For all the shock and...

McCarthy's autobiographical book, "Memories of a Catholic Girlhood," tartly describes a convent upbringing in Seattle in a barbed and entertaining memoir.

"Above all I’m talking about your responsibility to yourself. And when I say you owe something to yourself, I mean your higher image of who you should be. Living up to these demands is what makes a man happy."

The answers are likely to suggest the Sound Transit board’s desire to stay-the-course won’t address the agency’s very serious problems.

You can imagine how the news of VOA shut down brought cheers in China, where VOA was broadcast in English, Mandarin, as well as Tibetan and Uyghur languages.

The increasingly aggressive approach of the Trump White House to acquiring the world’s biggest island has so offended Greenlanders and Danes that no one in the government or business communities wants anything to do with the United States.

In part, the tax is being sacrificed to national unity. Long a U.S. partner on trade and defense, Canada feels betrayed by Trump and suspects that America is no longer a reliable partner.

These are indeed minor criticisms in a performance that was full of delights and surprises. Holst's notoriously dense and difficult-to-balance orchestration here sounded lucid and detailed.

The autonomy of universities is no longer recognized. ICE agents are now allowed to barge into places of worship. The nation’s boss man fires the management of a cherished cultural institution.

This is the second installment of my Trump Outrage Watch designed to help me (and you) keep track of his violations of the Constitution, laws, norms and ethics perpetrated at a mind-numbing pace.

If we are applying this to our current politics and culture, a finger is pointed at Trump, Musk, and all the other happy warriors of disruption, self-promotion, and cruelty.

Carl Sandburg was called upon to give a talk and play his guitar at the 1962 Seattle World's Fair. His talk was a success, but he left the stage without touching the lonely guitar.

Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg are the Careless People who call to mind The Great Gatsby’s Tom and Daisy who “smash up things and creatures and then retreat back to their money and vast carelessness and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

A wealth of data shows how Trump’s flood of executive orders and appointments has created immediate confusion and chaos in delivering government services. But detailing that process demands a separate effort.

Constantine will be perfectly positioned to cover for, that is to protect, board members from criticism, from exposure of its failures (his included) to keep the agency out of trouble.

Since Mark Carney took the helm, and took on Trump, the governing Liberal Party has soared in the polls.

The preposterous distance between the Dodgers and the rest of baseball -- the only major North American spectator sport without a serious salary cap -- is like Lewis and Clark arriving at Astoria to discover the Pacific shore was many miles west.

"Groenlandia, Gaza, e Canada" (Composed by Lee Greenwood, Libretto by Carl Ichan). This opera, set in the future, depicts how America regained it moxie, due to a perceptive, upstanding, unflinching, illustrious, resplendent, and fearless leader.

Instead of “say it again louder” as Ken Martin seems to suggest, or stand pat (“I wouldn’t change anything”) as Kamala Harris chose to do, a new message and agenda are required.

Denk’s overarching intent seemed to be uncovering something ineffable: the character Bach baked into each Partita based on its tonality.

Newly elected Gov. Bob Ferguson, a noted chess master, should be on his game right now. But instead, he appears conflicted in what moves to make.

Now our governments remain in the mid-20th Century while our communities, economies, and the world left that century behind decades ago, creating the need for public sector reform.  Our unserious civic culture and political class proved unable to respond.

Perhaps sensing a bleak mood among their readers, some of the columnists/commentators I follow began the year by trying, or so it appeared, to talk us back from the edge.

Growing a vibrant, communal, and accessible local music and arts scene from the ground up — like Seattle had in the late 80s and 90s — has been the driving force of creatives and small-business owners who have moved to White Center in recent years. But there are complications...

“We are all kind of swimming in a sea of information and misinformation. Learning how to navigate that is really important work.”

As a Deputy King County Prosecuting Attorney, George Vanderveer stepped into one courtroom fracas after another.  His legal life was a baptism in the world of radicals, pickpockets, and their neighbors.

The amount of money waiting in the wings looks like the front end of a ballot measure campaign to force a statewide vote on new taxes.

We have been witnessing the collapse of religion. As a kind of bulwark, answering questions for people on why they are here. What’s the difference between right and wrong?”