Perhaps no politician here is more exposed to the Trump conundrum than Reichert, who will have to wear his voting record during the first two years of that administration in a state where the former president and likely nominee is deeply unpopular.

Some people expected the worst.  The worst didn’t happen.

Nothing like a failed coup to provide cover for a dictator to crack down on enemies.

Washington was placed by the wine gods between 30 degrees and 50 degrees latitude north and south of the equator – the historic region for grape growing in Europe. 

Economist Jacob Vigdor argues that Americans may be looking at “the emergence of a ‘seller’s market’ for labor, which may in fact prove to be the ‘new normal’ in the United States” — which will bring about “a 40-year reduction in income inequality.”

At the head of the list of desirable new directions is a new theme for downtown as a series of distinct residential neighborhoods.

Prigozhin’s drive toward the Russian capital — in his words a “march for justice” with unspecified intentions — reached to within 120 miles of Moscow before the surprise announcement late Saturday that a retreat had been brokered by Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko.

In Olympia, our first LGBTQ legislators, Cal Anderson and his successor Ed Murray, worked in increments – hospital visitations, inheritance rights, anti-bullying, legalization of civil unions. Marriage equality followed.

Blethen isn’t wrong about the need for regulation, but his idea for a cure to give diminished legacy publications such as his (and specifically locally-owned legacies) special tax and regulatory breaks so they can… do what, slow their decline(?), doesn’t fix the problems.

The people who invented “cap and trade” wanted the oil companies to pass on the cost to consumers. The program’s purpose is to prod people into using less fossil fuel, and ultimately to switch to electric cars and trucks. If the program isn’t raising the price of gasoline and diesel, it’s not working.

Dave, the workshop presenter, said that “rejection — at some level — is at the heart of all the father issues. The feeling that you are never good enough.” There probably was that, but I think both my parents had that going on. With my Dad it was more the sense that we just didn’t have that much in common, and between that and his work, not much shared experience.

Washington was considered to be too hot and dry in the summer, too cold in the winter to grow anything but (maybe) a bit of Riesling. Oregon, the experts said, was simply too cold and too wet to grow wine grapes profitably.

Some candidates have a lot of money already; others are saving up for later expenditures; still others have deep-pocketed donors to tap in the future.

This dictionary is a collection of invented words defining emotions many of us may have experienced but never thought to define or thought could be defined — our obscure sorrows — by turns light-hearted or tragic, and always poignant.

Cantwell won a narrow 2,229-vote over Gorton in 2000, which was the last Senate race decided in the country. She has since enjoyed three easy races. If reelected in 2024, she and Patty Murray will be poised to serve together for 28 years – the same joint tenure as the duo of Sens. Warren Magnuson and Henry Jackson, seatmates from 1953-81.

Both Roberts and Kavanaugh are on the same page agreeing that Voting Rights Act outlaws voting practices that discriminate based on race. That's a significant shift from their earlier skepticism about the Act.

When Seattle attorney and scholar Alfred J. Schweppe, age 93, died in April of 1988, his name was high in the legal firmament, and beyond.  He had seemingly touched the lives of most Washington state residents.

Ben Terris writes how D.C. is even today struggling to recover from the craziness that overtook the town during Trump’s four chaotic years. He recalls how often people would say “this is not normal” when the leader of the free world raged at his own Justice Department or undermined civil servants or winked at conspiracy theorists.

It is a bad time to be last into a disrupted marketplace, particularly after the chaos of the new rules governing legal payments of private money to players (NIL) and the transfer portal.

It took Americans only three generations to level lowland forests and ransack the fisheries.  Modern clues to how the Duwamish and their neighbors succeeded may be found in three watersheds I want to examine: Thornton Creek in north Seattle, and McAleer and Lyons Creeks in Lake Forest Park. 

While Katharine Hayhoe is clear about the dangers of a warming planet she achieves what her subtitle promises, offering hope and healing in a divided world.

The documentaries are a reminder of the speed of change in a country that went from poverty and starvation to the second largest economy in the world today.

The turnover at City Hall will have consequences, given the current council’s unpopularity and left-leaning ideological bent. A recent poll, done for the Downtown Seattle Assn., asked 500 likely voters to grade the City Council. Two-thirds of those surveyed gave the Council a D or F.

This case could easily have been decided narrowly. But the majority, especially Alito, didn't want a narrow decision.

It’s the best in-depth TV examination I know, and it covers the most important issues facing the US and the world – except for the danger now facing our democracy.

Dogwood Press gems, now collectors' items, represent a gentle man's life in a skilled trade now largely taken for granted.

What we’re witnessing, on all continents, is no joke. Smoke is getting into our eyes, but should also be on our minds.  

“Bellywash,” my mother’s nickname for the town, has begun to pop up on lists of America’s best places to live, learn, work, and retire.

Pinot Noir is special to me, partly because I live so close to some of the greatest Pinot producers in the world, partly because it is by general acclaim one of the world’s most challenging grapes to grow and wines to make.

The mounting costs of Putin’s so-far failed mission to conquer Ukraine have mobilized underground opposition both inside Russia and among ethnic Russians and Russian-speakers in Ukraine.