The Public Records Act is riddled with exemptions and loopholes.

More for them means less for us. A win for me requires a loss for you.

The Americans, of course, put a benign face on the relationship.  In words from John F. Kennedy, “Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends.  Economies have made us partners. And necessity has made us allies.”

The solution to expensive houses is to build more houses, not to build more apartments.

When it comes to the affordable housing crisis, maybe the way forward is the way back.

Tribal opposition has been a recurrent theme in the development of major energy projects in recent years. Majority Democrats in Olympia are searching for ways to ease those concerns.

What's clear is that the performance of Smith, as well as the relatively light weight of his subsequent contract, affords the chance for the Seahawks to do many things.

While the Russian president gives no indication of reconsidering his Ukraine calamity and cutting his losses, the fractious leaders of his motley war-fighting force could erode unity and commitment among the Russia factions in the stumbling campaign on the battlefields.

The original rock garden is a gem of local heritage and outsider art and an intricate, sprawling fantasia of arches, walls, and stairstep pathways in agate, quartz, river rock, colored glass, and untold other minerals.

We’re not going back to the world before deposit insurance, but there needs to be a limit to the government’s liability if banking is to remain a private-sector activity.

The latest book by Timothy Egan is both a Gothic tale of the 1920s, and distant mirror for viewing America today.

A well-cellared bottle can unfold a wine that may have been austere or even impenetrable when it was first released.

The director's choices lend Tar a creeping dread that seeps into every scene, as the audience is constantly left waiting for Tar to finally crash to earth from her dizzying peak. 

It’s difficult to justify abandonment of City Hall’s Second Floor at a time when many are hoping for the return of “normal.”

The gist of it is that liberal/progressives have adopted ways of thinking that contribute to depression.

The latest poll tested four gubernatorial prospects -- the GOP’s Bruce Dammeier and three Democrats.

Here’s a reading list to help your comprehension, or at least help you toss the right jargon around in social settings, much as ChatGPT itself might do.

In all cases, not just the North Atlantic routes to Europe, airlines are reporting record bookings. This not only means full flights but increasing prices for already-high air fares.

If Pence does run—and he’s traveling the primary election circuit like candidates do—he’ll add to the dynamic that currently favors Trump in 2024 as it did in 2016: the bigger the field, the more the anti-Trump vote will be split.

KING FM seems to have found its footing, after decades of floundering. It has emerged from soothing background music to active listening.

Global warming is already impacting the 49th state.  The Arctic icepack is shrinking.  Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are increasing.  The melting of permafrost is releasing methane into the atmosphere.

There is one sense in which Silicon Valley Bank is another Penn Square. The failure of the little bank in Oklahoma City 40 years ago was an omen of a nasty recession.

Choosing a site alone is only one piece of the total airport-construction puzzle. Who would choose a site and green light such a mammoth project, and all the mitigation that it entails? 

The original bill was a blueprint to create more housing around public transit, broaden the types of housing that neighborhoods can permit, and beat down housing prices by shoring up the housing supply.  

"We knew the morons were in the overwhelming majority. But…we felt more or less sure that they would be held in check. We moved among them with the same unconcern with which visitors to a modern cageless zoo walk past the beasts of prey, confident that its ditches and hedges have been carefully calculated.”

We Jerks are victims of demeaning verbal assaults, overt discrimination, micro-insults, stereotyping, and exclusions that invalidate our cultural heritage.

The Romans made it way before tomatoes were introduced into the culture. In the early years of this century, an enterprising Roman chef claims to have re-discovered pinsa.

Fox News is a bottom dweller pursuing the bottom line -- with private contempt for the choir to which it is preaching.

The frenetic pace refuses to let up, with some of the most spectacular visuals, funniest jokes, jaw-dropping choreography, and genuinely moving moments all happening in a rush.

Is big-city Seattle ungovernable, or is an entrenched Democratic/Progressive establishment dominated by activists and unions just not up to the job?