Of crushing historical weight, the days -- the Event -- beg remembrance. 

“I call it the Hemingway Hump,” Kesey said with more than a trace of bitterness. “Not many Americans make it over the Hemingway Hump. “You do a certain good thing when you’re young and you don’t make it over that. You go down from that and you glide the rest of the way to the grave.”

It's an important evocation of Filipino life in Seattle, a city matched by Stockton, California as the twin centers of Filipino-American life.

The moderate Peltola delivered a lesson on Alaska politics, practical problem solving, and cross-party cooperation to a Seattle audience.

As dark and battered as Ukraine is, it casts a revealing light on the shadowed condition of the rest of the world, America in particular.

In the last two years, 19 censorship bills became law across the country, including gag orders on public school teachers and librarians, according to the National Education Association.

Nina Totenberg could have, should have, acted on her knowledge of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s health problems.

Political commentators called this election Brazil’s most important in decades, with the future of democracy, social peace and upward mobility opportunities on the line.

Fourteen years to .500, 21 years between playoffs. If you are a non-baseball fan, look upon your overwrought Mariners-loving friends and family with compassion.

There is no person alive who has personally known as many major political leaders as Kissinger.

Europe takes its books and publishers with great seriousness -- in those days, the American publishers looked, in multiple ways, sort of silly. Germany alone had many more publishers than all of the USA.

Recognized tribes, with billions in gambling revenue to fund generous political donations, have worked to erase the unrecognized Duwamish Tribe as a threat and a tribe.

Such buildings are both too expensive to maintain and too static for the kind of mission contemporary congregations envision for themselves.

The emergence of a new front bench of Democrats are mostly prominently attorneys general who brought successful court challenges against Trump.

Has he committed crimes?  Probably.  Will he be indicted for them?  Possibly.  Will we see him in prison?  Don’t hold your breath.

Being an entrepreneur in the food industry takes a whole different level of risk-taking.

Italy’s cultural composition still essentially echoes the plethora of kingdoms, duchies, city-states, and protectorates that carved up the peninsula for many hundreds of years following the fall of the Roman Empire.

Take your bike to explore the South Sound cities via the Des Moines Creek biking and walking trail. The ferry will feel like a private cruise.

In the first week in October larch needles backlit by the sun draw thousands of hikers to the east slopes of the Cascades.

Why are crab prospering while salmon aren’t? No one knows for sure.

Madeline Ostrander, a Seattle science journalist, doesn’t soft peddle the climate trends that make us all feel on the edge of doom.

It’s not a job, it’s a personal passion, a compulsion to witness – and to capture – the good, the bad, and the beautiful ugly of American politics.

Nasty, nasty. It brewed into a real « them v. us » atmosphere.

Life in a smaller community does tend to operate on a thousand little interactions, brief exchanges, and passing on of the news while checking out at the grocery store.

A retired truck driver from Lakebay takes a break after volunteering to help abandoned animals and hungry people in Ukraine.

The more things change, the more a 100-year-old Ballard chili parlor stays the same.

Joe Kent, an ex-Green Beret, eliminated incumbent six-term Republican Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler in Washington’s top-two August primary.

Having a vigorous rival often brings out the best in news coverage.

If business, government, and consumers can’t get serious about this small piece of the climate crisis, how are we ever going to deal with the whole looming catastrophe?

Nyhus helped Biden's campaign in Seattle and is a leader of LBGTQ causes. He has a reputation for knowing what buttons to push.