The Seattle City Council is now considering an end-run of that I-134 process by putting their version before the voters, alongside the I-134 version, without researching or understanding the consequences of their untested proposal nor involving the public in its creation.

Because of competition from streaming services and struggling local economy, the O.K. had shut down as the town (and county’s) only movie venue.

The UK Tories have a lesson to teach, especially to the Republican Party in the United States. 

"The authors' message is clear: Mass shootings are preventable by numerous routes through individual, institutional, and societal effort. We’re just doing it wrong."

I mean, my God! Kristof knew full well he had not lived in Oregon long enough (one year) to meet the legal requirements to hold office (three years).

Once Prohibition was enacted in 1919 by the 18th Amendment, the cultural urgency quickly evaporated and few followed the law. Prohibition was repealed in 1933 and quickly became a dead letter. That's the encouraging, cathartic analogy for the abortion wars.

We fondly think electing office holders is an effective method for holding governments accountable, but it isn't.

Damn the fireworks, I say, and protect the idea of our true American Faith.

Many birds are shifting their ranges poleward, especially non-migratory species and short-distance migrants.

This is essentially an expensive live-fire test of whether this kind of moderate-on-progressive challenge can work, and of the premise that progressives.

No place is more pivotal than Pennsylvania, where Donald Trump has yet to concede his narrow loss to Joe Biden two years ago.

On June 2nd, a series of events occurred in the Sand Point neighborhood including an incident at Sand Point Elementary School where an intruder...

If the SCOTUS decision is the beginning, not the end, of the debate, we will need a lot more thoughtful commentary. Here are some examples.

It’s official now that the industry has fallen off the edge of the flat Earth propped so long by the mythology of amateurism.

The multimillion-dollar gap -- viewed in the perspective of an annual budget in the $7 billion range -- is perhaps not horrific. But it still is bound to impact what the city can achieve towards meeting its on-going needs and ambitious social goals.

Horgan, leader of the New Democratic Party, was a temperamental opposition leader but has proven an avuncular head of government. 

A new political action committee, People for Legal Cannabis, is gearing up to fight any effort by outsiders such as the UFCW to empower their workers. 

It is hard to like or respect this Court.

I like the idea of them as leftovers from the last ice age.  And I like coming upon the objects in places where I don’t expect to find them,

The U.S. Supreme Court, in its ruling, takes away a right from all Americans. Five Post Alley contributors react.

The book is a sharp, spot-on critique of Capitol Hill’s current clumsy dysfunction. Congress used to be collegial, with friendships across the aisle and a transactional culture of accommodating varied interests. No more.

Visiting our near neighbor reminds this on-edge American that it really doesn’t have to be this way.

Seattle City Councilmembers now have to enact Approval Voting outright or place the issue on the ballot with or without an alternative measure.

At its core, this is a conflict over not only material benefits or retroactive justice (which may be an oxymoron) but also over history. 

New Republican challengers are promising not to undo decades of social progress and to avoid the scary laws other state Republicans have favored.

Election results along the so-called Left Coast have pundits predicting that a tsunami, a giant backlash against progressive excesses, is heading our way.

The Key Peninusula has been home to anarchists, millionaires, loggers, and poets. It remains the summer refuge for whatever the opposite of a snowbird is.

Americans own 120 guns per 100 people. No other nation comes close. But there are many nations with higher homicide rates, including nations with small fractions of America’s rate of gun ownership.

And now, of course, we are, 50 years later, riveted by the Stealgate hearings.

The pot industry argues that the state’s already high tax on cannabis makes it difficult to compete with the illegal market.