Top Gun No More: I was a Fighter Pilot. Today’s Remote...

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"Today, Air Force 'pilots' kill enemy combatants halfway around the globe from windowless, air-conditioned, shipping container modules in the Nevada desert."

The Complicated Legacy of Julia Child

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The show may be a fictionalized version of Child’s groundbreaking TV success, but it portrays struggles by women for recognition and equality that ring true to that era.

Mayor Harrell Doesn’t Suck so Far: So Here are Eight Suggestions

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"City Hall is tired, and it needs vitamin-rich leaders who make the cushions bounce."

Putin Whiffs at Victory Parade: Reality’s a Bitch

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Any claim to have achieved Kremlin objectives of uniting Ukrainian regions seized eight years ago would have been difficult to substantiate.

Exit Stage West: A Ukrainian Soprano’s Escape

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“My situation is not tragic. I don’t consider myself a refugee,” Anna Bondarenko told me over dinner in a cozy bistro in central Vienna.

Seattle Church Closure Provokes Pushback

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"Aroused by the looming threat of closure, the wider community organized, filling the church hall that night to confront Auxiliary Bishop Eusebio Elizondo."

The Last Days of Reproductive Freedom

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"I fear that these weeks while we await the issuing of the final Supreme Court decision are the last days of reproductive freedom in America."

Seattle: Our Forgotten Namesake

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Seattle may be named for Chief Seattle, but his presence (and that of his people) is difficult to detect in the modern city.

Boeing: Move to DC is all About Our Values

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"We are moving to Arlington to concentrate on lobbying, coopting regulators, buying politicians, sucking up to Generals, flattering bigwigs, cozying up to reporters, and misinforming the public."

How Abortion Rights Became Central to the Culture Wars

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It’s not your fathers' and mothers’ Republican Party anymore. Our state’s “new look” Republicans of yesteryear are old or deceased. 

Polarized Frenzy: Is There Room for the Moderate?

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The immediate effect of the leak has been to ratchet our polarization higher and tighter — which may have the intent of the leak.

Post Alley Writers: a Roundtable on the Supreme Court’s Roe Bombshell

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The 1992 protest march numbered nearly a half million participants. In April of 2005, more than a million abortion-rights activists joined in the March for Women’s Lives. Clearly, these demonstrations were not enough. Big rallies in the nation’s capital may not have been a winning strategy.

Well Fortified? A History of Pacific Northwest Forts

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Most of them served as trading centers and integral parts of the great fur trade.

Wake-up Call: Supreme Court Shows Its Hand

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Any shred of belief that the courts are immune to this can now be safely discarded; they are deeply complicit.

Why Is Seattle School Board Director Chandra Hampson Suing Her Own...

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Hampson is a passionate, no-holds-barred type of director and she threw herself into this work.  Mounting tensions between two school board members and two staffers came to a head.

Why the Challenge to Seattle’s Payroll Tax will Fail (and Should...

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To say the appellate judges seemed skeptical about the Chamber’s legal challenge would be an understatement.

How Bud Krogh Quietly Helped in the Creation of Town Hall...

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The Town Hall connection emerged when out of the blue Krogh helped me understand why I and others were having such a hard time getting anywhere in our decade-long efforts to purchase the Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist for conversion to a music and civic venue on Seattle’s First Hill.

Roadmap: Thirteen Strategies to Help us Live with COVID

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What we’ve learned over the past 26 months is that humanity isn’t a precision drill team capable of executing in accordance with such guidance; not even close.

Why Pete Carroll Thinks he can Punch the NFL in the...

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Carroll’s emphasis on the run is neither wrong nor hopeless; it helped get the Seahawks to two Super Bowls. But the system takes better players to execute it than he and Schneider had provided since then. Until, perhaps, now.

McCarthy: (Oops, the Tapes) — We Now Return to our Regularly-Scheduled...

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Polls show a motivated Republican “base,” three quarters of whom believe Joe Biden was not legitimately elected. 

The Big Gamble: COVID and Children

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The CDC has reported that, by the latter stages of the Omicron surge, ~75% of American children 0-17 tested positive for COVID antibodies, meaning they’d had the disease.

All the Difference: How the World’s Fair Changed Seattle 60 Years...

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Eddie Carlson's idea for a Space Needle wasn't instantly popular. Some scoffed at the notion, likening it to a phone pole in a sombrero or a pylon wearing a top hat.

Travel Tips from an Expat in Italy

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"High on most people’s list are three cities: Rome, Venice, and Florence."

Dear Elon: What Twitter Could Be

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Elon Musk is right about Twitter: there’s a lot of value that could be “unlocked.” He’s just wrong (or at least vague in public)...

Before or After: A Global Trade Debate

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Fair traders are often depicted as anti-trade, but this is far too simple a branding.

Macron’s Re-Election Makes Him Europe’s New De Facto Leader

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Mr. Macron won, yes. But France is still in trouble. However his is the last best hope for a unified European voice and strategy for halting Putin’s upending of the world order.

Fed Up: Delays in Activating Tiny House Villages

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In a managed encampment, these homes provide stability and give their residents a base on which to build a future. 

Remembering Harriet Bullitt: “I Bought a Radio Station!”

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"After some research, I purchased the station, directed a change in format and of course the Limbaugh show was one of the first programs dropped!”

Hey Baby – Hot 4U Wants 2B Your Friend!

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Age makes some men look very distinguished. I am probably one of them.

Trust No One: The Toxic Brine of Misinformation

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Systemic disinformation efforts are designed to undercut democracy by dividing people, feeding their emotions, destroying their ability to recognize truths, and undermining their capacity to find them. 

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