Hitchman's cherished overview was a 360-degree sighting of whatever emerged from the presses holding content about the Pacific Northwest.  And like a perched crow, he intended to see and describe whatever caught his sharp eye.

We are not likely to find such antique sites in Kirkland because of the lake’s inexorable rise.  If we find antecedents of historic lake villages, they will be underwater. 

The author of a new book writes: "Encampments provide a community for users, creating the kinds of environmental cues that the USC psychologist Wendy Wood finds crucial in forming and maintaining habits. They are often places where addicts flee from treatment, where they can find approval for their meth use.”

The lawsuit sees the state of Washington doubling down on an old panacea, more hatcheries, that hasn't worked to save the orcas in the past and won't work in the future.

The electorate wanted change and fresh ideas, as opposed to the performative ideological posturing and lockstep fidelity to the Twitter Left’s dittohead groupthink.

Several citywide campaigns this year focused heavily on harvesting the four $25 coupons issued to every registered voter in Seattle. Two who did were soundly beaten by more conventional campaigns centered on direct mail and advertising.

Sometimes insisting — see Manchin/AOC/Jayapal -- on too much means delay, an image of incompetence, an erosion of public trust. Political purity comes with a cost.

This drives Democrats crazy, but most suburbanites live paycheck to paycheck and have had to stretch to afford the mortgage on our house, so we do not want our taxes raised. And when you say you just want to tax “the rich,” we don’t believe you. Besides, we all want to be rich someday.

Democrats should have learned a lesson from the 2020 Congressional races, in which they lost 13 House seats, largely because voters listened to GOP charges that Democrats were “radical socialists,” favored open borders and wanted to defund the police.

Seattle left/activist firebrand Robert Cruickshank Tweeted last night: “The results out of Seattle are bad. Not unsurprisingly so, but it’s bad and we progressives have a lot to fix.” No kidding.  But the local left is not introspective and loath to abandon its agenda. 

Defunding the police turned into an exploding cigar, and even Minneapolis voters rejected replacing the Police Department by 58-42. But good luck luring and confirming a strong leader as Seattle's police chief.

The 45th president was, Schiff writes, a “xenophobic autocrat” with neither knowledge nor respect for the limits of power. What astounded Schiff, however, were Trump’s enablers.

Licata argues that the student power movement, too often packaged along with civil rights and anti-Vietnam War actions, deserves to stand as a separate entity. The movement involved more than just gaining student rights at individual schools. It fostered social justice beyond the campus.

Britain’s divorce from the European Union was supposed to be final at the end of 2020. But as with breakups between spouses...

The guidebooks themselves provided a unique survey of Americans at a pivotal point in their history – a state-by-state, town-by-town glimpse of a growing nation that was emerging from the Great Depression, and about to plunge into a world war that promised to change everything. 

The Republican Party has not exactly split – yet – but chunks of it are breaking off. This new center-right movement is a reality. But where does it go from here?

In the larger scheme of things, we are in the midst of a pretty thorough re-examination and re-telling of our national story. One which makes the less, even the heretofore-invisible actors, visible. High time!

Kristof’s candidacy is not the only factor to promise an unusual race for governor.

Local examples of how these "bomb" ads can blow up in the face of the tossers of these ads: Lorena Gonzalez and Kathy Lambert.

Taxing the fat cats has undeniable political appeal, but the Wyden proposal is loaded with unintended adverse consequences, such as the impact on revenue from estate taxes.

Barely eking out a win against a progressive challenger on his home turf wouldn’t make “Constantine for Governor 2024” roll off the tongue.

Moral superiority is rewarding if outrage and umbrage is your idea of fun. If not, reconsider cool.

There is a tide in American politics where things jump forward in a sweeping way, rather like "punctuated equilibrium" in evolution. We may be in such a moment now, as the Biden team seems to believe, even with its slim majorities. Jayapal's Moment?

The Western Washington district is one place where the Trump Administration did not pack the federal bench.  It began the year with just two active judges – Chief Judge Ricardo Martinez and Judge Richard Jones – while relying on work of nine senior judges.

I don’t know whether any candidate elected now or in elections to come can find a path that both restores our streets, allows still boarded-up shops to open again, and gives meaningful help to those in the alleys and storefronts along the street.

Last week, Seattle laid to rest a true renaissance man, and one of the best local politicians we managed never to quite elect.

The fortunes of Republicans Jamie Herrera Beutler and Dan Newhouse have diverged recently on how to deal with holding TrumpWorld accountable.

mRNA itself isn’t a single substance such as penicillin or aspirin. Instead, it’s a class of molecules with a nearly infinite number of possible variants.

The popularity explosion goes beyond national parks, however; witness the early October “golden week” in the Cascades and Rockies when needles on Lyall’s larches in the high country turn gold.  Long lines of cars are parked at the Biue Lake and Maple Pass Loop trailheads near Rainy Pass on the North Cascades Highway.

While “shelter and housing for everyone” should be our goal, making it a requirement prior to clearing an encampment exacerbates the problem.