The mages, projected onto an advent-calendar-like wall, recalled to me Terry Gilliam’s cut-out sequences for Monty Python’s Flying Circus at times, or German expressionist cinema at others, all overlaid with a healthy dose of Edward Gorey.

“Investing in passenger-only ferries can put boats back on the water faster and cheaper, taking lessons from our maritime history and heritage to build a more connected, healthier and prosperous future for all of us."

Gates has a way of describing his young, alienated self with entertaining good humor: “Somewhere around third or fourth grade, I realized that it wasn’t cool to be reading the World Book for fun, or playing hearts with your grandmother, or wanting to talk about why bridges don’t collapse.

Trump's misguided strategy for bringing any lasting peace to Ukraine is capitulation to whatever Putin wants. “If you give Putin everything he wants he’s just going to ask for more.”

The Elon Musk wrecking crew has decreed 60 layoffs at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, site of the nation’s premier nuclear-waste cleanup. It produced a blunt message from the Tri-City Herald to Republican U.S. Rep. Dan Newhouse: do something, say something.

The State of the City may have seemed much like a mayoral report card, but the fall election went unmentioned while the mayor worked hard delivering an abundance of good news.

The church’s role is not an apolitical one. The church’s role is to be prophetic, challenging all abuses of power (of the right or the left). What the church must not do is surrender its independence by promoting a partisan political agenda.

Washington state currently has 21 AVAs – legally certified American Viticultural Areas. I couldn’t name them all, and I’ve been paying attention.

Carlo was a most unusual mix: a bon vivant without vulgarity, a charmer without deception, a believer in honest work and the dignity of labor, in good wine and social justice and art, free in heart and mind.

Uncertainty about the biofuel-production requirement is likely among the reasons that nobody’s pouring concrete for a new refinery yet. 

By pushing these employees out of government jobs, Trump borrows a practice from President Andrew Jackson, who created a “spoils system” of government patronage.

I suggest aspects of a shadow government and an emerging new politics, with these components.

Rep. Jayapal is not without ego and basks in praise from the Seattle left. And self-confident people are needed to push back against what Jayapal called a “far right authoritarian … American fascist” government.

Trump has spawned a MAGA movement, and overstepping is already apparent. Congress’ phone system is “melting down” with calls from worried constituents.

Tesla is Elon Musk's greatest source of wealth through his ownership of more than 400 million shares of its stock. If that stock price drops, his wealth drops.

"I will be a social media influencer. It’s easy money. Last year Kylie Jenner averaged $2,386,000 per post,” I told my dubious wife..

The unusual structure of this storytelling telescopes the narrative, underlining the conflicting trajectories of the couple’s lives.

The newly assembled U.S. security and foreign policy team spent the weekend effectively endorsing Trump’s assurances to Russian President Vladimir Putin that his unprovoked war against a sovereign neighbor will end with the Kremlin achieving its main objective.

America’s foreign trade fell by two-thirds in the Great Depression. It wasn’t all because of the tariff, but much of it was — and the plunge was in exports as well as imports. The one pays for the other; cut one, and you cut both.

I’m always curious to try to dig a little deeper into what specifically someone likes or dislikes, and it’s difficult (understandably) for most people to break down complex flavors and put them into words.

A world of trouble, travel, sexual adventures, and struggles for an education became Horace Cayton's life.

People who have died and come back are fascinating. We’re dying (sorry) to know if they picked up any interesting information while they were out there, and she was often asked about it.

Sociologist Musa al-Gharbi, a professor at Stony Brook and a Columbia University fellow, is having a well-deserved moment. His book, We Have Never Been...

Cuts to federal funding for research could result in less overall scholarly output and less open access publishing.

Reducing demand is certainly not an easy task for the U.S., and it is as tough to reduce supply.

The Trump resign-or-else message to federal workers is particularly insulting to park employees. Tell that to Mt. Rainier climbing rangers, or search and rescue teams who find lost hikers in the Olympics.

The Fort Worden PDA raised millions from private and public sources, borrowed millions more, hired scores of people and set out to transform the park into a regional venue for “life-long learning.” It didn’t work

Founder Dick Spady believed in keeping it simple. While other hamburger outlets added variations like bacon burgers, fishwiches and chicken burgers, Dick’s stuck to classic hamburger and cheeseburgers.

If the attention economy is new, the inner conflict between what we should do and what we actually do is very old, as old as Scripture.

City Council President Sara Nelson’s proposal would permit about 1,000 housing units just south of T-Mobile Park on two blocks within the special stadium district, reviving an old debate