Solving skyrocketing rents ‘seems almost insurmountable’
By Mark Taylor Canfield | Guest Columnist The Emerald City is now considered one of the most expensive places to live in the United States. This shocking increase in the cost of living has been caused...
View ArticleEditorials | May 7, 2015
May Day messages lost in riots All Seattleites know that May Day demonstrations can get a little rowdy, and this year’s were no exception. Each year, there are peaceful May Day protests, which march...
View ArticleOutside City Hall | A winning transportation platform for City Council...
By John Fox and Carolee Colter | Columnists Recently, we got a call from a candidate for one of the new Seattle City Council district seats, asking for our thoughts on the main transportation problems...
View ArticleEditorial | Seattle should forfeit play in arena politics
“No major findings stand in the way of arena construction,” Mayor Ed Murray said of the Final Environmental Impact Statement recently released for the project — except for one glaring omission: public...
View ArticleSeattle Soundings | Meet Councilmember John Okamoto
By Geov Parrish | Columnist If you don’t remember voting for him…well, you didn’t. But five sitting Seattle City Councilmembers did, and so on April 27, he was selected to replace the outgoing Sally...
View ArticleEditorial | Homeless need support, not arrests
A recent study from the Seattle University School of Law found that by making homelessness a crime, cities are actually costing themselves more. While the research didn’t just focus on Seattle (it...
View ArticleThe Bottom Line | Where are the liberal Koch brothers?
By Charlie James | Columnist To be an effective organizer in the American African community you must be a racial historian. You cannot learn that history effectively unless you become a master of...
View ArticleEditorial | Port’s tentativeness to blame for intense fight
Like the requisite snow day when 2 inches fall, Seattle usually comes to a standstill when a march — peaceful or not — is scheduled. In this case, it wasn’t downtown but Port of Seattle business that...
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Among the Animals | Seattle politics on animal welfare
Bamboo checks out the transport crate before she is taken away from the Woodland Park Zoo for Oklahoma. Photo by Jeanne Barrett By Christie Lagally | Columnist The Woodland Park Zoo (WPZ) has spent a...
View ArticleEditorial | A city of Murray’s design — almost
Mayor Ed Murray, a former state legislator who represented Seattle’s 43rd District since October 1995, has left the slow pace of Olympia’s Capitol far behind and is remaking Seattle to his utopic...
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Kurt Farm Shop | City man answers call of the pasture
Kurt Timmermeister uses only Jersey cows for milk because of their high butterfat content. Photo by Sohrab Andaz By Sohrab Andaz Morsels of Thought Consumers of contemporary media, we have in our minds...
View ArticleMay Day 2015 | Journalists must be protected from police crowd control policies
MARK TAYLOR-CANFIELD Guest Columnist Seattle’s riotous May Day demonstrations have become an annual city tradition involving vandalism, allegations of police aggression, political controversy and even...
View ArticlePark smoking ban is wasteful, targets the vulnerable
Editorial Recently, Mayor Ed Murray decided to ban smoking in public parks — a decision that was approved by the city’s Seattle Parks Board of Commissioners. The all-out smoking ban, which was approved...
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Fred Wildlife Center | Stretching the imagination
Photo credit Kyle McCarty – Courtesy of Fred Wildlife Refuge. By AJ Dent Two galleries, one stage, a full-service sound system and customizable lighting. What couldn’t an artist do in a space like...
View ArticleA City on a Hill | The last enchilada
By Clark Humphrey | Columnist It isn’t really my intent to write here only about beloved pieces of the cityscape that are going away. But darn it, there are so many of them, and they’re disappearing...
View ArticleOutside City Hall | City Council candidates who speak for our neighborhoods
By John V. Fox and Carolee Colter | Columnists In the early August primary, Seattle voters will get their first chance to cast ballots under our new system of district elections. All seven districts...
View ArticleEditorial | Leaving Seattle unwired
Seattle can’t be everything to everyone, as many who can’t afford to live in the city are quickly learning. But that hasn’t stopped the city from considering whether to be one of the few U.S....
View ArticleLetter to the Editor | Hill is losing its identity
Angel’s Shoe Repair, which has always been a family-owned small business, has been on Capitol Hill for 72 years, 35 in its current location just off 15th Avenue East. Unbelievably, the shop has been...
View ArticleSeattle Soundings | Defining the housing problem
By Geov Parrish Later this month, Mayor Ed Murray’s Housing Affordability and Livability Advisory (HALA) Committee, which has been meeting for seven months, will issue its oft-delayed recommendations...
View ArticleEditorials | June 24, 2015
Calling for a cease-fire It’s ironic yet telling when members of rival black gangs march against violence against African Americans at the hands of police and others. But events in Seattle and across...
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