With a new campaign to tax Amazon, will it be fight or flight … or something new? | Danny Westneat
Demonizing Amazon is all the rage in certain Seattle political circles. But the election did change the calculus for Amazon in its home city, and...
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Danny Westneat takes an opinionated look at the Puget Sound region's news, people and politics.
Sign of the times: Being labeled a domestic terrorist may be making Rep. Matt Shea more popular | Danny Westneat
It was predicted in the four-month investigation of the Eastern Washington lawmaker that even evidence he plotted violent insurrection against his own country might perversely...
How the Democrats blew it on impeachment | Danny Westneat
Impeachment hasn't moved the public, but that isn't because it has been a vicious crusade on a par with the Salem witch trials, as Trump...
In Seattle we like voting socialist, but how much do we mean it? We’re about to find out. | Danny Westneat
The debate about socialism in America — is it just another name for New Deal liberalism, or is it something more? — is about to...
How a Seattle attorney with ‘heart of gold’ ended up fleecing her brain-damaged client | Danny Westneat
After taking a brain-damaged patient into her home, a Seattle lawyer hatched a scheme to take $283,000 from his assets — money she had helped...
King County closing its doors to street danger sends exactly the wrong message | Danny Westneat
King County's emergency decision to close off its Third Avenue doors because the street outside is too dangerous is being panned on the street outside....
'Nothing matters': Even a $2.4B hit to Washington state and a huge taxpayer bailout can't move the political needle | Danny Westneat
The trade war is costing Washington state $2.4 billion a year, and the farm bailout has cost taxpayers twice Obama's auto industry bailout from back...