The story of one ordinary park brings new hope for Seattle’s homelessness emergency | Danny Westneat
Tiny houses were the tool used to end an encampment in a south end park, without police sweeps. So now some business leaders and a...
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Danny Westneat
Danny Westneat takes an opinionated look at the Puget Sound region's news, people and politics.
There’s a civil war all right, only right now it’s inside the Republican Party | Danny Westneat
The local GOP over the past week didn't start to process and move on from the debacle at the end of Trump's presidency. It attacked...
Surprise attack on the spotted owl is Trump team’s parting shot at the Northwest | Danny Westneat
The Trump administration said it was looking at releasing some small forest tracts in Oregon to logging — but then in a bombshell opened 3.4...
What just happened to the GOP? Longtime big name in Washington politics speaks out | Danny Westneat
A former Republican congressman from Bellevue looks at his party and can't recognize it anymore: "It's become more of a cult of personality." He says...
Pandemic isolation has been brutal for schools. The best idea for 2021 is the exact opposite. | Danny Westneat
Hopefully the vaccine is about to end the impossible debate about reopening schools. The best recovery idea looking ahead involves hiring a million tutors to...
How it feels in a pandemic where the death rate really is 20% | Danny Westneat
All along, similar to the 2011 movie "Contagion," we've had a Hollywood disaster-level outbreak going on -- among seniors. Even after the vaccines, it's going...
From martini lunches to stimulus checks, Congress still doesn’t get the pandemic | Danny Westneat
The pandemic has turned out to be the great unequalizer. But Congress is throwing money around like we're all in the same boat.
What does a ray of hope look like for Seattle in 2020? Like an Amazon Go store | Danny Westneat
The year 2020 has killed off 155 downtown Seattle storefront businesses so far. But one new one is opening soon, a sign, some hope, of...
‘Prepare for war’: A local GOP official goes all-in with election conspiracy theories | Danny Westneat
The local Republican party in Washington state has picked good leaders, but it needs to call out the dangerous nonsense in its ranks, writes columnist...
‘War bonds?’ With federal help AWOL, here’s a way we could dig ourselves out of the pandemic | Danny Westneat
There's an idea to use "recovery bonds," financed by a carbon tax on oil, to pay for work projects around Washington state — to build...