Republicans going beyond hypocrisy with the national debt | Danny Westneat
National Republicans have shape-shifted completely on what was their fiscal holy grail — at least when they weren’t in charge.
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Danny Westneat
Danny Westneat takes an opinionated look at the Puget Sound region's news, people and politics.
The drug-injection site idea is dying because we’re all NIMBYs. Here’s how to revive it. | Danny Westneat
The plan to help drug users avoid overdosing by letting them shoot up at a supervised site is failing because nobody wants it in their...
Subsidy arms race for Amazon? We of all people should know how this turns out | Danny Westneat
Remember? We went down this same road with a certain other mega-corporation. It didn’t work out so well for us.
Responsible gun owners, it’s up to you | Danny Westneat
Nobody listens to me, or any other gun-control advocate, about what to do about our escalating gun-violence crisis. So when will the responsible gun owners...
He knows it’s crazy, but this Seattle guy is pushing a total ban on gas cars | Danny Westneat
Environmentalists are bogged down in pushing confusing taxing and regulatory schemes to fight climate change. But when it comes to gas-powered cars, argues a Seattle...
New rules: Some protests are more equal than others | Danny Westneat
Some protests of the government get you called “very fine people.” Others get you called a “son of a b----.” What’s the distinction? We ponder...
GOP’s know-nothing approach to health care is symptom of a bigger disease | Danny Westneat
Republicans’ odd and repeated failures to come up with a health-care reform plan, despite controlling all branches of government, might be because the anti-government party...
Punching the Nazi was actually the least dramatic free-speech showdown this week | Danny Westneat
Maybe we need a refresher course in the value of free speech, because the concept seems to be fraying.
Just as the Greeks told it: Hubris brought the Seattle mayor down | Danny Westneat
In retrospect, a news conference that former Mayor Ed Murray held in June plays like a scene out of a Greek tragedy.
Calling baloney on all that: Our town naysayer was right all along about the stadium swindle | Danny Westneat
Powerful people were highly annoyed around here for two decades at the agitations of anti-stadium activist Chris Van Dyk. But recent events have proved him...