Breaking up immigrant families is ‘not who we are’? Oh yes it is | Danny Westneat
Splitting immigrant families for no good purpose is actually a time-honored American practice. Plus who can be surprised that the malevolence is being ratcheted up...
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Danny Westneat takes an opinionated look at the Puget Sound region's news, people and politics.
Yet another casualty of Seattle’s progress: ‘Where will a stylish man turn?’ | Danny Westneat VIEW
For 84 years, through multiple Seattle booms and busts, Byrnie Utz Hats has had your head covered. But apparently it, too, can’t weather the most...
Lots of blame for Seattle's head-tax debacle. Except where it belongs | Danny Westneat
The City Council implicitly acknowledged its head-tax plan was a loser when members voted to repeal it. But they couldn't admit it, instead blaming about...
The blind force of Seattle’s real-estate rush may bulldoze historic house | Danny Westneat
Even the garden society has been squeezed to the point that the group voted this past week to sell a 135-year-old house and gardens on...
Howard Schultz, 2020? Sonics fans know he'd be a lamb to the slaughter | Westneat
The Starbucks leader has many strengths, but Seattle can testify that politics isn't one of them. That's the part where his weakness cost us a...
‘We need to break some rules’ to fix Seattle’s homelessness crisis | Danny Westneat
The developer of a now-shelved steel modular housing project for the homeless says too many regulations got in the way. If we're going to do...
Kicking the Trump habit: Former Seattle politician starts with step one | Danny Westneat
Struggling to meter his daily doses of the president, former Seattle City Councilmember Nick Licata raises the issue: Is Trump addiction a thing?
A taxpayer-boosted brewpub? At least we could drown our Seattle sorrows | Danny Westneat
King County wants to drop $190 million taxpayer dollars on the Mariners, helping the team build a brewpub, club-level premium seating and other amenities at...
GOP is right: It’s past time for a special session on school shootings | Danny Westneat
Maybe Gov. Jay Inslee is too distracted by presidential dreamin’. But he’s missing a golden chance to show desperately needed urgency and action on the...
Abandoning a generation in the land of the gun | Danny Westneat
I don’t know what to say to my kids anymore about the school shootings. Sorry that we’re letting you be massacred?