Danny Westneat | The Seattle Times

Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022. Reagan Dunn talks to the Seattle Times about his battle with alcoholism and sobriety and being an advocate for recovery as he campaigns for Congress. Last year Dunn requested $500K too fund Recovery Cafe’s Programs on addiction and mental Health targeting the location in the SODO neighborhood of Seattle. He’s walking along 4th Ave. in downtown Seattle across from City Hall. 219494

May 14, 2022 at 6:00 am

The death of the moderate in WA politics | Danny Westneat

Nobody knows from personal experience more than Reagan Dunn that the most hazardous position in our polarized politics is to be caught reaching across the...

A protester waves to cars outside Department of Health offices in Tumwater to challenge the state Board of Health with false claims that the board is passing rules to involuntarily quarantine COVID-19 vaccine refusers, on Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2022.

About 200 protesters showed up to express anger at the nonexistent and false quarantine plot, as well as a real — but very early stage — study of whether to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for children to attend K-12 schools.

May 12, 2022 at 6:00 am

Why workers who refused vaccines shouldn’t get their jobs back | Danny Westneat

Eventually, vaccine mandates for employees will be lifted. That's fine, but let's not gloss over how much vaccine resistance cost the nation, both in money...

A crowd of people gather outside the Supreme Court, Monday night, May 2, 2022 in Washington. A draft opinion circulated among Supreme Court justices suggests that earlier this year a majority of them had thrown support behind overturning the 1973 case Roe v. Wade that legalized abortion nationwide, according to a report published Monday night in Politico. Itâ€™s unclear if the draft represents the courtâ€™s final word on the matter. The Associated Press could not immediately confirm the authenticity of the draft Politico posted, which if verified marks a shocking revelation of the high courtâ€™s secretive deliberation process, particularly before a case is formally decided. (AP Photo/Anna Johnson) WX151 WX151

May 7, 2022 at 6:00 am

How one Seattle company is fighting the red-state cultural crackdown | Danny Westneat

CEO Dan Shapiro didn't set out to be a rebel, he just wanted to hire remote-work employees in other states. But he's found himself a...

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Staffers Hailey Hunt, left, Sr Village Operations Manager and Carson Spaulding, Village Organizer at the as yet unoccupied 40 unit Tiny Homes. They are all wired and ready to move in but so far red tape has prevented homeless occupants from moving in. 220201

May 4, 2022 at 6:00 am

‘Breaking news: Something worked’ against homelessness | Danny Westneat

After disparaging tiny house villages, the homelessness aid agency has apologized and reversed course, columnist Danny Westneat writes. Is that the end of this feud?

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University of Washington students are demanding the university recognize the racist exploitation that enabled 3.7 million visitors to the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition to gawk at “villages,” like the one pictured above built to display Inuit, Yupik and other Native arctic people. (Frank H. Nowell / Courtesy of University of Washington Libraries)

April 30, 2022 at 6:00 am

UW students ask for a reckoning with the school’s tainted history | Danny Westneat

Sanitizing uncomfortable history with book bans and “anti-woke” acts is all the political rage right now, writes Danny Westneat. UW students just asked their school...

John Pehrson (CQ) and Ruth Benfield are residents of the Mirabella retirement center who were instrumental in a failed attempt at building a tiny house village on a city-owned lot near their place. Theyâ€™re in the city lot that a tiny house village was proposed 219964

April 27, 2022 at 6:00 am

More fallout from Seattle’s stumbles on homelessness | Danny Westneat

Amid the fiefdom feuds on homelessness, one group of volunteers that was trying to help has given up, our columnist writes. Now others are left...

Staffer Michael Cleveland, village organizer, at the empty South End tiny home village in Rainier Beach. They are all wired and ready for move in but so far feuding and funding has kept them off limits for use by homeless people. 220201

April 23, 2022 at 6:00 am

Brand new homeless shelter sits empty as leaders squabble | Danny Westneat

Some emergency: Egos and fiefdom feuds are keeping a brand new tiny house village in Seattle empty and unused, writes columnist Danny Westneat.

Loren Culp, Republican gubernatorial candidate, gives the keynote speech at a rally in Bellevue’s Downtown Park Saturday October 10, 2020. 215324

April 20, 2022 at 6:00 am

Trump’s mojo may be waning out West, as one WA congressional race indicates | Danny Westneat

Trump's old political magic is showing signs of ebbing, columnist Danny Westneat writes. Look what happened after Trump endorsed one candidate in Washington state.

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is seen before signing a measure that prohibits legal action against both people seeking an abortion and those who aid them, on Thursday, March 17, 2022, in Olympia, Wash. Inslee’s signature comes days after the Legislature in neighboring Idaho approved a bill modeled on a law in Texas that allows lawsuits to enforce a ban on abortions performed after six weeks of pregnancy. (AP Photo/Rachel La Corte)

April 16, 2022 at 6:00 am

With COVID-19 and now abortion, WA is Idaho’s civilization. Can that hold? | Danny Westneat

Washington took Idaho's unvaxxed COVID patients and now has a relief effort for Idaho women seeking reproductive care. Danny Westneat asks: Will this blue state,...

April 13, 2022 at 6:00 am

Replacing derogatory names in WA gets dragged into our larger culture war | Danny Westneat

The government thought it could quickly remove the word "squaw" from hundreds of place names. But they dropped the idea into a country already at...