Seattle City Council takes a swing at the police — and mostly misses | Danny Westneat
The cuts fall far short of defunding the police, and also don't seem to transform the department in any coherent way. Maybe next year, council...
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Danny Westneat
Danny Westneat takes an opinionated look at the Puget Sound region's news, people and politics.
Not much of a blue wave, but primary results show Washington is getting more polarized | Danny Westneat
Democrats might be on track to pick up one statewide elected office and maybe a state Senate seat. But the primary voting results Tuesday showed...
More than ever we're a one-party state, and there's a war going on inside of it | Danny Westneat
Trump has all but wiped out the Republicans locally. So most of the election action this year is Democrat versus Democrat, in battles for the...
Is Seattle dying – again? | Danny Westneat
We're on another one of those commentary jags where Seattle is said to be in its twilight years. But there sure is a lot of...
‘Stay away.’ ‘Biggest petri dish in the world.’ The view from Canada, of us, isn’t so nice. | Danny Westneat
We were the ones who talked about closing our borders to the world. Now the world is closing its borders to us.
Defund the police? It could still happen in Seattle, but voters aren’t quite there yet | Danny Westneat
Some new local polling suggests Seattleites are open to the idea of "defunding the police." But they aren't there yet — and they're souring on...
From Cinerama to 132-year-old Jules Maes Saloon, the ‘pace of loss’ in Seattle is accelerating | Danny Westneat
First with gentrification and lately with the pandemic, keeping up with vanishing Seattle is like taking photos while going over a waterfall.
Is the Trump base starting to crack? Some signs around Washington state point to yes | Danny Westneat
Republicans can't win around here with Trump, but neither have they seemed able to quit him. Now there are some signs his lock on GOP...