‘Unwanted subject’: What led a Kirkland yogurt shop to call police on a black man | Danny Westneat
He turned out to be supervising a parental visit, and is also a nine-year Air Force veteran. But the employees were scared of him and...
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Danny Westneat takes an opinionated look at the Puget Sound region's news, people and politics.
We freaked out over Amazon’s HQ2 search. But it turned out to be for all the wrong reasons | Danny Westneat
Amazon isn't opening a "fully equal" headquarters to rival its Seattle campus, as it had said. Nor was it in search of lower taxes than...
Hey GOP: You’re dead around here. Time to dump Trump, and look to the ‘Nones’ | Danny Westneat
You've heard of the gender gap in politics. And the education gap. But a new survey of more than 4,000 Washingtonians who voted Tuesday finds...
It turned out there were two waves, not one, and our urban-rural divide just got wider | Danny Westneat
A blue wave hit the suburbs, while a red one hit the rural areas even stronger than usual. The result around here was a wipeout...
Letting Trump off the hook? The most surprising things about Election 2018 | Danny Westneat
If you'd predicted a year ago that Democrats would run their campaigns without attacking Trump, you'd have been judged nuttier than the president himself. But...
The ‘Kavanaugh echo’ hits a Washington state legislative race | Danny Westneat
Far from torpedoing the campaign of Sen. Joe Fain, R-Auburn, a rape allegation against him may have rallied a backlash of support. It comes as...
A $21,634 bill? How a homeless woman fought her way out of tow-company hell | Danny Westneat
The car Amanda Ogle lived in was stolen, then towed, then sold off for a measly $175. Not even a court order could get it...
Meet the UW professor who just killed the death penalty | Danny Westneat
The state Supreme Court was just the scene of a two-year-long, back-and-forth scientific smackdown, which ended in the death penalty being thrown out. The professor...
Vote for this initiative and you may as well bow down to your corporate overlords | Danny Westneat
Initiative 1634 on our fall election ballot is not only corporate-written and corporate-backed, it seeks to supplant the democratic will of local governments. Sure it's...
Allowing drugs at a tiny house village didn’t work. So why is Seattle trying it again? | Danny Westneat
What to do with drug-addicted homeless people living on the streets is difficult, because traditional shelters won't take them. But the city's experimental attempt to...