The last of the ‘Big Lie’ cases falls, as democracy’s on a win streak | Danny Westneat
It's case dismissed for the last of WA's 2020 election fraud lawsuits. It sure took awhile, but democracy seems to have recovered.
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Danny Westneat
Danny Westneat takes an opinionated look at the Puget Sound region's news, people and politics.
In the WA v. Idaho abortion wars, data shows Idaho is losing | Danny Westneat
Our neighboring state's near-total ban on abortion has been a failure at stopping abortion. Will Idaho learn to live with that reality, or ratchet up...
On the road between ‘hogwash and baloney’ on WA’s high gas prices | Danny Westneat
Democrats flagrantly soft-pedaled the impact on gas prices in their climate change policy. That may be because previous efforts that were honest about it all...
Now can we act? WA’s overdose deaths are fastest rising in the nation | Danny Westneat
Washington state now leads the nation in how fast our drug crisis is accelerating, new federal health data shows. This ought to spark urgency, but...
Mount Rainier is melting. Can anything be done to stop it? | Danny Westneat
Ideas to insulate the mountain's melting glaciers with tarps, or cover them with millions of reflective glass beads, are signs we're not yet confronting the...
Does nothing matter? Trump support in WA hasn’t budged | Danny Westneat
A new poll of the Washington state electorate shows that nothing Donald Trump has done since he entered politics in 2015 has changed our views...
Of course Seattle is fighting the state’s new drug law | Danny Westneat
It was inevitable that Seattle would resist the state's new drug policy, though it was largely crafted by liberal Democrats, columnist Danny Westneat writes.
It’s not just Sammamish, we’re going back in time on LGBTQ+ equality | Danny Westneat
That Sammamish planning commissioner, who upended a meeting about stormwater codes with homophobic comments, is a symptom of a growing anti-LGBTQ+ backlash, writes columnist Danny...
How Donald Trump, of all people, might determine WA’s next governor | Danny Westneat
For the first time in decades, Democratic voters may get a choice of qualified candidates. But the specter of Trump seems likely to tilt it...
Everyone says they want compromise in politics, until it happens | Danny Westneat
Compromise can be seen as capitulation. That's why so many in Congress are acting like they didn't make a bipartisan deal, columnist Danny Westneat writes.