Sorry treatment of gay teachers suggests Rush Limbaugh was, sadly, right | Danny Westneat
The right-wing radio host said America is just not ready for a gay, married president — provoking outrage. But who are we kidding: Here in...
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Danny Westneat
Danny Westneat takes an opinionated look at the Puget Sound region's news, people and politics.
Seattle is so far gone on inequality we’re beyond the movie ‘Parasite’ | Danny Westneat
The Oscar-winning movie set in the basements and mansions of Korea has people buzzing about the growing class divide. But the reality here in Seattle...
Where others failed, now Amazon is taking up the case against the president | Danny Westneat
Amazon made clear in an unusual legal filing Monday that it isn't just out to appeal a disputed government contract. It's out to fight back...
‘We’re in trouble’: How some Democrats have learned to stop worrying and love a gazillionaire | Danny Westneat
At the opening of the Mike Bloomberg headquarters in Pioneer Square, liberals were experimenting with what it feels like to back a billionaire who's basically...
Banning gas cars? It’s a ‘fringe crazy bill’ no longer | Danny Westneat
Matthew Metz's idea to ban the sale of new gas-powered cars in Washington state seemed crazy a few years ago, but now it could be...
‘Swanktuary city’: No vacancy in Seattle, except at the top | Danny Westneat
When you have 1,300 people lined up for a shot at a modest apartment building, but it's the sky palaces that keep rising in huge...
Why is Amazon so touchy about its employees speaking out on climate change? The answer’s right across the lake. | Danny Westneat
A certain rival keeps showing Amazon up on the do-gooder scale — and Amazonians are starting to notice.
At the border, a Trump-era lesson in Orwellian doublespeak | Danny Westneat
Government agencies in the Trump era no longer spin or retreat when they get caught doing something controversial. They just flat-out deny it. It's a...
The politics of our homelessness emergency: ‘Extraordinary measures’ that never seem to come | Danny Westneat
Homelessness and what to do about it is suddenly, bewilderingly, the talk of the state Capitol in Olympia – more than four, frustrating years after...