Controversy at Christian school in Shoreline marks a blast from the past in gay-rights wars | Danny Westneat
Maybe it seemed like the battle for gay civil rights was over. But there are signs of a backslide, from the retrograde views at a...
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Danny Westneat
Danny Westneat takes an opinionated look at the Puget Sound region's news, people and politics.
‘Romance without the smoke:’ Clean air agencies didn’t get Seattle’s memo that natural gas is the new coal | Danny Westneat
While Seattle is proposing to ban natural gas in new buildings, air-quality regulators are heavily promoting its use -- especially as a way of cleaning...
Corporate donors have long known Rep. Matt Shea was a right-wing extremist. They gave him money anyway. | Danny Westneat
The Matt Shea saga is a story not of honor, but of how corporate money will partner with even the most fringe, conspiratorial politician, as...
Fox News isn’t working for Trump? It is here in King County | Danny Westneat
The ties between Fox News and the GOP are more than ideological, they're financial. The King County Republican Party has hired a Fox News host...
For Washington state GOP, it just keeps getting worse | Danny Westneat
The Republican brand has fallen to the lowest ever polled around here. Says the dean of the state's pollsters: "I don’t know how they are...
‘It’s going to be a long four years’: Our state’s pecking-order politics needs a shake-up | Danny Westneat
Somebody on the Democratic side should buck the fusty lines of party succession and challenge Jay Inslee, now that his presidential bid has come to...
Does it shame Trump supporters to name them? Only if they’re ashamed about it | Danny Westneat
My last column about Trump donors in the Seattle area got hundreds of responses from conservatives outraged that I had named some of the donors....
In blue Seattle, Trump supporters are starting to come out of hiding | Danny Westneat
People who used to worry about backlash for supporting Donald Trump are "coming out of the woodwork" here. Trump has more than 1,200 donations from...
Seattle tourists can still see wild salmon at the Ballard Locks, on video | Danny Westneat
Fish runs have declined so much through Seattle that video display screens were put up this summer above the famed salmon-viewing windows at the Locks...