Danny Westneat takes an opinionated look at the Puget Sound region's news, people and politics.
A series of damaging incidents at St. James Cathedral, Seattle's largest Catholic church, has the pastor there calling out the city — and worrying whether...
The Seattle city high-earners' income tax was ruled unconstitutional Monday. But the ruling actually was everything the city had dreamed for when it launched this...
Spending on Seattle public schools has soared, up 39 percent compared to three years ago. But you'd never know it listening to the doom and...
The chain levies "living wage surcharges" at many of its local restaurants, something it didn't mention as it was blaming Seattle's minimum wage for its...
As one arm of government talks of tolling downtown to keep cars out, a different agency is about to impose a toll that will push many cars...
This is a really bad time to make Alaska the latest petri dish for the grand conservative experiment in slashing government.
The town of Medina is basically a golf country club surrounded by tech gazillionaires and old Seattle money. Yet even it is having a budget...
The talk of developing some of Seattle's golf courses runs afoul of a citizen-led initiative that dictates "no net loss" of city parkland. It means...