Danny Westneat takes an opinionated look at the Puget Sound region's news, people and politics.
King County wants to drop $190 million taxpayer dollars on building a brewpub, club-level premium seating and other amenities on Safeco Field. Good thing there...
Maybe Gov. Jay Inslee is too distracted by presidential dreamin’. But he’s missing a golden chance to show desperately needed urgency and action on the...
I don’t know what to say to my kids anymore about the school shootings. Sorry that we’re letting you be massacred?
A sister who lives in a Wedgwood convent was feeling powerless about gun violence and mass shootings. So she started buying stock in the gun...
A private-sector developer says the answer may be: Go bigger.
We say we’re freaked out about the high cost of living around here. But we’re sure not acting like it. If the cost of living...
The crusade to stop King County’s new youth jail — and abolish youth detention overall — got a harsh dose of reality when five teens...
The revelation that the biggest tax levy in Seattle history is already short of funds after less than three years ought to prompt a reckoning...
The homelessness scourge is finally being treated like a full-fledged emergency, as if it were a natural disaster like an earthquake. In some cities anyway.