Danny Westneat takes an opinionated look at the Puget Sound region's news, people and politics.
The governor's proposal for having separate vaxxed and non-vaxxed sections at big venues is raising complaints of discrimination, as well as Nazi analogies. But they...
Superspreader events from poker and karaoke nights in the tiny town of Republic have exposed the state's vaccine divide. It seems to track with whether...
Progressives ran the table in the just-concluded session of the Washington state Legislature. It suggests the politics of Seattle are only gaining more prominence in...
At their peak, in the late 1980s, the Robinson family ran five community papers. “Printing on dead trees, it isn’t sustainable anymore,” says one brother....
Kurtis Robinson has testified twice to state legislators about the vicious drugs to jail and back cycle — which he knows well because he rode...
Ducklings and artificial lily ponds can’t coexist, the city has decided. Don’t you dare, say Volunteer Park’s duck lovers. It’s a classic Seattle tale of...
Maybe no city got slammed by more bad press coverage in the past year than Seattle, with a focus especially from conservative media on businesses...
Seattle last year averaged more than two reported hate incidents per day, a 63 percent jump over 2019, columnist Danny Westneat writes. Most of them...
Vaccine appointments are going unfilled in some red parts of Washington state — prompting concern that as with every other part of the coronavirus pandemic,...
Many of the people who have spent years warring over Seattle’s homelessness problem got together this winter, and a bizarre thing happened: They agreed on...
