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The second half of summer is a time when Italian cities and towns come alive with festivals, street markets, night markets, and ceremonial competitions such as coordinated flag-tossing and group drumming in full marching formation.
There are questions and concerns over Mayor Katie Wilson’s actions, compounded by a troubling lack of information from the mayor’s office.
Not only are we not getting affordable housing, we are losing everything that has made Seattle a uniquely livable city.
If Democrats, progressive, centrist, moderate or whatever simply keep repeating their agreement on the key points above, they’ll drown out the Trump noise and win. With what? A big tent party.
"We as a franchise have been doubted for 50 years," Alvin Davis said, looking into the home dugout. "Prove them wrong."
Was China trying to influence us by offering a trip? Of course. Nothing wrong with that; the U.S. Department of State hosts foreign journalists. Lots of governments do it. Each wants to tell its side of the story.
So, Todd Blanche, who serves as Trump’s lawyer, not the American people s lawyer, is now the confirmed Attorney General. He was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee when the only two Republican Senators blocking his confirmation caved on the issue of Blanche’s creating the $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization fund” and a grant of IRS immunity from [ ]
It really begins with the New Deal and the failure of the Hoover Republicans to roll it back, in fact their inability to even nominate presidential candidates who advocated for repealing it.
Both islands are ordinary places with ordinary populations, which means both produce cruelty and stupidity in roughly the volumes you would expect from any few hundred thousand human beings. But there’s always material.
Using combined vote share, if the results in the general election mirror the primary results we have seen so far Republicans will lose Washington state congressional and legislative seats once thought to be safely red.
Yes, Graham Platner may have been able to beat long-time Republican Senator Susan Collins, but even before allegations of sexual assault, there were the allegations of mistreating girlfriends, the sexting with other women while he was married, and, oh yes, that Nazi tattoo. But those who favored Platner might want to read the recent obituary [ ]
All Seattle seems to have an opinion in the aftermath of the Bite of Seattle tragedy that took three lives and left four injured, including a two-year-old. Opinions have centered on the shooting and on the mayor’s subsequent firing of the Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes, a hasty and possibly ill-considered action. What’s been less [ ]
The timing, days after a mass shooting at Seattle Center, was not ideal. Either way, the decision is made. What the mayor does next will define her stewardship of public safety.
In reality, Trump loves a communist, Chinese Communist Party chief Xi Jinping, in particular. As Trump once said, “I love China... I respect China greatly. I very much respect President Xi. Xi’s for China, I’m for the US, but other than that we love each other.”
Republican Trevor Potter, former chair of the Federal Election Commission, charged that Trump is fixated on his claim that he didn’t lose. Potter said, “It feels like Captain Ahab in pursuit of Moby Dick.”
A Republican upset this fall would be the first crack in Senate Democrats’ recent run of Trump-era success — one the Washington GOP is sure to parse over with a proverbial magnifying glass.
Constitutionality aside, the best thing about the new tax may be its name. “Millionaires’ tax” is great branding. “Millionaires” don’t need the money. They probably get their riches by exploiting workers. And they’re somebody else. They’re other.
When Trump announced a new round of tariffs, I asked my chatbot, ChatGPT, if free trade with no tariffs would benefit the United States? ChatGPT: International free trade benefits everyone. Steve: How? ChatGPT: Sweden makes magnificent machinery and nuclear reactors that they sell to other countries. That enables Sweden to buy what these countries make [ ]
Democracy is a process for achieving a range of objectives. Socialism is both an objective to achieve and a condition to maintain.
Putin and Trump might have immersed themselves in quagmires at wildly different paces.
With Mayor Katie Wilson’s honeymoon period over, Seattleites are grading her six-month performance as the city’s mayor. Opinions range from a few sour remarks to positive comments that credited Wilson working to chart a new pathway for the left. There is no disputing Wilson began badly. She committed three initial rookie mistakes: bidding “bye” to [ ]
Terry Heckler died on May 5 this year, a little less than a year after his friend and former business partner Gordon Bowker passed away. Their era is over but their legacy of inspired lunacy lives on.
On opening weekend, “The Odyssey,” a three-hour movie based on a 3,000-year-old poem, earned box office receipts of more than $264.1 million. CinemaScore reported that viewers gave the movie an “A” grade. What was the appeal?
When I helped design this anti-crime program, we built safeguards in from day one. But the mayor's pause has hardened into paralysis, and the neighborhoods that can least afford it are paying the price.
Some in the industry have suggested that datacenters could be using 50 percent of today’s total electrical energy generation capacity by 2040.
Every such disruption changes the rules, creates new winners and losers, and generates new efforts to ameliorate downsides as citizens stagger forward, unequally blessed and cursed by so much progress.