After earlier identifying a presumptive case of monkeypox in King County, it was confirmed May 27 to be monkeypox, according…
The Supreme Court appeared divided and also shaken by its private deliberations appearing on the front page of almost every…
Cartoon by Frank Shiers
King County Executive Dow Constantine had three finalists to choose from when he decided who the next sheriff would be….
I have been thinking a lot lately about the Prohibition Era in the United States and the fiery, brook-no-argument crusaders…
Not so long ago, one could have called me a dyed-in-the-wool, hard-core skeptic about cryptids.
More cities and counties are avoiding trials and settling with the families of those who died at the hands of…
Cartoon by Frank Shiers
The Indian Nobel Laureate, Rabindranath Tagore, pushed the colonial classroom outdoors in 1901. No longer walled in by brick-and-mortar classrooms,…
Thinning public woodlands to remove millions of dead trees is a way to generate much needed cash to reduce wildfire…
With the approach of Mother’s Day, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about my own mother, gone 16 years ago…
Philadelphia recently became the first U.S. city to reinstate its indoor mask mandate. But it may not be the last.
Cartoon by Frank Shiers
Seattle’s 1962 World’s Fair was awe-inspiring. It previewed developments that would improve our daily lives in the next millennium. While…
Cartoon by Frank Shiers
Responding to the regional homeless challenge isn’t easy and comes with its own set of political problems. First, it is…
The race to replace retiring Dan Satterberg as King County prosecutor is one to watch closely.
Since 1854, before Washington was a territory, inquests have been required whenever a person dies from interaction with a police…
Cartoon by Frank Shiers
The past is like a foreign country — they do things differently there.
