There Is Reason to Believe That Seattle's Booming Economy Is Also a...
by Charles Mudede RiverNorthPhotography/gettyimages.com Not too long ago, one of my oldest and closest friends and a current resident of Vancouver BC sent me a short essay by a Dutch economist, Servaas...
View ArticleActress Rose Marie of ‘Dick Van Dyke Show’ fame dies at 94
The subject of the 2017 documentary “Wait for Your Laugh,” Rose Marie often claimed she had the longest career in entertainment history, spanning some 90 years. Her Twitter feed had more than 100,000...
View ArticleLarry Harris, Casablanca Records promoter for Donna Summer and Kiss, dies at...
Larry Harris of Port Angeles, who helped found Casablanca records and also opened the Seattle Improv, has died at age 70.
View ArticleOregon man killed in police shootout was awaiting trial on domestic violence
A medical examiner ruled Wednesday that Nathaniel Macalevy, 44, of Boring, died from a shot fired by law enforcement.
View ArticleTrump says East Coast could use ‘Global Warming’ during cold
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday the East Coast “could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming” as bitterly cold temperatures are expected to freeze large...
View ArticleNotable deaths in 2017
Fats Domino. Don Rickles. Mary Tyler Moore. Edith Windsor. Ara Parseghian. Here are some of the people who died this year.
View ArticleTim Eyman initiative to toss Sound Transit car-tab tax fails to garner enough...
Tim Eyman’s latest effort to cut car-tab taxes to $30 has failed after it didn’t collect enough signatures to get to the state Legislature and then on to voters. But car owners in the Puget Sound...
View ArticleSeattle’s year of reckoning: The silence breakers and other newsmakers who...
Sexual abuse and harassment dominated the news in 2017 as the past haunted local figures as well as national ones. But other issues made headlines, including our gilded economy, battered environment...
View ArticleMystery writer Sue Grafton dies; ‘the alphabet now ends at Y’
Sue Grafton was the author of the so-called Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Series in which each book title begins with a letter from the alphabet. The last was “Y is for Yesterday.”
View ArticleThe Top 20 Films of 2017
by The Stranger As one year-end list after another came rushing onto the sites of various publications, I found myself in a conversation with another Stranger veteran about the days when this paper...
View ArticleCharges: 1 still unconscious after 3 stabbed in Christmas halfway house attack
One man remains unconscious as of Thursday after three men were stabbed in a North Seattle halfway house late Christmas evening.
View ArticleWeek in Weed: You Can Buy Monica Lewinsky Pot in Washington, Bill Nye...
by Lester BlackIt's NYE weekend—light up! Getty Happy holidays everyone! Here’s hoping you all had at least a few days away from work and some extra time to enjoy god’s greatest herb. Here’s what...
View ArticleConnelly: AG calls for Student Loan Bill of Rights to protect 800,000 borrowers
Washington has more than 800,000 student loan borrowers, with a debt load of almost $25 billion, and they need a Bill of Rights, argues Attorney General Bob Ferguson.
View ArticlePetition asks Oregon school to make mascot gender neutral
South Eugene High School has been the home of the Axemen for almost 90 years, but hundreds of students, parents, teachers, coaches and community members say it’s time for a change.
View ArticleKitsap commuters sunk as glitch overbooks Fast Ferry for January
The problem means the most popular sailings on the Kitsap Fast Ferry for next month probably won’t have room for walk-on passengers and will have to be first-come, first-served even for those with...
View ArticleKitsap Fast Ferry overbooked in January due to software glitch
The glitch means the most popular sailings on the Kitsap Fast Ferry for the month of January are overbooked. There almost certainly won’t be room for walk-on passengers, and even for those with...
View ArticleIt's Impossible to Hate or Pan Will Smith's Netflix Film, Bright
by Charles Mudede Netflix This week, film and TV critics took turns hurling thunderbolts down at Will Smith's new movie Bright. The movie, which cost Netflix $90 million, is basically a remake of...
View ArticleRainy autumn leaves Oregon with meager snowpack
Plenty of rain has fallen in Oregon since October, the beginning of the recorded rain year. Yet the snowpack for the entire state is 54 percent below normal.
View ArticleContamination continues to keep Hanford demolition work on hold
So far, radioactive contamination has been found in 14 government vehicles and seven owned by individuals.
View Article2017 in review: ‘Quantity of Care’ prompts resignations, reforms at Seattle’s...
A Seattle Times investigative series in 2017 exposed troubles at a prominent neuroscience institute based in Seattle.
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