Departing Seattle Weekly owners were good copy

Mike Lacey and Jim Larkin covered the news–and made it, too

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Chief Seattle statue’s 100th birthday recalls city’s grabby origins

Realizing the inevitable, he made the best of a bad situation

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Seattle’s love-hate relationship with its downtown waterfront

Tourists seem more interested in it than the locals.

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Different search engines see a different Seattle

Inclusions and omissions are interesting

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Obama ‘endorses’ a mortgage broker in Seattle with a past

Paramount Equity runs a long presidential sound bite in its refinancing spots on the radio

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All sex-story roads lead to Seattle

Puget Sound angle seems to be everywhere

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NY Times headline cites Seattle ‘bubbles of corruption’

But it only refers to a novel

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The Rime of the Seattle Mariners

I hear little talk about the city’s baseball team

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Fifty shades of Seattle

New “mommy porn” trilogy, Fifty Shades of Grey, is set along Puget Sound

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Blogging the blogs of Seattle

Here are my periodic picks for the best

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‘Oklahoma!’ casting is PC reaction to Seattle’s racist past

Controversy misses the real issue

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The richest people in Seattle–a very long time ago

None of their descendants rank among the wealthiest today

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History’s repeating loop in Seattle

Similar stories exactly a century apart in The Seattle Times

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Bracing for Seattle ‘snow’: Armageddon with a smile

The city–or its media–is in a near-panic over what looks like next to no accumulation

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For whom the bridge tolls: a Seattle lesson in behavioral economics

How many drivers will waste time and money to save $3.50 crossing Lake Washington?

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Vitamin D and other things they advertise in Seattle

You can tell a lot about the nature of a region by what gets marketed

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The weedy blogs of Seattle

It’s an untrimmed scene with occasional bursts of color.

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