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State Supreme Court Candidate Sean O’Donnell Says he Supports Reproductive Rights, Local Advocates Aren’t Convinced
The state’s leading reproductive rights advocacy groups say they sent O’Donnell a standard endorsement questionnaire. He never filled them out.
Abortion rights win elections. With days left until the November 3 general election, that could be a late-breaking problem for Washington State Supreme Court candidate Sean O’Donnell, who is running in an increasingly contentious race against Washington State Court of Appeals Judge Ian Birk. O’Donnell, who has been endorsed by several Democratic legislative districts, but…
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Why Don’t Washington’s Corporations and Billionaires Oppose the Millionaires Tax?
The 99 Percent and the 0.1 Percent Join Hands to Fuck the Petit Bourgeoise
New Complaint Alleges Right-Wing Podcaster Brandi Kruse Is a Grassroots Lobbyist
Her Anti-Trans Stunt at the Portland Thorns Game Does Not Help Her Case
Tom Skerritt Has Left the Grand Illusion
The Seattle-Based Star of Alien, Top Gun, and Picket Fences Died at 93
Idaho Lawmakers Tried to Conflate Abortion with Human Trafficking and Seattle Attorneys Are Fighting Back
Inside the bad-faith fight to disrupt young people’s access to abortion, and what it could mean for abortion access everywhere.
An Incomplete History of the Millionaires Tax
How It Happened, What’s at Stake, Who’s Trying to Kill It, and Where the Cash Is Coming From
Seattle City Council Passes Draconian Effective RV Ban
Legislative Package Also Funds Vehicle Storage and Services For Homeless Residents
The AI Wars Come to Ravenna
There’s a contentious election in a normally sleepy North Seattle legislative district, with out-of-state money pouring in. Blame the robots.
Seattle Social Housing Developer Announces First Construction Project
Flush With Cash, the Agency Scaled up Its Expansion Plans by 70 Percent
Seattle Mayor Wilson’s First ‘Periodic Off-Topic’ Media Huddle
The Real Press Conference Was Not a New York–Style Shitshow
ICE Still Outsmarting Washington’s Driver Data Protections
Loopholepalooza! A report comparing blue states’ data protections shows why WA immigrant residents are afraid to get in a car.
Eli Sanders Is Named Editor-in-Chief of The Stranger
He’ll Take the Helm in November
Is Mayor Katie Wilson Still a Socialist?
Is Jeff Bezos a Marxist?
Shelf Life
Scarecrow Video Buyer Mark Steiner
Retires After 34 Years
Seattle Rally to Stop Sexual Violence Draws Hundreds in Wake of Cornell Rape Case
Organizers Called for an End to Sexual Violence ‘From the Frat House to the White House’
Last Month This Month: September 2026
All the Electrocuted Fish, Strongly Worded Letters, and Pig Kidneys You May Have Missed in September
The Stranger Election Control Board 2026 General Election Endorsements
Taxing the Rich Is On the Ballot This Fall
The Stranger Election Control Board 2026 General Election Cheat Sheet
For the November 3, 2026 General Election
King County Holds Heartbreakingly Vast Funeral for People With Nobody to Bury Them
626 People Had No Other Option but Communal County Burial
Public Defenders Distance Themselves from Seattle City Attorney’s New Therapeutic Court
They Think the New Court Restricts Eligibility
Twenty-Three Washington State Ferry Engineers Called in Sick Monday
Other WSF workers refused to fill the gap, and 13 of the fleet’s 18 ferries were docked for the day.
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