How Local Political Consultants Make Their Money

The Money’s in the Mailers, but the Victory Might Not Be

Slog AM: 500,000 Venezuelan Immigrants Get Work Permits, Rupert Murdoch to Step Down, and I'm Begging Sound Transit to Get Its Shit Together

Rebecca Saldaña Jumps into Weirdly Crowded Race for Lands Commissioner

The Winner Gets to Be Washington's Very Own Landlord

Judge Blames “Defund” and Cop Shows for Problems with Seattle Policing

The City’s Consent Decree Is Now More Conservative Than Biden’s DOJ

From Grief to Action

#JusticeForJaahnavi Means Solidarity Against Expanding Failed Public Safety Strategies

Seattle Police Officer Probably Won’t Get Fired for Laughing about Jaahnavi Kandula’s Death

As Long as This Union Has a Say in Accountability, Bad Cops Won’t See Consequences

Father Figure

My Life in the Sunshine Is a Fantastic Memoir About Music, Family, and Seattle

Council Member Dan Strauss Lets His NIMBY Flag Fly at a Housing Forum

His Opponent Didn’t Do Much Better

Seattle Launches Drug War 2.0

With Little Money for Treatment, the City Bans Public Drug Use and Possession

SPD Employee Confesses to Inventing Rumors About Chief Diaz Having an Affair, Investigators Say

Questions About the Rumor’s Origin Remain, but No Hard Evidence Found

Slog AM: Police Union VP Cackles at Woman's Death, Seattle's Proposed Drug Law Advances, McCarthy Launches Impeachment Inquiry into Biden Lol

Slog AM: Writers and Hollywood Reach Tentative Deal, Rain Sweeps Through Seattle, Biden Will Walk the UAW Picket Line

Greta Gerwig’s Big Women's College Energy Is Showing

Barbie Land Centers Women in a Fun Mid-Century Fever Dream. But Its Splendors—and Its Limitations—Are All Too Real.

Seattle Entertains the Congestion Tax–Again

The Auto Industry Will Likely Resist Against a Split Progressive Front

After 11 Years of Federal Oversight, Judge Rules SPD Mostly Compliant but Declines to End Entire Consent Decree

Chief Adrian Diaz on the Ruling: "This Might Be the End of the Beginning"

City Workers Rally Their Asses Off

After a Year at the Bargaining Table, the City Is Still Only Offering Workers a Pay Cut 

The Hypocrisy of a Right-Wing Pundit’s Attacks on WA Cares

Must Be Nice to Dunk on Earned Benefits When You Have Media Networks to Rely On

Cute Cats and Crying Clowns: Saturday at Bumbershoot

We Spent the First Day of the Festival Watching the Dip, Slift, Thunderpussy, Wimps, Ride, Bumbermania Wrestling, AFI, and a Cat Circus That Wasn't Much of a Circus at All but Was Still Very Cute

How Jeff Bezos and Amazon Haunt the Dutch Golden Age

Artist Alex Sandvoss Puts a Baby-Faced Bezos Where He Longs to Be, at the Center of a Capitalistic 17th Century

APEC Protesters in Seattle Expose the Costs of Free Trade

Follow the Movement Down to San Francisco

Slog AM: Georgia Releases Full Election Tampering Report, UW Tests Transit for Drugs, Yoga Class Mistaken for Mass Murder Event

Gaye Su Akyol’s Wednesday Night Show Was a Thrilling Celebration of Turkey’s Deep Musical History

(Confidential to Nectar: It Might Be Time to Toss the Smoke Machine)

Slog AM: Seattle Relaunches Drug War, Downtown Homeless Plan Scrapped, GOP in Disarray as Government Shutdown Looms

Rain, Witches, and Haunted Garage Punk: Sunday at Bumbershoot

Rain Didn't Stop Us From Seeing True Loves, Beverly Crusher, Shannon and the Clams, Spirit Award, THEM, Temples, Descendents, and Jawbreaker (and Hearing Secrets from Friendly Some Witches)

Joy Hollingsworth Tried to Stop New Apartment Construction on Madison in 2017

She’d Rather Have a View of Bellevue Than Housing In Her Backyard