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Saying Yes

Posted Thu, Nov 19, 6 a.m.

By Judy Lightfoot

The author plays the Doubting and Believing games as she ponders an oddball kind of volunteering.

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Celebrating Seattle, 'City of Music'

Posted Thu, Oct 15, 1:39 p.m.

By Travis Hay

The Showbox dresses up for the city's inaugural music awards program, honoring KEXP, Quincy Jones, Fleet Foxes, and others. Even the restrooms smelled nice.

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Shiga's Garden: fittingly, a story of sunshine and cooperation

Posted Tue, Oct 13, 6 a.m.

By Judy Lightfoot

Volunteers, artists, and an absentee landowner are together creating a P-Patch honoring the father of the University District Street Fair.

Reflections from Raleigh

Posted Fri, Oct 9, 6 a.m.

By Ted Van Dyk

A stint in North Carolina offers perspective on some familiar concerns about transportation, school busing, local politics, and quality of life.

It's back to neighborhood schools for Seattle

Posted Wed, Oct 7, 6:55 a.m.

By Dick Lilly

It's also back to reopening five schools closed a few years ago, with a cost of $45 million. The district releases its detailed maps and makes the case that predictability for families will outweigh some of the tradeoffs in desegregation and flexibility.

Seattle Schools' next hot potato: student assignment plans

Posted Mon, Oct 5, 6 a.m.

By Dick Lilly

Out, finally, go all those arcane rules deriving from desegregation efforts. Now, the School Board hopes to adopt a new plan, assigning students largely to neighborhood schools, with far fewer "escape valves." The real challenge remains improving quality of all schools.

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Where do Seattleites come from?

Posted Wed, Sep 30, 6 a.m.

By Knute Berger

Not from local hospitals, that's for sure. The city also is undergoing a remarkable surge of foreign-born and refugees.

Get Thee to the None Zone

Posted Mon, Sep 28, 6 a.m.

By Knute Berger

A new study shows how many people are following the Northwest's lead of turning into religious skeptics and non-joiners.

Islam in Cascadia

Posted Tue, Aug 25, 6 a.m.

By Knute Berger

A report from British Columbia on Pacific Northwest Muslims and how they view life in the West.

Serene stone sculpture from a violent country

Posted Mon, Aug 24, 6 a.m.

By Floyd McKay

A notable exhibition of Zimbabwe's leading sculptors has opened in Vancouver's botanical gardens

Is White Center really part of Seattle?

Posted Thu, Jul 23, 6 a.m.

By Daniel Jack Chasan

Legislative tinkering is making annexation of the North Highline/White Center area slightly more attractive, but the City Council is not buying Mayor Nickels' numbers. If Seattle helps thy neighbor might it also beggar thy neighborhoods?

Reverse discrimination is back as an issue

Posted Thu, Jul 2, 6 a.m.

By Ted Van Dyk

The Supreme Court ruling on the New Haven firefighters case, plus the Sotomayor hearings, bring back an issue that once divided liberals. Oddly, the President who started affirmative action was Nixon.

Humor: Let those grudges fly!

Posted Sun, Jun 28, noon

By Steve Clifford

It's National Grudge Week, and naturally Seattle is crowded with fun events.

What Seattle should learn from Toronto

Posted Tue, Jun 2, 6 a.m.

By Anthony B. Robinson

The Canadian city, enjoying a renaissance, is pedestrian-paced and happy in its diversity. Seattle has urban islands, but in Toronto one fascinating ethnic quilt flows right into the next.

Memories of Stim Bullitt's KING years

Posted Fri, May 1, 6 a.m.

By Herb Altschull

An editorial colleague recalls the joyous days of working for the Good Cause, when Bullitt, who died last week, was running the station in the 1960s.

Charles Johnson: on the meaning of Obama

Posted Tue, Apr 28, 6 a.m.

By Robin Lindley

The Seattle novelist and expert on Martin Luther King Jr. believes that Obama's election is a sea-change moment for America and the world. "So we have evolved in terms of our understanding that excellence is colorblind."

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The Cascadian Dream

Posted Thu, Apr 9, 6 a.m.

By Knute Berger

Can a Pacific Northwest utopia be shaped on the shared belief that nature is sacred? This latest installment in a series on regional identity looks at the patron saint of the environmental movement, John Muir, and how his thinking informs the desire for a new, greener, and elusive entity some call Cascadia.

Seattle's 'niceness' problem

Posted Tue, Mar 3, 6 a.m.

By Knute Berger

The city has a reputation for being nice, but many agree that's a myth. So, why the cold shoulder to newcomers? Here are a few possible reasons.

Redistricting in God's Country

Posted Tue, Feb 10, 6 a.m.

By Knute Berger

God is making a slight comeback in the Pacific Northwest, no longer the most church-averse region in the U.S. Meanwhile, Big-Tent Obama is playing footsie with the seculars.

Enough about Seattle. What do you think of Seattle?

Posted Wed, Feb 4, 6 a.m.

By Lisa Albers

To deconstruct this city's personality, look first at its unique navel-gazing nature.

Other media

Forward into the past: Seattle schools are neighborhood-based once again That takes us back 30 years to the state of affairs before all the efforts at desegregation. Some of the leaders of that crusade reflect on the pendulum.

SEATTLE TIMES

How to make women's rights the issue of the 21st century Equality must become as virtuous a position as fighting apartheid, says columnist Christine Wicker. Five practical steps.

POLITICS DAILY

In 14-hundred-92, Columbus ... was a big fat jerk We still celebrate his discovery of the New World, but the explorer's rep has taken a hit in classrooms across the land.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Biggest-ever gay rights march in Washington Sunday's rally in the nation's capital was largely the undertaking of a new generation of gay and lesbian activists.

NEW YORK TIMES

Up from slavery: The complex roots of Michelle Obama's family She knew relatively little about her ancestors while growing up but new research is shedding light on this American saga.

NEW YORK TIMES

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A small step for the generation that inhaled

Posted Fri, Nov 20, 2 p.m.

by Judy Lightfoot

Lawmakers are considering decriminalizing pot. Bills would make holding small amounts more like a speeding ticket.

ACT's fascinating collage on race and identity

Posted Fri, Jul 10, noon

by Ben Rankin

The show is a mixtape for stage, inspired by hip-hop culture

A short class about 'class'

Posted Wed, Jun 3, 6 a.m.

by Dick Morrill

Excuse the term, but here's how the region breaks down in terms of class structure

The mystery of the Asian "Nones"

Posted Mon, Apr 27, 7:45 p.m.

by Knute Berger

Statistics in Vancouver raise the question: Why do so many Chinese immigrants say they have no religion?

A Nickelsville saga with a happy ending

Posted Tue, Mar 31, 4:31 p.m.

by Judy Lightfoot

George came to Seattle with a poor plan, but he left with a good one

Yes, that city full of white people is Portland

Posted Thu, Feb 19, 6 a.m.

by Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett

A snappy Atlantic piece brands us, again, as the pale place

The politics of beards

Posted Sat, Jan 3, 3 p.m.

by Knute Berger

Is Portland the "beardiest" city in America? Should Prince William shave his new whiskers? And what will the impact of a baby-faced Obama be on facial hair fashion?