A large corporation says it thought a 1997 permit covered its grading of property where it wants to build a port for sending coal to China. Opponents and an elected official say they are surprised.
In a city that is talking about honoring its writers, some of the literary locales are close at hand. Here's a guide to old bachelor hotels, shops, theaters, and foodstalls still alive with imagination.
The Republicans have manufactured a debt crisis to gain leverage in the debate about what kind of country we want to be. Are we going to be one that takes care of itself and its future responsibly? Or are we turning into Greece?
Proposition 1, to renew the King County Veterans and Human Services Levy, is on voter ballots mailed this week. Veterans using resources from the 2005 levy have poignant stories to tell.