Spokane eyes plans for a downtown medical campus. Meanwhile, on the fairer side of the mountains, Washington inches slowly toward gay marriage, and Metro throws suburban routes on the cutting room floor.
"HELP," the new Beatles play at Seattle Children's Theatre, preserves the magic of the group's music without sweeping any of the group's problems under the rug.
A driven, brilliant man, Beck came up on the Skid Road side of Seattle and for a while almost ran the town. Here's the story of his rise to head the Teamsters, his fall, and the curiously moving years after he got out of prison.
The Secret Service scandal is just the latest of stories to shake voters' faith in the integrity of key public institutions. All this feeds the mindsets producing the Tea Party and the Occupy movements.
Is public transit all about getting there quickly and conveniently, or about having fun and looking cool? The new First Hill Streetcar line will give us one, but we could have had both.