Why are state prosecutors contracting with private check companies to send letters threatening legal action and hundreds of dollars in fines to those who wrote a bad check?
Seattle's most famous librarian (she even has her own action figure) and author of the 'Book Lust' series hates e-books and 'workmanlike prose,' but has a soft spot for poetry.
Overshadowed by Egypt's and Syria's woes, the nation that launched the Arab Spring is now rising up against "moderate Islamists" who may be trying to smother its hard-won freedom. A Tunisian Seattleite who witnessed her homeland's historic election fears America's government is abetting and its media are misreporting the emergence of a new dictatorship.