Larry Nelson, 70, who was the popular morning host on KOMO-AM (1000) for many years, died of cancer this morning. KOMO-TV has the official story. There's also a tribute page that was begun before he died.
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWPolitical junkies and bibliophiles commence drooling: High on my bookshelf sits a first edition of John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage. You heard me: a pricey (at $3.30) Harpers hardback with the original, fraying dust jacket. The profiled politicos, from John Quincy Adams to Robert Taft, are listed vertically along the spine. On the back, JFK is identified as a 38-year-old senator and decorated WWII veteran. Improbably it reads, "In 1952 he became the third Democrat ever elected to the Senate from Massachusetts." (!) Political times, how they change.
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Why are so many progressives flirting with one of the most conservative Republicans to ever seek the presidency? A Seattle blogger is trying to out Paul's extremism, but others claim he is smearing a principled libertarian. Meanwhile, Western Washington cash flows into Paul's campaign.
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The longtime Seattle photographer sets out to capture his city's soul. The tourists should like it, too, but it's not meant just for them.
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Samarya Center in Seattle holds a fundraiser this weekend so it can treat returning soldiers severely injured in Iraq. If the author's experience is any indication, they will be in unusual hands – and they need not be true believers.
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The prominence of the big city newspaper personality has diminished, but the job remains important. Danny Westneat is the best of the lot in Seattle.
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Despite cheerleading from Al Gore and Bill Clinton, business entrepreneurs aren't going to save the planet. At least not without help from consumers who can say "enough."
READ MORE | 2 COMMENTSOnce again, Washington lawmakers are about to make law from flaw, correcting what Tim Eyman got wrong but embracing what voters clearly want: a crimp on taxation.
READ MORE | 3 COMMENTSDaily newspapers have long sniped at free papers like Seattle Weekly and The Stranger with "you get what you pay for" smugness. The idea is that paid papers have better content while freebies are what they used to call in the business "throwaways." The Web has changed that. Now growing online readership is one of the few areas that offers hope to the dailies. But that circulation is almost entirely free. Some papers have tried charging for online subscriptions, but in general, it hasn't worked. Even The Wall Street Journal, which has been one of the few to successfully charge for online subscriptions, is reportedly readying to go free. So even though most daily newspapers haven't owned up to it, the fact is most are embracing a free future.
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In Seattle, there is no legal basis for the hometown car-sharing company to reserve spots on public streets.
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After 68 years, the nation's first racially integrated public housing community faces enormous change. So what will happen to the people who live there?
READ MORE | 10 COMMENTSHere's a picture of the South Lake Union Trolley (SLUT) – excuse us, the Seattle Streetcar – navigating Westlake Avenue near Westlake Center today. As you can see, it's already getting crowded out there, and evidently these trains aren't the least bit intimidating. This is looking north, at the back of the train, and the car has just entered the curb lane to make a right turn alongside the streetcar.
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWThe Sound Off is still burning up at the P-I Web site over the "Impeachment: If Not Now, When?" op-ed piece that ran at the top of the site's homepage over the weekend.
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWRepublican gubernatorial candidate Dino Rossi is starting to pay the price for his late entry into the 2008 race: Gov. Chris Gregoire has been able to broom up early big-business support, including donors who were with Rossi in the 2004 race. The Seattle Times has a good early roundup. Among those defecting are Colin Moseley, former chair of the Washington Roundtable (leading state CEOs), Phil Bussey, former Roundtable president and Puget Sound Energy executive, and Cheri Marusa, Cle Elum small business owner recently recruited to Gregoire's new group, the Governor's Eastern Washington Advisory Council.
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The life cycle of Columbia River salmon might be endangered, but not so the cycle of litigation over how to save the fish. The feds so far have refused to consider breaching dams in the vast river system, while federal judges are rejecting as insufficient all other measures to help fish pass through. We seem to be years from resolution.
READ MORE | 12 COMMENTSThe latest from news outlets and blogs around the Northwest and beyond, chosen by Crosscut editors.
Washington state's unemployment rate dropped to 7 percent in April, adding en estimated 3,800 jobs to the state.
Dr. Joy Yu died Saturday after being hit by an avalanche near Snoqualmie Pass. Mitch Hungate, 61, is still missing after a separate avalanche on Granite Mountain. Rescue efforts have been suspended due to dangerous conditions.
Twenty-seven year old Alec Zimmerman, a seasoned traveler from Whidbey Island who was crisscrossing South America, has gone missing in Argentina after accepting a ride from a "grandfatherly" Chilean truck driver.
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