With old Firehouse 39 in Lake City shuttered to the homeless this winter, nearby churches came together to provide a rotating shelter in its place. Could small-scale, ecumenical response transform the...
Priests used modern media to broaden the discussion of church reform in a Seattle gathering. A Skype conversation with Fr. Helmut Schüller, who founded the Austrian Priests' Initiative, followed a...
The top-two primary system was supposed to be the beginning of the end of politics as we know it in Washington state. Both chairs of the state's political parties...
In the man-bites-dog department, we have a City Council deciding to defy Mayor Greg Nickels and put a parks levy on the fall ballot. Here's how something that "never happens" actually happened.
So, just what is the carbon footprint of a climate summit? I refer, of course, to the U.S. Conference of Mayors gathering in Seattle this past week. Over 120 city leaders from around the country came...