Old customer priced out of bank account | Danny Westneat
Sign of the times: After 62 years as a customer of one bank, an 85-year-old woman was told she’d have to start paying $25 a month to keep her account going there. If she were richer she wouldn’t have to pay.
Progress in politics finally seen in Seattle | Danny Westneat
Seattle’s mayoral candidates now are blaming each other for the city’s downtown disorder problem — which means they finally agree we have one. Progress! Plus, a governor sighting.
Uncivil scientists thwart Cliff Mass’ climate-change debate | Danny Westneat
Cliff Mass tried to organize a seminar to stop scientists from warring about climate change. But so much name-calling broke out he had to cancel it.
Bertha is stuck and needs help to get out of this muck | Danny Westneat
Bertha, the giant waterfront-tunnel boring machine, is awaiting a little leadership to get moving again after being stalled by a labor dispute linked to a major management screw-up.
A possible win in vote against war | Danny Westneat
The anti-war side never wins a vote in Congress, says Congressman Jim McDermott. For the first time in his 24-year career, that could be about to change.
Striking news: Seattle schools now booming | Danny Westneat
Unlike in other big-city school districts around the country, Seattle’s schools finally are booming. Nothing would turn that good news into bad like a teachers’ strike.
Downtown crime shocks New Yorker | Danny Westneat
A New Yorker is shocked at the human misery in Seattle’s downtown. Maybe it takes an out-of-towner to see what we look at every day.
The Seattle Times does not have it in for Mayor McGinn | Danny Westneat
People are saying The Seattle Times has launched an orchestrated attack on Mayor Mike McGinn. Hardly. Take it from someone who works here: Putting out the news is barely-managed chaos.
Republicans ignore blue-state profile, veer farther to the right | Danny Westneat
Republicans are out-crazying even themselves in tilting still farther to the right. Not quite the response one would expect to getting washed out in recent elections.
Hansen’s secrecy might cool council on arena | Danny Westneat
Chris Hansen’s attempted sabotage of a Sacramento arena makes him a sore loser, yes. But it’s his foray into campaign “dark money” that’s going to cause him big political problems as he tries to build his own arena here.
At troubled 23rd and Union, a business owner takes a stand | Danny Westneat
Is 23rd and Union cursed? A man whose restaurant there was torched by an arsonist vows he’ll be the one to break it.