Civics and Culture

Video: Nathan Vass Author Reading and Q&A

I love doing these things. Click here for the video—stories from the road, Tom and I on the book, and plenty of Q&A from a lively...

There’s Only One Denise!

  "Thank you. I hope it's a pleasant rest of the evening for you," I say to someone at Third and Union, on a late-night...

Sunday Video: How America’s Hottest City Is Trying to Cool Down

https://youtu.be/ZQ6fSHr5TJg Vox looks at Phoenix, a very hot city, to see the challenges it faces in cooling it down from extreme heat. The city wants...

Urban Indians Part I: We’re Right Beside You

An enduring myth of modern indigeneity is the notion that we are locked into our homelands, venturing out only once in a while to...

My Changing City

From a thousand miles away I drive you to this traffic snarl my dear. One mile stretch Northbound Exit 164 Seneca street. The city smiles like...

Fortitude

  I see her brighten the bus stop as I pull up. Third and Union southbound, some time before midnight. Hers is a smile which...

More Than A Ride

On the afternoon 7, headed east on Jackson: "Hey," a young man in a hat said at Eighth Avenue. He had walked up to the...
students do an outdoor activity at Lincoln High School

Dubicki: Save Seattle Schools, Dissolve the District

To be upfront, I am pissed at Seattle Public Schools. As a parent of school-age kids, I have been subjected to SPS’s anti-union propaganda...