A mom meets her son every Sunday at 12th and Jackson. Nine Puget Sound mayors will hear families like hers in Kent
At least nine Puget Sound mayors will gather in Kent on Oct. 8 for a community conversation on Washington's fentanyl crisis.27 days ago
Harger: Nearly 2 million voted to protect natural gas. Four topics on one page killed it
Nearly 2 million Washingtonians voted to protect natural gas in 2024 with Initiative 2066, and last Thursday the Washington State Supreme Court struck it down.27 days ago
Harger: Washington needs $1.3 billion more for lawsuit payouts. That’s more than UW gets in state operating support
Washington’s lawsuit math has become unsustainable, it was worth looking at the math. It’s gotten pretty hard to ignore.28 days ago
Harger: 3 months ago, Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson promised to clean up 12th and Jackson. I went back Monday
It's human suffering on full display. The parks of North Beacon Hill, stretching down to 12th and Jackson. People clearly in need of help, clearly in danger.1 month ago
Harger: WA pays teachers top dollar for middling test scores. Maybe we’re grading the wrong thing
Top-tier pay. Record spending. Average results. Why Washington should offer families a real vocational track alongside the traditional college path.1 month ago
Seattle couple filmed the Twin Towers from 50 yards away on 9/11. Their tape became key evidence in terror trials. Now they’re telling the full story
On the morning of September 11, 2001, Seattle radio host Tami Michaels and her husband Guy Rosbrook were asleep on the 35th floor of the Millennium Hilton in lower Manhattan, directly across Church Street from the World Trade Center.1 month ago
Harger: For a year, my balcony faced the twin towers. We moved home to Seattle 41 days before they fell
August 1, 2001. I awaken. I open my eyes. And I'm thinking: today I'm moving home. Back to Seattle.1 month ago
Harger: Conservatives cheer when I call out state overspending. Will they keep that principle now that it’s Trump?
Washington doesn't have a revenue problem. It has a spending problem. We take money from the federal government, then make state taxpayers have to pick up.1 month ago
Harger: Two blue cities decided dealers don’t belong in recovery housing. Seattle hasn’t
I've heard from people who've lived in permanent supportive housing in Seattle. Drugs move through the building around the clock, and staff look the other way.1 month ago
Harger: 5 things about WA’s midterms, for people who blissfully ignored politics all summer
It's the day after Labor Day, and political prognosticators will tell you this is the time to start paying a bit more attention to the upcoming elections.1 month ago
Harger: Washington’s wildland firefighters deserve year-round jobs. Congress could make it happen
My brother spent years as a volunteer firefighter. My brother-in-law has been a professional firefighter for a long time. Then there's a special breed within that world. The wildland firefighter.1 month ago
Harger: Seattle’s own report says 27% of traffic deaths were homeless. The city’s safety plan barely touches on it
Recently, Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson announced a new executive order aimed at making Seattle's streets safer for everyone who walks, bikes, drives, or takes transit.2 months ago
Incoming storm could bring down tree limbs across region. And Seattle may have seen its last 80-degree day this year
A fall storm arriving in the Seattle area Wednesday afternoon could bring down tree limbs and knock out power across the Puget Sound region.2 months ago
Harger: Katie Wilson says she’s not DSA. Fine. The DSA platform says ‘defund the police,’ and SPD’s hiring bonus just got defunded
"No WAY," I told myself. There's no way SPD, short hundreds of officers, working through a rough stretch on morale, and still a little tender from the whole "defund" era, would cut its one big recruiting tool: the hiring bonuses.2 months ago
Harger: Somehow, three years is the full sentence for the Third and Pine shooting. Sentence served, says the state
Monday afternoon, the state sent out a notice that William Tolliver is out of prison. Sentence served. One person dead, seven others shot. He served a little more than three years for it.2 months ago
Harger: Housing, the Bite of Seattle shooting, security cameras. Mayor Katie Wilson keeps finding new ways to postpone hard decisions
About 46,000 Seattle renter households spend more than half their income on housing. Half. Rent gets paid. Groceries get squeezed.2 months ago
Harger: A community college radio station gave me a career, a newsroom full of colleagues, and a wife
I talk for a living, on a medium that talks about itself constantly, and I found out about National Radio Day after the show ended yesterday.2 months ago
Harger: A 17-year-old was convicted, locked up, released, and the allegations got worse. Now what?
He's 17 years old. He's already been through the juvenile justice system for serious crimes. But we know what happened next. He eventually got out.2 months ago
Harger: You think Brian Heywood spends big? A caregivers union in Olympia outspent him on campaigns
The union SEIU 775 likes to note that The Seattle Times once compared it to Boeing and Microsoft and called it one of Olympia's most powerful players.2 months ago
Harger: Ordinary abundance and how the most astonishing thing about your life is no longer being astonished by it
A website called Ordinary Abundance blew up on my feed this weekend. It walks you through an ordinary modern apartment, and every ordinary object opens a quote from someone in history for whom that object was unimaginable.2 months ago
Harger: Auburn Police arrested five shoplifters at Fred Meyer and booked them into jail. Here’s why that matters more than you think
Last year, Kroger closed the Fred Meyer in Kent, about 10 minutes from the Auburn location, citing "a steady rise in theft and a challenging regulatory environment."2 months ago
Harger: 2 students, 1 bear, pastrami, and a dorm kitchen that needed 2 days of professional cleaning
Two Cornell students wanted to do some home cookin' in their communal dorm kitchen. These two guys wanted to make bear pastrami. Kind of complicated, but sure.2 months ago
Harger: SPD described a Georgetown stabbing suspect down to his jacket. For the Bite of Seattle shooters? Nothing.
Here's what SPD has released about the shooters who opened fire into a crowd at the Bite of Seattle on July 26, killing two bystanders: nothing.2 months ago
