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Rick Rizzs says goodbye to Mariners booth after 52-year career: ‘I’ve lived my dream’
Rick Rizzs has three games left behind the microphone for the Seattle Mariners, and a lifetime of memories competing for his attention.2 days ago
Charlie Harger
Harger: Goodbye, baseball. Rick Rizzs signs off after 41 seasons with the Mariners, and Seattle loses its kindest voice
Rick Rizzs retires Sunday after 41 seasons with the Mariners. The Mariners were eliminated from playoff contention Thursday, and that's what makes this weekend so bittersweet.2 days ago
Charlie Harger
Harger: ‘No camera has ever prevented a crime,’ says Seattle’s public safety director. 40 years of research disagrees
"We just want to be safe." That might be the simplest sentence anybody said at the Alki Community Council meeting last week.3 days ago
Charlie Harger
Harger: Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson’s gutsy budget got buried by her office’s Bite of Seattle mess
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson made one of the gutsiest decisions I've seen a politician with power make around here in a long time.4 days ago
Charlie Harger
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.5 days ago
Manda Factor
Seattle gas prices hit $5.73 as diesel surge squeezes farmers
Diesel prices are reaching record highs across much of the country, squeezing farmers during harvest and threatening to push costs through the food supply chain5 days ago
Charlie Harger
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.5 days ago
Charlie Harger
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.6 days ago
Manda Factor
Retiring Mariners broadcaster Rick Rizzs on what went wrong in 2026 — and why he’s ‘really positive’ about next year
With nine games remaining in his 52-year broadcasting career, Rick Rizzs isn't ready to concede anything about the season or the joy of calling it.9 days ago
Manda Factor
WA drivers pay more than $5.57 a gallon for gas with no end in sight, GasBuddy analyst warns
GasBuddy warns WA drivers of record high gas prices with no relief in sight. Regular gas averages $5.57 a gallon in Seattle.12 days ago
Charlie Harger
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.12 days ago
Charlie Harger
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.13 days ago
Manda Factor
‘I’m going to be a wreck’: Mariners broadcaster Rick Rizzs reflects on last road trip before retirement
The voice of the Seattle Mariners, Rick Rizzs, left this week for what will be the final road series of his broadcasting career that began 52 years ago.16 days ago
Charlie Harger
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.16 days ago
Charlie Harger
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.16 days ago
Charlie Harger
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.17 days ago
Manda Factor
‘Boy in the tent’ enters school for the first time at age 10: ‘I want to go back’
The "boy in the tent" walked through school doors for the first time ever on Tuesday.18 days ago
Charlie Harger
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.18 days ago
Charlie Harger
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.19 days ago
Manda Factor
Rick Rizzs reflects on 9/11, Legacy Plaza statue as Mariners broadcaster enters final weeks behind the mic
Twenty-five years after the Sept. 11 attacks brought the nation and its pastime to a standstill, the Seattle Mariners on Thursday unveiled Legacy Plaza at T-Mobile Park.23 days ago
Charlie Harger
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.23 days ago
Charlie Harger
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.24 days ago
Charlie Harger
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.25 days ago
