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Maltby Cafe and its dinner plate-sized cinnamon rolls to get new home in planned Maltby Village
The Maltby Cafe is getting a new home as part of a development that aims to keep the local landmark serving customers for another century.1 month ago
Charlie Harger
Harger: 68,000 fans chanted USA at Seattle’s World Cup match on Friday. Then the internet had to weigh in
The US won 2-0. One of the best soccer atmospheres this country has ever produced, and it happened in Seattle. Then both political tribes got involved.1 month ago
Charlie Harger
Harger: In Seattle, even the kinda-left Democrats aren’t left enough
On Tuesday, the Democrats of Seattle's 43rd District endorsed a 30-year-old labor organizer named Hannah Sabio-Howell over Jamie Pedersen for state Senate.2 months ago
Charlie Harger
Harger: Seattle Police said six suspects were arrested in an Aurora crackdown. Every newsroom in Seattle reported it today. It wasn’t true
Seattle Police gave the public information that wasn't true, and every media outlet that trusted them repeated it on their behalf.2 months ago
Charlie Harger
Harger: Katie Wilson built Seattle’s biggest business tax. Amazon drove to Bellevue. Downtown lost 30,000 jobs
Thirty thousand jobs gone. A third of the office space empty. Nearly half the value of the office towers wiped out. And the fingerprints on the policy that helped drive it belong to the woman now running the city.2 months ago
Charlie Harger
Harger: Corey Rattleff stole from stores for 13 years to feed his fentanyl addiction. Now he’s clean, working, and asking Washington to fund what saved him
His mother reached out to Andrea Suarez at We Heart Seattle, who stepped in and got him into a 21-day inpatient program at Evergreen Health in Monroe. From there, he found Battlefield Addiction.2 months ago
Charlie Harger
Harger: King County raised your sales tax without a vote. The one time voters got a say on this issue, they said no
On Friday, the King County Transportation District voted 5-4 to raise your sales tax by a tenth of a percent. You didn't get a say. You won't get one.2 months ago
Charlie Harger
Harger: Our leaders say they love this economy. Try affording it at $5.56 a gallon
Around here, they say a single adult needs $135,000 a year to live comfortably. One person. No kids. That ranks Seattle as the sixth-highest among any metro in America.2 months ago
Charlie Harger
Harger: 16 words about how oatmeal raisin cookies are the best cookies, and the KIRO text line has not forgiven me
I have a lot of divisive opinions. I know this about myself. Oatmeal raisin cookies beat chocolate chip. It's not even close. The raisins are the whole point.2 months ago
Charlie Harger
Harger: Greeting cards are the original AI
Greeting cards got me thinking about the world we live in now. Many of the same people convinced AI is the end of authentic human connection, are also the ones standing in line at the Hallmark store.2 months ago
Charlie Harger
Harger: ‘Hey Bob, enough is enough.’ A Kent sober home’s plea to Gov. Ferguson on fentanyl
A Kent sober home urges Governor Ferguson to address the fentanyl crisis impacting lives in the community.2 months ago
Manda Factor
50 years ago today: Paul McCartney and Wings rocked Seattle’s brand-new Kingdome
Fifty years ago today, a skinny 15-year-old squeezed onto the floor of Seattle's brand-new Kingdome to see Paul McCartney and Wings and watched rock history made in the process.2 months ago
Charlie Harger
Harger: Ferguson’s phone ban gives every parent a fall guy, including me
Ferguson's plan is simple: No smartphones or smartwatches from the moment school starts to the moment it ends. Every public school in the state, kindergarten through 12th grade.2 months ago
Charlie Harger
For one Oak Harbor sailor, the 2026 Warrior Games started with a promise to his kids
James Shoemaker is a retired Navy Aircrew Survival Equipmentman 1st Class, and will compete from his wheelchair as part of Team Navy at the 2026 Warrior Games.2 months ago
Charlie Harger
Harger: Governor Ferguson admits Washington’s 2027-29 budget is in trouble. His own OFM director is preparing for it to be worse
Ferguson's budget director sent a letter to every state agency telling them three things. Stop expanding programs. Prepare significant cuts. Don't count on the new millionaires tax to cover anything.2 months ago
Charlie Harger
‘I’ve never seen a march like that’: Aurora neighbors, King County prosecutors demand action on Seattle sex trafficking
Hundreds of neighbors marched along Aurora Avenue this weekend, demanding action on the gun violence, sex trafficking, and open prostitution.2 months ago
Manda Factor
‘Given to Fly’: Seattle’s Brian Morrison tells the story behind his famous Western States finish-line collapse
Twenty years after one of the most dramatic collapses in ultrarunning history, Seattle's Brian Morrison has finally put his story on the page.2 months ago
Charlie Harger
Harger: Mayor Katie Wilson skipped the North Aurora march Saturday. Several city leaders showed up instead
Several hundred North Aurora residents marched the avenue Saturday evening, blocking traffic, demanding the city take action. Mayor Katie Wilson did not show up. Again.2 months ago
Manda Factor
Red hot Seattle Mariners hit the road; Cal Raleigh set for rehab assignment in Everett
The Seattle Mariners head to Detroit on Friday to open a 10-game road trip on the heels of one of the hottest stretches of their season, winning eight of their last nine games and sweeping back-to-back series at T-Mobile Park.2 months ago
Charlie Harger
Harger: HUD pulls funding from Housing First. King County spent 20 years and billions on it. It got worse
King County adopted a 10-year plan to end homelessness in 2005. We are in year 20. Homelessness has roughly doubled.2 months ago
Charlie Harger
Harger: Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson on the defensive over homelessness, dodges on KCRHA and Spencer Pratt at Civic Cocktail
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson walked onto the Civic Cocktail stage Wednesday night and got a sustained grilling from Fox 13 Seattle anchor Hana Kim.2 months ago
Manda Factor
Seattle chef Brendan McGill closes downtown restaurants after 10 years, says city ‘slid into irrelevance’
Acclaimed Seattle chef Brendan McGill is closing the book on a decade of restaurants at downtown's Exchange Building.2 months ago
Charlie Harger
Seattle heatwave forecast: Models hint at 90s in Western WA
Some forecast models are flirting with a real heat wave across the Puget Sound region in about 10 days. It's not a lock. It could fall apart.2 months ago
