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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.3 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.3 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.3 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.3 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.3 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.3 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.3 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.3 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.3 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.3 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.3 months ago
Charlie Harger
Harger: Mayor Katie Wilson walked Seattle into an avoidable World Cup security trap. Every day she waits, it spirals
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson announced the Stadium District cameras would be installed, but not turned on unless the city became aware of a credible threat.3 months ago
Charlie Harger
Harger: Auburn fired a cop in two weeks, while an Arlington cop is charged with 10 counts. WA’s police chiefs have stopped circling the wagons
The Auburn Police Department fired one of its officers on May 28. He had been arrested two weeks earlier on a felony charge of immoral communication with a minor.3 months ago
Charlie Harger
Harger: Amid explosion of violence, Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson applauds her team for going to the Aurora safety walk. She could not be bothered to go herself
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson wrote that her team was deeply saddened by the stories they heard. Her team. She used the words "my team." She did not write that she was there.3 months ago
Charlie Harger
Harger: An unelected Sound Transit board just decided which of your transit projects live and which die. You did not vote for any of them to do that
The Sound Transit board decided Ballard would get cut off at Seattle Center. They pushed South Kirkland to Issaquah to 2050. They raised a car rental tax.3 months ago
Charlie Harger
Bear traps at the doors: Illegal marijuana operation in Pacific nearly hurts firefighters
Firefighters who rushed into a burning warehouse in Pacific last weekend narrowly avoided stepping into a set of bear traps positioned near the doors of an illegal marijuana grow operation.3 months ago
Charlie Harger
Gunfire returns to Aurora Avenue less than 48 hours after Seattle replaced neighbor barriers with drive-through bollards
Less than two days after SDOT removed neighbor-installed steel planters and replaced them with concrete barriers, gunfire again rattled the Aurora Avenue neighborhood.3 months ago
Charlie Harger
Harger: Seattle removed the Aurora Avenue planters and installed barriers a driver can pass right through. The pimps and prostitutes were back by Thursday night.
This is the fifth piece I have written about the pimp war on Aurora Avenue in 12 days.3 months ago
Charlie Harger
Harger: Watching Mayor Katie Wilson govern Seattle feels like a body-switching comedy. The reality of the job is catching up to her
This is Katie Wilson's first real job. It is like one of those body-switching comedies from the 80s where the kid wakes up in the adult body and isn't really sure what they're doing.3 months ago
Charlie Harger
Trump plan could halt all international flights at SEA Airport just before World Cup
International travel through SEA Airport could grind to a halt under a plan the Trump administration is drawing up to punish so-called sanctuary cities.3 months ago
Manda Factor
Pain at the pump: Seattle gas prices stuck near $6 as summer travel season kicks off
Gas prices are showing signs of relief across much of the country, but drivers in the Seattle area continue to feel the pinch at the pump.3 months ago
Charlie Harger
Harger: Sound Transit votes Thursday on which promises to break. And if you think ST4 isn’t coming, I have a train to sell you
At 1:30 p.m. Thursday at Union Station in Seattle, the Sound Transit Board of Directors will vote on which promises to keep and which to quietly set aside.3 months ago
Manda Factor
Lifelong launches first-ever Seattle Pride Gala as food waitlist hits 1,600
As Pride Month approaches, Seattle-based community health organization Lifelong is partnering with Seattle Pride to launch its first-ever Pride Gala.3 months ago
