On Tuesday's roster: The eviction of Occupy Seattle from the Seattle Central Community College campus; the high cost of Rob McKenna; the belated creation of checks and balances to the Seattle Police Department; and unions strike back at 1-1183. more ›

Today's news is a horrible mire of awesome and awful, which includes missing children and white men saying things. more ›

Here at Seattlest, we care about our readers. But more than our readers, we care about the city's most influential people, like politicians and journalists and public figures that are also hot messes. In fact, we care about them so much that we've come up with a list of Halloween costume suggestions for them that we think the masses would really enjoy. Also, because it is Friday afternoon, we decided to write a nice, fluffy softball article of no real relevance. more ›

Fuzzy liberal environmentalist Mayor Mike McGinn has teamed up with law-and-order Republican Attorney General and (part-time) Tea Partier Rob McKenna in a crusade against child prostitution at Backpage.com. more ›

A recent poll of Washingtonians is manna from heaven for political junkies, but more like a call to arms for our two gubernatorial candidates. more ›

Attorneys butt heads, ferries raise and drop fees like the tides, and Belltown is still stabby. But hey, at least the weather's spiffy. Hooray, September! more ›

The President is coming! The President is coming! Luckily, it'll be before they shut down the viaduct, so he won't have to see how bad our traffic is really going to be. Oh, and Rob McKenna thinks that Backpage.com has some 'splaining to do. more ›

Blame the rain if you lost power yesterday or couldn't get your Fleet Foxes fix; meanwhile, in unrelated news, the Committee for Sunshine may be dismantled, and a fat lot of green was seized in the southeast, all in today's headlines. more ›

The Dead Babies roll into West Seattle to top off a week of poster art, new development projects, Rob McKenna, coyotes and more. more ›

Rob McKenna--911 misusing diva, or rightfully sketched out politico? Two of our writers offer differing opinions. more ›

Knowing is half the battle, so take a good look at your choices for replacing Gregoire. more ›

Today's big news: A foiled plan to attack a military recruit processing center located in South Seattle, Jay Inslee is officially in it to win it for the Washington gubernatorial election, and a major Seattle construction project comes in on-time and under-budget. more ›

A State Republican group passes judgment on what Jay Inslee did with an 11-year-old donation from Anthony Weiner, saying he is causing damage to the pro-choice cause by passing the money on to Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood Votes disagrees. Plus, a bonus Batman video! more ›

We're still waiting to here what Gregoire's "big announcement" is, but we have our theories. more ›

Rob McKenna has a reputation for moderation in some quarters, but does he deserve it? Can a centrist still run for statewide office as a Republican? more ›

The corpse flower, Weiner, the Viaduct, a whole lot of state departments shutting down, an injured baby duck and all the McKenna that's fit to print. more ›

The forced closure of more medical marijuana dispensaries seems to be a sign of things to come, thanks to Governor Chris "I Said No" Gregoire's thoughtless partial vote. What does this mean for the 2012 gubernatorial race? more ›

Few among us would consider Governor Christine Gregoire to be a "fun" governor. Recently, we mostly know her for the things she vetoes, or partially vetoes/ruins entirely. Also, her trademark snarl. However, she could soon be replaced by someone even less fun. more ›

It's not 2012 yet, but that hasn't stopped pollsters and journalists from trying to read the tea leaves. Here's an overview of what the insiders are saying: more ›

In this morning's headlines: gearing up for the gubernatorial race, liquor privatization, South Seattle murders, an update on the school district and another medical marijuana raid. more ›

What did we miss today? Budget woes, drug busts, and people actually wanting Rob McKenna's opinion. Oh, and a tapir that can paint. more ›

Booze and pills! Costco wants everyone to have liquor, SPD seizes a load of drugs, and Rob McKenna is in a tizzy over the "turf war" in Seattle. Ah, Friday. more ›

According to the Daily Weekly, Nickels is "moving forward" with his decision to ban guns on city-owned property despite opposition from citizens and state government leaders alike, and the ban could go into effect as soon as May. As the Weekly's Don Ward points out, the constitutionality of Nickels' ban will almost certainly be tested in court; critics of the mayor's executive order (including Seattlest) are looking to state law regarding legal possession of firearms to soundly trump any city law forbidding someone with a license to carry a gun on city property. We predict (read: profoundly hope) the ban will in fact be found unconstitutional. It would also be nice if all this uproar provokes productive dialogue about how to effectively counter and prevent gun violence in Seattle without blatant disregard for state law. more ›

Two weeks after a gunman at Folklife injured three people, Mayor Greg Nickels announced his plan to ban guns from all city-owned property. Yesterday, Wash. State Attorney General Rob McKenna (defending his office against challenger John Ladenburg in November's election) released an official legal opinion concluding that Nickels does not have the authority to order the prohibition. more ›

The Seattle Times and City Club sponsored yesterday's debate between Rob McKenna and John Ladenburg, which was hosted at Seattle University as part of the school's Social Justice Week program. Times crack reporter Bob Young reports on how it all went down. We'll cut straight to the important part: neither are for legalization of marijuana, and in fact McKenna wants to reclassify pot as a "more serious drug" thanks to BC growers' potent strains. more ›

WORDY SHIPMATES: Sarah Vowell's finally here to read from her book about the thought-life of Puritans such as John Winthrop, Anne Hutchinson, and Roger Williams. She's "not interested in the whole person," says Vowell in a recent interview with Seattlest Editor MvB. Take Roger Williams: "I'm mostly interested in what he thought about religion, government, community, Indians and how much Roger Williams was getting on his nerves. I don't really give a hoot what he had for breakfast or how he felt about his mom." This is one reading we feel more than comfortable recommending! more ›

Yesterday, Faith Ireland and Robert Utter, two former state Supremes, officially filed suit against the BIAW and said they intend to sue Dino Rossi. They claim Rossi was too hands-on in 2007 with what's supposed to be an independent BIAW PAC. If he, as a candidate, coordinated with the PAC in any way, the PAC would be limited to spending $2,800 on a race they've spent $2 million on in 2008. Rossi says: "If what they were saying were true, which it isn't, there would be no problem with it being true..." Yikes. It's a tough campaign season for the BIAW, which is also being sued by Republican AG Rob McKenna for inappropriate touching of worker's comp funds, among other things. more ›

Though the political news of the day is most certainly McCain's ploy to "suspend" his campaign and delay the first presidential debate as well as the VP debate in order to concentrate on the economic crisis, there's other news out today about the plight of Republican candidates this year. According to the New York Times, Washington State Democrats are suing to force Republican candidate for governor Dino Rossi to list his party affiliation on the ballot as "Republican" and not "GOP" which apparently polls higher. more ›

According to an email we got from the Washington State Democrats today, the state's Attorney General, Rob McKenna, laid out a plan for Dino Rossi to beat Christine Gregoire in November for state delegates at the Republican National Convention in Minnesota. In short, according to McKenna, McCain-Palin needs to carry Washington by 10-12 points. "If he fails to carry it by ten or twelve points, Dino doesn't win." Maybe it's scary thoughts like that which convinced the state's Republican party to put out only a "vaguely worded press release" when their booth got trashed at Bumbershoot this weekend. more ›

The good news? Washington State has drastically cut back on its consumption of fuel, returning to consumption rates last seen when LBJ was in the White House. The bad news? The gas we do use costs a hell of a lot, and that's not going to change any time soon. more ›