An officer's right to privacy vs. the public's right to know. Not an easy balance to find - that's exactly what the State Supreme Court did, however, in a very significant ruling yesterday morning. more ›

The state Supreme Court has a banner day for decisions, a racist prosecutor gets a murder conviction thrown out, an attorney on trial and the cross-examination of a rape victim. more ›

The Washington State Supreme Court issued a rare unanimous ruling this morning in a case against the King County Medical Examiner's office. The court ruled that the M.E.'s office was in the wrong when they sold a deceased 21-year-old's brain to a Maryland company. While the 21-year-old was an organ donor, his next of kin was not notified parts of his body would be sold for profit to private researchers. Also, and excuse us if we are wrong, but our assumption about checking the donor box was that our organs would go to a living individual, not a corporation. Shame on the King County M.E. for adding to a family's tragedy and profiting off it.
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Its okay everyone you may un-board your windows and come down from the hills. The State Supreme Court’s upholding of the Defense of Marriage Act means that God will not be seeking revenge on our state through a “natural” disaster. more ›

ID=1984: Continuing on yesterday's Database Of Oppression theme, Mayor Nichols is pushing a city database to hold information on troublesome night spots. more ›

Recall elections are awesome. A few years ago we were lucky enough to go through one in California. It turned an ordinary fall into a non-stop free for all of stump speech watching action. In the end we got a new governor who knows a little something about excitement, and the American political process got a little gooder. more ›

Judge John Bridges of Chelan County Superior Court just finished reading his ruling on last year's governor's election. He ruled against the Republicans, saying that for him to overturn the election based on proportional analysis, without proof of fraud, would be "the ultimate act of judicial activism." more ›

Washington has long been called the San Diego of the Pacific Northwest. However, it remains to be seen that if like San Diego our top political spot is heading for a re-vote. Chances for such a vote seem unlikely, but Seattlest knows this: never say never. more ›

We’ve all had a great deal of fun watching this wacky governor’s race. First there were the recounts (insert sound of slide whistle), then there were the found ballots (insert sound of clown laughing), then there were the list of felons and dead individuals who voted (insert sound of pie hitting someone in the face), and now we have the death threats (insert sound of awkward silence)…Ahem, will this fun ever end? more ›