Cruise ship invasion

Hakai Magazine

Take a typical Alaska cruise and see the damage in its wake. The evidence is clear: the industry needs an overhaul. A detailed multimedia exploration of the negative impacts cruises make in Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska.

WITHOUT AFFIRMATIVE ACTION COLLEGES FACE A TOUGH PATH TO DIVERSITY

Crosscut

UW has been outlawed from using race as a factor in hiring or admissions since 1998. A recent SCOTUS decision banned the practice nationwide.

UNANIMITY

Oregon Super Lawyers

Ryan O’Connor and a team of attorneys succeed in convincing Oregon’s supreme court to address the injustice of non-unanimous juries.

Spent naval nuclear reactor compartments:
part of Hanford’s complicated issues

Columbia Insight

Retired reactors from Navy subs are shipped to Hanford and nuclear waste sites on top of Idaho’s Snake River Aquifer

Where to hang out in Seattle if you’re LGBTQ+ and don’t drink

The Seattle Times

While bars and nightclubs have long been a foundation of Seattle’s LGBTQ+ culture, there’s also a tradition of finding community in spaces free of drugs and alcohol.

Protecting Polyamory: Municipalities expand rights, domestic partnerships to include nontraditional relationships

ABA Journal

Activists in the US are working to pass local legislation that protects the rights of people in polyamorous relationships as well as expanding the notion of domestic partnerships.

Ten Years Later, the Bullitt Center Still Sets the Standard for Green Office Buildings

The Urbanist

When the Bullitt Center – the world’s first commercial building to achieve net-zero use of energy and water – opened in Seattle in 2013, it was an exceptional building. Ten years later, it still is. 

Elliott Bay Book Company Is Looking Spry at Fifty Years Old

The Stranger

Let’s reminisce about that time President Jimmy Carter took a disco nap in the bookstore’s back room…

The Legacy We Leave

Super Lawyers

IP attorney Julia Markley on Portland creativity and the two affinity Bars she helped found.

Seattle-area LGBTQ+ outdoors club OutVentures has offered camping, community for decades

Seattle Times

On a warm day in April, the queer outdoors group OutVentures leads a group of hikers up the trail to Dirty Harry’s Balcony in the Cascade foothills.

Cleaner buildings? We need to spend billions

Investigate West

Retrofitting programs across Cascadia make a difference, but results are probably too small and too slow.

Is it Time for Seattle to do away with Design Review?

PubliCola

Seattle’s design review process for apartment buildings is a broken, bureaucratic process that has slowed the creation of new housing.

WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT SEATTLE’S COMPREHENSIVE PLAN

The Stranger

You Don’t Like Exorbitant Rents, Homelessness, or Sluggish Transit, Do You?

Washington issues demand to U.S. Army: Clean up ‘forever chemicals’

Columbia Insight

The U.S. Army’s Yakima Training Center contaminated scores of private wells, but it’s resisting providing assistance to all those affected

Jim Creek harbors endangered wildlife and Navy secrets

Crosscut

For decades, the Arlington radio station has helped the U.S. military communicate with its submarine fleet. It’s also one of Russia’s top nuclear targets.

Tukwila Gets Serious about Transit-Oriented Housing

The Urbanist

The South King County city has ambitious goals, but a car-centered landscape will be difficult to transform.

Trans and queer youth in Central Washington build community

Crosscut

Centers in Yakima and Ellensburg offer a safe space during a challenging time for rural LGBTQ youth.

Lost & Found: Andrew Engelson on Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz

Tin House

Contrary to what Orson Welles asserted in The Third Man, the cultural output of Switzerland amounts to more than the cuckoo clock.

Meet the Seattle-based rowing team that crossed the Atlantic in 40 days

Seattle Times

If you ever find yourself rowing 3,136 miles across the Atlantic Ocean, you’ll likely have encounters with whales, dolphins and marlins, lose at least 15 pounds, and have a very sore butt by the time you’re finished. 

Rural WA agencies seek federal support to fortify against cyberattacks

Crosscut

With limited IT resources, smaller public agencies in the state are among recent targets for ransomware attacks.

Workers at Amazon Warehouse Likely Infected with Coronavirus

South Seattle Emerald

Ari Robin McKenna and I spoke with workers at an Amazon distribution facility in Kent, WA, early in the COVID-19 pandemic and found that precautions and working conditions were inadequate.

quantum Leap

University of Washington Magazine

In quantum computing, University of Washington scientists see the building blocks of the next technological revolution.

iron man

Oregon Super Lawyers

John Coletti, one of Portland’s top personal injury attorneys, has an intense competitive spirit that helps him fight for accident victims—as well as competing in Iron Man triathlons.