Twenty-three years ago, I found myself next to a hospital bed. My mother was on it and on life support. The doctor entered the room and painted a bleak picture; and I said to him: I know, I know,...
My reaction to meeting Timothy White Eagle for the first time was probably similar to that of every person who ever met him: awestruck. For me, it was an evening in 2016 on the Bellevue Arts Museum plaza, where,...
Photos by Billie Winter
If you work in the restaurant industry and your boss shorts your paycheck, you have limited options. You could quit, with or without sending your boss a nasty message, and start looking for a new gig....
Sen. Patty Murray’s pissed at Trump. In an effort to encourage “traditional” families, the Trump administration wants to pay married, stay-at-home parents with money from the Child Care and Development Fund, which was established in 1990 as a way...
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Cheetahs are the fastest land animals, but they can maintain top tempo for only about 20-30 seconds before overheating. When they’re hunting, they usually get just one speedy dash to catch their prey. They must...
To the guy who stole my bike off a bus bike rack in Ballard: “Fuck you” doesn’t really cut it.
I loved that bike. It got me through the woods camping and safely home, to and from the grocery store,...
Welcome back to Pop Loser! This week, I’ll catch up on some news that transpired while I was on vacation for the last three weeks. (I’m so glad nothing major happened, like the passing of Dolly Parton or the...
Forest rangers help ICE abduct campers in Snoqualmie National Forest midnight raid: The rangers pretended there was a “garbage issue” in order to approach five families and photograph IDs for potential citations, KING 5 reports. Around midnight, the rangers...
Seattle’s media and political classes have inundated readers for months now with dubious stories about what the election of socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a slate of aligned New York legislators means for left-wing politics in...
As we celebrated Labor Day, we had the chance to reflect on how deeply strange it was to find ourselves, as Seattle School Board Directors, on the employer side of a potential strike from educators last week. Both of...
