News & City Life

Urbanism

Urban Upgrade: The Real Goal

Will the real Mike O'Brien please stand up.

10/01/2014 By Josh Feit

Election 2014

The Next Cutting-Edge Issue? Buses

Should Seattle go it alone?

10/01/2014 By Josh Feit

The C Is For Crank

Times Columnist Still Yearning for the Perfect Metro Tax

The Seattle Times' Danny Westneat continues to argue against a tax for Metro service—this time, by making the perfect the enemy of the good.

10/01/2014 By Erica C. Barnett

PubliCalendar

PubliCalendar: Talking Budgets and Shopping Local

Today's picks for civic nerds.

10/01/2014 By Darren Davis

Feature

The 10 Crimes That Shook Seattle

From D. B. Cooper to Ted Bundy to the Wah Mee Massacre, the crimes (and criminals) that impacted the city the most.

10/01/2014 By Bess Lovejoy

Morning Fizz

Morning Fizz: "Some Indicia of Evidence"

Caffeinated News featuring dismissals, endorsements, developers' fees, and internet service upgrades.

10/01/2014 By Morning Fizz

Explainer

The Sea Star Die-off

Last summer, an ecologist noticed sea stars dying on the outer coast of the Olympic Peninsula. Since then, 80 percent of the starfish population has disintegrated due to a mysterious syndrome scientists call sea star wasting.

10/01/2014 By Heather Hansman

Essay

What It Feels Like to Be Wrongly Accused

I spent four years in an Italian prison for a crime I didn’t commit. And I am not alone.

10/01/2014 By Amanda Knox

Back Fence

Seattle's Small Time Criminals

What petty crime has taught me about community.

10/01/2014 By Kathryn Robinson

Feature

Crime in Seattle, By the Numbers

10/01/2014 Research by Ezra Parter and Casey Jaywork

Feature

Who Killed Tom Wales?

The murder of the beloved federal prosecutor remains unsolved 13 years later.

10/01/2014 By Seattle Met Staff

Mudroom

Perfect Party October 2014

Here’s who we’d invite if we could entertain this month’s most interesting visitors, locals, and newsmakers.

10/01/2014 By Seattle Met Staff

Power Lines

Prop 1 Could Save King County Metro But Hurt Future Funding

Seattle’s thumbing its nose at Olympia on bus funding by putting Prop 1 on the ballot in November. Will this go-it-alone gambit to preserve transit backfire and ultimately dry up future funding from the state?

10/01/2014 By Josh Feit

Quote Unquote

Kyle MacLachlan and Pursued By Bear Wines

Yakima native Kyle MacLachlan is just as serious about making wine as he is about making good television.

10/01/2014 Edited by Matthew Halverson

Urban Upgrade

Density Triumphs in Seattle

A Wallingford development is criticized for being too small, spurring the city council to mandate new laws requiring more height and density for Seattle.

10/01/2014 By Josh Feit