Feature

Great Racers

Six commuters, five very different modes of travel

10/20/2009 By Eric Scigliano, Rachel Solomon, Connor Guy, Kelly Miller, Orin O'Neill, and Richard Pauli

Travel Tips

How To Beat Seattle Traffic!

We sleep at home and work at the office. But we live on the road—in our cars and buses and trains, on our bikes or feet or scooters or skateboards. Read how you can beat the traffic, avoid it, or live with it—whatever you ride or drive.

10/19/2009 By Eric Scigliano and Connor Guy With Alex Girma and Rachel Solomon

Article

5 Days In Seattle that Shook The World

10/19/2009 By Alex Girma, Rachel Solomon, Connor Guy, and As told to Eric Scigliano

Article

Heads Up

There’s more to fear about the viaduct than earthquakes and electoral upheavals

09/17/2009 By Eric Scigliano

Article

Exit Mayor, Musing

Greg Nickels’s finest moment on the political stage came when he stepped off it.

09/15/2009 By Eric Scigliano

Economy

From Dire Land With Love

Back in the boom days, Chamber of Commerce boosters wanted to copy the Celtic Tiger. Whoops.

08/31/2009 By Eric Scigliano

Epidemics

Who’s Afraid of Killer Swine Flu?

Before you get spooked by headlines, consider something really scary that’s already got people in the hospital.

08/25/2009 By Eric Scigliano

Paper and plastic

Out of the Bag

What will Seattle officials, merchants, and the plastics industry do now that the bag fee’s dead?

08/24/2009 By Eric Scigliano

Mayor's race

Do you miss Greg Nickels?

Some supporters thought they had a free vote this time, before getting serious in November. Hah.

08/22/2009 By Eric Scigliano

Primary postmortem

Pitching Nickels

Yesterday’s election was about the economy, not the environment—and about Elvis and pretty names.

08/19/2009 By Eric Scigliano

Racing news

Joni’s Short List

Experience doesn’t always count in this Times columnist’s book.

08/13/2009 By Eric Scigliano

Elections

No More Mr. Nice Mayor

Joe don’t know jack? Mike makes it all up? A week before the primary, the Nickels campaign goes negative.

08/13/2009 By Eric Scigliano

Article

Phamily Newspaper

Two generations of community journalists bridge the chasms in the news business and the Vietnamese community.

08/10/2009 By Eric Scigliano

Conspiracies

The Real Obama Birth Mystery

Why worry about his birthplace, when the law says he’d be a citizen even if he were born in Manchuria?

08/05/2009 By Eric Scigliano

Dialing for votes

All in the Family

Today’s campaign slogan: Vote for my brilliant dad, or kid, or mom, or sis….

08/04/2009 By Eric Scigliano

Online reading habits

Good News for the Seattle Times

But readers linger less with the New York Times and Seattlepi.com.

08/02/2009 By Eric Scigliano

Shopping bag tax

Okay (grumble, grumble), We’ll Bring Our Own Damn Bag

Contrary to what the Biz Journal claims, a new poll doesn’t reveal how Seattle will vote on the bag tax. But it suggests the tax would be effective.

07/30/2009 By Eric Scigliano

Weather

Learning to Love the Heat

Or at least live with it. Shopping malls, shady trees, keeping still, a jump in the lake…What’s your secret?

07/30/2009 By Eric Scigliano

Northwest climate

Mass Heat Wave Hype

Celebrity meteorologist Cliff Mass says this scorcher will be a ‘historic’ exception. Hope he’s right, but…

07/29/2009 By Eric Scigliano

City Hall

Boss Nickels or Mayor Nice Jr.?

When Nickels first ran, Seattleites thought he was too nice to be mayor. Now he gets the opposite rap.

07/25/2009 By Eric Scigliano