Elections
How a new congressional district would reshape the Washington map
The new district, the state's tenth, is likely to be centered on Olympia. Such redrawing of the lines would create several more logical districts.
Dick Morrill
Dick Morrill is emeritus professor of geography at the University of Washington and an expert in urban demography.
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Equity
How Seattle is exporting its poor people
A look at new Census data shows the effects of gentrification and new urbanist planning for the region, with families and poor people fleeing to the south of Seattle.
Politics
In search of good old Seattle radical politics
The neo-liberal agenda, even in supposedly "liberal" Seattle, has devoured the old radical spirit. Here's a plea for reconnecting with the left's historic worker and lower middle class base.
Politics
Washington state: color me purple
There are a lot of swing districts, part red and part blue, and even in strongly Republican or Democratic regions there are pockets of dissent.
Politics
We are two states: Seattle and Washington
Support for R-71 is strongest in urban, educated, college-centric parts of the state. In social terms, the vote split along the modernist-traditionalist fault lines. Yes, Seattle really is different.