Seattle & King County
Delightful, exotic, cute ... Seattle's raccoons?
Even some nice Seattle folks would like to ban them. Or worse. But maybe accommodation works.
Eric Scigliano
Eric Scigliano's reporting on social and environmental issues for The Weekly (later Seattle Weekly) won Livingston, Kennedy, American Association for the Advancement of Scie
Latest work
Tech
How Sound Transit could build a promised station for SE Seattle
The money is there, because of a budget surplus. Even though ST originally planned for the Graham Street station, don't count on the agency doing what it should.
Environment
If earplugs don't work, try phone sex
Aviation officials suggest a novel recourse for citizens afflicted by Sea-Tac jet noise.
Politics
A jail with a view proposed for Seattle's Beacon Hill
King County appears to favor a plan to move its juvenile detention facility to the landmark PacMed tower, former home of Amazon, in the south Seattle neighborhood. "Here we go again," says a neighborhood leader. "We're getting dumped on."
Culture
A new world in South King County
Welcome to Kent, frontline for the forces transforming America's suburbs: poverty and hardship, global diversity, and exciting new energy and innovation.