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
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Culture
The whole world comes together on a Southeast Seattle dance floor
World Dance Party bridges the gaps between ethnic groups and generations in Seattle's (some say America's) most diverse neighborhood. Now can it get the rest of the world dancing?
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."
Politics
We can all get along: Bikers and drivers learn to share the road
A lament from the past highlights recent progress: Motorists are learning to accept cyclists, and biking is getting safer in Seattle.
Politics
Mayoral candidates: Please forget the streetcar and biotech dreams
How about buses and a community college? Murray and McGinn court voters and praise diversity in Southeast Seattle. But are they asking what Seattle hardest-scrabble district really needs?