
Words matter and when an act of violence – rape – is characterized as anything less in a newspaper headline, it’s bad reporting and dismissive of a crime.

Words matter and when an act of violence – rape – is characterized as anything less in a newspaper headline, it’s bad reporting and dismissive of a crime.

Unless you live in Washington state you might not be aware of Mark Driscoll, the pastor of the Mars Hill Megachurch.

All Robert and his partner wanted were flowers from a designer they admired for their wedding. Somehow, I don’t think Jesus would really have a problem with that.

‘Booth was a leader of tremendous compassion, dignity, and bravery whose service to our state will live on far into the future.’

The prosecutor is thinking of charging the boy as an adult, for 2 counts of attempted first-degree murder, and asked for $1 million in bail.

Despite event organizers expecting thousands of supporters, the spectacle of several hundred armed white guys marching on state capitol buildings is highly disturbing.

I guess expecting him to know that passenger cars are the biggest creators of CO2 is too much to ask.

Officers of the American Marine Bank are being sued for $18 million by the FDIC for gross negligence in lending practices.

Washington State teachers are refusing to give the Measure of Academic Progress (MAP) tests, a mutiny against standardized testing in the state.

Republicans think the US Government works like Todd Akin’s concept of a raped woman’s uterus: When threatened by increased spending, ‘the whole thing shuts down.’

If you can’t win as a Republican, run as a Democrat and then switch parties, at least if you are Rodney Tom and Tim Sheldon of Washington State.

The right faces myriad problems as they try to figure out the flaw in their platform of tax avoidance and forced pregnancy.

Look, people, how hard is it to do your damn jobs properly? This isn’t tiddlywinks, it’s a presidential election. Stop faffing about and straighten up.

The billionaire founder of Amazon makes a powerful statement on marriage equality in Washington State.

According to Seattle Weekly, Ambassador Gary Locke has been painted as a troublemaker by the Chinese government for, ‘buying his own coffee, staying at a four-star instead of a five-star hotel and actually talking to the press.’