Environment
Ciao, Chai, and bye-bye, Bamboo. Woodland Park will let its elephants go.
Commentary: The embattled zoo says it will let its last two elephants leave, but only to another zoo.
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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Environment
Pathology report shines some light on Watoto's death
Arthritic legs put the Woodland Park Zoo's elderly elephant in danger of lying down and never getting up. Was the zoo vigilant enough?
Environment
Did neglect kill Woodland Park's African elephant matriarch?
The zoo rebuffed a sanctuary and may have ignored its own task force's advice. Now another elephant is dead.
Politics
Seattle Police Chief O'Toole meets the neighborhood
Just showing up has already improved SPD's standing in once-neglected Southeast Seattle. Staying put would do even more.
Gender & Sexuality
Young and gay and down and out in Seattle
Local caregivers on the special challenges for homeless kids who also happen to be LGBTQ.