Homelessness has ceased to be an orphaned issue for the Northwest's major cities, as all of them have in recent years announced ambitious strategies to tackle the problem. Here's a report card on how Vancouver, Seattle, Spokane, and Portland are doing so far.
More than two years of planning and public hearings for a new skateboard park ended with an unplanned compromise site that is highly problematic. Here's what happened. Still unclear is why it happened.
Several Northwest colleges, including the University of Washington, did well in the imperfect annual ranking by U.S. News and World Report, but there's a revolt brewing, and Reed College is a leading dissenter.
A candidate for City Council and a candidate for School Board signal emergence for a minority among minorities.
