My most important learning is that promoters exaggerate the forecast of a local economic boom, while skeptics dismiss hosting's virtues as trifles unworthy of civic treasure and effort.

The World Cup — now mere days away — has turned every unfinished civic project into a deadline.

The races, of course, are technically nonpartisan, but there’s a ton of partisan coding via endorsements and donations.

A judge has ruled Donald Trump's name must be removed from the Kennedy Center and an impending two-year closure for renovations canceled. So the...

In these times, it may take a push to okay the Library Levy, but for Seattle, a city of readers, renewal seems basic.

While the leadership aspirations of April Berg, (D-Mill Creek), had been widely rumored Berg jokingly blamed us for the current kerfuffle), Laurie Jinkins dragging them out pulls a contest that at least nominally won’t happen until late in the year into the present.