Dan Chasan

Maybe we need a two-or-more-tiered system in which different kinds of public speech get different levels of protection.  That would solve a number of problems, but it would also create others. Just exactly which kind of speech should get more or less protection?

Acceptance of mass timber is obviously growing. The state Department of Commerce says that “cross-laminated timber is one of the fastest-growing segments of [Washington’s forest products] industry.”

Getting rid of Sullivan’s constitutional shield has evidently earned a place on many conservatives’ wish lists. It has long had a place on Donald Trump’s.

Taxing income has been a hot-button issue in Washington for more than 90 years.  Now the Court might force a decision.

An estimated 97 percent of the Chinook caught by that Alaskan fishery spawn outside Alaska. Many of those fish might normally nourish the Southern Resident Killer Whales (SRKWs) – our Puget Sound orcas.

If the Seattle School District lawsuit succeeds, will that mean the end of the Internet as we know it? Would that be such a bad thing?

Here, plywood hasn’t all come down and some folks still avoid downtown; they certainly won't go to tea in restaurants that used to be. And many seem to lack a yen to see their offices again.

Moore v Harper is a North Carolina case about extreme partisan gerrymandering. But that isn’t really the issue.

Will the tendency of the conservative majority to make a decision much broader than the case requires show itself here?

Has he committed crimes?  Probably.  Will he be indicted for them?  Possibly.  Will we see him in prison?  Don’t hold your breath.