You know the narrative by now. Seattle is dying. The CVS downtown is closing. Starbucks is making itself scarce. The Seattle ...

How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All, the comedy troupe Firesign Theatre asked on their 1969 ...

PSA: Seriously, don’t mail your ballot today. Due to new USPS postmarking rules, it probably won’t be counted, officials say.

Despite being composed entirely of news/found/archival footage (no talking heads, no voice over), the documentary WTO/99 ...

Articles by Dan Savage, The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper ...

But in this year’s race for Seattle School Board Director, District 2, they didn’t get it right, and I’m writing to express ...

And as of Monday, only 105,537 Seattleites had voted. For a city with more than 800,000 people (and at least 630,100 people ...

So to the young people who feel like their votes don’t matter: They do, because you matter. You are not just the future, but ...

Cynthia Green is an eight-decade resident of Seattle who grew up in the Central District, and the namesake of the Cynthia A Green Family Center in Skyway.

Stranger Suggests: A Music Fest Worth Freaking Out About, a Party with an Oyster Luge, and Don’t Forget to Vote!

Speaking of Turnout: As of last night, the county had counted 232,810 ballots. Almost 33 percent of those are 65-plus. And if history (and Stranger polling) are any indication, those voters are ...

Rich Smith is The Stranger's former News Editor. He writes about politics, books, and performance. You can read his poems at www.richsmithpoetry.com ...