Danny Westneat | The Seattle Times

March 21, 2019 at 11:22 am

Extended Byline for your soul

Let all these things just sort of happen. The light is your friend. Preserve it. We'll make some happy little bushes here. Let's make a...

Wed. January 23, 2019. Viadoom traffic gets worse and worse as commutes slow to a crawl. Cars and trucks are headed south down I-5 on the Ship Canal Bridge towards downtown Seattle. 209103

February 27, 2019 at 6:00 am

Even Seattle finds it’s just too hard being green | Danny Westneat

Seattle was once dubbed "America's greenest city" for leading the charge on climate change. But despite the hype we stubbornly can't seem to cut our...

FILE — A migrant from El Salvador at the border fence in Tijuana, Mexico, on Nov. 15, 2018. President Donald Trump is expected to declare a national emergency as early as Friday, Feb. 15, 2019, to bypass Congress and build his long-promised wall along the nation’s southwestern border even as he agreed to sign a spending package that does not finance it, White House officials said Thursday. (Mauricio Lima/The New York Times) XNYT5 XNYT5

February 22, 2019 at 6:00 pm

Insult to injury: We’re more on the hook to pay for Trump’s wall than most border states | Danny Westneat

Washington state doesn't want a wall, and didn't vote for the president pushing a wall. But it looks like we're disproportionately on the hook to...

Packages move along a conveyor belt at the fulfillment center in Robbinsville, New Jersey, in June 2018.

February 15, 2019 at 7:00 pm

Amazon puts the smile in federal income taxes — by not paying any | Danny Westneat

How do you book record profits and still pay no federal taxes? The tax wonk who discovered that Amazon has done this two years in...

The AR-15 rifle the suspect had in his possession at the time of the shooting. Also in the photograph is the loaded magazine that was inserted into the rifle at the time of the shooting at the Kent Station Parking garage on Thursday, July 26, 2018.

February 13, 2019 at 6:00 am

You may think we banned the sale of assault weapons to teens. But they’re still buying them. | Danny Westneat

Classified ads for military-style semi-automatic rifles are selling to buyers under age 21 — even though a new voter-approved law supposedly banned such sales.

This image shows the front page of the Jan. 28, 2019, edition of the National Enquirer featuring a story about Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos’ divorce. Bezos claims American Media Inc., which owns the Enquirer, threatened to publish intimate photos of him unless he stopped investigating how the tabloid obtained his private text messages with his mistress that were published within the story. Prosecutors are now looking at whether an email exchange Bezos published shows AMI violated an agreement it struck to avoid prosecution for alleged campaign finance violations. (National Enquirer via AP) NYR105 NYR105

February 8, 2019 at 6:30 pm

How Amazon gets whatever it wants | Danny Westneat

Two power plays this past week show why it's Amazon's world, and we're just living in it.

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A Goose Point Oyster Company worker at low tide out on an oyster bed in Willapa Bay harvesting oysters.

Look at the Goose Point Oyster Company who is fighting the upwelling CO2 acidification problems affecting their oyster farming by growing the oyster seed in Hawaii at their own hatchery. Goose Point Oyster Company is owned by the Nisbet family.

February 6, 2019 at 6:00 am

Politics has science on the run — and not just in the other Washington | Danny Westneat

A plan to spray pesticide on oyster beds has been opposed by federal scientists from the start. Now some state lawmakers in Olympia want to...

Cars head northbound in the Battery Street Tunnel, which is at the north end of the Alaskan Way viaduct. The viaduct will be permanently shut down on January 11, 2019 and then demolished, but the tunnel will stay open temporarily. Eventually it will be filled with debris from the viaduct. Shot January 1, 2019. 208811

February 1, 2019 at 7:00 pm

‘Seattle’s best idea’ may need a lifeline — and there’s one hiding in plain sight | Danny Westneat

With 'Viadoom,' January was a rough month for some of the shops at Seattle's historic Pike Place Market. Now shopkeepers are warning that the planned...

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Former Starbucks CEO and Chairman Howard Schultz looks out at the audience during a book promotion tour, Monday, Jan. 28, 2019, in New York. Democrats across the political spectrum lashed out at the billionaire businessman on Monday after he teased the prospect of an independent 2020 bid, a move Democrats fear would split their vote and all but ensure President Donald Trump’s re-election. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) NYKW102 NYKW102

January 30, 2019 at 6:00 am

Howard Schultz is above the political fray — so high above he often doesn’t vote | Danny Westneat

Like a lot of outsider business execs who want to come in and fix politics, Howard Schultz has kept some distance from the mess of...

Demonstrators gather in the Hart Senate Office Building atrium to protest the government shutdown, in Washington, Jan. 23, 2019. With the shutdown now in its second month and 800,000 federal employees about to miss a second paycheck, pressure is rising on both parties to reopen the government. (Sarah Silbiger/The New York Times) XNYTF XNYTF

January 25, 2019 at 7:15 pm

The shutdown was a catastrophe for the GOP, but a reawakening for labor | Danny Westneat

Republicans keep following Trump over cliffs, airport workers have newfound political power, and other take-aways from the great shutdown surrender of 2019.