Danny Westneat

1 week ago | chronline.com | Danny Westneat

Seattle pollster Stuart Elway kept hearing that people had grown weary of it all. After the third election in a row with Donald Trump, the story was that folks had begun tuning out the political news. So he set out to test it. "Man did that ever turn out to be a myth," Elway told me.

1 week ago | seattletimes.com | Danny Westneat

Seattle pollster Stuart Elway kept hearing that people had grown weary of it all. After the third election in a row with Donald Trump, the story was that folks had begun tuning out the political news. So he set out to test it. “Man did that ever turn out to be a myth,” Elway told me.

1 week ago | seattletimes.com | Danny Westneat

This past week, a state senator kicked up a ruckus when she waded into the dicey subject of America’s changing image in the world. “With what is happening at the federal level, people don’t want to come to the United States of America,” said Sen. Manka Dhingra, D-Redmond. “It is not safe for people from other countries to come to the United States right now.

2 weeks ago | seattletimes.com | Danny Westneat

To Mary Lou Steward, it feels a bit like Donald Trump finally got his wall built. Only along the northern border. “It’s just devastating right now,” Steward told me. “What’s happening feels about as bad as it was during COVID. And then the border was closed.”Steward is the mayor of Blaine, a town of 6,400 snug up against Washington’s northern border next to the Peace Arch crossing.

3 weeks ago | seattletimes.com | Danny Westneat

“Are you dead — again?” I ask “Dead Ned” Johnson. “I would describe it as kind of an in-between state,” he says about the condition of his being. “Somewhere between life and death.”Ned Johnson is the 82-year-old Capitol Hill man profiled in this space two weeks ago for being declared “dead” by Social Security, even though he’s very much alive. The agency clawed back $5,200 in benefits payments, pulling it from his bank account in the mysterious belief he was gone.