Nathalie Graham

Despite months of collaboration, the King County Department of Public Defense (DPD) has distanced itself from Seattle City Attorney Erika Evans' new therapeutic court.

Hing Hay Park machete attack: A 44-year-old man allegedly attacked two men with a machete in the Chinatown–International District's Hing Hay Park on Tuesday.

Fall is upon us. Come drizzly skies, come death, come a Saturday Halloween where people in this corporate snoozetown will actually go out.

Illustrations by Yasiman Ahsani. By the time we’d left the party, the tool belt on my hips was no longer weighed down by White Claws. I’d chosen to put my costume’s accessory to good use: getting as drunk as possible on a budget. This was important at 23. Almost as important as my Ty Pennington […]

As the sun set in downtown Seattle on Thursday evening, around 200 people gathered outside of the Henry M. Jackson Federal Building. Many wore teal or carried signs condemning sexual violence. Almost all of them wore nametags that read “Jane Doe.” Countless Jane Does have been the victim of sexual violence. This time, the Jane […]

Illustrations by Yasiman Ahsani. By the time we'd left the party, the tool belt on my hips was no longer weighed down by White Claws.

Four dead in Bend shooting: A 16-year-old boy allegedly entered Bend, Oregon’s Silver Rail Elementary School with a long gun, opened fire, and killed three children ages 5, 8, and 11, and a teacher. Another child and another teacher were injured. A bystander saw the boy “blasting his way into the school,” followed him inside, […]

Train kills man in wheelchair: Moments before a BNSF freight train hurtled through a downtown Puyallup crossing, a couple in a car noticed a man in an electric wheelchair stuck trying to cross the tracks.

On September 9, the Khosla family—who got uber rich from computer stuff—was officially introduced as the new owners of the Seattle Seahawks. At the Khoslas’ inaugural press conference at Lumen Field, billionaire venture capitalist Vinod (one of the founders of Sun Microsystems, the company that invented Java) sat between his wife, Neeru (a molecular biologist […]

As someone who spent his life and career striving to help the disadvantaged, I was disappointed when Sean O’Donnell was endorsed by the Seattle Times over Ian Birk. From a progressive standpoint, Birk’s record is far superior to O’Donnell’s. The Seattle Times, perhaps concerned about Birk’s successes taking on corporations, concocted a runaway story challenging […]