Roughly 5,000 beer lovers reel in fall at Elysian’s annual Great Pumpkin Beer Festival
SEATTLE—Roughly 5,000 beerheads congregated at Elysian Brewery’s Capitol Hill brewpub for its 21st annual Great Pumpkin Beer Festival on Friday, October 3, through Saturday, October 4, to taste 60 different innovations from Elysian and guest breweries, hear live music, and witness the ceremonious great pumpkin beer tapping, signifying the start of pumpkin beer season. Elysian […]
Ignite Robotics Competitions coming to Monroe, Washington
MONROE – Ignite Robotics bringing their robotic competitions to the Evergreen State Fair Park in Monroe Washington. The two robotic competitions are Quantum’s Spooktacular V5 Robotics Competition, November 1, 2025, and Ignite the Northwest V5RC Signature Event, January 9-11, 2026. November 1st: Quantum’s Spooktacular V5 Robotics Competition This is a Middle and High School regional tournament […]
Conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ minors goes before the Supreme Court
[STATELINE]—The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, October 14, is scheduled to hear oral arguments in a case that could reverse or solidify state laws across the country that ban a controversial counseling practice for LGBTQ+ youth. The case challenges a 2019 Colorado law that bans “conversion therapy” for children and teens. Conversion therapy is a […]
John Braun: Cost of Green Hill fentanyl overdose: $12M and a life changed forever
There’s a lot in common between the security and safety issues at Washington State Department of Children, Youth & Families’ Green Hill School, the harm being done to our state’s children by fentanyl, and the staggering cost of financial judgments and settlements due to mismanagement by the executive branch of state government. Each is the […]
FBI document reveals spying on US Senate Republicans
WASHINGTON, D.C.—On October 6, 2025, Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) released a declassified FBI document dated September 27, 2023, showing that FBI agents conducted a preliminary “analysis” of cellphone toll records for a total of nine Republican lawmakers, including himself, in connection with an inquiry into potential efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. “I […]
