Dec. 20, 1966: The NBA awards Seattle its first pro sports team. Team owners Sam Schulman and Eugene Klein borrow money to pay the $1.75 million expansion fee. Oct. 13, 1967: Seattle SuperSonics play their first game, losing 144-116 at San Francisco. Oct

If David Stern wants to cuddle up to Seattle again, he's the one who should be packing flowers.

Commissioner David Stern says he is open to returning the NBA to Seattle. Seattle City Councilman Nick Licata admits he now sees the cultural value of having a new arena with new franchises in town. Chris Van Dyk of Citizens for More Important Things app

Clay Bennett, soon to hijack the Sonics, accepts a team jersey from Howard Schultz after purchasing the club in July, 2006.

Ex-Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels is officially “testing the waters” to run for Secretary of State, but is trolling for bucks to make the statewide race. “To celebrate this challenge and get the campaign off to a fast start, we are holding our famous ’1st BB

Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels is interviewed by KING 5's Jean Enersen on Monday, Nov. 16, 2009. Former Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels on Tuesday took one more step toward a run for Washington Secretary of State. Nickels filed paperwork with the state Public Dis

THERE is no way to pretty up the hundreds of nasty car wrecks and thousands of people stranded and inconvenienced regionwide by power failures, downed trees and a snow and ice storm destined for the history books. But Seattleites in particular should be

That chill in Mayor Mike McGinn's office this week may have been the somewhat recent memory of his predecessor's famous bungling of a 2008 snowstorm. But as snow turned to slush Wednesday afternoon with no major problems, McGinn was doing what he does be

After initial forecasts of a major snowstorm that could drop 5 to 10 inches of snow on Seattle, and up to 4 feet in the Cascades, forecasters late Tuesday were revising predictions downward, saying Seattle would likely get 1 to 4 inches Wednesday. Howeve

Since he lost his bid for a third term as Seattle mayor in 2009, Greg Nickels has spent time at a Harvard fellowship, served as a public delegate to the United Nations and even advised mayors in the Ukraine. But local politics has always been in Nickels'

Former Mayor Greg Nickels' 2005 pledge that Seattle would meet tough international emissions standards by 2012 made him a climate-protection superstar. He appeared in a glossy Vanity Fair photo spread and led a climate summit in Seattle that featured for

First off, I just want to let you know this is not a hate post directed at fans of the Thunder. I did a little research before posting and this community seems to have a general respect to what happened and is still happening to the Sonics. Which, honest

While many in Seattle woke up with headaches Sunday morning in a new year filled with more challenge than “hope and change,” attorneys for the Second Amendment Foundation, National Rifle Association, two other groups and five citizens may be giving the c

Evergreen State residents should keep this in perspective: anti-gun Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn hails from the Empire State, growing up on Long Island. He is a member of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns, and he is currently pu

Earlier, this column noted that after the erupting Operation Fast and Furious scandal, all other gun rights stories of 2011 pale by comparison. Yet here in the Pacific Northwest, there have been issues that raised eyebrows and the consciousness of gun o

A continuing rise in the number of concealed pistol licenses in Washington State appears to be part of a national trend that suggests something public officials and the media elite do not seem to grasp. Yesterday, the Des Moines Register revealed that

SEATTLE - Police Chief John Diaz said Friday he disputes the conclusions of a Department of Justice civil rights investigation that found the city's police officers engage in a pattern of excessive force. "This department isn't broken," Diaz said in an i

More than two years ago, this column (which bears re-visiting) discussed that “living in denial” approach to reality, and yesterday’s petition for review by Seattle shows the city needs some adult supervision. Mayor Mike McGinn and his administration did