David Brewster founded Crosscut. He is now the director of Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum.
One of the most exciting real estate opportunities in the nation has just come on the market north of Seattle's downtown, parts of 13 blocks owned by the Clise family. What might the public want in the way of new amenities? We put the question to some experts, and to you.
As the team heads for the exits, it looks like everybody lost. In fact, Howard Schultz, the Oklahoma City gang, and Mayor Nickels may have all got exactly what they wanted (but dared not declare).
Speight Jenkins sets 2013 for his retirement date and vows to help with a textbook transition at the Seattle Opera. At the symphony, indecision about whether it's time for a new conductor seems to have been resolved in favor of keeping the long-running Gerard Schwarz act.
There's a fascinating story in The Seattle Times about a new study [http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2004181704_eicher14.html] by UW economics professor Theo Eicher, purporting to show that the bulk of increases in housing prices in Seattle stem from the large overlay of regu
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