David Brewster founded Crosscut. He is now the director of Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum.
The Seattle region has been tied in knots over transit planning since the mid-1960s, when the first opponents of rail transit surfaced, mostly based at the University of Washington. It's easier to attack a proposal than to have to defend one, which is one reason opponents of rail have had an advanta
Seattle and Portland have a good rivalry in many regards, mostly liveability contests. But how's it going in terms of donability? Who gives the most in the presidential races, and to whom? Thanks to Opensecrets.org's website, [http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/presstatetots.asp?State=OR] here are th
One of the curious aspects of the story about Amazon's move to a multi-block campus at South Lake Union is why the story, reported here on Oct. 1 and in the Daily Journal of Commerce just before, took so long to become public. One obvious reason is that three of the most secretive institutions in to
Bellevue is the top city in a new ranking of best American cities to live and launch a new business [http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2008/fsb/0803/gallery.best_places_to_launch.fsb/index.html] by CNN Money.com. Seattle doesn't even make the list of the top 100 such places. The survey rates Bellevue h
It's only a few more days before we can recover from the annual Month of Holiday Music that afflicts arts organizations in Seattle and the entire country. Benaroya Hall becomes almost wall-to-wall tinsel; theaters are all figgy pudding, all the month. But there's only so much Christmas elevator musi
