David Brewster founded Crosscut. He is now the director of Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum.
We sometimes think that Seattle alone has "the Seattle malaise," meaning long-drawn-out disputes over development that often end in stalemate or ugly compromises. We are not alone. Consider this story [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/19/DDDHV2JOE.DTL&feed=rss.entertainment]
An earlier blog item on America's top philanthropists [/blog/nonprofits-philanthropy/11478/] noted that the usual Northwest big donors, notably Bill and Melinda Gates and Paul Allen, were missing this past year. Turns out Slate had missed Allen's $46 million in gifts last year, putting him 49th on t
I recently wrote about two new downtown highrises ("Genuflecting to the High Rises") [http://www.crosscut.com/architecture-design/11499/Genuflecting+to+the+high+rises/], and the article prompted this interesting email from a San Francisco reader, Charles M. Marsteller, who identifies himself as form
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
The roads-and-transit measure, expensive and flawed, is politically reasonable and pulls together the region. Defeat it and you have the same folks who cooked up this one producing Proposition 2. It's hard to see how a wiser expenditure of money is going to be formulated and approved.
