David Brewster founded Crosscut. He is now the director of Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum.
Each fall there is a compelling ritual at Seattle City Hall, known as the City Council budget hearing. About 100 folks line up on each of two nights, carefully signing in hours before, to have their two minutes of fame (five if you bring a large group), imploring the council members to add a few mor
Let's not get too giddy and forget to examine these supposed architectural marvels – before they're built.
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
Threatened with extinction, the School Board got its act together. Meanwhile, a coalition of moderate reformers could dramatically improve it.
Denver, riding high among American cities in growth and enlightened politics, has been hard hit by foreclosures. An eye-opening story in USA Today [http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/housing/2008-04-01-foreclose_N.htm] paints a disturbing picture of one Denver suburb where as many as one-third of
