David Brewster founded Crosscut. He is now the director of Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum.
That was fast. Just a week after the voters nixed Proposition 1 for roads and transit, Gov. Chris Gregoire announces she's taking control of 520 bridge planning. Seattle is about to pay a price for its dithering -- loss of local control. A similar theme was sounded in Bill Virgin's column [http://se
The annual tango over the Seattle City Budget has followed the usual dance-steps manual, with the City Council making a few minor tweaks in Mayor Greg Nickels' budget, and declaring a sweeping victory. Most of this follows a time-honored script, where the Mayor puts in a few million dollars that can
Former Seattle Mayor Charles Royer pens an interesting think-piece [http://tinyurl.com/2jnfjb] in Sunday's Seattle Times, urging us to pay more attention to the squeeze on middle class housing in high-cost Seattle. The essay is very diplomatic, as befits a former mayor, but it scores some valuable d
He is joining a World Justice Project founded by Bill Neukom, staying in Seattle but leaving the arts field. ArtsFund, meanwhile, is also looking for a new CEO.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Dino Rossi is starting to pay the price for his late entry into the 2008 race: Gov. Chris Gregoire has been able to broom up early big-business support, including donors who were with Rossi in the 2004 race. The Seattle Times has a good early roundup [http://seattl
