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Our region has a special sauce for this most important of all values in a democracy.
David Brewster
David Brewster founded Crosscut. He is now the director of Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum.
Latest work
An unexpected choice to head Seattle Opera
How the Opera found a successor to the revered Speight Jenkins, and what Aidan Lang will bring to the table.
Why does Seattle fear urban planning?
Good architectural ideas get hatched, then ditched in Seattle. Among those to blame? Oddly, Jane Jacobs.
Politics
What made Burgess blink?
Four hours before deadline, frontrunner Tim Burgess exited the Seattle mayor's race. Those last days were a frantic effort to retool his faltering campaign. Here's why he concluded that it was too late and too difficult to pull it off.
An impressive first: Oregon Symphony plays Seattle
It took 117 years for the fine orchestra in Portland to make it to Seattle. What does this tell us about the state of our orchestras and what works to keep them vital?