Environment
40,000 miles of open ocean -- and a boat full of rookies
Some 200 people bashing their way around the world in wet, uncomfortable sailing yachts left Seattle Thursday on the next
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Seattle & King County
Is that dollars, Dale, or glass?
Chihuly and five other Seattle donors give the maximum ($50,000) to the Obama inaugural committee.
Politics
The Clintons' mighty morphin' Seattle-based hedge fund
The controversial former Seattle investment firm Quellos Group makes an appearance in the just-released Clinton tax returns. The Washington Post [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/04/AR2008040403927.html] reports that the Clinton's tax filing for 2006 discloses "an interes
Politics
Is the partisan party finally over?
Angus King, former independent governor of Maine, was among 17 prominent politicians who met recently to seek solutions to the partisan acrimony that has so poisoned national affairs. Crosscut talked with him during a recent Seattle visit about independent politics, bipartisanship, and New York Mayo
Culture
Daylight grows again, and so does the garden
It's bleak midwinter on Vashon Island and you'd think the garden would have sense enough to hunker down and wait for better weather. Thankfully, no. Outside the dining room window, a pink viburnum (Viburnum x bodnantense) is in full bloom on the year's shortest day, a joyful counterpoint to the driz