Culture
The best of Mossback, 2017
You can’t do better if you won’t look at your own shortcomings honestly. From history to education, there
Joe Copeland
Joe Copeland is the former senior editor for Crosscut, where he has been an editor since 2010. Before that, he was an editorial writer and columnist for the Seattle P-I and editorial page edi
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Equity
Best of 2017: The city that solved homelessness
This week Crosscut is running some of our best stories of the year, as selected both by our editors and
Seattle & King County
McGinn draws a firm line about the waterfront tunnel
In his state of the city speech, Mayor Mike McGinn focused on youth and schools, transportation (including light-rail expansion and concerns about the cost of a waterfront tunnel), the city's economic future, and broadband. The speech drew mixed reviews from city council.
Equity
UW gets a president on a discount; lawmakers think about tax breaks
Media Roundup: Osama bin Laden aside, finances dominate the public agenda.
Politics
Race to the Top leaves state back at base camp
Washington finished well out of the money in the federal Race to the Top, the competition for school funds. But can the state take lessons from the effort?