Culture
No Expo for Ecotopia
As Seattle prepares to celebrate 50 years as the little expo city that could, the chance for a future fair in the USA is a long way off.
Knute Berger
Knute “Mossback” Berger is an editor-at-large and host of "Mossback’s Northwest" at Cascade PBS. He writes about politics and regional heritage.
Latest work
Politics
Washington state needs Jobs, Steve Jobs
The upcoming election is a reminder that corporate checkbooks and conventional thinking are not going to get us out of worsening messes.
Culture
Jonathan Raban's lonely journeys
The eccentric West through the eyes of Seattle's British expat author is a landscape of strange customs, forlorn towns, and back roads. His mantra: "To be alone is to be safe."
Environment
Seattle's real underground tour
An artist explores the city's sewers and tells us about the "aging beast" the lives beneath our feet, and the men and women who keep it alive, and keep us safe.
Politics
Seattle lefties take to the streets again. Only sound and fury?
A new protest movement against Wall Street brings with it a need to figure out what lies beyond signs and sit-ins. WTO reminds the author of pitfalls to avoid for the protesters in Seattle and elsewhere.