Knute “Mossback” Berger is an editor-at-large and host of "Mossback’s Northwest" at Cascade PBS. He writes about politics and regional heritage.
In a city that draws the "creative class," why don't we have more reverence for our writers? Why not use them to boost tourism? Why is there no Theodore Roethke Historic Park, or Frank Herbert Wax Museum?
We ushered in the manned Space Age with Century 21. As the Space Shuttle programs end, its time to consider one failing: We made the New Frontier a place for experts and elites, not the people.
A gloomy Scandinavian ventures into the golden sunlight of California and finds only scattered signs of a "failed state." In a nutshell: salmon bad, sangria good.
Seattle embraces a fake history and fake future to create the city and heritage we love, even if it never happened.
Over a recent lunch at the Space Needle, I learned that Wright's sharp eye and youthful appetite for risk are two of the reasons we have the city's landmark. It's one part of a larger legacy he left the city.
