Culture
How Boeing changed the world
Crashes, barrel rolls, high-stakes gambling: A new book details how your daddy's Boeing came to dominate commercial aviation and put globalization on the fast track.
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.
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Culture
On a summer road trip: Call of the not-so-wild
Welcome to our national parks, home to non-native elk and mountain goat, invasive plants, stocked rivers and lakes, spraying programs for plague, and yearly genetic tests for buffalo. It can take a lot of work to keep parks "natural."
Politics
Bad ideas whose time has come
A state income tax, higher Seattle parking rates, private waterfront development: budget woes can turn bad ideas into timely ones.
Politics
Will the Space Needle ever be eaten?
The Empire State Building has lost its fight to have its piece of skyline all to itself. Let's hope that doesn't happen here.
Politics
Mike McGinn: Don't call him Mayor Moonbeam
But Seattle's mayor shares some of the same ideas as former (and perhaps future) California Gov. Jerry Brown: he's green, progressive, and believes government has to be realistic in an era of limits.