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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
Gregoire is off to China to see the fair
Washington's governor is wining, dining, and selling apples in China. But will she be inspired, like Arnold Schwarzenegger, to bring a world's fair back home?
Culture
9-11 anniversary: Lessons from the Last Stand
From Walla Walla to the Little Big Horn, America is fascinated with its massacre sites, which offer some perspective on 9-11.
Tech
A personal remembrance of John M. McClelland, Jr.
A local newspaperman, patron, and publisher who loved history and risk-taking, and who helped reshape the identity of metro Seattle.
Tech
Seattle should invite the world (again)
The 50th anniversary of the Seattle World's Fair could shape up to be an entertaining, even important, brainstorming session about the city's future. So let's not be shy about asking for ideas from the rest of the world.