Executive Editor, Cascade Public Media
M. David Lee III is Crosscut’s Executive Editor, joining the team in October of 2021. Prior to coming to Crosscut, David lead newsrooms in Santa Maria California, Tallahassee Florida and Green Bay Wisconsin. He’s been in sports and news for 31 years.
Andrew Yang ran for presidency on a platform that included universal basic income, ranked-choice voting and automatic voter registration. After dropping out of the presidential race, Yang founded the Forward Party, which aims to bring together people from across the political spectrum. Yang argues the two-party system is broken and that we need a new way to do politics.
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The Cascade PBS Ideas Festival is a full-day event in downtown Seattle, featuring live podcast recordings and studio television tapings from The Atlantic, NPR, CNN, Vox, PBS, Crooked Media, The Gist, Open to Debate, and more. Watch live as journalists, newsmakers, and thought leaders from around the world take on hot topics making news and the biggest issues of our time. Plus, community meetups, speaker meet-and-greets, micro-sessions, food trucks, DJs, and artists.
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