Environment
How a mega disaster caught the Northwest unprepared
One of the strangest things about the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980 is that you could live here
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
UW launches attack on city’s historic preservation powers
The University of Washington board of regents has green-lit a project that will result in the demolition of a nationally
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In this living city, layers of meaning and memory
The landscape is squishy with memory for me, like a soggy sponge or bed of moss. Memories ooze when I
An ode to the retiring Beast Mode, Marshawn Lynch
My indelible off-field image of Marshawn Lynch will always be in victory. It was during the largest gathering in our
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The 'Battle in Seattle' revisited
I recently wrote a story for another publication in which I passingly referred to WTO and got an editor’s