politics
This island, Seattle: Happily out of step with the state and the nation
Seattle is not on a physical island, but we understand islandness. We’re surrounded by islands. We commute from them.
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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politics
New elections, but oddly familiar batch of results
Click here for a full listing of preliminary election results. For an historic election, it was a bit of an
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In praise of the humble bungalow
Earlier this year, Seattle’s single-family zoning suffered a near-death experience when Mayor Ed Murray’s affordable housing panel endorsed
Culture
The Northwest’s “Squaw” Problem
In Washington State, the current push to get the feds to change the name of Coon Lake and Coon Creek
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Park Service comes around: Racist name must go
The National Park Service, responding to pressure to rectify an historical wrong, announced Thursday that it is recommending that the