Washington State
Northwest natives: Get over yourselves
Birthplace does not a true Northwesterner make. We're all lured in by the place.
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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Change, the voters said. And they are getting it on the City Council
Two veteran council members hang it up. And that fits the hopes for a new council district system.
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Inslee and Obama are playing a new political game: DOA leadership
The chief executives of both Washington state and the nation have laid out bold progressive agendas. But the question remains: If they're unpassable, is that really leadership?
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How Pam Roach became the Democrats' choice
Democrats provided the votes to make the conservative Republican the Senate's president pro tem. They had their reasons.
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Crosscut's 2015 Legislative Watch List
The 2015 legislative session begins Monday. The issues we'll be keeping an eye on this winter.