Culture
Reinhold Messner: towering achievements and ego
When my father was a small boy, his father, a Norwegian engineer, took him to see Roald Amundsen and his
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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Tech
At UW, computer science & nuclear history spar
Back in 2008, a group of University of Washington students and preservationists rose up to oppose the demolition of the
Culture
A new gold standard for Northwest resilience
Two historic enemies recently achieved a remarkable détente. The agreement grabbed headlines, but for many, the topic was inherently a
politics
In defense of expensive initiatives
Commentary: Should we put dollar signs in front of voters to scare them away from initiatives based on principles? Doesn't that run against our state's proud history?
Mossback
My interviews with the Marshawn Lynch of writers
Some people like famed writer Patrick O'Brian want to concentrate on the work they are passionate about. Is that so bad?