Politics
The Bertha mess: Did Seattle bring it on itself?
City residents voted, a couple of times. But what did the votes really say?
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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