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Seattle process: Does working together make us dumber?
Critics decry our need for consensus as a source of civic frustration and gridlock. But the perils of going it alone are real.
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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