Environment
Climate refugees are coming to the Pacific Northwest
Global warming promises to send us a flood of environmental asylum seekers. Do we put out the welcome mat, or pull up the gangplanks?
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.
Latest work
Mossback
Kennewick Man: Pre-history's Amanda Knox?
A new book shares what exactly scientists have learned during their decade-long study of K-Man's prehistoric bones. The findings will be controversial. Everything about K-Man is.
Tech
Memo to Steve Ballmer: Lakeside School is not the Clippers
The former Microsoft CEO's nascent hoop dreams have raised embarrassing questions for the Seattle prep school about integrity and race.
Politics
Seattle's dizzying change? Get used to it
Our city's identity has always been an ephemeral one. Nothing has changed.
Elections
Another monorail proposal. Yes, seriously.
The monorail hath risen again on this fall's ballot. Why Seattle can't get past its elevated rail obsession.