Politics
Seattle without Amazon: Who cares? Let’s start planning
Amazon’s resistance to an employee head tax — or jobs tax as opponents call it — should be no surprise. Amazon
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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Opinion
In today’s dark political times, remember the hope of 1968
When T.S. Eliot wrote that April is the cruelest month, he could have been writing about the spring of
Opinion
At what age are you an adult in America?
When are we grown up? That’s a more complicated question than it seems, and one that’s getting a
Culture
The chaos of the car in Seattle’s early days
If you think traffic is bad now, just imagine Seattle at the turn of the century: Cyclists, pedestrians and an
Equity
The chilling threads of our racist past
Racism, religious bias and anti-immigrant sentiments once made Oregon a major center for the Ku Klux Klan.