politics
Seattle needs another woman mayor
Where’s Bertha? No, not that Bertha, the original Bertha. Where is Seattle’s woman mayor? Seattle has elected exactly
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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politics
Forget Seattle nice. We need grown-up fights
“I want our city to have a little more conflict,” says Eric Liu. One would think Seattle is a place
Equity
What Jenny Durkan and Bertha Knight Landes have in common
Seattle has now elected two women mayors — with a gap of nearly a century between their elections. It’s an
Culture
The debut of ‘Mossback’s Northwest’
Introducing “Mossback’s Northwest,” a collaboration between Crosscut and our sister organization, KCTS 9 public television. In each episode, Crosscut&
Opinion
Chief Seattle built this city on diversity
One evening in 2016, I was at a Ghosts of Seattle Past event near Pioneer Square, where people talked about