Culture
8 great ideas for Seattle in 2017
Our city politics might have a nasty streak, and our national political scene feels very, well, un-Seattle, to 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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Politics
Busting the myth of two Washingtons
In the wake of the election, some would tear Washington state asunder. The returns showed a deep red-blue divide
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Belles of the wrecking ball: Meet 2016's Heritage Turkeys
For 2016, here’s a “basket of deplorables": our annual collection of failures, crimes and bad behavior when it
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The best Northwest nonfiction of 2016
Here’s my mossy list of the year’s best reads in Northwest nonfiction, with an emphasis on, surprise, history.
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Courts rule on future of Pioneer Square, Olympic National Park
Two recent legal decisions have notched significant wins for heritage and historic preservation in both wild and urban settings in