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How Seattle stopped a freeway, and may gain a monument
Maybe’s it’s an “only in Seattle” type of story, but for years citizen activists have been trying to
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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The War on Bikes should be history
The Seattle Police Department is investigating who has been spreading carpet tacks along the Westlake bike track in recent weeks.
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Seattle Nasty: The new politics, and how we got here
“How did we get so nasty?” a relative newcomer to Seattle asked me recently about our local political tone. In
Equity
George Washington owned slaves. Should we rename the state?
Our American legacy of slavery and racism is being wrestled with everywhere. We’ve gone from demanding removal of the
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As Seattle booms, we're trashing our history
A version of this column appeared in the July issue of Seattle Magazine. It has been updated. The annual list