Culture
Exploring a Seattle father's postwar burdens
For Death Valley, it was a cool spring day — in the mid-90s. We stood on the valley floor, an ancient
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
Welcome to the new, not-so-nice Seattle
Media outlets, including Crosscut, reported this week on a series of text exchanges between Mayor Ed Murray and City Councilmember
Opinion
Remembering Woody Guthrie, warts and all
Woody Guthrie, the legendary wandering minstrel of folk, seems to be having a moment. A new book from Sasquatch documents
politics
Airbnb squeezing renters? We've seen this before
The Seattle Times reports that Mayor Ed Murray and City Councilmember Tim Burgess are proposing to crack down on Airbnb-style
Environment
The twisted logic of Ann Coulter and the Oregon 'patriots'
With the end of the occupation of eastern Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge by right-wing extremists, bird watchers are