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Whitman College ditches Missionaries mascot — part of a fresh look at the West
I recently returned from a 3,500-mile road trip through the American West. By western standards, that’s a jaunt:
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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How Amazon's 'Man in the High Castle' launched me into a dark Seattle chapter
Many readers have asked me what my inspiration was for digging into Seattle’s Nazi past. Most seemed to assume
Culture
Politically correct maps: Damn right.
Changing place names is frequently cited by opponents of a new name as being a trivial pursuit, unworthy of the
Politics
UW wins freedom from city's landmarks law
A King County judge has found that the city of Seattle’s landmarks ordinance does not apply to the University
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How Vancouver revived itself. And lost the millennials.
The 30th anniversary of Expo 86 is coming in early May, but there doesn’t seem to be much celebrating