One immediate reaction to the defeat of Proposition 1, the roads and transit package the voters thumped yesterday, is to fall back to The Portland Way. Build lots of small fixes, as opportunities...
Updated through the day: In an evolving thread, Crosscut's writers analyze Washington's general election. They see an electorate distrustful of the people in charge.
With the big tri-county roads-and-transit measure failing and Tim Eyman's spending straightjacket, passing, you could sense that the government-wary voters are not passing around any blank checks. But...
With Initiative 960 not looking good in the early results, failing 45.5 percent to 54.5 percent in King County, it looks now to be passing statewide. Sponsor Tim Eyman was out with an early thank-you...
Bill Clinton was in Seattle last week, at the U.S. Conference of Mayors' climate summit. He reframed the discussion about coping with global warming by saying it was a golden opportunity to make money...
Beyond the pettiness of the campaign just ending lies the potential emergence of a whole new mood in Seattle-area politics. It would start with a muting of the cultural wars that have bedeviled...
Paul Krugman, rock-em sock-em liberal columnist for The New York Times, was at Town Hall last night, peddling his new book and taking on three dragons. One was a bad head cold. The other was all the...
Allied Arts threw one of its highly enjoyable Beer and Culture events last week, and the topic was what to do about the expanded 520 bridge as it comes crashing through the Arboretum. There's a design...
Each fall there is a compelling ritual at Seattle City Hall, known as the City Council budget hearing. About 100 folks line up on each of two nights, carefully signing in hours before, to have their...
Neil Peterson, the man who built the downtown Metro bus tunnel, recounts how he got the disruptive idea for urban car-sharing and built a little company, which is now part of a nationwide firm.
