Environment
How Seattle helps with world's water challenges
We may have plenty of clean water for our own needs, but if anything that has only spurred more interest in helping the rest of the world.
Collin Tong
Collin Tong is a correspondent for Crosscut and University Outlook magazine. He served as guest lecturer at the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University. His new boo
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Culture
In Occupy movement, religion and politics mix
Washington's ecumenical community has wrestled with its role in the Occupy movement. Is there a place for religion in the leaderless masses?
Politics
Redistricting away Seattle's minority representation
Activists cheered the prospect of Washington's first majority-minority congressional district. Then they noticed what redistricting would do to South Seattle's legislative delegation.
Culture
Seattle summer jobs of yore: Berry hard work
Seattle's current Japanese-American civic leaders remember their roots as teenage farm workers, living in a city bordered by berries, not burbs. If only today's jobless teenagers were so lucky.
Politics
Cutting class: Community colleges see effects of state budget cuts
Cuts to Seattle-area community colleges in the face of a contracted state budget may deal a major blow to the state's still-suffering economy.