David Brewster founded Crosscut. He is now the director of Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum.
All the factors that made such a strong case for rail in 1968 are much weaker now. Jim Ellis, the architect of the dream, recalls how the crusade began and why Seattle seemed the perfect city for an extensive rail system.
Here's a new kind of misery index: the rate of foreclosures across the nation. The rate is figured as the number of foreclosed homes as a percentage of total homes in a county. Media attention has been on the worst states, such as California, Florida, and Colorado. The Northwest is clustered around
Regionalists are trying to put Humpty Dumpty back together again, after the defeat of Proposition 1, which was a blow to the effort to think regionally, act boldly. One key figure is Pierce County Executive John Ladenburg, who heads the Sound Transit board and other regional committees. In an interv
One of the curious aspects of the story about Amazon's move to a multi-block campus at South Lake Union is why the story, reported here on Oct. 1 and in the Daily Journal of Commerce just before, took so long to become public. One obvious reason is that three of the most secretive institutions in to
Vivian Phillips, an experienced and respected arts manager and former director of communications for Mayor Paul Schell, is stepping into the top spot at the troubled Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center [http://www.cityofseattle.net/parks/centers/langston.htm], effective next Thursday. Phillips's
