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Endgame blame-game for the Sonics
As the team heads for the exits, it looks like everybody lost. In fact, Howard Schultz, the Oklahoma City gang, and Mayor Nickels may have all got exactly what they wanted (but dared not declare).
David Brewster
David Brewster founded Crosscut. He is now the director of Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum.
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The tricky art of planning for succession at arts organizations
Speight Jenkins sets 2013 for his retirement date and vows to help with a textbook transition at the Seattle Opera. At the symphony, indecision about whether it's time for a new conductor seems to have been resolved in favor of keeping the long-running Gerard Schwarz act.