Culture
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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Tech
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.
Politics
The Vancouver gambit for building roads and transit in Seattle
When British Columbia announced its $14 billion plans for new transit [http://www.th.gov.bc.ca/Transit_Plan/index.html] early this week, it upped the stakes for competition among West Coast cities in the transit Olympics. It also injected itself in what will be a hot debate in Washington – the use o
Tech
A region in decline
Once known for resilience, the Northwest now seems baffled as regards an economic strategy for the recession.
Culture
Bellevue ranks at top for places to live and launch a company
Bellevue is the top city in a new ranking of best American cities to live and launch a new business [http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2008/fsb/0803/gallery.best_places_to_launch.fsb/index.html] by CNN Money.com. Seattle doesn't even make the list of the top 100 such places. The survey rates Bellevue h