David Brewster founded Crosscut. He is now the director of Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum.
It's an unlikely story – how she turned an institution inside out, giving it the tools to become a major art museum. Two new shows exhibit the core values of the transformed SAM.
The roads-and-transit measure, expensive and flawed, is politically reasonable and pulls together the region. Defeat it and you have the same folks who cooked up this one producing Proposition 2. It's hard to see how a wiser expenditure of money is going to be formulated and approved.
The SoDo Arena, adding still more entertainment competition to the region, is the latest example of our harmful penchant for merrily adding too many things.
