David Brewster founded Crosscut. He is now the director of Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum.
Neil Peterson, the man who built the downtown Metro bus tunnel, recounts how he got the disruptive idea for urban car-sharing and built a little company, which is now part of a nationwide firm.
A cool new website called WalkScore gives you an instant score for the walkability in your neighborhood. Walkability, in turn, has become a far more huggable notion than density to make the case for healthier, more compact communities.
Crosscut has learned of three striking proposals that would immediately draw more world attention to Seattle, enriching its brand.
Beyond the pettiness of the campaign just ending lies the potential emergence of a whole new mood in Seattle-area politics. It would start with a muting of the cultural wars that have bedeviled Seattle politics ever since 9/11. Call it the revenge of the center.
