David Brewster founded Crosscut. He is now the director of Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum.
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
Home-grown sports teams, airplane builders, and banks are reeling from competition and free trade, and the local mood is to beat up on the outsiders. Tempting, but is it smart?
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
Threatened with extinction, the School Board got its act together. Meanwhile, a coalition of moderate reformers could dramatically improve it.
Bill Ruckelshaus, well known in these parts for his leadership in efforts to save salmon and Puget Sound, is having his 15 minutes of national fame. The lifelong Republican has endorsed Barack Obama, with the timing meant to be helpful to Obama's primary efforts in Indiana, where Ruckelshaus is a st
