Politics
Romney and the world's fair, together again
Fifty years ago, when the Century 21 Exposition opened, a political career was also born that would echo to this day.
Eric Scigliano
Eric Scigliano's reporting on social and environmental issues for The Weekly (later Seattle Weekly) won Livingston, Kennedy, American Association for the Advancement of Scie
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Culture
Poison ivy, unholy holly, and lax weed laws
Washington backs off from declaring invasive holly a weed and banning forest-smothering ivy, but Oregon takes a tougher approach.
Crosscut Tout: Dan Gualdoni's luminous, deceptive 'Northwest' shorescapes
A consummate painter captures the dance of water, cloud, and light along the Northwest Coast as no one has before. Except he's painting from his imagination, 2,000 miles away.
Warning: this vehicle could kill
Warning labels on cars seems like a wacky idea - until you think about the invisible but ever-present driving hazard that we all put out of our minds.
Politics
So you want to run a school district? Don't let us scare you away.
Maybe it's only wise for the school board to nix a public meeting with superintendent finalists; its headhunters urged even more secrecy. But another peril lurks within....