
Judy Lightfoot
Judy Lightfoot writes about how the region's people confront a variety of challenges. She often draws on her weekly one-on-one coffees with individuals sharing our public spaces who are socially isola
Latest work

Crosscut Tout: 'Food: Eating Your Environment'
A series of eight lectures starts this Tuesday (Oct. 5) at the UW and lasts through November.

Words shaken and stirred: Poets at the bar and on the page
Seattle mixmaster-author A.J. Rathbun has blended a book of poets who wrote about bars and boozing. He and some fellow poets will get together for a reading on Sunday in Seattle's Wallingford area.

Equity
Will the mayor give Nickelsville's homeless a permanent site?
McGinn's specially convened citizen review panel will soon offer its recommendations.

Washington gets some Race to the Top money after all, sort of
The federal government will give $160 million to a group of 31 states, including this one, to develop a new student-assessment system based on core standards.