Environment
Timber! 'Silent Giant' tree likely to come down
The “Silent Giant” might be silenced once and for all. On Jan. 25, a Seattle hearing examiner ruled against the
Tess Riski
Tess Riski is an editorial intern at Crosscut and a junior journalism major at Seattle University, where she serves as the news editor at her school newspaper, the Spectator. Born and raised in south
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Environment
Octopus sex act is cancelled, again
The Seattle Aquarium’s octopuses aren’t getting lucky this Valentine’s Day. For the second year in a row,
Politics
We speak for the tree: A neighborhood conservation story
Amid all the changes in Seattle, one group of West Seattleites is determined to save a small green patch that