Great news smorgasbord: What I like best about Crosscut is that it provides me the lead paragraph for each article, and then I can decide if I want to know the rest of the story. Very often I don't. But it's available if I'm interested. This is the way I read a print newspaper. From that standpoint, Crosscut is very economical both for space and time.

Gimme, gimme...: Here's what I want from Crosscut: A letters to the editor page, not just blogs. Since the demise of the King County Journal, and because The Times and P-I are notoriously stingy with their space save to a select long-winded few, there aren't many places where one can go to see ON ONE PAGE the vituperation of the left and the reasonableness of the right.

Blog postings are nice, but you have to scamper all over the place to catch all of them. But a single link to Crosscut Filings (ask someone who's worked in a sawmill) where the opinion-starved reader could go and find enough informed or uninformed hair-pulling madness would serve to put all the letter writing lunatics on the same asylum-similar page.

Just a thought...But given what you charge for this new rag, that thought ought to be worth something! I mean, I can't even line the bottom of a bird cage or wrap a fish in this thing, let alone housebreak a mutt. What's a fellow to do?

The Piper

Keep up the good work: As you say in your column, new ventures get lots of fine-tuning. It's refreshing to have a news format in which you are able to have dialogue between the readers and the writers. Wow.
I was remiss in passing on a link to Crosscut to a journalist here in Hawaii, Ian Lind, but pleased to see that someone else here had forwarded it to him.
I'm a fan. Good to read Crosscut regularly.

RE: Keep up the good work: I'd like to see the focus of the "News of the Great Nearby" to expand a bit to include the greater Pacific Northwest(Cascadia). I would like to use this map as an example of the area to focus on.
http://www.sightline.org/maps/maps/cascadia_cs05m

I don't think people from each side of the Canadian/USA borders knows about each other and how we live. Hopefully this site can lead to changing that.

Work in progress: My niche made the advent of Crosscut of particular interest. I live and work in China but Seattle is home. The Seattle Times and PI websites have been daily stops on my daily Internet tour of the world; this makes the two papers my standards. Therein lies your challenge for me. Can you top this? Others likely bring different needs and sensitibilites; yet further challenges. My sympathies and best wishes as you navigate this rapids of varying needs.
My mind's eye sees a home page much like an email list of headlines, brief paragraph details, and many links. I think of the Romenesko page from the Poynter Institute that is a daily must for many journalists and does a model job of culling the media news of the day. But then you surely have enough cooks in the kitchen by now.

Why is the waterfront debate an either/or proposition? The "tourists'" waterfront is currently bordered by working waterfront on either side. Does that need to change. SAM's sculpture park rises above working piers and the trolley garage. Imaginative use of space is a far better solution than the usual adversarial argument that polarizes
pherford

Mr. Hinshaw raises ever more useful questions and suggestions for the waterfront park. The caveats he suggests inherent in the differences between the Seattle waterfront and the waterfronts in other cities are valid cautions. Every city has unique topographical, and climate challenges.
But Mr. Hinshaw characterizes Seattleites in a way that is questionable. The "we" he refers to are not false. They ignore the growing diversity of the population. The Asian communities suggest pocket park opportunities (with support from Japanese, Koreans, and Chinese. Hispanic family gathering places. Natives. Instead of one-size-fits all, recognize and accept our tribal behaviors and celebrate the diversity.
The most diverse group are the tourists. Hundreds of apartments are being added to the downtown inventory. Amazon is adding to the downtown workforce. More people of all stripes for the park/s. Trying to capture everyone's interests in a waterfront park is futile. The question of what the park or parks will include is an economic question. How much money is available for phase one? Then use common sense. Begin with basics. Access, strolling, sitting, reclining on grass. An imaginative challenge to climate: convertible space that can be covered against what falls from the sky and open to the sun when it shines. This is where the architects and engineers can show their innovative and inventive skills. Leave the sociology to others lest debatable theories risk driving decisions astray.

Mr. Hinshaw raises ever more useful questions and suggestions for the waterfront park. The caveats he suggests inherent in the differences between the Seattle waterfront and the waterfronts in other cities are valid cautions. Every city has unique topographical, and climate challenges.
But Mr. Hinshaw characterizes Seattleites in a way that is questionable. The "we" he refers to are not false. They ignore the growing diversity of the population. The Asian communities suggest pocket park opportunities (with support from Japanese, Koreans, and Chinese. Hispanic family gathering places. Natives. Instead of one-size-fits all, recognize and accept our tribal behaviors and celebrate the diversity.
The most diverse group are the tourists. Hundreds of apartments are being added to the downtown inventory. Amazon is adding to the downtown workforce. More people of all stripes for the park/s. Trying to capture everyone's interests in a waterfront park is futile. The question of what the park or parks will include is an economic question. How much money is available for phase one? Then use common sense. Begin with basics. Access, strolling, sitting, reclining on grass. An imaginative challenge to climate: convertible space that can be covered against what falls from the sky and open to the sun when it shines. This is where the architects and engineers can show their innovative and inventive skills. Leave the sociology to others lest debatable theories risk driving decisions astray.

Mr. Hinshaw raises ever more useful questions and suggestions for the waterfront park. The caveats he suggests inherent in the differences between the Seattle waterfront and the waterfronts in other cities are valid cautions. Every city has unique topographical, and climate challenges.
But Mr. Hinshaw characterizes Seattleites in a way that is questionable. The "we" he refers to are not false. They ignore the growing diversity of the population. The Asian communities suggest pocket park opportunities (with support from Japanese, Koreans, and Chinese. Hispanic family gathering places. Natives. Instead of one-size-fits all, recognize and accept our tribal behaviors and celebrate the diversity.
The most diverse group are the tourists. Hundreds of apartments are being added to the downtown inventory. Amazon is adding to the downtown workforce. More people of all stripes for the park/s. Trying to capture everyone's interests in a waterfront park is futile. The question of what the park or parks will include is an economic question. How much money is available for phase one? Then use common sense. Begin with basics. Access, strolling, sitting, reclining on grass. An imaginative challenge to climate: convertible space that can be covered against what falls from the sky and open to the sun when it shines. This is where the architects and engineers can show their innovative and inventive skills. Leave the sociology to others lest debatable theories risk driving decisions astray.

LE GRAND BISTRO
A revue without mentioning price? Also a review by a person invited by the owner of the restaurant? Incredible.