Posted Wed, Jul 20, 9:46 a.m.

Shades of 1976. The same arguments about slowing growth on the eastside of Lake Washington by limiting transit options on the bridges, are being raised again. A vision of a people-focused waterfront is a front for mis-placed and luddite environmenalism that conveniently forgets the transportation options of north and west ...

Posted Tue, Apr 5, 12:55 p.m.

So you ambled through the Seattle Amtrak station and somehow missed the filthy restrooms (grunge would be too polite), or the beggar with the falling-down and feces-ridden pants who daily harasses passengers, while the employees stand around and ignore him? You should visit more often. Seattle's Amtrak station is a ...

Posted Wed, Sep 29, 2:10 p.m.

Well said, Joe. Let's get started.

Posted Wed, Jun 9, 9:26 a.m.

Its a terrible shame, as the Board members were not paid, and over time they made thoughtful and informed decisions that corected some egregious errors. When federal agencies were attempting to name new Mt. St. Helens features after the volcanic eruption of 1980, the Board stepped in, took public comment ...

Posted Fri, Apr 16, 1:47 p.m.

Dear John, It's your age that's the problem (mine too) and we can't get any younger. I broached this with a clerk in a hotel in California recently and he actually got irritated at me and said he could say anything he wanted. I won't divulge what I said to ...

Posted Wed, Apr 7, 2:31 p.m.

A councilmember with clear reasoning that leads to logical conclusions and proposals for actions whose results can be measurable. Could this be true? Are there others? Perhaps so, given the support so far. (And despite Licata's no vote, he fits the category as well.) I'm impressed.

Posted Tue, Mar 16, 11:15 a.m.

It's a fantastical idea, Skip. I have a few suggestions to begin.In keeping with the fantasy, lets go to the cartoons for Gasoline Alley at Pier 94, Nightmare Alley in Pioneer Square and Alley Oop, under the viaduct. Next of course is Ally McBeal, behind McRory's, followed by, of course, ...

Posted Wed, Feb 3, 11:06 a.m.

Knute, You must have missed the continuous pan-handling at the MAX stations, the take-over of Pioneer Courthouse Square by young and aggressive (homeless?) people, the blocks of death wagon food purveyors in the parking lots. Of course, many Portlanders apparently believe the food wagons are a mark of Northwest urbanity, ...

Posted Thu, Jan 7, 10:37 a.m.

Let's see now - pesticides, fertilizers and pet waste - where to start? A tax on pesticides and fertilizers could be a no-brainer for the legislature, at least until farmers and lawn-rich homeowners object. Plus, a tax on petroleum products taxes them anyway. So how does one go about taxing ...

Posted Mon, Aug 3, 1:14 p.m.

But what were the alcohol levels on these wines? As usual, the writers did not commment. We have found that many of these wines (yes, even pinot gris) are 14-14.5%. It's time for wine writers to recognize (since wine makers will not) that these alcohol levels are 20% higher that ...

Posted Fri, Jul 31, 4:25 p.m.

Jack Chasen wrote a fine article. Now Crosscut should follow up with the 2009 UW report "Retention of Forest Lands at Risk of Conversion" - the second dropping shoe to the Futures report that Chasen read. As the report states, it's time for the Washington Legislature to step up , ...

Posted Tue, Jun 2, 12:14 p.m.

AND - Toronto has the Gardiner Expressway and a rail corridor that create a canyon separating the city from the water, much as Seattle does. Keep posted on their solution.

Posted Wed, Jan 7, 2:21 p.m.

Beware certain airports though, or opt for screw-caps. Our simple, blade-free $0.50 corkscrew was confiscated in Paris last October. We were told that "is the rule." Comme il faut. Now the follow-on question - can we sell glasses of our nice carry-on wine to our seat mates? Say $3.50/ glass? ...

Posted Tue, Nov 18, 8:30 a.m.

Relentless/ bloodless? That's OK, for an editor. Dull, stuck in past old Seattle pinings? Not so OK. Crosscut with some lively commentary about Seattle present, rather than Seattle as it could be, if it were only 1966, might survive. I hope Crosscut continues. Barnaby Bigelow

Posted Wed, Aug 20, 11:35 a.m.

Dems da berries: David, I have to disagree with your usual careful analysis of the Lands Commissioner race. While it's true that Goldmark won handily in King, San Juan and Jefferson, only the first of these has significant numbers to swing the election, and he won only 6 of 39 ...

Posted Tue, Aug 5, 2:41 p.m.

Montana native responds: Although I haven't lived in Butte for a long time, a number of my relatives have never left the state, and I see and talk with them frequently. What we all agree on is that the emigrants are people who need jobs and can't make as much ...

Posted Tue, Nov 27, 1:53 p.m.

"No obvious intellectual surprises" -- only seeing Chasen's poor research: Dan Chasen needs an assistant to do his research and some facts checking. What a miserable treatment of the Columbia River system woes and mishaps. The NW deserves better reporting.

Posted Fri, May 25, 1:46 p.m.

Norm Maleng was a republican: Norm was a small capitals republican but also a Republican in the old sense -- a guy who stood for worthwhile things and never forgot his standards. Norm won election in the midst of GOP ineptitude and morality plays because King county could still elect ...

Posted Fri, Apr 27, 1:33 p.m.

Entitling Dangerous Driving in Seattle: Reader comments are on the mark about why bad drivers are bad -- phones, feeling impregnable in the SUV, driving while eating or black-berrying. But the root cause on the streets is entitlement -- to run lights, speed, cut off other drivers, fail to yield, ...