Posted Mon, Feb 7, 9:41 a.m.

How best to serve bilingual students As a recently-retired bilingual educator in King County for the past twenty-five years, I was perplexed to read Bob Hughes article on the best way to serve secondary level newly-arrived bilingual students was by constructing a new school building. Readers could understandably be confused ...

Posted Thu, Aug 5, 9:46 a.m.

Thanks for the provocataive piece on comparing WA to TX. Crosscut is always good for food for thought. BUT, "tax structure is high on sales tax and has no income tax (just like Washington), which means less volatility." WOW! Isn't that exactly why we've had two $3 billion budget revenue ...

Posted Wed, Jan 13, 3:57 p.m.

So Ted Van Dyk has just suggested the solution to our state budget crisis. The legislature gets brave and closes all the tax loopholes for large state “companies and sectors” adding up to “three times the size of the state's biennial budget”, and lowers proportionately the state sales tax only ...

Posted Thu, May 14, 9:39 a.m.

David Brewster concludes “Should Seattle politics devolve?” with three good reasons why ward politics in the classic sense aren’t a satisfactory solution to Seattle’s current condition, then he says why not “go with the flow of energy” and support ward politics, anyway. As a Seattle native who lived in Boston ...

Posted Wed, Aug 29, 12:11 p.m.

Public Campaign for a new Lake Trail: Lorraine McConaghy's journal recording the views possible and the sites already lost may be just what we need to create a new public campaign for a Lake Washington Trail to accomodate bikes as well as hikers. The quality of signage in public spaces ...