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Eric Scigliano's reporting on social and environmental issues for The Weekly (later Seattle Weekly) won Livingston, Kennedy, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and other honors. He has also written for Harper's, New Scientist, and many other publications. One of his books, Michelangelo's Mountain, was a finalist for the Washington Book Award. His other books include Puget Sound; Love, War, and Circuses (aka Seeing the Elephant); and, with Curtis E. Ebbesmeyer, Flotsametrics. Scigliano also works as a science writer at Washington Sea Grant, a marine science and environmental program based at the University of Washington. He can be reached at eric.scigliano@crosscut.com.
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Eric Scigliano's comments
Posted Mon, Apr 9, 11:33 a.m.
Re. northender's remark, "your last piece was inaccurate and had to be corrected." Do you mean my last (and only other) report on the search, "A coalition of the willing wants more say on a new superintendent"? That contained a misspelling, which was noted and corrected. One commenter also alleged ...
MOREPosted Fri, Mar 16, 9:44 a.m.
Corrected, thank you.
MOREPosted Wed, Dec 7, 12:18 a.m.
Re. GaryP's thoughts on McGovern and Kerry: McG surely did lose votes by not waving his sword and shield, but the gap sees to have been too big to close. And he set a principled example for future campaigns. If Kerry had had the decency and sense to follow it, ...
MOREPosted Tue, Nov 22, 12:46 p.m.
I always thought the Rainier streetcar's tracks got torn up around the same time as Seattle's other lines. But Ray Akers distinctly remembered riding it as a kid, and I was reassured by this reference in the city-sponsored CLUE study referenced in the story: "The streetcar line was removed in ...
MOREPosted Mon, Nov 14, 1:41 p.m.
A terrific summary of this slow-motion reign of terror, with one omission (which the film apparently shares). While Hoover fixated on reds, pinkos, Panthers, hippies, Yippies, King, Kennedys, and real and perceived threats to his own power, he and his bureau mostly gave the resurgent Mafia a pass, with consequences ...
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