Posted Tue, Jan 24, 11:39 a.m.

@rjudd--forgive my urban perspective, but I've only lost electrical power once or twice since 1995 in my Seattle neighborhood, and only for minutes at a time. @TaylorB1--I'm no sophisticate, and I still love book stores and do get the print Sunday NYT (which, on occasion, sits swaddled in its blue ...

Posted Sun, Jan 22, 10:13 a.m.

@Lincoln--good point re telecommuting (for those who can). It's so much easier than it was even five years ago thanks to wifi and remote server access. I also think social media has changed how we react to extreme weather and who we blame for it--the 2008 snowstorm that many cite ...

Posted Thu, Dec 22, 2:04 p.m.

@swiftylazar--Mr. Berger, myself and others have strong feelings about including Bobo at the new MOHAI. You have strong feelings about not including Bobo. Can you name one other artifact currently on display at MOHAI that has generated any Crosscut stories or any online dialog like this? I worked there for ...

Posted Wed, Dec 21, 11:53 p.m.

@swiftylazar--Feliks Banel here, author of the piece about Bobo from earlier this year that Knute Berger referenced in paragraph seven above (a piece called, by the way, "Beating a Dead Gorilla"). Anyhow, those live gorillas at Woodland Park are there (and Woodland Park is a leader in study of captive ...

Posted Fri, Sep 16, 12:32 p.m.

@Benjamin Lukoff--or maybe it was before that, when KING Broadcasting was sold by the Bullitt family to the Providence Journal Co. in 1991?

Posted Fri, Sep 16, 11:05 a.m.

@orino--do you peg "over" to any particular event or specific change in circumstances nearly 20 years ago?

Posted Fri, Sep 16, 10:57 a.m.

@NormGregory--I couldn't agree more! Sheriff Tex (and Wunda Wunda, Stan Boreson, Brakeman Bill, Captain Puget) deserve their own columns, as does JP's sidekick Gertrude. But, I wanted to focus on Chris Wedes and what he has come to embody more than anyone else in his incredible 53 non-stop years as ...

Posted Sun, Sep 11, 11:18 a.m.

@Richard Borkowski--I don't think there are any "official government statements" or "propaganda" in Mr. Gorton's quotes about his experience on a commission that was officially disbanded seven years ago. They're his words about his experience--like a short-form version of oral history. I've worked in various capacities in local history for ...

Posted Fri, Sep 9, 9:52 p.m.

@Richard Borkowski--here are responses to some of your points: 1. My use of "conspiracy" and "conspiracy theory" is not intended to be a slur, it's a common, idiomatic phrase that, I acknowledge, carries some not entirely flattering baggage (depending on your perspective). I used it as shorthand, and I'd venture ...

Posted Fri, Sep 9, 7:26 p.m.

Great C-21 history in this piece, Knute, along with the sad connection between Seattle and the WTC and 9/11. It reminds me of another sad connection between the Northwest and 9/11: the fact that the hijackers chose to carry out the attack intentionally using Boeing jetliners. As the 9/11 Commission ...

Posted Fri, Sep 9, 7:13 p.m.

@GaryP and @Richard Borkowski--Feliks Banel here, author of this piece. In my interview with Slade Gorton for this piece (conducted earlier this week), I brought up the conspiracy theory angle and the lingering doubts many still have regarding the findings of the 9/11 Commission and, of course, the Warren Commission ...

Posted Mon, May 23, 1:19 p.m.

@Blaeloch & @dbreneman: I guess attempts at "humor" are always risky! I wasn't trying to be informative at all; since the parties in this affair are publicly posting their correspondence with each other, you don't need me to add anything to the debate (other than the links that I included, ...

Posted Sat, May 14, 9:33 a.m.

@fonebone--thanks for reading, thanks for your comment and mea culpa! In my weak defense, I did actually HEAR that the Thunder had beat Dallas (I should've checked, even though this is a fluff piece). I'll further admit that I haven't spent much time in either place or paid ANY attention ...