Posted Wed, Apr 18, 10:03 a.m.

Capitol Hill Seattle's blog posts weren't inflammatory, they were informative and relatively free of authorial cant. Sure, Justin quoted people who were upset, but he gathered a great deal of factual material no other media outlet bothered to, and kept a sense of humor about it all (calling Maintain Capitol ...

Posted Tue, Apr 3, 9:48 a.m.

Terrific story, Judy.

Posted Thu, Nov 17, 11:50 a.m.

What a wonderful article! Thank you very much.

Posted Sun, Nov 13, 3:10 p.m.

Your premise seems to be that moviegoers' ignorance makes it unethical for Eastwood to have made anything but some sort of documentary. That's silly. Thankfully, Eastwood aims to satisfy moviegoers who hunger for films that don't pander to them or demean their intelligence. I've just seen this one and it's ...

Posted Fri, Sep 9, 12:07 p.m.

bkochis, while I'd agree there's fodder for at least a couple of stories on this, I think Scigliano fairly represented the seriousness of the crimes being committed while resisting the urge to make that his focus. He had a different angle to present, and he did. And it's worth pointing ...

Posted Thu, Sep 8, 8:55 a.m.

bkochis, if you truly find "turning the exploitation and degradation of girls into a Seattle-media-political issue" disgusting you should consider complaining to the politicos doing it, not the reporters doing their job describing it for readers. You're trying to shoot the messenger here.

Posted Wed, Sep 7, 11:05 a.m.

Finally, a well-rounded piece of reporting on this. Thank you!

Posted Wed, Aug 17, 11:27 a.m.

"If the tunnel is rejected, the supporters should back off." What?

Posted Wed, Aug 3, 10:22 p.m.

David Sucher, you're welcome to doubt my character all you like. But don't paint me as some disbeliever in retrofitting overall. Retrofitting is a great thing where it's appropriate, as on the Spokane Street retrofit over the last thirteen years. That's why I was sorry to read at WSDOT's online ...

Posted Wed, Aug 3, 6:45 p.m.

David Sucher, whatever a minority of people may have thought about the retrofit, a plurality of engineers concluded, and the legislature agreed, that it presented nowhere near enough certainty of long-term structural integrity per dollar per year of work. I can't help but notice that retrofit enthusiasts talk a lot ...

Posted Tue, Aug 2, 8:16 a.m.

Terrific work, Mr. Brewster. So much great analysis here, and you're the first to have described for the public, in sufficient detail and without cant, the flows and eddies of the decisionmaking process. Really good reporting. If I were a member of the Pulitzer family I would award myself to ...

Posted Tue, Aug 2, 8:05 a.m.

Your coverage of this has been head and shoulders above the rest, Mr. Simmons. Thanks so much.

Posted Mon, Aug 1, 10:01 p.m.

"It’s easier for Vancouver to remove a foot than for Seattle to amputate a leg", eh? Google led me to some further reading beyond what Mr. Ladner was able to include here. Vancouver intends to take twenty years to carry out their amputation. Have we that much time? Have we ...

Posted Mon, Jul 18, 2:56 p.m.

ddmiller, one of the group's other members, sometime Crosscut contributor Roger Valdez, noted the group's members in addition to Mr. Wolfe some time ago over on his land use code blog: Tory Taylor, Housing Resources Group Matt Anderson, real estate consulting, Heartland LLC Eric de Place, Sightline Institute Jeff Thompson, ...

Posted Wed, Jun 15, 8:26 a.m.

While I'm sorry you haven't found a new job yet, I'm happy you've made use of all the extra free time to submit more of these amusing pieces - it livens up Crosscut to see someone claim the progressive mantle while copying admiringly from the playbook of Reagan/Bush phrasemaker Peggy ...

Posted Sat, Jun 11, 12:16 p.m.

I'm not sure your phrase "McGinn’s determined obfuscation" means quite what you were hoping. P.S. To write about the mayor's polling you drag in the Magna Carta? Really?

Posted Thu, Apr 14, 1:06 a.m.

Mr. Sucher, are you honestly suggesting that unless "kieth" presents his government-id name and credentials to you, he mustn't dare interpret the plain meaning of the Lin study's concluding paragraph, which he took the trouble to look at and quote verbatim? Honestly, starting to demand to see blog commenters' credentials ...

Posted Sat, Apr 9, 10:49 a.m.

(sorry, kieth, I hadn't noticed you'd already linked in an earlier comment to the ASCE report. Still, I think you'll enjoy reading the Lin report in its own right to see what ASCE meant. As for precisely which two other studies jmrolls was talking about, I'm guessing they were somewhere ...

Posted Sat, Apr 9, 10:28 a.m.

kieth, WSDOT has all seventeen retrofit studies online at http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Projects/Viaduct/libraryalternatives.htm. Be sure to read the American Society of Civil Engineers Review of the Lin report - I think that's what jmrolls is calling "spin".

Posted Tue, Mar 29, 10:44 p.m.

I'm with ivan - run yourself! If you're mad at some electeds for being popular, maybe you should see if you can outshine them as easily in the field as you think you do in the op-ed pages. Sightline let you go, so you've got some time on your hands ...