Posted Tue, Jun 9, 8:15 a.m.

Exactly! I'm with you, Knute. I'm going cold turkey, too. There will be times--esp. in winter--that I'll miss the tube...curling up on the couch, watching local news and a handful of favorite mindless sitcoms, but then again...maybe now I'll get to that stack of books (including Pugetopolis) that I've started ...

Posted Tue, Jan 27, 9:08 a.m.

Excellent idea! My first thought upon reading the anguishing P-I news was to fire off a missive suggesting they dump the for-profit status and convert to a non-profit, 501(c)3. I was unaware of the L3C option. Instead, I sat silent, thinking the idea so radical, so "out there" as to ...

Posted Thu, Jan 22, 12:32 p.m.

Remember the line in Tom Robbins's immortal book, "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues," "I believe in everything, nothing is sacred! I believe in nothing, everything is sacred!" That line speaks for me. Obama speaks for the people. It's a new day, a new world. The long dark has ended!

Posted Mon, Jan 19, 8:46 a.m.

Jean wrote a beautiful memorial article on Darrell Bob Houston, too. I hope to read more of her writings, and others, too, about that remarkable time at the P-I. There was a magical window of time there in the late 60s and early 70s when a group of rare and ...

Posted Mon, Dec 29, 9:03 a.m.

Pack the venal Nickels up along with his puppeteer developer cronies and send him back to Chicago. And while we're loading the boxcar, let us not forget Tom Carr--send him home to New York. Nickels treats our city like his personal property to demolish at whim in order to fulfill ...

Posted Thu, Nov 20, 9:24 a.m.

I believe that religion has very little to do with deep belief (I mean, really, people...) and more to do with business. Big business. The good ol' boys club taken to the nth degree in all its various forms. I agree totally with drumcat. Morality and spirituality have nothing to ...

Posted Thu, Nov 20, 9:24 a.m.

I believe that religion has very little to do with deep belief (I mean, really, people...) and more to do with business. Big business. The good ol' boys club taken to the nth degree in all its various forms. I agree totally with drumcat. Morality and spirituality have nothing to ...

Posted Tue, Nov 18, 9:03 a.m.

I love Crosscut and each and every one of the writers and editors. This is one of the precious few Seattle news outlets that is truely by and for SEATTLE people, as well as those brought here by the condo infestation. We need a news source that understands the importance ...

Posted Thu, Nov 13, 10 a.m.

This article is alarming on several levels. Not only are we counting the minutes before Nickels is out of here--the sooner and farther away, the better--but the thought of even the most remote possibility that our president elect would appoint him to any position above street sweeper is apalling. Equally ...

Posted Thu, Aug 14, 4:41 p.m.

Progress and Preservation: In Nickels' self-proclaimed attempt to make our city a "world-class city," whether we like it or not, he has made great inroads in replacing distinctive historical and cultural communities with homogonized condo canyons and townhouse towers that only wealthy imports can afford. Apparently working class Seattle people ...

Posted Wed, Aug 13, 9:44 a.m.

Thanks Again, Knute: Nice article, Knute. I hope someone prints it out for Gant to tape to his kiosk. Too bad it can't be permanently engraved in the side to educate people of the newsstand's past. I am a Seattle native, watching with anger and deep concern as our historical ...

Posted Mon, Aug 4, 10:03 a.m.

Thanks Knute: Thanks for speaking up for us. There are very few Seattle people who have not been pushed out, and apparently we have no voice. Nickles panders only to the moneyed interests and developers, hoping to score points by his egotistical obsession of turning Seattle into a "world class ...

Posted Mon, Jul 7, 8:56 a.m.

Lost Connections: Great article, Knute...very nice analysis. I fear that only after our architectural history has been erased and our communities razed will they realize what has been lost. Our Seattle history runs deep and its buildings provide an intergenerational thread, a connection--roots to anchor and provide commonality to the ...

Posted Thu, Jul 3, 8:59 a.m.

Hang in there, Yahoo!: I hope Yahoo doesn't cave. It's good to have one tiny corner of life that microsoft doen't have its greedy fingers in...encouraging to see someone standing up to their strong-arm tactics.

Posted Mon, Jun 30, 10:34 a.m.

Right on, Mary McGhee!: This is a late post..perhaps too late to be read. Still, I believe it's worth saying. (Also, I have plenty of time now that I've been laid off at 56; prospects of finding employment in this youth-centric culture are grim. I'll be staking out my shopping ...

Posted Mon, Feb 25, 3:30 p.m.

Ballard: For any readers who may not have been to Ballard lately, but who would like to see the destruction and tenamentization of a vital, living comunity with plenty of heart, soul and love, you can see it first hand. Drive through Ballard. Blocks of beautiful, well-kept homes and gardens ...

Posted Thu, Feb 21, 8:39 a.m.

Hooray!!!: Score one for the People! Let's hope the trend continues--and at an accelerated rate. By the time Mr. Nickels is gone, this googie may be the only parcel of true Seattle remaining in the canyons of tacky insta-condos, and true, it may not be much in and of itself ...

Posted Fri, Feb 15, 8:53 a.m.

RE: Grim: Right on, Hack. And David, I'm suprised to read this sort of thing from you. Let's leave that the Obama bashing/hope crushing to likes of Rush, ok? You are SO far above that, remember who you are. Mary

Posted Thu, Feb 14, 9:11 a.m.

Stop the Madness: Let's bring back the days when people could tar and feather a sell-out, huckster mayor and traveling snakeoil developers and ride every one of them out of town on a rail. We're tired of our city being raped, razed and regurgitated as just one more homogenized, condo-canyoned ...

Posted Tue, Feb 12, 12:33 p.m.

LaRouche?: Isn't he the guy that writes the Dr. Bronner's Peppermint Soap labels? ;~)

Posted Mon, Jan 14, 11:23 a.m.

Uh...courtesy? Respect? Tolerance?: Yikes. Please. Believe in anything you want to--the big blueberry muffin in the sky, if that's what gives you comfort. But when your beliefs cross into laws, wars and judgments that affect all beings on the planet...well, yes, I do have a problem with that.

Posted Mon, Jan 14, 10:14 a.m.

God, protect me from your followers!: If I professed not only a belief, but knowledge of a big purple man who was invisible, yet everywhere, who could punish or reward me and who could always see everything, I would be locked in a loony bin. People of the dark ages ...

Posted Mon, Dec 31, 9 a.m.

You Give Us Hope: Thanks for a great article Knute. It's good to know that when it's so easy to lose hope and to feel more marginalized every day, you're there speaking up for us, the working class Seattlite. It seems obvious to everyone but the few at the top ...

Posted Fri, Nov 30, 11:12 a.m.

Take Ted, but Leave DB: Wait, Ivan...we'll keep David. He gave us the original Weekly. (Emphasis on "original") It was a good paper (even though he edited DB Houston's articles rather heavily and only paid him 3 cents a word.) Check out the Weekly archives at the downtown library some ...

Posted Fri, Nov 30, 10:13 a.m.

Pilgrimage to Our Lady of the Blue Moon?: Wow. That is one depressing article. I think what Ted needs is to belly up to the bar at the Blue Moon. That worked for me when I returned to Seattle after a decade away. Perspective returns in the Moonlight, and things ...

Posted Mon, Nov 12, 9:01 a.m.

NoMo Robo: I don't see one iota of difference between robo-calls and telemarketing calls. Both are equally unwelcome and unsolicited, both jam up my voicemail and both are an absolute guarantee that the parties making and sending them will NEVER get my vote or money. (Sheeh. What are they thinking?)

Posted Thu, Nov 8, 11:54 a.m.

Coyote Slayer: Yes. (I apologize for the earlier mispost.)

Posted Thu, Nov 8, 11:25 a.m.

Coyote Slayer: Yes.

Posted Thu, Nov 8, 10:31 a.m.

More 17Xs--small but GOOD!: Re: double the number of 17X buses--YES!!! We definately need more express 17s that run later. (And--why are they even called "17" expresses at all, when the route is completely different from the regular 17s?)

Posted Thu, Nov 8, 10:07 a.m.

RE: further suggestions and some comments: Good points, mikerolm. But just to clarify--a distiction must be made between the beloved wild animal coyote or the preditory, blood-sucking human smuggler coyote and COYOTE--Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics--the organization formed in the mid 70s (and continues to this day) to advocate ...

Posted Thu, Nov 8, 8:59 a.m.

RE: There is more than one kind of slut...: Brilliant, Knute!

Posted Thu, Nov 8, 8:34 a.m.

COYOTE Car: COYOTE Car has a nice ring to it. It would honor not just one slut, but the entire membership of the Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics prostitutes' organization. It could have the additional PR benefit of perhaps being applied in a broader context to the new "nanny ...

Posted Wed, Nov 7, 10:56 a.m.

Antiestablishmentarianism Forever!: This is the best headline I've seen in about four decades--definately a tiny light in the darkness. Shine on, MaryW

Posted Tue, Nov 6, 9:35 a.m.

Support the Writers!: I support the writers in their efforts for fair pay for their electronically published work. Sure they should have thought of that much earlier, but fair labor practices taking into consideration new technologies need to be established for not only this generation of writers, but for the ...

Posted Fri, Oct 19, 11:04 a.m.

Age Discrimination in Hiring Plays an "Invisible" Part in Homelessness: There is a huge elephant in the room that very few seem to address when discussing homelessness, of both men and women, but especially women. That is the issue of age discrimination in hiring and promotions. More and more baby ...

Posted Mon, Oct 15, 11:08 a.m.

Be careful what you wish for...: Take it from your neighbors up north. When wages rise, so do living costs--especially housing. You can never get ahead, really. They gentrify, using higher wage jobs as bait, then raise the cost of living so high that the people who live there can ...

Posted Mon, Oct 15, 11:04 a.m.

Seriously..: Tacoma? And re politically correct King County-- tsk-tsk. Careful, honey--your stereotypes are showing.

Posted Fri, Oct 12, 9:40 a.m.

The Great White: Wow. What a befitting poetic tribute to the ellusive lilly-scented, spitting, great white worm. I hope you'll keep us posted, Knute. Ah, visions of Dune...

Posted Tue, Oct 9, 10:05 a.m.

I think it's the hair...: There is an uncanny resemblance--coincidence or synchroniticy? I've noticed the same trend, and only hope we have anything left of our fair city by the time Nickles is out of here. BTW, I don't know if he's responsible, but I visited the primal-forest trails above ...

Posted Wed, Oct 3, 9:26 a.m.

Nice article, Knute...: I was struck by the diversity, dignity and grace of the occasion and grateful for the gentle reminders of his diamond sharp humor and wit. He was not only the face of Seattle, but the heart, soul and mind as well. We will miss him. I hope ...

Posted Fri, Sep 28, 4:17 p.m.

Hooray!: For the Last Exit (also gives us time to prepare, yes?). And oh, my; yes, yes...if only we could redline last Friday's news regarding Walter. From now on, any decision regarding our city's history--including the buildings, and especially--most especially--around the U-District--should be guided by the question, What would Walt ...

Posted Fri, Sep 28, 10:56 a.m.

No. Oh, no...not the Last Exit, too.: Are they determined to erase every last vestige of Seattle's heart and soul, wipe out every trace of what our city has stood for and represented? Are they determined to turn our Emerald City into just another McCity--home of the rich and bland? ...

Posted Mon, Sep 24, 4:35 p.m.

RE: The great begats...: "In fact, given Mossback's passion for things historic... it would be interesting to discuss the remaining characters left in town who epitomize...Seattle..." Amen, Piper. I would add to the list, two more--the late, great Darrell Bob Houston (page 96, I believe, of W C's "Rites of ...

Posted Mon, Sep 24, 10:51 a.m.

Seattle without Walt Crowley?: The Moon may as well go out; the Emerald City turn blue; the wolves' howls turn to wimpers and the gulls drop into the sea. I've been thinking a lot about Walt's effect on Seattle over the past two days and realized that just about everything ...

Posted Sat, Sep 22, 12:47 p.m.

Farewell to Our Beloved Walter: Thank you, Knute, for letting us know about Walt's passing. Your article is beautiful and it can't have been easy to write. I never knew Walt personally, but always felt as if he were a brother. I followed him around like a puppy during the ...

Posted Mon, Sep 17, 8:29 a.m.

Thanks for Caring: Good morning, Chuck. I was one of the first to do your survey, and as a mere reader, don't have a lot of tech suggestions, only praise for Crosscut's efforts so far. I think you're doing a great job and want to thank you for keeping your ...

Posted Fri, Sep 14, 8:26 a.m.

Thank You, Steve!: You are a life saver. I've printed out two copies of your handy translation chart--one to carry with my cell phone, the other to tape next to my computer at work for help in deciphering messages from the firm's IT department.

Posted Tue, Sep 11, 10:35 a.m.

RE: tersely cogent pro-density columnist: Is that a contradiction in terms? Ah...we do love our moss here in Seattle. It is as vital as the salty air. Methinks such a bearded, pro-density columnist would do very well over in, say Bellevue; they like that sort of thing over there. Or ...

Posted Tue, Sep 11, 9:20 a.m.

Mon Deau, Piper!: The mere mention of taking a razor to Mossback's furry locks was enough to lure me out of my lurking state to protest loudly and with great alarm--NO!! No razor/scissors/trimmer/buzzsaw must EVER be taken to that pristine oldgrowth. Dinner would be heaven--but there's gotta be another way. ...

Posted Thu, Aug 16, 9:13 a.m.

Perhaps "hanging by a thread" would be more accurate: But still, the premise is the same--not everyone, including many educated working class people, can afford even lowest-end $150,000 (per unit!) condo/tenaments. As for the 72-hour parking ordinance--please--someone tell my neighbor who has kept his covered "vintage" car parked unmoved on ...

Posted Thu, Aug 16, 8:45 a.m.

Re: No Henry: Hey, No Henry-- Careful, honey--your stereotypes are showing. If you've been looking around at all, reading, participating in our community, you know that more "middle class" people are becoming homeless every day. Contrary to the rosy picture portrayed by the mainstream media--"experts agree--everything is fine"-- more and ...

Posted Tue, Aug 14, 9:14 a.m.

Note to Property Owners Who Refuse to Sell Out (No Gov't Official Here...): I'm no gov't official, but will just say this--if you are a landowner who refuses to sell-out to developers who dangle massive amounts of money to destroy not only your home/property, but the very fabric of our ...

Posted Tue, Aug 14, 9 a.m.

Gratitude for homeowners who refuse to sell out!: First of all, do not patronize us by patting us on the head with a tsk-tsk, they're feeling "frightened and disoriented". We are neither frightened OR disoriented-- we know exactly where we are and where we come from and we are ANGRY. ...

Posted Tue, Aug 14, 8:45 a.m.

Right ON, Stuka!: Thanks for getting our morning off to a great start.

Posted Fri, Aug 3, 8:57 a.m.

First they came for the homeless drunks...: The water is slowly beginning to boil, and most of us little frogs are still oblivious to our coming fate. This is how it begins, folks...little by little, in barely perceptible incriments and anyone who speaks out is branded the "fringe element." Here ...

Posted Tue, Jul 17, 9:42 a.m.

Kudos for Jean: Jean Enersen is not only an excellent news anchor, she is a role model and inspiration for many women who have watched her from the beginning. Beyond that, she is one of the true Seattle treasures who has chosen to actually stay in Seattle--a golden thread of ...

Posted Wed, Jul 11, 9 a.m.

No More Ballard "Developers". Period.: Ballard has been virtually razed already. We want NO more "development" there. At all. Period. Homes, gardens, and our vibrant community have been very nearly wiped out on the western end of Market and precariously close to Old Ballard--replaced by fiberboard and corregated-siding monstrosities ($500,000 ...

Posted Thu, May 24, 8:58 a.m.

Literary Legends: It's been over a month now since Kurt's passing through the door, and I'm still feeling a profound loss. Have you checked his "official" website? Just minutes after I read the breaking news of his death, I check his site. Already there was his closing gift to us: ...

Posted Mon, May 21, 1:11 p.m.

Still...something of value will be lost: The act of reading is more than a mere eye-brain exercise. Oh, sure, the information itself will mainlined for that instant information fix, but more will be lost. What the corporate techies are missing in their e-paper plans are the subtle, yet vital, pleasures ...

Posted Thu, May 10, 8:11 a.m.

RE: _Tenaments: Advocating tenaments? No need. They are spreading like fungal mold. Have you seen Ballard lately? It is new tenament central. Don't fit your idea of what a tenement should look like? Give these $500,000 (per unit) tenements ten years and they'll fit your stereotype. Not low income perhaps, ...

Posted Wed, Apr 18, 10:06 a.m.

RE: the natives are whining - again: You say "we do not know that green-backed policies are making the city more unaffordable"--you should know...anyone trying to find affordable housing here does.

Posted Wed, Apr 18, 9:35 a.m.

RE: investment?: Take a drive just west of QFC...if you like 24th, you'll LOVE 26th and 57th! Sorry to tell you, but you're wrong--I live in condo-tenement central (Ballard division) and watch the for sale signs go up and come down on the same places every few months...and we won't ...

Posted Wed, Apr 18, 8:39 a.m.

Condo Plague: Oh, please. The plague of condos and townhouses are turning our beautiful, community based city into not only a canyon of future ($500,000--per tacky unit?!?) tenements, it's transient nature is destroying the cohesiveness of our Seattle neighborhoods. Talk to any real estate agent or banker--their condo selling point ...