Crosscut articles of the past 10 days with the most clicks.
Crosscut articles of the past 10 days with the most reader comments.
Crosscut blog posts of the past 10 days with the most clicks.
Posted Fri, Jun 26, 6 a.m.
The King County Executive race is highly competitive, but the candidates keep talking about issues where the county has little influence. Here's a plea to address the topics where the county matters, such as law enforcement.
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Posted Tue, Jun 16, 6 a.m.
Shawna Forde, a lost soul in Everett and the world of anti-immigrant terrorism, is now accused of murder. It adds another dark chapter to Everett's history and to the stories of mayhem caused by 'true believers.'
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Posted Fri, Apr 10, 6 a.m.
Other regions are closing prisons, legalizing drugs, and developing alternatives. Why is Mayor Nickels wedded to the status quo?
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Posted Fri, Mar 20, 4 a.m.
Please use black ink and Montblanc fountain pen only
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Posted Fri, Mar 6, 6 a.m.
A bright blue scrotum, vicious chimps, Bobo, and sexually incompetent pandas: Here's a stimulus package of wildlife stories that could lead to an economic recovery.
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Posted Thu, Dec 11, 6 a.m.
How the Chicago corruption story and other lavish raids on the public treasury (and trust) could induce an angry populist backlash.
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Posted Wed, Dec 10, 6 a.m.
The freshman has made varsity in his first year, pulling together coalitions and also drawing the City Council to the center. Some think he should be mayor some day, while others think he is stiffing progressive causes.
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Posted Tue, Dec 2, 6 a.m.
Dispatch from the War on Christmas: Atheists make fools of themselves in Olympia while violence breaks out at Wal-Mart. The sacred season is now a very, very sick season.
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Posted Wed, Nov 26, 7 a.m.
Washington's death row inmates and corporate fat cats are employing strategies that could come in handy for seagoing brigands.
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Posted Mon, Nov 17, 6 a.m.
Mayor Greg Nickels plans to defy state law with a gun ban that is worse than an empty gesture: It puts law-abiding citizens at greater risk.
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Posted Sun, Oct 12, 4:09 p.m.
The strange link between looting Indian artifacts and methamphetamine users.
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Posted Wed, Oct 1, 3 a.m.
A journalist and former Seattle City Council member who led the council's investigation into the WTO riots faults the film for claiming too much for the protesters. More disturbing was the picture of dreamy nonchalance in planning that the investigation revealed about City Hall and Seattle Police.
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Posted Tue, Sep 16, 4 a.m.
Lessons learned from the places where people, animals, and politics collide.
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Posted Thu, Aug 28, 3 a.m.
Dave Edler of Yakima is an unusual politician in a bastion of conservatism.
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Posted Tue, Aug 26, 4 a.m.
The U.S. Forest Service considers changing its firefighting protocol in the wake of sentencing over handling of the Thirtymile Fire, which claimed the lives of four firefighters.
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Posted Fri, Aug 22, 4 a.m.
Next in the Alaska scandals roundup: An errant senator's son and Troopergate. Part 2 of 2
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Posted Tue, Aug 12, 5 a.m.
Finding the banality of Nazi evil close to home.
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Posted Thu, Jul 31, midnight
As the economy shrinks tax revenue, the mayor and City Council are making cuts, with more to come next year. One possible casualty would be 20 to 25 promised new cops.
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What's to blame for all the anger as cyclists, drivers, and citizens fight over their rights on the streets? Is it $4 gas? Young punks? Class warfare? Poor urban design? It's time to theorize.
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Posted Wed, Jul 16, 3 p.m.
Software engineer Jennifer Kolar is to be sentenced this week in federal court for her role in Earth Liberation Front arsons, including one at the University of Washington. Her time in prison will be reduced because she turned state's witness, but that doesn't mitigate the fact she is now regarded as a snitch by peers and could be labeled a terrorist by the government.
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Posted Wed, Apr 8, 3 p.m.
Why do we tolerate so much open crime on Seattle streets?
MOREPosted Tue, Mar 17, noon
Not quite as good as 18th-century sanctions, but a start.
MOREPosted Mon, Feb 9, 5:52 p.m.
Seattle Weekly gets the goods on notorious process-server Ron Belec
MOREPosted Fri, Nov 28, 7:40 a.m. 2008
Also, there's a new initiative and the SPD promises to work more closely with other departments. Please stop worrying.
MOREPosted Wed, Nov 26, 9:39 p.m. 2008
Two cases link the suburban city with Hitler and the holocaust.
MOREPosted Wed, Nov 5, 1:59 p.m. 2008
Seattle's high-tech buffalo hunter pleads to a felony.
MOREPosted Thu, Oct 2, 11:06 a.m. 2008
Someone's got to be hashing out the film rights to this right now. In a heist reminiscent of The Thomas Crown Affair and the Joker's crew of lookalikes in the Dark Knight's opening bank robbery, a thief in southern Snohomish County apparently recruited unwitting decoys on Craigslist to aid his escape.
Police told the Everett Herald that a man who robbed an armored-car guard in Monroe Tuesday posted a job ad on Craigslist to flood the scene of his escape with hopeful workers. According to a witness, the man dressed in a blue shirt and dust mask. After pepper-spraying the guard, he fled toward a nearby creek, where he may have used an inner tube to escape in Woods Creek, toward the nearby Skykomish River.
MOREPosted Wed, Sep 10, 1:16 p.m. 2008
The Oregonian reports that a popular driving range in Oregon is asking golfers to cast their "swing votes" by aiming practice shots at 8-feet-tall metal likenesses of John McCain and Barack Obama. While no one is exactly sure whether people are trying to hit candidates they support or oppose, so far, McCain is in the lead. ...
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