2008: Year of Hope, Year of Fear. Essay 5
Posted Tue, Dec 30, 6 a.m.
An opportunity to transform regional politics
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Crosscut articles of the past 10 days with the most reader comments.
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An opportunity to transform regional politics
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Bringing the spirit of Obama to the City Council
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Waking up to the new reality of curbing spending
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Seattle should heed the message of getting back to the nitty gritty basics
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Posted Sun, Dec 28, noon
A year of growing up and getting serious
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Posted Mon, Nov 17, 1:16 p.m.
Crosscut is exploring a shift to a nonprofit model. Here's why.
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Posted Sat, Aug 23, 4 a.m.
Our humor writer shares the top ten jokes he's collected in a not very funny city.
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Posted Mon, Aug 11, 10 a.m.
Big and corporate didn't do it for last year's roads and transit measure, so the hurry-up, cash-starved campaign for Sound Transit 2 will be Internet-based and volunteer-driven.
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Posted Sun, Jun 15, 2 p.m.
No question that Sen. John McCain needs a humorist on his ticket, but some details remain to be worked out before I accept.
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Posted Mon, Dec 31, 5 a.m.
Transportation, impact studies, Big Brother, newspaper technology, and the essence of modern Seattle: Who knew this stuff would be interesting and popular?
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Crosscut adds an associate publisher, more writers and new partners, and dives into the blogosphere. Here's our month seven progress report, along with some ways you can help us improve and get into the act yourself.
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We're asking for your input with a Crosscut reader survey, so we thought we'd offer some advice ourselves – to the regional papers we're reading online.
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We've been on the Web for five months now, and we'd like your feedback. Please take our online survey.
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Posted Sun, May 6, 3 p.m.
Remember that news report we ran about the guerilla-art installation at the Sculpture Park? No? Good. Never mind.
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Posted Fri, Apr 20, 2 p.m.
Highlights from Crosscut's Front Burner for the week ending April 20, 2007.
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Posted Fri, Apr 13, 4 p.m.
Highlights from Crosscut's Front Burner for the week ending April 13, 2007.
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An update and an invitation for more feedback about Crosscut.
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Posted Sun, Apr 1, 10 a.m.
This new online venture seeks to reinvigorate local journalism in the Pacific Northwest. Here's how it came about and what we hope to accomplish.
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It's pretty awkward for Seattle's dailies to write about themselves, but there are plenty of conflicts of interest to go around. We've got a few ourselves.
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Here's a chance to tell some Crosscut political writers what they did wrong (or maybe even right).
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MOREPosted Mon, Oct 6, 1 p.m. 2008
The Seattle Times is recommending voters reject Initiative 985, the Tim Eyman-sponsored measure that would create a statewide "traffic congestion relief" fund, eliminate localized revenues for devices such as red-light cameras, and open HOV lanes during non-peak hours. The paper's editorial board writes, "I-985 is a poorly-packaged jumble of different agendas that will – please, listen carefully – worsen traffic in certain areas. It makes no sense to design a functioning, complicated traffic system by initiative." ...
MOREPosted Thu, Sep 25, 1:58 p.m. 2008
Is the Gregoire candidacy growing weak? Not surprisingly, that's what local conservative pundit Eric Earling thinks. But you know things aren't going well for the Democratic governor when someone at the Stranger says Gregoire is running a "lackluster, defensive campaign." ...
MOREPosted Tue, Sep 23, 1:54 p.m. 2008
Liberal bloggers gotta love this. Some of the elite conservative pundits are growing skeptical about the McCain campaign's performance in the past weeks. Others are jumping ship altogether. The latest to leave the GOP stable is Washington Post columnist George Will, who says the Republican presidential candidate "is behaving like a flustered rookie playing in a league too high." Last week, the editorial board at the traditionally conservative The Wall Street Journal wrote that "McCain has made it clear this week he doesn't understand what's happening on Wall Street any better than Barack Obama does," adding that the Arizona senator was acting "un-presidential."
MOREPosted Fri, Sep 12, 1:10 p.m. 2008
Republican gubernatorial candidate Dino Rossi has been hammering Democratic Gov. Chris Gregoire in his advertisements for raising "the gas tax." But as Seattle Post-Intelligencer columnist Joel Connelly points out today, "Rossi would take a chunk of the gas tax increase to pay for his $15 billion 'Pave, baby, Pave!' roads expansion plan ... complete with its specter of an eight-lane Evergreen Point Bridge." Said another way: Rossi is against the increased gas tax — unless he's elected and able to use the extra cash for his transportation proposal.
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. ...
MOREPosted Mon, Sep 8, 12:29 p.m. 2008
There's an interesting guest column in today's edition of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. It's written by Gov. Chris Gregoire's driver during the Democratic National Convention, a Colorado State Trooper and lifelong Republican, who says Gregoire may be "a strong advocate for her party, but she is not a 'partisan' in the way the term has recently become defined." Naturally, some Gregoire supporters see the story as a good example of the governor as an appealing post-partisan politician. But not everyone thinks non-partisanship is a good thing – for Washington state politics, that is. Liberal blogger David Goldstein at Horse's Ass sees it a little differently, saying Gregoire actually needs to be more partisan if she wants to get things done in Olympia. ...
MOREPosted Fri, Sep 5, 3:56 p.m. 2008
You've no doubt noticed our site has been sluggish or even inaccessible the past few days. It's because we posted a wildly popular article by a woman in Alaska about Gov. Sarah Palin's days as mayor of Wasilla. Her essay, which originally was an e-mail to friends, has been quoted widely on the Web, but Crosscut was one of the few sites to post it in its entirety. Click, click, click.
MOREPosted Fri, Sep 5, 1 p.m. 2008
It's a sad day for state journalism. Seattle Times chief political reporter David Postman, the author of the ever-popular Postman on Politics, announced today that after some 14 years at the paper, he will leave to join Vulcan Inc., a company founded and run by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. The Capitol press corps appears to be devastated. I sure am. ...
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