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Posted Wed, Feb 8, 2 a.m.
At a time when gender barriers still had to be surmounted, eight women created better civic engagement with their personal strengths and social media tools, like contact lists written with pen on paper.
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Posted Fri, Feb 3, 10 p.m.
The exhibit takes a different perspective, viewing the heavily contaminated nuclear reservation through the eyes of artists and poets.
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Posted Wed, Feb 1, 11:30 a.m.
Washington state helped set the pattern for the national abuse of personal liberties during the Red Scare days. Gays were among the targets, so it would be fitting to time repeal of state laws that served as a model for McCarthyism with approval of gay marriage.
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Posted Fri, Jan 27, 2 a.m.
The Kalakala still floats, for now, plus Seattle's plywood "space shuttle," demolition fight in Spokane, and other preservation news.
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Posted Wed, Jan 25, 2 a.m.
Smith Tower was the city's largest building for nearly 40 years. But the Space Needle, and the people behind it, opened the way to a dynamic city that went from backwater to cutting edge.
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Posted Fri, Jan 20, 2 a.m.
The decline and fall of Seattle, the state, the empire.
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Posted Thu, Jan 19, 2 a.m.
Whether sitting in harbor or, tragically, tilted in the water, cruise ships are out of scale. Perhaps that is part of their attraction.
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Posted Mon, Jan 9, 2 a.m.
Who did most to raze, wreck, uproot, neglect, and generally trash our historic treasures in 2011? The envelopes, please...
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Posted Thu, Jan 5, 2 a.m.
Psychiatrist Nassir Ghaemi explains why a mentally ill president may be just what we need, and how mania and depression have driven the triumphs and the tragedies of Lincoln, Churchill, Hitler, JFK, MLK, and, maybe, Newt Gingrich.
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Posted Sat, Dec 31, 2 a.m.
A Seattle writer-attorney restores the heroic legacy of Nisqually Chief Leschi in an historical novel about the 1850s wars in Puget Sound. The book also conveys a sense of the amazing culture that was in place when the white man blundered in.
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Posted Fri, Dec 23, 2 a.m.
Nearby Peruvians towns offer a living culture. Machu Picchu was impressive, even worthy of its billing, but there are also larger collections of Incan ruins elsewhere.
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Posted Wed, Dec 21, noon
There was one time, exactly 50 years ago, when a tree from Washington state was selected for the annual display in D.C. That time, things went wrong on both coasts.
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Posted Wed, Dec 21, 2 a.m.
Seattle historian Lorraine McConaghy has written a new book that is not only a treasure trove of state history, but a tribute to the gold that can be mined in our archives.
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Posted Mon, Dec 19, 2 a.m.
Seattle's beloved (stuffed) gorilla will leave his museum home for "plastic surgery" before relocating to South Lake Union, but his place in the new MOHAI remains up in the air.
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Posted Mon, Dec 12, 2 a.m.
Cities are moving to reclaim and clean-up urban alleyways, and Pioneer Square is ground zero for Seattle's effort. One thing needed: names.
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Posted Fri, Dec 9, 2 a.m.
Crosscut has learned of three striking proposals that would immediately draw more world attention to Seattle, enriching its brand.
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Posted Tue, Dec 6, 2 a.m.
A World War II fighter, George McGovern, who suffered a fall last week, went on to run for president as a peace candidate. He's stayed active in large part because he worries about the young people who are still being sent off to war.
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Posted Mon, Dec 5, 2 a.m.
The death of a mastodon nearly 14,000 years ago is helping reverse scientific thinking about the origins of human settlement in the Americas. Clearly, sophisticated hunting took place without any spread of culture from Alaska down the West Coast.
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Posted Sun, Dec 4, 7:42 a.m.
A son's haunting film biography of William Colby, his elusive spymaster father, comes to Seattle. It stirs many memories.
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Posted Thu, Dec 1, 2 a.m.
A Crosscut reporter who covered the Berkeley drama of Dec. 2, 1964, that made Mario Savio a leader of a similar movement wonders about the prospects for today's activist movement.
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A Jan. 6 memorial at MOHAI for writer, teacher, and neighborhood activist.
MOREPosted Sat, Nov 5, 11:48 p.m. 2011
As Seattle prepares to celebrate 50 years as the little expo city that could, the chance for a future fair in the USA is a long way off.
MOREPosted Thu, Oct 20, 9 p.m. 2011
A major break-through on prehistoric hunting in North America is confirmed by a study of Sequim's Manis mastodon bone and spear point.
MOREPosted Tue, Oct 18, 4 p.m. 2011
An impending report on Sequim's Manis Mastodon site may break 14,000-year-old news.
MOREPosted Fri, Oct 14, 2 a.m. 2011
After initialing bowing to Pentagon plans to ship deadly weapons from Okinawa to Umatilla, Oregon's Tom McCall fought back. He soon became an outspoken Republican leader who pushed new land-use laws and criticized his own party's administration in D.C.
MOREPosted Thu, Sep 15, 5 p.m. 2011
Chris Wedes's retirement makes something else official: Local TV has no meaningful hold anymore.
MOREPosted Sun, Sep 11, 7:45 a.m. 2011
Our well-traveled writer finally visits the haunting grounds of the World Trade Center, and previews the memorials now rising there.
MOREPosted Fri, Sep 2, 11 a.m. 2011
Passing of eras in Everett and Portland; McKenna gets a lesson from the Supreme Court; Tim Burgess wants to save Seattle's downtown, while Howard Schultz may want to save the country.
MOREPosted Mon, Aug 29, 10 p.m. 2011
How a September day in 2001 broke the rhythm of this sweet, sad, seasonal turning.
MOREPosted Fri, Aug 19, 2 a.m. 2011
The author's 60th high school reunion reminds him how America has changed (not always for the better), even while his classmates have stayed the same.
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