Crosscut articles of the past 10 days with the most clicks.
Crosscut articles of the past 10 days with the most reader comments.
Posted Tue, Dec 30, 5:33 p.m.
Delaying the decision was supposed to allow a consensus version to appear magically. Didn't happen. Instead there are three new champions and three new variants. This baby seems headed for the big scary Legislature.
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Posted Mon, Dec 29, 6 a.m.
The ever-courteous and helpful Metro drivers of the recent past need to reclaim their hold on loyal customers.
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Posted Wed, Dec 24, 12:01 p.m.
A Seattle transplant sums up the region's snowstorm-response failings.
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Posted Wed, Dec 3, 6 a.m.
A veteran public affairs consultant argues that the Rossi race was on track to a win with one month to go. As the Market plummeted, reminding voters of Bush's unpopularity, it took Rossi down with the Dow.
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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 Mon, Nov 24, 6 a.m.
Our local politicians are coping with austerity by sharing the pain and keeping nearly all programs alive for a future return. But what about the chance to be rid of programs that don't work?
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Posted Fri, Oct 10, 3 a.m.
He's increasingly isolated politically and has his eye on global problems. On the other hand, he is turning into a rarity: a fearless foe of conventional wisdom who matters.
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Posted Thu, Oct 9, 4 a.m.
Some good news about right-sizing the city, and saving money, too.
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Posted Thu, Sep 25, 1 a.m.
The state House speaker finally goes public with a dramatic idea for replacing the Alaskan Way Viaduct on Seattle's waterfront. It involves a long, block-wide structure with a highway within, commercial development below, and an intriguing park on top.
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Posted Wed, Sep 17, 3 a.m.
King County officials allocated money from the massive Brightwater sewage-treament project to fund mitigation in Snohomish County and to help a business in the vicinity of the facility relocate. That's illegal, say plaintiffs in a lawsuit. If they win, King County will take a sizable financial hit, calling the very nature of its leadership into question.
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Posted Thu, Sep 11, 3 a.m.
Because of fuel prices and out-of-sync regulatory bodies, it's actually cheaper right now to take a taxicab to or from Sea-Tac Airport than a shared van, which until recently was always the cheaper choice. But cab fares, too, will be going up, on Oct. 1. Here's how airport transportation pricing works.
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Posted Wed, Aug 27, 1 a.m.
New demographic figures make clear what a statistical outlier Seattle is, with few families, few kids, high education, and rapid gentrification. Only San Francisco can compare.
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Posted Mon, Aug 25, 4 a.m.
The Growth Management Act serves as a tug-of-war between environmentalists and property-rights advocates, who disagree over rules governing wetland buffers and vegetation removal, and so far, the environmentalists are losing the contest. But it's more complicated than that. Opponents of strict provisions on rural areas say they shouldn't have to pay for the environmental sins of the cities.
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Posted Mon, Aug 18, 5 a.m.
Urban planners love to hate the suburbs, but what's going to become of them? Will Bellevue eventually become a post-carbon ghost town or a new urban hybrid? Some reflections on the urban/suburban debate.
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Posted Wed, Aug 6, 5 a.m.
The region is facing an economic slowdown, multiple budget crises, and big tax increases. Without a rapid, realistic response by voters and policy makers, November could be ugly.
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Posted Wed, Aug 6, 5 a.m.
King County's Metro Transit service is under pressure from a surge in ridership and higher fuel costs. There are solutions to these problems, but they aren't painless, says this transportation analyst. Among other things, riders should be paying more — a lot more — and Metro should consider privatizing some routes.
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Posted Sat, Aug 2, midnight
Politicians have resorted to some some pretty childish arguments in defense of policies in recent days.
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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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Posted Tue, Jul 29, 3 a.m.
An urban geographer uses un-rose-tinted glasses in peering into the crystal ball. He finds that we will not be able to do much about growing income segregation, congestion, gentrification in Seattle, and leapfrog development. Nor will rail transit help make things better.
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Posted Fri, Jul 25, 10 a.m.
The weight of 40 years of paralysis about transit planning played a role in the Sound Transit decision to try one more time to convince the voters of the need for more light rail.
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Posted Sat, Dec 13, 5:10 p.m. 2008
Transportation may be his ticket out of King County Executive post
MOREPosted Tue, Dec 9, 6 a.m. 2008
Take away the label and you don't take away the partisanship. You just keep the public in the dark.
MOREPosted Tue, Nov 4, 4:03 p.m. 2008
Long voting lines? Nope. Huge turnout? Yep.
MOREPosted Tue, Nov 4, 1:30 p.m. 2008
Four issues that almost had this writer flipping a coin before going with the flawed-but-tried over the better-but-ain't-gonna-happen.
MOREPosted Tue, Oct 28, 4:30 p.m. 2008
We've created a printable chart of Washington newspaper endorsements for selected races in next week's election, with which you can see, at a glance, who's favored by the dreaded mainstream media.
MOREPosted Tue, Oct 28, 2:53 p.m. 2008
Here's why Mayor Greg Nickels is fond of cutting programs he didn't create, why Dino Rossi's future may be growing dim, and why King County will have extra time off next year.
MOREPosted Tue, Oct 21, 2:23 p.m. 2008
Do undecided voters really still exist? Really? Really? Really.
MOREPosted Thu, Oct 16, 2:16 p.m. 2008
What's better than being a lobbyist? How about being a politician who gets freebies from lobbyists? Better yet: being one of the politicians who received more than $18 million in campaign contributions from lobbyists.
MOREPosted Wed, Oct 8, 3:10 p.m. 2008
Joel Connelly has finally admitted to consorting with known terrorists. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer columnist writes today that, along with his late dog, S'Murphy Brown, he made a cup of tea and a toasted bagel for Weatherman Bill Ayers, the 1960s anti-Vietnam War radical who targeted the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol in a series of bombings. GOP operatives have been trying desperately to link Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama to Ayers — the two are not close, but have met several times over the years and served on a charitable board together — in an effort to curb Obama's sizable lead in the polls and turn the focus of the campaign away from the economy. So far, the plan hasn't been a success. Connelly, meanwhile, is ashamed:
MOREPosted Tue, Oct 7, 3 p.m. 2008
Tonight is the second presidential debate between Senators John McCain and Barack Obama, and it represents what could be a knock-out punch for the Democrats. That is, if you're still convinced the election isn't over. (Hint: It is.) If the current polls are any indication, McCain's only chance of winning this election are if Obama walks onto stage tonight wearing an Arab headdress and an Irani lapel pin, and after giving a shout-out to Reverend Wright and Bill Ayers, tells the television audience that Sarah Palin is a trollop.
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