Crosscut articles of the past 10 days with the most clicks.
Crosscut articles of the past 10 days with the most reader comments.
Posted Thu, Jul 3, 5 a.m.
The Nature Conservancy and the Trust for Public Land are buying 500 square miles of western Montana from Plum Creek, the timber real estate investment trust, for $510 million. It involves a federal financing mechanism, to the consternation of conservatives, and compromise, to the displeasure of some environmentalists. But it is preventing development of forest habitat.
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Posted Tue, Jan 6, 6 a.m.
You can't go many news cycles without hearing about some kind of monorail mess-up, but there's good news too.
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Posted Fri, Dec 12, 6 a.m.
The pressure for real estate and the short-term perspective of fancy Wall Street financial instruments have changed the old line companies utterly.
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Posted Wed, Dec 10, 6 a.m.
As resorts for the wealthy such as Yellowstone Club, Tamarack, and Promontory tumble into insolvency, you have to wonder what the lenders such as Credit Suisse and Lehman Bros. were thinking. Here's another tale of toxic assets, poor diligence, and no backup plans.
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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 Fri, Oct 10, 4 p.m.
Some misery is more equal than others, as new figures show. The governor also gains a notch by being able to dole out budget savings.
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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 Sat, Aug 30, 3 a.m.
Sen. John McCain's got a perception problem, and Gov. Sarah Palin is the solution.
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Posted Tue, Aug 5, 4 a.m.
There's a reverse flow of population in the West, drifting from expensive coastal cities to interior boomtowns. It's definitely changing the politics of the Rockies, while also stirring resentments at "Aspenization."
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Posted Tue, Aug 5, midnight
A Depression-era book series is the ultimate road-trip must-have, a way of comparing past and present as you tool around the country like a latter-day John Steinbeck. And in Washington, a new version even links travelers to the digital age.
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Posted Sat, Jul 19, midnight
An urbanite spends two days with ranchers in Montana and comes to see that she has much in common with them: ground.
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Posted Mon, Jun 30, 5 p.m.
It's the time of year when animal-human encounters are on the rise. Bears are picnicking on hikers, moose are invading trailer parks, and muskrats are blamed for destroying entire towns. You could be next.
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Posted Tue, May 6, midnight
A primer of regional separatist movements, real and imagined.
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Posted Sat, Apr 19, midnight
With healthy numbers, the gray wolf faces de-listing as an endangered species. Introducing trophy hunting into the management plan has arguably worked for other species, such as the mountain lion, and some think it will work for the gray wolf, but the idea is not without its staunch critics.
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Posted Sat, Mar 22, midnight
A definition of the Western landscape varies according to individual economic, social, and recreational values. Here's a look at how our Western neighbors foster a shared sense of place across differing perspectives.
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Posted Sun, Mar 9, 9 p.m.
Sixteen journalism students from the University of Washington descended on Texas during the presidential campaign to see what they could do with few resources and little clout. In hindsight, one might ask, what could they not?
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Posted Wed, Mar 5, 5 a.m.
Some Northwest lawmakers have pushed the Bush administration to allow visitors to carry loaded guns in our national parks. It gives backpacking a whole new meaning.
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Posted Sat, Dec 29, midnight
We live in a changed world – of NRA Democrats and environmentalist Republicans.
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Posted Wed, Nov 21, 5 a.m.
Will Paul Allen and Drew Carey succeed in establishing Major League Soccer in Seattle? Some suggest they're kicking the ball uphill.
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Posted Thu, Oct 25, 1 a.m.
Mossback update: Critters big and bigger, some of which can be seen and some of which can't, and none of which you'd want to.
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Posted Sat, Oct 13, midnight
Outdoor-recreation constituents who oppose motorized vehicles need to consider the concept of 'Wilderness Lite' instead of full wilderness designations for federal lands. It means allowing traditionally banned mountain bikes but would bring more political clout to the preservation cause.
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Posted Sat, Nov 1, 6:22 p.m. 2008
The network's political director surveys all 50 states for races and trends to watch. Here's what he sees in the Northwest.
MOREPosted Thu, Oct 9, 4 a.m. 2008
There's a cool Web site that lets you look at the electoral college results in presidential races since 1789. It features a U.S. map that shows the color of states as they were carried every four years: red for Republican, blue for Democrat, purple for Whig. It's fun to look at the Great Nearby and see the trends.
MOREPosted Fri, Sep 12, 5 p.m. 2008
A source "tight in the Obama campaign" has sent out a memo, meant to reassure anxious supporters by deflecting attention from national polls, where McCain is rising, and to the state-by-state electoral tally, where the election will be settled. While there might be some disinformation in such a message, and things are obviously still fluid, it makes for interesting reading. Washington and Oregon remain firmly in the "Obama solid" category, while Montana has joined Idaho in the "McCain solid" group.
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Posted Sun, Sep 7, 9:31 a.m. 2008
In the governor's race, Gov. Chris Gregoire understandably often cites the state's recent rating by Forbes magazine, which names Washington as the third best state for business. The magazine's annual ranking put Virginia first and Utah second; Idaho retains its high rank, this year as 7th. Oregon finished 16th, Colorado is 6th, Minnesota is 11th, Montana is 24th, California is 40th, and Alaska is 48th.
MOREPosted Wed, Aug 13, 11:05 a.m. 2008
The current issue of Marple's Pacific Northwest Letter ($) tallies up personal income figures for Northwest metro areas. One shocker is how low the figure is for Portland, a booming area that is still shy on high-paying jobs. Or, conversely, how affluent Seattle is.
MOREPosted Wed, Jul 30, 10:49 a.m. 2008
Current theory says that a city's walkability promotes health and will impact the fight against obesity. The claim is that America's weight problem can be helped by making cities more pedestrian-friendly. It should follow, then, that our most dense and walkable cities are where the skinny people are, right? Well, not really.
MOREPosted Thu, Jun 5, 11:53 a.m. 2008
Ruby Chow remembered: Brad Wong outlines the contributions from the life of a local political icon. ...
Elite opinion on Obama: Jamieson, Sims and Locke, Horsey, Westneat. ...
MOREPosted Sat, May 10, 3:35 p.m. 2008
In the 19th century, tourists used to slaughter bison herds from passing trains, blasting the big beasts into near extinction just for fun. That ugly tradition is echoed in the recent massacre of buffalo in Colorado, which has also touched off a classic confrontation over rights between two ranchers. The Northwest connection: The Seattle Post-Intelligencer's John Cook points out that the man behind the recent massacre is the chairman and CEO of one of Seattle's top software companies, Jeff Hawn of Attachmate. A warrant has been issued for his arrest.
MOREPosted Mon, Mar 31, 9:38 a.m. 2008
Marple's Pacific Northwest Letter, a bible of the Northwest economy, is predicting that Oregon, "if not yet in recession, it likely soon will be." The reasons: sectors like lumber exposed to the homebuilding recession; continued manufacturing decline in computer chips and electronic instruments, which have not fully recovered since the dot.com meltdown; and overall manufacturing decline since mid-2006.
MOREPosted Thu, Mar 27, 9 a.m. 2008
Bellevue is the top city in a new ranking of best American cities to live and launch a new business by CNN Money.com. Seattle doesn't even make the list of the top 100 such places. The survey rates Bellevue high for its low crime rate, great schools, excellent health care, and diverse population (40 percent nonwhite or foreign-born). It describes the town as having "grown with unusual grace" into a place that is sophisticated and metropolitan but not yet crowded or expensive. Apparently the survey is not aware of the traffic problems on the Eastside, though some of the comments on the site point that out, along with the high cost of housing. One Seattleite protests: "Boring!"
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