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Why I support Crosscut

Posted Fri, Oct 30, 6 a.m.

As our Charter Membership Drive continues, a few words from a Crosscut Public Media contributor

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Crosscut's new approach

Posted Thu, Oct 29, 6 a.m.

Crosscut has completed its migration to a new, nonprofit model. Here are recent developments and a case for this new media structure. And now's the time for you to become an annual member.

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Ending homelessness: How are we doing?

Posted Thu, Oct 29, 6 a.m.

Those vaunted 10-year plans to solve the problem are halfway in, or more, and yet homelessness persists. Even so, we're making progress and on the right track.

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Completing an Ironman, virtually

Posted Fri, Oct 23, 6 a.m.

At more than 140 miles spread among three events, the Ironman race is a huge feat to pull off all at once. But what if you could spread out the pain over a week?

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Shiga's Garden: fittingly, a story of sunshine and cooperation

Posted Tue, Oct 13, 6 a.m.

Volunteers, artists, and an absentee landowner are together creating a P-Patch honoring the father of the University District Street Fair.

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History has a near-death experience

Posted Thu, Sep 24, 6 a.m.

Funding squeezes in Oregon put much of the history of Jacksonville behind closed doors. It could happen in King County next.

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An encore for the Seattle World's Fair

Posted Mon, Sep 7, 6 a.m.

The case for marking the 50th anniversary of the big fair with a weeklong celebration called Century 21.5.

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Heritage institutions get shorted on stimulus funds

Posted Wed, Jul 15, 6 a.m.

Locally, $500,000 is being passed around as part of Obama's $50 million bonus for culture. As usual, small heritage organizations get very little.

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And for Seattle's next 'world's fair,'...

Posted Fri, Jun 5, 6 a.m.

Puget Sound boosters are proposing to launch an annual Global Health Celebration in 2012 to re-brand Seattle for the new century.

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Humor: The secret of happiness is discovered

Posted Mon, May 25, 2:15 p.m.

Alas, buying a Ferrari is a terrible thing to do to your Suck-Up Ratio.

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Seattle's 'civic dementia,' and how to cure it

Posted Sun, May 24, 10:58 a.m.

We are losing our historic brain cells, one bungalow at a time. Much of what needs to be preserved isn't architecturally special by itself, but it has earned a right to stay with us, and the civic cost of wrecking and replacing is often too high.

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'The Lancet' critique of the Gates Foundation: on the mark?

Posted Tue, May 19, 6 a.m.

The articles complain that Gates is doing too much in global health, or not enough. Amid the confusing complaints and muted praise is a clear call for more transparency.

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The Cascadian Dream

Posted Thu, Apr 9, 6 a.m.

Can a Pacific Northwest utopia be shaped on the shared belief that nature is sacred? This latest installment in a series on regional identity looks at the patron saint of the environmental movement, John Muir, and how his thinking informs the desire for a new, greener, and elusive entity some call Cascadia.

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Peter Donnelly and the Seattle way of arts

Posted Fri, Apr 3, 6 a.m.

We've followed the have-it-all mode for building the arts rapidly, with many gains and tradeoffs. What will it be like After Donnelly (A.D.)?

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Gates Foundation's 35 break-out ideas in HIV/AIDS fight

Posted Tue, Feb 17, 6 a.m.

The 'Explorations' proposals range from using the body's own defenses to creating new synthetic warriors.

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Recession, wrecking balls, and history

Posted Wed, Jan 7, 6 a.m.

The new year will be challenging for historic preservation in Seattle, but there are great opportunities and new initiatives ahead, too. Here's a breakdown of six front-burner issues for 2009. First of 2 parts

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Can writers get a federal bailout too?

Posted Fri, Dec 19, 6 a.m.

Some think the time is ripe to revive a New Deal program that put writers to work for the public good. Others say that's what bloggers are already doing.

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Pacific Science Center's architecture might change

Posted Wed, Dec 17, 6 a.m.

Dramatically lit at night, the Science Center is an icon in the Seattle skyline. A national group is sounding alarms about potential alterations of the campus, though the arches seem sacrosanct.

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Charlie and me

Posted Thu, Nov 27, 6 a.m.

A Thanksgiving story, learning from a wise homeless man.

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KCTS hires a new leader

Posted Thu, Oct 16, 12:59 p.m.

Maurice Bresnahan gets the hot seat, arriving next month from South Carolina. Seattle's public-TV station is finally out of debt, but it still seems more about survival than revival.

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Other media

Andrea Wagner, executive director of Seattle Children's Festival, fired by board The board of the international festival, now called Giant Magnet, said it is "seeking new leadership." Wagner has led the organization for 14 years.

A lesson in politics at 5:20 a.m. The writer, a political science prof and dedicated bus-bike commuter, confronts her own conflicts when panhandled early one Seattle morning.

The funding perils of nonprofit journalism Foundations are stepping in where traditional advertisers now fear to tred. Jack Shafer fears that this simply substitutes one flawed media model for another.

Resolved: Do not give money to Harvard "To do so is to offer more pie to a portly fellow while the gaunt and hungry press their faces to the window (at some sort of metaphoric college cafeteria, anyway). Even after last year’s losses, Harvard’s endowment exceeds $26 billion, the largest of any American university, greater than the G.D.P. of Estonia." Let the debate begin.

Nonprofits suffer from loading up boom-era debt Many borrowed heavily to build new facilities and expand, and now they are so pinched by high debt service that they have to cut a lot of staff and services.

Blog posts

MOHAI’s future begins at the Armory

Posted Fri, Nov 6, 6 a.m.

With a new fundraising campaign kicking off tonight, the history museum hopes to be in its new Lake Union digs in 2012.

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'Seattle’s Forgotten World’s Fair'

Posted Sat, Oct 17, 1:19 p.m.

KCTS documentary on AYP Exposition airs tonight.

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Death by 1033 cuts

Posted Tue, Sep 22, noon

The author, a staunch opponent of Tim Eyman's tax-limiting ballot measure, worries that the "No" campaign is off to a sluggish, wonky start.

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NoTube: Day One

Posted Sat, Jun 13, 9:47 a.m.

As promised, my TV has gone blank. Well, almost.

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Alone at the press table

Posted Mon, Jun 8, 3 p.m.

The Seattle Foundation issues a major report on how to create a healthy region. So where were the reporters?

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How about we talk, once a week?

Posted Tue, Apr 7, 6 a.m.

The author has started getting acquainted over a cup of coffee, one hour per week, with homeless people most of us walk right past.

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The sommelier and the wine cops

Posted Thu, Apr 2, 6 a.m.

A law passed in the 1930s catches a wine event promoter at a charity event. Discerning the harm in his actions takes a very fine nose.

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Garden Show is talking to buyers

Posted Mon, Mar 2, 2:04 p.m.

The popular show, second biggest in the country, will call it quits if new owners don't emerge.

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How to meet folks and help on MLK Day

Posted Mon, Jan 19, 6 a.m.

Plus, where to go and watch the inauguration with other stirred-up neighbors.

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The "N" word at Lakeside

Posted Mon, Dec 15, 11 a.m. 2008

An African-American poet stirs up a Seattle private school by using a word that is "antithetical to Lakeside’s spirit."

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