Crosscut articles of the past 10 days with the most clicks.
Crosscut articles of the past 10 days with the most reader comments.
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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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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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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Posted Thu, Nov 27, 6 a.m.
A Thanksgiving story, learning from a wise homeless man.
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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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Posted Thu, Oct 16, 2 a.m.
A Bothell-based non-profit plays fairy godmother to those who want to attend the ball but have nothing to wear.
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Posted Thu, Oct 9, 4 a.m.
The next three years could involve a lot of healing, finding new visions for the symphony, and a chance to solve its financial weakness.
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Posted Wed, Sep 3, midnight
Impatient for solutions to AIDS, tuberculosis, and infectious disease, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation put out a call for anyone who thought they had an idea — and more than 4,000 poured forth. A second request for grant applications goes out today.
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Posted Thu, Aug 28, 3 a.m.
It's no easy task in a non-profit world of growing financial pressure. Two essentials: A board must partner with staff, and everyone needs to keep focus on furthering the community mission.
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Posted Thu, Aug 7, 5 a.m.
As vaccine research retrenches, scientists seek to provide a stopgap with new approaches to HIV prevention that were first explored with help from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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The key problem is the shortage of public funding for the arts, as private donors are realizing they can't shoulder all the costs.
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Posted Tue, Jul 22, 5 a.m.
Vancouver's in-city oasis, VanDusen Botanical Garden, hopes to go green big-time with a $23 million visitor center that could be the region's first structure to meet the most rigid sustainability standards.
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Posted Fri, Jul 11, 9 a.m.
The symphony embarks on some new, non-traditional programming directions as it faces a decline in season ticket buyers and tight finances. So far, it seems to be working.
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Posted Wed, Jul 9, 5 a.m.
When looking for the next great addition to your wardrobe, try a museum store.
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Posted Tue, Jul 1, 5 a.m.
A device to help those with autism and other conditions communicate has been excluded — and then included, and then excluded again — from health insurance coverage in Washington. At issue is the process by which insurers decide what's covered and why, which doesn't always reflect scientific consensus.
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Posted Sun, Jun 29, 9 p.m.
Traditional methods of scientific research have not produced the medical breakthroughs he expected. Now he's going to use his money, through the Gates Foundation, to challenge old ways. The man is breathtaking.
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Posted Thu, Jun 12, 11 p.m.
Chapter 4: During May, Seattle City Council members listened to hours of public comment on how tax dollars should be allocated by the 2009-10 budget. Now what happens? Not much until autumn — then a flurry of activity.
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Posted Tue, Jun 10, 4 p.m.
Before Hillary, there were Ruby Chow and Shirley Bridge, here fondly remembered by a woman inspired by their early examples of setting a high bar for civic leadership.
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Posted Thu, Jun 5, 10 p.m.
The handsome new space is a striking work of architecture, and the exhibits make up a "meta-museum," continually asking questions about how a museum should relate to its community.
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Posted Thu, Apr 10, 5 a.m.
But please don't ask about independence for Tibet.
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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."
MOREPosted Wed, Oct 15, 5:44 p.m. 2008
Islanders re-define the fundraising gala.
MOREPosted Fri, Sep 26, 2:40 p.m. 2008
The loss of Washington Mutual is a very big, very bad deal for the Seattle region. Its scope is just beginning to sink in. Large, locally run public companies are a major civic asset, as they attract talent, develop leaders by testing them on local charitable boards, and have a real stake in the broader prosperity of a region that is their home.
Consider another point. If another bank had bought WaMu in an orderly way, rather than the sudden swoop of FDIC and the shotgun marriage to JPMorgan Chase, the acquirer would have negotiated with WaMu's board and made promises about reaching out to the community and made pledges of support to such causes as ArtsFund and United Way. There would be more reason to be humane in the elimination of jobs. There would be an effort to buy local love, spreading contributions around.
MOREPosted Wed, Sep 10, 3 p.m. 2008
In a startling development, longtime maestro of the Seattle Symphony, Gerard Schwarz, announced his retirement, which will come at the end of the 2010-11 season. Schwarz is among the longest-tenured of any major American conductor, leading the Seattle Symphony since 1985. His title after 2011 will be conductor laureate, and he will retain occasional conducting duties.
MOREPosted Mon, Sep 8, 3 p.m. 2008
Like most cities, Minneapolis is expanding its light rail transit lines, with a new one called the Central Corridor set to connect downtown Minneapolis and downtown St. Paul in 2014. The line has already touched off real estate speculation, which might drive out inexpensive housing and businesses. Enter an interesting coalition of local and national foundations, hoping to maximize benefits and mitigate harms. Seems like a good idea to import to the land of Sound Transit.
MOREPosted Fri, Aug 8, 10:17 a.m. 2008
Kathy Fletcher, the executive director of People for Puget Sound, has responded to Daniel Jack Chasan's Crosscut article about setting priorities — performing triage, essentially — as we plan to reduce the impact from the several million people who live around the inland sea. Here's what she wrote:
MOREPosted Fri, Aug 1, 3:31 p.m. 2008
Seattle's A Contemporary Theatre has just replaced its managing director, the veteran Seattle arts administrator Kevin Hughes, with his second-in-command, Carlo Scandiuzzi, whose title will be executive director. George Nunes is promoted to general manager.
MOREPosted Thu, Jul 24, 11 a.m. 2008
In some moods, I think that Seattle's business renaissance has peaked. Starbucks is contracting, Microsoft is stumbling, Boeing is losing bids, Safeco is sold, and Washington Mutual is sinking. Has our formula of rapid growth spreading across the globe run into the wall?
But then I look at the front page of today's "Marketplace" section of The Wall Street Journal, where three of the four stories are about Seattle-based companies. There's the story of Microsoft's scramble in the executive suite, with the sudden departure of Kevin Johnson, formerly in charge of the Yahoo merger campaign; Costco reporting an earnings squeeze as the prices for merchandise are rising faster than they can pass along costs to its value-seeking customers; and Amazon doubling its second-quarter profits as customers shift from shopping by car to shopping by online.
MOREPosted Sun, Apr 27, 5 a.m. 2008
I got a very interesting e-mail from Dr. Steven Gilbert, Phd., Vice President of Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility (WPSR). He'd read my recent piece about the possible tear-down of More Hall Annex (the old Nuclear Reactor Building) on the University of Washington campus, and he has a great idea for the facility: Turn it into a nuclear museum. In fact, WPSR is already at work on the museum project, and it might be the perfect tenant if the UW will reconsider its destruction of this fascinating, historic modern structure.
MOREPosted Mon, Apr 28, 3:57 p.m. 2008
Martin McOmber, senior communications and policy advisor for Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels, will leave city employment on Wednesday, April 30, to join Casey Family Programs as communications director. McOmber will feel right at home at Casey, because the managing director of communications there, Marianne Bichsel, was herself spokesperson for the mayor before joining the foundation in Seattle last fall.
Alex Fryer, communications advisor at the Office of Sustainability and Environment, will fill in until the mayor names a new comm director – though the official City Hall announcement today sure makes it sound like the job is Fryer's to lose.
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