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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, 2 p.m.
After a long few days, there's relief that breast-cancer screening support won't be cut off.
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Posted Thu, Feb 2, 2 a.m.
The foundation builds strong relationships with each community so that gifts will leverage the community's strengths. Working with Native American groups highlights the importance of a sense of reciprocity.
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Posted Tue, Jan 31, 9:19 p.m.
Anti-abortion activism has caused estrangement of two agencies serving women's health needs. Caught in the middle: women in Washington and Idaho served by breast-cancer screenings.
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Posted Sat, Dec 31, 2 a.m.
Seattle's Central Business District(CBD) is increasingly spelled SLU. Here's an account of the remarkable, somewhat accidental rise of a hot commercial and residential zone called South Lake Union.
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Posted Thu, Nov 17, 2 a.m.
After the disillusionment, what do we do? That's what matters.
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Posted Mon, Nov 14, 2 a.m.
A trailblazing national program born in the Northwest is gaining recognition for its mentoring seriously at-risk kids.
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Posted Mon, Oct 17, 9:45 p.m.
Final drawing results for prizes, toting up the good news, and a little further explanation of what it is Crosscut is trying to do.
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Posted Mon, Oct 17, 2 a.m.
The secret to urban success, says Ron Sims, is regional coherence. How do you achieve that? Leadership. But where does that come from, and how does it work? History offers some examples.
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Posted Tue, Oct 4, 2 a.m.
Gov. Chris Gregoire hopes private charities, faith communities, and individuals can fill the gaps in the social safety net. Can they? What's the likely impact on business when children of poor families grow up? And what are we learning about the newly poor?
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Posted Tue, Oct 4, 2 a.m.
Puget Sound is a poster child for the problems of regional transportation planning. One big roadblock: long-standing distrust of Seattle.
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Posted Tue, Oct 4, 2 a.m.
These new features provide more options for Crosscut's readers to involve themselves in solving community issues, and tie together Crosscut and The Seattle Foundation's rich Web site.
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Posted Wed, Sep 28, 2 a.m.
A survey of our assets and their funding shows that we do not have a clear strategy and some key programs are being defunded. Here's a wake-up call about this most critical sector of our modern global economy.
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Posted Mon, Sep 26, 11:45 a.m.
Crews have been hard at work on the edge of Beacon Hill.
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Posted Mon, Sep 26, 1 a.m.
People sometimes close the book on an issue because they want to stop having to think about it. Not Crosscut. Please consider becoming an annual Member, and there are daily and weekly drawings for prizes.
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Posted Fri, Sep 23, 2 a.m.
A innovative program has been providing legal help for struggling families to deal with health-related disparities. It seems to have worked fine, but now funding has come to an end.
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Posted Wed, Sep 21, 9:55 p.m.
Your annual Membership is critical to keeping Crosscut serving you, so please consider joining the club and enjoying Member benefits. Drawings for Kindles (each week) and an iPad2 (grand prize) are meant to nudge you into doing the right thing. Today's drawing (Oct. 5) is for two tickets to the Merce Cunningham Legacy Tour at the Parmount.
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Posted Mon, Aug 29, 2 a.m.
Seattle's CBD is increasing spelled SLU. Here's an account of the remarkable, somewhat accidental rise of a hot commercial and residential zone called South Lake Union.
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Posted Thu, Aug 11, 2 a.m.
Dialogue Direct, a for-profit company that solicits on public streets for charities, aggressively engages pedestrians in downtown Seattle. City Councilmember Tom Rasmussen has just about had it with a "face-to-face" approach that is generating complaints.
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Posted Mon, Jul 18, 2 a.m.
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It's been six months since big changes in Seattle's classical music station. Time to ask some questions.
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A new effort, Mapping Our Voices for Equality, has grown out of federal efforts to involve more communities in promoting healthy foods and preventing the dangers associated with smoking.
MOREPosted Mon, Aug 22, 2 a.m. 2011
Sprout is a local dinner, including locally sourced foods, where people dine and vote on funding for arts projects.
MOREPosted Thu, Aug 18, 2 a.m. 2011
As times get harder, more charities may take to soliciting on the streets. And most of us may become hesitant to look around, lest we look like an easy mark for a solicitor.
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How the Bagley Wright memorial service inspires support for the idea of a shrine to Seattle writers.
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He is joining a World Justice Project founded by Bill Neukom, staying in Seattle but leaving the arts field. ArtsFund, meanwhile, is also looking for a new CEO.
MOREPosted Fri, May 20, 2 a.m. 2011
Something like an overall plan may be emerging, but the odds are still daunting for the troubled, nationally acclaimed theater.
MOREPosted Mon, May 2, 7:17 p.m. 2011
Expect more music each hour, an expanded playlist, and more live and local broadcasts from a wider ranger of performances. But ratings still matter to ensure "a broad and diverse audience."
MOREPosted Tue, Apr 12, 3:42 p.m. 2011
The Boeing 747 was integral to the shuttle program's early years, but Seattle gets left off the list of cities receiving one of the pioneering space ships.
MOREPosted Thu, Apr 7, 7:39 p.m. 2011
KING-FM jumps the gun a bit in shifting to a public broadcast model. So long, mattress commercials!
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