Crosscut articles of the past 10 days with the most clicks.
Crosscut articles of the past 10 days with the most reader comments.
Crosscut blog posts of the past 10 days with the most clicks.
Posted Tue, Jan 31, 10 p.m.
Republicans had a long-shot chance in a special election but lost even in the wake of a mess left by previous Democratic Rep. David Wu -- and a humorous, last-minute appeal by the GOP candidate for help to Stephen Colbert.
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Posted Fri, Jan 27, 2 a.m.
As Northwest concerns build about global and local environmental issues in the Northwest, a small Oregon port gives its approval to exporting coal to burn in Chinese power plants.
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Posted Tue, Jan 17, 6:31 a.m.
After the departure of a troubled Congressman, Oregon's Democrats are trying to hold what should be a safe seat.
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Posted Tue, Dec 27, 2 a.m.
When you consider the recent GOP debates, IT seems like a dream. Two serious Republican candidates squared off over a vital issue of liberty and security. The whole world was listening, and Oregon determined the outcome of the national party race.
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Posted Tue, Dec 6, 2 a.m.
Aiming to rank among the academic elite, like the University of Washington, the U of O instead winds up writing how-not-to lesson plans for a tight budget era.
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Posted Mon, Dec 5, 2 a.m.
The death of a mastodon nearly 14,000 years ago is helping reverse scientific thinking about the origins of human settlement in the Americas. Clearly, sophisticated hunting took place without any spread of culture from Alaska down the West Coast.
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Posted Fri, Nov 11, 2 a.m.
Oregon will soon receive more Talgo trains, made in an American plant. But advocates fear Northwest states will miss the chance to open new service.
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Posted Mon, Oct 31, 2 a.m.
Other cities, including Kirkland and San Francisco, are encouraging people to get out of cars and onto scooters and motorcycles. Seattle is mired in process on the question.
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Posted Tue, Oct 11, 11:45 a.m.
An international treaty has driven the destruction of deadly chemical weapons that had been stored near the Oregon community. Children in nearby counties no longer have to practice for the kind of disaster Saddam Hussein would have loved to inflict.
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Posted Wed, Oct 5, 2 a.m.
Three brothers savor a long-awaited volcano climb - until the weather turns, disaster looms, and a fellow hiker disappears.
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Posted Wed, Sep 21, 12:45 p.m.
A growing coalition opposes the plans for shipping coal through the Northwest to China's electrical plants, but there is a lot of strength on the supporters' side, too.
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Posted Mon, Sep 19, 2 a.m.
Forget Elvis. The real featured visitor to the Seattle world's fair was the region's past. Roy Rogers, Paul Bunyan, an Indian village, and a parade of old-timers were there to sell a version of "progress." On Tuesday, HistoryLink.org will bring a lot of the world's fair history back to life at its annual banquet.
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Posted Mon, Sep 5, 2 a.m.
With more people moving to urban settings, the cities such as Portland and Minneapolis that do the most to build transit and bike-friendly streets will be the economic winners.
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Posted Thu, Sep 1, 2 a.m.
The free-trade agreement is getting close, though the politics is still divisive. Here's a look at how strong are the trade bonds between the Northwest and this Asian tiger, and it's far more than jetliners.
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Posted Fri, Aug 19, 2 a.m.
A book on America's "first civil war" looks at the so-called Mormon Rebellion, an event that spread fear throughout the Pacific Northwest as people worried about a new, independent theocratic state rising in the far West. The struggle has lessons for today.
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Posted Tue, Aug 9, 2 a.m.
The Feds deal a blow to the Giant Palouse Earthworm's endangered species status, partly because it appears to live on in far-flung habitats. Still, the mysteries of this ice-age survivor endure, and deepen.
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Posted Mon, Aug 8, 1:41 p.m.
Mark Hatfield fought against wars launched by presidents of both parties and championed aid for the poor, while remaining loyal to his party's leaders.
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Posted Fri, Aug 5, 2 a.m.
Biodynamic winemaking, long established in Burgundy, has made the leap to Oregon, bringing with it ancient agricultural practices. Katherine Cole's new book, Voodoo Vintners, explores a world of grapes grown with the help of moon cycles, manure-packed cow horns, and lactating bovines.
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Posted Fri, Jul 22, 2 a.m.
The death of the state's tourism office creates opportunities for a don't-come-hither campaign. Time to reverse-market our Delicious apples as "forbidden fruit."
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Posted Thu, Jul 14, 2 a.m.
With grocery stores lining up in support, Bellingham bans plastic bags with little of the fuss seen in Seattle. The city takes the "Oregon model," which Oregon hasn't adopted.
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The restaurants, which have just seen an ownership change, trace their roots to Jake's in Portland. Whatever the new Texas-born owner does, according to our Portland-native writer, he shouldn't mess with Jake's.
MOREPosted Tue, Jan 3, 4:30 p.m.
The Northern Tier as a whole has seen a spurt in population.
MOREPosted Sat, Dec 31, 6 a.m. 2011
Once Seattle had its own self-mocking comedy sketch show, but now it's too grown-up to be funny. Luckily, Portland's not.
MOREPosted Fri, Nov 25, 2 a.m. 2011
Judge James Redden has relentlessly demanded more from government attorneys trying to limit what must be done to protect salmon on the Columbia River.
MOREPosted Mon, Oct 17, 11 a.m. 2011
Do Westlakers protest too much? Oregon's new growth industry, communications specialists; what's killing killer whales in Alaska? Initiative 1163 stirs up the budget wars in Olympia; and a Snohomish politician pens a good local novel.
MOREPosted Fri, Oct 14, 2 a.m. 2011
After initialing bowing to Pentagon plans to ship deadly weapons from Okinawa to Umatilla, Oregon's Tom McCall fought back. He soon became an outspoken Republican leader who pushed new land-use laws and criticized his own party's administration in D.C.
MOREPosted Tue, Sep 20, 11 a.m. 2011
In the news: Corrections abstains from more projected budget cuts; an Alaska town takes environmental controversy into its own hands; city council badmouths the mounted police; social security, explained; and why ATM users should watch their backs.
MOREPosted Fri, Sep 9, 11 a.m. 2011
Rumbles on the waterfront; another case of Portland-envy; dubious distinction time for Washington colleges; Rose City roses for Obama's speech; and a study puts tolls on 520 under another cloud.
MOREPosted Fri, Sep 2, 11 a.m. 2011
Passing of eras in Everett and Portland; McKenna gets a lesson from the Supreme Court; Tim Burgess wants to save Seattle's downtown, while Howard Schultz may want to save the country.
MOREPosted Wed, Aug 31, 5 p.m. 2011
Mark Prater comes out of progressive Republican politics in Oregon, and he learned his dealmaking skills from a master, Sen. Bob Packwood.
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