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 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 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 Fri, Apr 22, midnight
In Ballard, a project that was supposed to be a model for dealing with stormwater turned into a fiasco. City officials rushed the project as "shovel ready" and eligible for federal stimulus money.
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Posted Mon, Mar 21, noon
Early Music Guild presents a deeply moving and musically accomplished 'St. John Passion.'
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Posted Mon, Feb 14, 11:45 a.m.
Hey, all you lonely hearts: The city bus might just hold your key to romance.
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Posted Wed, Jan 26, 2 a.m.
Open space and education are values that attract people here, and they seem to be factors in our sense of well-being.
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Posted Mon, Jan 24, 2 a.m.
Both cities have been painted as having extraordinarly bad problems. In fact, they appear to be leaders in tackling the issue, so they have more arrests.
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Posted Sat, Jan 1, 6:11 p.m.
"Life Unexpected," set in Portland, shows how doing unexpected things brings a city the honor of distinctiveness.
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Posted Thu, Dec 30, 2 a.m.
It's about time for the state to take advantage of its relationship with China, by investing now in schools, transportation, and trade.
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Posted Wed, Dec 29, 2 a.m.
Disillusioned students are speaking out against for-profit schools offering advanced degrees in culinary arts and other disciplines, and lawmakers are taking on the Wall Street bankers who are profiting.
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Posted Wed, Dec 15, 2 a.m.
Portland wants to rebuild schools even as the area struggles financially and wonders about how it has fallen behind Seattle's economic position. At least Portland's superintendent of schools is popular, though.
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Posted Wed, Dec 8, 2 a.m.
The Portland-Seattle-Vancouver passenger-rail corridor isn't as far along as a few parts of the country, but the progress continues.
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Posted Tue, Aug 31, noon
Peter Lewis's Dead in the Dregs is a piquant addition to the recent flow of murder mysteries set in wine country.
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Posted Tue, Aug 31, 2 a.m.
A new-generation airship is visiting Puget Sound, a reminder of the pleasures and Northwest history of traveling by dirigible.
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Posted Mon, Aug 23, 2 a.m.
Dedicated 'cycle tracks' are coming to a few streets in Seattle, but this city would do well to emulate Manhattan, not just Portland and Eugene.
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Posted Fri, Aug 20, 2 a.m.
Disillusioned students are speaking out against for-profit schools offering advanced degrees in culinary arts and other disciplines, and lawmakers are taking on the Wall Street bankers who are profiting.
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Posted Mon, Jul 19, 6:41 a.m.
Along with budgets cuts, fairer, more sustainable city funding, especially in hard times, is worth exploring.
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Posted Mon, Jul 5, 2 a.m.
This time it's that other Vancouver, the one to the south, touting successful urban development. And in this case turning around a crime-ridden park.
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Posted Thu, Jul 1, 2 a.m.
As uses have changed, many cities around the world have turned blighted old waterfronts into major public amenities. Now it's Seattle's turn.
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Posted Mon, Mar 1, 9:09 p.m.
The Vancouver Olympics captured nicely the two opposing impulses of the Pacific Northwest: the desire to extol our green virtues, and to exploit our future.
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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 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, 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 Tue, Jul 26, 2 a.m. 2011
Now a victim of strange behavior, David Wu has said he will step down from representing Portland's high-tech neighborhoods. Democrats were showing him the door, hoping to replace him with someone with a better statewide future.
MOREPosted Fri, Jun 24, 11:40 a.m. 2011
The annual Summer Solstice Reading put on by Copper Canyon Press featured award-winning poets including local star Heather McHugh.
MOREPosted Wed, May 11, 2 a.m. 2011
Years ago, King Broadcasting's president was down in Ashland to see some Shakespeare and noticed a Medford reporter. His story sometimes varied, to include a mention of her working part time as a waitress.
MOREPosted Wed, Apr 13, 2 a.m. 2011
The City Council, resolutely in favor of a waterfront tunnel, was joined last year by an ally and friend of the anti-tunnel mayor. So, what about those times when everybody else is clearly working on something else, and O'Brien is left out?
MOREPosted Tue, Apr 5, 2 a.m. 2011
Seattle's King Street Station can't match the comfort and appeal of Portland's Union Station. But work is on track to bring interior restoration, a tree-lined plaza, and other improvements.
MOREPosted Fri, Feb 18, 11 a.m. 2011
A recent issue of the magazine of Manhattan sophisticates writes familiarly and repeatedly about Portland, once not even bothering to distinguish for its readers between the Northwest city and that place up in Maine.
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