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 Tue, Jan 6, 6 a.m.
You can't go many news cycles without hearing about some kind of monorail mess-up, but there's good news too.
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Posted Mon, Jan 5, 6 a.m.
The savings are small, and the closures seem arbitrary, but still the sense of panic over a budget gap is driving the plan.
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Posted Thu, Jan 1, 6 a.m.
Unlike Mayor Nickels with his famous 'B,' our poet does not give 2008 an inflated grade.
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Posted Sun, Dec 28, noon
A year of growing up and getting serious
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Posted Wed, Dec 24, 12:01 p.m.
A Seattle transplant sums up the region's snowstorm-response failings.
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Posted Wed, Dec 24, 6 a.m.
An international movement to change the ethic of growing cities seems right for the Northwest. But we'd have to check the boom-town impulses embedded both in our growth economy and our frontier DNA.
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Posted Mon, Dec 22, 6 a.m.
In a place where people show up at the opera in fleece, what should beauty look like?
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Posted Thu, Dec 18, 12:36 p.m.
It's become a trade off between cutting staff positions and building closures. The teachers' union quietly comes out for closures, but we still don't know enough about the options to judge well.
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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 Tue, Dec 16, 6 a.m.
There is a way to avoid huge overruns on mega-projects, but policy makers won't like the medicine. It replaces dreams and pork with data.
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Posted Fri, Dec 12, 6 a.m.
Another task Obama inherits is trying to bail out America's botched effort to have a pavilion at Shanghai's Expo 2010, the largest world's fair in history. There are reasons to hope that "yes, he can."
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Posted Mon, Dec 8, 6 a.m.
Some would like to cut these performance audits from the state budget, supposedly saving money. Now is when we need them most.
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Posted Mon, Dec 8, 6 a.m.
The block in front of Times' headquarters is now included as part of security for the company's $91 million debt to banks. Meanwhile, the paper is scaling back features, and sale of its Maine papers may slip a key deadline.
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Posted Thu, Dec 4, 6 a.m.
With Obama's new New Deal gaining momentum, let's remain skeptical of big projects that are touted as economic saviors. States like ours may be desperate, but a boondoggle is still a boondoggle.
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Make space in the needles for a Space Needle ornament, and break out the salted caramels for gifts that say they came from here and nowhere else.
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Posted Fri, Nov 28, 6 a.m.
So far, no big catches in the Northwest by the Obama team. But keep an eye on Rep. Adam Smith.
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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, Nov 27, 6 a.m.
Lines Ballet of San Francisco explores the commonalities of Chinese monks and modern American dance. Donald Byrd's Spectrum Dance Theater dances across the intractable Israeli-Palestinian divide.
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Posted Wed, Nov 26, 6 a.m.
When world prices for metals and paper were riding high, Seattle had a little gold mine shipping out its recyclables. Then the prices sank by as much as 75 percent. Gold mine became a black hole.
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Posted Thu, Jan 1, 4:50 p.m.
2009 starts with a bang in terms of Nazi stories, which were a strong theme in 2008 too. In addition, we gained insights into the similar reading habits of Bush and Hitler.
MOREPosted Tue, Dec 30, 6 a.m. 2008
The gas tax would be phased out and drivers monitored by GPS and subjected to a mileage tax instead.
MOREPosted Sun, Dec 28, 5:47 p.m. 2008
A parting blow over the failure to salt the snow, this one on behalf of retailers.
MOREPosted Mon, Dec 22, 11:55 a.m. 2008
Through the snow and other adversities to a just-right performance of Messiah at Town Hall.
MOREPosted Tue, Dec 16, 2 p.m. 2008
Uncovered film footage takes you to the 1909 world's fair.
MOREPosted Sat, Dec 13, 10:53 a.m. 2008
Chihuly and five other Seattle donors give the maximum ($50,000) to the Obama inaugural committee.
MOREPosted 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 Thu, Dec 4, 3:13 p.m. 2008
Rocky Mountain News has a lot of parallels with the Seattle situation, being part of a joint operating agreement. Another paper on the market doesn't make it easier for the Seattle Times Co. to sell its Maine papers.
MOREPosted Tue, Dec 2, 8:54 p.m. 2008
Seattle considers new, and over-due, limits of tree-cutting on private property.
MOREPosted Mon, Dec 1, 6 a.m. 2008
Well, maybe not that. But his scheme for a park atop a Viaduct has an exciting counterpart in New York City that is proving a magnet for starchitects.
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