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Resurrecting Seattle's book festival

Posted Sat, Nov 7, 8 a.m.

It's been a tough year for books and words, but one bright spot was the effort to bring back a Seattle book festival. Some saw the event as a great first effort, others as a fiasco.

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Discovering Nirvana's lost treasures

Posted Fri, Nov 6, 5 p.m.

Two of the band's seminal concerts are captured in new releases this week. It's enough to make a critic regret, again, a long-ago mistake.

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Michelle Malkin’s journey from ideas to tribes

Posted Fri, Nov 6, 6 a.m.

A former Seattle Times colleague wonders what happened to the libertarian provocateur who used to engage him at their adjoining office doors.

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Hitting the wall before the starting line

Posted Fri, Nov 6, 6 a.m.

As the Seattle Marathon approaches, a local runner fights age and ailments to get to his 17th long-distance race.

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Jump-starting budget reform in Seattle schools

Posted Fri, Nov 6, 6 a.m.

A parent’s critical analysis of budget reporting has helped the Seattle school board consider administrative costs in analyzing where to make cuts next year.

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Time to consider reopening Seattle high schools

Posted Thu, Nov 5, 6 a.m.

As enrollment begins to creep back up, with a bubble moving toward high school, district officials may think about reopening old Lincoln High. And this is the time to make good on promises to improve South End schools.

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Election '09: Inside the mayoral campaign parties

Posted Wed, Nov 4, 10 a.m.

Two Crosscut writers, having declared their political druthers, report from last night's events.

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A case of bike rage

Posted Tue, Nov 3, 6 a.m.

The dispute over an event at West Seattle's Lincoln Park unleashes a "cycle" of anger. Once again, parks make good battlefields.

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Reality, Eugene-style

Posted Fri, Oct 30, 6 a.m.

Even a Seattle liberal can get that "not in Kansas anymore" feeling about a visit to Eugene, Ore.

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Why I support Crosscut

Posted Fri, Oct 30, 6 a.m.

As our Charter Membership Drive continues, a few words from a Crosscut Public Media contributor

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Ending homelessness: How are we doing?

Posted Thu, Oct 29, 6 a.m.

Those vaunted 10-year plans to solve the problem are halfway in, or more, and yet homelessness persists. Even so, we're making progress and on the right track.

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Mallahan or McGinn? That is the question.

Posted Wed, Oct 28, 6 a.m.

I have no answer yet about how to vote in the Seattle mayor's race. Like a lot of people, I'm still working it out.

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Fall is in the air, and on Seattle's street signs

Posted Tue, Oct 27, 6 a.m.

As part of a 10-year project, the city is gradually changing its street signs from green to brown. Our resident "address nerd" surveys the damage.

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Seattle Times circulation grows on P-I's demise

Posted Mon, Oct 26, 12:55 p.m.

New figures show the Times held on to two-thirds of its old rival's daily readers. But the advertising picture remains murky as the critical holiday season approaches.

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Report finds Seattle school spending top-heavy on administration

Posted Mon, Oct 26, 6 a.m.

The Seattle School District has the highest administrative costs in the state, according to a district parent's study, putting pressure on Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson as new budget work begins.

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Theater review: ACT's Rock 'n' Roll finds a groove

Posted Fri, Oct 23, 5:07 p.m.

Tom Stoppard's latest play melds memory and mirth in ACT's strong re-imagining of the Broadway production.

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Opera Review: 'La Traviata' kicks off 'Verdi-fest'

Posted Fri, Oct 23, 1 p.m.

Seattle Opera's production soothes and sometimes soars, but doesn't stretch.

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My picks for the general election ballot

Posted Thu, Oct 22, 6 a.m.

In a year of change, the choices are getting easier as Election Day approaches.

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McGinn's tunnel cave

Posted Wed, Oct 21, 6 a.m.

One reason not to vote early in Seattle: From here to election day is an eternity, especially with two mayoral candidates like Joe Mallahan and Mike McGinn.

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Is the tunnel a boondoggle?

Posted Tue, Oct 20, 6 a.m.

A new study shows Seattle-area tunnel projects are very likely to break the budget. But the nature of most mega-projects also suggests the Viaduct surface option wouldn't be exempt from cost problems either.

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Other media

Seattle's commercial real estate market is plunging fast In 2008, Seattle was rated tops in the nation. Now it's dropped to 8th. It's as steep a drop as any commercial real estate market in the nation.

Mallahan optimistic as McGinn's lead shrinks to 462 Roughly half the ballots in the Seattle mayor's race have been counted. "If this trend continues, we're solid," says Mallahan.

Police call fatal shooting of SPD officer 'an execution' The officer was killed sitting in a patrol car at 29th and Yesler, Saturday night around 10 pm. A massive search is underway but there are no suspects.

Seattle may lose nearly a quarter of library hours In one of the nation's most book-friendly cities, Seattle proposes to close 21 of 27 branches on Fridays and Sundays. Meanwhile library usage is up nearly triple since 2000.

Seattle Times endorses Joe Mallahan for mayor In a cautious editorial, the paper says the candidate "understands politics well enough to learn the job."

Blog posts

McGinn widens lead slightly in latest count

Posted Fri, Nov 6, 6:03 p.m.

Friday afternoon results show Mallahan trails in the Seattle mayor's race by 1,209 votes. It's McGinn's largest lead so far.

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MOHAI’s future begins at the Armory

Posted Fri, Nov 6, 6 a.m.

With a new fundraising campaign kicking off tonight, the history museum hopes to be in its new Lake Union digs in 2012.

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Waiting, statue-like, for the next count

Posted Thu, Nov 5, 10:22 a.m.

In the mayor's race, the slow process of counting mail-in ballots has left the candidates frozen.

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The fine print in the Times' good-news numbers

Posted Thu, Oct 29, 6 a.m.

Circulation audit rules allow those receiving free or heavily discounted papers -- such as former P-I readers -- to be counted as paid subscribers.

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The real Seattle circulation figures

Posted Tue, Oct 27, 4:21 p.m.

Yes, the Seattle Times claims a 36 percent circulation boost since the print P-I folded. But a better calculation is before-and-after combined circulation of the dailies. By that measure, not so good.

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Flip Side picks a mayor

Posted Tue, Oct 27, 3:34 p.m.

Our can't-miss endorsement. After all, he's not Greg Nickels.

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Duel of the scary Viaduct videos

Posted Mon, Oct 26, 4:07 p.m.

Pro- and anti-tunnel advocates each showcase their disaster scenarios.

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Chuck Knox on why the Huskies lost

Posted Sun, Oct 25, 11:06 a.m.

One key statistic, overlooked by many football analysts, explains Oregon's lopsided win over the UW on Saturday.

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Holding Steady at the Croc

Posted Fri, Oct 23, noon

"America's bar band" turns in an animated set, at no charge. But make ours straight up, hold the covers.

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A tale of two bookfests

Posted Fri, Oct 23, 6 a.m.

A new Seattle book festival launches this weekend in Columbia City, amid bad news for Elliott Bay Books and word of a new fest planned for next year.

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