Denver, riding high among American cities in growth and enlightened politics, has been hard hit by foreclosures. An eye-opening story in USA Today paints a disturbing picture of one Denver suburb where as many as one-third of the residents have lost their homes on some blocks.
Denver officials say they expect 11,000 foreclosures this year, up from 7,700 last year. That's an average, last year, of one foreclosure for each 32 households. Particularly hard-hit are remote subdivisions where low and middle-income families are buying their first homes. That might be a warning for where Foreclosure Flu could start hitting the Seattle and Portland regions: in the outer suburbs where home-seeking families escape from high prices near the core.
Seattle Opera's Young Artists have good fun with the story of an amiable con artist, while also staging a rare "lyrical fantasy" by Ravel (libretto by Colette), here set in a subway.
In the absence of SWAG (stuff we all get) from official Obama campaign channels, a bounty of homemade political buttons has surfaced in Seattle. Certainly they lack the slick messaging of Clinton's campaign, or even Obama's advertorially smart O logo, but they characterize well a campaign that has relied on true grassroots momentum, to historic effect.
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