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, Nov 3, 5:27 p.m.
The election will bring change, but the entrenched factors suggest only a few nudges. Here's an agenda for substantive change in our tax system, our spending priorities, our stalemated politics, and the post-Boeing economy.
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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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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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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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Posted Fri, Oct 23, 6 a.m.
At more than 140 miles spread among three events, the Ironman race is a huge feat to pull off all at once. But what if you could spread out the pain over a week?
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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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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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Posted Thu, Oct 15, 6 a.m.
Brookings' Bruce Katz argues in a UW talk that this "metro" can help lead the U.S. toward a new, more prosperous economy.
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Posted Wed, Oct 14, 6 a.m.
Our writer, talking with the Seattle mayoral candidate, comes away impressed by his small-C catholicity and Northwest values.
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Posted Fri, Oct 9, 6 a.m.
A stint in North Carolina offers perspective on some familiar concerns about transportation, school busing, local politics, and quality of life.
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Posted Tue, Oct 6, 6 a.m.
Without taking a position on the mayor's race, a leading Seattle neighborhood activist offers some advice for the winner. For starters, fire the bodyguard and get out there among the people.
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Posted Fri, Oct 2, 6 a.m.
The patron saint of livable, walkable cities is being invoked on both sides of the debate over Seattle's Viaduct solution. Would Jacobs be a tunnel supporter, or a surface option fan?
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Posted Fri, Sep 25, 6 a.m.
Some East Coast experts mistake the West for a thinly populated place, a wasteful region for Obama's new rail spending. The numbers tell a different, highly urban story.
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Posted Tue, Sep 22, 6 a.m.
Just putting tolls on the Evergreen Point Bridge is not going to cut it. Instead, the region needs to apply tolls all along the 520 corridor and broadly across our highway system. Here's an encouraging progress report.
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Posted Tue, Sep 22, 6 a.m.
A Vulcan spokesperson pleads: no more ill-informed pieces on South Lake Union by John Fox.
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Posted Mon, Sep 21, 6 a.m.
The director of Seattle's Department of Transportation makes the case for moving ahead on the Mercer Mess, and how the western portion got redesigned and will be funded.
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Posted Sun, Sep 20, 5:36 p.m.
An expert on cities distills the Portland DNA. Most of all, it's a city that is comfortable with being an urban place.
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Posted Fri, Sep 18, 6 a.m.
Seattle has a great international brand, but locally, the Emerald City image is tarnished. New leadership could give us a fresh start.
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Posted Thu, Sep 10, 6 a.m.
For the first time, cost estimates for the western part, phase II, have surfaced. Adding $100 million to a project that is already short of funding is starting to look like a kind of farewell fling from Mayor Nickels. A critic traces all the funding maneuvers.
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Posted Thu, Sep 3, 6 a.m.
These faux-lanes for bikes are ambiguous and do little more than enable politicians to claim more bike miles. Here's a better solution.
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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.
MOREPosted Fri, Oct 30, 6 a.m.
The City Council tries an irregular maneuver on the Mercer West project, leaving opponents (and the new mayor) little chance to weigh in.
MOREPosted Mon, Oct 26, 4:07 p.m.
Pro- and anti-tunnel advocates each showcase their disaster scenarios.
MOREPosted Tue, Oct 20, 11:17 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.
MOREPosted Mon, Oct 19, 3 p.m.
WIth a new Sightline report predicting cost overruns on plans to replace the Viaduct, it's a good time to revisit the Times columnist's perceptive framing of the debate.
MOREPosted Sun, Sep 20, 11:26 a.m.
Link Light Rail's unintentionally funny new "Fare Enforcement Officers" should lose the Kevlar and Velcro and try instead to channel their inner old-school train conductor.
MOREPosted Thu, Sep 17, 12:05 p.m.
Not all Northwest places have abandoned driving civility.
MOREPosted Wed, Sep 2, 6 a.m.
Narrow street. Let the oncoming car pass. Wave. Nod. All very simple and friendly. But, Things Have Changed.
MOREPosted Sat, Aug 22, 11:06 a.m.
An economist is skeptical about the goals and benefits of Obama's rail vision.
MOREPosted Sun, Aug 9, 1:10 p.m.
They may be good for the environment, but they aren't exactly seaworthy
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