Crosscut articles of the past 10 days with the most clicks.
Crosscut articles of the past 10 days with the most reader comments.
Posted Thu, Jun 26, 5 a.m.
The vision is to make the University of Washington and the region a major player in the post-carbon economy. Big stuff. Whether President Mark Emmert can make it happen is an open question, however.
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Posted Fri, May 2, 9 a.m.
As Mark Emmert joins two local corporate boards, boosting his yearly income well into seven figures, it's worth asking if he's really earned it. He's a prominent public face for the institution, but he's no scholar and doesn't actually run the university.
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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 Wed, Jan 7, 6 a.m.
SmartMoney says a UW grad gets a 225 percent payback over time, making it a better value than an Ivy League school. But do the numbers add up?
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Posted Mon, Nov 24, 6 a.m.
Our local politicians are coping with austerity by sharing the pain and keeping nearly all programs alive for a future return. But what about the chance to be rid of programs that don't work?
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Posted Sun, Nov 16, 4 p.m.
The unloved former coach brings UCLA to town for another drubbing of the Huskies. Bad-boy coaches finish with lucrative settlements. Good-guy coaches finish just plain last.
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Posted Fri, Nov 14, midnight
A forum on the financial crisis settles some jitters about what lies ahead but leaves more questions than answers.
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Posted Sat, Nov 1, midnight
He's a decent man who inherited more problems than he could turn around in his brief tenure, argues this UW alum.
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Posted Wed, Oct 29, midnight
In the wake of the mortgage bailout, many are left wondering what went wrong. A UW forum attempts an answer.
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Posted Sun, Oct 19, 4:51 p.m.
Over objections from the University of Washington, the Nuclear Reactor Building was added to the state's heritage list and was approved for National Register consideration.
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Posted Sun, Sep 28, 2 p.m.
The MacArthur Foundation names 25 people who, together, could probably get us out of this mess.
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Posted Sun, Aug 31, 11 a.m.
Biding time until coach Tyrone Willingham is gone, cranky University of Washington football fans at least get to watch an NFL quarterback prospect excel. Jake Locker does so in spite of those around him.
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Don't make a megalith, advises a prominent expert in forestry. Instead, think of a virtual environment with porous walls and many disciplines. The result could put the University of Washington in the lead for solving the world's environmental problems.
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Posted Thu, Jun 5, midnight
For some of the more than half of Seattle residents who rent, such a program could mean better conditions without the onus of ratting out a landlord. For the 4,300 owners of an estimated 100,000 rental units, required regular inspections sound onerous.
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Posted Tue, Jun 3, 5 a.m.
A University of Washington prof interviewed 450 members of liberal and evangelical Christian churches in the Pacific Northwest. His mission: to understand the "clash of cultures" between two sides of the same tradition.
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Posted Fri, May 30, 6 p.m.
A former staff member of the University of Washington's Center for Urban Horticulture wonders why, seven years later, the crime makes no more sense than it did the morning Merrill Hall went up in flames.
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Posted Thu, May 22, 4 p.m.
Invoking the Red Scare of the 1950s, some environmentalists claim the federal government is committing something similar against the green movement of the 2000s. Of course, it could simply be vigorous enforcement of laws against violence and property damage.
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Posted Tue, May 20, 5 a.m.
State universities have clumsy and stingy masters in state capitols. Is it time for divorce court? Here's the story of how some people advising the University of Washington looked at such a scheme.
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Posted Sun, May 18, 8 p.m.
Red balloons and hot dogs help in a University of Washington grad student's fight to save the Nuclear Reactor Building. Plus: Honors for the state's historic preservationists.
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Posted Tue, Apr 29, 5 a.m.
A University of Washington study aims to help you help your child with school sports.
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Posted Mon, Mar 31, 5 a.m.
Plans for Seattle Center, the University of Washington and the Capitol Campus in Olympia suggest that public agencies, like private developers, are willing to flatten historic buildings if they get in the way. What kind of historic preservation message is that?
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Posted Mon, Mar 31, 5 a.m.
Our humorist explains why active listening is overrated.
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Posted Thu, Dec 25, 4:26 p.m. 2008
Jane Lubchenco's designation to head the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), signals Barack Obama's intent to get serious about climate change. It is also recognition of Pacific Northwest leadership in marine science.
MOREPosted Tue, Dec 9, 4 p.m. 2008
The Sark Attack at Huskyville. Round 1.
MOREPosted Tue, Dec 9, noon 2008
The University of Washington has to suspend 23 faculty searches, coping with the budget crisis. It recalls the sayings of Chairman Dick.
MOREPosted Tue, Nov 18, 10:53 p.m. 2008
There's progress to report on efforts to save two Seattle landmarks.
MOREPosted Sat, Nov 1, 2:33 p.m. 2008
In the Washington Poll, he now trails Gov. Chris Gregoire 50-48. The same poll earlier this week had Gregoire ahead 51-45.
MOREPosted Mon, Oct 27, 2:06 p.m. 2008
The Washington Poll also found that Initiative 1000 is ahead and that Sound Transit Proposition 1 is no worse than tied and possibly ahead, based on the margin of error.
MOREPosted Tue, Oct 21, 11:29 a.m. 2008
Two local luminaries join a forum proposing ways to turn around the Bush administration's neglect of the nation's technological competitiveness.
MOREPosted Sun, Oct 19, 4:13 p.m. 2008
Six games remain on the University of Washington football schedule, and it's not going to get any easier for the winless Huskies.
MOREPosted Tue, Oct 14, 3:22 a.m. 2008
Jellyfish from the San Juan Islands enlighten the world.
MOREPosted Fri, Sep 19, 4 a.m. 2008
Sierra, the magazine of the Sierra Club, named the top 10 schools in the U.S. for environmental stewardship, and two Washington schools made the grade: Evergreen State College, at No. 5, and the University of Washington at Seattle, which, at No. 9, barely beat Tufts University to make it into the top 10.
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