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Crosscut Focus: People vs. Puget Sound. An environmentalist explains why better federal regulations are needed to police polluters among the world's fleet of cruise ships: State and local authorities can only do so much. Over six months this year, Puget Sound will see 211 big ships bearing 835,000 passengers call on Seattle.

Canadians look at the Olympic torch protests and wonder if 2010 can be different

Posted Tue, May 13, 10:30 AM

Toronto Globe and Mail

Memorial service for 'Jocko, the brave little monkey who died trying to save his mate'

Posted Mon, May 12, 7:33 AM

Province (Vancouver, BC)

Jocko the spider monkey is slain defending his apparently kidnapped mate

Posted Thu, May 8, 10:52 AM

Province (Vancouver, BC)

The city of Vancouver is forcing its Maritime Museum to close, say officials

Posted Tue, May 6, 4:05 PM

Vancouver Sun

Taser inquiry in B.C. opens, may lead to end of its use

Posted Mon, May 5, 12:06 PM

Toronto Globe and Mail

Nude bowling finally makes its way to Vancouver

Posted Fri, May 2, 5:14 PM

Toronto Globe and Mail

Vancouver's success with farmers markets brings a call for better facilities

Posted Fri, May 2, 8:21 AM

Vancouver Sun

CBC Radio Orchestra is now officially kaput

Posted Wed, Apr 30, 6:30 PM

Times Colonist (Victoria)

North America's only legal drug-injection site sues to stay open

Posted Tue, Apr 29, 7:16 AM

Toronto Globe and Mail

Vancouver's urban planning should be model for U.S.

Posted Sat, Apr 26, 9:01 AM

The Tyee (Vancouver)

The Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden

Posted Fri, Apr 25, 12:00 AM

By Flickr contributor Sue Frause, Crosscut

Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden In Vancouver, B.C.

Clinton: drinking from the poison well of pseudo-populism

Posted Thu, Apr 24, 1:46 PM

The Tyee (Vancouver)

Activists target a Vancouver condo project in the city's drug zone

Posted Thu, Apr 24, 11:48 AM

Vancouver Sun

Transit line to northeast Vancouver suburbs is revived

Posted Mon, Apr 21, 12:11 PM

Vancouver Sun

Vancouver's Pantages Theatre, 100 years old, will be restored

Posted Sat, Apr 19, 6:45 PM

Toronto Globe and Mail

Vancouver is the bank robbery capital of North America

Posted Fri, Apr 18, 7:42 AM

Vancouver Sun

Canadian natives say there could be Olympic disruptions if claims aren't addressed

Posted Fri, Apr 18, 7:37 AM

Toronto Globe and Mail

Vancouver Museum, forgotten by time, thinks about renewal plans

Posted Thu, Apr 17, 8:48 AM

Toronto Globe and Mail

Pay that SkyTrain fare or get tasered

Posted Wed, Apr 16, 7:52 AM

Toronto Globe and Mail

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Your chance to join the Mod Squad

Posted Tue, May 13, 10:00 AM

by Knute Berger

A number of events are coming up for people interested in preserving Northwest modernism, from Googie to Brutalism to starship chic. Here's a quick rundown and reminder of doings connected to stories I've been covering on Crosscut.

Crosscut

Puget Sound on Prozac

CROSSCUT

57 states — and the Soviet of Washington?

CROSSCUT

Arts Beat »

Tacoma wants a LIFT — Local Infrastructure Financing Tool — from the state

Posted Tue, May 13, 4:52 PM

The idea is to further develop downtown and the Dome District with the estimated $1 million per year for 25 years available through LIFT, a community development program approved by voters in 2006.

Tacoma BIA Blog

The New York Times cuts five from the arts staff

Arts Journal

Without $75,000, The Everett Theatre faces closure

Herald (Everett)

Business / Technology »

2.5 billion paper cups: Starbucks takes a hard look at recycling and composting

Posted Wed, May 14, 6:51 AM

The company is also looking at ways to cut energy use, through building practices and other means. As for paper waste, there's only so much the company can do if local municipalities aren't accommodating recycling and composting.

Seattle Times

Some companies are taking a pass on Microsoft Vista

BusinessWeek

As a reformist port commission gets sea legs, there is push-back from the staff

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Politics / Government »

Seattle releases a map of the 575 most hazardous buildings in an earthquake

Posted Wed, May 14, 6:33 AM

Well, sort of. It's actually a superficial "sidewalk" assessment done by a consultant. Says the last paragraph of this story: "The surveyors did not go into the buildings and did not always determine if the buildings had been upgraded or retrofitted. They concentrated their work in areas with higher numbers of such buildings and did not identify all of them in the city." City Hall is studying possible new rules on retrofitting masonry buildings.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

As a reformist port commission gets sea legs, there is push-back from the staff

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

A review of public disclosure exemptions rouses the constituencies behind them

Spokane Spokesman-Review

Lifestyle / Leisure »

Tacoma wants a LIFT — Local Infrastructure Financing Tool — from the state

Posted Tue, May 13, 4:52 PM

The idea is to further develop downtown and the Dome District with the estimated $1 million per year for 25 years available through LIFT, a community development program approved by voters in 2006.

Tacoma BIA Blog

An Ore. woman is the first female to win the brewmaster award

NorthWest Cable News

Available in Seattle this Friday: Copper River salmon

KIRO-TV

Travel »

The Coeur d'Alene Resort

Posted Wed, May 14, 7:00 AM

by Flickr contributor Deby Dixon

By the lake in northern Idaho.

Crosscut

Q&A with the new director of Washington State Ferries

News Tribune (Tacoma)

Mount Rainier's Paradise Inn is ready to reopen after years of renovation

News Tribune (Tacoma)

Food »

Included in the Farm Bill: $170 million in aid for salmon fisheries

Posted Tue, May 13, 3:52 PM

The aid will help those in Ore., Calif., and Wash. affected by the emergency closure of the Pacific salmon season, the most devastating closure in U.S. history.

Portland Business Journal

An Ore. woman is the first female to win the brewmaster award

NorthWest Cable News

Available in Seattle this Friday: Copper River salmon

KIRO-TV

Flip Side »

Hillary Clinton, will you please go now!

Posted Sun, May 11, 6:00 PM

by Steve Clifford

Flip Side: With apologies to Dr. Seuss and Maureen Dowd.

Crosscut

An alternative reality show

CROSSCUT

John Moe: Sorry, Seattle, I'm moving away

Seattle Times

Sports »

Oklahoma City stakes a claim for the Sonics, no matter who owns the team

Posted Tue, May 13, 12:00 PM

"An assistant municipal counselor sent a letter on behalf of Mayor Mick Cornett and other city officials informing Schultz, the team's former owner, that Oklahoma City's lease with the SuperSonics will be enforced no matter how pending lawsuits in Seattle are resolved."

Associated Press

Larry Stone on bringing back Junior: Nice idea, but potentially a letdown

Seattle Times

Comcast's high-definition baseball asterisk

CROSSCUT

Recreation / Outdoors »

The Coeur d'Alene Resort

Posted Wed, May 14, 7:00 AM

by Flickr contributor Deby Dixon

By the lake in northern Idaho.

Crosscut

Tacoma wants a LIFT — Local Infrastructure Financing Tool — from the state

Tacoma BIA Blog

The Port of Seattle approves an Eastside trail deal

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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