I recently wrote about two new downtown highrises ("Genuflecting to the High Rises"), and the article prompted this interesting email from a San Francisco reader, Charles M. Marsteller, who identifies...
Amid the Obamamania, allow me to insert two contrarian thoughts. Both are by way of arguing that the change mantra will have to, er, change. And soon.
A first reason is that other politicians...
Slate.com is out with its annual list of the top 60 American philanthropists, and there's a surprise for the mega-wealthy Northwest. Only one person from the region makes the list, Phil Knight, the...
Seattle City Councilmembers Richard Conlin, the new president of the Council, Tim Burgess, Bruce Harrell, Nick Licata, Tom Rasmussen, and Richard McIver have endorsed Barack Obama for president.
The...
San Francisco voters yesterday passed a $185 million green spaces levy, aimed at restoring decrepit parks, adding a few new ones, and sprucing up recreation centers. Opponents grumbled about how the...
Dialing for more dollars, Jane Hague's poor showing, how to read the Seattle results, liberal bias, how to spin your win, the dangers of a low-key approach: In an evolving thread, Crosscut's writers...
Sherry Carr, one of the new faces of reform in the Seattle School District election, comes from a background in big business, but she was also a PTA president. (Photo courtesy Niki Desautels/Seattle...