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2011 | April
Budget-cutting battlefield scenes from around the country
Weekend tech blog: Watching TV on your living room couch? That's so 2010
Crosscut's Spring Membership drive ends Monday
Green Acre Radio: Farming is thriving at Yesler Terrace
Fending off compassion fatigue: Community events keep Seattle helping Japan
One year later, Deepwater Horizon still spreads trouble
Seattle sports: Week ends with surprises
Cascade Bike Club enters new era sparked by the rider revolution
Social services, education: If cash talks, should we listen?
Explaining Donald Trump
What will alarm Americans about nuclear weapons?
Seattle is shedding diversity; the state's minority populations grow
The best graduation gift ever
Government by Tweet
Bellingham's first debate on coal-for-China project reflects growing tensions
Membership drive: Party-time for Members tonight
Special session offers some hope of curbing tax breaks
Cold weather hit the state's vineyards hard
Apprenticeship: a very old solution to the Great Schools Crisis
EMP's new exhibit shows how Nirvana rocked the world
Did Obama have his head examined?
Is King County muddling through or making real reforms?
UW's Young looks good, despite presidential-selection process
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts: street-smart historian
Stormwater: a whole lot more than oil runoff
$4-a-gallon gasoline brings immediate pain, and incentive to look at future options
Marrying new and old in historic districts
Hunger and insecurity about food haven't gone away
Last week for our Membership drive, with a big new match
'Merry Wives': Just as funny, 400 years later
Allen takes a hard look at himself and others, not just Bill Gates
Why a Seattle church takes up the cause of a Guantanamo detainee
There goes another Seattle startup!
Crosscut tech blog: First-run major studio movies on your home TV ... so very close
Go West, Young U.W. President Young
Mariners' lefties are left out when it comes to finding a win
Message to our patient users
In search of real American cuisine
Membership Drive: Join us in creating a new model of local journalism
Highway clunkers: the state's design ideas
Earth Day and beyond: WSU research could help rain gardens work effectively
Is a 'green' idea discredited by a Seattle drainage project gone awry?
Joyce Carol Oates and the ludicrous nature of grief
The 'McDonald's of the Philippines' opens a rare U.S. outpost here
A legislator gets sent to the principal's office
How much time should legislators take to adopt a budget?
Too many people think they could fix Seattle's schools
We are what we read: three new books about food
Census shows Bellevue's growing Asian, minority population
Diabetes decision reflects state drive to make appropriate health-care choices
Crosscut Tout: After Tax Day, time for poetry at Richard Hugo House
Scenes of great pain and good humor in 'O Lovely Glowworm'
A springtime feast: Wendell Berry at SAL, plus a nourishing course on sustainability
Sidewalks are a neighborhood's status symbol, but do they help the environment?
Crosscut membership drive: still lots we need to improve
Icons we could do without
Blowing the whistle on plans to shift Amtrak's route south of Tacoma
Mossback's new gig: digging into the history of a tall, 50ish Seattle favorite
Pithy one-liners are fun, but what's the point of 'This'?
One good Seattle manifesto deserves another
My hopes and fears for Egypt
Will Northwest miss a teachable moment on tsunamis, quakes?
The P-I's death two years later: in no mood to mark the occasion
Wedge tirade lifts M's for a day
Frontline airs documentary on clergy sex abuse in Alaska
Letter to editor: Community college budgets may be balanced on backs of part-time faculty
Bordeaux and its riverfront: a lesson for Seattle?
Intiman Theatre will suspend the rest of this season
Membership drive: a new initiative reaching deeper into the community
Ferry system to get fresh Band-Aids
Washington's governors race is going to be a donnybrook
Short-term cuts pose long-term threats to state higher education
Weekend tech blog: Only a few age-related tears for the printed book
Are we heading for fiscal apocalypse, or just the usual electioneering?
Lauren Weedman: full-throttle energy, but a missed opportunity
Life lessons from a dead goat, following a real-life tragedy
McKenna attacks state's cuts to higher education
Vivarium show blurs the lines between life and art
Green Acre Radio: How Obama helped bring healthy local foods to more people here
Taproot's play about Bonhoeffer is moving, well done
Letter to editor: Seattle Public Schools are missing the boat
State legislature moves to limit 'modern debtors' prison'
Jenny Durkan shows her clout
Street food goes upscale, and moves indoors
Membership drive: 'Crosscut, I’m glad I ran into you!'
Why state redistricting will favor the GOP
Sound Transit is bringing up Seattle's past
Making use of the city's many vacant lots
Wouldn't Ichiro, M's benefit from a trade to a contender?
State Senate's budget: strong process, weaker results
Another matching grant for Crosscut's Membership drive today
When good job news can lead to higher unemployment
How federal budget-makers cut wolves from the endangered-species list
Chernobyl's lengthy recovery has a sobering message for Japan
An ambitious blend of comedy and tragedy, told through baroque opera and ballet
Mike O'Brien knew he'd face awkward moments on the council
Crosscut's Membership drive today earns matching funds
Memo to Seattle: You have to play by the preservation rules!
It's the economic strategy, stupid!
Seattle schools have forgotten to listen to parents
Did Seattle 'lose' a space shuttle 25 years ago?
The story of Nirvana's rise from Aberdeen to the world stage
Lots of talk about the problems of cutting higher education
Crosscut's spring Membership drive: day 2
Gregoire's opposition to waterfront 'social engineering' contradicts history
Vivian McLean, an ordinary woman who led an extraordinary life
Scientist is taking charge at People for Puget Sound
In Denver, an arts boom despite hard times
Enchanting 'Midsummer Night's Dream' frolics while showcasing technique
Sidney Lumet's 'Network' was years ahead of its time in portraying today's TV news
GOP in West eager to force colleges to allow gun-toting students
Help Crosscut thrive by becoming an Annual Member
Closing tax loopholes in Olympia could backfire
Weekend tech blog: Netflix goes 'Mad,' Blockbuster goes belly-up, and Who do Vudu?
April 12: an important day for reflection in the U.S.
For the Mariners and their fans, Niehaus tributes provide a much-needed distraction
Restaurant roundup: A quick tour of tasty Seattle startups and tart-ups
Cash for high-speed rail hightails it to Washington
Top-notch acting and singing carry this lively '9 to 5'
Betz Family Winery is sold to South African couple
Amazon named 'most reputable' company in U.S.
The Japanese hot dog: an idea born in the Northwest
City council, state play games to avoid public vote on tunnel
Mossback's '36 hours' in Duwumps
Maestro, cue the pledge drive!
Budget cuts would hit hard in communities of color
Arts facing a wipe-out in Olympia
Uncivil war over preservation?
The federal shutdown, or non-shutdown, as viewed from the NW
Data hackers score big, but ultimately do little damage
Rescuing the valleys: a new approach to flooding, endangered salmon, and crumbling dams
Letter to editor: We need the truth about radiation levels
Crosscut Tout: A dark and yet playful 'Don Giovanni'
Staging, and selling, ethnic dance and music: a Cuban success story
Budget action: Less than three weeks to go and plenty to worry about
Dead-end discoveries?
Divisions play into hands of extremists
Finding footprints of the Northwest's own giant tsunami
Crosscut Tout: SAM films feature daring Soviet art and the endearing Jeff Bridges (April 6-7)
A tale of two train stations
Vancouver's real estate gold rush is totally out of control
Why we are failing to teach every child to read
Green Acre Radio: Wild steelhead are in decline
GOP idea would devastate Medicaid
Niehaus Way South: a nice tribute, or half of one anyway
Re-naming Cascades peaks
The Bedouin key to understanding Qaddafi
The happiest billionaire
M's start quite differently
Clough luck at the Smithsonian
Weekend tech blog: Amazon's Cloud-y dreams
Two great men who shaped our state
Crosscut Tout: Cuban rumba with deep cultural roots and a cross-generational style
Seattle isn't alone in controversy over a biotech district
Trisha Brown has evolved from modern-dance trailblazer to opera choreographer
Crosscut Tout: Paul Jacobs is phenom on organ