David Brewster

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Rising cities realize how the arts help their regions and their economies, while Seattle is stuck playing defense on the arts. Here's why.

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Only two of four measures to help arts in Seattle and statewide are still breathing, just barely.

Tracing the Seattle and Tacoma connections in the latest flap at the Smithsonian, with a delicious surprise ending.