David Brewster

Given the rivalry with Oklahoma City over the Sonics, we're not too likely to emulate politics from Oklahoma, but here's one political ploy that may be worth borrowing, particularly now that Tim Eyman...

A visit from the Oberlin Baroque Trio to Town Hall Monday night underscored a strength of Seattle's musical scene as an "early music" city. Probably only Berkeley and Boston are the equals of Seattle...

Former Seattle Mayor Charles Royer recently went public with a new group, the Middle Income Housing Alliance of Seattle, aimed at dealing with the most obvious problem facing the region: it's getting...

Seattle may be the home of Amazon, a company about to try to reinvent the book with a new electronic version called The Kindle, but it's also a place with a traditional bookish culture. That was on...

The University of Washington yesterday announced its leading candidate for a North Campus: downtown Everett. Immediately the dominoes began to tumble in this high-stakes game for a new branch campus....

Today's Post-Intelligencer has a fascinating story about the way Boeing allegedly spies on employees, reading private e-mails, tailing them, and monitoring keystrokes. The story is framed with...

Defeat Proposition 1, as happened last week, and you leave a lot of taxing authority on the table. Not surprisingly, local governments are pouncing. Their greediness perhaps got out of hand this week...

That was fast. Just a week after the voters nixed Proposition 1 for roads and transit, Gov. Chris Gregoire announces she's taking control of 520 bridge planning. Seattle is about to pay a price for...

Seattle Opera's recent production of Gluck's rarely performed Iphigenia in Taurus was reviewed by Crosscut music critic Fred Hauptman, in an appraisal that was basically positive but critical of the...

Former Seattle Mayor Charles Royer pens an interesting think-piece in Sunday's Seattle Times, urging us to pay more attention to the squeeze on middle class housing in high-cost Seattle. The essay is very diplomatic, as befits a former mayor, but it scores some valuable direct hits on local politics. Gingerly, Royer calls for a "conversation" about this topic, using a word that normally suggests that the proposer of some strong medicine doesn't really want to be candid. What he's saying is that the city has done a fair job in building low-income housing, going from 8,000 subsidized units to 21,000 today. But what about the middle class?