Knute “Mossback” Berger is Crosscut's Editor-at-Large and host of the Mossback’s Northwest TV series on KCTS 9. He writes about politics and regional heritage. Previously he served as Editor-in-Chief of Seattle Weekly, Editor & Publisher of Eastsideweek, and as Managing Editor of Washington Magazine. He is Editor-at-Large for Seattle Magazine and has written two books, “Pugetopolis” and “Space Needle, Spirit of Seattle.” He is a regular commentator on KUOW-FM and a Rainier Club Fellow. Find him on Twitter @KnuteBerger or email at knute.berger@crosscut.com
Roots of Tomorrow: In the early 1900s, Bellevue was just a little junction with a thing for strawberries. That didn't stop James Ditty from imagining a major metropolis rising from his rural Eastside...
Officer Deuel (far left), one of Seattle’s first bicycle police officers, outside the Gifford & Grant cycle shop, circa 1900. Bike cops were hired to police cyclists and patrol the bike paths.
Seattle fancies itself a modern city. But the bike paths, density and urban visioning we crow about aren't really so innovative as we'd all like to think.
