Peter Jackson

In the Jet County, they're expending a lot of energy bemoaning Boeing's failure to win a big Air Force contract. There's not much locals can do about that. But a university, that's another matter.

Last Thursday, Jan. 17, I traveled to Olympia to support a University of Washington branch campus for my luminous, blue-collar City on a Hill, otherwise known as the "Athens of Puget Sound." I speak...

In Sunday's Everett Herald, columnist Julie Muhlstein pays tribute to the recently razed 25th Street Market, a quasi-Third Place and community landmark. Muhlstein's vivid portrait throws into relief...

A big new idea takes hold with NW lawmakers. An update on what happened since a proposal was first published in Crosscut.

What's in a name? For one, the formerly elegant "Katrina" has been purged from those names-for-your-baby books (and "Pete," alas, is reserved exclusively for three-legged dogs). That's what's in a...

Ted Van Dyk's memoir of a career in national politics is the view of a principled idealist working, paradoxically, in proximity to power.