Opinion The Pacific Northwest heritage blunders of 2019 From neglected gargoyles to noise assaults perpetrated by the Navy, this year has been a doozy. by Knute Berger / December 31, 2019
Culture Mossback’s Northwest: True tales from the most interesting place on earth Here's what we learned about Pacific Northwest history from Crosscut's Knute Berger — and our readers — in 2019. by Knute Berger / December 30, 2019
Opinion Journalists of color deserve more support. Here’s how Seattle can help. The Seattle Globalist recently announced it's out of money. One of the writers who got his start there has a suggestion for how to better support journalists of color. by Marcus Harrison Green / December 30, 2019
Opinion King County's political isolation is the story of 2019 The county remains a liberal bastion, but conservative ideas are thriving elsewhere across Washington state. by John Carlson / December 27, 2019
Opinion The decade progressives started fighting for themselves Seattleites of the future will remember the 2010s for the first stirrings of a new movement. by Katie Wilson / December 26, 2019
Opinion 'Growing fond of the gloom': How Seattle became home Everywhere I went in 2019, I found myself missing a piece of the city. by Samantha Allen / December 25, 2019
Opinion Life, liberty and the pursuit of a universal safety net for all Americans The current approach to helping our most vulnerable is inadequate and unjust. We can change that by meeting everyone's basic needs. by Tom Teicher / December 18, 2019
Opinion Odd jobs in The Emerald City Looking back on my first year in Seattle, it's the work that comes back. by Katie Wilson / December 17, 2019
Opinion A regional solution to homelessness is long overdue. Ask those on the front lines Nonprofits and service providers are making progress, but we need more help. by Angela Dunleavy-Stowell / December 16, 2019
Opinion Is bowing to business decaying our democracy? What an exchange during the House impeachment inquiry between Gordon Sondland and Rep. Denny Heck says about our values. by Lola E. Peters / December 13, 2019
Opinion Precise and poignant, Alex Tizon sheds light on 'invisible people' in posthumous book The Seattle writer gave Asian American journalists like me permission to aspire. by Glenn Nelson / December 11, 2019
Opinion The Central District has lost over a dozen of its Black churches. The rest may still be saved Cash poor and property rich, churches should consider developing what they're not using. by Donald King / December 9, 2019
Opinion Amazon tried to buy our elections. A new law will stop that When politics as usual looks this much like corruption, we have a problem. by Lorena González & Cindy Black / December 6, 2019
Opinion It's time to make our transportation system less efficient The latest deaths on Aurora Avenue should have Seattle thinking differently about car culture. by Anna Zivarts / December 4, 2019
Opinion In Seattle's WTO protests, the seeds of today's anti-globalist nationalism The massive global action against WTO was framed as a protest from the left. But the far right has gone out ahead. by Knute Berger / December 2, 2019