David Brewster

Woodward's basic defense is that a book is designed to give more context to incendiary quotes, which takes time, and naturally he needed to find out if Trump was, as usual, lying about what he knew and why he minimized the pandemic.

So, apparently, no more expansion in Seattle, no more dabbling in trying to shift the politics of the city. See ya!

An interesting innovation in Atlanta is to create a new kind of local opera company, built around notable singers who live in Atlanta. This kind of repertory company has the flexibility to put on all kinds of imaginative performances.

My sense of younger activists is that they are impatient with incrementalism and diversity tokenism (they don't just want more seats at the table, but driving the table).

It was always thought that the 787 might end up at one plant, the one in lower-labor-cost South Carolina. And it was always thought that the next generation of planes would be engineered and built at the Payne Field facility, the largest building in the world. But now?

Apparently the goal at Crosscut is to come as close as the newsroom can to reflecting demographics of the region or city. That's a complicated, tail-chasing task.

These obstacles to reform point to a key political problem -- the lack of leverage to force reform in big-city districts.

Seattle, as when Boeing was riding high, puts off economic planning to let the good times roll. Compounding the complacency syndrome is the expectation that all will be well, once a vaccine arrives and some of the fluff in our local economy is combed out.

Think about renaming public squares, with fine statues of King Don in the middle (renaming Lafayette Square across from the White House is an obvious first choice).

There's one big hitch, however. Will Durkan stick around and run for (or be elected to) a second term in 2021? Many are betting that she wants out. If so, does the long game last enough to pay off? Or just long enough to elect a more radical mayor in 2021?