David Brewster

Seattle is a mid-sized city that ought to scale its dreams to its budgets.

We have grown a full-form chamber music society of high musical distinction.

Once Prohibition was enacted in 1919 by the 18th Amendment, the cultural urgency quickly evaporated and few followed the law. Prohibition was repealed in 1933 and quickly became a dead letter. That's the encouraging, cathartic analogy for the abortion wars.

"Get thee to Columbus and see what fine, non-trophy architecture for ordinary buildings has done, together with an example of enlightened, locally focused philanthropy. "

Imagining a Joe and Mitch breakfast discussion. If the GOP agrees to some progress on gun control, what would be the trade-off?

General McCaffrey dared to say: Joe Biden is too old and he's never going to get re-elected in 2024. So....

"City Hall is tired, and it needs vitamin-rich leaders who make the cushions bounce."

The Town Hall connection emerged when out of the blue Krogh helped me understand why I and others were having such a hard time getting anywhere in our decade-long efforts to purchase the Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist for conversion to a music and civic venue on Seattle’s First Hill.

"The Market is really a medieval village, governed by mysterious informal practices, 'a mixture of anarchism and Bolshevism,' as the saying goes."

Maybe the best way to accomplish these unions is for there to be a source of funding (or loans) that dangles a five-year package of money and real estate -- but only if the merger takes place.