David Brewster

"The intriguing prospect is a reassembling of what council member Andrew Lewis calls 'the pre-head-tax, pro-growth coalition,' basically the Establishment Left and the Business Democrats as a working majority."

I wish I felt more confidence in the fragile governing structures of these unwieldy beasts.

It's an important evocation of Filipino life in Seattle, a city matched by Stockton, California as the twin centers of Filipino-American life.

Early Music Seattle, a mainstay of Seattle's classical music for 45 years, is now embarking on some significant changes and multicultural broadening.

The new chief will be taking the helm in very rough seas.

Crime, homelessness, high rents, stymied urban politics, NIMBY opposition to building housing, lagging transit, family values from remote work, worker-liberation — all apply to Seattle.

In short, the best exemplar of Seattle's deep traits.

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 Prohibition was repealed in 1933 and quickly became a dead letter.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.