As you might expect, life and death came into the conversation numerous times during a session on gun violence at last weekend’s Cascade PBS Ideas Festival. From a somewhat gruesome descrip...
https://crosscut.com/news/2024/05/practical-policy-national-gun-control-debate
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https://crosscut.com/news/2024/05/podcast-listen-cascade-pbs-ideas-festival
An encampment on the University of Washington campus has grown to more than 100 demonstrators after a second group set up a protest zone in solidarity with Gaza. Both groups are calling on the Un...
https://crosscut.com/news/2024/05/uw-pro-gaza-encampment-expands-over-100-remains-peaceful
Bolstered by an almost $5 million war chest, supporters of Washington’s cap-and-invest program have begun their efforts to keep the state’s carbon pricing system, which is facing a November r...
https://crosscut.com/politics/2024/05/multimillion-dollar-fight-over-was-cap-and-invest-program
Back before Taylor Swift filled stadiums on multiple nights, another touring show drew huge crowds. It was pure spectacle, part circus, rodeo, melodrama and pageant. It was the Wild West Show. Th...
https://crosscut.com/mossback/2024/05/mossbacks-northwest-seattle-loved-buffalo-bills-wild-west-show
Suddenly it’s May, which means time for the Seattle International Film Festival (May 9-19). This year, in addition to independent filmmaking, SIFF celebrates its return to an old favorite scre...
https://crosscut.com/culture/2024/05/artsea-seattle-international-film-festival-turns-50-ish
Seattle’s city budget grew 29% over the past five years, mostly because of increased labor costs plus high inflation. About $90 million of the budget increase — from $6.1 billion in 2019 ...
https://crosscut.com/politics/2024/05/audit-finds-inflation-wages-drove-seattles-17b-budget-increase
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https://crosscut.com/culture/2024/05/your-last-meal-jesse-tyler-ferguson-always-craves-green-chiles
TOPICS: Multimedia , Video
https://crosscut.com/news/2024/05/newsfeed-ecological-power-underground-seed-banks
The Whatcom County Council unanimously voted on Tuesday to launch a formal investigation into the county’s handling of sexual harassment and retaliation allegations against a former Public Work...
https://crosscut.com/news/2024/05/whatcom-county-investigate-handling-sexual-harassment-case
Torrey Stephenson, 30, never learned to swim. As an 11-year-old growing up in Colorado, Stephenson tended to avoid his neighborhood pool. He was uncomfortable with the idea of being made to w...
https://crosscut.com/equity/2024/05/how-pnw-trans-swimmers-are-finding-comfort-and-out-water
TOPICS: Podcast
https://crosscut.com/culture/2024/05/podcast-civic-leader-vivian-phillips-talks-black-arts-legacies
TOPICS: black arts legacies , performing arts , Seattle
https://crosscut.com/culture/2024/04/black-arts-legacies-tee-dennard-takes-center-stage
Twenty-four years after Washington became the first state to commit to decreasing pedestrian traffic deaths to zero, the numbers continue to move in the wrong direction. Last year was one of the ...
https://crosscut.com/news/2024/04/seattle-walkable-city-pedestrian-death-rates-show-otherwise
State and federal officials on Monday released another new plan to clean up Hanford, the Western Hemisphere’s most polluted site, a full 16 years behind their previous schedule to turn most of ...
https://crosscut.com/news/2024/04/hanfords-new-plan-clean-56-million-gallons-nuclear-waste
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https://crosscut.com/mossback/2024/04/podcast-meet-clam-pnws-most-beloved-bivalve
Around 25 demonstrators gathered Monday morning on the quad of the University of Washington’s Seattle campus to establish an encampment in solidarity with Gaza, joining a wave of similar effort...
https://crosscut.com/news/2024/04/students-uw-tent-encampment-demand-divestment-israel