David Brewster

The local results are more mixed than the national Blue Wave. That probably translates into more instability in Seattle leadership (now four so-so  mayors old), but a new generation is definitely coming, particularly if Wilson decides to seek a City Council seat and keeps up her pressure on the Mayor to perform better.

Armstrong's book exhibits a massive amount of research and is a handy compendium for the genre of musical theater. It also has a strong, Trump-defying thesis, that Broadway musicals are "created almost entirely by people who were marginalized -- immigrants, Jewish, Queer, Black,...and women."

Re-Universitizing the Metropolitan Tract would be attractive for people living and getting to downtown, and many universities such as Portland State or Arizona State realize the advantages of locating downtown for extension classes, UW Medicine, cultural offerings, faculty housing, and industry incubators.

Seattle grew such figures then, and just as Bill Gates detonated IBM, so Starbucks demolished Folger's and other "industrial brews."

The problem arose due to the peculiar circumstances of the 1780s, when the Constitution was written.

All these indicators, random as they are, suggest that Seattle has passed its "hot" moment and needs to discover a compelling new economic strategy.

In these sour times incumbents are fair game and voters look for someone to blame.

At times, the 1930s in this new history read like a lost decade, since many of the socialist and New Deal movements wane or over-reach.

My main suggestion is to steal some thunder from the Republicans and drifting voters by daring to embrace some populist ideas, rather than softening some core beliefs.

I suggest aspects of a shadow government and an emerging new politics, with these components.