David Brewster

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.

On entering the store, the subconscious part of the customers' mind imagined that they were soon to be writing poems, reading Sartre, working on a novel, or doing mega-deals.

An era of excellence and national aspiration has evolved into an era of equity and broader access for the arts.