David Brewster

David Brewster, a founding member of Post Alley, has a long career in publishing, having founded Seattle Weekly, Sasquatch Books, and Crosscut.com. His civic ventures have been Town Hall Seattle and FolioSeattle.

Cutting Costs at The Seattle Times

In Seattle, the Times is reducing its rented space from four floors to one, but that does not reflect any cuts in personnel so much as the new hybrid work model.

Hugo House Loses its Leader Amid Landmines of ‘Decisional Equity’

"The nonprofit sector must immediately lean away from the precedent of empowering white leaders to act on behalf of Black and Brown people. Period."

Take 3: Rating the Seattle Mayor’s Race (PLUS Special Bonus: City Council Races)

The crowded mayor's race means that a splinter candidate needs only to get 17-20 percent to make it through the primary. An open seat and a very open race.

An Idea for Empty Hotel Rooms: Private Room-Service Cafes

Choose your own background music. Private bathroom very handy. Social distancing easily arranged.

Is Washington too Partisan for a 911 Commission for the Capitol Insurrection?

Both Kean and Hamilton voiced some skepticism about finding enough fair-minded and trusted commissioners for the proposed 1/6 Commission, and one can also imagine the jockeying for various voices and equity issues in building the commission and even funding it.

A Second Trump Impeachment is Loaded With Dire Consequences

The Democrats had two de-escalatory options, but Republicans wouldn't bite and Democrats retreated to an impeachment-or-nothing stance. Result: nothing.

A Post-Bezos Corrective to the Amazon Narrative

The secret to Amazon's dominance, the author argues, is shrewd exploitation of sorta-legal loopholes. Loopholes can be closed.

Update: Seattle Mayor’s Race and the Gonzalez Council Vacancy

The progressive lane for mayor and the vacant council seat is getting crowded, and the center-left lane has not recruited strong candidates.

Jeff Bezos, Master of Inventions, Reinvents Himself

More likely, Bezos is following the path of Bill Gates, finding his passion in solving some of the world's mighty problems.

Our Tech Age’s Master Philosopher?

Girard's sweeping theory meshes with the all-against-all world of tech tinged with apocalyptic twilight and Freud's Totem and Taboo.

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