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.

Opening Salvo: The Patriotism Card

The Democrats running the House impeachment hearings are shrewdly playing the patriotism card, hoping that a patriotism narrative will displace the partisanship story the Republicans hope to plant. By...

Election: Lessons and Predictions from the Voters

To me, the election was clarifying, and it's pretty obvious which way the wind is blowing.

The Kennedy Center’s New Campus And Its Seattle Connections

One wonders, as former Seattle Symphony exec Deborah Rutter reinvents the cultural center to reach wider audiences with striking architecture, whether that might have happened (or still could happen) at Seattle Center.

As California Burns, Will Climate Refugees Head This Way?

The rest of the West has always been peopled by former Californians, and that includes the Northwest. I wonder how much our demographers are calculating for this new migration.

Why There Won’t Be Another Jim Ellis

Activists today are too suspicious of the Ellis style of gathering the key power players, mostly white males in those days, and wary of people in power, especially business leaders (which was Ellis's stock in trade).

Remembering Jim Ellis: A Visionary Who Saw A Bold Metropolis

He saved Lake Washington, built a fine bus system, juiced downtown retail with visitors, and traded and cajoled his way to a Mountains-to-Sound Greenway.

Newcomers Versus Old-Timers: Recipe For New Political Alignment?

The discontents are the longer-in-towns, who may resent the passing of the old Seattle (Boeing jobs, bungalows, and mobility).

Dem Debates: Mayor Pete Frames the Post-Trump World

Meg Greenfield, the late and witty editor of the editorial page of The Washington Post, used to say that her test for a good politician was simple and demanding:...

Insight: How Go the Seattle City Council Races?

This year will be less a change or pendulum election and more an entrenching of the impasse between center-left and left-left.

Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes Better Get Used to a Hot Seat

What is likely, however, is that Holmes, 63, will decide not to seek a fourth term in 2021, and that he would have a stiff challenger if he ran.

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