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.

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.

Political Comedy, Ukraine-Style

Ukraine's new president, Volodymyr Zelensky seems well cast in the farce that has become Trump's Last Days.

Thoughts from the Peanut Gallery After a Night at the Seattle Symphony

The suggestion from Pittsburgh is not to keep trying to sell season tickets and individual tickets at the usual high prices ($50-$120), but instead to adopt the museum model.

Poll History: The Dangers of Reviving the Kavanaugh Issue

As the Christine Blassey Ford testimony and Kavanaugh's indignant response riveted voters' attention, the swing to the Republican Rossi was huge, 57-33, according to Elway.

The Seattle Library That Might Have Been

Steven Holl was almost the architect of Seattle's Central Library, where he was the runner-up to Rem Koolhaas.

Seattle Elections: Has the “Movement Left” Reached Its Half-Life?

Interest groups have a half-life of about 30 years in the fluid, non-partisan world of Seattle politics.

Impure Thoughts: Nukes Versus Climate Change?

Rather than purity tests, David Roberts argues, better to have complex answers to the separated problems.

Bye Bye, Coffee Bean: No More Howard Schultz to Kick Around

He's got a bad back, and he seems to have grasped the obvious point that his candidacy might well re-elect Trump.

Town Hall Seattle Reopens After a Grand Renovation

Town Hall evolved organically from its early days, when maps didn't exist, to the beloved and grand institution of today. Who would've thunk it? Certainly not me!

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