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Is West Side Story still America’s story?

Seattle’s Cinerama has been hosting the 70mm Film Festival for the past couple of weeks, featuring classic films from 2001: A Space Odyssey to My Fair Lady. Yesterday I was able to go see West Side Story. My first time ever having seen the musical, I was impressed with the cinematography (advanced for the ‘60s) [...]

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True Diversity

Everyone knows that the population in the United States is growing, but many do not know that the nonwhite population is growing much faster than the white population. According to a report released earlier this month by the Brookings Institution nonwhites accounted for all the growth in the youth population from 2000 to 2010. In [...]

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Back to the Future Transportation

One of the amusing, and sad, things about discussions of the future of transit in the U.S. is that it is so often discussed in one of two ways, both intended to make it seem rather outlandish. First, it is discussed as something vaguely foreign – sure, they have widespread transit in Europe, but we [...]

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What is Smart Growth

January was the hottest month on record (going back to 1880) in Seattle, some 7 degrees F above normal You can see the evidence in this photo of my Iris’s that I just took. Kind of messes up the notion that because it was cold on the East Coast this year that global warming must [...]

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