Category Archives: Center for the New Northwest

Innovation and ideas on life, policy, and the arts.

HARBINGER, Part Two: Star Power

How much audacity does it take to pique the interest of the president-elect? For a man with a notoriously short attention span, something of spectacularly high stakes and monumental reward would seem to be required. Is it possible that such a project might actually serve the public good? Could his administration, for instance, bring us Read More

Changes Big and Small

Let’s talk about change. Big change. It’s unsettling. A very human response is to resist it. We get disoriented, loose our bearings, feel lost, adrift. Let’s talk about natural disasters. They are a very dramatic metaphor for change. Imagine Cascadia. Imagine Vancouver, Seattle and Portland, with all their sophistication and verve, are brought to a Read More