Meet Crosscut’s Courage Award Winner in Business
As business students at Bainbridge Graduate Institute (now Pinchot), neither of Community Sourced Capital's co-founders had formal finance experience. But through their graduate research, they...
View ArticleCrosscut partners with MOHAI on next Community Idea Lab: Public school 2.0
Last spring, on a warm June evening, more than 300 of you gathered at Town Hall for a new perspective on things. You came to hear the answer to a question we had put to our community — How can we use...
View ArticleHow can we make K-12 education more student-focused, personalized and...
How can we make K-12 education more student-focused, personalized and community-rooted? Exciting news, nerds. We’ve heard from you that you want more time to submit your ideas to the Crosscut...
View ArticleCommunity Idea Lab: The Final Five
How can we make K-12 classrooms more student-focused, individualized and community-rooted? That’s the question we asked all of you this winter through our Community Idea Lab, a new kind of community...
View ArticleMeet Crosscut’s Community Idea Lab winner
Abi Gibson is a high school senior. The oldest of three sisters, she’s a vocal jazz nut and, like a lot of other high schoolers, she isn’t sure yet what she wants to ‘be’ when she grows up. But there’s...
View ArticleManaging Editor Berit Anderson leaving to launch new media venture
I’m equally excited and saddened to announce today that I have decided to leave my role as Crosscut’s managing editor. Over the next month or so, I’ll be winding down my time here and working with...
View ArticleCan Rep. Suzan DelBene keep your fridge from launching spam attacks?
Last January, a fridge was caught sending spam emails as part of a larger botnet attack: In other words, someone out there remotely accessed more than 100,000 devices, including televisions, routers,...
View ArticleUnder the Heatlamp: Fair ferry fare
There are pros and cons to traveling on the Washington State Ferries. Pros: Stunning scenery. Camaraderie among riders. Native American art emblazoned on the tables. Comfortable bench seats that double...
View ArticleCrosscut’s next Community Idea Lab: Transportation
One balmy night last summer, my fiance and I found ourselves trapped in a wall of traffic, one among thousands of cars inching northward, sloth-like, on one of the Seattle area’s most congested...
View Article2014’s #2 Most Read: International Space Station flies Seahawks 12th Man flag
This satirical piece was our second most read story of 2014. Seattle and Denver both have long traditions in aerospace. Before legal recreational marjiuana use became a reality, "Getting Really...
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