Posted Fri, Jul 1, 12:01 p.m.

The southern model of economic development has been to steal high-paying union jobs from the north. How is this job creation? This seems more like a shuffle with diminishing returns for working people.

Posted Tue, Jan 18, 12:46 p.m.

George Washington Bush, his family and the rest of their party settled north of the Columbia as a result of Oregon's laws against non-whites owning land. I have read that his child, Lewis Nisqually Bush, was the first child of settlers born in the current state of Washington, but am ...

Posted Wed, Jan 12, 8:35 a.m.

My understanding, albeit from several years ago, is that they tried kinetic weapons and found the technology lacking to such a degree that they returned to the idea from the 70s and 80s to detonate a nuclear warhead in the proximity of the incoming ICBM, destroying it. This would leave ...

Posted Fri, Dec 10, 8:24 a.m.

The garish sign for ING Direct on the southern end of the viaduct foreshadows what could happen, as just a couple such signs on our taller buildings would dramatically alter our skyline.

Posted Tue, Mar 16, 10:09 a.m.

Ivar Haglund; Roy Olmstead, if we are including nefarious characters such as DB Cooper; John Pinnell (going with Lou Graham) to name a few. Interesting brainstorm...

Posted Fri, Mar 13, 3:25 p.m.

There's a redneck logger in East King County that makes over $200K per year?!

Posted Fri, Mar 13, 1:19 a.m.

If you you get it, you you get it. If you don't, you don't... Prevention is certainly no snake oil. This is why steptoe fan is correct that we should reallocate all the revenue we put into social services into police forces. Hell, this economy is so chock full of ...

Posted Wed, Mar 11, 12:30 p.m.

George, Development has all but dried up but that is temporary and, even if it takes 5 years, we need a plan for when the the economy turns around other than more unfettered growth. Maybe council membership isn't the best path to the mayor's office because of their focused view, ...

Posted Wed, Mar 11, 11:47 a.m.

Yeah Spike, until "we" get off the freeways and are plagued by all the bikes and busses... For such a liberal state, we certainly do have a regressive tax system. Perhaps there is something in our regional character that refuses to deal with anything in a big-picture sense, so we ...

Posted Wed, Mar 11, 11:24 a.m.

If you build it, they will come... So what if you don't build it? Nickels would have you believe that the whole city and region will fall apart. He has thrown open the flood gates to developers and they are not catering to people who need affordable housing or doing ...