Crosscut articles of the past 10 days with the most clicks.
Crosscut articles of the past 10 days with the most reader comments.
Crosscut blog posts of the past 10 days with the most clicks.
Posted Wed, Nov 4, 6 a.m.
When an economic engine like Boeing snubs your state on your watch, there's not much for a governor like Chris Gregoire to do. Just take the hit and try to move on.
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Posted Tue, Nov 3, 5:27 p.m.
The election will bring change, but the entrenched factors suggest only a few nudges. Here's an agenda for substantive change in our tax system, our spending priorities, our stalemated politics, and the post-Boeing economy.
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Posted Mon, Nov 2, 6 a.m.
Ten encouraging developments, plus four little worries. It only seemed like an inconsequential election season, but the omens were quite good for life after Nickels.
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Posted Fri, Oct 30, 6 a.m.
The company is spending $900 million to save $9 million a year in wages. But we shouldn't get mad or succumb to the blame game. We should outsmart Boeing.
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Posted Wed, Oct 14, 6 a.m.
For a certain generation of Northwest airplane geeks, Boeing's recent troubles hit especially hard. The easiest thing may be to just call the company what it has become: McDonnell Douglas.
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Posted Thu, Oct 8, 6 a.m.
A city that defines urban decline was once like Seattle, built on a dominant transportation industry. Can it become a laboratory for urban reinvention?
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Posted Tue, Sep 29, 6 a.m.
Forbes gives the state high marks for its business climate, but you wouldn't know that at a summit of business leaders, suffering from the Boeing jitters.
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Posted Tue, Sep 22, 6 a.m.
The next session of the legislature could be an ugly one for majority Democrats, with restive labor unions and still more cuts to make in the budget.
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Posted Mon, Sep 14, 6 a.m.
Boeing gives her a curious brush-off. What gives, since Boeing normally has a full menu of requests from the state? Perhaps the real battle is not over the 787 but the future for 737s.
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Posted Mon, Aug 24, 6 a.m.
Boeing is playing hardball with its unions and local politicians. Before we end up caving to this new shakedown effort, shouldn't Speaker Chopp and other leaders be crafting a response?
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Posted Mon, Jul 13, 6 a.m.
'McBoeing' may be foolish enough to move a 787 production line to South Carolina, so this region needs to be smart enough to look beyond the Boeing economy
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Posted Fri, Jul 3, 6 a.m.
Even in hard times, there are signs that livable Seattle can still make progress despite, or even because of, the challenges of the economy
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Posted Mon, Jun 22, 6 a.m.
Is the civic grass greener on the other side of the border? Two urban experts each make the case for the others' home town.
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Posted Tue, May 5, 6 a.m.
A Seattle leadership mission studies how two smart citistates in the United Arab Emirates are setting the pace in urban development
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Posted Wed, Apr 29, 9:50 a.m.
Stories of WaMu, Boeing, and Microsoft reflect the character of the people at the top
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Posted Thu, Apr 9, 6 a.m.
Can a Pacific Northwest utopia be shaped on the shared belief that nature is sacred? This latest installment in a series on regional identity looks at the patron saint of the environmental movement, John Muir, and how his thinking informs the desire for a new, greener, and elusive entity some call Cascadia.
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Posted Tue, Mar 24, 6 a.m.
What the challenges of building a safe plane show us about vaccines
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Posted Mon, Feb 23, 6 a.m.
Walling off migration is not possible. But there are ways to downsize our ambitions to a Lesser Seattle, which might be good for America and the environment.
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Posted Thu, Dec 11, 6 a.m.
An artful, if fragile grand compromise has emerged, late in an exhaustive process. Here's a look at its components and its politics — and what could blow it apart.
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Posted Thu, Dec 4, 6 a.m.
The frequent alarm that Boeing is heading out of town is false. More worrisome, argues a veteran Boeing-watcher, is the way the company is becoming, like GE, too focused on the short-term.
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Posted Thu, Oct 29, 11:02 a.m.
As yesterday's big Boeing news was breaking, KING TV and KIRO-FM were all over the story.
MOREPosted Wed, Oct 28, 4:19 p.m.
A first assessment: Susan Hutchison can make some hay, Mike McGinn is suddenly out of synch, and Gov. Gregoire might be needing a new job in 2013.
MOREPosted Wed, Oct 28, 3:38 p.m.
News at the company isn't good, and that's for those "lucky" enough to still be there
MOREPosted Fri, Oct 23, 2:30 p.m.
It's been quite a week in the friendly skies. What can possibly come next?
MOREPosted Thu, Oct 8, 9:44 p.m.
We're still in the denial stage over local hard times, dining on our acres of clams.
MOREPosted Thu, Jul 30, 6 a.m.
At the Oshkosh Air Show, the future was not exactly imminent, but in drones, spaceships, and scramjets you could get a picture
MOREPosted Fri, Jan 30, noon
Not only are jobs getting scarcer, but costs are still rising. What is it about recessions that the government doesn't understand?
MOREPosted Fri, Dec 5, noon 2008
When Alan Mulally was at Boeing, he lectured the unions about the realities of the free market. Now he wants taxpayers to give Ford the security he denied workers.
MOREPosted Thu, Oct 23, 9:52 a.m. 2008
This showdown over outsourcing may turn into big questions about Boeing's staying in Washington state and how well the company is being managed.
MOREPosted Sun, Oct 12, 1:20 p.m. 2008
The gloom may be overstated, but that's no reason for the business leadership of this region to keep abdicating from civic leadership.
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