Most Popular

Crosscut articles of the past 10 days with the most clicks.

Boeing

Crosscut most recent

The 787: Not the plane of the future

Posted Mon, Nov 16, 6 a.m.

Boeing's new Dreamliner reflects the tiny gains that can still be extracted from the old technology arc, and the conservatism of airliner design.

Like a natural disaster, without the upside

Posted Wed, Nov 4, 6 a.m.

By Austin Jenkins

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.

What would real political change look like?

Posted Tue, Nov 3, 5:27 p.m.

By Ted Van Dyk

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.

What I liked about this election

Posted Mon, Nov 2, 6 a.m.

By David Brewster

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.

McBoeing's dumb flight plan

Posted Fri, Oct 30, 6 a.m.

By T.M. Sell

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.

Coming to grips with a changed old friend: McBoeing

Posted Wed, Oct 14, 6 a.m.

By Matt Fikse

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.

Learning from Detroit, the City of Ruin

Posted Thu, Oct 8, 6 a.m.

By Chuck Wolfe

A city that defines urban decline was once like Seattle, built on a dominant transportation industry. Can it become a laboratory for urban reinvention?

Turbulence watch on the state's economy

Posted Tue, Sep 29, 6 a.m.

By Austin Jenkins

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.

Gathering storms for Democrats in Olympia

Posted Tue, Sep 22, 6 a.m.

By Austin Jenkins

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.

Is Gregoire doing enough to sweet-talk Boeing?

Posted Mon, Sep 14, 6 a.m.

By Austin Jenkins

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.

Coping with Boeing's 'Flight to the South'

Posted Mon, Aug 24, 6 a.m.

By Ted Van Dyk

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?

Coping with a post-Boeing world

Posted Mon, Jul 13, 6 a.m.

By T.M. Sell

'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

Making the best of a bust

Posted Fri, Jul 3, 6 a.m.

By Knute Berger

Even in hard times, there are signs that livable Seattle can still make progress despite, or even because of, the challenges of the economy

The Great Vancouver vs. Seattle Debate

Posted Mon, Jun 22, 6 a.m.

By Knute Berger

Is the civic grass greener on the other side of the border? Two urban experts each make the case for the others' home town.

Building bridges to Abu Dhabi and Dubai

Posted Tue, May 5, 6 a.m.

By William Stafford

A Seattle leadership mission studies how two smart citistates in the United Arab Emirates are setting the pace in urban development

A tale of three companies

Posted Wed, Apr 29, 9:50 a.m.

By Ted Van Dyk

Stories of WaMu, Boeing, and Microsoft reflect the character of the people at the top

The Cascadian Dream

Posted Thu, Apr 9, 6 a.m.

By Knute Berger

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.

777s and HIV, or your body is not an airplane

Posted Tue, Mar 24, 6 a.m.

By Robert Fortner

What the challenges of building a safe plane show us about vaccines

Is Seattle's growth unstoppable?

Posted Mon, Feb 23, 6 a.m.

By Knute Berger

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.

A peace treaty for the Viaduct wars

Posted Thu, Dec 11, 6 a.m.

By David Brewster

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.

Other media

EADS, maker of Airbus, has lots of woes A military transport, the A400M, is four years behind schedule and way over budget. Orders are falling off or being delayed to the A380 SuperJumbo.

NEW YORK TIMES

Sen. McCain questions Pentagon tanker competition rules yet again The Senator, who derailed an earlier Boeing bid, is uneasy about the new bidding criteria, which the competing group of Airbus/Northrup Grumann say tilt toward Boeing's lighter plane.

REUTERS

Jon Talton: Is local leadership heeding the economic wake-up calls? The columnist is worried: "Unfortunately, I'm not hearing a call to action, particularly from political leaders. We're cutting university funding; China isn't. The mayoral election centered on a tunnel that was going to happen anyway, rather than taking a hard look at the best practices of our high-performance peers. Gov. Chris Gregoire has yet to show that she realizes how much the game has changed, that prosperity won't automatically come our way."

SEATTLE TIMES

Joel Connelly: Sen. Murray gives some economic advice The Boeing shock treatment continues, and one agency that is taking economic challenges seriously is the Port.

SEATTLEPI.COM

Dominic Gates: Relations with Boeing will be greatly changed after S.C. decision Political leaders and the union say they will regard the company in a very different light in future negotiations.

SEATTLE TIMES

Blog posts

Media watch: 787 flies to Charleston

Posted Thu, Oct 29, 11:02 a.m.

by Feliks Banel

As yesterday's big Boeing news was breaking, KING TV and KIRO-FM were all over the story.

The political fallout from Boeing's bombshell

Posted Wed, Oct 28, 4:19 p.m.

by David Brewster

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.

Survivor's guilt at Boeing

Posted Wed, Oct 28, 3:38 p.m.

by Ted Van Dyk

News at the company isn't good, and that's for those "lucky" enough to still be there

Balloon Boy, Airliner Boys and . . .

Posted Fri, Oct 23, 2:30 p.m.

by Feliks Banel

It's been quite a week in the friendly skies. What can possibly come next?

Ready to get real yet?

Posted Thu, Oct 8, 9:44 p.m.

by David Brewster

We're still in the denial stage over local hard times, dining on our acres of clams.

A peek at aviation's future

Posted Thu, Jul 30, 6 a.m.

by Robert Fortner

At the Oshkosh Air Show, the future was not exactly imminent, but in drones, spaceships, and scramjets you could get a picture

Adding insult to injury

Posted Fri, Jan 30, noon

by Knute Berger

Not only are jobs getting scarcer, but costs are still rising. What is it about recessions that the government doesn't understand?

Detroit's welfare queens

Posted Fri, Dec 5, noon 2008

by Knute Berger

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.