The Daily Troll: Burn bans expand. Seattle's loneliest bus stop. New Year's liquor prices.
Wood smoke is no amenity in this weather. A bus stop that time, or Metro, forgot. Who is toasting higher liquor prices?
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Wood smoke is no amenity in this weather. A bus stop that time, or Metro, forgot. Who is toasting higher liquor prices?
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The outlines of a zoo defense may be emerging. Drink or its promotion costs a job or two. And a sports commentator looks for other options.
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The day's winners and losers.
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Holland's government falls and France sends the president into a runoff. Will new voices emerge? Welcome back to the Euro Crisis.
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWBoeing eyes ways to expand production in Everett. Meanwhile, Alaska and its oil companies are looking more and more like some bizarre Downton Abbey metaphor and Washington's public schools are faced with shrinking budgets.
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Italy, which just won a contract for a 787 tail section, has a thriving technology belt in its northern region. Great food doesn't hurt, either.
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Our amazingly stable politics, built on figures like Congressman Dicks, the Cold War economy, and the Democratic coalition of interests in Olympia, is busting apart, like an ice-bound river. Watch out below!
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Seattle's missions to China, our key trading partner, mean coping with a powerful new force in global economics: state-driven capitalism. Conservative politics and our state constitution often stand in the way.
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During the economic downturn, the city and region have been setting the stage for the next boom.
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How will the economy do this year? How will the economy impact presidential race? Is Seattle really in an economic growth zone? Here are some answers to your questions about 2012 for the our pocketbooks, the nation, and Seattle.
READ MORE | 6 COMMENTSWhile once-jilted Washington has shown no sympathy for Wichita's abandonment by Boeing, couldn't we end up on the receiving end of more of the same treatment some day? Microsoft takes its stand as the gay marriage bill moves closer to enough winning over enough senators. And Cold Warrior demagogue Joe McCarthy may be smiling on the state's House Republicans.
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Nuggets of wisdom from Seattle's mossback Yoda
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Hard numbers reveal a confusing economy that's exporting more, hiring less, and still quavering before Europe's debt and America's political gridlock.
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The country struggles to recover from its lost decade and the earthquake. The Seattle economy is quite dependent on Japan, and we have lessons to learn from their strategic approaches.
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When Congress cancelled the SST, plunging the local economy downward, the city turned to new ways to lift its spirits and spur its economy. The arts, especially rock and roll, were a key part of the rebound.
READ MORE | 4 COMMENTSThe latest from news outlets and blogs around the Northwest and beyond, chosen by Crosscut editors.
A confidential report shows an array of issues unrelated to the battery problems.
There's a scramble to make sure Boeing builds the modified plane in Everett, but has it already signaled that it will stay here?
The governor laid out some specific steps and some studies to be done.
ANA set a June 1 date for reintroducting the high-tech planes.
The lessons of the Dreamliner point to retooling old models rather than technology-rich breakthroughs.
The governor says he is proposing new measures to bring a major production effort here, and that the Legislature should pass a gas-tax transportation package Boeing wants.
The company hardly seems affected by the battery episode, even if headlines talked about dire consequences.
It took three months to convince the authorities. How long will it take to convince passengers?
Between 1,500 and 1,700 can expect to be laid off from Boeing by the end of this year, with around 700 engineering positions to be cut. 100 engineers in Puget Sound will be laid off today, Mike Delaney, vice president of engineering said.
The aviation agency also must approve the specific directions Boeing sends next week on making changes to the battery system. And foreign regulators also are reviewing the overhaul.