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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.
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Posted Fri, Oct 30, 6 a.m.
By Knute Berger
As our Charter Membership Drive continues, a few words from a Crosscut Public Media contributor
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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.
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Posted Mon, Oct 26, 12:55 p.m.
By Bill Richards
New figures show the Times held on to two-thirds of its old rival's daily readers. But the advertising picture remains murky as the critical holiday season approaches.
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Posted Mon, Oct 26, 6 a.m.
By Bob Simmons
Preservationists worry that the character of Bellingham's historic neighborhood rides on the FDIC's willingness to enforce its own order restricting a controversial development.
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Posted Mon, Oct 19, 6 a.m.
By Michele Matassa Flores
Navigating the unemployment system is no easy task ... for people seeking jobs, hiring, or even those advising the applicants. Anybody need a professional hoop-jumper?
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Posted Sun, Oct 18, noon
By Knute Berger
Seattle's iconic Pioneer Square bookstore might move. It could also close. Tough times bring tough choices for the bookseller, and the neighborhood it has helped to revive.
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Posted Wed, Oct 14, 6 a.m.
By Anthony B. Robinson
Our writer, talking with the Seattle mayoral candidate, comes away impressed by his small-C catholicity and Northwest values.
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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.
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Posted Tue, Oct 13, 6 a.m.
By Dick Lilly
Better yet, Seattle's next mayor should make sure all high school students spend a year working. It's the best thing he can do to prepare them for adulthood ... and boost graduation rates too.
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Posted Tue, Oct 6, 6 a.m.
By Kent Kammerer
Without taking a position on the mayor's race, a leading Seattle neighborhood activist offers some advice for the winner. For starters, fire the bodyguard and get out there among the people.
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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.
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Posted Thu, Sep 17, 6 a.m.
By Bill Richards
The Seattle Times Co. is on its way back to profitability, a glowing New York Times article reported recently, but the paper's own numbers raise doubts.
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Posted Wed, Sep 16, 6 a.m.
By David Brewster
Mayor Nickels forged a grand political alliance, now headless. Will it persist, will the city go back to its familiar feuding ways, or will we move on?
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Posted Tue, Sep 15, 6 a.m.
By Ted Van Dyk
September is a time to remember 9-11 and the financial free-fall of 2008. The sad truth is that the Masters of the Universe haven't heeded the call for common sacrifice.
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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.
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Posted Thu, Sep 10, 10:03 p.m.
By Knute Berger
The first face-off of Seattle's mayoral candidates offered contrasts, but no aha! moments.
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Posted Thu, Sep 3, 6 a.m.
By Knute Berger
A new book on family-owned retailers provides a lens on the future of Seattle's neighborhood development. It's not just a matter of retail style; it's about values.
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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?
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Posted Wed, Aug 5, 6 a.m.
By T.M. Sell
The word has been hijacked by liberals who fear the L-word. Here's what progressivism really means, and why we need more of it.
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Posted Fri, Nov 6, 4 p.m.
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Sue Frause
In the afterglow of a successful "2012" conference in Langley, a co-producer sees evidence of the island's "hidden economy" of digital workers.
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Posted Fri, Oct 30, 12:50 p.m.
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Mark Matassa
Watch Marketplace Morning Report host Bill Radke cram all the week's business news into a 60-second poem. This week: GDP, oil profits, MJ's movie, public health option, and the New York Yankees.
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Posted Thu, Oct 29, 11:02 a.m.
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Feliks Banel
As yesterday's big Boeing news was breaking, KING TV and KIRO-FM were all over the story.
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Posted Thu, Oct 29, 6 a.m.
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Bill Richards
Circulation audit rules allow those receiving free or heavily discounted papers -- such as former P-I readers -- to be counted as paid subscribers.
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Posted Wed, Oct 28, 3:38 p.m.
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Ted Van Dyk
News at the company isn't good, and that's for those "lucky" enough to still be there
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Posted Tue, Oct 27, 4:21 p.m.
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Chuck Taylor
Yes, the Seattle Times claims a 36 percent circulation boost since the print P-I folded. But a better calculation is before-and-after combined circulation of the dailies. By that measure, not so good.
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Posted Sat, Oct 24, 7:20 p.m.
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Mark Matassa
Bill Radke's Marketplace Minute finds an audience as a weekly radio feature.
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Posted Thu, Oct 15, 6 a.m.
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Matt Fikse
Upgrading to Windows 7? Redmond's video guide, while helpful, seems almost like an Apple-produced parody.
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Posted Thu, Oct 8, 9:44 p.m.
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David Brewster
We're still in the denial stage over local hard times, dining on our acres of clams.
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Posted Thu, Sep 24, 6 a.m.
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Knute Berger
Her questioning of corporate "personhood" is a positive sign on a fundamental fight.
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