Monorails: the idea that will not die
Posted Tue, Jan 6, 6 a.m.
You can't go many news cycles without hearing about some kind of monorail mess-up, but there's good news too.
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2008: Year of Hope, Year of Fear. Essay 5
Posted Tue, Dec 30, 6 a.m.
An opportunity to transform regional politics
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Humor: Happy Rebranding to me
Posted Sun, Dec 28, 3 p.m.
No time better than New Year's to do a dramatic makeover of one's tired brand.
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2008: Year of Hope, Year of Fear. Essay 1
Posted Sun, Dec 28, noon
A year of growing up and getting serious
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How to build a Northwest conservatism
Posted Fri, Dec 26, 6 a.m.
Conservatives in the region pay too much heed to national conservative themes and not enough to the deep values of the Northwest. These values do not necessitate liberal politics.
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Shot down in Shanghai?
Posted Fri, Dec 12, 6 a.m.
Another task Obama inherits is trying to bail out America's botched effort to have a pavilion at Shanghai's Expo 2010, the largest world's fair in history. There are reasons to hope that "yes, he can."
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How Wall Street is destroying the timber way of life
Posted Fri, Dec 12, 6 a.m.
The pressure for real estate and the short-term perspective of fancy Wall Street financial instruments have changed the old line companies utterly.
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Seattle Times puts some new land up for collateral
Posted Mon, Dec 8, 6 a.m.
The block in front of Times' headquarters is now included as part of security for the company's $91 million debt to banks. Meanwhile, the paper is scaling back features, and sale of its Maine papers may slip a key deadline.
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The Gravy Train to nowhere?
Posted Thu, Dec 4, 6 a.m.
With Obama's new New Deal gaining momentum, let's remain skeptical of big projects that are touted as economic saviors. States like ours may be desperate, but a boondoggle is still a boondoggle.
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Up yours, Virginia
Posted Tue, Dec 2, 6 a.m.
Dispatch from the War on Christmas: Atheists make fools of themselves in Olympia while violence breaks out at Wal-Mart. The sacred season is now a very, very sick season.
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What Somali pirates can learn from Walla Walla and Wall Street
Posted Wed, Nov 26, 7 a.m.
Washington's death row inmates and corporate fat cats are employing strategies that could come in handy for seagoing brigands.
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Seattle's recycling program runs into plunging prices
Posted Wed, Nov 26, 6 a.m.
When world prices for metals and paper were riding high, Seattle had a little gold mine shipping out its recyclables. Then the prices sank by as much as 75 percent. Gold mine became a black hole.
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Cross-border commerce and the 2010 Olympics
Posted Tue, Nov 25, 6 a.m.
Money isn't flowing as freely as once thought, and the challenges of the border and exchange rates determine whether and how Northwest contractors and service providers will benefit from the Vancouver Games.
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Seattle Times Co. struggles with its debt
Posted Mon, Nov 24, 6 a.m.
A deal is close for selling its Maine papers, and the company is trying to peddle some of its real estate in Seattle. Meanwhile, McClatchy, owners of nearly half of the Times Co., continue to write down its stake dramatically.
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Obama's Detroit dilemma
Posted Tue, Nov 18, 5 a.m.
The promises he had to make in order to head off Sen. Clinton have put the President-elect in a very tight spot over bailing out the automakers. A crisis atmosphere is building, but so far he hasn't made any moves.
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Refurbishing Wall Street
Posted Mon, Nov 17, midnight
Hey, building materials are really expensive these days.
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Seattle's economic future
Posted Fri, Nov 14, midnight
A forum on the financial crisis settles some jitters about what lies ahead but leaves more questions than answers.
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The science of chocolate
Posted Thu, Nov 13, midnight
A Fremont shop will show you how chocolate goes from bean to bar.
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Voters in one county reject Puget Sound Energy
Posted Thu, Nov 6, 9:11 a.m.
The Jefferson County Public Utility District appears to be the only winner among three populist campaigns to take over now-private electric services.
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Why the rich are rich and the poor are poor
Posted Mon, Nov 3, midnight
It's the natural order of things!
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A region in decline
Posted Tue, Jan 6, 6 a.m.
Once known for resilience, the Northwest now seems baffled as regards an economic strategy for the recession.
MOREThe road less salted
Posted Sun, Dec 28, 5:47 p.m. 2008
A parting blow over the failure to salt the snow, this one on behalf of retailers.
MOREYou call that socialism?
Posted Tue, Dec 30, 6 a.m. 2008
In economic hard times many states are re-looking at privatization and "pawning the family silver" to raise cash.
MORETwilight of Twitter?
Posted Mon, Dec 8, 6 a.m. 2008
If Gawker is sour on Twitter, does that mean the end of a fad is near?
MOREDetroit's welfare queens
Posted 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.
MOREPanda-monium
Posted Mon, Nov 24, 11 a.m. 2008
A life lesson: Don't try to hug Big Brother, even if he looks cuddly.
MOREA better idea for Detroit
Posted Sat, Nov 15, 3:18 p.m. 2008
Don't bail the automakers out, and don't bankrupt them. Use the government's purchasing power to transform them to the green economy.
MOREThe latest at The Seattle Times
Posted Wed, Nov 12, 8:43 a.m. 2008
We've compiled a list of some 20 newsroom employees who have volunteered to be laid off, which could mean 15-25 more would be involuntarily let go after that. Updated
MORELet the infrastructure roll!
Posted Sun, Nov 9, 12:10 p.m. 2008
It's time to prime the economic pump, and local infrastructure needs are acute. But will the politics enable us to emulate China?
MORERich jerk watch
Posted Wed, Nov 5, 1:59 p.m. 2008
Seattle's high-tech buffalo hunter pleads to a felony.
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