Thursday Jolt: Amazon gets praise. Arena, not so much.
The day's winners and losers.
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The day's winners and losers.
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From 520's pontoon problems to the Boeing 787 debacle, standards seem to be slipping in an age when the Chinese economy is dominating. But a call should be made to return to high quality, long lasting products.
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A Washington state law allowing the sale of home-baked goods has been in place for nearly a year. So why haven't local bakers been able to take advantage of it yet?
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There's only one good reason to consider a new NBA basketball-NHL hockey arena in Seattle. It's the passion, stupid.
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The hedge fund manager who wants to bring the NBA and NHL to Seattle could have a real winner. We take a look at the possible millions.
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City partners, beware! Such pro-sports deals are full of arcane opportunities for making money, including the art of hedging income.
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Canada's western provinces used to be a sleepy extension of our own agricultural inland. Now a boom has Canada looking for faster ways to bring in skilled immigrants to help with all the work.
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Author Barry Eisler has become controversial for signing with Amazon as his book publisher. He ventures to Bainbridge Island to explain his views to a community that loves its library and its local bookstore.
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People are legitimately concerned when a developer changes a key part of their neighborhood's commercial district. But the Green Bay Packers model might help communities control their own destiny while respecting ownership rights.
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A Seattle firm's new project seeking to prove geothermal energy is safe and viable will have to overcome two obstacles: concerns over induced earthquakes and a need for a challenging amount of funding.
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A real estate expert explains how these old work districts fit the needs of new creative workers better than the sleek tech zones such as South Lake Union. One reason: small blocks.
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A driven, brilliant man, Beck came up on the Skid Road side of Seattle and for a while almost ran the town. Here's the story of his rise to head the Teamsters, his fall, and the curiously moving years after he got out of prison.
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The 2012 London Olympics will be seen in full: Every sport will be televised. Also, a hard look at the Xbox as home entertainment center.
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In a move to appeal to younger travelers, a cadre of Seattle's more modern hotels are trading ornate chandeliers for more casual dining experiences.
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Federal budget cuts could threaten one of Washington's longstanding tools for maintaining its strength as a global competitor.
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"It’s not like what I say makes any difference. My best self-praise never finds its way into my actual performance review. And not once has my self-eval moved my raise from fractions to whole numbers."
The Civic Alliance for a Sound Economy (CASE) has endorsed three Democrats with business or non-profit backgrounds in contests with fellow Democrats.
The phased closures start this Monday, May 28, with 35 stores staying open until June 1, customers will see most limited service on May 31.
Darran Bruce sounds serious about towing floating billboards along Puget Sound and the major lakes.
A new report says that cross-border shopping is costing the Canadian economy much more than expected, and a change in the duty-free exemption will soon make the problem worse.
After several high bidders in the state's auction for the rights to sell liquor at existing store locations backed out, the sales rights are once again on the table.
In 2002, residents passed a law banning new billboards on private property. Instead, companies put up hundreds more, and the city has signed off on an agreement to let one firm put up 125 smaller ones in return for removing some of the larger new ones.
With a bank run threatening to shake Greece, Angela Merkel said she wants to keep Greece in euro zone.
Everywhere else, gasoline prices are falling but they soared 20 percent in the Northwest over the weekend. Oil companies' 'polite' explanation? No interviews.
McClatchy reports, "The heavy fuel that oceangoing vessels burn adds so much to air pollution hundreds of miles inland that the United States joined with Canada during President George W. Bush’s administration to ask the International Maritime Organization to create an emissions-control area along the coasts."