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Posted Fri, Jan 20, 12:30 a.m.
A newspaper that serves a population freaked out by rain shouldn't be surprised if Seattle's steep hills and unusual climatic conditions -- including wet, icing-prone snowfalls -- combine to make for genuine difficulties.
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Posted Fri, Dec 30, 2 a.m.
A refugee reports on her year-long effort to escape the relentless sunshine of South California, snuggling into our damp and bookish town.
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Posted Mon, Dec 12, 2 a.m.
Cities are moving to reclaim and clean-up urban alleyways, and Pioneer Square is ground zero for Seattle's effort. One thing needed: names.
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Posted Sun, Nov 27, 7:10 p.m.
The notorious police response to peaceful Occupiers leads an alumnus to recall the bolder demonstrations he and his classmates undertook, blocking military shipments and occupying the governor's office. Ronald Reagan called them "bums," but no one reached for the pepper spray.
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Posted Tue, Sep 20, 2 a.m.
San Francisco has created a quick way to convert a parking space or two into pleasant micro parks that the community picks and maintains. What are we waiting for?
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Posted Thu, Sep 15, noon
A veteran observer of ports around the country argues that elected port commissioners, as in Seattle and Tacoma, are far preferable to ports that must serve the wishes of mayors or other politicians.
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Posted Thu, Sep 1, 2 a.m.
A new anthology of California writers' work gives readers a rich tour of California culture, landscape, and heritage.
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Posted Thu, Jul 14, 2 a.m.
In a city that draws the "creative class," why don't we have more reverence for our writers? Why not use them to boost tourism? Why is there no Theodore Roethke Historic Park, or Frank Herbert Wax Museum?
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Posted Mon, Jul 11, 2 a.m.
We ushered in the manned Space Age with Century 21. As the Space Shuttle programs end, its time to consider one failing: We made the New Frontier a place for experts and elites, not the people.
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Posted Thu, Jun 30, 2 a.m.
As Balboa Park approaches a key anniversary, the city has been debating how to improve its key cultural center, including whether to ban cars from its central plaza.
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Posted Tue, Jun 28, 2 a.m.
A gloomy Scandinavian ventures into the golden sunlight of California and finds only scattered signs of a "failed state." In a nutshell: salmon bad, sangria good.
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Posted Tue, Jun 14, midnight
Breathing Uneasy: The port's Tay Yoshitani came here promising to make Seattle the green leader. But he helped lead other ports in opposing federal reforms that would have helped.
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Posted Thu, Jun 2, 1:06 p.m.
While Seattle plays around on the margins, LA, Cincinnati, and San Francisco are taking big bites out of big apples. Their secrets: fast timetables, cross-sectoral coordination, and steamroller centrism.
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Posted Wed, May 25, 2 a.m.
In stripping the elected leadership of authority, California and Washington are becoming economic regions unable to move forward on crucial investments, no matter how lengthy the public debate.
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Posted Wed, May 11, 2 a.m.
New research pushes back human society in Washington and elsewhere farther in the past than thought. And it seems to wipe away the idea that the Clovis people were the first in North America.
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Posted Tue, May 10, 2 a.m.
Fear is unjustified today, but it's a part of Pacific Northwest history. Did you know Brigham Young once considered Vancouver Island for the Mormon homeland?
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Posted Wed, Apr 6, 12:45 p.m.
Accurate information is missing about ionizing radiation in Washington state.
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Posted Mon, Mar 28, 2 a.m.
There are challenges to creating the 'next' Silicon Valley, but also to keeping the current one vital. In the Bay Area, one ray of hope is offered by a former Naval Air Station (think Magnuson Park on steroids), and a proposed Expo could bring all the pieces together.
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Posted Tue, Jan 18, 2 a.m.
The Great Recession is over, but it has exposed budget practices that the states must end to avoid careening into even bigger financial wrecks.
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Posted Mon, Jan 17, 2 a.m.
As the Civil War reaches its 150th anniversary, it's time to reflect on the impact of that era on the Pacific Northwest, and how political battles over slavery, secession, and states' rights were fought not just back East, but in the Rain Belt too.
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Pity the state government. But your real worry should be about municipalities, who are going to be stuck with their own excesses and the problems of the states.
MOREPosted Sat, Nov 5, 11:48 p.m. 2011
As Seattle prepares to celebrate 50 years as the little expo city that could, the chance for a future fair in the USA is a long way off.
MOREPosted Mon, Sep 12, 11 a.m. 2011
9-11 as a literary event; Sen. Murray as the Senate's baby-sitter; get ready for redistricting fireworks; a warning shot on federal transit funding; and Amazon's truce in the California sales-tax battle.
MOREPosted Mon, Mar 21, 2 a.m. 2011
Forget the stereotypes and listen to what's really being broadcast on the West Coast public airwaves.
MOREPosted Mon, Mar 14, 10:10 p.m. 2011
Damage to crabbers, nature's warning signs of a coming tidal wave, fleeing vampires, and a boon for beachcombers.
MOREPosted Fri, Dec 10, 1:45 p.m. 2010
Environmental groups say a draft recovery plan is better than anything produced in the Bush administration, but not good enough.
MOREPosted Thu, Nov 18, 2 a.m. 2010
Californians sure do come up with some neat ideas, according to the Times. Only trouble is, Washington was the originator.
MOREPosted Tue, Sep 14, 2 a.m. 2010
Washington's governor is wining, dining, and selling apples in China. But will she be inspired, like Arnold Schwarzenegger, to bring a world's fair back home?
MOREPosted Wed, Aug 4, 9:19 p.m. 2010
Texas did far better in the recession than its big rival, California. Which one should we emulate?
MOREPosted Wed, Jun 9, 10:06 p.m. 2010
The Silicon warriors are surging in California, but there are only a few stirrings in Washington state. So far.
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