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Posted Fri, Jan 13, 2 a.m.
Radical U.S. environmentalists are out to get Canada! And seize the energy, oil, and wood businesses for the U.S.! Or, so a hypocritical government says.
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Posted Mon, Jan 9, 2 a.m.
Who did most to raze, wreck, uproot, neglect, and generally trash our historic treasures in 2011? The envelopes, please...
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Posted Fri, Dec 23, 2 a.m.
This dubious distinction points up how severe income inequality has become in Canada and the U.S. New evidence shows the terrible toll on people and economies such widening gaps can have.
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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 Sat, Dec 10, 8 p.m.
Labor unions have worked with Occupy Seattle in a number of ways, but leaders oppose shutting down a source of solid jobs.
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Posted Tue, Nov 29, 2 a.m.
Bike lanes downtown, backyard chickens, food trucks: voters in British Columbia gave support to the mayor's re-election.
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Posted Wed, Nov 23, 1 p.m.
Former Mayor Greg Nickels remembers a predecessor about whom he knew little initially.
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Posted Thu, Nov 10, 9:50 a.m.
An abusive British imperial trade, exporting unwanted children to Australia and Canada, is movingly revealed in "Oranges and Sunshine." The author had a first-hand encounter with the issue.
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Posted Mon, Nov 7, 8:48 a.m.
Activists cheered the prospect of Washington's first majority-minority congressional district. Then they noticed what redistricting would do to South Seattle's legislative delegation.
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Posted Mon, Nov 7, 2 a.m.
The urban agriculture movement is gaining strength across B.C., enthusiastically adapted by everyone from businesses to backyard growers to pot-growers. So why is it being used as a wedge issue in Vancouver's latest election?
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Posted Mon, Oct 17, 2 a.m.
The secret to urban success, says Ron Sims, is regional coherence. How do you achieve that? Leadership. But where does that come from, and how does it work? History offers some examples.
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Posted Fri, Oct 14, 2 a.m.
A new book immerses itself in the case. Enough so that the author begins to look over his shoulder for conspirators, and manages to do that without losing the reader.
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Posted Fri, Oct 14, 2 a.m.
Adbusters founder and editor, Kalle Lasn, reflects on his Vancouver magazine's role as Occupy Wall Street instigator and agitator, and explores the possibility of a global uprising.
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Posted Tue, Oct 4, 2 a.m.
Puget Sound is a poster child for the problems of regional transportation planning. One big roadblock: long-standing distrust of Seattle.
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Posted Mon, Oct 3, 2 a.m.
This dubious distinction points up how severe income inequality has become in Canada and the U.S. New evidence shows the terrible toll on people and economies such widening gaps can have.
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Posted Mon, Sep 19, 2 a.m.
A better model, from Britain and Vancouver, is to concentrate stores on "high streets," turning others into mostly quiet residential streets. And there are other ways to animate streets than putting in struggling shops.
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Posted Fri, Sep 9, 2 a.m.
Seattle's current Japanese-American civic leaders remember their roots as teenage farm workers, living in a city bordered by berries, not burbs. If only today's jobless teenagers were so lucky.
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Posted Sat, Sep 3, 3:41 p.m.
Our fractured metropolitan regions are the big problem in creating sustainable solutions for climate challenges. High-towered, dense city living is only a small part of the solution, which is to develop "ecological urbanisms."
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Posted Thu, Sep 1, 3:04 p.m.
Free trade has forced the Okanagan Valley to step up its winemaking game, which has launched British Columbia into the forefront of the Northwest winemaking world.
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Posted Fri, Aug 19, 2 a.m.
A book on America's "first civil war" looks at the so-called Mormon Rebellion, an event that spread fear throughout the Pacific Northwest as people worried about a new, independent theocratic state rising in the far West. The struggle has lessons for today.
READ MORE 17 COMMENTSPosted Sun, Dec 11, 12:30 p.m. 2011
Amazing resilience may not be the only thing Gingrich and the eponymous amphibians have in common. Just ask Bob Dole and Phil Gramm.
MOREPosted Mon, Nov 7, 10 a.m. 2011
Warning: the following survey contains material not suitable for the elderly.
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, Oct 10, 11 a.m. 2011
1492 and all that; the Vancouver editor who launched Occupy Wall Street; Westneat does Westlake; legacies of Prohibition in the liquor initiatives; and more praise for Steve Jobs' aesthetic sense amid all America's ugliness.
MOREPosted Mon, Oct 3, 11 a.m. 2011
Killing higher education and the economic future of Washington state; heavy regulation; money flow is unequal in Snohomish County race; there goes another dam; and President Obama's forgetfulness in Seattle.
MOREPosted Mon, Sep 26, 11 a.m. 2011
Political shootout in north Sound county executive's race; Alaska looks at survival in post-oil era; Boeing and Microsoft's tax breaks; and is rationed care coming to the ER?
MOREPosted Fri, Sep 30, 2 a.m. 2011
A new autobiography takes readers through the life of environmental power-activist Tzeporah Berman, from the inside of a jail cell to the Hollywood red carpet, and highlights lessons learned in the world of negotiating.
MOREPosted Thu, Sep 15, 11 a.m. 2011
In the news today: Seattle's former transportation director gets serious about BART, Idahoans Internet access is WAY slower than yours, and British Columbia eyes the role of geothermal king of the world.
MOREPosted Fri, Sep 9, 11 a.m. 2011
Rumbles on the waterfront; another case of Portland-envy; dubious distinction time for Washington colleges; Rose City roses for Obama's speech; and a study puts tolls on 520 under another cloud.
MOREPosted Thu, Aug 25, 2 a.m. 2011
The VanDusen Botanical Garden features Zimbabwean stone carvings until Sept. 25.
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