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Posted Sat, Dec 31, 2 a.m.
Seattle's Central Business District(CBD) is increasingly spelled SLU. Here's an account of the remarkable, somewhat accidental rise of a hot commercial and residential zone called South Lake Union.
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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 Wed, Sep 28, 2 a.m.
A survey of our assets and their funding shows that we do not have a clear strategy and some key programs are being defunded. Here's a wake-up call about this most critical sector of our modern global economy.
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Posted Mon, Aug 29, 2 a.m.
Seattle's CBD is increasing spelled SLU. Here's an account of the remarkable, somewhat accidental rise of a hot commercial and residential zone called South Lake Union.
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Posted Wed, Jun 8, 2 a.m.
Rising enrollment projections will strain Seattle Public Schools resources close to the breaking point. So why not let the Gates Foundation build some new schools that really test their reform ideas?
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Posted Tue, May 24, 2 a.m.
The new Gates Foundation campus is a renewal of the promise of Century 21, helping to make Seattle the center of global transformation through science.
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Posted Tue, Apr 26, 2 a.m.
'Idea Man' is more nuanced than its publicity would have you think, revealing an intense but eclectic thinker who attacks his passions, admits his failures, and hopes to change the future.
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Posted Mon, Apr 4, 2 a.m.
More power to Paul Allen, for his memoir and for living a life of the mind through his incredible fortune.
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Posted Fri, Aug 27, 2 a.m.
The region needs a jolt, which comes from daring strategic thinking to take us past the recession and to transcend our political impasses. A suggestion: tap the game-changers in our midst.
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Posted Wed, Jan 20, 2 a.m.
We're less mobile and more place-bound, and it's not just the recession that's slowing restless America's nomadic habits. This is good news for Seattle, the environment, and mossbacks.
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Posted Fri, Jul 31, 6 a.m.
A decisive battle in the global malaria war is taking place in Cambodia, with Gates Foundation funds critical for the counterattack.
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Posted Mon, Jul 6, 6 a.m.
Following the Gates Foundation’s lead on global health, many critics fault play-it-safe research for the failed war against cancer. Will upping the dose of risk in research bring about new cures?
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Posted Tue, Jun 30, 6 a.m.
Further adventures in the fight against malaria, as the Gates Foundations seeks to stomp it out permanently. Two dozen new grants limn an ominous foe pitted against vivid human imagination.
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Posted Mon, Jun 8, 6 a.m.
It was when he read about rotavirus, a cause of widespread death of children from diarrhea. A decade later, Gates Foundation's efforts have brought about WHO approval of a rotavirus vaccine.
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Posted Fri, Jun 5, 6 a.m.
Puget Sound boosters are proposing to launch an annual Global Health Celebration in 2012 to re-brand Seattle for the new century.
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Posted Tue, May 19, 6 a.m.
The articles complain that Gates is doing too much in global health, or not enough. Amid the confusing complaints and muted praise is a clear call for more transparency.
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Posted Thu, Apr 9, 6 a.m.
Can a Pacific Northwest utopia be shaped on the shared belief that nature is sacred? This latest installment in a series on regional identity looks at the patron saint of the environmental movement, John Muir, and how his thinking informs the desire for a new, greener, and elusive entity some call Cascadia.
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Posted Tue, Mar 24, 6 a.m.
What the challenges of building a safe plane show us about vaccines
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Posted Tue, Feb 17, 6 a.m.
The 'Explorations' proposals range from using the body's own defenses to creating new synthetic warriors.
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Posted Wed, Sep 3, midnight
Impatient for solutions to AIDS, tuberculosis, and infectious disease, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation put out a call for anyone who thought they had an idea — and more than 4,000 poured forth. A second request for grant applications goes out today.
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Tracing the Seattle and Tacoma connections in the latest flap at the Smithsonian, with a delicious surprise ending.
MOREPosted Fri, Mar 4, 11:47 a.m. 2011
Just dismissing Dr. Goodloe-Johnson is not enough. Here's how to turn this crisis into a real turnaround.
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This week's seminar in the UW series 'Now Urbanism: City Making in the 21st Century and Beyond' features the Gates Foundation's Melanie Walker and other distinguished experts on slum cities and global health.
MOREPosted Wed, Feb 24, 3 p.m. 2010
A surprise twist in the story, coming from Los Angeles, might point the way to a political breakthrough.
MOREPosted Thu, Jun 18, 3:30 p.m. 2009
A new report documents how the Gates Foundation helped quadruple funding for global health since 1990. In washing away an older order, however, this surge may be creating accountability problems.
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What do they have in common? Credibility.
MOREPosted Wed, Nov 12, 12:07 p.m. 2008
The goals are great, as are the resources. But the new focus risks perpetuating some problems with testing and misses a chance to do more with poor kids in early grades.
MOREPosted Thu, Oct 30, 10 a.m. 2008
Global health funding gets freaky.
MOREPosted Wed, Oct 22, 12:51 p.m. 2008
TechFlash launches as part of Puget Sound Business Journal, with two respected technology reporters who jumped from
Posted Mon, Jul 7, 5:12 a.m. 2008
Michael Kinsley, the founding editor of Slate and a half-time Seattle resident, is involved in an interesting new project. It's a Web site gathering quality commentary about "Creative Capitalism." It's well worth looking at.
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