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Is Seattle's growth unstoppable?
Posted Mon, Feb 23, 6 a.m.
Walling off migration is not possible. But there are ways to downsize our ambitions to a Lesser Seattle, which might be good for America and the environment.
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Obama acts fast to rescind Bush's midnight rules in the West
Posted Fri, Jan 23, 6 a.m.
A quick freeze puts a hold on such last-minute regulations as removing the grey wolf from the endangered list, lifting ban on guns in national parks, and expanding oil shale programs.
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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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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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Lending for ultra-luxury Western resorts: dumb, dumb, dumb
Posted Wed, Dec 10, 6 a.m.
As resorts for the wealthy such as Yellowstone Club, Tamarack, and Promontory tumble into insolvency, you have to wonder what the lenders such as Credit Suisse and Lehman Bros. were thinking. Here's another tale of toxic assets, poor diligence, and no backup plans.
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Indiana Jones, meth addict
Posted Sun, Oct 12, 4:09 p.m.
The strange link between looting Indian artifacts and methamphetamine users.
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The state's economic strength helps Gregoire
Posted Fri, Oct 10, 4 p.m.
Some misery is more equal than others, as new figures show. The governor also gains a notch by being able to dole out budget savings.
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Pit bulls, bears, and lipstick: more attacks involving animals
Posted Tue, Sep 16, 4 a.m.
Lessons learned from the places where people, animals, and politics collide.
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The faux maverick's sidekick
Posted Sat, Aug 30, 3 a.m.
Sen. John McCain's got a perception problem, and Gov. Sarah Palin is the solution.
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Go eastward, young Americans
Posted Tue, Aug 5, 4 a.m.
There's a reverse flow of population in the West, drifting from expensive coastal cities to interior boomtowns. It's definitely changing the politics of the Rockies, while also stirring resentments at "Aspenization."
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Travels with Charley and GPS
Posted Tue, Aug 5, midnight
A Depression-era book series is the ultimate road-trip must-have, a way of comparing past and present as you tool around the country like a latter-day John Steinbeck. And in Washington, a new version even links travelers to the digital age.
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My day with the ranchers
Posted Sat, Jul 19, midnight
An urbanite spends two days with ranchers in Montana and comes to see that she has much in common with them: ground.
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Conservation groups buy pieces of Montana — a lot of pieces
Posted Thu, Jul 3, 5 a.m.
The Nature Conservancy and the Trust for Public Land are buying 500 square miles of western Montana from Plum Creek, the timber real estate investment trust, for $510 million. It involves a federal financing mechanism, to the consternation of conservatives, and compromise, to the displeasure of some environmentalists. But it is preventing development of forest habitat.
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When animals attack, and also when they don't
Posted Mon, Jun 30, 5 p.m.
It's the time of year when animal-human encounters are on the rise. Bears are picnicking on hikers, moose are invading trailer parks, and muskrats are blamed for destroying entire towns. You could be next.
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Annals of Northwest secession
Posted Tue, May 6, midnight
A primer of regional separatist movements, real and imagined.
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A radical management plan for gray wolves: hunting
Posted Sat, Apr 19, midnight
With healthy numbers, the gray wolf faces de-listing as an endangered species. Introducing trophy hunting into the management plan has arguably worked for other species, such as the mountain lion, and some think it will work for the gray wolf, but the idea is not without its staunch critics.
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Sharing a sense of place when change is fast-paced
Posted Sat, Mar 22, midnight
A definition of the Western landscape varies according to individual economic, social, and recreational values. Here's a look at how our Western neighbors foster a shared sense of place across differing perspectives.
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High Tex: A new generation covers the campaign its own way
Posted Sun, Mar 9, 9 p.m.
Sixteen journalism students from the University of Washington descended on Texas during the presidential campaign to see what they could do with few resources and little clout. In hindsight, one might ask, what could they not?
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Do we need guns at Paradise?
Posted Wed, Mar 5, 5 a.m.
Some Northwest lawmakers have pushed the Bush administration to allow visitors to carry loaded guns in our national parks. It gives backpacking a whole new meaning.
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Does shovel-ready mean ready for burying?
Posted Tue, Jan 20, 6 a.m.
These infrastructure projects are usually on the back burner because they ought to be there.
MOREState by state with NBC's Chuck Todd
Posted Sat, Nov 1, 6:22 p.m. 2008
The network's political director surveys all 50 states for races and trends to watch. Here's what he sees in the Northwest.
MOREWhen the Northwest was red
Posted Thu, Oct 9, 4 a.m. 2008
There's a cool Web site that lets you look at the electoral college results in presidential races since 1789. It features a U.S. map that shows the color of states as they were carried every four years: red for Republican, blue for Democrat, purple for Whig. It's fun to look at the Great Nearby and see the trends.
MOREInside the Obama campaign: How he wins
Posted Fri, Sep 12, 5 p.m. 2008
A source "tight in the Obama campaign" has sent out a memo, meant to reassure anxious supporters by deflecting attention from national polls, where McCain is rising, and to the state-by-state electoral tally, where the election will be settled. While there might be some disinformation in such a message, and things are obviously still fluid, it makes for interesting reading. Washington and Oregon remain firmly in the "Obama solid" category, while Montana has joined Idaho in the "McCain solid" group.
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Washington and Idaho score very high as business-friendly states
Posted Sun, Sep 7, 9:31 a.m. 2008
In the governor's race, Gov. Chris Gregoire understandably often cites the state's recent rating by Forbes magazine, which names Washington as the third best state for business. The magazine's annual ranking put Virginia first and Utah second; Idaho retains its high rank, this year as 7th. Oregon finished 16th, Colorado is 6th, Minnesota is 11th, Montana is 24th, California is 40th, and Alaska is 48th.
MORESeattle outpaces Portland in income growth
Posted Wed, Aug 13, 11:05 a.m. 2008
The current issue of Marple's Pacific Northwest Letter ($) tallies up personal income figures for Northwest metro areas. One shocker is how low the figure is for Portland, a booming area that is still shy on high-paying jobs. Or, conversely, how affluent Seattle is.
MOREWalkability is nice, but it's not making us skinny
Posted Wed, Jul 30, 10:49 a.m. 2008
Current theory says that a city's walkability promotes health and will impact the fight against obesity. The claim is that America's weight problem can be helped by making cities more pedestrian-friendly. It should follow, then, that our most dense and walkable cities are where the skinny people are, right? Well, not really.
MOREPolimedia lunch links
Posted Thu, Jun 5, 11:53 a.m. 2008
Ruby Chow remembered: Brad Wong outlines the contributions from the life of a local political icon. ...
Elite opinion on Obama: Jamieson, Sims and Locke, Horsey, Westneat. ...
MOREA Seattle software exec makes sure that the buffalo don't roam
Posted Sat, May 10, 3:35 p.m. 2008
In the 19th century, tourists used to slaughter bison herds from passing trains, blasting the big beasts into near extinction just for fun. That ugly tradition is echoed in the recent massacre of buffalo in Colorado, which has also touched off a classic confrontation over rights between two ranchers. The Northwest connection: The Seattle Post-Intelligencer's John Cook points out that the man behind the recent massacre is the chairman and CEO of one of Seattle's top software companies, Jeff Hawn of Attachmate. A warrant has been issued for his arrest.
MORERecession alert: Put Oregon on the danger list
Posted Mon, Mar 31, 9:38 a.m. 2008
Marple's Pacific Northwest Letter, a bible of the Northwest economy, is predicting that Oregon, "if not yet in recession, it likely soon will be." The reasons: sectors like lumber exposed to the homebuilding recession; continued manufacturing decline in computer chips and electronic instruments, which have not fully recovered since the dot.com meltdown; and overall manufacturing decline since mid-2006.
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