Murder most foul in the tasty world of wine
Peter Lewis's Dead in the Dregs is a piquant addition to the recent flow of murder mysteries set in wine country.
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Peter Lewis's Dead in the Dregs is a piquant addition to the recent flow of murder mysteries set in wine country.
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A new-generation airship is visiting Puget Sound, a reminder of the pleasures and Northwest history of traveling by dirigible.
READ MORE | 5 COMMENTSA liberal Oregon Congressman makes the case for leaner, activist government.
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Dedicated 'cycle tracks' are coming to a few streets in Seattle, but this city would do well to emulate Manhattan, not just Portland and Eugene.
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Disillusioned students are speaking out against for-profit schools offering advanced degrees in culinary arts and other disciplines, and lawmakers are taking on the Wall Street bankers who are profiting.
READ MORE | 13 COMMENTSNew Commerce figures show the West Coast cities lagging the country. Regions such as Richland and Bremerton, with stronger government or military spending, buck the trend.
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Along with budgets cuts, fairer, more sustainable city funding, especially in hard times, is worth exploring.
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This time it's that other Vancouver, the one to the south, touting successful urban development. And in this case turning around a crime-ridden park.
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As uses have changed, many cities around the world have turned blighted old waterfronts into major public amenities. Now it's Seattle's turn.
READ MORE | 25 COMMENTSThe Cochon 555 pig-cooking contest comes north, just days after big-name cooks come to blows, and land in jail, in Portland.
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWThe chef of Seattle's Crush restaurant came home with the Best Chef Northwest award from the James Beard Foundation. Thus ends the annual competition in which Portland was bragging about finally having more nominees than Seattle.
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWThe Portland sensation, half irony, half big band, takes over the Symphony on Friday night.
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWBoats are coming back, trains to Vancouver are increased, and there's a new way to fly to Portland from Boeing Field.
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The Vancouver Olympics captured nicely the two opposing impulses of the Pacific Northwest: the desire to extol our green virtues, and to exploit our future.
READ MORE | 3 COMMENTSPlaywright Adam Bock places banality and evil side-by-side in this show at the old Portland Armory. And out-of-town visitors to the Pearl District spot can get two-for-one tickets.
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The libertarian side of Portland politics strikes again.
Weirdly, Portland keeps resisting fluoridation, turning its back on medical science.
Voters will decide this week on the issue that has reoccurred over 50 years.
The city poured money into the east bank of the Willamette, with paltry results. Should it now bribe Nike to move there?