Crosscut articles of the past 10 days with the most clicks.
Crosscut articles of the past 10 days with the most reader comments.
Posted Mon, Oct 6, midnight
Taxis traveling between Sea-Tac Airport and Seattle without passengers mean less revenue for the cabs, and fuel burned senselessly. Solving the problem would require coordinated policy changes by city officials, the mayor, and the Port of Seattle, and it's not clear that will happen anytime soon.
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Posted Thu, Sep 11, 3 a.m.
Because of fuel prices and out-of-sync regulatory bodies, it's actually cheaper right now to take a taxicab to or from Sea-Tac Airport than a shared van, which until recently was always the cheaper choice. But cab fares, too, will be going up, on Oct. 1. Here's how airport transportation pricing works.
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Posted Thu, Dec 4, 6 a.m.
With Obama's new New Deal gaining momentum, let's remain skeptical of big projects that are touted as economic saviors. States like ours may be desperate, but a boondoggle is still a boondoggle.
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Posted Tue, Dec 2, 6 a.m.
Dispatch from the War on Christmas: Atheists make fools of themselves in Olympia while violence breaks out at Wal-Mart. The sacred season is now a very, very sick season.
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Posted Fri, Aug 1, 3 a.m.
Drivers, at considerable risk, have been telling the City Council how the industry really works. The City Council is now looking at making taxis greener, fairer to drivers, and better for customers.
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Posted Sun, Mar 2, 5 p.m.
He's got even more authority now, thanks to a voter-approved initiative that provides for evaluations of public-agency performance. The state auditor is effecting change inside institutions like the Port of Seattle.
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Posted Fri, Jan 11, 5 a.m.
The core reason for all the mismanagement is an antiquated structure, argues a former Port Commission candidate. A restructured port needs to serve a multi-county region. And we need to split up the fundamentally different businesses of seaport and airport.
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Posted Thu, Dec 20, 4 p.m.
The state Auditor's new report on the Port of Seattle finds rats in the rat's nest of local governments.
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Posted Wed, Jul 11, midnight
The former CEO led the port into a greatly expanded mission of economic development. But that mission and Dinsmore's dealmaking style have provoked a political backlash that has split the five-member commission. The fall election will spotlight these issues and might enable one side to gain a majority.
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Posted Thu, Jun 14, 5 p.m.
Tay Yoshitani shows a worrisome desire to not air "our dirty laundry," but he's also showing smarts in early moves as CEO of the Port of Seattle.
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Posted Fri, Apr 13, 6 p.m.
Once an interest only to the business community, the port is getting increasing scrutiny from environmentalists and Democratic party activists. Two port races could change policy in a dramatic way.
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Posted Tue, Jan 6, 9:19 p.m.
Yes, you can bring your own bottle along, says a wine connoisseur.
MOREPosted Mon, Sep 15, 4 a.m. 2008
Short-term, Boeing benefits from airlines' desperate need for more fuel-efficient planes. That's one reason the order book is fat and the International Association of Machinists thinks this is a good time to strike. (And it's why the strike, in the words of Mike Parks of Marple's Pacific Northwest Letter, "could be a very long one.") Looking at this demand, both Boeing and the state economic forecasters see continued, booming growth for the airplane manufacturer, at least through 2011. But there are two big problems.
MOREPosted Mon, Aug 11, 5 p.m. 2008
Oregonian columnist Steve Duin has fun feeling superior to Seattle, calling the Big Bad City to the North "a mass transit basket case." But he does find something to praise, even if he drips with condescension, and that's the Seattle Streetcar, fondly known as the SLUT. Duin likes the idea, a steal from Portland, of course, not because it's a serious transit solution but because the name is so funny.
MOREPosted Fri, Aug 1, 11:37 a.m. 2008
Plastic bag fees are so rive gauche. First, Seattle instated a 20-cent fee on disposable plastic bags. Then Portland decided to consider a similar idea. Now, the residents of Pullman say they want a bag fee, too. ...
MOREPosted Wed, Jul 9, 2:49 p.m. 2008
Oh, Greg. You are trying to break our hearts! Just when we vilify you for airballing the Sonics all the way to OKC for a cool $45 million – you show you're a real Mayor-about-town houses and plastic bag taxes.
For better or worse, everybody's talking about Mayor Nickels' proposals today. Erica C. Barnett at The Stranger says she spotted a "Plastic Monster" at last night's public-comment meeting about the proposed plastic bag tax, while Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat warns if we don't choose paper the plastic bag police will get us. Meanwhile, the folks at Sound Politics rail against Nickels for the new town house plan, which they argue will regulate affordable housing "out of existence." ...
MOREPosted Fri, Feb 8, 8 a.m. 2008
The last real Northwest men's club may just be Horizon Air's regional shuttle service. When I ventured into the Portland and Seattle airport gate areas for a recent weekday roundtrip, I felt like I was the only one who didn't know the secret handshake.
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