Carrying the freight
Posted Wed, Sep 7, 12:46 p.m.
With its new 747-8F, Boeing takes the lead in the cargo jet business, with a monopoly in the production of wide-bodied freighters.
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Posted Wed, Sep 7, 12:46 p.m.
With its new 747-8F, Boeing takes the lead in the cargo jet business, with a monopoly in the production of wide-bodied freighters.
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Posted Tue, Nov 23, 2 a.m.
Some helpful hints on scans, patdowns, free wifi, and useful apps.
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Posted Sat, Oct 16, 6 a.m.
With Sprint and T-Mobile 4G phones already in customers’ hands, Verizon will begin its 4G foray here by year’s end.
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Posted Mon, Jun 7, 2 a.m.
International visitors account for a quarter of Seattle's tourism revenue, but the dollar's strength against the Euro is keeping many of them home.
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Posted Sun, Jan 10, 3 p.m.
Instead of pestering me at the airport about my titanium hip, just ask Who played third base for the 1986 Mariners? Or Name the man who peddled Charmin.
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Posted Wed, Jul 22, 6 a.m.
The new light rail line opens up new ways to see the city, and brings visibility to long-neglected and fascinating parts of Seattle.
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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 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 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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Aviation officials suggest a novel recourse for citizens afflicted by Sea-Tac jet noise.
MOREPosted Wed, Mar 30, 2 a.m. 2011
It's better to give your spare change to a food bank or shelter. (Uh, but tell that to your heart.)
MOREPosted Wed, Jan 26, 2 a.m. 2011
We'd be buried in the stuff, instead of bare and increasingly unlikely to see any more big snowfalls this year.
MOREPosted Sat, Oct 23, 9:15 a.m. 2010
A visit shows that the Science Center's exhibition, which opened Saturday, is a dream come to life for anyone who has wanted to spend time in the world of the Harry Potter books and movies.
MOREPosted Wed, May 26, 2 a.m. 2010
Sometimes an airline has to make choices among baseball fans.
MOREPosted Thu, Aug 27, 3:58 p.m. 2009
Recalling the embarrassingly short life of Henry M. Jackson International Airport
MOREPosted Tue, Jan 6, 9:19 p.m. 2009
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.
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