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ALL MEMBERS »In Sunday's Everett Herald, columnist Julie Muhlstein pays tribute to the recently razed 25th Street Market, a quasi-Third Place and community landmark. Muhlstein's vivid portrait throws into relief the 25th Street Market's apparent, excretable replacement: a future Moneytree Store. Hmmm. Nothing quite says "community values" better than a new payday lender.
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A proposed luxury hotel would be the first in a tourist town where high-class lodging is in short supply and not much else is happening in a slumping economy. But some fear it could drive a stake in the tumbledown vibe the old ski town has managed to hold onto.
READ MORE | 1 COMMENTSWhen the phone rang this afternoon and this fulsome, cheery, pre-recorded male voice started talking at me, I thought it was another solicitation from some unctuous politician seeking my cash. But in the split second before I could hang up, the caller identified himself as Rick Neuheisel, which was just enough to make me curious. Why is this glib, grinning, integrity-challenged hustler calling me? Has some insane candidate got Rick out there endorsing him? Is Rick an (erstwhile) Huskie For Hillary? A Coach for Cain? A Smuck for Huck? A Bettor for Biden?
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWSeattle has always modeled itself on San Francisco, and now both cities are having doubts about the model. The California city picked itself up after the dot-com bust by pursuing condos, fine restaurants, young residents, and the new trends in the economy such as biotechnology, green tech, and stem-cell research. Sound familiar? It's a formula for Seattle and Portland. But now the doubts are setting in. Minority populations are moving out, particularly Blacks. They are becoming cities with few children and few families, in effect cities without a middle class. The prospect is a city with extreme wealth and pockets of poverty.
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWAs we enter the new year, people are speculating whether or not we're headed into a recession. Some economic indicators suggest that could be the case: Fed Ex shipments down, jobless rate up, house market in an extended slump, holiday sales lackluster. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has a story looking at the chances of recession in 2008 in Seattle. It's hard to gauge, at least if you look at the traditional indicators, which is why Mossback uses his own surefire method of prognostication.
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