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READ MORE | COMMENT NOWHere's a new kind of misery index: the rate of foreclosures across the nation. The rate is figured as the number of foreclosed homes as a percentage of total homes in a county. Media attention has been on the worst states, such as California, Florida, and Colorado. The Northwest is clustered around the middle of the misery: Idaho is 20th, Washington 21, Oregon 22, and Montana 36. A story in NewWest also looks at the trends from December to December. Oregon's filing rate went down 10 per cent, and Washington's also dropped, by 18 per cent.
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWFormer Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, having lost a tight contest in Florida to Arizona Sen. John McCain, could not have arrived for last night's GOP debate, at the Reagan Library in southern California, under worse circumstances. Just before the debate, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani endorsed McCain. Then, immediately after, it was made known that California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger would endorse McCain today. The Gubernator sat next to Nancy Reagan at the debate – the implication hanging that she, and the Gipper, too, if he were there would be with McCain.
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWA few weeks ago, I reported that minority Republicans in Olympia were spinning election-year conspiracy theories. Why? Because Gov. Chris Gregoire's budget office has stopped producing six-year budget outlooks. Sen. Joe Zarelli, R-Ridgefield, predicted a long-term outlook would show the state facing a $2 billion budget shortfall by 2013 - a number that wouldn't help Gregoire any on the campaign trail. In an effort to confirm his suspicion, Zarelli recently asked the non-partisan staff at the Senate Ways and Means Committee to crunch the numbers. That report is back and it's even worse than Zarelli's prediction.
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWThe Prince of Wales, the most notorious architecture critic of our time, has gone on the attack again, and he's worth listening to all the way out here in Seattle, Vancouver, and Portland. His new target: the "free-for-all" building of highrises in places like London. London, it turns out, is undergoing a wave of high-rise apartment towers, making lots of money for developers, driving up affordability, and offering precious little public good. Here's part of what the Prince said at a keynote speech to a London seminar on development:
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWI am still in Arizona and witnessing the buildup here to the Democratic and Republican contests next Tuesday, Feb. 5, when both parties' presidential nominees could be determined by primaries and caucuses in some 20 states.
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This year, presidential candidates who embraced issues like class warfare, corporate greed, and monetary reform have done poorly. Populism seems to have lost its pop.
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