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ALL MEMBERS »Spring training went into extra innings today as the Seattle Mariners forestalled the start of the 2008 season until the sixth frame. Then they scored for the first time, eventually putting away the Texas Rangers 5-2 in front of a capacity crowd, many fans obviously glad that a roof kept away every kind of weather except the baseball kind.
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWOfficials at Washington State University announced last week that the school plans to build new dorms. On the face of it, the initiative seems long overdue: The school hasn't built dorms in 37 years. However, the $26 million dollar residence hall adds only 229 beds, at a cost of $113,537 per bed. The residence hall is part of a larger plan to upscale the dorm experience.
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWIn Sunday's Washington's Post, Hillary Clinton makes clear she's not going away till the bitter end, and it will be bitter if it doesn't go her way:
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWMarple's Pacific Northwest Letter, a bible of the Northwest economy, is predicting that Oregon, "if not yet in recession, it likely soon will be." The reasons: sectors like lumber exposed to the homebuilding recession; continued manufacturing decline in computer chips and electronic instruments, which have not fully recovered since the dot.com meltdown; and overall manufacturing decline since mid-2006.
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Our humorist explains why active listening is overrated.
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Plans for Seattle Center, the University of Washington and the Capitol Campus in Olympia suggest that public agencies, like private developers, are willing to flatten historic buildings if they get in the way. What kind of historic preservation message is that?
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