The server farms that are growing up in Eastern Washington need to operate all the time. So, for a town like Quincy, that means dozens of diesel generators will ring the city.
Tax-increment financing, which is permitted in 48 other states, would be a powerful tool for encouraging more projects and amenities around light rail stations. Here's the case for its many benefits, and a look at progress and debate to date.
After decades of pollution, the feds face a deadline in 2019. Seven years might sound like a lot of time but expectations of a federal request for a delay are already rising.
Flip Side wonders why the Marriott and other hotels insist on loading up his bed with useless and dangerous Shams and Bed Scarfs and tubular thing-eys.
These land-devouring, car-dependent malls were invented 60 years ago, with Seattle among the pioneers. Now they are in terminal decline. There was a better idea in Kansas City, but unfortunately it was eclipsed by our mania for malls.
The Obama administration gets the value of tourism for job creation. All the neighboring states do. Washington is trying to build momentum without state support.