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The Daily Troll: Hansen makes another NBA play. Sliding away on Whidbey. State lagging on transparency.

Wed, Mar 27, 4:25 p.m.

By Joe Copeland

A new study says King County is paying a high price for cooperating with federal immigration authorities. The Sacramento vs. Seattle contest heats up.

Seattle and Tacoma ports: Compete or merge?

Mon, Mar 25, 5 a.m.

By Stephen H. Dunphy

That's the question facing the ports of Seattle and Tacoma, who, unlike other coastal cities, have each held their own so far. What Tacoma thinks about the idea.

Port of Seattle: The gang that can't shoot straight

Thu, Feb 14, 10:02 a.m.

By David Brewster

Commissioner Rob Holland's sudden resignation caps a year of pratfalls at the Port. The selection process is flawed, even as the stakes get higher at this key institution.

How Gas Works Park shapes the Northwest today

Fri, Feb 1, 1:38 p.m.

By Knute Berger

The National Register of Historic Places has just honored the repurposed park. No wonder: The Seattle project started a whole new way of preserving and building on the past for the entire region.

The Daily Troll: Sheriff deputies sue. Mariners get new voice. Food forest prepares to party.

Thu, Jan 17, 5:16 p.m.

By Joe Copeland

Mayors traveling on public tab and -- learning. An embarrassing lawsuit for King County. Olympia: Pam Roach speaks up. Party on, Beacon Hill food activists!

The downtrodden are not 'takers' from society

Wed, Oct 10, 12:01 a.m.

By L. Patrick Carroll

Think "if not for the grace of God go I" when looking at people on welfare. And those poor still contribute to the common good, sometimes more generously than most of us.

A Northwest professor looks at a forgotten American pandemic

Tue, Jun 26, 10 p.m.

By Robin Lindley

Crosscut writer Robin Lindley talks with University of Puget Sound professor Nancy Bristow about the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic and America's foggy memory of a disease that claimed ten times the U.S. fatalities during World War 1.

America's foolish detour into shopping malls

Mon, Apr 9, 2 a.m.

By Mark Hinshaw

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.

Midday Scan: Tacoma scores Seattle's port business; could 'Hawks score Peyton?

Fri, Mar 9, 11 a.m.

By Zachariah Bryan

Expansion at the Port of Tacoma is good news there, and bad news in Seattle. Tacoma, Seattle, and sports fans all over the Northwest may be united in hoping Peyton Manning would want to come here. But why would the QB want to come here?

Heritage Turkey Watch

Fri, Jan 27, 2 a.m.

By Knute Berger

The Kalakala still floats, for now, plus Seattle's plywood "space shuttle," demolition fight in Spokane, and other preservation news.

Heritage Turkeys of the year

Mon, Jan 9, 2 a.m.

By Knute Berger

Who did most to raze, wreck, uproot, neglect, and generally trash our historic treasures in 2011? The envelopes, please...

Best of 2011: Where there's smoke, there's sickness

Fri, Dec 30, 2 a.m.

By Robert McClure/InvestigateWest and Katie Campbell/ KCTS Earthfix

In Washington wood smoke is now a leading cause of air pollution, leaving residents of Tacoma and other highly-polluted areas, literally, gasping for air.

Where there's smoke, there's sickness

Fri, Dec 16, 2 a.m.

By Robert McClure/InvestigateWest and Katie Campbell/ KCTS Earthfix

In Washington wood smoke is now a leading cause of air pollution, leaving residents of Tacoma and other highly-polluted areas, literally, gasping for air.

Japanese lessons on the art of economic rebounding

Tue, Oct 25, 2 a.m.

By Bill Stafford

The country struggles to recover from its lost decade and the earthquake. The Seattle economy is quite dependent on Japan, and we have lessons to learn from their strategic approaches.