Thursday Jolt: Amazon gets praise. Arena, not so much.
The day's winners and losers.
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The day's winners and losers.
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From 520's pontoon problems to the Boeing 787 debacle, standards seem to be slipping in an age when the Chinese economy is dominating. But a call should be made to return to high quality, long lasting products.
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Once the neighborhoods organized as a force for change, pushing City Hall for improvements. Now, they are the ultimate roadblock to remaking the city in healthier ways.
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Caffeinated News & Gossip featuring: More bad news for the tunnel; Democratic campaign expenditures; city hall departures; Jay Inslee at NARAL luncheon; and more.
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Caffeinated News & Gossip featuring Dwight Pelz, a new parking garage, a new tunnel, Reuven Carlyle, Sylvester Cann, and Boring Machine Brenda.
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City partners, beware! Such pro-sports deals are full of arcane opportunities for making money, including the art of hedging income.
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The corporations involved with a proposed Bellingham-area coal export facility could get a nearly free ride on rail upgrades. Or the coal traffic might just kill hopes for a greener form of travel.
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Expanding rail capacity would mean shrinking a popular park.
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Northwest cities like Seattle and Portland still have plenty to learn about how to create a cycling experience we can't help falling head-over-heels for.
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In Seattle and nationally, our political discourse is frustrating and circular, wrapping us in irrelevant talking points. How about discussing the ways we make a better future?
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Is public transit all about getting there quickly and conveniently, or about having fun and looking cool? The new First Hill Streetcar line will give us one, but we could have had both.
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A Seattle artist transforms the challenge of driving less into the joy of Undriving - and gives undrivers something to show for it.
READ MORE | 11 COMMENTSIf taxpayer money is used to build a parking structure to support transit, the state transportation head thinks anyone should be able to use it? But do we even want to build more parking around rail facilities?
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Warning labels on cars seems like a wacky idea - until you think about the invisible but ever-present driving hazard that we all put out of our minds.
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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.
READ MORE | 19 COMMENTSThe latest from news outlets and blogs around the Northwest and beyond, chosen by Crosscut editors.
The quick overview found no insurmountable roadblock to construction, but it seemed to change few minds.
The Oregonian reports on the latest annual ranking from Bicycling magazine. "In order to place, a city needed to possess both 'a robust cycling infrastructure and a vibrant bike culture.'"
The transit agency has stretched the definition of a minute to make it look like more buses and trains arrive on time.
Hybrid cars are so quiet they're catching pedestrians unaware, leaving electric car manufacturers scrambling to give hybrids back that ole gas-guzzler rev.
After his first effort to reach out to towing companies bore no fruit, Nick Licata gets serious about introducing fee-capping legislature.
WSDOT officials say the ramp to West Seattle will take until at least September to finish, leaving commuters at the mercy of traffic-blocking trains, port bridges and cargo trucks.
Emily Badger writes, "Car-sharing members invariably have to pay these taxes, too, with the perverse result that your one-hour trip to the grocery store in Hoboken, New Jersey, will come with as much as a 62 percent tax."
Terrorism plots discovered by the CIA are no reason to breathe a sigh of relief. By definition, it's the ones we don't catch that really mess things up.
With six of the nation's biggest rail lines passing through Chicago, the city causes more commuter and freight rail delays than anywhere else in the country—and it's only going to get worse. A lesson for the Northwest?
A new low-cost bus between Seattle and Portland is slated to begin running May 17. What will the increased options mean for Amtrak?