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Posted Tue, Feb 7, 11:45 a.m.
What if the hollowed-out cities of the East Coast set out to lure back their prodigal sons and daughters? What would it take?
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Posted Tue, Feb 7, 11:45 a.m.
What if the hollowed-out cities of the East Coast set out to lure back their prodigal sons and daughters? What would it take?
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Posted Fri, Feb 3, 2 a.m.
Architects had some triumphs in converting the former First Church of Christ Scientist on Capitol Hill into townhomes, but the difficulties they encountered offer lessons about preservation in the city.
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Posted Thu, Feb 2, 2 a.m.
The game's up. Natural gas development on the East Coast is causing environmental destruction of countrysides, farmland, and communities. And that's without even getting into fracking.
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Posted Wed, Feb 1, 2 a.m.
Environmentalists are appalled at a possible end run of long-awaited Department of Ecology rules. But cities and developers say it's too much, too soon.
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Posted Tue, Jan 31, 2 a.m.
What do foreclosure notices and publishing community newspapers have to do with each other? Quite a bit, particularly for a publisher of three Washington papers.
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Posted Mon, Jan 30, 2 a.m.
Space, is it the next frontier, or political dead end? Plus, the staying power of potholes.
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Posted Fri, Jan 27, 2 a.m.
Community arguments in the wake of the Roosevelt neighborhood's rezoning process lay out a likely roadmap for Seattle's future urban planning debates.
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Posted Fri, Jan 27, 2 a.m.
The Kalakala still floats, for now, plus Seattle's plywood "space shuttle," demolition fight in Spokane, and other preservation news.
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Posted Fri, Jan 27, 2 a.m.
Marcellus Turner, Seattle's new City Librarian, talks about why Seattleites love their libraries and how he plans to keep things that way. Even in the midst of budget cuts.
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Posted Tue, Jan 24, 2 a.m.
Updated: The 'Tateuchi Truce' over the Sound Transit wars on the Eastside made clear what a catalyst for an urbanized Eastside this long-aborning cultural center has become.
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Posted Fri, Jan 20, 2 a.m.
The decline and fall of Seattle, the state, the empire.
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Posted Thu, Jan 12, 2 a.m.
Nuggets of wisdom from Seattle's mossback Yoda
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Posted Mon, Jan 9, 2 a.m.
Who did most to raze, wreck, uproot, neglect, and generally trash our historic treasures in 2011? The envelopes, please...
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Posted Mon, Jan 2, 2 a.m.
Under new leadership, Moscow is taking a decidly modern approach to urbanization. But can the city overcome its struggle with political fraud?
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Posted Sat, Dec 31, 2 a.m.
Seattle's Central Business District(CBD) is increasingly spelled SLU. Here's an account of the remarkable, somewhat accidental rise of a hot commercial and residential zone called South Lake Union.
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Posted Fri, Dec 30, 2 a.m.
A refugee reports on her year-long effort to escape the relentless sunshine of South California, snuggling into our damp and bookish town.
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Posted Thu, Dec 29, 2 a.m.
The Seattle Model of involving neighborhoods is emulated in much of the world, but it fell from favor here over recent years. Even after making a smart hire for a Neighborhoods director, Mayor McGinn faces big decisions.
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Posted Wed, Dec 28, 2 a.m.
This town couldn't be another NOLA and wouldn't want to, but maybe it can learn something about life and living from the battered Big Easy.
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Posted Tue, Dec 27, 12:45 p.m.
Children change the character of a place for the better, but downtown Seattle lacks an essential ingredient for serving families with children: schools.
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Posted Tue, Dec 27, 2 a.m.
Regions such as Snohomish County that fell hard for developers' dreams of remote housing projects are paying a severe price in foreclosures and short sales. The cruel market correction confirms the economic value of denser, closer-in residential patterns.
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A Jan. 6 memorial at MOHAI for writer, teacher, and neighborhood activist.
MOREPosted Sat, Dec 24, 7:30 a.m. 2011
A new way of looking at affordability might help Seattle City Council make smarter land-use decisions.
MOREPosted Mon, Dec 19, 2 a.m. 2011
The home improvement chain flails around after falling for a Muslim-bashing boycott. Meanwhile, look who's shopping in its Rainier Valley store.
MOREPosted Wed, Nov 23, 6 a.m. 2011
Seattle leads the way to a rooming-house renaissance. But what about the parking?
MOREPosted Sat, Nov 5, 11:48 p.m. 2011
As Seattle prepares to celebrate 50 years as the little expo city that could, the chance for a future fair in the USA is a long way off.
MOREPosted Mon, Oct 31, 6 a.m. 2011
Not by the evidence of a casual attention to safety at a repair project in Greenwood, with dozens of kids in the work zone.
MOREPosted Mon, Oct 24, 9:15 p.m. 2011
A new effort, Mapping Our Voices for Equality, has grown out of federal efforts to involve more communities in promoting healthy foods and preventing the dangers associated with smoking.
MOREPosted Thu, Oct 20, 2 a.m. 2011
The study also found that online reviews seem to help independent restaurants take a larger share of the overall market from chain operations.
MOREPosted Thu, Oct 6, 2 a.m. 2011
A new Aldo Leopold documentary is set to premiere in Seattle's U-District, but can it bring the importance of land use and connectivity home to a new generation of conservationists?
MOREPosted Fri, Sep 30, 10:25 a.m. 2011
The political education of former U.S. Attorney John McKay; a tax break for Safeco Field; Patty Murray's partisan email to supporters; Amazon magoozling in California; and Seattle's burgeoning population of bikers.
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