Health officials are encouraging vaccinations for COVID-19, influenza and Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection (RSV) ahead of the winter illness season.
I recently wrote about two new downtown highrises ("Genuflecting to the High Rises"), and the article prompted this interesting email from a San Francisco reader, Charles M. Marsteller, who identifies...
There's a fascinating story in The Seattle Times about a new study by UW economics professor Theo Eicher, purporting to show that the bulk of increases in housing prices in Seattle stem from the large...
Amid the Obamamania, allow me to insert two contrarian thoughts. Both are by way of arguing that the change mantra will have to, er, change. And soon.
A first reason is that other politicians...
Slate.com is out with its annual list of the top 60 American philanthropists, and there's a surprise for the mega-wealthy Northwest. Only one person from the region makes the list, Phil Knight, the...
First, a compliment to Bruce Agnew of the Cascadia Center for Regional Development. The guy keeps pushing for new ideas in transportation, even when the rest of us are running away from the Heartbreak...
Seattle City Councilmembers Richard Conlin, the new president of the Council, Tim Burgess, Bruce Harrell, Nick Licata, Tom Rasmussen, and Richard McIver have endorsed Barack Obama for president.
The...