In some moods, I think that Seattle's business renaissance has peaked. Starbucks is contracting, Microsoft is stumbling, Boeing is losing bids, Safeco is sold, and Washington Mutual is sinking. Has...
So far, not a lot of policy is coming out of the Dino Rossi campaign, but it may be very interesting when it does. That's because the Republicans are getting pretty desperate for bold new ideas to...
Denis Hayes, president of the Bullitt Foundation in Seattle and a leading exponent of alternative and solar energy, has been celebrating the defeat of the Lieberman-Warner bill, which he calls "a 500...
Marple's Pacific Northwest Letter, a bible of the Northwest economy, is predicting that Oregon, "if not yet in recession, it likely soon will be." The reasons: sectors like lumber exposed to the...
The City of Seattle is in a pickle over its five, very expensive public toilets. In the spirit of adding to this decade-long debate, I have a suggestion: keyed toilets. The idea comes from Freeway...
