In Sunday's Everett Herald, columnist Julie Muhlstein pays tribute to the recently razed 25th Street Market, a quasi-Third Place and community landmark.
Muhlstein's vivid portrait throws into relief...
Seattle has always modeled itself on San Francisco, and now both cities are having doubts about the model. The California city picked itself up after the dot-com bust by pursuing condos, fine...
As we enter the new year, people are speculating whether or not we're headed into a recession. Some economic indicators suggest that could be the case: Fed Ex shipments down, jobless rate up, house...
The Northwest is no stranger to timber theft, but a case that raised a lot of eyebrows was the recent plea-bargain of a Camano Island man who pled guilty to a federal theft charge for cutting down 27...
Only three U.S. cities are still resisting the tumbling real estate market: Charlotte, N.C., Portland, and Seattle. At least so far. This survey in the Los Angeles Times paints a picture of slow sales...
Shopping 'ꀘtill you drop is, like, so over. Consumers with time on their hands and anarchy in their hearts prefer shopdropping, or reverse shoplifting, which entails adding bogus products or...
The traditional running-of-the-shoppers that takes place each December continues, but in Portland's retail arenas, the atmosphere is quieter than, say, downtown Seattle. One might assume this is due...
An example of the whiplash of our economic times could be experienced reading a post-Christmas edition of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. On the front of the Dec. 27 Business section were two stories...
