A wave of the pom-poms to Seattle Post-Intelligencer for its consistently incisive reporting on the Sonics' story, with today's analysis by Greg Johns another fine example. He notes that the votes...
It is fairly certain that Olympia (meaning Speaker Frank Chopp) is going to stiff Seattle (as usual) over the plan to save the Sonics by saving KeyArena. That means a missing $75 million from the $300...
The showdown in Olympia over the Sonics is much more than a shoving match between Speaker Frank Chopp, a populist who likes to defy bailouts for sports owners, and the Seattle establishment, which...
Hillary Clinton still has an uphill climb to the nomination, but three sets of figures buried in the post-Texas, post-Ohio analyses should give Barack Obama pause.
The first is the women's vote. In...
Seattle and Washington politics have turned into routine re-elections of complacent incumbents. Meanwhile, the most exciting movement in the land is the rise of independents. Here's how to make them...
When it comes to superheated potatoes, such as sports arenas and stadiums, our local politicians have learned to do their deals very quietly. And so, with a solution for the Sonics starting to come...
With Washington facing mounting costs for roads, transit, and bridges, might the answer lie in tapping union pension funds? It certainly doesn't look like taxpayers are going to do much more. The...
Utah, normally immune to slumps, is feeling the effects, and a survey story in The New York Times sheds some interesting light on the changing Mountain West.
In the past, the Rocky Mountain West's...
