Never one to let his sense of charity get in the way of his competitive spirit, our correspondent matches another UW donor's efforts to call the shots on campus.
Let's review some of the bidding in the controversy over building a new University of Washington branch campus at Everett. I and a colleague in the UW Geography Department, William Beyers, performed...
It was Edgar Allan Poe who wrote "tolling, tolling, tolling,/In that muffled monotone. ..." This year, talk of road tolling and congestion pricing will increase above a whisper. With the defeat of...
It looks like it's back to square one--or worse--for a U.S. Pavilion at the upcoming world's fair in Shanghai in 2010. One of the few groups who responded to a U.S. State Department request for...
The turf war is escalating in Oregon's Multnomah County between Sheriff Bernie Giusto, accused of big-time mismanagement and some hinky morals, and County Chairman Ted Wheeler, who aims to take over...
Government doesn't make it easy to pay the twice-a-year bill if you have paid off your mortgage or opt out of packing your taxes into the monthly mortgage payment. While lawmakers and tax officials...
