Two reasons for getting to know more about Chicago. If Barack Obama is elected, we'd have a creature of Chicago politics in the White House. And Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels, a Chicago native who even...
Denver, riding high among American cities in growth and enlightened politics, has been hard hit by foreclosures. An eye-opening story in USA Today paints a disturbing picture of one Denver suburb...
The whole city is chuckling about the no-financing-yet proposal for a $1 billion sports-and-entertainment complex floated yesterday by ex Sonic Fred Brown and public relations guy Dave Bean. But wait...
Read this interesting story about the Seattle School Board. You'll find the new language of big-company management being spoken by the new boardmembers, all of whom promised to bring that perspective...
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 cure-du-jour for skyrocketing housing prices, at least in Seattle City Hall, is something called inclusionary zoning, or IZ. It's in effect in more than 300 urban areas in the country. Typically...
