One of today's top stories is the decline of housing prices in the Seattle area, where the average price has dropped 1.3 percent, comparing January 2008 with the previous January. It's the first such...
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...
The respected Chronicle of Higher Education has just published a new report on the scramble for academic earmarks. A surprise, considering how well the University of Washington does in federally...
Maybe a recession will help revive attendance at movie theaters, where escapist fare does well in hard times. Meanwhile, the cineplexes are diversifying their fare, helped along by digital technology...
The Supreme Court ruling yesterday, allowing Washington state to have a "top-two" election system, is being deplored by the state's political parties. Not surprising, since they lose some control over...
The University of Washington has announced plans to build a lot of new student housing on the west side of its main campus, filling in parking lots and easing the space crunch for the 5,100 students...
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...
