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...
Flimsy allegations of hanky-panky aside, the probing into Sen. John McCain's background and associates is continuing, and it's starting to go to the heart of his claim for being above reproach. He...
Seattle and Portland have a good rivalry in many regards, mostly liveability contests. But how's it going in terms of donability? Who gives the most in the presidential races, and to whom?
Thanks to...
Stanford University has announced, in keeping up with the Harvards, that parents earning less than $100,000 will no longer pay tuition. Families earning below $60,000 don't have to pay for room and...
Today's New York Times'expose on John McCain is rightly criticized, by Slate.com and others, for its curious thinness of evidence about his supposed political and perhaps amorous coziness to a...
We sometimes think that Seattle alone has "the Seattle malaise," meaning long-drawn-out disputes over development that often end in stalemate or ugly compromises. We are not alone.
Consider this...
An earlier blog item on America's top philanthropists noted that the usual Northwest big donors, notably Bill and Melinda Gates and Paul Allen, were missing this past year. Turns out Slate had missed...
I recently wrote about two new downtown highrises ("Genuflecting to the High Rises"), and the article prompted this interesting email from a San Francisco reader, Charles M. Marsteller, who identifies...
There's a fascinating story in The Seattle Times about a new study by UW economics professor Theo Eicher, purporting to show that the bulk of increases in housing prices in Seattle stem from the large...
