Regionalists are trying to put Humpty Dumpty back together again, after the defeat of Proposition 1, which was a blow to the effort to think regionally, act boldly. One key figure is Pierce County...
In announcing the big salary increase for University of Washington President Mark Emmert, making him the top-paid president of public universities, UW Regents pointed out that Emmert could make a lot...
Does Washington state count for much in the presidential campaigns? It's taken itself out of the primary contests, though the state is a good grazing pasture for contributions. But come November might...
The transit proposal du jour is for light-weight, single-car diesel trains running from Snohomish to Renton, along the old BNSF Railway's tracks. Those are the tracks the county and the Port want to...
Urbanist contrarian Joel Kotkin thinks that the real drivers of metropolitan economies are not the hipsters in the core but the families in the burbs. Accordingly, he predicts that family-friendly...
Republican gubernatorial candidate Dino Rossi is starting to pay the price for his late entry into the 2008 race: Gov. Chris Gregoire has been able to broom up early big-business support, including...
Boeing's stock has dropped from a high of $107 in early October to just under $90 in its closing Friday. A survey of financial experts, looking at the company's promising longterm prospects, thinks...
John Silber, the bad-boy former president of Boston University, has a new screed out, a book entitled Architecture of the Absurd. It's an attack on the excesses of ego-crazy architects, who put up...
You used to rate cities' cost of living by the Cheeseburger Index, the price of an average cheeseburger. And Seattle used to score well, though we doubt it does these days.
So now comes the Guinness...
