Seattle & King County
P-I archives should be saved
Acres of notes and other papers appear to be homeless
Benjamin Lukoff
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Tech
Seattle's economic future
A forum on the financial crisis settles some jitters about what lies ahead but leaves more questions than answers.
Culture
Is it wrong to have a Negro Creek?
An effort to change the name in Chelan County has run into resistance, and the episode raises the quite complex issues of updating names to modern sensibilities.
Politics
Top-two primary boosts chances for instant run-off voting
Washington's nominating process for partisan political office has a long, tortuous history [http://www.secstate.wa.gov/elections/pdf/2006/History_of_Washington_State_Primary_Systems.pdf] — and it just got a little longer. Last week's Supreme Court decision [http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/06-7
Culture
Pacific Science Center's architecture might change
Dramatically lit at night, the Science Center is an icon in the Seattle skyline. A national group is sounding alarms about potential alterations of the campus, though the arches seem sacrosanct.