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Green gold rush: not so fast
Despite cheerleading from Al Gore and Bill Clinton, business entrepreneurs aren't going to save the planet. At least not without help from consumers who can say "enough."
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Key to economic growth: Creative class or procreative class?
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 cities (Houston, Dallas, Charlotte, Raleigh-Durham) will have the strongest job growth. Those cities fa
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Big development comes to Yesler Terrace
After 68 years, the nation's first racially integrated public housing community faces enormous change. So what will happen to the people who live there?
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Talking turkey over the history of Seattle restaurants
After deciding who should be president, the state of the university housing system, and how good my sister's stuffing is, we got down to the real knock-down, voices raised discussion: when, exactly, did Seattle become a real restaurant town, and who were the players?
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Santa glides through the Emerald City
These breaking-news photos have just arrived from the street. The annual Macy's day-after-Thanksgiving holiday parade in Seattle passed Crosscut world headquarters downtown today. The weather was beautiful and a wonderful time was had by all. Also, a whole lot of commerce was transacted.