The state's unemployment rate is still rising and jobs are still disappearing, though not as fast as in the past year. Here's a survey of Washington state's economy, which has shed 166,500 jobs since the peak in 2008.
Replacement plans for the Alaskan Way Viaduct are on track. But nine years after the Nisqually quake, the danger remains.
We're less mobile and more place-bound, and it's not just the recession that's slowing restless America's nomadic habits. This is good news for Seattle, the environment, and mossbacks.
Mayor McGinn wants to fund reconstruction of the unsafe seawall, and cut 200 senior staff. There's a financial symmetry between the two ideas that we should take time to consider.
NOAA says it's headed south, get used to it. Some of those who run the ships are anything but happy about it.
