Culture
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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This spot's reserved for Flexcar? Not exactly
In Seattle, there is no legal basis for the hometown car-sharing company to reserve spots on public streets.
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Katrina and lessons learned
What can Portland teach New Orleans? And what might the Big Easy pass on to the Rose City? According to a guest article [http://www.oregonlive.com/oregonian/stories/index.ssf?/base/editorial/1195608332309850.xml&coll=7] in the Oregonian, plenty. Chris Beck, a former Realtor and Oregon state represe
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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?