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Forecasting the Future Is a Peril-Fraught Endeavor

Forecasting the Future Is a Peril-Fraught Endeavor

Getting it right about being wrong

This article appears in print in the November 2019 issue. Click here for a free subscription. His presidential bid is more an audition for head of Environmental Protection Agency or secretary of energy in the next Democratic administration. Hes not likely to face a statewide electorate again. this column, August 2019. Oops. See, the trick…

Internet Access and Economic Opportunity Are Joined at the Hip

Internet Access and Economic Opportunity Are Joined at the Hip

Collapsing barriers to internet access fuels economic opportunity

This article appears in the September 2019 issue. Click here for a free subscription. The story goes that the northern pacific, while building a rail line westward up the Yakima Valley in the late 1800s, preferred as a depot location not the town of Yakima but a site a few miles north. After much legal…

Washington Has Corporate Cachet But Little National Political Punch

Washington Has Corporate Cachet But Little National Political Punch

'No one from this state has served as president or vice president'

This article appears in the June 2019 issue. Click here for a free subscription. For sheer power and influence in the national business and economic ring, the Seattle area punches way above its weight class. The concentration of nationally, even globally, significant companies based here would be impressive for a much larger metropolitan area. In…

Washington Manufacturing Is Back in the Saddle Again

Washington Manufacturing Is Back in the Saddle Again

The sector faces challenges as it increasingly evolves

This article appears in the May 2019 issue. Click here for a free subscription. This months Seattle Business includes the 10th edition of our annual Washington Manufacturing Awards, launched in a year in which people were conjecturing whether manufacturing, for all its glorious past, had much of a present, never mind a future. The housing-led…

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