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China’s role in trade evolving

Published May 20th, 2012 - 7:31AM

Those of us of a certain age grew up with the notion of China as impoverished, backward, sealed off from the rest of the world and suffering under the brutal repression of Mao Zedong’s misrule.

Medical landscape keeps shifting

Published May 14th, 2012 - 6:40AM

In the board game of Monopoly, the strategy most likely to produce victory is to accumulate all of the properties of one color, preferably in one of the more upscale colors (Boardwalk and Park Place) rather than those in less desirable, less expensive neighborhoods (“Yes! I got Baltic and Mediterranean!”).

Tacoma not alone in debt

Published May 6th, 2012 - 3:52AM

Stop us if you’ve heard this one before. A municipal revitalization project, launched with an abundance of enthusiasm and optimistic projections of its financial viability, collides with the reality of the market and the economy, leaving public officials scrambling to stem the ever-mounting losses and “borrowing” funds from other services to fill the budgetary hole.

Population data hints at economy of future

Published April 29th, 2012 - 2:51AM

Park yourself at the plaza just inside the entrance gate at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium on a sunny Sunday afternoon and within an hour you may count more baby strollers than the number of cars the automakers build in a year.

Meeting ritual seems quaint for Weyerhaeuser

Published April 22nd, 2012 - 7:23AM

So placid was last week’s annual meeting at Weyerhaeuser Co. that when it came time for shareholder questions, there weren’t any.

Control debt now or pay even more later

Published April 15th, 2012 - 1:28AM

Somewhere in the manual of The Pundits Society, after the section on the secret handshake and clubhouse knock, is a requirement that all opinionizers must within a five-year span make at least one use of Sen. Everett Dirksen’s quote about government finances:

Inflation another pressure on wallets

Published April 8th, 2012 - 3:32AM

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes something called the core inflation rate, which is the change in prices for goods and services excluding food and energy.

State can’t take its eye off aerospace

Published April 1st, 2012 - 6:31AM

Washington’s aerospace sector has been on a takeoff roll of late – the 767 tanker deal, the agreement with the Machinists union to build the 737 Max at Renton, a major international conference in Seattle designed to link buyers and suppliers. “We’ve got some great momentum in aerospace right now,” state Department of Commerce Director Rogers Weed said recently.

Another look at purpose of Ex-Im Bank

Published March 25th, 2012 - 7:05AM

In the annals of children’s appeals to their parents, none has been used more and proven less effective than “everyone else gets to.”

Nonprofits also need to make money

Published March 18th, 2012 - 3:16AM

A recent soggy Sunday afternoon didn’t seem to dampen the size or enthusiasm of the throngs of families willing to make the mad dash through intermittent downpours to visit the recently reopened Children’s Museum of Tacoma.

Health care without bureaucrats’ assistance

Published March 11th, 2012 - 9:01AM

For all the debate over health care in this country – how much it costs, who pays for it – there’s remarkably little change. The debate never ceases, and the costs keep going up.

The decline of the paper map in Washington state

Published March 4th, 2012 - 1:09AM

Today in “Spot the Generational Differences,” we’ll be discussing the fact that the state of Washington no longer prints a paper highway map.

Arenas are not always the answer

Published February 26th, 2012 - 4:30AM

Arenas get a lot of public attention and discussion, usually for the wrong reasons.

Will state see recovery in tourism this year?

Published February 19th, 2012 - 8:49AM

Even as closing time approached at the Seattle Golf and Travel Show, attendees were still strolling the aisles, conversations punctuated by the thwack of club face meeting ball on simulated driving ranges and putting greens.

Don’t let Walmart distract us

Published February 12th, 2012 - 1:52AM

Tacoma’s tussle over regulating and limiting big-box retailers may be a matter of scaling development to a size appropriate for the affected neighborhood.

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