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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.
We don’t have to be at the mercy of challenges
Published February 5th, 2012 - 7:50AM
The saying “everyone talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it” is as applicable, and potentially misleading, in community economic development as it is in meteorology.
Natural gas promise could easily fall short
Published January 29th, 2012 - 7:36AM
As you’re sitting there in your dark house, wondering if the reading on the thermostat inside will fall as fast as the freezing rain outside, the energy issue most on your mind at the moment is not the future of America’s portfolio of generating, transportation fuel and heating resources.
Be careful what you wish for from banks
Published January 22nd, 2012 - 7:03AM
Proponents of a state bank or investment trust might not phrase it quite this way, but one of the arguments driving their proposals for a government-owned-and-operated financial institution appears to be, “Why not? We can’t do any worse than the commercial banks.”
Let’s go all in on gambling
Published January 15th, 2012 - 7:43AM
Here at the Institute for Modest Proposals we have been working overtime to help the governor and the Legislature out of yet another billion-dollar budget hole.
Economy needs some quiet time
Published January 8th, 2012 - 7:03AM
In a recent interview on the region’s economic outlook, Columbia Bank President Melanie Dressel was asked what it might take to get businesses confident enough to resume investing.
Here are some things you won’t see this year
Published January 1st, 2012 - 2:56AM
Making predictions about the new year is so cliche. We prefer to speculate about what won’t happen, to alert you to the headlines you won’t be seeing over stories you won’t be reading in 2012.
Plenty of change, outrage for year
Published December 26th, 2011 - 7:01AM
Did we have fun this year, rooting around in the accomplishments and foibles of business and economics?
Tacoma needs to dream big
Published December 18th, 2011 - 2:31AM
Can you teach people to be entrepreneurial?
Boeing news is big deal even if you’re not a Boeing machinist
Published December 11th, 2011 - 2:27AM
In the heat of the moment, it can be difficult to tell whether it’s the surprise factor or the news itself that makes a breaking story a big deal. Time is required to assess whether the news is as significant as it first appeared.
Small businesses speak out
Published December 4th, 2011 - 4:16AM
In a world in which words are used to obfuscate, cloud, confuse, dodge and obscure, every now and then comes a needed and bracing blast of blunt language.
Not all will be on the table in budget talks
Published November 27th, 2011 - 4:26AM
Desperate times call for desperate measures, so state government in a desperate budget squeeze did something truly radical.
Mismatch of jobs, skills may get worse
Published November 13th, 2011 - 3:56AM
According to the Employment Security Department, nearly 317,600 people were unemployed in the state of Washington, producing a jobless rate (seasonally adjusted) of 9.1 percent in September.
Competing interests at stake in Tideflats
Published November 6th, 2011 - 2:57AM
Land, they’ve told us for years, is a terrific investment because they’re not making any more of it.
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