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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
Did we have fun this year, rooting around in the accomplishments and foibles of business and economics?
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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.
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.
Desperate times call for desperate measures, so state government in a desperate budget squeeze did something truly radical.
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.
Land, they’ve told us for years, is a terrific investment because they’re not making any more of it.
Local vs. national, independent vs. chain, bricks-and-mortar vs. online – the battles in contemporary retailing are as bruising as any you’ll find in American business.
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