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Bruce Ramsey

Bruce Ramsey was a business reporter and columnist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in the 1980s and 1990s and from 2000 to his retirement in 2013 was an editorial writer and columnist for the Seattle Times. He is the author of The Panic of 1893: The Untold Story of Washington State’s first Depression, and is at work on a history of Seattle in the 1930s. He lives in Seattle with his wife, Anne.
Journalism

Washington Post Abstains from Presidential Endorsement — as it Should

Let’s not go overboard here. The Post is not endorsing Trump. (That would be a journalistic H-bomb.) The Post is declaring that it will not be endorsing any candidate, now or in the future.
Business

Case Study: Why a Downtown Low-Income Apartment Building is Failing

Owners claim ordinances passed by the left-wing majority on the city council from 2018 to 2021 have “functionally commandeered” their property for use by too many people who don’t pay rent.
Politics

Who’s Funding Elections: It’s All About the Money?

The voice calling to “get the money out of politics” is quiet now, but we will hear it again. That voice originates from the candidates themselves, particularly the ones who are struggling.
Business

Why Trump’s Tariffs Would Be Bad for Washington State

A blanket 20 percent tax on imports — raw materials, semi-finished items, finished parts, the lot — would be a shock to Boeing and many other companies. It would strain international relationships, and those other countries might retaliate by raising their tariffs.
International

Proposed: Time to End the Ukraine War

“The Russians started it,” we say — even if the NATO expansion under Clinton, Bush and Obama was why Putin started it. Still, he did start it. I agree that he’s a bad guy, but the need now is not to express our feelings about bad guys, but to end a war.
HT Debate

More Question-Dodging from Trump and Harris

Both of them dodged crucial questions by changing the subject. Both made gross exaggerations. Both made unfounded predictions of what would happen if the other won.
blog

America’s Tiniest Apartments: Seattle’s Developers Are Building Them

Seattle’s apartments are smaller than San Francisco’s — even smaller than Manhattan’s.
Politics

Will Republicans Really Ban Abortion Nationwide?

Trump is sending a signal: No national abortion ban. In essence, what he’s saying to the right-to-lifers is, You wanted abortion law to revert to the states. Be satisfied with what you got.
Transportation

Unsustainable? How the Pandemic Turned our Transit Model on its Head

In response to these post-Covid trends, and also to Sound Transit’s rail expansion, Metro says it will “restructure bus service rather than restore service to pre-pandemic conditions.” It plans “a targeted, income-based approach to fares."
Trump-Biden Debate

The Worst Choice in American History? Sounds About Right

If Trump lied more egregiously than Biden, and he did, Biden piled up his share of political fibs.
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