Bloomberg Businessweek recently surveyed over 3,000 frequent air travellers, crunched departure and arrival data, and looked at airport travel times to find out which cities
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Demonstrators are pictured in Seattle protesting a Missouri grand jury’s failure to indict Officer Darren Wilson for the shooting of Michael Brown (Photo: Tiffany Von Arnim/Reproduced under a Creative Commons license)
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Earlier this evening, St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch held a long, self-serving press conference to disclose that the grand jury he decided to make
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Why America’s housing disaster is back and wreaking terror The crooks who brought us the housing nightmare that crashed the U.S. economy are back and
LaunchFor-profit tech companies are displacing nonprofits in San Francisco
For-profit tech companies are displacing nonprofits in San Francisco “Soaring rents drove 2,000 of San Francisco’s 8,000 nonprofits out of town or out of existence
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Four Mount Ontake climbers confirmed dead after eruption Japanese media are reporting that four of the thirty-one people known to be on or near the
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Storm swamps Phoenix: Mesa flooding a ‘slow-moving disaster’ The Arizona-Republic reports on the historic flash flooding that has turned ordinarily dry metro Phoenix into a
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A new report created by insurance giant Allstate has found that drivers in the Seattle and Portland metropolitan areas are among the least safest in
LaunchSouth Napa earthquake leaves many buildings severely damaged
The 6.0 magnitude earthquake that struck the Napa Valley area on August 24th has left many buildings, including this one at the corner of Main & Clinton, in bad shape. (Photo: California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services)
LaunchSurveying the damage the morning after in Napa, California
“The day after! Downtown Napa after the quake. News crews use one of the most damaged buildings as a backdrop to their reports.” (Photo: Mark Gunn)
LaunchMagnitude 6.0 quake rocks Northern California
Magnitude 6.0 quake rocks Northern California The most powerful earthquake to strike Northern California since the 1989 Loma Prieta tumbler has caused extensive damage in
LaunchKing County Sheriff: “We cannot arrest our way out of society’s problems”
The low-level drug crimes have incarcerated an entire generation of young people and mostly people of color. We cannot arrest our way out of society’s
LaunchSeattle’s former police chief speaks out on Ferguson and police militarization
I’m just very, very disappointed and troubled that lessons that we learned in Seattle have not been embraced by American law enforcement in general, by
LaunchWashington Post reporter Wesley Lowery gives account of his arrest
Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery gives account of his arrest The Washington Post’s Wesley Lowery tells the story of his and Ryan Reilly’s illegal arrests
LaunchMeet the Denny, a bicycle designed for Seattle
Meet the Denny, a bicycle designed for Seattle. From the designers: The Denny bike is about returning the rider (and ourselves) to those early days
LaunchIf not a viaduct or a monorail on the waterfront, then what?
She is determined to build something elevated along the waterfront. What happens if this fails? Maybe she’ll propose an aqueduct. — Seattle Transit blog commenter
LaunchThe fine print: U.S. government fudges phase-out of old oil tank cars
It has been twenty-one years since federal regulators identified problems with the [safety-plagued DOT-111] cars. How many deaths will it take before they genuinely regulate?
LaunchFollow the groups that are working to stop evictions and turn on the water in Detroit
As many of our readers may be aware, several months ago, the government of Detroit (which is under an emergency management regime) unconscionably decided to
LaunchJudge condemns Detroit’s water shutoffs
Your shutoff program has created a lot of anger in the city and a lot of hardship and bad publicity the city does not need.
LaunchGovernor Inslee: Washington homes threatened by “fire storm”
I know people have seen fires before. This is a different beast. This is a fire storm. — Washington State Governor Jay Inslee, speaking at
LaunchArs Technica commenter explains why firms like Lyft and Uber shouldn’t be above the law
PENGIN9: I don’t get why we need to have laws for who can drive a taxi. In my humble opinion, if you’re brave enough to
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