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Six Months In: Mixed Reviews for Seattle’s Mayor

With Mayor Katie Wilson’s honeymoon period over, Seattleites are grading her six-month performance as the city’s mayor. Opinions range from a few sour remarks...

Inspired Mayhem: The Life and Lunacy of Adman Terry Heckler

Terry Heckler died on May 5 this year, a little less than a year after his friend and former business partner Gordon Bowker passed away. Their era is over but their legacy of inspired lunacy lives on.

An Epic Odyssey: Who Gets to tell What Story When

On opening weekend, “The Odyssey,” a three-hour movie based on a 3,000-year-old poem, earned box office receipts of more than $264.1 million. CinemaScore reported that viewers gave the movie an “A” grade. What was the appeal?

Security Cameras in Seattle’s High-Crime Districts Work. Why Turn them Off?

When I helped design this anti-crime program, we built safeguards in from day one. But the mayor's pause has hardened into paralysis, and the neighborhoods that can least afford it are paying the price.

Datacenters over America: The Power Dance with AI (Part II)

Some in the industry have suggested that datacenters could be using 50 percent of today’s total electrical energy generation capacity by 2040.

Datacenters over America: Enormous Bets on Needs Unmet (Part I)

Every such disruption changes the rules, creates new winners and losers, and generates new efforts to ameliorate downsides as citizens stagger forward, unequally blessed and cursed by so much progress.

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