Douglas McLennan

The World Cup — now mere days away — has turned every unfinished civic project into a deadline.

A judge has ruled Donald Trump's name must be removed from the Kennedy Center and an impending two-year closure for renovations canceled. So the question is, now what? A furious...

Sound Transit conceded what it can no longer afford to build. Mayor Wilson lost the lead advisor on her shelter expansion. Meta laid off 1,400 Seattle-area workers on the same day Mark Zuckerberg's yacht pulled into Lake Union.

Welcome to our new weekly roundup of news from across the Puget Sound region. Not comprehensive, these are stories that caught our eye this week.

With the opening of architect Peter Zumthor's new $724 million David Geffen building, a 110,000-square-foot concrete arc curving across Wilshire Boulevard and replacing the old hodgepodge, LACMA has made a bold statement not just with a building, but about what it believes is the museum's role in contemporary culture.

Ireland started with artists because they were an easy case: chronically underpaid, culturally necessary, structurally abandoned by the market, and the political argument was winnable. But the experiment proves something more general: unconditional income produces more output, not less, generates return and not just expenditure, and retains people in socially valuable work who would otherwise give up.

Maybe you've seen the video below this week? It features the latest robotics by a Chinese robotics firm harnessed for a demonstration at this year's Spring Festival Gala. Give...

Here's the paradox: the current political assault on institutions may be the best thing that ever happened to the case for rebuilding them.

In the space of a week, we have lost two significant and iconic American institutions. But the shuttering of the Kennedy Center and the decimation of the Washington Post are neither isolated nor unrelated.

Here’s the tell: since when does a licensor pay the licensee?