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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 his most recent book is "Seattle in the Great Depression". He lives in Seattle with his wife, Anne.
Cities

Not There: Why Affordable Housing in Seattle is Busting

The Housing Levy money is “leveraged” with private money in order to build more units. But to attract private investors, the projects need tenants who are not poor. Hence the focus on “workforce housing.”
Histories

Mining for History in Newspaper Archives

For several hours a day I scanned pioneer newspapers and took notes: name of the paper, date, page, headline, notable facts and saltiest quotes. I was fascinated. I was listening to voices from a world long gone. These were primary sources, unbiased by the knowledge of the future.
Business

Seattle’s Next Big Thing?

Whatever Seattle’s industrial future is, history suggests it will not be a revival of industries that have fled to Asia, Mexico or some other place. It will be something new — something more like drug development and software than milling lumber or assembling iPhones.
International

Let’s Get Real: Putin is Going to get What He Wants

For those who prefer to fight on, consider the human cost. At the end of 2024, Ukraine admitted 43,000 dead and 370,000 wounded. As of June, Russian media identified more than 111,000 Russian dead. It’s safe to assume the true figures are higher.
Business

Good Times: The 1930s Seattle Stockbroker Who Cashed in While Markets Crashed

That in 1929-1931 neither The Times nor The P-I ever profile Paul E. Williams and his hot new company tells me that the man won’t talk.
Books

Abundance, Eh? Well, Here’s what that Means

The book’s central argument is that modern government, federal, state, and local — government created largely by Democrats — has made it hard to build anything, including the things Democrats want.
Politics

Why We Need a Too-Old-To-Serve Constitutional Amendment for Presidents

This is not a Democrat-and-Republican issue. It’s about power. The inner circle around the president — the group that in the Biden White House was dubbed "the Politburo" — do not serve the public. They serve him.
International

On a 50th Anniversary, Remembering Saigon its Echoes in Ukraine

The backstory was similar -- a rich foreign power trying and failing to suppress an insurgency in a country it didn’t really know.
blog

Why Trump is Right to Try to Make a Ukraine War Deal

For those of us old enough to remember the war in Vietnam, it’s eerie how familiar all this is. Then it was the left that wanted peace, and the right that denounced them as pinkos and commie lovers. Now the left denounces our right-wing president as a fascist and a Putin lover. The slander has changed sides.
International

The US has No Claim on the Panama Canal. It Belongs to Panama

It’s not only that our government, which built it, gave it to them. In the past quarter-century, Panama has invested billions of dollars building modern locks at either end.
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