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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.
Histories

The Black Ball Line and Birth of Washington State Ferries

Frequent strikes sour the public on the private ferry company. In the 1937 strike, Seattle Mayor John Dore demands that Governor Clarence Martin seize and operate the ferries.
Business

Is Seattle in a Recession? Let’s Do the Numbers

The latest two-year revenue forecast for state government, released in September, is down by $903 million since the budget passed in the spring. In a $78-billion budget, $903 million not a huge amount, and it’s a decline in the expected rate of growth.
Politics

Jimmy’s Back. But the Threat to Free Speech hasn’t Passed

Some people will want to let this go, because ABC is taking Kimmel back. But the whole episode is ominous for the freedom of broadcasting. This will go down in media history — and it’s not clear that it’s over.
Business

Successful in Seattle: What makes us so?

In a list of America’s top 50 cities compiled a year ago, our median household income was third-highest,  $120,608, behind only San Francisco and San Jose. Including its suburbs, Seattle people have built world-competitive companies
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.
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