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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 is at work on a history of Seattle in the 1930s. He lives in Seattle with his wife, Anne.
International

Proposed: Time to End the Ukraine War

“The Russians started it,” we say — even if the NATO expansion under Clinton, Bush and Obama was why Putin started it. Still, he did start it. I agree that he’s a bad guy, but the need now is not to express our feelings about bad guys, but to end a war.
HT Debate

More Question-Dodging from Trump and Harris

Both of them dodged crucial questions by changing the subject. Both made gross exaggerations. Both made unfounded predictions of what would happen if the other won.
blog

America’s Tiniest Apartments: Seattle’s Developers Are Building Them

Seattle’s apartments are smaller than San Francisco’s — even smaller than Manhattan’s.
Politics

Will Republicans Really Ban Abortion Nationwide?

Trump is sending a signal: No national abortion ban. In essence, what he’s saying to the right-to-lifers is, You wanted abortion law to revert to the states. Be satisfied with what you got.
Transportation

Unsustainable? How the Pandemic Turned our Transit Model on its Head

In response to these post-Covid trends, and also to Sound Transit’s rail expansion, Metro says it will “restructure bus service rather than restore service to pre-pandemic conditions.” It plans “a targeted, income-based approach to fares."
Trump-Biden Debate

The Worst Choice in American History? Sounds About Right

If Trump lied more egregiously than Biden, and he did, Biden piled up his share of political fibs.
Politics

Why I Am Unimpressed by Trump’s Felony Conviction

What should we think about these transactions between consenting adults? Paying a person not to talk is not, in itself, unlawful. I can think of some names for Daniels’ opportunism. But nobody cares what she did.
blog

High Interest Rates? A Little Historical Perspective, Please!

To an older person, today’s “high” rates are what’s normal.
Politics

Out of Options: Libertarians in the Age of Trump

The Libertarians’ slogan, painted in big letters on the wall behind Trump, was “Become Ungovernable.” And they were.
Transportation

Electric Plug-in Vehicle Sales Flourish in Democratic States. Here’s Why

The strong-EV states are all voting Democrat; the weak-EV states all favor Republicans.
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