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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.
Food

Black Cod, the “Wagyu Beef” of the Sea — Soon Raised in Northwest Waters?

The question now is not whether black cod aquaculture can be done, but “the willingness of society and government” to allow it. Salt-water fish farming has its opponents.
Business

Is Seattle Making it Impossible to be a Small Landlord?

City of Seattle data show the number of rental units consisting of houses and small apartment buildings (20 units or less) fell by 17 percent between July 2018 and August 2022.
Politics

Is The Washington State Legislature About to Declare Microsoft a “Foreign-Influenced” Company?

The bill would label as a “foreign-influenced corporation” any company in which a foreigner or foreign institution owns 1 percent or more of the stock. The much-feared Norwegians own 1.13 percent of Microsoft.
Business

As Banks Fail, Some are Demanding Tighter Regulation. Sure, But…

We’re not going back to the world before deposit insurance, but there needs to be a limit to the government’s liability if banking is to remain a private-sector activity.
Business

Parallels? The Small Oklahoma Bank That Took Down Seafirst

There is one sense in which Silicon Valley Bank is another Penn Square. The failure of the little bank in Oklahoma City 40 years ago was an omen of a nasty recession.
Politics

Port of Seattle: The Seas of Social Justice

The more the commissioners have focused on the new things, the less they could focus on the old ones.
Business

Cashing in CHIPS: A Skeptic Casts a Wary Eye

The rush to save the world’s most advanced semiconductors recalls the fight in the late 1960s and early 1970s over the Supersonic Transport. That didn't work out well.
Politics

Initiative 135 for Social Housing: Voters Beware

The social-housing initiative is like the monorail proposal. It expresses the wants of a segment of the people, but has not come through normal channels and is not well thought out. 
Politics

How Kshama Sawant Changed Seattle Politics

Kshama Sawant makes noise. Always. To opponents, the sound is irritating and the tactics worse. She breaks the unwritten rules, and sometimes the written ones. She asks for the whole loaf.
Journalism

Understanding the Times: How the Japanese Internment was Reported

Yes, the Seattle Times could have done better. But to hold up as an ideal the Bainbridge Island Review, the small weekly that famously defended the Japanese Americans, is to imagine the impossible.
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