Department Archive: Commentary
05/14/12
The Boston Garden provided a playing home for Beantown’s hockey and basketball teams for nearly 70 years. Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto was home of...
05/14/12
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If you haven’t heard someone lament the rapid decline of civility, you haven’t been paying attention. Social...
05/14/12
When I first came to Seattle in 1989, I enjoyed Seattle Times columnist Emmett Watson’s rants about the swarm of Californians invading this...
05/14/12
Tax legislation signed into law in 2001 and 2003 significantly lowered the effective tax rates for many business owners. These changes are informally...
04/13/12
Lean on me. The Leaning tower of Pisa. Jack Spratt’s wife could eat no lean.
You may forget, for now, any other context for the word “lean.” The only...
04/13/12
Do you remember where you were and what you were doing when Amazon.com became the Borg?
Me, neither. It just sort of happened.
One day, Amazon was...
04/13/12
When I was 19, I spent a summer working at a kibbutz that bordered a gorgeous beach on the Mediterranean. Unfortunately, I spent most of my days in a...
04/13/12
If you’re like me, one of the first things you do at work in the morning is read your email. Bad move, it turns out. Why? The randomness with which...
03/16/12
The president of the Association for Manufacturing Technology was speaking at Impact Washington’s manufacturing summit earlier this year, remarking...
03/15/12
Remember when Clay Bennett made all sorts of promises to Seattle after he bought the SuperSonics from Howard Schultz in 2006? Bennett actually said...
