Seattle

Critics in the city argue that the repeal of a tax that would help fund housing and homelessness initiatives is a capitulation to business interests.

• By Sarah Holder

Alaska Airlines has become the first airline to renounce the use of plastic straws in an effort to raise awareness about the use of single-use plastics that pollute the world's oceans.

• By Matthew O. Berger

News and notes from Pacific Standard staff and contributors.

• By Francie Diep
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The city is starting to take steps to ready itself for an increased onslaught of rain as a result of climate change and historic weather patterns.

• By Stephen R. Miller

The chief counsel for ICE's Seattle field office faces charges of aggravated identity theft and wire fraud.

• By Kate Wheeling

I wrote a big ol' feature about what I found there—it's in this month's Pacific Standard—but it's not just the political lessons that stuck with me.

• By Michael Hobbes

A NASA satellite image shows fires in the Pacific Northwest, which now hosts 10 times as many large fires as it did before 1960.

• By Francie Diep

Henry Ford and Detroit radically changed the economic geography of the world. Now, Jeff Bezos and Seattle are poised to do the same.

• By Jim Russell

Models suggest atmospheric aerosol concentrations will increase as the temperatures keep climbing—and that's bad news for your lungs.

• By Nathan Collins

The latest entry in a special project in which business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on the most consequential changes in the workplace.

• By Margaret O’Mara

As poverty rises in American suburbs, all those people still need to get to work in the city.

• By Francie Diep

Fifteen feet have washed up on the shores of the Pacific Northwest in the past decade. Why have they been so vexingly hard to identify?

• By Spenser Davis

With a diversified employment base, the Emerald City will survive as Boeing starts looking for new talent outside of Washington State. But what does the search for cheap STEM talent say about the Innovation Economy?

• By Jim Russell

Concerns about population growth and decline are artifacts of the 19th century and the industrial revolution. For them to make any sense today, we need to look at the numbers in a much different way.

• By Jim Russell

Talent moves for reasons other than employment. And sometimes they even bring jobs with them.

• By Jim Russell

Top-tier research universities matter more than a vibrant urban core as focus shifts from talent attraction (too much competition) to talent production.

• By Jim Russell