aggregated from: crosscut.com : Mossback

Vancouver, BC has been a model of modern city planning, envied and emulated from the Middle East to South Lake Union. Now, one of the Canadian city's most prominent architects will be representing the USA in urban design at Expo 2010 in Shanghai by d...

topics: architecture, budget, green-building, high-tech, sustainability

aggregated from: Biz Buzz

A new study issued this month by the Milken Institute ranks the Seattle area as the nation's second largest tech center behind only the San Francisco Bay's Silicon Valley.The study, based on 2007 numbers, moves the Seattle area up a notch from a simi...

topics: high-tech, microsoft, tacoma

aggregated from: Biz Buzz

A new forecast from Moody's Economy.com ranks Washington among five states expected to lead the recovery from the recession.Three of the five states, Washington, Oregon and Idaho, are in the Pacific Northwest. The others on Moody's early bounce-back ...

topics: economy, high-tech, technology

aggregated from: Slog

Dendreon, a Seattle-based biotech startup, just completed a successful phase III trial on an entirely new kind of cancer treatment. The idea: If cancer is difficult to treat because the mutated cells divide and crawl all over the place, and thus cann...

topics: biotech, biotechnology, books, budget, economy

aggregated from: James Wallace on Aerospace

Boeing's engineering union, SPEEA, is in a unique position to comment on the skilled immigrant debate: It is one of few unions in the country that represents high-tech workers.Because the visa debate is an important issue to Microsoft, I've written a...

topics: business, high-tech, microsoft, redmond

aggregated from: James Wallace on Aerospace

Today, Monday, March 16, 2009, I had planed to write my weekly Aerospace Notebook about Northrop's latest take on the upcoming tanker competition against Boeing.With support growing in Congress for a split buy, Northrop said it would not oppose such ...

topics: budget, business, high-tech, microsoft, technology

aggregated from: James Wallace on Aerospace

Today, Monday, March 16, 2009, I had planned to write my weekly Aerospace Notebook about Northrop's latest take on the upcoming tanker competition against Boeing.With support growing in Congress for a split buy, Northrop said it would not oppose such...

topics: budget, business, high-tech, microsoft, technology

aggregated from: Cascadia Prospectus

The massively-hyped federal economic stimulus package isn't looking like it will do all that much for surface transportation. The New York Times reports that the House stimulus bill contains a measly $30 billions for roads and bridges and $10 billion...

topics: budget, carbon-tax, climate-change, development, ferries

aggregated from: Cascadia Prospectus

The much-hyped federal economic stimulus package isn't looking like it will do all that much for surface transportation. The New York Times reports that the House stimulus bill contains a scant $30 billion for roads and bridges and $10 billion for tr...

topics: budget, carbon-tax, climate-change, development, ferries

aggregated from: Discovery Blog

Colleges and universities are having to cut back in these hard times. Tuitions that have gone up at twice the rate of inflation for decade--and now exceed $50,000 a year in the Ivy League--are beginning to meet market resistance from parents (remembe...

topics: high-tech, liberal, political, politics