Home to Microsoft and Starbucks, grunge rock and a constant rainy drizzle, Seattle is defined by the collision of urban soul and natural beauty. It's also a great destination for the budget-conscious traveler. An abundance of outdoor activities and a pulsing arts community make it the perfect place to visit while holding onto spare change.
A few tents cropped up hard by the railroad tracks, pitched by men left with nowhere to go once the emergency winter shelter closed for the summer.
Imagine yourself on a ferryboat deck with a latte in one hand, your overnight bag at your feet, and the dazzling Seattle, Washington, skyline filling the horizon behind you. While the boat churns across Elliott Bay, the Space Needle disappears from view and a shoreline materializes in the distance.
An authentic crêperie, a homey Ethiopian place and a down-home soul-food joint are among the city's favorite eateries.
Some of the last, best housing markets - the ones that continued to climb even as the rest of the country cratered - have turned south lately.
Five McMansions were torched outside Seattle in what may have been eco-terrorism. But the locals aren't unhappy
So, honestly, how can a Seattle MLS franchise possibly fail?
From Boston to Seattle, eight stores where you can buy smart -- and give back.
Question: Each year my wife and I contribute the maximum to our retirement accounts. My question concerns the timing of our investments. Are we better off spreading out the money we invest over the entire year - or should we invest the money as soon as we can? - Eric, Seattle, Washington
A nationwide push to put portable defibrillators in every school may not be worth the cost, a new study concludes
Home to Microsoft and Starbucks, grunge rock and a constant rainy drizzle, Seattle is defined by the collision of urban soul and natural beauty. It's also a great destination for the budget-conscious traveler. An abundance of outdoor activities and a pulsing arts community make it the perfect place to visit while holding onto spare change.
A few tents cropped up hard by the railroad tracks, pitched by men left with nowhere to go once the emergency winter shelter closed for the summer.
Imagine yourself on a ferryboat deck with a latte in one hand, your overnight bag at your feet, and the dazzling Seattle, Washington, skyline filling the horizon behind you. While the boat churns across Elliott Bay, the Space Needle disappears from view and a shoreline materializes in the distance.
An authentic crêperie, a homey Ethiopian place and a down-home soul-food joint are among the city's favorite eateries.
Some of the last, best housing markets - the ones that continued to climb even as the rest of the country cratered - have turned south lately.
Five McMansions were torched outside Seattle in what may have been eco-terrorism. But the locals aren't unhappy
So, honestly, how can a Seattle MLS franchise possibly fail?
From Boston to Seattle, eight stores where you can buy smart -- and give back.
Question: Each year my wife and I contribute the maximum to our retirement accounts. My question concerns the timing of our investments. Are we better off spreading out the money we invest over the entire year - or should we invest the money as soon as we can? - Eric, Seattle, Washington
A nationwide push to put portable defibrillators in every school may not be worth the cost, a new study concludes
Online retailer Amazon.com is delivering perishable groceries to a Seattle suburb in a pilot program, testing out a possible new food delivery service, according to a report Thursday.
In a world where third spaces -- the places where we spend time away from work and home -- are increasingly privately owned, how can we make our public spaces outstanding?
Juggling work, family, friends and community may seem sometimes like an impossible task. A flexible work schedule may be one solution to a better work-life balance.
The Supreme Court strikes a blow against race-based integration, but the decision suggests it may not be fatal
A bitterly divided U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday issued what is likely to be a landmark opinion -- ruling that race cannot be a factor in the assignment of children to public schools.
School officials in Seattle, Washington, said Thursday they know they cannot use "race-specific" rules to increase diversity in their schools but believe they can accomplish similar goals with "race-conscious measures."
The Supreme Court is poised to issue key rulings in two major cases involving diversity in schools.
In the middle of a nationwide housing slump, a few markets have held their ground - and then some.
The subject in Seattle baseball circles is Ichiro, as it so often is these days, and whether the Mariners can keep their terrifically enigmatic star happy and in the green beyond this season. Or even beyond July.
RENTON, Wash. (Ticker) -- The owners of the Seattle SuperSonics and a development company reached an agreement Monday that could lead to the land for an arena needed to keep the team in the Emerald City.
Online worlds like Second Life have made a successful business out of getting people to buy and sell 3-D virtual real estate.
The list of max free agents this summer could include Detroit's Chauncey Billups, Seattle's Rashard Lewis and New Jersey's Vince Carter. Until recently, none of them had spoken in detail about their contract strategies.
The year was 1992. Another NBA trade deadline day was in full swing. My phone rang every five minutes with another rumor, some fantastical and others with an element of truth. A few calls came from people inside the league who had very good information, and others were from my basketball fanatic friends, who had absolutely no information, but plenty of imagination.
An insurance company that wants to hold down payout costs has several ways to do that. One involves the software designed to help assess financial damages.
CHICAGO -- A winter storm is bearing down on Chicago as Martin Luther King Day looms Monday, but that burst of warm air you felt swirling around the Windy City late Sunday afternoon was the local populace exhaling en masse.
SI.com's Don Banks had a veteran NFC insider assess the divisional-round playoff games.
SEATTLE -- At the precise moment that Tony Romo became Tony Oh, No! and 68,058 fans at Qwest Field roared with the gleeful abandon of triumphant game-show contestants, Matt Hasselbeck got a sick feeling in his stomach.
SI.com's Don Banks breaks down this weekend's four first-round playoff games ...
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For anyone who loves to eat, Seattle is one of the most dynamic and satisfying places to be in the country.
Gas prices tumbled 24 cents during the past two weeks to an average of $2.42 a gallon of self-serve regular, a national survey said Sunday, posting the third straight two-week decline.
If you equate education with intelligence, then the smartest city in the United States is Seattle - 52.7 percent of its residents age 25 or older have completed a bachelor's degree or higher.
One person was killed and five others were wounded, three critically, in a shooting at the Jewish Federation in downtown Seattle, Washington, police said.
WANT TO COMMAND A WORKFORCE of hundreds with the flick of a wrist? Cubes--Lego-like miniaturizations of corporate drudgery--may be for you. Each $12.95 Cube set comes with a posable figurine and al...
I'm 26 and I'm a compulsive saver. For the past five years I've saved over 70 percent of my net income, and I don't make that much. I track all my spending and have tried to budget "minimum" monthly spending levels, but I can't seem to meet them. I don't consider myself cheap, just frugal. And all my hobbies - music, games, sports - tend to be low-cost. Do you have any suggestions on how I can spend more money?
Anyone can nail a couple of two-by-fours into a tree and call it a fort, but if you seek a two-story treetop home with plumbing and electricity, call Treehouse Workshop of Seattle. Used for everyth...
There has been an impressive amount of construction in the United States over the last three centuries: All told, we've built more than 300 billion square feet of homes, offices, factories, and oth...
Federal agents have closed down the first known smuggling tunnel under the U.S.-Canada border and arrested on drug charges the three Canadians who allegedly built it, law enforcement authorities said Thursday.
From October through June, Seattle impersonates London—dark and drizzly, with a climate that's good for field-testing Gore-Tex but not much else. Visit in late summer, though, and the city shakes o...
Ant-Farm Technology is finally marching into the 21st century, thanks to Fascinations, a Seattle-based toy company. The ten-person, $5 million--plus firm is celebrating its 20th anniversary with th...
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There are supermarkets, and then there's the Uwajimaya -- Seattle's largest Asian food store, selling to a growing Asian community.
After a week sweltering in the humid heat of Atlanta, doing duty at the CNN Center, I am back on the road again. This time I have come to the top of the continental United States -- the Pacific Northwest and Seattle.
A monorail train carrying passengers to a Memorial Day festival caught fire Monday afternoon in Seattle, Washington, and fire crews hurriedly rescued passengers from smoky cars about one story above ground.
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Considering the sorry state of the airline industry, it's quite a shock to learn that airports trail hotels in high-tech services. Things are improving, albeit slowly. Airlines are embracing self-s...
--CONTRARY INDICATORS As if equity analysts weren't already in the doghouse, a soon-to-be-published academic study finds that their highest-rated stocks underperformed their lowest-rated ones in 20...
Consider the neighboring communities of Fremont and Ballard, on the north side of town. Fremont is Seattle's acknowledged hip and cool spot, the kind of place where you meet people named Sunshine.
San Francisco The Obvious Run: The Embarcadero The Insider Run: Crissy Field
Ten years ago grunge musicians and college-age Cassandras who had never held a day job preached that corporate America would crush their generation's soul and leave them without a pension plan. Fil...
Okay, you missed out on the 38-acre ranch in Jackson Hole--the one with the horses, the six bedrooms, and the fish-jammed pond. You know, the one that's now worth $7 million and change. Relax. Ther...
Gomorrah got off easy; to see a truly suffering city, look to the Northwest. The biggest body blow to the Emerald City--Boeing's surprise relocation--is just the latest in a string of catastrophes ...
Amid the tech carnage, there's one group celebrating: organized labor. The rout has given unions an opportunity to rally a part of the work force that was previously out of reach.
You probably don't know Brad Zumwalt, but perhaps you know someone like him: early 30s, in and out of deals all the time, rich enough by now to relax (though he can't), a mover and a shaper who cra...
"No nation was ever ruined by trade." --Benjamin Franklin
Globalization has brought far-flung communities across the world closer together. It has brought Internet access to Rwanda, CNN to Azerbaijan, Japanese investors to the U.S. It has also brought unp...
One of the ironies of modern travel is that, although we typically spend thousands of dollars on a vacation, it's often the first $15 or so that we lay out--for a guidebook--that ends up determinin...
Spring is here, and as a winter-weary nation resumes outdoor activities like golfing and gardening, a resounding cry can be heard throughout the land: Oh, my aching back!
Market reforms may be causing indigestion in Tokyo--but there's no need to go hungry closer to home. Sushi, soba noodles, or yakitori (meat and poultry marinated and grilled on skewers) from any of...
Anywhere there's a roadside, you'll find a diner of some sort, even if the road happens to be a busy city street. Many classic diners vanished long ago. Others have been gussied up with fancier foo...
On a stretch of lakefront ten miles southeast of downtown Seattle sits the Barbee lumber mill. Family-owned for three generations, the Barbee is the only working sawmill left in the greater Seattle...
Every Saturday from March through May, managers, bankers, and lawyers from Seattle to Atlanta shed their ties and don their cleats to rumble in one of the world's roughest games--rugby. Started thi...
You're strolling down the street when something shiny on the sidewalk catches your eye. It's a Susan B. Anthony $1 coin. Do you a) scoop it up? or b) leave it for someone who needs it more (or is l...
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My secretary's face appeared in the conference room window. I could see from her look that it was the call I was expecting. I excused myself and bolted out of the room. When I stepped outside, she ...
This muscular vitamaniac is Nick Skouras, 40, a Seattle personal trainer who consumes $19,130 worth of supplements a year. That is enough money to feed a family of four for more than two years, acc...
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In 40 markets around the U.S., including Houston, New York City and Seattle, consumers looking for a dentist can dial 800-DENTIST and get a referral. We were curious -- if not skeptical -- about wh...
If you trekked with 86 million other Americans to Jurassic Park, the top-grossing movie of 1993, and now go to see Disclosure, the newest Michael Crichton novel-cum-film to hit the multiplex, you m...
Nowhere in your story was there an accounting for the time it would take, for example, to wash rubber gloves, dry them, turn them, wash and dry them again, put them in a pocket holder and wrap them...
MONEY delivers! Specifically, we have delivered more than 600 pieces of mail to Tim Carlsen (pictured above), the 33-year-old Seattle investment banker whose high-cost search for a wife was reporte...
First he got involved with a neighbor in his new apartment complex only to learn she was already attached: Her husband suddenly appeared. Next he reconnoitered a nearby beach touted by a colleague ...
Uncle Sam and Washington State transportation officials will spend $5.5 million to find out whether a special wristwatch, among other devices, can help you dodge traffic jams. The Dick Tracy-style ...
Despite inflation and a 7.3% increase in usage, electricity costs dropped in the '80s. The average annual household utility bill fell 6%, from $563 in 1982 to $529 by 1992. To compare electrical co...
With prices for used cars up 8.9% this year vs. 2.3% for new ones, now is a great time to sell your old auto -- especially if you have your eye on a 1994 model. If you sell it yourself, moreover, y...
1. RALEIGH/DURHAM The presence of three top universities -- Duke, University of North Carolina, and North Carolina State -- and the 7,000-acre Research Triangle Park has fueled the area's capacity ...
Naked and exhausted after 20 hours of unproductive labor, a heavyset woman lies in a tiled operating room that smells of dried blood. The room is open to the hall through a small wash-up area where...
HOW MUCH TO SAVE This worksheet will help you estimate the amount you must put away each year if you hope to save the full cost of your child's college education. The calculation is based on the fo...
What's bad for Boeing is bad for Seattle. After fueling the city's boom throughout the Eighties, the giant planemaker cut the jobs of 6,000 people from its Seattle-area payroll last year as airline...
Metals analysts say the new one-kilo Australian Koala (left), the largest legal tender platinum coin in the world, could be an attractive investment. Although platinum prices have been flat in rece...
CITIES/COVER STORIES 40 THE BEST CITIES FOR BUSINESS These days they are the places with the workers, services, and other factors that most help American companies compete globally. Here are ten so...
THE two-line lettered sign stood next to a roadside store on a highway heading toward magnificent Mount Rainier and the great green expanse that surrounds Seattle. The sign read: ESPRESSO LIVE BAIT...
The decor bespeaks snug, middle-class prosperity -- lace curtains at the front windows, framed prints hanging from picture rails, dried flowers and silver- framed photographs adorning polished surf...
In many countries, success is like royalty: you must be born to it. In sharp contrast, here your dreams are within your grasp. Why? This country has traditionally invited every citizen to exploit f...
This worksheet will help you decide how much to save each year for retirement. It assumes that your savings will grow 8% a year -- three points above the expected 5% annual inflation rate. Even if ...
Executives who jog don't have to break training on business trips or face unfamiliar terrain or inclement weather. The solution: indoor tracks. Here's a list of tracks near business centers in five...
A significant salmon run goes past Seattle, so you can fish for Pacific salmon in the Puget Sound. Though there are bigger boats and lower rates, consider paying $75 to climb aboard the Obsession w...
The worksheet at right will help you compare your 1990 and 1991 federal tax bills. Most of the lines are self-explanatory. For the others, follow these directions: --Line 5: If your adjusted gross ...
Here we go again, ranking America's hometowns and rankling just about everyone in the process. After you scour our list of the 300 largest U.S. metropolitan areas on pages 82 and 83, you may react ...
Questions abound about Seattle's ''domestic partner'' legislation, and we begin with our puzzlement in respect of Philip Irvin. What did Phil -- an engineer with the local power-and-light company -...
I was perplexed by your September article ''The Best Places to Live in America.'' You state that Seattle was ranked first because it scored 73 or higher in four of the nine categories on which citi...
What a difference a year makes. Last year, in our second annual survey of the best places to live in the U.S.A., Danbury, Conn. headed the list. This time, mirroring the shift in strength of the na...
When Nasser Ordoubadi, 33, moved from New York City to Seattle in 1984, he planned to stay only one year to complete his internship at Virginia Mason, one of the city's leading teaching hospitals. ...
As your March issue illustrates in ''The Pros Flunk Our New Tax-Return Test,'' income taxes are hideously complicated. My simple solution: require all congressmen to prepare their own tax returns, ...
DAVID RICHARDS, 49, and his wife Lonnette, 43, are of an age when they should be battling healthy cases of mid-life crisis. Instead, they are afflicted with an even more modern malaise: the full-ne...
Your freedom in retirement can be awesome. Not only can you do anything you want, but you can also live anyplace you please. Only one in four retirees is as yet daring enough to follow the sun or s...
One of the hottest growth industries in the U.S. is also one of the oldest. Farmers' markets are proliferating like zucchini. Californians can buy fresh fruit and vegetables directly from growers a...
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