Jon Talton
Business Columnist at Seattle Times
Blogger at roguecolumnist.com
@seattletimes Business Columnist. Past: @azcentral @theobserver @enquirer @daytondailynews, Rocky Mountain News. Novelist, historian. Long ago EMT-paramedic.
Articles
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2 weeks ago |
seattletimes.com | Jon Talton
An important meeting this week in the other Washington will have consequences that affect Seattle and the Northwest, as well as the nation and world. After World War II, the United States established two institutions to help prevent the type of trade conflicts that in the 1920s and 1930s contributed to the rise of Hitler and the military control of imperial Japan.
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1 month ago |
seattletimes.com | Jon Talton
Like almost every city and metropolitan area in the United States, Seattle needs more housing. Last year, my colleagues Heidi Groover and Anna Patrick reported that Washington will need more than a million new dwellings in the next 20 years, including those for people with lower incomes. Whether the recent approval by the Seattle City Council of fewer than 1,000 new apartments in the Sodo industrial district south of downtown, amid enormous controversy, will help is yet to be determined.
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1 month ago |
seattletimes.com | Jon Talton
We should all be worried about what Elon Musk is doing with the Department of Government Efficiency. The Musk-driven DOGE has a voracious appetite that will have long-lasting negative consequences for Washington state.
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2 months ago |
seattletimes.com | Jon Talton
Imagine boarding a high-speed train for Portland or Vancouver, B.C., from Seattle and arriving in about 50 minutes or less. No traffic jams on Interstate 5 or hassles at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. It would be a boon for people doing business, connecting technology centers along the route and boosting local economies by bringing tourists and making travel for residents easier.
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Feb 14, 2025 |
seattletimes.com | Jon Talton
Jon Talton examines the affect of Chinese startup DeepSeek on Microsoft and Amazon.
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