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American Airlines' attempt to ditch pension riles feds, labor unions

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Times - By Steven Mufson - Feb. 11 (News Report) - Now in bankruptcy proceedings, the airline wants to terminate its four pension plans for 130,000 workers and retirees and ask the government's Pension Benefit Guarantee Corp. to bail out its unfunded pension obligations to the tune of $9 billion.

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Study: Brain inflammation may be why diets fail

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Times - By Carol M. Ostrom - Dec. 30 (News Report) - Soon after eating a high-fat diet, humans and rodents begin to show evidence of injury to the part of the brain that regulates weight, according to a new study from the University of Washington and other institutions.

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Shale boom may help lead U.S. to energy independence

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Times - By Kevin G.Hall - Dec. 23 (Opinion) - The United States could pass its 1970s peak as an oil-and-gas producer in less than a decade with the help of a shale formation in Pennsylvania.

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Canada kept detection of salmon virus secret

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Times - By Craig Welch - Nov. 30 (News Report) - A decade before this fall's salmon-virus scare, a Canadian government researcher said she found a similar virus in more than 100 wild fish from Alaska to Vancouver Island. But Canadian officials never told the public or scientists in the United States about those tests.

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Council asks city to look at its investments

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Times - By Lynn Thompson - Nov. 15 (News Report) - The Seattle City Council on Monday unanimously adopted a resolution in support of Occupy Seattle that calls on the city to examine its banking and investment practices, home-foreclosure patterns and the financing of local elections.

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Anxiety up as more salmon virus found in B.C.

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Times - By Craig Welch - Nov. 07 (News Report) - Three weeks after a potentially deadly virus was found for the first time in two juvenile wild sockeye on the Pacific Coast, it has been found again — this time in other wild salmon from British Columbia's Fraser River. And while that's caused anxiety among researchers and salmon growers, it's too soon to say whether it signals a fish crisis.

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Ocean acidification is most urgent threat to marine conservation

Sat, 05 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - By Bill Dewey - Nov. 05 (Opinion) - Guest columnist Bill Dewey writes about a new and serious threat to marine conservation and resource management: ocean acidification. The tools and strategies to reverse this trend that is detrimental to marine life are available, proven and even profitable.

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Climate change, beetle may doom rugged pine - The Seattle Times

Sat, 05 Nov 2011 22:42:52 -0700

Seattle Times - Nov. 05 - Climate change, beetle may doom rugged pineThe Seattle TimesFor many species it's too soon to fully grasp the effects of climate change. For whitebark pine, most signs are troubling. Blister rust, a fungus brought from overseas a century ago, is epidemic. The fungus doesn't always kill, and pockets of trees in ...

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End of the line for fancy Steuben crystal

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - Oct. 24 - In "Risky Business," a 1983 comedy drama starring Tom Cruise, a mother's prized Steuben (stew-'BEN) glass egg goes missing from the mantelpiece only to reappear - imperceptibly nicked - in the nick of time.

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With Gadhafi dead, new troubles for Libya

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - Oct. 22 - International human-rights groups called Friday for an investigation into the death of former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, as gory new videos showed him being spat at and punched by revolutionaries and as skepticism mounted about official claims that he was shot in crossfire after being captured.

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GOP presidential hopefuls take us down an economic rabbit hole

Sat, 15 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - Oct. 15 (Opinion) - In the real world, recent events were a devastating refutation of the free-market orthodoxy that has ruled American politics these past three decades. Above all, the long crusade against financial regulation, the successful effort to unravel the prudential rules established after the Great Depression on the grounds that they were unnecessary, ended up demonstrating — at immense cost to the nation — that those rules were necessary, after all. But down the rabbit hole, none of that happened.

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Herman Cain, a man at odds with the skin he's in

Sat, 15 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - By Leonard Pitts Jr. - Oct. 15 (Opinion) - Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain neatly encapsulates an article of faith for many white conservatives — namely, that they, not black and brown people, are the true victims of bigotry. Cain comes across as a man profoundly at odds with the skin he's in.

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South Africa may block Dalai Lama visit to Tutu

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - Sep. 26 - South Africa officials may block the Dalai Lama from celebrating the 80th birthday of his friend and fellow Nobel Peace Laureate, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, amid fears that Chinese pressure is trumping the country's much-vaunted policies on freedom of speech and human rights.

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FCC must protect consumer in telecom reforms

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - Sep. 22 (Opinion) - As the Federal Communications Commission considers reforms that will affect consumers' access to broadband and how much they pay, guest columnist Simon ffitch argues that telecom subsides should have some consumer-minded strings attached.

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Does Navy depot pose a danger to public?

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - By Kyung M. Song - Sep. 12 (Special Report) - It's been eight years since Glen Milner first asked the Navy just how big an explosion could be triggered by an accident or an attack at its munitions depot on Indian Island. And it's been six months since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down one of the Navy's grounds for rejecting Milner's request under the Freedom of Information Act. Now the Department of Defense is back in U.S. District Court in Seattle, where it's pursuing its second legal argument.

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Explosion at nuclear plant in southern France

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - By Jenny Barchfield - Sep. 12 (News Report) - An explosion at a nuclear waste facility in southern France killed one person and injured four on Monday. Authorities said there was no radioactive leak, but critics urged France to rethink its nuclear power in the wake of the catastrophe at Japan's Fukushima plant.

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Morris Dees never stops hunting for hate

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - By Jerry Large - Sep. 12 (News Report) - Morris Dees was in Seattle last week to talk about the work he leads at the Southern Poverty Law Center, the civil-rights law firm he founded in 1971. The struggle has gotten more complex, but the mission is the same: Find and stamp out hate.

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High U.S. terrorism conviction rate doesn't tell whole story

Sun, 04 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - By Andrew Welsh-Huggins - Sep. 04 (Special Report) - Of the 196 most serious terrorism cases brought to court in the U.S. since the Sept. 11 attacks, 178 have ended in convictions, either through a guilty plea or a jury's decision, according to a review of government documents and interviews with prosecutors and defense attorneys.

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Dry-cleaned clothes a health risk? Maybe.

Sun, 04 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - By Lena H. Sun - Sep. 04 (News Report) - A Virginia high-school student's simple science project reveals danger in dry-cleaned clothes.

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U.S. sues big banks over fraudulent mortgages

Sat, 03 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - Sep. 03 (News) - Federal regulators launched a broad legal assault on big banks Friday, claiming they sold nearly $200 billion in fraudulent mortgage investments to housing giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that led to massive losses during the financial crisis.

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Extreme weather: 'the new normal'

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - Aug. 26 - Federal climate scientists say 2011 has been one of the worst in U.S. history for extreme weather. With punishing blizzards, epic flooding, devastating drought and a heat wave that has broiled a huge swath of the country, the year's weather has been unrelenting and extraordinary.

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Congress should reject proposed trade agreements and insist on better policies

Wed, 27 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - By Lynne Dodson, Kathleen Ridihalgh - Jul. 27 (Opinion) - The proposed U.S. trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama would continue to undermine the American economy, write guest columnists Lynne Dodson and Kathleen Ridihalgh. Washington's congressional delegation should reject them in favor of better policies.

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Quest for renewable power turns back to water

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - Jul. 18 (News Report) - The powerful flow of the Mississippi River, which brought destruction to scores living near its flooded banks this spring, is viewed by a new generation of energy entrepreneurs as a reliable alternative way of generating electricity.

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Tabloid's actions bring shame on Murdoch's empire

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - Jul. 11 (Editorial) - SHAME on Rupert Murdoch, News Corp., News International, the new poster children for guerrilla tactics of the tabloid news business and a hideous lack of ethical and moral business values.

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Creditor-friendly policies are crippling the economy

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - By Paul Krugman - Jun. 13 (Opinion) - Creditor-friendly policies are crippling the economy, writes Paul Krugman. This is a negative-sum game, in which the attempt to protect creditors from any losses is inflicting much larger losses on everyone else.

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