Email Author Manny Frishberg

2001 Stories by Manny Frishberg

• Fifth face off

  published August 22, 2001

  THERE IS NO such thing as a quiet election involving King County Council member Dwight Pelz. Not only does Pelz favor acerbic humor and... More >>

• Without a trace

  published July 11, 2001

  DUCK AND COVER! Get under your desks! Most of all, close your Internet connection—the cyberwars have come home, and no one online... More >>

• Staying on track

  published May 16, 2001

  WHILE SOUND TRANSIT'S detractors are busy writing light rail's obituary, Seattle's long-suffering monorail has taken on a golden glow.... More >>

• News Clips— Supremes club cannabis

  published May 16, 2001

  THEY MAY NOT be doctors, but they play them in the halls of Congress, and according to the U.S. Supreme Court our 535 federal... More >>

• I want my P3P?

  published May 9, 2001

  MICROSOFT WANTS to take care of you—they want to let you know that they are out there protecting your privacy. They'd like us all... More >>

• Full circle?

  published April 25, 2001

  MAYBE THE WHOLE dot-com drop-off was just a bad dream. Following a free fall, the stock markets seem to have found their footing again,... More >>

• Rule of the gamers

  published March 28, 2001

  THESE ARE DARK TIMES for high tech. Even the venerable hardware manufacturers—the Intels, Ciscos, and Suns—have seen their... More >>

• Pink slips and amber ale

  published February 28, 2001

  ONE THING YOU have to say about dot-commers—the fabled twenty- to thirty-something "knowledge workers" whose meteoric rise and... More >>

• The man in the Irons mask

  published February 7, 2001

  IS KING COUNTY COUNCIL member David Irons a dim bulb? Is he a tool of rapacious developers bent on filling the Sammamish Plateau with... More >>

• Surfing for the stars

  published January 10, 2001

  FINDING FAULT WITH ASTROLOGY is almost too easy. One recent day, a Web site offering daily astrological projections told me that I... More >>

• Astro-study

  published January 10, 2001

  Jeff Jawer managed to get a BA in the "History and Science of Astrology" from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst back in 1970, but to... More >>