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U.S. Census Bureau

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2011

    Majority of Americans Haven't Dined Out in a Year

    ​More than half of Americans haven't dined out in the last year, according to newly-released data from the U.S. Census Bureau. According to the 2012 Statistical Abstract, only 49.3 percent of Americans surveyed in fall 2010 indicated "dining out" was among their activities during the previous ... More >>

  • News

    January 19, 2011

    Westside Connections

    How West Seattle became the city's most powerful political enclave.

  • News

    July 21, 2010

    Lush Lie

    Eastsiders have refused to splurge at Bellevue's luxurious Bravern.

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2010

    Tacoma May Be a Million Dollars Richer, Thanks to Immigrants in Detention

    ICE: balancing state budgets one arrest at a time.​One of the federal government's traditional selling points on the census is that it determines how federal grant dollars are awarded. The higher the reported population in a given state, the more money it receives for things like roads, Medica ... More >>

  • Film

    May 26, 2010

    SIFF Week 2: Picks & Pans

    ICE: balancing state budgets one arrest at a time.​One of the federal government's traditional selling points on the census is that it determines how federal grant dollars are awarded. The higher the reported population in a given state, the more money it receives for things like roads, Medica ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2010

    Richard Shelby Slams Gary Locke Over Sex Offenders in the Census Bureau

    With so many census workers going door to door, it's no surprise to find one or two bad apples.​Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby slammed Commerce Secretary and former Washington governor Gary Locke in a letter after two high-profile incidents involving census bureau workers. In the first, a New Je ... More >>

  • News

    May 12, 2010

    Old and In the Way

    Is Pioneer Square preserving itself to death?

  • Diversions

    April 7, 2010

    Since When Did the Census Hire Lou Dobbs?

    Is Pioneer Square preserving itself to death?

  • Diversions

    January 13, 2010

    Why Aren’t Mexican Americans Considered Native Americans?

    Is Pioneer Square preserving itself to death?

  • News

    December 16, 2009

    A Mystery of Violence

    As the FBI investigates the possibility of a terrorism “recruitment network” in Seattle, the local Somali community struggles to understand why young men would return to a country they never knew.

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2009

    Microsoft Says Graying Boomers Will Never Surrender Their Gadgets!

    Boomers learned to love their gadgets early, and will continue to buy new ones, says Microsoft.​As more baby boomers near retirement, adjust to bifocals, and have their hips replaced, Microsoft predicts the Me Generation will be anything but geezer in its ongoing embrace of technology. The New ... More >>

  • Arts

    October 28, 2009

    The Weekly Wire: The Week's Recommended Events

    Boomers learned to love their gadgets early, and will continue to buy new ones, says Microsoft.​As more baby boomers near retirement, adjust to bifocals, and have their hips replaced, Microsoft predicts the Me Generation will be anything but geezer in its ongoing embrace of technology. The New ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2009

    FBI: Seattle Arson and Car Theft Down, Rape and Population Up

    The FBI released its preliminary 2008 crime data today, and Seattle's results are a mixed bag. Overall, violent crime is down in the city, though rapes increased 40%, from 90 in 2007 to 126 in 2008. Murders inched up from 24 to 29. Meanwhile, car thefts dropped more than 37% (from 5,782 to 3,675)--l ... More >>

  • Diversions

    May 27, 2009

    Ask a Mexican

    The FBI released its preliminary 2008 crime data today, and Seattle's results are a mixed bag. Overall, violent crime is down in the city, though rapes increased 40%, from 90 in 2007 to 126 in 2008. Murders inched up from 24 to 29. Meanwhile, car thefts dropped more than 37% (from 5,782 to 3,675)--l ... More >>

  • Diversions

    April 15, 2009

    Mexicans Are Drinking Our Water!

    The FBI released its preliminary 2008 crime data today, and Seattle's results are a mixed bag. Overall, violent crime is down in the city, though rapes increased 40%, from 90 in 2007 to 126 in 2008. Murders inched up from 24 to 29. Meanwhile, car thefts dropped more than 37% (from 5,782 to 3,675)--l ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2009

    The Lifeboat Is in the Water, Will It Float?

    Lifeboat from Titanic.Here it is, King County health and justice programs. Your lifeboat. Last October, we explained Ron Sims' creative plan for keeping essential programs like family court services alive by floating them out of the deep-in-the-red county budget for six months, then going to Olymp ... More >>

  • Arts

    September 6, 2006

    We Be Educated

    If we're so smart, why are we so stupid?

  • Blogs

    August 31, 2006

    We Gots Brain

    If we're so smart, why are we so stupid?

  • News

    June 15, 2005

    Another Election Contested

    That of Ethiopia, where corruption is real.

  • Diversions

    October 27, 2004

    Trading Spaces

    'Speakeasy' to street legal: Some scenes make the move; others don't.

  • News

    October 13, 2004

    Penny Whys

    There's something for everyone in the billion-dollar, 1-cent sales tax increase for education. Is that such a good idea? Few are asking.

  • Diversions

    November 12, 2003

    Singletons in Seattle

    Why don't Seattle demographic trends and zoning policies add up? Maybe because the city can't count to one.

  • News

    November 28, 2001

    Beating the biological clock

    If no more than 20 percent of infertility is age-related, why are doctors trying to freak childless women out?

  • Arts

    September 20, 2000

    A man for all seasons

    Confessions of a greenhorn green thumb.

  • Arts

    April 5, 2000

    So long, suckers

    How could anyone move from hip Seattle to smoggy LA? Let me count the ways.

  • News

    March 29, 2000

    A queer census

    Will counting gay and lesbian couples lead to liberation?

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