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New residents pouring into Pierce, Snohomish counties
Of the more than 3,100 counties across the U.S., none saw a bigger net increase than Pierce and Snohomish in movers from other counties. Is...
FYI Guy Gene Balk crunches the numbers. Gene has been a news librarian at The Seattle Times since 2002. He is a native of New Jersey, and earned a Master’s Degree in Library Science from Rutgers University. Before coming to The Times, he worked for the Orange County Register and the Baltimore Sun.
Of the more than 3,100 counties across the U.S., none saw a bigger net increase than Pierce and Snohomish in movers from other counties. Is...
A recent FYI Guy story on tourists' satisfaction with Seattle drew 500 comments online, plus a flood of emails and phone calls. Here are the...
J.D. Power surveyed 26,000 visitors to the top 50 tourist markets in the U.S., asking each more than 100 questions about various aspects of their...
More than 80 percent of King County adults believe global warming is happening, a rate of sentiment 15th highest nationally. Typical, perhaps, for a stronghold...
Seattleites seem to find it hard to turn down new taxes. One reason could be that the tax burden for Seattle residents is lower than...
Mayor Ed Murray’s tax would exempt diet drinks, and data show it could place a heavier burden on the people the tax is supposed to...
Data show that regions in the state with the highest percentage of people with insurance made possible through the Affordable Care Act — better known...
Among Seattle neighborhoods, median wages of residents are predictably rising fastest in South Lake Union. But the 10 neighborhoods showing the biggest income gains are...
A new report from the Pew Research Center estimates there are about 150,000 immigrants in the Seattle area — equaling nearly 4 percent of the...
The Seattle Police Department’s latest use-of-force data, which include officer-involved shootings, show a continuing decline since 2011, when the Department of Justice found that Seattle...