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<p>In today’s hot shortage market, here is a house for sale that is guaranteed to meet all of your expectations. It is the ultimate “dream” house. (Photo by Morf Morford)</p> — File this under “It had to happen”

We, as a culture, will leave a physical legacy of art, architecture and literature. Or will we?
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By Index Staff

<p>In today’s hot shortage market, here is a house for sale that is guaranteed to meet all of your expectations. It is the ultimate “dream” house. (Photo by Morf Morford)</p> — File this under “It had to happen”

We, as a culture, will leave a physical legacy of art, architecture and literature. Or will we?
Read Story

By Index Staff

Image courtesy Creative Outlet — The bottom line is the bottom line

In a real life emergency, who are you going to call? (Photo by Morf Morford) — Who’s working? Who’s looking for work?

Seattle, late May 2021. Does this look like a dying city to you? With four or five building cranes in almost every direction, Seattle is poised for growth. (Photo by Morf Morford)

‘Tis the season – for that first serious...

by Index Staff • June 15, 2021 1:30 am

Graduation is just the beginning

This is a schematic of the entire internet in 1973. Image courtesy of ARPANET

June 8th – the day the internet died

by Index Staff • June 14, 2021 1:30 am

About half the world’s population has internet access, thanks to DARPA more than 50 years ago

Much resistance to change is about as productive as this lock on a chain link fence. (Photo by Morf Morford)

When electricity was new

by Index Staff • June 11, 2021 1:30 am

Change and innovation are never easy to adapt to…

We may not agree with how desirable it ever was, or how or if we will ever get back to it. But in 2021 “Normal” seems like the ultimate fantasy destination. (Photo by Morf Morford)

Brave New Words

by Index Staff • June 9, 2021 1:30 am

The world around us has changed – so have our words for it

The once near-universal single-family home is increasingly out of reach for first-time buyers. (Photo by Morf Morford)

It might not be a bubble, but……

by Index Staff • June 7, 2021 1:30 am

When it comes to housing, we need a new metaphor

Image courtesy Creative Outlet

‘Tis the season – for graduations

by Index Staff • June 4, 2021 1:30 am

And graduation advice

Trees fill our yards, our horizons, our economy, our history and our local lore. We depend on them for our basic sustenance from timber to shade to oxygen. (Photo by Morf Morford)

Trees seem to be everywhere, but they are...

by Index Staff • June 3, 2021 1:30 am

Standing or cut, the bottom line of our forests is immense…