I started out in journalism in 1976 as the business and real estate “editor” — reporter, really — of the Journal-American newspaper in Bellevue, Wash. After a while I was given a weekly column of opinion and analysis to run on the business page. Shortly after I got to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in 1981, I was given a weekly column, which I kept going for much of the time to 1989. Upon return from Hong Kong in 1993, I had a weekly column for most of the time through the end of the decade. At the Seattle Times from 2000 to 2013 I had an editorial-page column every two weeks except for the eight months following the newspaper strike of 2000-2001.

         In all, I must have written 600 columns. Most of them bloomed, wilted and died, but I would sometimes write a perennial. I have selected a few of my favorites here. 

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