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Bob Bolerjack,
Opinion Editor
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Carol MacPherson,
Editorial Writer
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Allen Funk,
Herald Publisher
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Kim Heltne,
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WEEK IN REVIEW
Monday


Pearl Harbor's voices of the past
Taxes needed to close state's growing deficit?
Grant could help county's residents all be heal...
Sunday


Swine flu lingers, making traditional flu seaso...
Two vie to serve as Snohomish County prosecutor
Families get an early gift: free Christmas trees
Saturday


Gift charity draws Snohomish County families in...
Fears over commercial air service at Paine Fiel...
Donated safe gives Marysville museum a mystery
Friday


From behind bars, pal tells Colton Harris-Moore...
Commercial airlines would cause few problems at...
Fund set up to benefit children of couple kille...
Thursday


5 die of swine flu in Snohomish County
Red Cross honors acts of heroism, many by ordin...
Barista clothing rules delayed by County Council
Wednesday


Father gets 13 years in 6-year-old's fatal shoo...
‘One bad choice' blamed in death of 4 fri...
Reps. Larsen, Inslee split on Obama's plans for...
Tuesday


Lynnwood swimmer turns therapy into competitive...
Highway 9 crash is worst alcohol-related accide...
Crash victim warned his students against DUI
 

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Opinion Columnists
David Broder
 As Obama escalates, his base stays behind  December 6
 Year of living dangerously  December 4
 Health bills still aren’t realistic on the cost side  November 22
 Picking a fight is a GOP tradition  November 20
 Time has come for Obama to play his hand  November 15

John Burbank
 U.S. holiday of thanks was born in dark times  November 25
 Voters send clear signal: Leave vital services intact  November 11
 Keep services in mind when cursing taxes  October 28

Richard S. Davis
 Be skeptical of alarmists on climate  December 2
 Filling budget hole requires doing things differently  November 18
 Labor wasn’t Boeing’s only concern  November 4

Ellen Goodman
 Facts, and fact-checkers, still matter  December 5
 A backlash of mistrust  November 26
 Lipstick on a rogue  November 20
 The false choice  November 12
 What option for Afghan women?  November 7

Froma Harrop
 America’s clean-energy defeatists  December 8
 Politization of crime may have led to Clemmons’ release  December 6
 Working on apps, not abs  December 1
 Whom can you trust on climate change?  November 26
 Insane debate over wasted medical spending  November 24

Rick Horowitz
 There's news, and then there's Palin news  November 22
 Health-care strategies: Whatever it takes  November 10

David Ignatius
 Iranian nukes: a deadly serious game  December 6
 Making best of bad options in Afghanistan  December 3
 A scary political movie  November 29
 A skeptical Biden’s role  November 26
 Obama’s Afghanistan decision: How much time to buy  November 22

Charles Krauthammer
 Obama’s dispiriting call to arms  December 4
 Health care: Kill the bills, do it right  November 27
 Holder hands a platform to 9/11 architect  November 20
 Medicalizing mass murder: a new low  November 13
 The myth of 2008, demolished  November 6

Eugene Robinson
 Tiger’s validation complex  December 8
 The path not taken  December 4
 Copenhagen’s climate conundrum  December 1
 Purloined e-mails don’t change climate facts  November 29
 Cap others’ health care, but don’t touch mine  November 24

Debra Saunders
 Huckabee handed out pardons like candy  December 4
 The Inquisition of global warming  December 1
 The shrink and the terrorist  November 10
 D.C.’s ‘Failure To Launch’ national health care policy  November 8

Larry Simoneaux
 Can we finally get serious about violent crime?  December 7
 Joy of aging: Simple wisdom comes with it  November 30
 Pro football: Long on ego, way short on character  November 23
 Angels often show up at just the right moment  November 16
 Dealing better with the monsters among us  November 9

David Sirota
 Colbert conservatism  November 29
 Intelligentsia against intelligence  November 22
 Leading deficit hawks, it turns out, are only pretenders  November 15
 We are what we trade and how we trade it  November 8

George Will
 Another last chance for Earth's future  December 6
 This will not end well  December 2
 Rocky Mountain medical high  November 29
 Scroogenomics  November 26
 Oil’s expanding frontiers  November 22

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