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A road paved by community
We all know where the road leads when using good intentions as paving material, but roads built on…
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Learning from a bad example
There is a zombie-like quality to government. Neutralize the zombies and the subsequent calm masquerades as peace. But…
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Pot genie is out of the bottle
Prohibition didn’t work, or so lawmakers learned more than 80 years ago. But the parallels between America’s puritanical…
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Going to Boeing and beyond
Conceived in its simplest form, a light-rail system needs to move people from Point A to Point B.
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That sweet, bipartisan feeling
Sixty-six years ago, Harry Truman barnstormed the country on his whistle-stop tour, lamenting the 80th “do nothing” Congress.…
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Breathe life into liberty, justice
Independence Day doesn’t evoke the solemnity of Memorial Day or Veterans Day. Yes to parades, yes to fireworks,…
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Option to grow more costly
Now that the Snohomish County Council has brushed aside its lone voice of reason in Ken Klein, and…
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Time for a ferry system review
Accountability and truth telling — virtues in polite society — extend to government. Or so hope the taxpayers.
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Better to let ‘em eat cake
It is a daily act of faith, a prayer-like moment when parents send their students off to school:…
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Endorsements: trust but verify
In the coming weeks, the Herald editorial board will interview and recommend candidates for Washington’s August 5 primary.…
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Phone decision a privacy win
The oft-divided United States Supreme Court got together for a rare occasion, and got it exactly right, in…
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The politics of criminal justice
In politics, nothing is easier to demagogue than criminal justice. It’s a tangle of code words, of Willie…
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Slouching toward partisanship
There are limits to ideology, practical limits. As the Export-Import Bank, the 80-year-old institution that promotes U.S. exports,…
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Those elephants in the room
There are traditions and there are relics. The Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus gives expression to…
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Work to rein in NSA mischief
There are times, albeit rare, when a gridlocked U.S. House of Representatives does something meaningful. On Thursday, the…
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Searching for a just strategy
In an increasingly violent and unjust world, the Judaic notion of “Tikkun Olam,” of repairing the world, is…
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Online polls aren’t elections
It was discouraging to learn that the city of Kirkland made a decision about whether to put a…
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Fretting over the nonexistent
The standards don’t exist. But were they to exist, they should un-exist. And so we wait. Cue Samuel…