Opinion
The pain that is Paine Field
Seventy-five years ago, Franklin Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration built what is now Paine Field, never anticipating a battle…
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Learning from indifference
Washington’s first Holocaust museum is scheduled to open in January, nearly 70 years after the American liberation of…
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A legacy that will last forever
Saturday’s ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark Mukilteo’s February acquisition of Japanese Gulch was a long-time coming. It’s also a…
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‘Fame-starved’ society is sick
A new “reality” TV show, called “Famous in 12”, seems to sum up the new American Dream: The…
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Services reduced to one word
Infrastructure, arguably the most snooze-inducing word in the English language after the adverb “arguably,” is vital to the…
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Bergdahl tests public values
The tempest over former Army POW and Idaho native Bowe Bergdahl teases out two themes: The problem of…
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Alleviating student-loan debt
Debt-driven angst caps the generalized anxiety of finals week. Oh, and marathon cramming.
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Hunger doesn’t take a vacation
No more pencils, no more books … no more breakfast, no more lunch.
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Greatness on a human scale
At first light on June 6, 1944, American paratroopers were already on the ground in Normandy, France, ahead…
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Push back on the city budget
Everett’s once-endearing lack of civic imagination has morphed into a long-term liability. The top-down budget process brings into…
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Real cuts to carbon pollution
There are times — albeit rare — when the federal government leads by example.
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Breathing life into NW history
Absent history, civics, like citizenship, becomes an abstraction. Breathing life into teaching history — making it relevant and…
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Real-time info is the answer
Risk management is bureaucratic jargon designed to ease anxiety. And there’s understandable anxiety with the transport by rail…
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The crucible in your back yard
Life is a series of crucibles, randomly melded together. Judgment, heroics, love of family and community. They’re all…
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Uphold healthy lunch rules
It could be that the people trying to roll back rules for healthy changes to the national school…
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Here come the campaigners
Northwesterners hate politics. Leave the chattering to the chattering classes, we say. So much sound and fury, signifying…
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Brace for inevitable inaction
There is arrogance to hindsight, a reflex to rattle off lessons learned when the same narrative plays out,…
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Obama’s failed foreign policy
The paradox of President Obama’s do-no-harm foreign policy is that it has created harm. An absence of vision,…