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Sacrifices beyond measure
War is horrible and we should allow it to horrify us.
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Everett Clinic leads the way
Decipher an itemized medical bill, and behold the price gouging. So many tests, so much dinero.
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Learning from Macklemore
The fallout over Seattle rapper Macklemore’s anti-Semitic costume at a Friday Experience Music Project event throws light on…
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Inflated grades, flat results
Turns out, no one can handle the truth. What else could explain students getting better and better grades,…
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Everett’s kindness to strangers
For writer Jack Kerouac, Everett in the 1950s was a soulless place. Belching cars, crass waitresses. In his…
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Preparing for every disaster
Sunday’s 34th anniversary of the eruption of Mount St. Helens marks a turning point. Washington’s median age is…
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Less than veterans deserve
When we take the measure of a man, we often ask ourselves: Do we trust him? Likewise, our…
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Now is the time to head north
Supporting Darrington isn’t charity. It’s enlightened self-interest.
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Planning for climate impacts
Northwesterners take solace in reports that the West Antarctic ice sheet is “collapsing.” The apocalyptic news comes courtesy…
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Disappearing middle class
It’s so un-American, but unfortunately true: Our middle class, the longtime, oft-cited, official backbone of our country, is…
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Solutions to the math deficit
The innumerates are legion. The math-challenged (look to any newsroom or comparative-lit class for examples) don’t carry the…
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The NSA’s domestic snooping
There’s a Northwest thread that knits together leadership on civil liberties and birddogging abuses by America’s intelligence community.…
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Judgment during a tragedy
Emergencies are the enemy of deliberative thinking. The strength displayed by the people of Darrington and Arlington turned…
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Human rights extend to all
A public good may spring from the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma. The de facto immigrant prison, a…
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Learn from bond rejection
When Everett voters in February passed the school district’s operating levy, but rejected the bond proposal, which requires…
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This is what a legacy is about
Billy Frank Jr. did what most politicians find unimaginable: He cussed in public and was bracingly partial to…
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A partnership for higher ed
Beware the preordained collapse of enterprises labeled “public-private partnerships.” (See the well-intentioned boondoggles of the city of Everett…
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Boeing: NW’s fickle partner
Last year, Olympia lawmakers went eyeball to eyeball with Boeing, and lawmakers blinked. (OK, Boeing had them at…
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Students or stenographers?
The fear of failure is not an inspiring or effective motivator, or teacher. In schools at all levels,…